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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

piping and singing beautifying of temples beyond all meane and measure pollute and defile the house of God and none but rotten members of our Church can say the contrary 6 Bernard Augustine Ierome c. reprehend the too too great magnificence of temples esp●cially when they are made theaters rather to delight the peoples ears and ey● with melodio is tunes and pompous spect●cles then oratories to pray and praise God and be edified by preaching Bernard also reprehended in his time excessive heights and immoderate lengths of Churches because he misliked worldly magnificence in the spirituall service of God who dwels not in Temples made with hands So likewise doth Augustine Ierome Iustin Martyr and others they condemne gay ornaments and pompous spectacles of glittering pictures with melodious tunes of pipers and singers in the spirituall service of God especially at the administration of the holy Communion and Baptisme because they hinder godly meditations upon our Saviour Christ his bitter death and passion and our regeneration represented unto us in those mystical Sacraments For thus writeth Bernard in his Apologie against the superfluous ornaments of Churches I let passe the great statelinesse of temples their immoderate lengths their vaine breadths their sumptuous polishings their curious paintings which while they draw the sight of them that pray unto them they hinder their affection and they seem to me to resemble the old custome of the Jewes Mark this saith a learned writer in his Commentary on Iude how Bernard saith that those things which now adayes the defenders of superstitious vanities in Popery say were ordained to help devotion as gilded images and costly ornaments curious and sumptuous paintings and polishings of Altars and Temples they are so far from helping that they hinder devotion they withdraw saith Bernard not only the sight of them that pray but their affection also and they smell rather of Judaisme then Christianisme 7 The Iews had but one temple in the whole world and that was beautified with all manner of sumptuous ornaments altars and vestments for the Priests to offer sacrifices which could be done no where els it had singers also and musicall instruments But the synagogues which are answerable to Churches where the law of God was read and expounded every Sabbath day had none of those ornaments neither Priests nor priestly vestments nor altars nor s●crifices nor musick either instrumentall or vocall neither should our Church have the like because they are synagogues rather then temples Synagoga a congregation an assembly And Ierome in his Epistle to Nepotian concerning the life and conversation of the Clergy saith Iewrie had a rich temple and all things then made of gold then those things were allowed of the Lord. Then that is they are not now allowed of the Lord. And where were they allowed of the Lord Not in the Synagogues which the Jewes had in all cities of the countrey where they assembled to heare the Law and the Prophets read and expounded every Sabboth day they had not there either Altars bloody sacrifice or incense golden vessels or Priestly vestments musicall instruments or singers but only in the Temple of Jerusalem as David the King and Prophet by the instinct of Gods Spirit ordained there to be used only when solemne sacrifice was offered For thus writeth Arias Montanus Fuit in templo suggestum inter sacerdotes populum atrium constitutum in quo Levitae musicis instrumentis solennium quotidianorum sacrificiorum tempore canerent There was a pulpit gallery or scaffold erected in a great roome or court betwixt the Priests and the people where the Levites might sing and play upon their musicall instruments when the solemne sacrifices were daily offered Daily saith he but Flavius Iosephus the Jew being himself both Priest and Levite knew better what was done he in his seventh book of Antiquities saith David that renowned Prophet of God devised many instruments of musick and he taught the Levites to sing and play hymnes to the Lord per Sabbathorum dies aliásque sol●nnitates at the solemnities of Festivall dayes and Sabbaths Therefore not every day in the week nor thrice every day they did not turn the houres of prayer into solemne services with piping and chanting morning and evening and mid-day as our new-fangled ceremony-mongers of late most audaciously attempted to do in this Church of Durham and did so indeed the space of two years without authority contrary to the Injunctions statutes and customes of our Church which they were sworne to observe Vitalianus himselfe was not so impudently presumptuous who was the first Pope that brought Organs into Churches not into his own Chappell at Rome for there they are not yet nor ever were saith Cardinall Cajetan not to be used but onely upon Holy-Dayes and this he did about the yeare of our Lord 660. about 60. years after Gregory the great who would never have allowed such excesse of piping and chanting Of this Vitalianus borne at Signium a town in Italy thus writeth Mantuan Signius adjunxit molli conflata metallo Organa quae festis resonent ad sacra diebus First Pope Vitalian to the singers joyned his Organs Which might on Holy-Dayes at Service pipe to the people 8 The singing of Psalm●s commended and practised by Ambrose Constantine the great Basil and the whole Primitive Church but organs and prick-song were never heard of in the Church till Pope Vitalian brought them in Athanasius that great pillar of the Church which he supported against Arrianisme Canendi usum in Ecclesiis interdixit vanitates fugitans In detestation of superstitious vanities he utterly forbad the use of chanting in Churches but he forbade not the singing of Psalms in a plaine tune by the whole congregation which was then allowed and highly commended by Ambrose and Gelasius and practised by the Emperour himselfe as Eusebius witnesseth in the fourth Book of the life of Constantine the great Cantare primus incepit unà oravit conciones stans reverenter audiit adeò ut rogatus ut consideret responderit fas non esse dogmata de Deo remisse segniter audire This most famous Christian Emperour that ever the Church of Christ had he first began to sing the Psalme he joyned with the people in prayer to God standing up reverently he heard Sermons insomuch as being intreated to sit downe he answered it is not lawfull to heare the doctrine of God slothfully and carelesly So that he used not the gesture of standing superstitiously as a ceremony more holy then sitting or kneeling as our upstart reformers do in this Church of Durham compelling all the people to stand looking about them like fooles and noddies all the time that the Nicene Creed is sung with the Organ c. which Creed Why Constantine stood to heare they can neither say by heart nor understand one word when it is sung But onely that religious Prince stood upon his feet that he might

a greater scandall to our B. White in his Epistle to Archbishop Lawd in his book of the Sabbath Church then the profane negligence of conformable Ministers then their loosnesse of life their avarice and ambition in heaping together benefices and promotions and then a grosse neglect in discharging their duty On the contrary saith he nothing is of greater moment to perswade the people then when they shall observe their Ministers diligent and industrious in serving God and promoting the salvation of Christian soules committed to their charge O ye reformers of the Church learn this of a Bishop and amend this fault which B. Laud would never do The principall Points delivered in this short Apologeticall Treatise 1 Concerning the Communion-Table falsly termed an Altar what manner of furniture is forbidden as being superstitious where it must be placed and how covered pag. 1. 2 D. Hall against innovations and bravery in Gods worship contrary to the doctrine of Durhamers B. Neale and his Chaplains Cosin Lindsell c. p. 2. 3 Bernard against the vanity of such which preferre the glory of materiall Temples before poore-Christians the Temples of the Holy Ghost as Durhamers doe p. 2. 4 B. Motton out of Hierome and Malachy against sumptuous ornaments p. 3. 5 The Homilies and Hemingius concerning true and false ornaments of Churches p. 3. 6 Bernard Augustin c. against the statelines of Temples gawdy ornaments especially at the Sacraments which hinder devotion p. 4. 7 Hierome of the riches brave furniture and musicke in Solomons Temple not in synagogues nor to be imitated in Christian Churches into which Pope Vitalian was the first that brought Organs p. 5. 8 Athanasius Constantine the great Basil of Church-musicke and Psalmes Vitalian hindred preaching with his piping and chancing as some of our Prelates do now p. 6. 9 Justine Martyr and the whole Primitive Church retained the singing of Psalmes but they abandoned Pipers and Chanters and though David ordained instruments of musicke for the Temple yet we may not imitate them no more then we can Aaronicall Vestments p. 7. 10 Our Church ordaineth that all things be done to edification but by immoderate musicke both Service and Sacraments are worsae understood and turned to theatricall stage-playes p. 8. 11 Durhamers would not suffer the Sacrament of Baptisme to be ministred without an hideous noise of Organs and singers with the sight also of many brave images on the Font. But our Homilies teach that we must praise God that our Churches are quit of images and organs p. 9. 12 The Church of England termeth Images Organs Altars profanations and heathenish abominations yet Durhamers retaine and maintain them stoutly p. 10. 13 They bow down often and profoundly before their Alter 〈◊〉 toward the Bible or the body and bloud of Christ in the consecrated Elements as if the Altar were holler then Christs body and the Bible yet they say they worship God not the Altar the second Commandement and B. Buckeridge each otherwise p. 10. 14 B. Neals Chaplains Cosin Linsell James Duncan c. call bowing to the Altar a comely gesture and they practise it very often and profoundly especially at their coming in and going out is if they would salute God making a low leg before they kneel down to pray and when they have done prayer going out of the Church turn back to look on the Altar towards which they make another profound leg taking as it were their leave of God and departing from God whom they leave at the Altar A most absurd foolery p. 12. 15 There was never in the world a more abominable idoll then Durham Altar p. 14. 16 Christ upon earth was never so worshipped by bowing down of bodies as Durham Altar hath been When it was a table standing in the midst it was as holy as now yet then it was never bowed unto p. 15 17 D. Cosin his fellows which obtruded to the Church such fanatical and idolatrous ornaments are they not seditious innovators p. 16. 18 May not the people of Durham be exhorted to communicate in their own Parish Churches as the Law commands them and forbeare to communicate in the Cathedrall Church where it is not rightly administred yet this is a principall objection against me in their Durham and Yorke Articles and Censure p. 16. 19 The representation of the death and passion of Christ is an action of humiliation of sorrow and weeping Why then should our Cathedrall Priests of Durham pompously and gloriously attired in sumptuous Copes imbroidered with images come to a brave painted Altar with Pipers and Singers making delicate melody in such a time of humiliation p. 18. 20 Such objects of vanities allure the peoples eyes eares ●and minds from sorrowfull meditations of our Saviour Christ his death on the crosse and our sinnes which caused the same for which we can never sufficiently testifie our thankefulnesse by afflicting our selves with mourning and teares p. 19. ●2 God is angry with us for our sinnes which deserve eternall condemnation if he should enter into judgment with us Therefore we must not turne our mourning into merriment when we would pacific our angry Iudge p. 20. THE Communion-Table must not The Communion Table must not have superfluous and superstitious furniture but such only as is prescribed by the Church of England not such as Bishop Neal with his Chapleins brought into Durham and polluted the same with superstition and idolatry have superfluous and superstitious ornaments not allowed by the Book of Common Prayer Injunctions and Canons in which whatsoever Ceremony is not bidden it is forbidden it is unlawfull it is superstitious As the Canonists teach Superstitio est relictis Rubricis directorio Ecclesiae alias Ceremonias adhibere pro sua devotione Leaving the Rubricks and direction of the Church to use other ceremonies for devotions sake that is superstition The Rubrick and Canon command that the Communion-Table shall stand in the body of the Church or Chancell where Morning and Evening Prayer are appointed to be said and it must stand covered with a carpet of silk or other decent stuffe with a faire linnen cloth at the time of the Administration And therein Cathedrall and Parish Churches must be alike they must be uniforme saith the Act of Vniformity Therefore the Table not Altar must not be removed to the East end of the Quire or Chancell as farre as can be from the congregation It must not have a costly Velvet cloth with gold fringe and imbroydered with images much lesse may it have B. Neales precious golden Pall to cover the Altar having upon it the false story of the Assumption of our Lady then which a more abominable Idoll all Popery cannot shew Neither must it be a sumptuous Altar of Stone gilded painted and polished bravely fastned to the ground having crosses crucifixes corporasses basons tapers or candlesticks set upon it which by name are forbidden in the 23. Injunction And never can I