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A32754	The retraction of Mr. Charles Chancy formerly minister of Ware in Harfordshire wherein is proved the unlawfulnesse and danger of rayling in altars or communion tables : written with his own hand before his going to New England, in the yeer, 1637 : published by his own direction for the satisfaction of all such who either are, or justly might bee offended with his scandalous submission, made before the high commission court Feb. 11. anno, 1635.	Chauncy, Charles, 1592-1672.	1641 (1641)	Wing C3740; ESTC R212688	22,072	47

appointment among the Jewes that no sacrifice could be accepted but that which was offered up upon the Altar of burnt offering so no Sacrifice be it of thanksgiving or prayer or whatsoever other service can ever please God unlesse it bee offered up by Christ But now will Master Mede say either that wee must never offer up the sacrifice of thanksgiving to God but at the Eucharist or that we can cōtinually offer up our sacrifices by Christ as eaten in the Eucharist must wee alwayes receive the Sacrament when we offer up our praises unto God or doe we receive the Sacrament continually i. daily for the daily sacrifice among the Jews was called the continuall sacrifice but it is very observable that the Apostle saith by him not upon it let us offer c. intending plainly the person of our Lord and Saviour and not an Altar of Wood or Stone and it is strange that he should being this place to prove Altars lawfull in the times of the N. T. which is most expresse against it Secondly there is an other argument in the same place i. They have no right to partake of that Altar 1 Christ that serve at the Tabernacle who are they that serve at the tabernacle but the Priests and sacrificers under the Law or such as bring in Jewish ceremonies in the time of the Gospell as some of the Hebrews that the Apostles wrote unto did so the meaning of the place must be this They that bring in or observe Jewish ceremonies in the times of the Gospell have no part or interest in Christ they have no right unto him but they that set up Altars in the times of the new Testament doe plainly bring in Jewish ceremonies therefore such have no fellowship with Jesus Christ for surely they haue no right to him and none hath any communion with him but they to whom God the Father hath given right unto him and this agrees with that place Gal. 5. 2. Behold I Paul say unto you that if ye be circumcised Christ shall profit you nothing and Jewish Altars are every whit as dangerous as Circumcision For the further illustrating of this argument it will not be altogether unprofitable to consider the ground of the Apostle which was this That there was to be by Gods own appointment but one Altar only for sacrifice amongst the Jewes which one Altar the Apostle in that place makes a cleere type of Christ Levit. 1. Deut. 12. 13. 14. hence it was that when the Reubenites Gadites and halfe tribe of Manasseth had erected an other Altar by the banke of Jordan the residue of the 12. tribes thought that offence to be so exceedingly displeasing unto God that Josh. 22. it is called a turning away from following the Lord yea rebellion against the Lord and to bee compared with the iniquity of Peor and for which they thought that God would be wroth with the whole congregation yea they intended to pursue the sinne with open hostility and to fight against them in battell for it And though they were mistaken touching the end and scope of that Altar of witnesse it being set up onely for a civill monument and not for sacrifice yet thus much is warranted by the Zeale of the nine Tribes and halfe and the answere also and apology of the other Tribes that there must be but one Altar for sacrifice amongst the people of God and that saith the Apostle is only Christ amongst Christians Thus also 2. Kings 13. when as Ieroboam had set up a new Altar the Lord himselfe did oppose it by a speciall message seconded by a speciall miracle forbidding the Prophet either to returne the same way or to eat bread in that place thereby implying that they were not worthy of any Communion To the same purpose the prophet Hoseah rebuketh the degenerate Israelites Ch. 1. saying because Ephraim hath made many Altars to sinne therefore Altars shall be unto him to sin i. either they shall bee given up to their idoll Altars or else that this shall be a most heinous and provoking sinne and that we might know the rise and ground of this sinne it is added in the next words I have written to them the great things of the law they have accounted them strange things as if he should say It is not strange that they should fall to set up Altars that swerve from the onely rule of worship the word of God All which proves that the Apostle to the Heb. alludes to the Commandement of God in the law that because there was but one Altar of burnt offering in the Law so there is but one Altar among Christians that is Christ who is both the Priest and Sacrifice and Altar alone more especially the Altar did typifie his Deity which only made the sacrifice meritorious for the altar did sanctifie the gift Mat. 18. 19. Now what could sanctifie Christs Sacrifice but his Deity which is also cleered Heb. 9. 14. where Christ is said in reference to this type of the Altar to have offered up himselfe by his eternall spirit without spot to God where by the eternall spirit wee must understand the Godhead of Christ But see the practice of these times they will have Priests not Ministers Altars not Communion Tables Sacrifices not Sacraments they will bow and cringe to and before their Altars yea they will nor indure any man to enquire after what manner Christ is in the Sacrament whether by way of consubstantiation or transubstantiation or in a spirituall manner yea they will have Tapers and Books never used empty Basons and Challices there what is this but the Masse it selfe for here is all the furniture of it Thus farre for the proving of the first proposition The Assumption or the second proposition that a Raile about the Communion Table is one of the ingredients to make up an high Altar or a Popish Altar may be proved First by Ecclesiasticall history railes about the Lords Table whether of wood or stone were never commanded to bee set up but since the erecting of Altars and the idoll of the Masse and Transubstantiation was adored and after Antichrist was in his Pontificalibus I might alledge out of Binius diverse acts of popish Councels to this purpose especially it was strictly injoyned in one of the Councells of Megara which was as may appeare by all the acts of it a most Antichristian conventicle but I have not now the books by mee whosoever will may consult with the Authour Secondly it may appear by all the Cathedrall churches in which only high Altars have beene continued since times of Reformation all which also have been railed in and all the Communicants made to receive kneeling at the rails and no where else from whence now since the Altar-worship hath spread by the diligence of popish Prelates and tables have beene turned into Altars the railing of them also hath beene universally injoyned in the like manner Thirdly the same appeared evidently to bee