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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

prescribed in the book of Common Prayer but 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

A CATALOGVE OF SUPERSTITIOUS 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 Prebendaries 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. Deadmissione Canonicorum Omnes cujuscunque nominis conditionis fuerit jurabunt Brought into Durham Cathedrall by Bishop Neal and the Dean and Prebendaries of the said Church Opposed by Peter Smart Prebendary of Durham lately restored to his said Prebend All censures and sentences of the Commissioners and other Judges being Reversed and Cancelled by the High Court of Parliament after his eleven yeers imprisonment and fourteen yeers persecution in the severall High Commissions of Durham London and York for Preaching against the Superstitious Innovations in Durham aforesaid London Printed for Joseph Hunscott 1642 A Catalogue of Superstitious 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 Iujunctions and Homilies c. INnovators in Durbam offended against the Church of England in taking away the Communion-Table and in place thereof erecting an Altar contrary to the Injunction for Tables in Churches which commandeth Altars to be removed and Communion-Tables brought into all Churches and Chappels both Cathedrall and others that uniformity might be observed 2. They likewise offended against the Church of England in all her church-Church-Books in which the word Altar for Communion-Table is never put I mean the new Testament the Book of Common-prayer the Injunctions Canons Articles of Religion and Homilies they offended I say in that they give to the holy Table the name of an Altar it being no true Altar not so much as the Image of an Altar or having any likenesse or resemblance of an Altar 3. They offended in making it a brave and sumptuous Altar with much gay and gaudy superstitious and unlawfull furniture whereas according to the advertisements and eighty two Canon it ought to be a Table not an Altar a decent Table not curiously carved not gorgeously beautified painted and guilded to move admiration nor vile filthy and rotten to make it base and contemptible in the sight of the people 4. They offended in making it of stone whereas it should be of Wood and setting it upon stone Pillars or upon a Wall whereas it should stand upon a frame according to the Injunctions Can. de Ae●ituis Ecclesiarum And the Latine Canon which saith Curabunt Mensam ex asseribus compositè junct●m quae administrationi sacro-sancte communionis inseruiat and practise of Durham and other Cathedrall and Parish Churches since the reformation 1. Eliz. when stone Altars were demolished because they were unmoveable fastned to the ground and so heavy that twenty men could not bear one stone Altar but they should be light and portable for it is the Deacons Office to carry or remoue the Table and how can it be portable if it be like to Durham Altar on stone columes or Wormeth Altar on a stone Wall and how can the Deacons do their Office in removing the Table from place to place as occasion serveth and our Church enjoyneth which is unpossible if it be of Marble stone● and a double Table as Durham is so heavy as a Wain-load of stones and fastned to the ground also 5. They impudently transgressed especially in some Parish Churches in not placing the holy Table where morning Prayer and evening Prayer are appointed to be said but at the East end of the Church or Chancell whereno part of evening Prayer is ever said in any Church at an Altar or Table but in Parish Churches where there are long and narrow Chancels the people in the Body of the Church neither hear nor see the Priest at his Altar in the East and consequently cannot be edified Also in Cathedrall Churches where the Table is placed so far from the Congregation the Minister officiating thereat cannot so well be heard nor the people so well be edified as when the Table standeth in the Body of the Church or Quire neer amongst the people 6. Innovators in Durbam and York have notoriously transgressed against the Book of common Prayer both in Cathedrall and Parish Churches and Chappell 's in setting the Communion Table with neither side toward the North so that the Minister cannot stand at the North side as the Rubrick enjoyns him to do and as the custome is of all Ministers officiating 7. Innovators in Durham and York have grievously offended in teaching falsly and maintaining That Priests Sacrifices and Altars are indifferently used for Ministers Sacraments and Communion Tables in the Liturgy of the Church of England for those things are indifferently used which are used pr●miscuè as Synonimous words of the same signification are used commonly But our Church Liturgy useth not the words Priest Sacrifice and Altar indifferently and so commonly as the words Minister Sacrament and Communion Table For Altar is never mentioned in our Liturgie but the Lords Table and Lords Boord nor Sacrament is ever tearmed a Sacrifice in the Liturgy for at the Communion all that receive are appointed to say Accept O Lord this our Sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving And again not the Minister alone but all the Communicants must say We offer and present unto thee O Lord our souls and Bodies to be an holy and lively Sacrifice neither is the word Priest ever so much as once mentioned in the Text of our Liturgy save onely in the Rubrick which are rules and directions how to use the Liturgy As for example In the Absolution God hath given power and commandment to his Ministers not Priests to declare and pronounce to his people being penitent the Absolution and Remission of their sinnes And in the Letany That it will please thee to illuminate all Bishops Pastors and Ministers of the Church c. And another place Endues by Ministers with righteousnesse not Priests because the word Priest implyes a Sacrifice as saith Bishop Latimer and it is never used in the Word of God for a Minister of the Gospel so that by using the words Altar Priest Sacrifice they speak not the language of their Mother the Church of England 8. They offended in opposing the Fathers and the primitive Church against the Church of England and the grave and learned Bishops which reformed the same in defence of Altars Priests Sacrifices c. which they preferre before Communion Tables Ministers and Sacraments Doctor Morton now Bishop of Durham in his Apologie pag. 165. saith Primitive antiquity as hath been confessed by Papists themselves did abstain from the names of Priest Altar and Sacrifices tearming them according to the tenor of the new Testament Elders