104 LIVES OF 'HIE PURITANS. their (the English) church; even the most polluted, and their seed, being members thereof.-Their ministration of the word, sacraments, and government of the church, by virtue antichristian officers.-The titles of primate, metropoli- tan, lords, grace, lordship, &c. ascribed to the prelates.- The inferior prelates swearing obedienceto the metropoliticat sees of Canterbury and York. -The inferior ministers, when they enter into the ministry, prOmising obedience to the prelates, and their ordinances ; and when they are inducted to benefices, confirming with an oath.-The deacon's and priest's presentation to a lord bishop, by an archdeacon.-Their receiving orders of the prelates, or their suffragans.-Their pontifical, or book of consecrating bishops, and of ordering priests and deacons, taken out of the pope's pontifical, where their abuse of scripture to that end, their collects, epistles, &c. may beseen.-Their mak- ing, and being made, priests, with blasphemy the prelates saying to those whom they make priests, Receive ye the Holy Ghost, whose sins ye forgive, they are forgiven, &c. -Their confounding of civil and ecclesiastical offices and authorities in ecclesiastical persons.-Their retaining and using in their public worship the apocryphal books, which have in them divers errors, untruths, blasphemies, and con tradictions to canonical scriptures.-Their stinted prayers and liturgy, taken out of the pope's mass-book, with the same order of psalms, lessons, collects, pater-nosters, epistles, gospels, versicles, responds, &c.-The cross in baptism.-The hallowed font, and questions to the infants in baptism.-The godfathers and godmothers promising that the child doth believe, forsake the devil and all his works, &c.-Women'sbaptizing of children ; which main- taineth that heresy, that the chN. Idren are damned which die unbaptized.-Their howsding the sick, and ministering the communion to one alone. The ministering it, not with the words of Christ's institution, but with others taken out of the pope's portuis.-They sell that sacrament for two-pence to all comers.---The receiving of it kneeling, which maketh it an idol, and nourisheth that heresy of receiving their Maker, of worshipping it, &c.-Their ring in marriage, making it a sacramental sign, and marriage an ecclesiastical action ; thereby nourishing the popish heresy, that matrimony is a sacrament.-Their praying over the dead, making it also a part of the minister's duty, and nourishing the heresy of prayer for the dead.-Their churching or purifying of women, then also abusing that
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