( 129) Sermon after all this, till he have a particular Licenuing Inftrument from the Bifhop. So that he preacheth not mealy as a Presbyter nor as a poffeffed In- cumbent, but as Licenfedby the Bifhop. 8. When he vifiteth the lick, he hath no Power left him to judge, Whether In the new the perfon be penitent and fit to be Abfolved or not ? But if the wickedeft added [J' liver will but fay or (wear that he repenteth ofSwearing,. ofAdultery, ofPer, hehum- jury, though fuch exprefliionsor circutnilances be fuck as plainly tell a prefent bIy and Minifter, that he hath nothing like to a ferions repentance, yet mutt this Mi- heare0y nifter be forced even in Abtòlute words. to Abfolve him from all his fins: Bú¿tf he-1 When a Popifh Confeffor would require more. I do not in all this lay the will but fault that this Minifter bath not power to keep away any of thefe perfons, from fay fo, the Baptifm , Confirmation, the Lords Table, .1Abfolution , &c. but only that he Priell mail bath no Power to forbear his ownanion and application, and leavethem to others notJudge. that are fatisfied to do it : Nor not fo much as to delay till hegive a reafonof his doubt to his LordBifhop. R. When he buryeth the dead, he bath no power to judge fo far as to the performing or refiraining of his own ac$, whether the deceafed perfon mutt needs be declared and pronounced bleffed. Three forts ofper- fons he mutt deny Chriftianburial to. r. Thole that dieunbaptized, (though they be the Children of the holieft Parents) 2. Thofe that kill themfelves ( though they be the faithfulleft perfons of godly and blamelefs lives, who do it in melancholy , deliration, a phrenzy, feaver, or diftrat ion.) g. All that are Excommunicate, (though by a Lay Chancellor,) for not paying their fees, or though it be beeaufethey durft not take the Sacrament from the hands of an ignorant, ungodly, drunken Prieft, to whofe miniftery neither they nor other of the Parifhdid ever content ; or that it be the Learnedett Godly Divine that is excommunicate for diffentingfrom the Prelatifts. But all others without any exception that are brought to Church, theymutt bury with a publick Declaration that they are faints, viz. j. That God in mercy hath taken to himfelfthe foul ofthis our dear brother] ( And without Holinefs no man [hall fee God. ) (So great difference in Holinefs there is between the Holy Churchof Rome and ours, that they Canonize one Saint in an age by the Pope, and we asmany as are buryed by the Prieft.) Though it was the moft notorious Thief or Murderer, or the molt notorious'Atheitt, or Infidel, or Heretick, who either writeth,.or preacheth or difputeth that there is no God or no life to come, or ufeth in his ordinary .talk to mock at Chrift as a deceiver, and to (corn the Scriptures as nonfcnce and contradiction, or though it be a Jewwho profeffeth enmity to Chrifl ? Much more ifit be a common blafphemer, perjured perfon, adulterer, drunkard, a (corner at a godly life, &c. who never profeffed repentance, but defpifed the Minifter and his counfel to the latt breath, yet if he be brought to the Church for buryal, the Prieft mutt pronounce him fáved in the aforefaid words, fo be it he be not Excommunicate ( of which fort of late there are too great numbers rifen up, in fo much thatthe fober Prelatifts themfelves cry out ofthe growth and peril
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