An answer to two treatises of Mr. John Can, the leader of the English…An answer to two treatises of Mr. Iohn Can, the leader of the English…

In the admonition presented to the Parliament An. 1570. thus they profess. We have at all •imes born with that which we have could not amend in this Book, and have used the same in our Ministry so far forth as we might, reverencing those times, and those persons, in which, and by whom, it was first authorised.

In the admonition presented to the Parliament An. 1570. thus they professe. We have at all •imes born with that which we have could not amend in this Booke, and have used the same in our Ministry so farre forth as we might, reverencing those times, and those persons, in which, and by whom, it was first authorised.

Though therefore they write, ¹that it was taken out of that Popish dunghill, the portius, and vile Mass-book, that the Papists suck no little advantage out of our Communion-Book, which they term an English translation out of the Mass-book, and out of the difficulty, whereby it came in, ²many Protestants themselves, adjudging that the stable of popish superstition was not throughly purged out of it; that Bristow draws the likeness of our Service-book to the countenancing of their Mass-book; ³And the Rhemists the absolution of the sick prescribed in our Communion-book, to an approbation of their absolution, Auricular confession, and Sacrament of penance: Howsoever they disallow the service, as it is practised in visitations, and enjoined in the late Canons, which denieth liberty not only to omit a ceremony, but also to add, alter, ⁴or omit any one word of the whole Liturgy, when we affirm the words of the Lords prayer, and the form in Baptism and the Supper may be altered, without fault. Though in these things they take exception against the Book, and the manner of urging it, yet they never disliked the use of it altogether, much less condemned it as a