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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

they have added diminished and altred the whole form of Divine Service and two yeers together they have had no ordinary Morning Service according to the Rubricks 28 For 2 yeers together from 1627. till 1629. our Durham Innovators Mr. Cosin and his Associates would not suffer any ordinary Morning Prayer to be said at the due and usuall time between 9 and 11 in the place where Evening Prayer was duely said but every day working dayes and holy dayes they went to the Altar as they termed it to say a second Service so they call the Communion Service which is no part of the ordinary Morning Prayer as appeareth by the last Rubrick before the Letanie and before that which they call the second Service Thus endeth the order of Morning and Evening Prayer throughout the yeer Neither is the place where their Altar stands the accustomed place for saying any Divine Service being at the East end of the Quire or Chancell so farre in some Churches from the Congregation that they can neither see the Minister nor hear what he saith nor understand so well as they do the Evening Prayer said in the usuall place among them 29 The first Rubrick in the book of Common Prayer is this The order where Morning and Evening Prayer shall be used and said The Morning and Evening Prayer shall be used in the accustomed place of the Church Chappell or Chancell And the Chancels shall remain as they have done in times past This Rubrick our Durham Innovators have violated sundry waies for here we see one place is appointed for Morning and Evening Prayer not two places one for Morning and another for Evening Prayer Evening Prayer hath been used in the accustomed place in which it is alwayes said in the midst of the Quire This alteration our irregular Durhamers made themselves without the determination of the Ordinarie who by the 14 Cannon is limited that he may do nothing whereby edification may be hindred and how can the people be edified when they cannot hear the Minister as is done in Mr. Burgoyns Church at Warmoth c Again whereas the Rubrick saith Chancels shall remain as they have done in times past our new fangled Durhamers and other countrey Priests following their example have made Cancellos inter Cancellos Chancels within Chancels that is an Inclosure to divide their Altar Eastward from the Quire as the Sanctum Sanctorum was separated with curtains from the rest of the Temple who ever heard of 2 Chancels in one Church till Durhamers invented it contrary to this Rubrick and the example of all Churches in England in former times So that they have a holy Church a more holy Chancell and at the East end thereof a most holy inclosure where the Altar must stand unto which no man or woman may have accesse but Priests onely 30 Another Rubrick saith Then shall follow certain Psalms in order as they be appointed in the Table made for that purpose And another Rubrick saith Then shall be read 2 Lessons distinctly with a loud voice that the people may hear the first of the Old Testament the second of the New like as they be appointed in the Kalender The Minister that readeth the Lessons standing and turning him so as he may be best heard of all that be present No Psalms nor Chapters were read either of the old or new Testament which is a principall part of Divine Service by our Durham Innovators for the space of two yeers and consequently they had no ordinary Morning Service in their Cathedrall in the usuall place time and form as is prescribed in the book of Common Prayer Cannons Injunctions and Act of Parliament for Uniformity which commands all Churches to be uniform unto none of which Durham Cathedrall was agreeable in their Morning Services 31 The Act of Parliament for Uniformity hath these words If any person or Minister in any Cathedrall or parish Church shall by open fact or deed or by threatning compell any to sing or say any common or open prayer otherwise or in any other manner or form then is mentioned in the book of Common Prayer let him be indicted Again in the same Act no rite order form or manner at Mattens or Even song may be used in Cathedrall or Parish Churches but that which is appointed in the book of Common Prayer The form of Morning prayer was altred in Durham Cathedrall by dividing it into 2 parts to be said at two distinct times Most of the Rubricks with sundry Cannons and Injunctions have been violated and broken by means of that division Many rites and ceremonies have been changed unlawfully used Men have been injoyned at forbidden times to weare unlawfull vestments condemned by our Church some have been compelled with threatning and penalties to obey their unlawfull commands As was evidently seen in the morning Prayer which by the Injunction and custome of 60 yeers continuance was said in a place appointed thereunto by one petty Cannon alone plainly distinctly and briefly to be ended at seven a clock But new fangled Durhamers would have their new devised morning prayer to be said and sung solemnly in the Quire with all the voices of men and children and musicall instruments whom they forced to be present at that unlawfull Service and there to abide till all was done at 8 a clock whereby they have deserved many wayes to be indicted and for their contumacy deprived of all their livings according to the Statute In that being often admonished they would not amend for the space of two yeers 32 But the most notorious Innovation and most contrary to the foresaid Act of Uniformitie was that which Mr. Cosin and his Associates took up at Durham about the yeer 1626. to go in a Cope to the Altar to say 2. or 3. prayers after every Sermon which is a strange ceremony not mentioned in the book of Common Prayer or Cannons and consequently forbidden They would not suffer the Preacher to dismisse the Congregation with the blessing of Gods peace as was wont to be done in Durham and all other Churches of England They alledge for themselves the Rubrick after the Nicene Creed After the Creed if there be no Sermon shall follow one of the Homilies set forth by common Authority And after such Sermon Homily or exhortation the Curate shall declare unto the people whether there be any holidayes or fasting dayes in the weeke following And earnestly exhort them to remember the poore This Rubrick makes nothing for this fond Innovation for it saith After the Creed if there be no Sermon shall follow one of the Homilies And then it saith after such Sermon Homily or Exhortation the Curate shall declare whether therebe any holidayes or fasting dayes Here is a contradiction or rather a nonsence if the words be no● rightly understood If there be no Sermon and then After such Sermon Homily or Exhortation what meaneth this After such Sermon

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 prescribed in the book of Common Prayer but