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A60395	A short treatise of altars, altar-furniture, altar-cringing, and musick of all the quire, singing-men and choristers, when the holy Communion was administered in the cathedrall church of Durham by prebendaries and petty-canons, in glorious copes embroidered with images, 1629 / written at the same time by Peter Smart ...	Smart, Peter, 1569-1652?	1643 (1643)	Wing S4014; ESTC R20243	26,828	32

the more attentively heare the Word of God preached Neither is it likely the Emperour on whose shoulders lay the mannaging of the weighty affaires of so mighty an Empire had leisure to learn prick-song but in a plaine tune he sung Psalmes to God with the whole congregation Which singing of Psalmes in the vulgar tunes within these five yeares now fifteen yeares hath Since the yeare 1627. quite been banished out of Durham Church contrary to the practice and custome both of this and all other Cathedrall Churches in the Realme of England the Primitive Church also c. For thus saith Basil if the Sea be faire how is not the congregation assembled much more faire in which a joyned found of men women and children as it were of the waves beating on the shore is sent forth to God And the Book of Homilies report out of Dionisius that hymnes were sung by the whole multitude of people in the Administration of the Communion But Pope Vitalian being a skilfull musician and a lusty couragious chanter himselfe saith a reverend Father of our Church first brought into the Church prick-song descant and all kind of sweet and pleasant melody And because nothing should want to delight the vaine foolish and idle eares of fond and phantasticall men and women he joyned Organs to his curious musick Thus was Pauls preaching and Peters praying saith he turned into vaine singing and childish playing to the great losse of time and to the utter undoing of Christian mens soules which live not by singing and piping but by every word that comes out of the mouth of God 9 The Christians of the Primitive Church met together to sing Psalms but they had no musicall instruments saith Iustin Martyr Such were left to wanton children and dancers Neither must David be imitated in piping and dancing in the Church which David never did The Christians of the Primitive Church met together in secret caves and corners for feare of persecutors and there they sung ante-lucanos hymnos as witnesseth Pliny hymnes to the praise of God in the morning before day all the people sung together without any musicall instruments of which Iustin Martyr speaketh in his 170. Question Canere est pueris conveniens non simpliciter sed cum inanimis instrumentis canere cum saltatione crepitaculis To sing is a thing very agreeable to the nature of wanton children which are not content with simple singing but they will pipe also and dance playing with their hands upon timbrels and tabers But saith he In Ecclesiis sublatus est ex carminibus talium instrumentorum aliorum pueris convenientium relictum est canere simpliciter i. simplex cantio manet Out of the songs of Christian Churches the use of such instruments is quite taken away and such like childish toyes and there is left onely simple singing in plaine tunes Neither may we imitate the Prophet David in bringing musicall instruments into our Churches ha●ps lutes trumpets and cymballs for that was a part of the Leviticall service in the tabernacle and Temple of which God himself was the author not the idle braine of man David bids that Gods name should be praised in the dance and that praises should be sung unto him on the tabret and harp Psal 149. And in the 68 Psalme he saith It is well seen O God how thou goest how thou my God and King goest in thy sanctuary the singers goe before the minstrells follow after in the middest are the damosels playing on the timbrells We may not be so absurd as understanding literally this mysticall song of the Prophet to bring into this quire even to the Communion table or Altar as they called it our Sanctuary or Sanctum Sanctorum as they make it minstrells and dancers boyes and girls playing on timbrells and tabrets if we doe then may we also admit to the administration of the holy Communion instead of decent Copes ridiculous pie-bald vestments used a long time by the youth of this towne in their sports and may-games which I my self have seen with great griefe of heart and many more besides mee have oftentimes seene a party-coloured fooles-coat which cost 3. shillings 4. pence worne even there at the Communion-table Macula indelebilis hujus Ecclesiae opprobrium sempiternum authoribus tantae maculae● B. Neale Burgoin Morecroft the first introducers of altars images tapers candlesticks with paultry copes 10 Innovators in Durham have so changed services and Sacraments as if they would have nothing done to edification contrary to the doctrine of S. Paul and our Church by inclosing it within railes and separating it from the Church and Chancell The book of common Prayer the Articles of religion Injunctions and Homilies which containe the Doctrine of the Church of England the denyers and oppugners of which doctrine are not sound but rotten members of our Church those books I say appoint and command all the service to be said and sung so as the people may understand all and be edified therby But our new fangled reformers of Durham Cosin himselfe c. have within these five years brought into this Church such a strange change of Services nay such a confusion of the fore-noone Liturgie that the greater part thereof can no better be understood then if it were in Hebrew or Irish Nay the Sacrament it selfe of the holy Eucharist is turned rather into a theatricall stage-play then a representation of our Saviour Christ his passion At the administration of which so many pictures are exhibited to be seene with other ceremoniall toyes and Popish trinkets forbidden by the Act of uniformity and injunctions And againe so strange ridiculous and idolatrous gestures with excessive noise of Musicall harmony both instrumentall and vocall at the same time as the like was never used before either in this or any other Cathedrall Church not onely of England but of Spaine Italy France and Germany as travellers report 11 Not only the holy Communion but the Sacrament of Baptism also hath beene horribly profaned as well with images on the Font as also with immoderate piping and chanting contrary to the doctrine of our Church in the Homilies Blaxton and Cosin Neither rest they contented with the horrible prophanation of the Lords Supper with immoderate chaunting and Organ-playing and with other superstitious vanities but the Sacrament of Baptisme also they will not suffer it to be administred without an heideous noise of musick both of voyces and instruments As appeares on Sunday the seventh of September 1628. when a child borne in the Colledge was baptized in the Cathedrall Church at Evening prayer after the second Lesson as the Rubrick directs In the meane time while one of the Prebendaries baptized the child which is a principall part of Divine Service two Prebendaries remaining in the Quire commanded the Organist to play and the Quire-men and boyes to sing the rest of the Service at the same instant that the Sacrament