Apology for Indulging Just Christian Liberty, Section 1

Apology for Indulging Just Christian Liberty · Section 1

p. 1The first serious and sober Inquiry concerning Bowing at the name of IESUS.

SECTION 1.

Whether bowing at every Pronunciation of the name Jesus, be a Duty commanded, or Ceremony warranted by Philip. 2. v. 9, 10, 11?

THe bowing of the Knee, head, and capping at every recital of the name of Iesus, is grounded by all its patriots on the text aforesaid, (a)(a)Phil. 2.9.10, 11.Phil 2:9Phil 2:10Phil 2:11Wherefore, God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name; that at the name of Iesus every knee should bow of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth: And that every tongue should confess; that Iesus Christ is Lord, to (or in) the **Quia Domiminus Iesus in gloria est Dei Patris: hoc est, in natura & gloria Deitatis, id est, e…usdem est gloriae & aequalitatis: Or, in aequalitate potestatis & natura divinitatis. So Prim…sius, Sedulius, Remigius, Haymo, with sundry others read and expound it.glory of God the Father.

p. 2But this Text, if rightly read and understood gives no colour at all to this p…etended Duty or Ceremony. To make this apparent, I shall fi…st clear the Text from a gross mistranslation of it, purposely made to countenance this Ceremony.

First therefore, take notice, that the word (At) is …oisted into the Text instead of (In,) the true translation and reading thereof being, …hat In, not At, the name of I…sus every Knee should bow, &c. the Greek Original Text in all Copies and Greek Fathers is, foreign, and all Latine, or Greek Fathers translated into Latine, with all Latine Translations whatsoever (except Beza and Castalio) all Latine Commentators, Expositors, whether Papists or Protestants (those only who follow Beza and Castalio their Translations excepted, being but three or four) render it, In nomine Iesu, where ever they recite this Text, not Ad, or Apud Nomen. True it is, that Beza and Castalio, and they onelyonly render it Ad nomen, that To (not At) the name of Iesus every Knee should bow; But then they also interpret this Name to be nothing else, but Christs Soveraign Power and Dominion, not his Name Iesus. All others read it, In Nomine Iesu: Neither is there any one Author, Expositor, or Translator extant, besides these and their few followers, that …ead it Ad Nome…, as all Schollers must acknowledge. The antient Manuscript English translations, of which I have seen divers Copies, sorts; the several old printed English translations of Mr. William Tindall, Mr. Miles Coverdale. Thomas Matthew; The Bishops Bible set forth at first by Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury: since revised and published by the Bishops, Anno 1595. The Epistles and Gospels in Latine and English printed at Paris 1558 Erasmus his antient English Paraphrase commanded to be had in all Churches by bbInjunct. 61.Queen Elizabeths Injunctions, and the Canons of 1571. Dr. Fulk, and Mr. Cartwright, in their answers to the Rhemish Testament, All of these render p. 3this Text In, not At the Name Iesus, &c. So do all our antient English Writers, who recite it, as Bishop Latimer, Bishop Hooper, Bishop Ridley, Bishop Alle…, Bishop Tonstall, Tho: Beacon, Tho: Palfryman, Iohn Veron, Mr. Fox, Mr. Nowell, Lancelot Ridley, with a world of others; who read it, In the Name, &c. and the Common-prayer-books, both of King Edw. 6. Queen Elizabeth, King Iames, and King Charles, ratified by several Acts of Parliament, in the Epistle on the Sunday next before Easter, untill the year 1629. all read it, In the Name of Iesus; which Mr. Iohn Cozens (a great Patriot of this Ceremonious bowing) well considering, and knowing it gave a fatal blow to this bowing at the Name of Iesus, I know not by what Authority, caused the Common-prayer-books to be corrected, (in truth, corrupted, perverted) in this particular, changeing In, into At the name; by means whereof, most, if not all our Common-prayer-books, printed …ince the year 1629. render it, At the Name, whereas all before that year read it most truly, In the Name, according to the Originall. I must confess that the English Geneva Bible, Anno 1570. (which **Conference at Hampton Court, p. 46.King Iames affirmed to be the worst Translation of all others, and was never read publickly in our Churches,) renders it, At the Name; which grew from the mis-englishing of Mr. Beza his Ad Nomen, which, in truth signifies To, (not At) the Name, if duly Englished. Neither can our Bowers at the Name Iesus take much advantage hence, if Mr. Beza be rightly translated, because they all confess, ddMr. Page his justification of Bowing at the name of Iesus.that they do not bow to the Name but Person of Jesus, only at the recital of this Name. True it is, the last English translation (made by eeSee the Conference at Hampton Court. p. 45, 46.King Iames special appointment) reads it At the Name, contrary to the Book of Common-Prayer, and all former English translations approved by our Church. How this came to pass, I shall relate from credible **Dr. Bret, & others of note… Note this.information. When this new Translation of the Bible was fully finished by the Translatours, and presented to King Iames, he appointed Bishop p. 4Andrews to have the last perusal of it, who thereupon dealt with it, as Mr. Cozens since did with the Common-prayer-book, and turned the Translatours In, into At, without their privity or approbation; as making best for the Ceremony of Bowing at the name of Iesus, which he had a little before (and since too) p…eached for in a ffOn Phil. 2.9, 10, 11.Phil 2:9Phil 2:10Phil 2:11Court Sermon; by which means our last Translation now renders this Text, At the name, whereas the Translatours (according to the former English Editions) had truely rendred it In the name.

Now, that this foreign, ought to be translated, In, not Ad nomen, at, or to the name, is infallible.

First, because it is so Englished in all ggSee Acts 3 6, & …. 27, 29. c. 16.18 & 1 Cor. 5 4. Eph 5.20. 2 Thes. 3.6 In which places the Greek is the very same, as in this text, and Eng…sh…d In the name of Iesus.Acts 3:6Acts 27:291 Cor 5:4Eph 5:202 Thess 3:6other texts of Scripture whatsoever, this phrase AT the name, being used in no place else but this throughout the Bible, nor yet in any English Author extant that I have seen or found, but In the name, onelyonly; Now why it should here alone be translated At (not In) the name, and in no other place, no reason can be given, unlesse it be purposely to support this Ceremony of bowing at the Name Iesus, which else would fall to ground, which makes this Translation here the more suspitious.

Secondly, At the name, is neither good English, nor good Sense; For, though we use In or At promiscuou…ly, when they relate either to a time or place, a… In a time, or At a time; In such an hour or day; A… such a day or hour; In such a place, street, town, house; At such a place, street, town or house; yet we never use them so when In relates to God's, Christ's, King's, or any man's Name or Authority, there being no such English expression, as At the name, extant in any Author, W…t, Warrant, or used in any Scripture-text, but this onelyonly. T…at this Expression is neither good English nor Sense, these instances will manifest; where the same Greek phrase and words, foreign, are used, Acts 3.6 Peter spake thus to the Creeple, In the name of Iesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk: should this Text be rendered, At the name of Iesus rise up and p. 5walk, it would marr both the English and Sense too. Acts 9 27, 29. I… is recorded of St. Paul, that he spake boldly I… the name of the Lord Iesus; should we read it, He spake boldly▪ …t the name of the Lord Iesus, it would be plain non-sense. Acts 16.12. Paul spake thus to the Spirit in the Damsel possessed with the Spirit of Divination, I command thee In the name of Iesus Christ to come out of h…r; turn this Text into At the Nam… of Iesus I command thee to come out o… her, & you deprave it quite. So 1 Cor 5.4, 5. In the name of our Lord Iesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my Spirit, with the power of our Lord I…sus Christ to deliver such an one unto Sathan; …ender this, At the name of our Lord Iesus Christ, &c. and you vitiate both the English and meaning, Ephes. 5.20. Giving thanks alwayes for all things unto God and the Father In the name of the Lord Iesus Christ; translate this Giving thanks, &c. At the name of the Lord Iesus Christ, and you ma… the Sense and Text, 2 Thes. 3.6. We command you Brethren (saith the Apostle) In the name of our Lord Iesus Christ, that ye withdraw your selves from every broth…r that walketh disorderly; turn this In into At the Name, and all the sense is spoyled. So Math. 21.9. The multitude that went before our Saviour into Ierusalem, cryed, Bl…ssed is he that com…th in the name of the Lord; transform this into, Blessed is he that cometh At the name of the Lord, and you deform it quite, Iohn 14.13, 14. Whatsoever ye shall ask In my name, I will do it; read this, Whatsoever ye shall ask At my name, you spoyle all the Text. Acts 10.48. And he commanded them to be baptized In the name of the Lord; render this He commanded them to be baptized At the name of the Lord, and it is pure Non-sense. In all these Texts the Greek is foreign, the sam… verbatim with that of Phil. 2. Mat. 28.19. Christ saith to his Disciples, Go ye therefore and teach all Nations, baptizing them in the …ame of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost; translate this Baptizing them At the name of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, you spoyle p. 6both the English, sense, and Baptism too. There is nothing more common in Scripture than these phrases, used in hundreds of places, In the name of the Lord, In my name, and the like; **Or translate. Rest, H…pe, Trust, Rej…yce, Deligh…, Glory, Stand …ast IN t…e Lord. Faithfull IN the Lord, speaking bold…y IN the Lord; which dye IN the Lord &c (used above 100. times in Scripture) Into rest, hope trust, …ejoyce, delight glo…y, stan… fast, faithfull, speaking boldly, which die AT the Lord: Or Tit. 2.2. Sound in Faith i… Chari…y, in Pa…i…n…e, into so…nd at faith, at cha…ity, at p…tience, Or b…sse, speak pray, &c. IN thy name; Into blesse, speak pray AT thy na…e; & you quite destroy the sense, and Eng…ish …oo of all th…se s… cred Precepts… Texts.Titus 2:2Translate any of all these into At the name, and you pervert them quite. Turn but, I believe in God, to I believe at God; Our Father which art in heaven, to Our Father which art at heaven; Or the ordinary phrase of our Warrants, and of his Majesties Officers, These are to require, or, I charge and require you in the Kings, or, in his Majesties Name, into I charge and require you at the Kings, or, at his Majesties name; Or our most common speech, Go to such a man in my name, to Go to him at my name, and you quite corrupt both the …nglish and sence in each o… them: So that the Translators of this text of Philip. 2.10.11. That In the name of Iesus (that is, In the vertu… of the supreme Soveraign Power, Lordship, Godhead, Authority of Jesus Christ at the general day of Judgement, when all things, that is, All men, all Angels, Spirits, good and bad, in heaven, earth, hell, shall stand before hi… Person and tribunal, as their supreme Lord and Judge, as Isay 45.23. Rom. 14.9, 10, 11. Rev. 5.12, 13, 14 expound it) by changing it into At the name of Iesus … (that is, at the hearing or mentioning o… the name Iesus in time of Divine service, as the Patriots of this Ceremony glos…e it,) have marred both the English, and quite perverted the meaning of this sacred Text, only to maintain this Ceremony.

It is evident then by all these concurrent parallel authorities, that the true translation of this Text is this, That In, (not At) the name of Iesus every knee should bow (or be bowed, in the passive tense;) which will almost quite subvert the bowing at the name …esus. …or… the words being thus truly rendered, can never be prope… ly expounded or strained to this sense. That in the name Iesus, (to wit, at or in every naming of the word Jesus, or when ever the name Jesus is mentioned in the Church in time of Divine service of Sermons) p. 7every knee, or Head then present should bow; there being no One pa…allel text in Scripture, wherein the name of God or Iesus, is or can properly be interpreted at the mentioning, or at or in the naming of God or Iesus; But they must necessarily be expounded in this sence, In the name of God, or Iesus, that is, In the supreme Power, Majesty, Soveraignty, Authority of God, or the Lord Iesus: In the name, being oftentimes used for, In the Soveraign Power and Authority of God, of Iesus, or Christ onelyonly; not for the bare names God, Iesus, or Christ, as Mat. 28 19. Acts 3.6. & 16, 18. 1 Cor. 5.4, 5. 2 Thess. 3.16. Mat. 7.22. Mar. 9.38. …uc. 10.17. Mar. 16.17, 18. See also 1 Sam. 17 45. Psal. 8.1. Psal. 10.1, 5. Psal. 33.21. Psal. 44.5. Psal. 48 10. Psal. 54.1. Psal. 89.24. Psal. 118.10, 11, 12. Psal. 124.8. Prov. 18.10. Esay 50.10. & 64.…. all to the same purpose. Thus all Justices, Judges, Officers in their Warrants use the word Name, when they w…ite, These are to will and require you in the King… Name, (that is, In or by virtue of his royal authority, not of any Christen name or Surname of his) to do thus and thu….

The true translation of this text being thus cleared, (which I hope to see accordingly amended in all our New printed Bibles and Common-Prayer Books, by rechanging At, into In the Name, by publike authority and command from the King or Parliament in case the Bishops neglect it) and the meaning thereof in part discovered, I shall next examin the true genuine sence o… the words. For the full understanding whereof so far forth only as respects this Ceremony of bowing at the name Jesus) these 4▪ things are to be inquired,4. Quaeres.

1. What is meant by the name above every name, which 1God gave to Christ after his exaltation into heaven, in which every knee must bow? and what that name is?

2ly. What is here m…ant by bo…ing of every knee?

3ly. What, by things in Heaven, Earth, and under the 3Earth?

4ly. When, and where this bowing of every knee shall be?

p. 81. Quaere.For the first: Most Expositors generally accord, that this Name above every name which God gave to Christ, is nothing else but his supreme Power and jurisdiction, or his inherent real Soveraign Lordship, as he is both God and Man, over all things and creatures whatsoever; or, which is all one, his real title Lord, (given him above 50 times in the New Testament in direct terms) or Lord of all things, coupled with his actual fr…ition of his suprem… Lordship. That this, and nought else is in truth the name intended in this text, is most perspicuous, not only by the forequoted Scriptures, where name is used for Soveraignty, Power, Authority, but also by direct texts; as Ephes. 1.19, 20, 21, 22. According to the working of his mighty power which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in heavenly places, farr above all princip…lity, power, and might, and dominion, and every Name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come, and hath put all things under his …eet, and gave him to be head over All things to his Church. Here, the Apostle useth Name, for principality, power, dominion, or Lordship; and makes the name above all name, given to Christ at his Exaltation, nothing else but his supreme Lordship over all things; which Christ himself acknowledgeth, Mat. 28.18 where he tells his Disciples after his Resurrection, All power is given unto me in heaven and earth. St. Peter in his Sermon Acts 2.32, to 36. after he had spoken of the Passion of Christ, concludes thus of his Resurrection and Dominion; This Iesus hath God raised up, &c. for, David is not ascended into the heavens, but saith himself, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, untill I make thine enemies thy footstool; Therefore, let all the house of Israel know, that God hath made the same Iesus whom ye have crucified, both LORD and Christ. The making of Christ (then) after his Resurrection as God and Man, Lord over all, was the name above every name, which God, then, gave to Christ, who is Lord of all, as the p. 9same Apostle Peter affirmes in his Sermon to Cornelius, Act. 10.36. Yea Lord over all; Rom. 10.9.12. and King of Kings and Lord of Lords, 1 Tim. 6.15. Rev. 17.14. chap. 19.16. That observable text Rom. 14 6, to 13. will make this most clear, He that regardeth the day regardeth it unto the Lord, and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it. He that eateth, eateth to the Lord; for, he giveth God thanks; and he that eateth not, to the Lord he eateth not and giveth God thanks; for none of us liveth to himself, or dieth to himself; for whether we live, we live unto the Lord, or wh…ther we die, we die unto the Lord Whether therefore, we live or die, we are the Lords. For, to this end Christ both died and rose and revived (mark this well) that he might be Lord both of Quick and Dead. But, why dost thou judge thy Brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy Bro…her? we must all stand before the judgement s…at of Christ; for, it is written, as I live, saith the **Not Iesus.Lord, every knee shall bow to me and every tongue shall confesse to God. So then every one of us shall give an account of himself to God.

Here the Apostle expressely resolves, that the Name given to Christ by God his Father, after his Resurrection, was nothing else, but Lord, yea Lord both of quick and dead; And that this bowing of every knee prophesied by Isay c. 45, 23. and alluded unto in Phil. 2.10, 11. is nothing else but the Appearance, Submission and Subjection of all men & Angels to him, as their supreme Lord, when they shall stand before his Tribunal, in the day of Iudgement; not any bowing of the Knee, or stirring of the Cap unto him, when his Name Iesus is mentioned in the Church, where the greatest part of men never yet appeared, nor resorted unto in any age. If all these direct parallel Scriptures be not sufficient or satisfactory enough to prove & evidence this hi… Name Lord, or his Soveraign Dominion over all Creatures, as God equal with his Father, to be the Name above every Name, in which all Knees must bow, the text it self unanswerably p. 10resolves it. For, that Name above every Name, in which all Knees must bow, is that Name only which every tongue must confesse; the text it self assuring us so much, and coupling the bowing of the knee, and confession of the tongue both together. But the Name which every tongue shall confesse, is this, That Iesus Christ is LORD, Phil. 2.11. Therefore Lord must be that Name above every Name, in which every knee must bow. This is the Name by which all persons, Good and Bad, Pagans and Christians, Iews and Gentiles, all Angels and Devils shall call Christ at the last day of Judgement, the only time when this Scripture shall be actually fulfilled. Which day, as it is **Acts 2.20. 1 Thess. 5 2. 2 Pet 3.10 Rev. 1.18. & chap. 5.14.Acts 2:201 Thess 5:22 Pet 3:10Rev 1:18often called, The day of the Lord, and Christ comming to Judgement, the comming of the Lord; and He (with referrence to this day) the Lord: So himself expresly saith, that Good and Bad shall then joyntly confesse him to be, & call him Lord, witnesse Mat. 7.21, 22. & 15.11. Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven, &c. Many will say to me in that day, (to wit, the day of Judgement) Lord, have we not prophesied in thy Name? &c. But most full and expresse is that of Mat. 25.35, to 45. When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all his Holy Angels with him, then shall he sit upon the Throne of his glory, and before him shall be gathered all Nations, and he shall seperate them one from another, as a Shepherd divideth his Sheep from the Goats. And he shall set the Sheep on his right hand, and the Goats on his lest; Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come ye blessed of my Father, &c. Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, LORD▪ when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee, &c. (Here we have all the Sheep, that is, all righteous men at the day of Judgement, joyntl… calling Christ LORD, whiles they stand before his Tribunal receiving a sentence of absolution, and a Heavenly Kingdom.) Then shall he say to them also on the left hand, Depart from me ye cursed into everlasting fire, &c. Then shall they also say unto him, p. 11LORD, when saw wee thee an hungred, &c. Here wee have all the Goats, that i…, all wicked men whosoever, at the day of Judgement, joyntly calling Christ LORD, to the glory of God the Father; Therefore this name LORD, being unquestionably the name above every name, which every tongue shall then joyntly confess, must be the name above every name, in which every knee must bow, as these scriptures p…ove pas… all contradiction.

To clear this up yet more fully by other Texts, consider that memorable place of Iude 14, 15. And Enoch also the seventh from Adam, prophecyeth of these saying▪ Behold the Lord cometh with ten thousand of his Saints, to execute Iudgement upon all, (in the general day of Judgement) and to convince all that are ungodly among them of their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches, which ungodly sinners have spoken against him. Then compare it with Psal. 96. & 98. which thus prophecy of Christs Kingdome, and comming to judge the world under this very Title of LORD, repeated no lesse th…n 16. times. O sing unto the LORD a new Song, sing unto the LORD all the earth: Sing unto the LORD, &c. For the LORD is great, and greatly to be feared, he is to be feared above all Gods. F…r all the Gods of the Nations are idols, but the LORD mad… the heavens; Honour and Majesty are before him, strength and beauty are in his Sanctuary. Give unto the LORD (O ye kinreds of the people) give unto the LORD glory and strength; Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name, &c. O worship the LORD in the beauty of holinesse, fear before him all the earth. Say among the Heathen, that the LORD reigneth, he shall judge the people righteously, &c. Make a joyfull noise before the LORD the King; Let the heavens rejoyce, &c. before the LORD, for …e cometh to Iudge the Earth: he shall judge the world **See Isay 11.4.Isa 11:4with righteousnesse, and the people with his truth. So Psal. 7, 8. The LORD shall judge the people, judge me O LORD according to my righteousnes…. Psal 110.1.6. The LORD said unto my LORD, p. 12sit thou at my right hand untill I make thine enemies thy footstool, &c. The LORD at thy right hand shall strike through Kings in the day of his wrath; he shall judge among the Heathen. Psal. 135.13, 14. Thy name O LORD endureth for ever, thy memorial O LORD to all Generations, for the LORD will judge his people Isay 3.13.14 The LORD will stand up to Iudge the people; the LORD will enter into judgement with the antients of his people. Peruse Ioel 3.13. to 18. Mich. 4.2. to 8. where Ch…ist in relation to judging all Nations and People, is frequently stiled LORD by way of prophecy, before his incarnation or resurrection, and compare th…se Scriptures with others in the New Testament after his resurrection; as 2 Tim. 4.1. I charge thee before God, and the LORD Iesus Christ who shall judge the quick and the dead, at his appearing and his kingdome: 2 Thess. 1.7, 8, 9, 10. When the LORD Iesus shall be r…vealed from heaven with his mighty Angels in flaming fire, taking vengeance on them that know not God, and …bey not the Gospel of our LORD Iesus Christ; who shall be punished with everlasting destruc…ion from the presence o… the LORD, and from the glory of his power, when he shall come to be glorified in his Saints. &c. Rev. 4.8.11. Holy, holy, holy LORD God almighty, which was, and is, and is to come. (to wit, to Judgement) Thou art worthy O LORD to receive glory, honour and power, for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they were and are created. Rev. 19.1, 2. Salvation, and honour and power be unto the LORD our God, for true and righteous are his judgme…ts. 1 T…ess. 4.15, &c. We who are alive & remain unto the coming of the LORD shall not prevent them which are asl…ep; For the LORD himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voyce of the Archangel, and with the trump of God, and the dead in Christ shall rise first; Then we which are alive and remain shall bee caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the LORD in the air, and so shall we ever be with the LORD 2 Thess. 2.1. Now we beseech you brethren by the coming of p. 13the LORD Iesus… C…rist, and by our ga…hering together unto him. Jam. 5.7, 8, 9. Be patient therefore, Brethren, unto the coming of the LORD, &c. For the coming of the LORD draweth nigh Behold the Iudge standeth before the door. Heb. 10.30. Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompence it, saith the LORD; the LORD shall judge his people. Act. 17.31. He hath appointed a day in the which he will judge the world in righteousnesse, by that man (the LORD fore-mentioned) whom he hath ordained, whereof he hath given assurance, in that he hath r…ised him from the dead. All these united to the preceding texts, and 1 Cor. 8 6. But to us there is but ONE LORD, Iesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him, will abundantly evidence that name of Christ above every name, in which every knee shall bow, and which every tongue shall confesse, in the day of Judgement at Christs second coming, to be this Name LORD, or his Divine Soveraign Power and Dominion, not his name Iesus.

True it is, that some **See p 1. and others hereafter cited.Interpreters (especially those Fathers who writ against the Arrians) assert, that the name above every name in this text, is the name of GOD, interpreting, he gave him a name above every name, in this manner; He made and manifested him by his Resurrec…ion to be God, as well as man. But thi…, though a real truth in it self, yet in the strict literal sence, as I take it, cannot be the name, because Christ was God from all Eternity; and both God and man, from his womb, not resurrection, and his Human nature cannot be properly call…d God, nor honou…ed with that name, but as conjoyned with his Divine in one person. Now the name which this text speaks of, was a name principally given to him in respect of his Humane nature, which alone was humbled and highly exalted, not his Divine, it being uncapable of Humiliation or Exaltation; and that not from Eternity, but from the time of his Resurrection, as the words (wherefore God hath highly …xalted him, & given him a name above every name &c) import. p. 14God therefore cannot properly be this name, but rather Lord, which suits with both hi… nature…, he being supreme Lord and Judge of all, both as he is God and man, and made so especially from the time of his Resurrection and Ascention into Heaven, and his **Ps. 110.1, 2. Mat 22.44. Mark 12 36▪ Luke 20 42. Acts 2.34. 1 Cor. 15.25. Hebr. 1.13.Ps 110:1Ps 110:2Matt 22:44Mark 12:36Luke 20:42Acts 2:341 Cor 15:25Heb 1:13Session at his Fathers …wn right hand, untill his Enemies be made his Foot-stool, as the fore-cited and subsequent Scriptures evidence.

Other Fathers and Expositors interpret this name to be his ‖‖Ut filius Dei vocaretur, &c Theodoret, Remigius, Haymo, and others.name of the natural begotten Son of God; a name above all names given to Men or Angels, Heb. 1.4, 5. Now Christ being mightily declared to be the Son of God, by hi… Resurrection from the dead, Rom. 1.4. and this name being more excellent then any of Men or Angels; Some probably from thence inferre, the Son of God, to be this name, he being so in regard of both natures. But this, though a truth, cannot so properly (as some conceive) be the name here intended, it being given to Christ from all Eternity, Iohn 1.12 compared with Heb 1.4, 5, 10. And likewise declaratively given to him at his Baptism, when there came a voice from Heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased, Mat. 3▪ 17. not after his Resurrection, as the name this text doth speak of, was: This name then is rather Lord, o… that Soveraign Lordship, Dominion, Kingdom, which the Son of God, in r…spect of his Human… nature, obtained by his Resurrection, and the advancing of it to sit down on the right hand of the Majestie on high, as supreme Lord and heir of all things, Heb. 1.2, 3, 8, 13. Col. 1.15, 16, 17, 18. Som 5 or 6 Antients only there are of many hundreds, who directly (not secondarily, or by way of allusion only, as others do) make the name Iesus, the name above every name in this text; their reason is, because the words are, that In the name of Iesus every knee shall bow. But this is a sencelesse reason, for the words are not, that In the individual name Jesus every knee should bow, which in truth had been a particular designation of it to have been the name; but, that In the name OF Iesus (as all p. 15translate it) every knee should bow, which words OF Iesus, are a designation only of his Person, not of this his name. Now Jesus hath many names in Scripture, as Emanuell, Son of God, Christ, Messias, Lord, Lamb of God, King of Kings, Lord of Lords, Mediator, Head of the Church, Saviour, God, and the like, every one of which is the name of Iesus, representing the person of Jesus to us, though they are not the word nor name, Iesu… ; so that these words resolve not Jesus to be the name above every name, in which every knee should bow, but rather sends us to inquire what name of Jesus it is, in which all knees must bow?

Now, that the name Jesus cannot be the name intended in this text, is undeniable, for these th…ee reasons.

First, Because aaMat. 1.21, 25. Luke 1.21, & chap 2 21.Matt 1:21Matt 1:25Luke 1:21this name was given to our Saviour by the Angel, before he was conceived in the womb, and was imposed on him at his Circumcision, by those who Circumcised him; whereas the name above every name in this text of the Philippians, was given to Christ after his Passion, Resurrection, and Ascension, Phil. 2.9.10.

Secondly, Because Every knee of things in Heaven, Earth, and under the Earth, must bow in this name intended in this text; but this they cannot do in the name Iesus; for Iesus is & signifieth nothing else but bbMat. 1.21.Matt 1:21a Saviour, and Christ being ccHe…. 2.26. 2 Pe…. 2.4, 5, 6, 9 Iude 6 7. Mark 5 7. Mat. 8.29. Mat 25.41. to the end.Mark 5:7Matt 8:29Matt 25:41no Sa…iour at all to Angels, Devils, or Damned persons, it is not possible that they should bow unto him as to their Iesus, or Saviour. Now, though he be no Jesus, nor Saviour to any such as these, yet he is their Soveraign Lord and Iudge, he being the Lord, the Iudge of all Angels, Devils, and Damned Reprobates, as well as of the Elect, to whom alone he is a Saviour, … Jesus, and they ddSee p. 9, 10, 11, 12.all shall both call him their Lord, and submit unto him and his final judgement, as their Lord at the last day. Seeing therfore every knee of things in Heaven, Earth, and under the Earth, cannot bow to Christ as their Jesus, because he is not a Jesus, or Saviour to them all, but only as to their Lord, to whom they must, shall, and will all individually and p. 16joyntly submit, he being equally a Lord to all; and since every tongue shall confess, not that Christ is their Iesus, but that Iesus Christ is their Lord to the glory of God the Father; the name Iesus cannot, the name Lord only must be the name above every name, here meant, in which every knee shall bow.

3Thirdly, Because the name, in which every knee must bow, must be and is a name above every name, as the text witnesseth: But this name Jesus is not a name above every name, it being the aaMat. 1.21.25 Lu. 1.31. c. 2.21.Matt 1:21Matt 1:25name of his humiliation, im…osed on his humane Person only, at his Circumcision, not at his Exaltation after his Passion; a name which gives him Dominion over his redeemed people only, not over Angels, Devils or damned persons, to whom he is not a Saviour; a name rather of love, grace, mercy, then of Soveraign Dominion and Power; Therefore it cannot be the name above every name to which all knees must and shall bow, mentioned in this text, but his name Lord alone, coupled with his Soveraign, Divine power and Dominion over All Angels, Devils, Men and Creatures whatsoever. From all which I argue thus.

If the name above every name, in which every knee must bow, be not the name Jesus, but Lord, and the supreme Lordship, power and Dominion of Christ over all: then there is no ground nor colour in this text for any bowing, cringing, or cappi…g at the naming of Jesus, when ever recited in the Church or elsewhere.

But, the name above every name, in which every knee must bow, mentioned in this text, is not the name Jesus, but Lord, and the supreme Lordship, Power and Dominion of Christ over all; as I have undenyably manife…ed, it being that name which every tongue shall confesse, and call Christ by in the great Judgement day.

Therfore, there is no ground nor colour in this text, for any bowing, cringing or capping at the naming of Jesus, when ever recited in the Church or elsewhere.

p. 17Having thus found out the Name in the text,2 Quaere. I come now to examine, What is meant by the bowing of every knee in this Scripture? Thi… phrase of bowing the knee, hath 4. significations in sacred Writ.

First, it is used for aa1 Kings 11.18. Rom. 11.4. Eph. 3.14 1…1 Kgs 11:18Rom 11:4Eph 3:14adoration, when it is referred either to God, Images or Idols. Secondly, for bbGen. 41.43. Mat 27.29. Mat. 10.17… 2 Kings 1.13.Gen 41:43Matt 27:29Matt 10:172 Kgs 1:13Veneration or civil reverence, when it is attributed to men, as to Kings, Magistrates, Masters, Parents and others, whom we usually reverence with bowing the knee. Thirdly, For **See Ambr…se, Haymo, and others in Ephes. 3.14, 15.Eph 3:14Eph 3:15Prayer it self, usually made to God, with cc2 Chron. 6, 13. 1 Kings 8.54. D…n. 6.10. Lu …2 41. Acts 7.60. c. 9.40. c. 20 36. c. 21.5 Ez…. 9.5.2 Chr 6:131 Kgs 8:54Acts 7:60bended knees, as Ephes. 3.14, 15. Fourthly, for Subjection only; which is commonly expressed among men by the outward gesture of bowing the knee. Thus it is used, Esay 45.23. Rom: 14 11. and in this text of the Philippians, as all Expositors old and new acco…d, who thus interpret these words: That, In the name of Iesus every knee should bow, that is, That all creatures, in heaven, earth and hell should submit and subject themselves to Christ Iesus as to their Soveraign Lord, King, Iudge: good men and Angels willingly; Devils and wicked men, even **Gen. 3.15. Mar. 2.27. Lu. 19.14.27. 2 Thes…. 1.8. Act… 7.39. Rom. 2.8. 1 Pet. 4.17. Psal 110.1, 2.3. Ier. 3.13.23.Gen 3:15Mark 2:27Acts 7:39Rom 2:81 Pet 4:17Ps 110:1Ps 110:2Ps 110:3Jer 3:13Jer 3:23against their wills: And that this is the true meaning of the words, will appear, 1. By these texts Psal. 8.6, 7, 8. Psal. 103.19. Psal. 110.1, 2. 1 Cor. 15.24, 25. Eph. 1.20, 21, 22. (a most full text) Rom. 14.8, 9, 10, 11, 12. Acts 2.33, 34 35, 36. Heb. 1.8, 9, 13. Revel. 5.8.12, 13, 14. Secondly, …ecause this bowing of the knee is attributed to Angels in heaven and Deuils in hell, which have no knees to bow as men hauehave; therefore it cannot be construed of any literal bowing 2of the knee, which Angels and Spirits cannot yield, but of a bowing of subjection, which good and bad Angels can & do render to Christ as their Lord as well as men. 3ly, Because if this should be taken literally, most 3of the Patriots of this Ceremony of bowing, would be in very ill case. For, the text requiring the bowing of every knee, their putting oft their hats, caps, inclining their heads or bodies, or bowing only of one of their knees, could be no fulfilling of this literal bowing of p. 18every knee in the text, in their meaning, unlesse they can prove their heads, hats, caps, or upper parts of their bodies, to be their knees, or one leg, knee to be Both, or every of their knees: Their practice therefore of capping at the name Jesus, of inclining their heads and upper parts without bowing their knees, to testifie (as they say) their subjection to Christ, is a plain confession, that this bowing in the text is nothing else, but the subjection of all creatures to him, as their LORD. Hence therefore I argue thus.

If the bowing of every knee in the name of Jesus be nothing else but the joynt subjection of all Angels, Men and Devils to Christ, as to their Supreme Lord, not any actual bowing of the knee when his name Jesus onelyonly is mentioned in the Church; then this text neither commands nor warrants any bowing of the knee, head, or body, (much lesse any stirring of the hat, or vailing of the bonnet) at the naming of Jesus in the Church.

But the bowing of every knee in the name of Jesus mentioned in this text, is nothing else, but **Flectitur ei omne genu, dum omnis creatura subjicitur ei. Flectere sanè genu non est carnaliter accipiendum, &c. Nam quae genua in Spiritibus esse creduntur? Sed genu flectere Subjecta esse …ucta & cultui Dei obedire declarat Origen in Rom l. 9. c. …4. Tom. 3. f. 214. Vt in nomine Iesu omne genu flectatur, &c. id est, ut omnia genera hominum, creatur…rum, angelorum, virtutum, Daemonum & animarum quae in inferno habitant SUBjECTA SINT EI, & ejus Iudicio, metui & imperio observi…ent: Ambrose, Theodoret, Ch…ysostom, Primasius, Sedulius, Remigius, Beda, Rabanus Mau…us, Haymo. Theophylact, Oecumenius, Anselmus in Phil. 2.9, 10, 11. Rom. 14. & Cyrillus Alexandrinus lib▪ 4 in Isay c. 45. Oratio 3.Phil 2:9Phil 2:10Phil 2:11Rom 14Isa 45the joynt Subjection of all Angels, Men and Devils to Christ, as to their Supreme Lord, (as all acknowledge not any actual bending of the knee, when his name Jesus is mentioned in the Church.

Therefore, this text neither commands nor warrants any bowing of the knee, head or body, much lesse any stirring of the hat, or vailing the bonnet, at the name of Jesus in the Church.

p. 19Proc…ed we next to enquire,3. Quaere. What is meant by things in heaven, things in earth, and things under the earth? All Expo…itors accord, that by things in heaven; is meant all the blessed Angels and Saints raigning with Chri…t in heaven▪ By things on ear…h, all creature… upon earth, especially m…n and women, whether good or bad. By t…ings under the earth, Devil… and damned soul… in hell; and if we believe some Popish Authors, the souls likewis… in Purgatory: which Purgatory, I doubt, will prove either no **See Peter M…ulins Water… of Siloe. Bp Vsher of Limbus …atrū.place at all, or hell it self, because it is under the earth, as hell (they say) is, and in the very confines of hell, by their own confession; and in many of their antientest **Horae beata Mariae, secundum usum Rhoan.Hours, Missals, Histories ▪ expresly stiled He…, ab inferno libera nos Domine, &c. Well then, this being the meaning, and these the bowers in the name of Jesu…, I would gladly learn from any Patrons of thi… Ceremonie, with what shadow of reason they can affirm▪ that by bowing of every knee in the name of Iesus in thi… text, is meant, the bowing of the knee, head, or body at every mentioning of the name Jesus in time of Divine service? Is there, I pray, any Divine service, Chapter, Gospel, Liturgy, Collect, Homily, Sermon read, chanted, preached, or any religious mention of th… name of Jesus in hell, among Devil… and damned Spirits? yet their knee… are enjoyned and ough… to bow, in the name of Jesus, at well as Saints and Angels in heaven or men in earth. Certain (I dare say) it is, there is no Divine Service, Prayer, Reading of Gospels, Collects, Homilies, Preaching, or sacred mention of the name of Iesus, in hell, but only by way of cursing or execration; Yea, as certain it is, that Christs salvation, redemption extend not at all to Angells, much lesse to Devils: as Hebr. 2.14▪ 16, 17. 2 Pe…. 2.4. Iud. 6. Mat. 25▪ 41. resolve; nor ye… to the damned in hell; yet his Soveraign Lordship and Power do. The Devils and damned Souls do not▪ cannot bow to Christ as to their Jesus or Saviour, yes they both do and must of necessity bow and submit p. 20to his Royal Scepter, Soveraignty, Power, as their **Luke 10.17. Lord even the Devils are subject to us through thy name.Luke 10:17LORD. The bowing therefore of the Knee at the naming of Iesus, especially in time of Divine service, being not to be found or imagined amongst Devils or Reprobates in Hell, cannot possibly be intended the bowing in the name of Jesus mentioned in this Text, which extends to those in Hell it self, but only this bowing of Subjection, which they **Mat 10.1. Mar. 5.10, 11, 12. c. 6.7. Lu. 4.35, 36. c. 10.17, 20.Matt 10:1Mark 5:10Mark 5:11Mark 5:12yield unto him as their LORD.

Again, every knee of things in earth, is to bow in the name of Iesus; If we take this generally for all Creatures upon earth, animate, or inanimate, many of them want Knees to bow, yea Eares to hear; most of them understanding to apprehend the name of Iesus, or distinguish this name of his from others, or to be instructed in this duty of bowing the Knee, when ever they hear the Lord Jesus named. If we understand this generally of all men on earth, Alas…, the greatest part of men in the world, since the Creation till this present, neither knew the Person, Gospel, nor ever heard of the name of Iesus; they never had, nor shall have here on earth any Divine service, reading or preaching of the Gospel, Collects, Homilies, wherein the name Iesus was or shall be mentione…; how then can they observe or perform this duty of bowing at the recital of the name of Iesus, in time of Divine Service, Sacraments, or elsewhere? yet notwithstanding every of their Knees shall and must bow in the name of Iesus; they **Psal. 2. & 96. & 28. & 110. Heb. 1. & 2. Col. 1.15, 16, 17, 18. Eph. 1.20.21, 22.Ps 2Heb 1Col 1:15Col 1:16Col 1:17Col 1:18Eph 1:20Eph 1:21Eph 1:22being all now actually put in subjection under his feet as their LORD, his Kingdom ruleth over them all, his Scepter now swayeth them though they know it not, and will not voluntarily submit thereto, and he shall judge them all at last. This bowing therefore must be a bowing of Subjection, which every knee of things in earth doth, may, shall and must yield to Christs Divine Soveraign Power, Dominion, Lordship, not any bowing or capping at the recital of his name Iesus, in which, at which, to which they neither do, nor yet actually can, shall or will bow their Knee…; I am certain, not in time of Divine Service, or Sermons, which they want.

p. 21Finally, this bowing of the Knee in the name of Iesus, is attributed to things in Heaven, which have no real co… poral knees to bow, nor the name of Iesus to bow at, but Iesus himself their Soveraign Lord and King immediatly to contemplate and adore, to whom they with all ch…arfulness subject themselves, both as to their Redeemer and Soveraign Lord too; Witnesse Rev. 5.11, 12, 13, 14. forecited. Yet who can prove or dare affirm, that these actually bow their Knees at every naming of his name Iesus? This bowing therefore being applyed to every knee of things in Heaven, Earth, and under the Earth, both severally and joyntly, and yet neither of them actually performing this Ceremonious bowing of the Knee at the name of Iesus, either joyntly or separately in the Church, in time of Divine Service, Sermons or Sacraments, though all of them joyntly or severally do, will, shall, must subject themselves to Christ, as their Supreme Lord, either with or against their wills; This bowing in the Text must necessarily be acknowledged, to be only a bowing of Subjection, which all Creatures both for the present do, and chi…fly at the day of judgement shall yield to Christ as their Lord, & Iudge both of quick and dead; No… a bare bowing at every recital of his name Iesus, which none in heaven, none in hell, yea very few on earth (and most of those either out of ignorance, mistake, superstition, or blind devotion) yield unto him. From hence therefore I thus dispute,

That bowing of the knee in the name of Jesus which every knee of things in Heaven, Earth, and under the Earth, doth not, cannot, shall not either joyntly, severally, or actually use; cannot be the bowing mentioned or intended in this text.

But the bowing of the knee at the sound of the name of Jesus, (especially in time of Divine service, to which the Patriots thereof principally restrain it) is such a bowing, which every knee of things in Heaven, Earth, and under the Earth, doth not, p. 22cannot, shall not actually use, either joyntly or severally.

The…e…ore it cannot be the bowing intended (nor yet a duty, ceremony prescribed or warranted) by thi… text, b…t the bowing of subjection only.

4. Q…aere.I now proceed to the last thing to be inquired of, to wit, When & wh…re this bowing shall be? Certainly it shall be, not now or here in the Church, but hereafter before the Tribunal of Christ, when he shall come to judge both quick and dead. To make this apparent, we must consider that this text (as all generally expound it, and **In h…s …ust…ication of …wing at the n…me …f Iesus. … 2.3.4, &c.Mr. Page himself acknowledgeth in direct terms) is not a precept, enjoyning any actual bowi…g of the knee to us for the present, but only a prophesie or prediction of a universal bowing of every knee of things in Heaven, Earth, and under the Earth, especially at the great day of Iudgment, when they shall **2 Co…. 5.8.10.11.all appear before Christs judgment seat. This is clear by Isaiah 45.23. of which this text is but a rehearsall. I have sworn by my self, the word i… gone out of my mouth in righteousnesse, and shall not return; T…at unto me (not at, or to my name Jesus) every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear. This text of Isaiah is a direct prophesie of a bowing of every knee, and a confession of every tongue that should be hereafter made to the very person of Christ, to which this of Philippians relates, as our own Bibles, with all Expositors (who referre these texts one to another, as parallels) accord. But, (then) when or where shall this prophesie de futuro, be fulfilled? St. Paul, and the spirit of God, by him resolve this doubt expresly, That it shall be in the general day of Iudgement, when we shall all stand before Christs Tri…unal. Rom. 14 9, 10, 11, 12. For to this end Christ both died… and rose and revived, that he might be LORD both of the dead and living. But why dost thou judg… thy Brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy Brother? we shall all stand before the Iudgement seat of Christ. (But some might demand, by what Scripture prove you this? why, by this very prophesie of Isaiah p. 23saith he; For it is written, **Isaiah 45.23…Isa 45:23As I live saith the LORD, (not Jesus) every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confesse to God; So (then) every one of us must give an account of himself to God. The Apostle therfore referring this text, this bowing to the very day of Judgement, for the time; to Christs own Person, before his Tribunal, for the place; and reciting this prophesie as an infallible Argument and Prediction to prove, that we shall all hereafter appear before the Iudgement seat of Christ; it is an undeniable evidence, that this bowing of every knee, and confession of every tongue, of things in Heaven Earth, and under the …arth, in the Philippians, referring to this prophesie of Isaiah, by Pauls own resolution, is principally, if not only meant of a bowing of Subjection to …hrist himsel… as their Lord & Iudge, b…fore his Tribunal at the general judgment, not of any bowing or capping at the recital of his name Iesus, now or here in the Church. To make this yet more per…picuou…, consider I pray you, that bo…h in Isaiah 45.23. Rom. 14.11. and Phil. 2.10, 11. The bowing of every kn…e, and conf…ssion of every tongue, …re coupled together as joynt con…emporary concurrent Acts; So that every knee of things in Heaven, Earth, and under the Earth, shall bow in the name of Iesus, at that time when, and in that place where, every …ongue shall confesse, …hat Iesus Ch…ist is LORD. But when and whe…e shall every tongue confesse that I…su… Christ is LORD? Christ himself …xpresly resolves it, **See Luke 13.35.Luke 13:35Mat. 7.22, 23. that it shall be in the grea… day of Iudgement, before his Tribunal …nd Person: and most fully, Mat. 25.31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, &c. that it shall b…, when the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all his holy Angels with him, when he shall sit on the throne of his glory, …nd all Nations shall be gathered before him; when he shall sev…re the righte…u… from …he wicked, the sheep from the goats, se…ting one of them on his right hand, the other on his left; when he… shall pronounce, Come ye blessed, &c. to the one, Go ye cursed to the other.. For the… all the sheep on his right hand shall p. 24joyntly call him LORD, vers. 37. LORD, when saw we thee an hungred; and all the goats on his left hand shall joyntly do the like, vers. 44. LORD, when saw we thee an hungred; yea all his holy Angels who shall then a…tend him, v. 31. Mat. 16 27. 2 Thess. 1.7. and actually call him their Lord too, by their attendance on him) shall then no doubt acknowledge and confesse him to be the Lord, a… they did at his **Luke 2.10, 11.Luke 2:10Luke 2:11Na…vi…y: VntoUnto you this day is born in the City of David, a Saviour, which is Christ the LORD, as is intimated to us Psal. 103.19.20, 21. and directly affirmed Act. 1….17. Heb 1.6, 7, 8. Yea, no doubt the Devils (whose LORD he is, Mat. 4.7.10 c. 8.29, 31. c. 10.1. Mark 1.34. Luke 8.2. c. 10.17.20. c. 4.36. being reserved in chains of darknesse to the judgement of the great day, Iude 6. 2 Pet. 2.4.) shall then in deed…, if not in word…, confess… that Iesus Christ is LORD, as well as the greatest and most d…mned Reprobates. This there…ore being the time when, the place where every t…ngue shall confesse that Iesus Christ is LORD, must certainly be the time, the place, when and where every knee shall bow in the name of Jesus. Thi… will …urther appear by the 2 Cor. 5.8, 9, 10, 11. We are willing rather to be absent in the body, and to be present wi…h the LORD: wherefore we labour, that whether presen… or absen…, we may be accep…ed of him: For we must all appear before the Iudgement seat of Christ, that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or evil: Knowing therefore the t…rrour of the LORD, we perswade men. For the Son of man shall come in the **Mat. 19.28. Mark 13.26, 27. Luke 21.27.Matt 19:28Mark 13:26Mark 13:27Luke 21:27Glory of the Father, (which every tongue shall then con…esse, Phil. 2.11.) and then shall be rewarded every man according to his works. Mat. 24.30 Then shall all the Tribes of the Earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the Clouds of Heaven, with Majesty and great Glory: And he shall send his Angels with the great sound of a Trumpet, &c. Watch therefore, for ye know not what hour your Lord both come, &c. Blessed is that Servant whom his Lord when he cometh shall p. 25find so doing, &c. The Lord of that Servant shall come in a …ay when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not …ware of, and shall cut him in sunder, &c. there shall be weep…ng and gnashing of teeth. And Rev. 4.10, 11. chap. 5.11, 12, 13, 14. & chap. 7.9, 10, 11, 12. The 24. Elders …all down before him that sate on the Throne, and worship him …hat liveth for ever and ever, and cast their Crowns before …he Throne, (here is the bowing of their knees) saying, Thou art worthy O LORD (not O Jesus) to receive glory, honour, and power, for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created; (here is the confession of their tongues in direct terms, that Jesus Christ is LORD.) And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many Angels round about the Throne, and the Beasts, and the Elders, and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousand of thousands, saying with a loud voice, worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdome, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing; (here we have all the Angels joyntly bowing their knees round about Christs Throne of Judgement, and confessing with their tongues▪ that he was worthy to receive power, and honour, and stre…gth, the same in effect with that in Phil. 2.11. that Iesus Christ is LORD; now mark what follows.) And every Creature which is in Heaven, (here are things in Heaven) and on the Ear…, (here are things on Earth) and under the Earth, (and here are things under the Earth, agreeing verbatim with this of Phil. 2.) and all that are in them heard I saying; Blessing, honour, glory, and power be unto him that s…tteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb, for ever and ever; (here is the confession of every tongue, that Iesus Christ is LORD) and the 4. Beasts said Amen. And the 24. Elders fell down and worshipped him that liveth for ever and ever: (here is the bowing of the knee, both of them before the Tribunal of Christ, at the last day) Af…er this I beheld, and l…e a great multitude, which no man could number, of all Nations, Kindreds, and people, and tongues, p. 26stood before the Throne, and before the Lamb, cloathed with white Robes, and Palmes in th…ir hands, and cryed with a loud voice, saying, Salvation …o our God, which sitteth upon the Throne, and unto the Lamb: (here we have all tongue… confessing that Jesus Christ is Lord, to & in the glory of God the Father) And All …he Angels stood round about the Throne, and about the Elders, and about the 4. Beasts, and fell before the Throne on their faces, and worshipped God, saying, Amen; blessing, …nd glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honour, and power, and might, be unto our God for ever and ever, Amen. Adde her…unto Rev. 20.12, 13. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God, and the Books we…e opened, and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the Books, according to their works. And the Sea gave up the dead which were in it, and death and Hell, (or the Grave) d…livered up the dead which were in them, and they were judged every man according to their work…; And death and Hell were cast into the lake of fire. Here are both the bowing of every knee, and confession of every tongue of things in Heaven, things in Earth, and things under the Earth, of all Men and Angels joyntly together, before Christ… Throne, as to their God, Lord, and Soveraign Judge: This bowing therefore of every knee, this confession of every tongu… …t the last d…y before Christs Tribunal, must needs be the bowing of every knee in the name of Iesus, the confes…ion of every tongue that Iesus Christ is Lord, in the glory of GOD the father, prophesied of, & intended in the Philippians, & Isa. 45.23. And in truth, when or where should this bowing of every knee, and con…ession of every tongue be else, b…t in that great day of Judgement? when all things in Heaven, Earth, and und…r the Earth, all Men and Angels, good and bad, shall be joyntly summoned b…fore the Soveraign Tribunal of Christ▪ their Lord and Judge, to be judged and sentenced by him. For it being both a joynt and universal bowing of every knee of things in Heaven, Earth, and under the Earth, and p. 27an unanimou… general conf…ssion of all tongue…, it cannot possibly be actually verified or performed, but when all of them shall be gathered together into one place, and shall personally st…nd before Christ… Tribunal, where they shall all both hear, see, know and acknowledge him to be their Lord, and thereupon actually bow unto him, as to their Soveraign Judge and Lord; which the greatest part of men in all ages, being Infidel…, Pagan…, who never knew nor heard of Christ on Earth, cannot pos…ibly perform till that day shall come. Wherfore this text, or prophesie, cannot be actually verified of them before the day of Judgement, and Christs coming to it. The time then of this bowing of every knee of things in Heaven, Earth, and under the Earth, in the name of Jesus, and the confession of all tongues, being only the day of Judgement, not the time of this present life, or of Divine Service, or Sermons; and the place, before Christs Tribun…l, Throne, not the Church; and this bowing (then) not to his name Jesus, but his Person, (every knee shall bow to **Isaiah 45.2….Isa 45:2Mee) as he is supreme Lord, God, Judge both of quick and dead, I shall thence deduce this unanswerable Argument, to prove this Ceremony no duty of the text.

If the bowing of every knee in the name of Jesus, mentioned and intended in this text, be only a joynt bowing or prostratiō of all things in Heaven, Earth, and under the Earth, in the great day of Judgement, not in time of Divine Service or Sermon, or in this present life, and that before Christs Tribunal only, not in the Church; Then this text can be no precept, warrant, or colour at all for any bowing at every naming of Jesus in the Church, neither can it be deduced from or justified by it.

But the bowing of every knee in the name of Jesus▪ mentioned and intended in this text, is only a bowing or prostration at the great and gener…l p. 28day of Judgement, not in time of Divine Service or Sermon, or in this present life, and that before Christs Tribunal only, not in the Church, as all the premised Scripture-evidences, and Orthodox Expositors acknowledge.

Therefore this text can be no precept, warrant, or colour at all for any bowing at the naming of Jesus in the Church, neither can it be deduced from or justified by this text.

Having thus run over these 4 particulars, we may from them collect the true sense and meaning of this text of the Philippians, which being but a prophesie, not a precept, can infer no present duty: The true genuine sense of it in few words is this.The true and full sense of Phil. 2.9, 10, 11.Phil 2:9Phil 2:10Phil 2:11 That God hath highly exalted his Son Christ Iesus, since his Passion & Humiliation; that is, he hath set him at his own right hand in Heaven, even in his Humane nature; and given him a name above every name; that is, hath made him King of Kings, and Lord of Lords, and exalted him above all powers, creatures whatsoever, made him the Soveraign Lord and Judge both of quick and dead, given him power over all flesh, yea all power both in Heaven and Earth, and put all things in subjection under his feet; that in the name of Iesus every knee should bow &c. that is, to this very end and purpose, that all creatures both in Heaven, Earth, and under the Earth, all Angels and Men, whether good or bad, whether in Earth, Heaven, or Hell, should by reason, vertue, means, and in consideration of this his supreme power and advancement, submit and subject themselves to him (especially at the day of Judgement when they shall all appear before his Tribunal) as to their Soveraign Lord, and supreme Judge, and conf…sse him with their tongues to be their Lord, to (or in, as many of the Fathers read it) the glory of God the Father.

This then being the t…ue genuine bowin… of subjection in the text, as is evident by the premises, and that …ignant text of 1 Pet. 3.31, 32. By the resurrection p. 29of Iesus Christ from the dead, who is gone into Heaven, and is at the right hand of God, Angels, Authorities, and Powers being made subject unto him; compared with Col. 1.15. to 21. Heb. 13.4, 5. c. 2.5, 7▪ 8, 9. Ps. 110.1. 1 Cor. 15.20, to 29. and this which I have insisted on, the undoubted meaning of this text, the sole argument that can be thence deduced to justifie the bowing at every naming of Jesus, is but this:

All creatures in Heaven, Earth, and under the Earth, …all joyntly in the general day of Judgement, submit themselves to Jesus Christ, as to their Soveraign Lord and Judge, and bow their knees unto his person before his Tribunal.

Therefore all Christian men and women must (now) bow their knees, heads, or vaile their hats, whenever they hear his name Jesus mentioned, during Service or Sermons in the Church on Earth.

A grosse ridiculous non sequitur, needing no other answer but derision; Seeing **Calvin, Marlo…e…, Bp. Alley, Piscator, Olevian, on Phil. 2 9, 10.Phil 2:9Phil 2:10Mr. Calvin, M…rloret, Bishop Alley, Olevian and Piscator, affirm, That the Sorbon Sophisters are more than ridiculous, who co…lect from this place, that as often as we hear the name Iesus mentioned, we are to bow the knee, as if it were a magick word, which had all its efficacy included in the sound. Hence **Bp. B…bington, Dr. Fulk, Mr. Cartwright, Dr. Willet. in the ensuing placesBishop Babington, Dr. Fulk, Mr. Cartwright, and Dr. Willet, resolve, that this bowing at the name of Iesus, is not commanded in, nor warranted by this text, the name therein …xpressed being not the name Iesus, the bowing not literal, the time of it the day of Iudgement, and the place wh…re it shall be, before Christs Tribunal, as most Expositors joyntly accord: Hence our Learned **Dr. WhitakerDr. Whitaker, in his Preface to his Answer to Saunders his Demonstration concerning Antichrist, mustring up divers absurd consequences of the Papists and Jesuits, from sundry texts of Sc…ipture; as, Christ entred into Peters Ship; therefore the whole Church is Peters, to wit, the Popes Ship. Barnabas laid down the price of the Field he sold, at the Apostles feet; therefore the Popes feet ar… to be kissed: with many such p. 30like consequences; concludes with this, as the grossest of all the rest, A name above every name is given to Christ, that in the name of Iesus every knee should bow; Therefore as oft as we bear the name of Iesus mentioned, we must uncover our heads, and bow our knees. After which he thus proceeds. When, I say, men shall hear these and infinite such like Expositions and Argumentations of these new Masters, if there be any sense left in them, not only of the Holy Ghost, but likewise of Common judgement, they cannot think that a Religion grounded upon …se foundations can be firm and certain, and to be preferred before all others. If then this Grave and Learned Doctor, being Regius Professor of Divinity in the Vniversity of Cambridge, hath thus br…nded the bowing at the name Jesus, as it is deduced from this text, for an absurd, ridiculous, Iesuitical non sequit…r, and that Religion which is built upon such strange consequences, false and unsound; I wonder much that any of our Lea…ned Prelates, Ministers, and better sort of people, should be so over-seen, and blinded through cu…tom, usage, and inconsideration, as thence to deduce and defend the like Popish consequence, a…d to presse this Ceremony of bowing, with such earnestnesse, and zeal as now a dayes they do, as if all Devotion and Religion consisted in its use; when as they should …ather detest the Mountebank cozening tricks, and devices of Sorbonists and other Popish persons, thus decryed by our own and other Learned Protestant Writers; then favour those amongst us, who to maintain the credit of this Ceremony of bowing at the name of Jesus, dare of…er violence to the very text it self, and our Common-Prayer-book, by changing IN, into AT the Name, &c. which corrupts both the English, words, and sense of the text, as I have clearly evidenced, of purpose to delude poor simple people, to draw them on to errour, or Popish superstition, and interpreting the name above every name, to be the name Jesus, in which every knee shall bow, whereas in truth it is the name LORD, the supreme Power and Dominion p. 31of Christ, as our own Common-Prayer-book, in the Thanksgiving after the Communion administred, thus expounds it, Glory be to God on high, &c. O Lord God, Son of the Father, thou that sittest at the right hand of the Father, have mercy upon us, For thou only art the Lord, thou only O Christ, with the Holy Ghost, art most high in the glory of God the Father.

Having thus surveyed and cleared the words, and tru… meaning of this perverted text, I shall only desire you to observe these 4 things in it.

First, that it is rather a prophesie of a bowing that shall be given to Christ as Lord at the last day, (as all Orthodox Expositors accord) than a precept prescribing any such bowing to Christ for the present, as is undeniable, by comparing it with Isaiah 45.23 Rom. 14▪9, to 14. Rev. 5.10, to 14. Iude 14.15. chap. 3.14, 15, 2 Thes. 1.6, to 11.

Secondly, that the bowing of the knee here mentioned, is not spoken of as a distinct act of some particular persons only in the Church, and that oft reiterated at every sound of the Name Jesus, but of one joynt habitual or actuall universall bowing of every knee of things in Heaven, Earth, and under the Earth, Isaiah 45.23. Rom. 14.9, to 13. Rev. 5.9, to 14.

Thirdly, that this bowing of the knee in the Text, is coupled with the Conf…ssion of the Tongue, so that when ever the knee thus bowes in the Church, every tongue also ought to confesse, at the same time, that Iesus Christ is Lord, in the glory of God the Father: So that if any will hence necessarily inferre, an actual bowing of eve…y knee in the Church, at every naming of Jesus, they must likewise every time they bow their knees at or to this name, confesse & cry out aloud with their tongues and voyce, That Iesus Christ is Lord, to, or in, the glory of God the Father: Which, what a confusion, disturbance, distraction, in mens attentions, devotions, it would breed in the Church, (as their frequent bowings do now at the name Jesus, above 20. times in p. 32one day, one Chapter, yea **In Mat. 2….2…. Ioh. 11.18, 19. Ma…. 18.47. Ioh. 1.42. ch. 6.24. ch. 18.5, 15. ch. 19 9. Luke 19.35. Re…. 19.10. 1 Thess 4 14. the nam… Iesus is repeated twice in one ve…, and Iohn 19.28. t…i…e, & as of…en …wed … & ….Matt 2:2John 11:18John 11:19John 1:42Luke 19:351 Thess 4:14John 19:28twice or thrice in one verses reading sometimes, and that just as the name Jesus is uttered, before the following words recited, or the sense or person understood, whence some have bowed to Ioshua, Iustus, and Bar-Iesus too, when Act. 7.45. Heb. 4.9. Col. 4.11. Acts 13.6. have been read, instead of Jesus Christ the Lord) all men of common sence may conjecture.

Fourthly, that every knee should bow in this text, is not in the active, but passive tence, whence Miles Coverdale and others translate it, Vt omne genu flectatur, that in the name of Jesus every knee be bowed, whether they will or not; Devils, damned souls, and wicked men, being unwilling to submit to Christ, as their Soveraign Lord, and subjected to him even against their wi…ls, Psal. 110.5, 6 1 Cor. 15.24, 25. Luke 14.27. Heb. 2.8. Eph. 1.22. Therefore this bowing can be no religious duty or worship. Every of which con…iderations will sufficiently evidence this bowing at the name of Jesus, to be no duty of the text.

If all thi… be not sufficient to satisfie our Bowers at every recital of the Name Jesu…, both concerning the true …eading and meaning of this text, but that the wo…ds must still be re…d At the Name &c. This name at which they bow, must be the Nam… Jesus only, and this bowing at or to it, a duty enjoyned by this Text, t…ough no Father, nor Orthodox Protestant Writer I have seen ever esteemed it so before Bishop Andrews. I shall then demand of them, but these questions.

First, why they bow not at the sight of the Name Jesus when they behold it in a Bible, Book, Window, Hanging…, Wall, Medal, Pulpit-Cloth, Cross or the like, as well as at the sound or hearing of it? since this Text confines it not to the hearing or sound alo…e, and at the Name, may be as aptly interpreted at the sight, as at the sound of the Name; which is every way as venerable, comfortable, majestical, sweet, and as worthie cap & knee when we behold the Characters of it written, p. 33printed, painted, carved, engraven, or embroydered, …s when we hear the sound of it uttered or pronounced, as the Rhemists, Alphonsus Salmeron, and Cornelius a Lapide two Jesuites, together with Molanus and Carolus Stengelius a Benedict in Freer conclude, from Phil. 2.10. in their passages hereafter cited. Let them therefore henceforth learn to bow at the sight, as well as at the sound of the name Jesus, or else give over their bowing when they hear it, because they forbear to bow to it when they see it.

Secondly, if bowing at the hearing of the name of Jesus 2be a duty of this text, why then do they not bow to it in all place… & at all times alike? in the streets, fields, house, closet, (as the Papists do to their Crucifixes, Crosses, Images, Hostia) as well as in the Church? when they hear men curse or ‖‖I have o…served some to pu… o…f their hat … to it when they have pro…anely sworn by it.…wear by this sacred name (when the…e is most cause to honour it by bowing to, or at it, because it is then most dishonoured, profaned) as well as when they hear the Minister read or utter it in Divine service, Homilies or Sermons? Why bow they not every time they hear it, as well as sometimes onelyonly, it being alike sacred, venerable at all times, in all places, and representing Jesus his person to our minds a like? This text restraining it (in their sence) no more to the Church than to any other place, no more to one mans uttring of it, then anothers, no more to the sound then sight of it.

Thirdly, if it be a Duty enjoyned them by this text, at every recital, hearing, or sight of it, why doe they not account it a dangerous, mortal sin to omit, or carelesly, and superficiously to perform it, which few have ever deemed it (if any) till of late?

Fourthly, if it be a duty of the text, that every 4knee should bow at the naming of Jesus, why do most of them only use to put off their caps at, or to it, when recited, and not to bow their knees? why do they more frequently only nod or bow their heads unto it th…n their knees? or only one knee, (which men p. 34for the most part do) not both, (which few but women practise, who mak… cou…tesies at it) since the text requires every knee (therefore both their knees) should …ow, not one on…y.

5Fifthly, why do they duck, and bow their bodies or head… at the naming of it (as many Cathedralists, Priests, and others do) even when they are actually kneeling on their knee…, and praying to God, and Ch…ist Jesus himself? yea, why give they mo…e reverence, honour to the name Je…us a…one, than to the very Person, Majestie of God, or Jesus Christ him…elf? For when as they are wo…shipping God and Jesus Christ on their knees, in their most …erious prayers, and humblest, lowliest postures of body, even then at every naming of the word Jesus, to bend or bow their heads and bodies particularly in a more special, lowlier manner than before only because this name Jesus is mentioned in the Prayer,Nota. what is it but to pre…erie, honour, adore his bare name Jesus before his Person, Deity, and God the Father himself, and to advance the very name, sound, syllables of Jesus, above his Person, to whom they would not have thus so frequently, lowly, and seriously bowed afresh, had not this name Jesus been mentioned, though their minds, thoughts were or should be immediately fixed on God and him, and their knees, bodies bowed down to them in Prayer before? If this be not superstition, will-worship or worse, let their own Consciences and Reasons who are guilty of this practise judge.

6Sixthly, if bowing at the name Jesus be a duty of this text, I would willingly know, why the Apostles, **See Section 3: The Appendix of lowing at t…e name of Iesus, and Lame GilesFathers, and P…imitive Ch…istian, for above one thousand years after Christ, were utterly ignorant of this duty, of which there is no foot-steps, no mention in Antiquity? why ‖‖Sir Edwin Sands Relation of the Religion of the Eastern parts: Or, Europae Speculum, 1629. pag. 10.Pope Iohn the 20th. or rather p. 35the 22th. above one thousand years after Christ, should be the fi…st that ever set this Ceremony on foot, and that with an indulgence of 20. years pardon for every enclining of the head (not of the knee) at the name of Jesus? why no antient, no modern Commentators on this text but Papists & Jesuits, before Bp. Andrews, could find out this duty in, and acquaint us with it, as a thing therein required? VVhy no aaSee the Palsgraves Religion.Protestant Churches in forein parts, can yet find out, or practise this duty? VVhy bbSee here, Sect. 3.few but Papist…, but Jesuits, have formerly pleaded for it, till this our present age? VVhy few but Popes or Popish Councils and Authors have hithe… to pressed it? Why there is a special Prayer for the bowers at it, inserted into the Masse of the name Iesus? for which name the Papists have not only a solemn double Feast day on the 7th. of August, stiled Festum dulcissimi nominis Iesu, but also a special Masse, called Horae nominis Iesu, The Howers or Masse of the name Jesus.

Seventhly, if it be a duty of the text, why then have 7ccSee the Palsgraves Religion.Protestant Churches and Writers oppugned it from time to time, as a Popish Superstition and Innovation, as the Rhemists and Stengelius acknowledge? why then do ddOn Phil. 1.9.10.Phil 1:9Phil 1:10Calvin and Marloret, both in their Commentaries on the text, and eeOn Rom. 14.8. Phil 2.9, 10. Bish…p Alley hi… Poor mans Library, part 2. fol. 103, 104.Rom 14:8Phil 2:9Phil 2:10Paraeus, Piscator, with others, declaim thus against the Sorbonists? The Sorbon Sophisters are more than ridiculous, who collect out of this pres…nt place, that the knee must be bowed as oft as the name Iesus is pronounced, as if it were a magick word or spell, which hath all its efficacy included in its sound: why doth our Learned ggAnswer to Will. Raynold… p. 398, 399.Dr. Whitaker tax William Raynolds the Rhemist, with his Popish Companions of Rhemes, for abusing this text of the Philippians, in straining this Ceremony from it, which he expresly censures, as Superstitious, which (saith he) may breed a more dangerous error than any it can remove, to wit, that Iesus is better than Christ, which is wicked to imagine? Yea, why do hhIn his display of the Pop…sh Masse.Thomas Beacon, p. 36N…es en Phil. ….…, 10. i… Answ… to the Rhemish Testament, Sect. 2.Dr. Fulk, kkSyn…psis Papis…i the 9. generall Con… sie, p 492, 493.Dr. Willet, ll…po…ition on the Creed, p. 10….…96, 1…7. …. 9, …Bishop B…bi…on, Dr. Airay, and Mr. Cartwright, on and …rom this …ext, condemn and write against the Papists for using this ge…lection, as no wayes warra…ted or commanded by it? Why do they censure the bowing at this Name only▪ as Popish, Superstitious, Idolatrous in th… Papists, and making an apparent di…parity between the Three sacred Persons of the Trinity, which are Co-equal, by giving more honour to the second Person, and his very name Iesus, than to the first and third, and their most sacred names? or than to the other names of Iesus, as Emanuell, Saviour, Christ, Messias, Son of God, and the like? whose Judgements, that you may the better descern in this particular, I shall verbatim transcribe, reciting both the Papists words and their answers to them, as I find them printed in their works.

1I shall begin with Mr. Thomas Cartwright, who brings in the Rhemists writing thus against the Protestants.Mr Ca…twright in his Learned Confutation of the Rhomish Testament, on Phil. 2.10. sect. 2.Phil 2:10 They, by the like wickednesse, charge the faithfull people for capping or kneeing when they hear the name of Jesus, as though they worshipped not our Lord God therein, but the syllables, or letters, or other material Elements whereof the word written or spoken consisteth; and all this by Sophistications to draw the people from due honour and devotion towards Christ Jesus; which is Sathans drift by putting scruples into poor simple mens minds about his Sacraments, his Saints, his Crosse, his name, his image and such like, to abolish all true religion out of the world, and to make them plain Atheists. But the Church knoweth Satans cogitations, and therefore by the Scriptures and reason, warranteth and teacheth all her Children to do reverence whensoever Iesus is named, because Catholicks do not honour these things nor count them holy for their matter, colour, sound and syllables, but for respect and relation they have to our Saviour, bringing us to the remembrance and apprehension of Christ by sight, hearing, or use of the same signes, else why make we not reverence, at the name of **Many do so through ignorance or mistakeIesus the Son of p. 37Syrach, as well as of Iesus Christ. And it is a pittyfull case to see these profane subtilties of Heretiques to take place in religion, which were ridiculous in all other trade of life. When we hear our Prince or Soveraign named, we may without these scruples do obeisance, but toward Christ it must be superstitious; Thus the Rhemists.

To whom Mr. Cartwright thus replies, at the special instance of **See the Preface before his Confutation of the Rhemists translation, Glosses and A…notations on the New Testament.Sir Francis Walsingham, and other Lords of Queen Elizabeths Privy Counsel, and request of all the heads and Professors in the Univers…ty of Cambridge, with sundry other eminent English Divines. This dirt which they dash us with is as well made of them, as thrown by them. For it is false, that we will have no reverence given to the name of Iesus; We say, that there ought to be no other honour or reverence given to it, than unto the name of Christ, of Lord, of God. And further we say, that this suppleness of your knees, in bowing at the name of Iesus, is nothing but a mask to hide the straitness and numbness of all the joynts of your heart and soul in your submission to the Commandement of Iesus. For it is well known, that your knees which are Cammel-like in the courtesie which you give to this name, are joyntlesse and Elephant-like in your obedience unto his precepts to whom this name appertaineth. Again, we testifie that this is a will-worship, Nota.not only troublesom unto the assembly by irksom scraping of the pavement and unseasonable interruption of that which is read or preached, but pernicious also, in regard of the suspition that it may move of the inequality of the Persons in Trinity, whilst a title of the Son being honoured with cap and knee, the other Persons have neither bonnet vailed, nor foot moved to testifie any honour unto them. The vaunt of Scripture for proof of this worship, must needs avaunt. For, this being the only stay and prop which they can pretend out of Scripture, makes nothing for it. First, for that the name of 1Iesus in this place, signifieth not any title or note whereby Christ is called, but his authority, and whatsoever is glorious p. 38and exc…llent within h…m; as in divers places it doth likewise 2appear. Secondly, for that he understandeth not by the word knee, the member of the body, whereby they honour but (by a borrowed sp…ech) the subjection and bending of all creatures unto the infinite power of Christ: so that the souls d…parted and Angels (which have no knees) are subject unto this courtesying, as well as men living upon earth. If therefore the heavenly Spirits can yield this subjection unto Christ without courtesying at the name of Iesus, it followeth that this Exposition of bowing the knee is farr from the meaning 3of the Apostle in that text. Thirdly, for that the kneeling and courte…ying here spoken of, is performed as well by the wicked and disobedient, as by the holy and obedient Spirits, it is plain, that all kind of reverence, being a voluntary and frank worship of Christ after the pr…script of his word, is without all warrant of this place. This Scripture making nothing …or them, their reason, although it were likely, cannot bear it out; And whereas they would free thems…lves from superstition in syllables, because they bow not at the Name of …esus the Son of Sy…ach, as to Jesus the Son of GOD, whilst the knee j…mping with the very fir… utterance of the word Iesus, prev…nteth …ft…ntimes the pronunciation of the other words, of the Son o… Syrach. The very danger ther…fore of communicating of this worship with others which they would have prop…r to our Saviour Christ might easily have admonished them of the ins…ffi…iency of this Service. And seeing the name of Iesus in the Son of N…n… and in the high Pri…st of that nam…, of whom only we are assured that they were ri…htly thus called, is the same with the name ascribed unto Chri…t, Note this.we see not by what reason honour may be withdrawn from the one, which is given to t…e other: specially consid…ring they had not this titl… o… …esus in their own right, but in the right of Christ, wh…s… figures and lively representations they were. And if oth…rs might hold it, yet you which give the same hon…ur to the Image, which you give unto the Thing it self, cannot be conceived so to doe. What will you answ…r to this… that as you are in danger of superstion in the former point, so in this you are charged with profannesse, who neither cap nor courte…ie at the name of Jesus out of the Church, where the name is the same, and as w…ll to be honoured without as within the Church? Which service you perform in the Cros…, whereunto you do honour or …omage, as well when it standeth in the field, as when it is erected in the Church or Chancells. To your other reason, That, in reverence we uncover our heads at the name of Princes. We answer, that if it were so, yet the civil honour is not tyed to suc… strict lawes as is the Divine, therefore there is greater freedom of choice in the one than in the other. And it is known what is said of Civil honour; that it rather standeth on the will and judgement of the giver, then of the taker, which is clean contrary in the honour of God, which dependeth on the pleasure and command…ment of him that taketh it, not of him that giv…th it … Thus far Mr. Cartwright.

Dr. Andrew Willet, an eminent sound English Divine, in an **Synopsis Papismi, L…ndon 1594. the 9th General Controversy, p. 492, 493.Appendix concerning the name of Jesus, …elates the opinions both of the Papists and Protestants concer…ning this Ceremony in these words.

The Papists.

The name of Jesus ought to be worshipped by capping and kneeing therunto, by wearing it in their caps and setting it up in solemn places, alleadging that of St. Paul, That at the name of Iesus all things shall bow, Phil. 2.10. **Rhem Annor. Phil 2. Sect. 2. Apoc. 13.17.Phil 2Rev 13:17Yea, they say that Protestants by abolishing the name and image of Christ, do make way for Anti-christ.

The Protestants.

First, The bowing at the name of Jesus, as it is used in Popery, 1to bend the knee at the sound thereof, is not commanded in this place; which sheweth …spe…ially the subjection of all Creatures, (of Turks, Jews, Infidels, yea of the Devils themselves) to the power and Iudgement of Christ. Secondly, 2Protestants have only taken away the superstitious abuse of the name Jesus. Thirdly, The kneeling at p. 403the name of Iesus, is Supe…stitiously abused in Popery For the people stoop only at the sound, not understanding what is r…ad, and so make **N…ta.an Idol of the Letters and Syllables, adoring and worshipping the very Name, when they hear or see it: And again, In sitting and not vailing at the nam… of Christ, Emanuell, God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, and bowing only at the name of **Falk, ibidemIesus. Fourthly, Due reverence may be used to our 4Saviour, without any such Ceremony of capping or kneeing; neither do we Yet now men a…e n… …ated to me it, and cens…ed for not using it.bind any of necessity to use this reverence to the nam… of Iesus, as the Papists do, who think that Christ cannot be othe…wise honoured; neither do we judge and condemn those that do use it, being free from Superstition, and grounded in knowledge, and carefull not to give offence; for superstitious and offensive ignorance is not in any case to be 5defended. Fifthly, This outward reverence to the name of Iesus, was **A mistake w…rranted by no History, Father, Comme…tator, or solid Author, invented by Mr Ho…ker, in h…s Ecclesiastical Policy▪ …. 2 se…t 30 & taken upon trust by Dr Bane… out of him, Postils p. 280.first taken up amongst Christians, because of all other names it was most derided and scorned of the Pagans and Iews, and therefore they did the more honour it: But now there is greater danger of Popish Superstition in abusing Holy things, then of profane Paganism in utterly contemning them: and ther…fore there is not such necessary and iust occasion of using this ex…e…nal gesture now, as was in former times; It was not used of necessity then, much lesse now.

**Suri…s Tom. 4 pag 869.Synodus M…guntina, c. 59 (An. 1549. not An. 813. as is commonly mistaken, this Ceremony not being so antient by 200. years) it was thus decreed. Pari Religione ad nomen Salvatoris nostri Domini Iesu Christi, similiter ad Evangelium, Magnificat, Benedictus, Nunc demittis, Gloria in excelsis, Gloria Patri, caeterasque id genus Divinorum Officiorum partes, si… genuum fl…ctione, apertione capitis, ac totius corporis gestu se componant, ut ad ea quae ibi aguntur, animam intendere videantur: Let men with like Devotion at the name of our Lord and Savi…ur Iesus Christ, as likewise at the Gospel, the Magnific…t, Benedictus, Nunc dimittis, Gloria in …x…elsi…, Gloria Patri, and other parts of the Di…ine s…rvice, s… com…ose thems…lves by bowing p. 41the knee, uncovering the head, and the like gesture of the whole body, as they may seem to have their mind occupied in those things that are done.

I note out of this Decree, three things: First, That 1they should bow at the name of Christ, as well as when Iesus is named. Secondly, That the like Reverence should be 2used when as other Psalms are sung, and when mention is made of the Father, and the Holy Ghost, as in Gloria Patri. Thirdly, That this gesture should not be done in Reverence 3to names, words, or syllables so pronounced, but only to declare our attention. Thus then we see, that this Superstitious custom in bowing to the name of Iesus only, is contrary even to their own Popish Canons and Decrees. The like things also was decreed,**Anno 1548. Surius Tom. 4. pag. 810. Synodus Augustensis, c. 23.

Thus far Dr. Willet, who recites almost verbatim Dr. F…lks word…, and opinion of this Ceremony, in his Answer to the Rhemists Notes on Phil. 2.10. who there expresly defines; It is certain, that the bowing of the knee at the sound of the name of Iesus, as it is used in Popery, is not commanded nor prohibited in this place, (of Phil. 2.9.10) But it pertaineth to the subjection of all Creatures to the Iudgement of Christ, in the general day of Iudgement, when not only Turks and Iews, who could yeild no honour to Iesus, but even the Devils themselves shall be constrained to acknowledge t…at he is their judge.

Learned Dr. William Whitaker, Dr. Whitaker.Regius Professor of Divinity in Cambridge, in his Answer to William Reynolds the Rhemist, Cambridge 1590. p. 398, 399. writes thus of this Text and Ceremony: Concer…ing putting off our Caps, and making courtesies at the name of …esus, Mr. Reynolds is very earnest, and concludeth in the end, that I am an Atheist, and make no account of Christ, for denying, seeing we yeild this honour of cap and courtesies to the Letters, Name, Seal, and Seat of the Prince. If this be a true Argument, (Mr. Reynolds) as you in your vehemency would have it seem, how commeth it to passe, that Gods name among you is not honoured with like reverence of cap and knee, whensoever it is heard? Will you put off your p. 36caps when the Prince is named, and will you make courtesi…s at the **See Fox Acts and Monuments V…l 3. p. 487, 496.Popes name, at his triple Crown, or Crosse, and will you never once stir your caps, or bow your knees when God is named? Is this your Religion? is this your Fashion? Then let me conclude against you, as you have done against me, That you are by your own Arguments very Atheists, such as make no account of God himself; for oth…rwise, this conclusion of your (That I am such a one for not honouring the name of Iesus in such sort) is falsly, though most maliciously devised. The Jews and Infidels have abhorred the name of Jesus, I grant, But no more the name of Jesus, than the name of Christ, seeing Jesus is Christ, and Christ hath as much deserved to be hated of them, as Jesus: Christs name may a thousand times be heard amongst you, and no man moveth cap or knee. Jesus is no sooner sounded, but every man by and b… putteth off his cap, and scrapeth on the ground with his foot: and yet not alwayes, or in all places, but in the Church, and specially at reading of the Gospel. This may breed a more dangerous opinion tha… any it can r…move, that Jesus is better then is Christ, and more worthy of Reverence, which is wicked to imagine.

Bp. Babington.Reverend and pious Dr. Gervase Babington, Bishop of Worcester, in his Exposition of the Catholick Faith, in his Works, London, 1622. pag. 195, 196, 197. determines thus of this Text and Ceremony: The Papists (w…ites he) strangely des…ant of this holy name Jesus, but whether such stuff be worth the touch, I referre it to you. Surely to rake up this Channell, were to stir up a great deal of …oul matter; For (in truth) the follies of their Writers herein a…e most monstrous. But said I follies? I might say more, and say but right.

Yet a little to manifest their blindnesse, you must understand (say they) that there …re 3. manner of Psalters. The fi…st is called Davids Psalter, containing thrice fifty Psalmes. The second is called the Psalter of our Lady, containing thrice fifty Aves. And the third is called the Psalter of Iesu, containing fifteen principal Petitions, which t…n times repeated makes also thrice fifty; p. 43in the which Psalter the glorious name of Iesu is called upon **And as often bowed unto by the Repeaters.450. times. These ten Petitions may be said upon our ten Fingers, or ten Beads, or read in a Book. For example, Iesu, Iesu, Iesu mercy; Iesu, Iesu, Iesu mercy, Iesu, Iesu, Iesu mercy; and so ten times over, which maketh one Petition. This they say shall be very meritorious, because it is written, **Iohn 14…13. Acts 4.12.John 14:13Acts 4:12Whatsoever you shall aske in my name, that you shall have, and there is no other name whereby we can be saved. This is most wonderfull blindness and boldnesse, thus to abuse unto Superstition this holy Name, and thus to pervert these holy Scriptures. The Scriptures you see are farre from any such sense, the one promising that whatsoever we ask in his Name, that is, for his sake, for his merits and passion, not for the word Iesus, the literal word; and the other teaching, that there is no other Name, that is, no other means or way whereby we can be saved, not ascribing our Salvation to the word or syllable Iesus: But hear more. **See Carolus Stengellus S. s…nc…i nominis Iesu Cultus, & Virtutes, cap. 2. p 30. Erasmus his Paraphrase on Phil. 2.…, 10.Phil 2Another of their learned Rabbies going about to tell the greatnesse of this Name (not of him that hath the name, but of the litteral word) saith, that all things are comprehended within these four numbers, one, ten, a hundred, a thousand, and then, these numbers are in the word Iesus; wherefore he concludeth, that it is a wonderfull name, which you see in him was a wonderfull trifling in a serious matter. A third findeth that name of God delivered to Moses, SVM, I am, in this word Iesus; And how? Forsooth, saith he, Iesus hath three terminations, when it is declined, Iesus, Iesu, & Iesum: now take the last letter of every termination, and you have S. V. M. which put together spell SVM. Then he cryeth out, O nomen ineffabile! O nomen verè tetragrammaton! O gaudium Angelorum, laetitiam lustorum, &c. O name that cannot be expressed! O name truly tetragrammaton! O joy of Angels, and comfort of the Just. Furthermore, (saith he) this name, if you mark it, hath three Vowels and two Consonants, which is a p. 44mystery: for the three Vowels I. E. V. signifie the Trinity; and the two Consonants, (or rather one Consonant twice put, to wit S.) signifie the two parts of Christs humanity, his Boy and his Soul. Therefore We must Worship this Name above all Names. Which what profound Divinity it is, you see. Others of them rob Christ of his Divine power, vertue, and might, and ascribe it to this litteral word of his name, saying, This is the name that gave the blind sight, the deaf hearing, the lame going, the dumb speech, the dead lise; and finally, that cast out Devills out of the bodies of men, &c. Then is told a tale of a Souldier that was taken out of St. Patricks Purgatory, by this name. And how? Because St. Paul said, ‖‖Act, 21.13.He was not only ready to be bound in Ierusalem, but to dye for the name of the Lord Iesus, (a place, if you mark it, well applyed.) Therfore when his Head was cut off at Rome it gave three leaps, and at every leap said, Iesu, Iesu, Iesu.

Why St. Paul meant, as I take it, that he was ready to dye for the name of the Lord Jesus, that is, for his Gospel, truth, profession o… him, &c. not for the litteral word Iesus. It is true, but thus blind were and are still these men, refusing all reformation, and running headlong to their ow… destruction, whilst they place the vertue in the name, that they should have …aught to be in the Person of Christ, God and Man, not once mentioning in all this, his mercy, merit, death, bloodshed, love, or such like.

I cannot omit that profound Doctor, whom Erasmus mentioneth, that noted how many letters were in the word Iesus, namely five, and then how S. standeth in the middest betwixt two Syllables, to signifie, that even so Iesus is the middle or Mediator betwixt God and Man, with such other good stories more there; a… though we had no better means to prove Christ our Mediator, but by such curiou…, idle, foolish descant as this. But thus left they the Fountains of God, and p. 45digged Cisternes to drink on after their own fanci…s. Le… us leave them therefore and their dreams, and still hold that which hath been said before, that this name was given him, not to be abused to Superstition and Folly, but to tell us, that as his name was, so indeed was he, a true, full, and perfect Saviour of his people from their si…; not a half Saviour, as Gabriel Biel writeth, Principally by Christ, but not Only by Christ.

After which he addes, I think the place to the Philippians (ch. 2.9, 10) not well understood, hath and doth deceive them: Indeed they are easily deceived that will not search for truth, and they are justly given over to strong delusions that delight in errour, and have not a love of the …ruth; otherwise the place to the Philippians would not be mistaken. But look we a little at the same, and mark from whence the Apostle took it, and compare Spiritual thing… with Spiritual t…ing…; The place is borrowed from the Prophet **Isaiah 45 23▪Isa 45:23Isaiah, and therefore by conferrence evident, that the word (Name) signifyeth power, glory, honour, and authority a…ove all powers, glories, honours, and authoritie…; And (bowing the knee) signifyeth subjection, submission, and obedience of all Crea…ures to his beck, rule, and government, for what material knees have things in Heaven, Hell, &c? This knew the antient Father St. Origen, and therefore writing upon the 14. to the Romans, (where these words be again) saith, Non est carnaliter hoc accipiendum, quasi Coelesti…, ut Sol, Luna, Angeli, genua aut linguas habeant, sed genu flectere significat, cuncta subjecta esse, & cul…ui Dei obedire, These words are not to be taken carnally, as though things in H…aven, as the Sun, Moon, Angels, &c. had knees, or tongues: But to bow the knee signifyeth, that all thing… should be subject and obedient to the service of God. This knew St. Hierom also, and therefore saith, Non ad genua corporis… sed ad subjectionem mentis, & inclinationem spectat, sicut David dicit, Adhaesit pavimento anima mea. It doth not belong to the knees of the body, but to the subjection p. 40and bowing o… the mind, as David sai…h, My soul cleaveth to the earth or dust, noting his inward humiliation, not a r…l …nd outward matter; For shall we think (saith he) that either Heavenly things, or all Earthly things …ave knees, &c. No, I say again, but by thi… phrase of sp…ech is m…ant subjection, whereof bowing of the kne… is a sign; as when he saith, **1 Kin. 19.18. R…m. 14.11.1 Kgs 19:18I have left me 7000. men which have not bowed the knee to Baal, that is, which have no… been subject to that Idol. Fornicator libidini genu flectit, &c. The Fornicator is sa…d to bow his knee to lust, The Covetuous man to his riches or desire, The Proud man to his pride, &c. because they are subject to these things. Et …o…ies Diabolo flectimus qusties peccamus, And so oft we bow to th… Devil as we commit sin, saith thi… good Father. The like in effect have Theophilact, Bed…, Ambros…, the glosse, and some of their own Papists. Imperio ejus subjiciantur Angeli, Homines, Daemones, To his rule and government shall be subj…ct Angels in Heaven, Men in Earth, and Devils under the Earth. This is to bow the knee to him, and this is for him to have a name above all names. Let it suffice both for Answer to the place of the Philippians, and for declaration of this Popish ignorance and errour: Great is the judgement certainly when men have eyes and s…e not, ears and ye… …ear not, hearts and yet understand not, and God avert it from his people more and more. After which he thus proceeds, This title of Christ, is given to our Saviour, to …istinguish him from others that were c…lled Iesus as well as he, who were many… (the name in these places and time… being usual,) as I…sus the Son of Nun, Iesu… the Son of Iehozadeck, Iesus the Son of Syrach, Iesus Iustu…, Col. 4.11. and many more, but none of all these was Iesus Christ; therefore this addition of Christ, you see, makes a difference betwixt this our J…sus, and all these; And by the way, (I…sephus Heb. 4.7. H…g. 1…1. Ezra 3.2.Heb 4:7Ezra 3:2 I should touch it again) Doth not even the common use of the name shew, that the place of the Philippians is not literally to be understood? For how could that name be a p. 37name ab…ve all names, which so many had as well as he, if you respect the literal name? Therefore need… by Name, must be meant some other thing, (as you heard before) even power, authority, rule, and government, which is in Christ above all o…hers. S…condly, This title sheweth his Office, for it signifyeth Annointed: And this again sheweth the grosse ignorance, or wilfull malice of Papists, in so extolling the …are word Jesus; For whether is greater … Henry (a proper name, common to many of his Subjects) or King? (a name of Office, peculiar to him) Mary, or Queen? John, or Earl and Lord? As then Henry and King be, so is Jesus and Christ, therefore judge whether is greater, if we were to stand upon names and litteral rules. This have some of their own well seen and confessed, but I had rather alledge the Scripture…. First then consider, at the first tydings brought of his happy Birth unto the Shepherds, mark how the Angels content n…t themselves to say, **Luke 2.11.Luke 2:11VntoUnto you is born a Iesus, or a Saviour, but they adde more comfort, which is Christ the Lord. **Note this.Thereby preferring this Jesus before all that ever were so called, by a title of his Office: The like we read in Matthew, ‖‖Mat. 1.16.Matt 1:16Of whom is born Iesus, which is called Christ: In **Iohn 7.43.John 7:43Iohn we read of a dissention, &c. Not whether he were Iesus or no, but whether he were Christ, knowing the greater moment to be in that: A…ain, **Iohn 9.22.John 9:22A L…w was made to excommunicate whosoever confessed him to be Christ, not against calling him by the name Iesus; In the same place you see the poor man which had received sight, to fall down and worship when he heard the title of the Son of God, and not doing it before in that sort, though he knew his name to be Iesus: In the **Iohn 10 33.John 10:3310th. of Iohn, they would have stoned him, for s…ying he was the Son of God, and called it Blasphemy, but they did not so for the name of Iesus: I… ‖‖Luke 22.67.Luke 22:67Luke they demanded of him, Art thou the very Christ? not, Act thou Iesus? for so they called him without offenc…, and when they heard his Answer, they rent their Clothes, thereby declaring how far greater it p. 48was to be Christ, then to have the literal name of Iesus. All which places, with many more, ought truly to teach and perswade our souls, to look for his Office, that hath his name which is so comfortable, and not to be **Let the Fathers of the Church note it.Children, playing with Letters and Syllables, and adoring Titles with honour that is due to the Person, as those fond men do, salving all the matter with a foolish distinction of concomitancy, by which all Idolatry may be as well excused. Thus thi… Learned pious Bishop of our Church, expresly against Bishop Andrews and others fancies since.

If this Bishop seem singular in this case, I shall adde another Prelate to second him, even that Famous Learned Divine William Alley, Bishop Alley.Bishop of Exeter, Divinity Lecturer at Pauls, in the first year of Queen Elizabeth, who in his Poor Mans Library, Tom. 2. Miscelanea Praelectionis, 3, & 4. London, Cum gra…ia & p…ivilegio Regiae Majestatis, 1571. fol. 42, 43, 88, 103, 104 writes thu…, God the Father gave un…o Cur… …ot only the glory of his body, but also the glory o… his name, A… it is written by Paul, Philippians 2.9, 10. He gave him a name which is above all name… …hat In (so be **And K. Edw. the 6. his Ca…echisms too, cum privilegio.twice renders it, not A…) the name of Jesus every knee should bow, both of thin…s in Heaven, of things in Earth, and of things under …h… Earth… These words (writes he, answering the Papis…s obj…cting it for proof of their imaginary Purgatory) are not to be understood of the worshipping of God, …or this worship standeth not in this, that the kn…e should be bowed, …ut doth sp…cially require the spiritual effects and motions of the mind: Paul there speaketh of the great Authority and power which is committed and given to Chri…t, by which power every creature of Heaven, Earth, and Hell, is made subject unto him, even the Devil himself, with all the wicked and damned spirit…, will they nill they, are delivered under his feet; and the words which go before shew this sufficiently, for it is said, God gave him a name that is above all name…, that all knees should bow In that Name; W…ich words if ye will apply unto the Divine Worship, p. 49as though they which worship God be in Purgatory; Then must you grant also, that the Devil and all the damned spirits do worship Christ; Nomen, name in this place is taken for dignity and honour, and so it is used almost in all tongues, especially in the Scriptures it is a familiar speech; Paul therefore by this word Name, signifieth high and great power to be given unto Christ, and Christ to be set in chiefest degree of honour, that there may no dignity be found like, either in Heaven or in Earth. It is to be wondred of some which do coactly restrain this sentence of Paul to the two Syllables of this name Jesus: Paul speaketh of the whole Majesty of Christ; For they which do consider, and have no further respect but only to the two Syllables of the name, do like as one would discusse and find out by this word Alexander, the great prowesse of the name which Alexander gat him; But I pray you, **And are not many of our Prelates, Ministers, and People now in this regard as foolish as they?how much more foolish are the Sorbonists, which gather by this place of Paul, that the knee is to be bowed as often as this name Iesus is pronounced? As though this word were a word which hath in the very sound all the power included: But Paul speaketh here of the honour which is to be given to the Son of God, and to his Majesty, and not to the Syllables either sounded or written: And in this behalf, how much (I pray you) did the pel…ing Pardoners deceive the people, in selling this name in Golden or Painted Papers, as though they might obtain either remission of sins, or else the favour of God thereby? Thus much Bishop Alley.

To him I shall annex that late Learned Reverend Divine,Dr. Air…y. **Lecture 30. upon the Philippians, London 1618. p. 345▪ to 348.Dr. Henry Airay, Provost of Queens Colledge in Oxford, who upon this Text of the Philippians, writes thus, And hath given him a name, &c. Where we are not to unde…stand, that God gave unto Christ after his Resurrection any new name which he had not before; for as before, so after, and as after, so before, he was and is called, the wisdome of God, the power of God, the true light of the world, faithfull and true, holy and just, the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, a Priest for ever after the order of Melchizadech, the Saviour of the p. 50world, the Prince of Peace, the Mediator of the New Testament, the head of the Church, the Lord of Glory, Iesus Christ, the Son of the Father, the Son of God, and God; neither had he any name after his Resurrection which he had not before; But by a name is to be understood in this place, glory, and honour, and Majesty, and Dominion over all things created, (as the same word is elsewhere used, Ephes. 1.21.) So that when it is said, God hath given him a name above every name, the meaning is, That God having raised up Christ Jesus from the dead, hath so highly exalted him in the Heavenly places, that he hath given him all power both in Heaven and Earth, all Dominion ov…r all Creatures whatsoever, and the same glory which he had with him from the beginning, so that now he raigneth and ruleth with him… King over all, and bl…ssed for ever, which he there proves and parallels with Heb. 2.9. Ephes. 1.20, 21 Iohn 17.5. Mat. 28.18. And then concludes thus. To knit up all in a word, Christ (God and Man) after his Resurrection, was Crowned with glory and honour, even such as plainly shewed him to be God, there to rule and raign as Soveraign Lord and King, till he come in the Clouds to judge both quick and dead; After which, he proceeds in these words, **Ibidem …. 153, 154, 155.Where by the name of Jesus w… are not to understand the bare name of Jesus, as though it had the vertue in it to drive away Devils, or as though at the very sound of it all were to bow their knees, For at the name of Saviour (which is the same with Jesus) none boweth, and the name of Christ, Emanuell, of the Son of God, of God, are names no lesse precious and glorious then is the name of Jesus; True it is, that bowing at the name of Iesu… is a Custome which hath been much used, but to bow and kneel at the very sound of the name, when we only hear the name of Iesus sounding in our ears, but know not what the name meaneth, **Nota.savoureth of Superstition. By bowing the knee, the Apostle here meaneth, that subjection which all Creatures ought continually to perform, and which all Creatures shall perform to Christ in that day; p. 51some, wilingly and chearfully, as Holy-m…n and Angels: some, unwilling, and to their confusion, as the Devils, and wicked men their Instruments; For so the Lord by his Prophet useth the same phrase of speech, where he saith, aaIsaiah 45.23▪Isa 45:23Every knee shall bow to me: That is, shall be subject to me, and worship me. Here then is a duty prescribed, necessary to be performed of every Christian, which i…, to glorifie him who is exalted into the height of glory, both in our bodie… and in our spir…t…, to worship him with holy worship, to subject our selve… to him in all obedience un…o hi… Heavenly will, For bbApoc. 5.12▪Rev 5:12worthy is the Lamb that was killed to receive all power, and wisdome, and strengt…, and honour, and praise, and glory; The Angels in Heaven they glorifie the name of Jesus, in …hat they are alwayes ready to execute his wlll, and do wha…soever he commandeth them; This also is that holy worship wherewith we ought to worship him, and to glorifie hi… name, even to be hearer… and doer… of hi… word, to obey hi… will, to walk in his Laws, and to keep his Commandements, not the bare and outward capping and kneeing at the name of Iesus, but principally, obedience unto his will that is named, is the h… nour which here he accepteth of us; For, a… Not ev…ry one that sayeth Lord, Lord, s…all enter into his Kingdom, so Not every one that boweth at the name of Iesus shall enter into his Kingdom, but …e that doth his will, and walketh in his w…yes: Saul when he was sent to slay the Amalekites, thought t… honour God greatly by sparing the best of the Sheep and of the Oxen, to sacrifice unto him; But it wa… said unto him, cc1 Sam. 15.22.1 Sam 15:22Hath the Lord as great pleasure in Burnt-…fferings and Sacrifices, as when his voyce is obeyed? Behold, … obey i… better then Sacrifice, and to hearke… is b…ter then the fa… of Rams: So you haply think,**No…a. You honour our blessed Saviour greatly, when yo… bow your selves at every sound … hi… name; But behold, to ob…y his will is better then cap…ing and kneeing, and all ou…ward Cerem…nies whatsoever: Yet mistake me not I beseech you, as though I thought p. 52that the names of Iesus, of Christ, of the Lord, of God, of the Father, of the Son, or of the Holy Ghost, were names of ordinary account or reckoning, or to be passed over withou… reverence, as other name…, nay when…oever we hear, or speak, or think of them, we are to rever…nce the Majesty of God, signified thereby; and fearfull it may be to them that think or speak of them prophanely or lightly, or upon each light or trifling occasion, or otherwise then with great reverence and fear, that the Lord may not hold them guil…esse: But this I say, t…at neither the sound of these Syllables of **Nota.Iesus, nor the name of Iesus, should aff…ct us more then any other names of Ch…ist, as though there lay some vertue in the bare word; But whensoever we hear, or think, or speak of him, we are to r…verence his Majesty, and in the reveren… fear of his name, to subject …ur selves unto his will. This is a part of that duty whereby we must glorifie Christ Jesus. After this, in the 31. Lecture he proceeds to prove, That by bowing of the knee in this Text, is meant the subjection of all creatures unto Christ, and that this Text shall be actually & …rincipally fulfilled before his Tribunal only, in the generall day of Iudgement; So that by 1his expresse resolution it appears: First, That the name Jesus is not the name above every name mentioned and 2intended in this Text. Secondly, That kneeing or capping 3at this name is not here enjoyned. Thirdly, That no more capping or bowing is to be given to the name Jesus, then to any other names of Christ, or God. 4Fourthly, That the bowing and capping at this name only, is Superstitiou…, and attribute… some vertue to the 5Letters and Syllables of the name it s…l…. Fifthly, That the bowing of every knee here mentioned, is and shall be principally per…ormed and fulfilled in the day of Judgement.

To these our Learned Orthodox Bishops, and Divines, I could adde Mr. William Charke, in his Answer to a Scandalous Libell or Censure, Mr. Perkins, in his Discourse of Witchcraft, c. 3. Mr. Thomas Wilson, in his p. 53Exposition on Rom. 14▪ 11. p 601. who conclude this bowing at the name of Jesus to be no duty or Ceremony warranted by Phil 2▪ 9, 10, 11. and censure the P…pists for adoring and abusing the name of Jesus to Supe…stition and Idolatry: But I shall conclude with the words of Iohannes Brentius an eminent Protestant Divine, Explicatio in Epist. Pauli ad Philip. c. 2. v. 9, 10. Quod autem Paulus ait, Vt in nomine Iesu omne se genu flectat, &c. non sic intelligendum est, quod necessarium sit ut prolato hoc nomine semper externa g…nua flec…ere debent, haec est enim Puerilis Ceremonia et propter Pueros usurpanda aliquoties; which I wish those Reverend Fathers of the Church, who most presse and practise it, a… becomming their Dignity and Gravity, would seriously consider, lest they verifie the Proverb, Bis Pueri Senes.

Now because Bp. Andrews is the fi…st and principal Divine of Eminency in our English Church, who hath expounded this Text of the Philippians against the stream of the Fathers, and Protestant Writers of our own and other Refo…med Churches, and preached up bowing, cringing at every recital of the name Jesus in the Church, as an indispensible r…ligious duty, prescribed to all Christians in this Text, when as **Ecclesiastical Policy, l. 2 sect. 30. Dr. Fulks Notes on the Rhemish Testament▪ Phil. 2. sect. 2.Phil 2Mr. Hooker and others repute it only, an arbitrary harml…sse Ceremony, which no man is constrained to use, and wherein Christian liberty ought to take place, therefore no duty of the Text: And because his Sermon on it is the principal Authority which those who now most presse, practise this Duty, or Ceremony of bowing, rely upon, without due Examination of his Words and Reasons; to undeceive all his seduced Proselytes, I shall in the next place soberly examine, discover the manifold oversights, errors, mistakes, in his so much admired Sermon on this Text and subject, being necessitated thereunto for my own just defence, by some of his Fellow-Bishops, who seem much displeased for my over-modest brief censure of them in my Lame Giles p. 54his Haltings; whom I hope to convince, or convert to my opinion, by the irresistable evidence of Truth, and by such sacred and humane Authorities, Reasons, as they shall not be able to gain-say. If any shall deem me his or their Enemy **Gal. 4.16.Gal 4:16because I tell and discover to them the truth; I shall patiently undergo their undemerited indignations, and silently lament, that Veritas Odium Parit, should now be experimentally verified in any Fathers of the Church, or Ministers of the Gospel, who are specially commanded, **Zach 8: 16, 17, 19.Zech 8:16Zech 8:17Zech 8:19To speak every man the Truth to his Neighbour, to execute the judgement of Truth and Peace in their Gates; to love the Truth and Peace, and not to imagine evil in their hearts against their Neighbours, especially for discovering or defending Truth, and refelling Falshood, in matters which concern mens Consciences and immortal souls, whose sati…faction and benefit alone I only intend, by these serious and sober Inqui…ies.