Spottiswoode Society > History of the affairs of the Church and State of Scotland from the beginning of the reformation to the year 1568 > Volume 1

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regulated to good purposes, as had been formerly set forth
by Herman Archbishop of Cologne, 1 had not their avaricious
1 This Prince and Prelate of the Counts of Meurs was excommunicated
by Pope Paul III. for heresy, and in consequence thereof driven from
his Electorate by the Emperor Charles V. lie seems to have been a
person of great prudence and moderation ; and it is perhaps much to be
wished that the Reformers, in the several nations where their doctrines
obtained credit, had gone more upon his plan, than followed an extrava-
gant humour of departing, at all adventures, from the received practices of
the ancient Church. I cannot here give the readers a complete account
thereof; only they may know, that he published a book containing his
sense and regulations concerning religious worship, which was translated
into English, and printed at London by John Daye, anno 1547, in duode-
cimo, and consisting of about two hundred and seventy pages. It is intituled
— "A Simple and Religious Consultation of us, Herman, by the grace of God
Archbishop of Colone, and Prince Elector, &c. by what means a Christian
Reformation, and founded in God's Word, of Doctrine, Administration of
the Divine Sacraments, of Ceremonies, and the hole Cure of Souls, and
other Ecclesiastical Ministeries, may be begun among men committed to
our Pastoral Charge, until the Lord graunt a better to be appointed,
either by a free and Christian Counsyale, General or National, or elles by
the States of the Empire of the Nation of Germanie, gathered together
in the Ilolye Gost."
The principal articles treated in the book are these : — 1. Of Doctrine ;
2. That some Lesson must be recited out of the Holy Scriptures before a
sermon, and declared unto the People ; 3. That all sermons must be
made to the magnifying of the Lord Christ ; 4. Of the Trinity ; 5. Of the
Creation and Governance of all Things ; 6. Of the Cause of Sin and Death ;
7. Of Original Sin, and Man's Weakness before Regeneration ; 8. Of the
Old Testament ; 9. Of the Difference of the Old and New Testaments ;
10. Of Preaching peculiar to the New Testament ; 11. Of the Preaching of
Repentance ; 12. Of the True and Proper Use of God's Law ; 13. A Short
Exposition of the Ten Commandments ; 14. Of Remission of Sins, and
Justification ; 15. Of Good Works ; 16. Of the True and Natural Signifi-
cation of this word Faith ; 17. Of the Cross and Tribulations ; 18. Of the
Church of God ; 19. Of the Unity or Concord of the Church ; 20. Of
Christian Prayer ; 21. A Short Exposition of the Lord's Prayer ; 22. Of
the Abuse in Prayer ; 23. Of the True and False Use of Images ; 24. Of
Christian Fasts ; 25. Of Holy Offerings ; 26. A Premonition and Com-
mandment against the Errors of the Anabaptists ; 27. Of the Administra-
tion of Religion ; 28. Of Sacraments generally ; 29. Of Baptism ; 30. The
Form of a Catechism before Baptism ; 31. The Exorcism ; 32. Of the Ad-
ministration of Baptism ; 33. How Baptism must be administered at
times not prescribed ; 34. Of Confirmation ; 35. Of the Lord's Supper ;
36. At what time the Lord's Supper ought to be celebrated ; 37. Of the
Communion of Strangers and Sick Folk ; 38. How Sick Persons must be
visited, and how we must celebrate the Communion with them ; 39. Of
Communion in Private Houses for Men in Health ; 40. Of turning from
Sins, and True Repentance ; 41. Of Excommunication ; 42. Of the Making
of Pastors ; 43. Of the Blessing of Marriages ; 44. Of Burying ; 45.
Of Holy and Feastful Days ; 46. Of Fasting Days and Lent ; 47. Of the