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A67895	A learned discourse of ceremonies retained and used in Christian churches. Written by the Right Reverend Father in God Lancelot Andrews late Bishop of Winchester a little before his death: at the request of an eminent person that desired satisfaction therein. Printed by the original copy written with his own hand, ex pede Hercules.	Andrewes, Lancelot, 1555-1626.; Leigh, Edward, 1602-1671.	1653 (1653)	Wing A3131; ESTC R207727	21,081	91

But more particularly Iulius Pollux writing {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} namely the speciall Psalmes if I may so speak and to what gods they were due It is worth the remembring how the Papists if a Bishop or Abbot be canonized and die they have a glorious and speciall Antiphoneme which begins Ecce Sacerdos Magnus but if the Emperour or King be canonized his Antiphoneme is but the ordinary one for a Father This last I learn out of a Treatise called Salome and Bisance And as for the bounding of the Meares of Parishes our Clergy-Priests on their Rogation week go on Procession So likewise did the Heathen their perambulations for this purpose were called Ambarvalia And it appeareth by Livy that the Heathen Clergy might not be present at the sentence of death And Iosephus notes that Pontifex Maximus might not behold a dead body and at this day that this is and hath been the custome of our Clergy is full apparent To conclude this particular with the nature of the coercive power used by the Heathen Priests Iulius Caesar at large delivereth of the Heathen Clergy of this Island and of France namely the Druides if any private or publick person would not stand to their Decrees and Orders they used to forbid him their Sacrifices which saith Caesar among them is a most grievous punishment for the party so interdicted is not onely accounted a detested person and men are to shun his company but neither shall he be capable of any honour or shall sue for his own right Hence by good probability came the excommunication used by the British Clergy anciently and continued by our English Clergy at this day seeing the punishment and effect thereof is so lively described as if Caesar had been an authour of our age For our Excommunication whether it be hominis or Canonis the former may be Clavis Ecclesiae errans saith our Register the later not Doth not onely barre the excommunicated person from entring into the Church at Service time and intimate a man not in osculo communicare cum Excommunicato as it is in the canon Laws which is the reason Cyprian cals excommunicated persons abstenti because men refrain their company but also it seems unto this day by the Canon Laws of this Land an excommunicate person cannot bring an action or implead any other for his right untill he be absolved I note out of Sophocles Oedipus that they which killed King Lucins were excommunicated which took the same effect with the Druids Excommunication And for this also saies Plato in his 9. and 10. Book De Legibus Pope Innocent the 4. calleth Excommunication the sinew of Ecclesiasticall Discipline The Canonists account Excommunication to be the Keys of opening and shutting which Christ gave at his departure to his Disciples But the Vulgar came not by many hundred years by the travell and employment and mission of this good Thunderbolt it is become Brutum or Salmoneum fulmen In the last place I am to speak of the Religious Ceremonies of the Ethnick people in their Churches that they are answerable to ours It is evident by Tertullian Clement Apuleius and Servius upon Virgil that the Heathens in their Churches at the time of their service praying or sitting looked into the East but the Jews in their Churches as appeareth by St Ierome praying looked into the West and yet we follow the Gentiles custome and build our Churches to that purpose as the Heathens did For Vi●ruvius the Heathen Architect commandeth that the face of the Temples be built in the West that they which pray may have their faces looking into the East St Bazils opinion then that an Apostolicall tradition of the Christians to pray looking into the East is not absolutely currant Caelius notes Hermes Trismegistus praying looking upon the South the Jews looked upon the West the Christians saith he looked into the East which they learned of Pythagoras as holding with Ptolomy the motion of the Sun cometh from the East I reade in Athanasius that the Apostles appointed the Christian Churches to be built to the East that in praying they might behold Paradise But to quit Tho. Aquinas his third reason why the Christians in praying look into the East I fancy the reason of our praying into the East set down in the particular describer of the City of Ierusalem the Christians in Europe saith he at their praiers looking into the East behold the Countrey where Christ was conversant on earth and in so beholding may behold the face of Christ upon the Crosse looking upon them Yea the Heathens in their prayers not only looked as the Christians and praying held up their hands toward Heaven as Livy sheweth Camillus praying and Virgils Tendens ad sydera palmas intimateth but also in some points praied as we do To omit their joynt order and decency of prayer out of Plutarch Ne Caledonij suis Tragedia renovetur And Iamblicus the Scholar of Porphiry as in generall he writeth of the force of prayer so in particular he concludes all their sacrifices and Religion are better joyned and perfected by Vows and Prayers yea the wisest of the Heathens as Marsilius Ficinus notes upon Plato's Alcibiades praied devoutly and in spirit Flagrantia animi offering up their Vows without any Characters which were invented to stir up their affection by Orpheus and Zoroastes And Alexander ab Alexandro writes the Heathen man which praied first did confesse himself a sinner that I observe out of the Apopthegm of the Heathen Lacedemonian to God and not to the Priests which the Heathen Pontifex there confessed And that in their praiers Alexander ab Alexandro notes they thanked the gods for benefits received and desired aversions of evils Yea the Heathens used to pray in their Churches for the afflicted in body and minde as the Christians doe For it appeareth by Lucian if any were hurt he would sacrifice to the gods to be relieved And by Plutarch not only Sacrifices were used among the Heathen for the health of Pompey but also Cities celebrated Holy-daies in their Temples for receiving great benefits of their gods as the health of Pompey And the praier of Arianus the Scholar of Epictetus as Lucian notes when he would call upon the gods was in these words {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Lord have mercy And as I reade Arrianus Book called Peri-plus a phrase of his is but now God willing And that Si Deus voluerit ought to be the praier of the Christians appeareth by Iam. 3. And if the Heathen praiers were not conformable for the present state the Heathen Magistrates caused them to be amended And this I learn out of Valerius that Scipio Africanus the publick praier being that the gods would make better and more ample the state of Rome he said They are already great enough and devised the form of praier to be that the gods would continue and preserve the state of Rome Again as the