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A65093	The works of the famous antiquary, Polidore Virgil containing the original of all arts, sciences, mysteries, orders, rites, and ceremonies, both ecclesiastical and civil : a work useful for all divines, historians, lawyers, and all artificers / compendiously English't by John [i.e. Thomas] Langley.; De rerum inventoribus. English	Vergil, Polydore, 1470?-1555.; Langley, Thomas, d. 1581.	1663 (1663)	Wing V596; ESTC R28374	121,672	340

man might not marry that Maid to whom his father was a God-father It was confirmed first by Gregory and after by Alexander the third That no man should marry his brother's wife lest it should be thought to be a counterfeit of the Hebrews Lanuch was the first that ever had two wives whose example many others ensued afterwards The custome of purifying of women was taken of the Hebrews but there is no day or time appointed for it Nevertheless for an honest order they use commonly not to be purified before the moneth day and then with a few honest Matrons she cometh accompanied to the Church and offereth a wax Taper and the Chrisome CHAP. V. Of the Temples Church-yards when the Crosse was first had in reverence IN the Old Testament Moses set up a Tabernacle curiously edified to God wherein Supplication and Intercession was made to him for the 〈◊〉 of the people And in that he made the Ark of Covenant in the which he put the two Tables of stone containing the Law of the Ten Commandements Aaron's rod and the pot of Manna After him Solomon King of the Hebrews made at Hierusalem ● Temple of costly array and sumptuously wrought I cannot to say truth perfectly tell where the first Church of Christians was builded but by all conjecture it seemeth that it was made of the Apostles either in Ethiopia where Matthew preached or in Lower India where Bartholomew taught or in Scythia where Andrew shewed the Word of God Where they doubtlesse either cause new Churches to be edified or else transposed the Idol's Temples to serve the Christians use abolishing Superstition and planting the true Religion of Christ Albeit it were not against reason to suppose there was a Temple or house of prayer appointed by James at Jerusalem In Rome the first that I read of was consecrated by Pius Bishop of Rome in the street called Patricius at Novatus Baths in honour of the Virgin Prudentia at the request and suit of Praredis her sister And after Calistus made a Temple to the Virgin Mary in a place beyond Tiberis and instituted a Church-yard in Apius's street and called it after his own name But Abraham was the first that made any place of burial in Hebron where he bought of Ephron an Hittite the double Cave for 300 shekels of silver with the the ground about it and there was Sarah his wife and he himself buried Noah builded the first Altar and offered upon it a burned Sacrifice to the Lord. And Bonifacius the third caused that they were covered with linnen cloaths Constantinus when he had won the battail against Maxentius by reason of a vision that he saw of the crosse the day of the battle ordained that from thenceforth no man should suffer death on the crosse And so in processe of time it was had in much reverence and worship And Theodosius made a law That there should no Image of the crosse be graven in stone marble or in earth lest men should tread on it Hellen Constantine's Mother a very vertuous woman repaired to Jerusalem to seek the Crosse of our Lord where with great labour and diligence she fouud it and with it the other two whereon the Theeves were hanged but it was ease to perceive Christ's Crosse by the Title which then did remain albeit sore wasted and corrupted with Antiquity CHAP. VI. Of the ancient rite or sacrificing Feast-dayes dedicating Temples the mystery of Fire Holy Water CAin and Abel the two sons of our first Father Adam offered in sacrifice to God the first fruits of their goods Abel his oblation was a Lamb Cain his gift was Corn. Afterward when the Priesthood was ordained Aaron and his sons offered divers things with sundry Ceremonies which he shewed at large in the book of Leviticus The Gentiles almost all sacrificed to the Idols men or women after sundry rites as appeareth in the Histories of Gentile-Authors And if it fortuned that they omitted any such abominable idolatry they had great punishment destruction of their fruit corruption of their water infection of the Ayr death of Cattel great droughts women had evil deliverance with many such plagues as Dionysius Halicarnasseus witnesseth which the spirits of the ayr procured to delude and seduce men and confirm them in their errour The holy-dayes among the Jews were divers as the Sabbath-day the Feast of the new Moon the Passeover the Feast of unleavened bread Pentecost the Feast of Tabernacles the Dedication day which be all shewed largely in the Old Testament The use of dedicating Churches is of great antiquity for Moses did sanctifie the Tabernacle and Solomon consecrated the Temple that he builded at Jerusalem And Esdras after when they returned from the Captivity of Babylon hallowed the Temple new again Of them we receive our Rite of hallowing of Churches albeit we have more ceremonies then they had Fire was kept continually on the Altar by the Priests for without it and salt could no sacrifice be duly made or ordinarily offered and we in our Masses have ever a Taper of Wax burning And the Emperours of Rome had Fire born before them and the Vestals had ever perpetual Fire in the Temple where they served Vesta The spirits of the ayr that gave doubtfull answers to them that enquired any question of them were at the coming of Christ all destroyed For when he was carried into Egypt which is a Country full of superstition and Idolatry all the Idols of that Region were overthrown and fell to the ground at his coming thither And in the time of Adrian the Emperour both the wicked sacrifices were abolished and also the Oracles of Apollo at Delphos Jupiter-Hammon in Egypt with like vanities were subverted by the power of God through his Son Jesus Christ Holy Water was ordained by Alexander the first to be consecrated to drive away Spirits and was commanded that it should be kept as well in Churches as in private houses for the same use whereof are grown among the common people many superstitious errours contrary to the Word of God CHAP. VII Who ordayned Praying Why we look Eastward Ministring the Sacrament of the Altar FOrasmuch as we are created of God after his own Image for the intent to honour and serve him and so finally to enjoy the eternal inheritance of Heaven which we must attain to by Prayer acknowledging our own infirmities and referring us to the mercy of our most loving Father It shall therefore be convenient to declare the institution of Prayer Prayer therefore was from the beginning as Abel prayed Noah Abraham Isaac Jacob with other Patriarks prayed to God in all their doubtfull affairs and gave thanks for the good atchieving of them Moses and Aaron with other as Anna the wife of Helcanah shewed us an example of Prayer But Christ is the first that did shew us any special form of Prayer as appeareth in the Gospell of Matthew

Authority with his Apostles to establish the Common-wealth and Religion of Christians and the 10th day after his Ascention he sent the Holy Ghost into their hearts to strengthen and teach them all truth This was 33 years and 3 moneths after his Incarnation Thus our Religion had its original and the Apostles by their preaching amplified and enlarged it very much For Peter first preaching to the Jews in Jerusalem of the cruel murther that they had committed against Christ Jesus converted and baptised in one day 3000 men and Women And by the miracle of healing the lame man at the beautifull gate of the Temple he stayed and confirmed them strongly in the Faith albeit he suffered persecution greatly for the same And Stephen for his faithfull testimony was stoned to death Philip converted and baptised the Samaritanes and a certain Eunuch of Candaces Queen of Ethiopia the Eunuch turned the Queen with her family and a great part of that Countrey to the faith of Christ After in Antioch the faithfull named themselves Christians Thomas preached to the Parthian● Matthew in Ethiopia Bartholomew in s India Andrew in Scythia John in Asia Peter in Galatia Pontus Cappado●ia Peter was born in Bethsaida a City of Galilee and brother to Andrew He was Bishop of Antioch seven years and converted many people of Asia and after went to Rome in the time of Claudius and there preached the Gospel with great increase At the same time Mary the Virgin and Mother of 〈◊〉 Saviour Jesus Christ did change her life which was the year of our salvation 47 Not long after Paul being converted from his phantasticall Traditions to a Preacher of Christ's Gospel was brought to Rome where he preached boldly the Gospel notwithstanding the great persecutions that he suffered for it and afterward suffered death by the way of beheading at the commandement of Nero the same day that Peter was crucified on a Crosse Thus daily the Congregation of Christians encreased more and more as the Acts of the Apostles and other Histories do declare it fully Albeit there was great trouble and persecution in every place yet God by his power contrary to their expectation turned their cruelty to the furtherance of his Word confirmation of the faithfull and confusion of them that used tyranny CHAP. II. The Institution of Circumcision and Baptism GOD which had made promise to Abraham that he should be father of many Nations and that all the world should be blessed in his seed that is Christ willing to stay his faith in the same promise appointed the Covenant of Circumcision between him and Abraham saying Every male shall be circumcised and the flesh of his fore-skin shall be cut round about for a sign of the League and Confederacy that I make with thee Upon this Commandement Abraham then being 99 years of age did cut his foreskin and his son Ismael's being then 12 years old whom he begat of Hagar his bond-maid and all his servants For this cause as S. Cyprian saith that he might have the first fruits of the blood which should afterward shed his holy blood for the redemption of many yea of all that believe in him The fashion of it was to cut the fore-skin of a man's yard with a knife of stone as God commanded Joshua that he should make knives of stone to circumcise all the Israelites the second time and Moses did circumcise his children with a sharp stone Chrysostome calleth Circumcision the first and most ancient Commandement for there is no Nation that gave any precepts or rules to live by before Abraham or Moses and therefore it is to be supposed that other Countries took example at the Hebrews to circumcise their Children as the Phoenicians and Arabians the Saracens the Ethiopians the Egyptians and the Colchians This Circumcision of the flesh was a figure to us of the circumcision of the heart and casting away of all superfluous lusts carnal desires and importeth a moderation and mortifying of the affects and concupisce●ces of the old Adam I mean the sinful body he that had not this sign was banished out of the number of the people of God and had no part in the promises made to Abraham Baptism wherein is left to us a signification both of the mortification of the flesh and dying to the World that we may walk in a new life and also of the washing away of our sins by Christ's blood and is the token that we be of the body of the Congregation of the faithful was instituted by Saint John son of Zachasry the 15th year of the Emperour Tiberius his reign in the Wilderness beside the famous River of Jordan where he baptized much people This baptism and washing was in the water to ssignifie the washing away of our sins that should be by Christ which baptized in the Holy Ghost and fire There were signs of Baptism in the old Law as the Cloud the Red-Sea the River of Jordan The first that was christned of the Heathen was Cornelius of Caesaria and the Eunuch of Queen Candaces Christening of Infants was instituted among us as Circumcision of children was of the Jews celebrated the eighth day Iginius Bishop of Rome ordained first that children which should be Christened should have a godfather and a godmother for to be witnesse of the Sacrament that it was received And Victor Bishop there did institute the one might be christened either by a lay-man or woman in time of necessity because Infants were often in dange● There be three manner of Baptisms as Cyprian divideth it One in water whereof John was author another in the Holy Ghost and fire whereof Christ was Institutor the third in blood wherein the children that Herod slew were christened It was also the manner in old time that they which were grown in age should be baptized in white apparrel and that was wont to be at Easter or Whit-sunday onely necessity constrained otherwise In the mean time till those dayes came they were taught the mysteries of the Religion of Christ which they should professe Of that custome I suppose the 7th Sunday after Easter is called the White-Sunday CHAP. III. Of the Priesthood of the Hebrews and degrees of the same LIke as in the Christian Common-wealth there be two sorts of men one called the Laytie to whom appertaineth the ministration of the publike weal and all temporal affairs the other is the Clergy to whom belongeth the cure and charge of ministring the Word of God Sacraments and other decent ceremonies so in the old Law of the Hebrews there were two jurisdictions one of them was Captains and Governours of the Commons the other was the Priesthood that did offer up the sacrifices and other oblations Of this degree of Priests Aaron and his sons were the first ordained and consecrated by Moses at the Commandement of God The manner and fashion

of hallowing of them and their Vestures is declared at large in the book of Exodus As for Noah which made the first Altar Melchisedech Abraham Isaac and Jacob did make their offering rather of a natural devotion then any Priestly authority After that the Levites whom we use to call Deacons were created by Moses to minister and serve Aaron in all the Sacrifices to bear the Ark and Tabernacle the holy Vessels and pitch the Camp and were discharged of all te●●rene affairs Next them were chosen the Ministers which did make ready the sacrifice as Calves Oxen Sheep with such other things at the commandement of the Levites these we may call Sub-Deacons Certain other were elected to light the Tapers and Lamps named Accolites The Sextons or Porters were appointed to keep out all prophane and unclean people And Readers to preach and read the Law and Prophets on their Sabbath dayes There were moreover Chaunters and Singers to sing the P●alms in the Temple whom David and Asaph did institute Conjurers were ordained by Solomon to drive evil spirits our of men All these Offices went by Succession neither was one promoted from one to another Thus was the Levitical Priesthood appointed which was but a sign and shadow of things to come that is Christ in whom resteth the perfection and compleat fulfilling of the Law CHAP. IV. Of our Priesthood how it is double What laying on of hands meaneth CHRIST JESUS our Saviour vhich was King and Priest after the order of Melehisedech in the New Testament hath instituted among us a Priesthood to offer and do the functions of the new Law and it is of two kinds or sorts The one is a spiritual Priesthood to offer spiritual sacrifices In this kind Christ offered and gave up himself a consummate oblation for the sins of the whole world as Peter saith Christ died once for our sins he being righteous for us unrighteous that he might give us up to God mortified as touching the flesh but living in the spirit Of this Priesthood be all Christian men which after the example of Christ must offer our prayers thanksgiving and our bodies mottified we be all of the degree of this Kingly Priesthood as Peter and also John in the Apocalyps do bear witnesse The second Priesthood is a Ministery that Christ did ordain following the order of the Law that we might have our teachers to instruct us in the Gospel as the Jews had their Schoolmasters in the Law He did elect twelve Bishops whom he called by a new name Apostles because they were appointed to be Embassadours into all parts of the World with the mighty word of his power to carry the glad Tydings of his Gospel He assigned also 70 Disciples to whom he gave the charge and office of Preaching and teaching which in stead of Aarons Sons should be among us inferiour Priests and Seniours of Congregations and these began the order of our Priests as our Bishops had their original of the Apostles As the Apostles and 70 Disciples which were Ministers and disposers of the Mysteries of God had no other manner of consecrating but onely the vocation and election of Christ into the Office and so was Matthias chosen in the Acts into the room of Judas So were the seaven Deacons chosen to Minister to the poor people of the Congregation And Titus did choose in every Town and City of Creet Priests by the laying on of hands which was a manner of admission without any further Ceremonies whereby Authority was given them over the Congregation and boldnesse to execute earnestly his office with the assistance of the Holy Ghost And therefore in the beginning of the Church when a Bishop was consecrated there was used no other Rites or Ceremonies but onely the people to whom the Election of the Bishop belonged should pray and after the Seniours or Priests by laying on their hands admitted him to that degree Of these Peter was called chief and first because both of his ancient●y and also forasmuch as he was the first Elected A Bishops room is not so much an honour as it is an heavy burden not so much a laud as a load For his duty is not onely to wear a Mitre and Crosier but also to watch over the flock of the Lord vigilantly to teach with the Word diligently with example honestly and in all things to go before them uprightly and lead them in the way of Truth that they may follow the pattern of his godly living and there as it were in a Mirrour behold how they ought to reform and conform their lives And this office of the Bishoprick and Deacons was instituted by the Scripture onely for Priests in the Primative Church and Bishops were all one But the Bishops of Rome following the shadows of the old abrogate law of the Hebrews have ordained a swarm of divers other orders as Potters or Sextons Readers Exorcists Accolites Sub-deacons Deacons Priests Bishops Archbishops as a certain degree one above another whereby they should ascend to the highest dignity Caius Bishop of Rome did begin the Orders first yet some say Iginius did ordain those degrees long before Caius his time And I grant well that Iginius might be the first deviser of them and afterward Caius accomplished the work and brought it to a finall consummation The office of a Priest as Christ ordained it was to teach Baptize and Minister the Sacrament of the Altar and thanksgiving bind and loofe and judge of Doctrines Therefore let them take heed that admit such to be Priests as cannot perform the duty of that ministery For many suppose if they can mumble up a pair of Matins and say Masse they be perfect Priests CHAP. V. The manner of shaving Priests Crowns who may not be Priest what age he must be of THe common and general badge of all Priests is the shaven Crown whereby the Clergy is dissevered from the Laity and be put in remembrance by it how they ought altogether to relinquish and despise all carnal pleasure and worldly treasure and ensue after heavenly things which be eternal This as Beda writeth grew into a custome and was decreed by a constitution to the intent that the thing which was before opprobrious might grow to honour and comelinesse For Peter when he preached at Antioch was scorned and mocked because of his bald head or shaven Crown and it was a contumelious thing both among the Romans and Lombards to be shaven I think the original cause of it did proceed of the Ceremonies of the Nazarens which when they had lived long time as Josephus telleth very devoutly they shaved their heads and sacrificed the hair in the fire to God whereby they signified that they did dedicate themselves wholly to live in Godly perfection Samuel was a Nazaren and Sampson also I suppose that this Rite of the Nazarens came out of Aegypt