Chap. V. ?he HISTORY of thePuRtrANs. 603 j?antially and really in thefacrament. This divine printed a colle&ion ofK. CharlesI. private devotions, in imitation of the Roman Horary. The frontifpiece <i631) had three capital letters y. H. S. upon thefe there was a crofs incircled, Conyer, with the fun, fupported by twoangels, with two devout women praying P. 742. towards it. The book contains the apoftle's creed, the lord's prayer di-. vided, into feven petitions, the precepts of charity, the (even facraments, the three theological virtues, the eight beatitudes, the feven deadly fins with forms of prayer for the firft, third, fixth, and ninth hours, and for the yelpers and compline, formerly called the canonical hours; then fol-. lowed the litany, with prayers for the facrament, in time of ficknefs, and at the approach of death. This bookwas licenfed by the bifhop of Lon- don, and publickly fold when the books of the molt refolved proteflants were fuppreffed. Mr. Adams in a fermon at St. Mary's in Cambridge, afferted the ex- Merit and pedience of auricular confeflion, Paying It was as neci ary tofalvation as auricular meat is to the body. Others preached up the doblrine of penance, and o COnfef`a' f &. authoritative prieftly abfolution fir fin. Some maintained the proper Ruthw. merit ofgood works, in oppófition to the received doctrine ofjuftcation P. '37. byfaith alone. Others, that in the facrament of the Lord's-(upper there Prim", was a full and proper facrifice for fin. Some declared for images, crud- P. 195' fie fixes, and piétures in churches, for purgatory, and for preferving reve- rencing and even praying to the reliques of faints. The author of the englifh pope printed 1643. fays, that Sparrow paved the way for auricu- lar confefflon, Watts for penance, Heylin for altar worjhip, Montague for faint worjhip, and Laud for the ma's. It was a very juft obfervation of a venetian gentleman in his travels to Remarks. England about this time, That the univerfities, bithops, and divines of May's hit. "England, daily embraced catholic doétrines,. though theyprofeffed-them of par. " not with open mouth: they held that the church of Rome was a true church ; that the pope was fuperior to all bifhops ; that to him it per- " tained to call general councils ; that it was lawful topray for fouls de- " parted ; and that altars ought to be erefted in all churches ; in fum " they believed all that was taught by the church ofRome, but not by the " court of Rome." Remarkable are the wordsof Heylin to the fame pur- pofe, " The greateft part of the controverfy between us and the church Fuller's ap- " of Rome, (fays he) not being in fundamentals, or in anyeffential points peat, part 3d. " of the chriftian religion, I cannot otherwife look upon it but as a molt Dejgn tó. chriftian and pious work, toendeavour an agreement in the fuperftruc- unite the two " ture ; as to the lawfulnefs of it, I could never feeany reafon produced churches. " againft it : againft the impof abilityof it, it has been objefted that the " church ofRome will yield nothing; if therefore there be an agreement, " it mutt not be their meeting us, but our going to them; but that. all ¢ H 2 "in
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