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A60393	A catalogve of superstitons innovations in the change of services and ceremonies, of presumptuous irregularities, and transgressions, against the Articles of Religion, Act of Parliament for uniformity, canons, advertisements, injunctions, and homilies and lastly, of sundry perjurious violations of the locall statutes of Durham Cathedrall church, which the dean and presendaries, and all other members of the said church, took their corporall oaths, to observe, and obey, at their admittance and installation, according to that in the 13. Chap. De admissione Canonicorum ... / opposed by Peter Smart ...	Smart, Peter, 1569-1652?	1642 (1642)	Wing S4013; ESTC R560	24,629	36

Communion which are disturbers rather which is an Innovation in Durham begun there when Doctor Cosins was made Prebendary of that Church for both in England and all other reformed Churches all are commanded to depart which do not communicate 22. They offended in chanting in the Quire amongst singing men and children which is a base employment for Maior Cannons Prebendaries and Preachers amongst whom it is a thing unaccustomed and unlawfull when they sit in their Prebendall stals disallowed by Bishop Howson their Diocesan in his Visitation and forbidden by Gregory the great who saith Prohibitum est ne quis in Ecclesia cantet nisi inferiores ordines ut pote subdiaconi Diaconi vero lectioni praedicationi incumbant It is forbidden saith he that any chant in the Churches but men of meane degree none above Subdeacons but Ministers or Deacons must apply themselves to reading and preaching for that makes most for the peoples edification to which all must be done In old time Omnes simul psallebant in Ecclesia all Christians did sing together in the Church yet now Soli Clerici canunt the Clerks onely sing as Bellarmine confesseth li. 2o. de verbi Dei cap. 16. lib. 1. de bonis operibus cap. 16. Yea though the Papists confesse that it was given in commandment by St. Paul saith Bineus that the faithfull in their Assemblies should praise God together with heart and voyce by singing Psalmes yet they tell us saith Bellarmine that Ecclesiasticae institutione optime provisum est ne praeter certos ad hoc inscriptos alii in Eccl●sia canerent It is excellently well provided for by the Orders of the Church that none should sing but a set number appointed for that purpose viz. Priests Clerks Singingmen and Quiristers 23 The most impudent and most unlawfull Innovation that ever was seen in any Cathedrall Church of England was that of taking away the Morning Prayer at 6. of the clock which had continued above sixty yeers and putting in the place thereof the ordinary Morning Service appointed to be said at ten of the clock which continued about two yeers Injunctions were given S●ptember 25 1o. Eli● by William Lord Eures Doctor Sands and others Commissioners authorised under the great Seal of England to the Dean and Chapter of Durham and to all other Ministers of that Church to be observed by every of them in their offices and degrees for the advancement of Gods glory The 10. Injunction is this consisting of 5 clauses the first that you shall have your Divine Service at due or convenient houres in your Church 2 And that you shall besides your ordinary Morning Prayer and Service have every working day at 6. of the clock in the morning the Common Prayer with the English Letany and Suffrages instead and in place of the morrow Masse 3 To the intent that the Schollers of the Grammer Schoole and other well disposed persons may daily resort thereto 4 And that some be appointed weekly as it shall come to their course either such as were appointed for the morrow Masse or else some of the petty Cannons 5 And that to be done in some convenient place of the Church 24 The foresaid Morning Prayer at six of the clock our Innovators of Durham might not alter or disanull 1 Because it was ordained and established by lawfull Authority of the Soveraigne Prince and Parliament under the great Seal of England in the generall reformation of the Church which private men without authoritie might not take away nor change without the danger of excommunication and deprivation for their impudent sawcinesse in rebelliously withstanding the Kings Laws 2 Because it was contrary to the custome of Durham Cathedrall which had continued ever since the first yeer of Queen Eliz. 1559. till the second yeer of our Soveraigne Lord King Charles to the observation of which custome all Durham Prebends take expresly their corporall oath when they are installed 3 Because it is contrary to all Cathedrall Churches in England as Bishop Howson said which Cathedrals still retain their Morning Prayers plainly read by one Minister with a Psalm in the end in a vulgar tune which all the Congregation may sing together 4 Because these Injunctions being made for the advancement of Gods glory the taking away of this Morning Prayer distinctly said is the hindrance of Gods glory with the devotion and edification of Scholers and other people for whom it was ordained without which edifying knowledge no service can be acceptable to God either in Cathedrall or Parish Churches 25 In the foresaid Injunction for 6 a clock Prayer 5 clauses are conteined against every one of which our new fangled Durhamers have notoriously offended they have overthrown and turned upside down the whole frame and form of all forenoon Services confounding the ordinary Service at 10 a clock with the 6 a clock Prayer and bringing in a new found second Service to be said alone without a first at the ordinarie accustomed houres of the day by which they have depraved the whole book of Common Prayer and the Rubricks thereof 26 Concerning the first of which five in Durham Cathedrall the Divine Service called in this Injunction the ordinary Morning Praier hath not been kept at convenient and due houres the usuall time whereof was all the time of Queen Eliz. and King James between the houres of nine and eleven but our brainsick Innovators of Durham removed the ordinary Service to 8 a clock and so it continued about a yeer and all that time they had 3 forenoon Services one at 6. another at 8. and a third at 10. of the clock afterwards upon better advice because three Services in one forenoon were tedious they took quite away the plain and best Morning Prayer appointed by this Injunction and put in place thereof the ordinary Divine Service and called the people thereunto by the ringing of three Bels to which not 3 persons usually resorted especially in Winter time and dark mornings 27 The ordinary Morning Prayer called the Mattens and Divine Service in the foresaid Injunction which appoints it to be said at due and convenient houres that is between the houres of nine and eleven according to the custome and practise of all Churches is that which is ordained in the book of Common Prayer the Rubricks prescribing the manner of saying the same for time place order and fashion of rights and Ceremonies without alteration according to the Cannon of our Church Observabunt ordines ritus desoriptos in libro publicar●m precum tam in legendis sacris Scripturis precibus dicendis quam etiam in administrations Sacramentorum ut nov● detrahant aliquid neve addant neve de materia neve de forma Again the 14. Cannon saith all Ministers shall observe the orders and Ceremonies prescribed in the book of Common Prayer without either adding or diminishing any thing in matter or form Our seditious Innovators of Durham have not observed the orders and rights

if there be no Sermon the meaning of the Rubrick is plain and the practise of all our Churches expound it when there is no Communion if there be no Sermon preached in the pulpit the Curate being no preaching Minister shall read an Homily or Exhortation which Homily is termed a Sermon not preached in the pulpit on any text of Scripture but read as the rest of the Service by the Curate with no conceived prayer or Psalms sung before or after the Homily and then the Curate when the Homily is done must proceed as the Rubrick directs him to declare to the people whether there be any holidayes the week following and he must exhort them to remember the poore saying one or more of these sentences Now in what Cathedrall Church doth any Curate after Sermon warne holidayes or fasting dayes or read any sentence to exhort the people to make any collection for the poore But every Preacher in a Cathedrall Church goeth up to the pulpit taketh a text of Scripture hath a Psalme sung and maketh a prayer before the Sermon Which Sermon being done concludeth with a prayer he sitteth down in the pulpit till the Psalme be ended and then standing up he dismisseth the congregation with the blessing of Gods peace Thus the Reformers of the Church understood their own Rubrick and this hath been the practise of all Churches of England till lately fantasticall Innovators in Durham changed and corrupted the whole form and fashion of our Church Service and other Churches ignorantly and superstitiously have lately begun to imitate Durham in the same ridiculous Innovations 33 They have offended in preaching and defending them that did preach against the religion established impudently traducing vilifying and disgracing the grave and learned reformers of our Church as Doctor Cosin did in his Sermon of the Parable of the Tares That the Reformers of our Church when they took away the M●sse they marr'd all religion and the service of God they called it a reformation but it was indeed a deformation and Doctor Linsell said that the Reformers of our Church were ignorant Calvinisticall Bishops contrary to the advertisement no person shall preach any matter tending to dissention or to the derogation of the religion and doctrine received 34. They offended in altering orders established and ceremonies prescribed and taking upon them to make new orders for the observation of unlawfull sermons ceremonies without the Kings authority under the Great Seale of England for which presumption they are excommunicated though they pretend the Bishops authority to whom they give transcendent authority which is notwithstanding limited by the locall statutes of Durham Church and by the Cannons both old and new his office is assigned to preach and to see that the Church Service and Sacraments be rightly administred as is prescribed in the Common Prayer he may not hinder preaching by preferring petty ceremonies and solemne services with piping and singing before Sermons nor corrupt with unlawfull orders and new rites both Service and Sacraments according to the first Latin Canon 1571. 35 They offended in making Gloria Patri a Creed and making the people to stand when it is said it being no Creed but a prayer At which they are enjoyned to kneele as likewise forcing the people to stand when the Nicene Creed was sung and to kneele when some prayer is sung Though the people could not understand whether they were prayers or Creed The seventh Article of religion D● tribus Symbolis acknowledgeth but three Creeds to be said in Churches viz. the Nicene Creed the Creed of Athanasius and the Apostles Creed Innovators in Durham have added a fourth Creed Glory be to the Father to the Sonne c. and they enjoyned the Ceremonie of standing as if it were as good a Creed as the Apostles Creed being indeed no Creed but a prayer for it is part of the Letany which is nothing but prayers at which all are enjoyned to kneele Therefore they are excemmunicated ipso facto by the 5. Canon as depravers of the booke of Common prayer and the Articles of religion 36. They offended in burning of Wax-candels in excessive number two or three hundred at a time when and where there was no use of lights as namely on Candlemas day 1627. when the daies were lengthned two houres and Service might be done an houre before day light was gon● as it was in Westminster-Abbey this yeere 1641. no Candles being lighted there at Evening prayer 37. They offended likwise in turning their f ces to the East and orcing the people so to doe which is a Ceremony not allowed in our Church in this Doctor Cosins offended not onely in turning the readers Deske at morning prayer and the Deanes Pue that they could not sit with their backs towards the East but also when he administ ed the Communion he stood on the West side of the Table with his face towards the East and backe towards the people which is a Ceremony the Popes Priests are enjoyned to use at Masse and the care of the reformers of our Church was that Ministers of the Gospell should not be like Masse-priests in superstitious Ceremonies or that our holy C●munion should be like their Idolatrous Masse Again the turning of faces alwaies Eastward in the Service of God is a Ceremony not appointed by the Church of England nor mentioned in the Booke of Common prayer as Bishop Harsnet confessed openly upon the Bench at Yorke and consequently it is forbidden by the Act of uniformity under great penalty The Prebendaries of Durham incurred the horrible sinne of perjury in not conventing me before the Chapter there to be examined and matters debated if they had any thing to lay to my charge according to the Statutes in that behalf and their oath The words in the second Chapter are these 38. In excessibus corrigendis decani Canonicorum eaest prerogativa qued ratione Prabendarum non convenieutur extra capitulum quia cause huius●●●di queratione Prabendarum emergunt in capitulo decani capituli judicio terminari debent Such is the prerogative of the Deane and Prebends that all faults among them must be judged by the Deane and Chapter they must not be convented by any out of the Chapter-house And againe in the third Chapter Si quaevis quaestio aut controversia inter aliques de Capitule ●riatur per Decanum Capitulum debet terminari And the conclusion is Forensia enim judicia fratres subire non decet All these they have violated in casting me into the whirlepoole of the High Commission Court at Durham London and Yorke and therefore I humbly desire the Right Honourable House of Peeres to finish and conclude my cause according to the impechment transferred unto their Lordships by the honourable House of Commons whereby satisfaction may be made unto me for the excessive wrongs and losses which I have sustained By this it appeareth that all controversies betweens Prebendaries must be ended