Selected quad for the lemma: blood_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
blood_n	body_n	bread_n	transubstantiation_n	7,578	5	11.1962	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56208	A short sober pacific examination of some exuberances in, and ceremonial appurtenances to the Common prayer especially of the use and frequent repetitions of Glory be to the Father, &c., standing up at it, at Gospels, creeds, and wearing white rochets, surplises, with other canonical vestments in the celebration of divine service and sacraments, whose originals, grounds of institution and prescription, are here truly related and modestly discussed ... / by William Prynne, Esq. ...	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.; Stucki, Johann Wilhelm, d. 1607. Antiquitatum convivialum. Liber 2, cap. 26, De vestitu conviviali.	1661 (1661)	Wing P4081; ESTC R5455	105,415	150

usage in the Church To which I answer 1. That they were neither known to nor used nor prescribed by Christ himself the ancient of days nor his by Apostles nor by the primitive Christians Bishops Ministers Deacons for above three hundred years after Christ therefore they are all but modern Novelties in respect of Apostolical real primitive antiquity and so rather to be decried rejected as Innovations then approved for their pretended not true Antiquity as well as other old popish reliques 2. For their pretended Decency I have not only read many learned discreet consciencious sober Schollars Treatises censuring them as undecent as well as superfluous but heard some Ladies Women yea children deride them as mear antick disguises 3. If Tertullians Booke de Palli● on 2 Tim. 4. 1● may be umpire a cloak will be more ancient decent for a Minister Bishop Christian then a Rochet or Surpless 4. Antiquity is no plea at all in point of Vestments whose form Fashions are always various and mutable with times and places whence the Holy Ghost himself useth this expression in sacred Writ As a Vesture shalt thou change them and they shall be changed but thou art the same That English man or woman who should now take up or retain the garments and fashions used in the Britans Saxons Danes Normans times or but in the Reigns of King Edward the third fourth fifth sixth Henry the eighth Queen Elizabeth or King Iames would be reputed a Cynick Fantastick or Fanatick especially at Court and the very boys in the streets would shout at them Why then should not Bishops and Ministers Rochets Surpl●ces Church Vestments be as changeable as other mens garments or their own ordinary wearing cloathes which they all change with the times We know by experience that all Nations Manners Laws Governments Governors Customs Languages are variable yea changed with times and occasions that all things under the Sun are subject to variation why not then these Ecclesiastical Vestments about which there hath been formerly so many frequent and fierce contentions for our Churches and Kingdoms peace Our very humane bodies and Bishops Ministers bodies too as well as others are daily subject to alterations from infancy to youth from youth to manhood from man hood to age so to old age from health to sickness and shall Bishops or Priests vestments onely be immutable though originally grounded on Popes Decrees instituted by them to adorn their exploded Sacrifice of the Mass and Altar-services and founded upon strange perversions of sacred Scriptures or most absurd ridiculous monkish fanatick Reasons mystical significations crotchets and the pretended transubstantiation of the Bread and Wine into Christs natural body blood which all Protestants cannot but disclaim Since therefore what the Apostle concludes of meats is likewise true of all these Vestments But meat a Rochet Surplice Hood c. commendeth us not to God for neither if we eat or wear them without scandal to others are we the better neither if we eat or wear them not are we the worse Let all Bishops Ministers Christians upon the consideration of the premises henceforth take up the same Apostles resolution and inference from thence recorded for their imitation But take heed left this liberty or power of yours become a stumbling block to those that are weak and through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish for whom Christ dyed But when ye sin so against the Brethren and wound their weak consciences by using or imposing these garments on them with rigor against their wills and judgements YE SIN AGAINST CHRIST Wherefore if meat much more then if wearing these pontifical Sacerdotal vestments offend or make my brother to offend I will eat no flesh much less wear or impose all or any of these Church vestments whiles the world standeth lest I make my brethren to offend And seeing these old Proverbs are most true inserted into the Canon Law it self Cucullus non facit Monachum non item Isiacos linostola aut sacerdotes amictus linei Non Cathedra sacerdotem facit sed Cathedram sacerdis nec locus seu vestis sanctificat hominem sed locum vestem homo Upon which considerations the fourth Council of Carthage Can. 15. 45. decreed Vt Episcopus vilem supellectilem mensam ac victum pauperem habeat dignitatis suae authoritatem FIDEI VITAE MERITIS QVAERAT NEC VESTIBVS NEC CALCEAMENTIS DECOREM QVAERAT which is since inserted by Gratian into the body of the Popes Canon Law though he truly addes in his gloss Hoc hodie non tenet quia modo habent amplas possessiones I shall heartily humbly and importunately beseech all Bishops Ministers Deacons and Christians whatsoever in general and all true members of the Church of England in special upon serious perusal of all the premises from henceforth not with the Roman Pontifical or Durantus Magno conatu Nugas agere as Popes popish Prelates Priests Friers and little children use to do nor yet to place the least holiness piety necessity or indispensible expediency in the use or wearing of Episcopal and Sacerdotal Vestments in celebration of Di●ine-service and Sacraments nor any longer rigorously to impose or unchristianly to contend about them they being just like accidents in relation to the substance of Gods worship true Religion which may be as well absent as present without destruction of or prejudice to either but rather seriously to fix all their meditations upon those WHITE Windingsheets wherein they shall all shortly be interred in their graves stript naked of all those Priestly Rags Robes Vestments about which they now overmuch contend and seriously to endeavour to put off those old filthy rags of sin and put on all those spiritual Garments Armour Graces which the Gospel it self in directs terms enjoyns them to put on that under pain of eternal damnation in these ensuing texts wh●●ewith I shall conclude about which there wil● 〈◊〉 can be no disputes Rom. 13. 12 13 14. Let us theref●●e cast off the works of darkness and put on the Arm●●●● light Let us walk honestly as in the day not in 〈◊〉 and drunkenness not in chambering and wantonness not 〈◊〉 strife and envying but PVT YE ON THE LO●● IESVS CHRIST and make no provision for the 〈◊〉 to fulfil the lusts thereof Ephes. 4 22 23 24. That ●e put off concerning the former conversation the old man which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts and be renewed in the spirit of your mindes and that ye put ON THE NEW Man which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness Ephes. 6. 11 c. PVT ON THE WHOLE ARMOVR OF GOD that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the Devil Stand therefore having your loins girt about with truth and having on the breast-plate of righteousness and your feet shod with the preparation of the Gospel of peace Above all taking the shield of faith

with me in WHITE for they are worthy Ergo Bishops must wear white Rochets and Surplices in time of Mass and Divine Service Acute Logick worthy of laughter rather then reply For 1. These few persons in Sardis were neither Bishops nor Priests these words being not spoken to nor of the Angel of the Church of Sardis whom our Bishops and Prelatists will needs have to be the sole Bishop of that Church but to others Therefore if any argument may be hence deduced for the use of Rochets or Surplices it is that lay Saints who have not defiled themselves with sins corruptions of the times but kept themselves nude●led must wear Rochets and Surplices not temporizing Bishops or Priests 3. They are promised hereafter to walk in white with Christ in heaven and that by way of reward witness ver 5. He that overcometh the SAME SHALL BE CLOATHED IN WHITE RAIMENT and I will not blot his name out of the book of life but I will confess his name before my Father and his Angels not commanded to say Mass or Common-Prayer in the Church on earth by way of duty ministry or distinction from other Saints 3. The white garments here meant are only the robes of eternal glory in heaven not white Rochets lawn sleeves or material Surplices as the abusers of this Text pretend and must acknowledge 6. The sixth text produced for Surplices and Rochets is Rev. 4. 4. And round about the throne were twenty four seats and upon the seats I saw twenty four elders sitting CLOATHED IN WHITE RAIMENT and they had on their heads crowns of gold Ergo Bishops must wear white Rochets Miters of gold and Priests white Surplices The sequel is denied 1. Because there is no Bishop but onely Elders mentioned in the Text. 2. These Elders are but twenty four and they only had white raiment 3. They sate in heaven upon thrones in their white robes not in any Church or Cathed●al on earth 4. They sate constantly in those white vestments and never did put them off 5. They had no other rayment on them but these white robes Therefore all Bishops and Priests if they will be like these Elders and pursue these presidents must wear no black doublets cassocks gowns cloaks Wastcoats but only white Rochets Surplices as they did 6. They sate in them upon Thrones and had all crowns of gold upon their heads If this then be a president for our lordly royal Prelats and Clergies punctual imitation they must all ●it upon thrones with golden crowns on their heads like Kings as well as with white Rochets Surplices on their backs like Prelates and Priests which I presume they yet dare not do and his Majesty with his Nobility will not now suffer should their pride and ambition prompt them to it 7. The seventh president insisted on is Rev. 6. 9 10 11. Where St. Iohn saw under the Altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God and for the testimony which they held c. and WHITE ROBES were given to every one of them If any consequences can be hence deduced they are only these 1. That those Saints and Laymen who suffer martyrdom for the Word and testimony of God on earth shall have white robes not of fi●e linnen but of eternal glory given them by god for a reward in heaven Not that Bishops and Priests alone which were never slain nor martyred for Christ and none else but they must now wear white Rochets and Surplices on earth 2. These souls lay interred crying to God from under the Altar to avenge their blood on them that dwell on the earth Therefore they are no presidents or warrant for Bishops or Priests to wear Surplices or white Rochets when they officiate at or upon their new erected Altars and dispence Christs body and blood sacramentally to their people in their Cathedrals and parish Churches 3. These white robes were not material ones made of lawn or linen by Semstresses nor bought with money but spiritual and heavenly made and freely given unto them by God himself therefore Bishops and Priests who contend for material Rochets and Surplices from this Text must now quite renounce them and produce some better proof 8. This they presume to do in the eighth place from Rev. 7. 9 13 14. cha 15. 6. and cha 19. 14. which I shall couple together to make the proof more strong After this I beheld and a great multitude which no man could number of all Nations and kindreds and people and tongues stood before the throne and before the lamb CLOATHED WITH WHITE ROBES and palms in their hands And cried with a loud voyce Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne and unto the Lamb c. And one of the Elders answered saying unto me what are these WHICH ARE ARRAIED IN WHITE ROBES and whence came they And I said unto him Sir thou knowest And he said unto me these are they which came out of great tribulation and HAVE WASHED THEIR ROBES and MADE THEM WHITE IN THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB Therefore are they before the throne of God and serve him day and night in his Temple c. And the seven Angels came out of the Temple having the seven plagues CLOATHED IN WHITE and having their breasts girded with golden girdles And I saw heaven opened and behold a white horse and he that sate upon him was cloathed in a vesture dipt in blood and his name is called the Word of God And the Armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses CLOATHED IN WHITE LINNEN FINE AND CLEAN Ergo Bishops and Priests ought always to wear white Rochets and vestments in time of Mass Sacraments and Divine service Can any wise men or fools either forbear laughter at such a ridiculous conclusion from these premises as Durantus Walden with other Papists and some of our own Prelates and Ceremony-mongers deduce from them with great seriousness but little candor and sobriety Especially if they well consider 1. That those arraied in white robes Rev. 7. 9 13 14. were not Bishops Priests or Ecclesiastical persons alone or under any such capacity but a great number which no man could number of all Nations and kindreds and people and tongues Therefore if any proper consequence can be hence deduced in relation to white Rochets or Surplices it is only this That all sanctified regenerate Christians Saints of what nations kindred people and tongues soever ought to wear white Rochets and Surplices Secondly All this innumerable multitude of all nations and people thus cloathed with white robes stood clad continually in them before the Throne and Lamb serving God in them day and night and never put them off having no other vestments besides vers 15 16 17. Therefore if this Text be pressed home in relation to Bishops Priests Ministers they ought always to wear their Rochets and Surplices day and night but no vestment else and never to put them off and always to stand