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A09811	Altare Christianum: or, The dead vicars plea Wherein the vicar of Gr. being dead, yet speaketh, and pleadeth out of antiquity, against him that hath broken downe his altar. Presented, and humbly submitted to the consideration of his superiours, the governours of our Church. By Iohn Pocklington. Dr. D.	Pocklington, John.	1637 (1637)	STC 20075; ESTC S114776	107,710	173

humbly and piously according to the godly and holesome Canons and constitutions of their Mother the Church that so from her and her Governours and from the Kings most sacred Majesty they may to their comfort and commendation receive the commendation of modest and discreet men and such as are farre from any humour of Innovation and let this subtile Innovator with his popular devices goe by who with Iudas of Galile and boasting Theudas seekes with faigned words and deceitfull speeches to beguile simple and well meaning soules and to draw much people after him But by reading of the holy Scriptures which now GOD be praised for it almost every one with Timothy knowes of a childe they understand what befell such seducers and their followers and therefore they have no list either in piety or reason to follow them for they as many as obeyed them were dispersed and brought to nought To conclude I desire to make any sober man and indued with common reason my judge whether he would thinke that the Lords Archbishops and Bishops and the whole Convocation house men of singular wisedome piety and learning as their yeares breeding and education gives them should bee at so much trouble and charge to sit so long together to consider of the state of the Church and to consult with the Kings Majesty about the same as by the words in his Majesties Writ may appeare and then to devise and frame Canons and lawes usefull and necessary for the good pious and peaceable Government thereof and that the Kings Majesty also according to his supreme power in all causes Ecclesiasticall as well as temporall should give his royall assent under the broad seale of his kingdom for confirmation of them as all Princes and Monarchs have done in the first sixe generall Councels if after all this is done all such their Lawes and Canons so made and established should be turned into Tennis Balls for Vicars Parsons and Parishioners to tosse and bandy up and down and question at their pleasure and not to have them executed nor allowed before they be maintained rationibus cogentibus I believe otherwise but that I leave to whom it concernes There is one thing more which I cannot choose but touch upon this Author for For mee thinkes that modesty and discretion which he commended in the Alderman of Grantham he hath not reserved for our commendation in himselfe For thus he twitteth the Vicar The Communion you out of the Booke of fast 1. of the King are pleased to call Second Service In my poore opinion modesty and discretion might have taught him to have forborne such petulant language Surely the man could not but know but that the booke of Fast was not compiled nor ordered to be read publikely in every Congregation without the appointment of the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury nor without his Majesties gracious directions and royall Confirmation thereof and if the Vicar having such authority for his warrant doe call the Communion the second Service me thinkes in common discretion and ordinary civility he ought not to have a Ieere cast upon him by a bettter man than this Secretary can bee for the reflection of the jest and scorne you are pleased transcends the Vicars head quite and cleane and strikes hie and aloft upon the toppes of hills and mountaines from whom hee may bee taught to learne to keepe better distance Well the Vicar is pleased having so good authority to call it the Second Service but this man is not pleased Truly I cannot but pitty the Vicar that has met with a man so hard to please When the poore man did president himselfe in his actions and setting the Lords Table Altarwise by the Kings Chappell and Quires in Cathedralls the man is not pleased hee will upon Vmbrages have it ordered otherwise if this feigned Letter deserved any credite when the Vicar performes the reverence appointed by Canon to that blessed Name of Iesus he is pleased So it bee done So and So with such limitations and hedgings and inclosures as the canon never allowed or thought on except it meant to build with one hand and pull down with another otherwise he is not pleased Now he does but conforme his speech to such language as he heares used by the chiefest and most eminent personage in all our Cathedrall Churches and by the Kings Majesty our supreme Governours in all things belonging or in any wise appertaining to matters of the Church whether they bee Rites or Ceremonies words or actions and yet he is not pleased He wil have his Vicar neither doe nor so much as speak as they doe but he will be displeased and lend him a smart jerke for so doing What trow you has put the mans mouth so out of taste that he can in no sort rellish what was done by the Archbishop that then was and what he did by his Majesties authority that now is whom God of his infinite mercy long preserve I hope he hath more learning than to conceive the Second Service to be a new thing and so to be ashamed of the name For besides the Liturgies of Saint Basil and Saint Chrysostome and others used in the Greeke Church and those that have beene used at all times in the Westerne Churches wherein he sees with his eyes both the First and Second Service distinct one from another He may also observe the use hereof in the Primitive Church if he please to consult with Saint Iustin Martyr Tertullian Origen Saint Cyprian Saint Ambrose Saint Augustine or read a Councell which hee will not deny but hee is bound to read the Nicene Councell and hee shall perceive there the first and second service distinguished one from another Hee shall finde one service wherein there was sola Oratio he shall finde a Second service wherein ●● And I looked and there was none to helpe and I wondred that there was none to vphold Esa. 63.1 But those mine enemies which would not I should raigne over them bring them hither and slay them before me Luc. 19.27 Vnum vos poscimus omnes Cap I. pag. 1.2 3 Cap. II. 3. ad 7. Cap. III. p 7. ad 9. Cap. IV. p 9. ad 15. Cap. V. p. 15. ad 18. Cap. VI. p. 18. ad 22. Cap. VII p. 22. ad 25. Cap. VIII p. 25. ad 29. Cap. IX p. 29. ad 36. Cap. X p. 36. ad 43 Cap. XI p. ●3 ad 60. Cap. XII p. 60 ad 66. Cap. XIII p. 66. ad 71. Cap XIV p. 71 Cap. XV. p 79. ad 84. Cap XVI p. 84. ad 93. Cap. XVII p. 93. ad 97. Cap. XVIII p. 97. ad 104. Cap. XIX p. 104. ad 110 Cap. XX p. 110. ad 115. Cap. XXI p. 115. ad 121. Cap. XXII p. 121. ad 130. Cap. XXIII p. 130. ad 137. Cap. XXIV p. 137. ad 147. Cap XXV p 147. usque ad finem The Letter By that time that you have gained some more experience in the cure of soules you shall

Petrus tanquam os Apostolorum caput pro omnibus respondet Truth distinguisheth Christs Disciples from other men then Love declareth and maketh known whose they are Truth then is first of all to be searched after Pilate once made this seasonable Quaere Quid est veritas But unhappy man he turned his back before Truth it selfe returned him an answer No marvell then if much bussle and stirre have continued ever since about it His haste to please men exivit as Iudaeos lost him and so will us that resolution Pilate to get favour of the Iewes made haste out and left Truth behind him The like reflexion upon the men of Gr. and their friends moved our Pen-man to affect a by-path and to run counter flat-crosse to the present directions of the Governours of our Church Marry you may not parallell him with Pilate it was not for favour but deare charities sake which he commends to the Vicar and preferres before all obedience to Ceremonies appointed by the Church And doubtlesse if the Vicar could have seene Truth the foundation of his Charity he would have received it as he doth the commands of his mother the Church with all reverence and subjection but a formall recommendation of disguised charity he conceiveth ought neither to be given nor received as a legall supersedeas to the rules of Truth and directions of his Ordinary Wherefore for the calling and setting of the Lords Table he thinks fit to follow the directions of his Ordinary and to traverse the whole matter contained in this strangers bill and to give answer to the chiefest points thereof CAP. II. Of the antiquity of Christians Altars in Scripture In the Decretals THe first point I will begin withall is this The name of Table is not two hundred yeares more ancient than the name of Altar in the Christian Church The Authour maintaines it is but not according to his owne directions to the Vicar rationibus cogentibus and so makes a bad cause starke naught Now that neither the Authour nor my selfe be mistaken in the name of Christian Church let us both hearken to St. Ambrose Accipe quae dico anteriora esse mysteria Christianorum quam Iudaeorum And againe Intellige primò priùs coepisse populum Christianum quàm populam Iudaeorum Christ was Christ before he was born of the blessed Virgin Himselfe saith Before Abraham was I am And as Christ was so were Christians and Christian Sacraments and Christian Ceremonies before Christ was borne or the Iewes either Iudaei quando esse coeperunt sayes St. Ambrose I pray you when began the Iewes why ex Iuda pronepote Abraha from Iudah Abrahams nephewes sonne 1. Take we then a view of the Christian Church in the Old Testament and there we find the name and use of Altars is above eight hundred yeares more ancient than the name of Tables in Gods Service The children of God by the light of nature infused into them without any direction or speciall command or rather by inspiration of Christs blessed Spirit who delighted to walk with the sonnes of men erected Altars Noah that durst not step out of the Ark without speciall warrant and direction from God by instinct of nature guided by Christs Spirit built an Altar Abraham also with whom Christ walked as a friend built two Altars in one Chapter Whereupon St. Ambrose sayes ubi Bethel est hoc est Domus Dei ibi Ara ubi Ara ibi invocatio But the name of Table came in with the Ceremoniall Law about Anno 2465. Whether the Church of God before Moses was called Christian I will not dispute but sure I am that it had the same Christ that we have for their Saviour and we are assured out of St. Ambrose that it was Populus Christianus it was a Christian Church if it were a Church at all which no Christian can doubt of Therefore in the Christian Church the name of Table is not two hundred yeares more ancient than the name of Altar But the name of Altars and their religious use is in the Christian Church guided by Christs Spirit above 1200. yeares more ancient than the name of Tables in the Church of the Iewes and above 2300. more ancient than the name of Tables in the Christian Church erected by the Apostles among the Gentiles 2. The Church in the New Testament I am sure is a Christian Church in the notion of this Authour and at Antioch it was so first called And I am as sure that the name of Table is not two hundred yeares more ancient than the name of Altar therein but if I be not deceived of the same or a later date that our Saviour maketh mention of a Christian Altar and of a Christian oblation in his own Christian Church where he saith If thou bringest thine offering to the Altar c. Leave there thine offering at the Altar c. I suppose no Christian will deny and this was neare three yeares before he makes mention of a Table at which the hand of him that betrayed him was with him S. Paul maketh mention of an Altar at which Priests in the New Testament do serve and of a Table which is the very same Hitherto the name of Table is not two hundred yeares more ancient than the name of Altar 3. For the Primitive Church Damasus sayes that Euaristus died a blessed Martyr this man lived within eighty yeares after Christ Anno 112. who if we believe the Decretall maketh mention of Altars For he speaketh of the dedication of Churches and consecration of Altars Hyginus that lived Anno 154. and died a Martyr maketh mention of Altars for according to Gratian he made a decree concerning the re-dedication of a Church si motum fuerit Altare Pius succeeded him and lived Anno 158. who according to Gratian maketh mention of Altars and of a linnen cloth spread upon Altars whereunto the practice of the Church agreeth for Corpus Domini non in sericis sed in syndone munda consecratur Wherefore for 158. yeares it may seem there is mention made of Altars and none at all of the Communion-Table Ob. But the Centurists tell us that these Epistles are forged things and trifles of no worth Or if they be true then you may see how timely the mystery of iniquity began to worke in the Church of Rome in the dedication of Churches and consecration of Altars Sol. If they be forged things why did no Catholike Father not so much as in the Greek Church detect the same and cry them downe How comes it to passe that both the East and West Church keep so good correspondency in the use of Altars and in the dedication of them Was this a mystery of iniquity in the West Church and none in the East But who gave this Quaternion of Ministers authority to brand the Martyrs of the Primitive Church and the whole Church both Greek and Latine with