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A03139	Antidotum Lincolniense· or An answer to a book entituled, The holy table, name, & thing, &c. said to be written long agoe by a minister in Lincolnshire, and printed for the diocese of Lincolne, a⁰. 1637 VVritten and inscribed to the grave, learned, and religious clergie of the diocese of Lincoln. By Pet: Heylyn chapleine in ordinary to his Matie.	Heylyn, Peter, 1600-1662.	1637 (1637)	STC 13267; ESTC S104010	242,879	383

middle space of time betweene both services when as the people are departed and the Curate gone unto his house This was the ancient practise of the Church of England The Morning prayer or Matins to begin betweene six and seven the second service or Communion service not till nine or ten which distribution still continues in the Cathedrall Church of Winchester in that of Southwell and perhaps some others So that the names of those which purposed to communicate being signified unto the Curate if not before yet presently after Morning Prayer he had sufficient time to consider of them whether he found amongst them any notorious evill livers any wrong-doers to their neighbours or such as were in malice towards one another and to proceed accordingly as he saw occasion All this you wipe out instantly with a dash of wine Exig●o Pergama tota mero as the Poet ha●h it as if the notice given unto the Curate was for nothing else but that provision might be made of Br●od and Wine and other necessaries for that holy mystery And were it so yet could this very ill be done after the beginning of Morning Prayer as you needs will have it For would you have the people come to signifie their na●●ies unto the Curate when he was reading the Confession or perhaps the Pater-noster or the Psalmes or Lessons then the Curate to break off as oft as any one came to him to bid the Churchwardens take notice of it that Bread and Wine may be provided Besides you must suppose a Tavern in everie Village and a Bak●r two else you will hardly be provided of Bread and Wine for the Communicants in so short a space as is between the beginning of Morning Prayer and the holy Sacrament Nay not at all provided in such cases but by Post and Post-horses much inconvenience the Market-towns being far off the wayes deep and mirie which what a clutter would make especially upon the Sabbath as you call it I leave you to judge Assuredly what ever your judgement be you are a Gentleman of the prettiest and the finest fancies that I ever met with Thus deale you with the other Rubricks and wrest them quite besides their meaning especially the third which concerneth the repulsing of those which are obstinately malicious and will by no meanes be induced to a reconcilement You tell us onely of the second which requires the Curat to admonish all open and notorious evill livers so to amend their lives that the congregation may thereby be satisfied that it were most ridiculously prescribed to be done in such a place or in so short a time and therefore that it is intended to be performed by the Curate upon private conference with the parties Good Sir who ever doub●●d it or thought the Church in time of s●●vice to be a fitting place for personall reprehensions So that you might have spared to tell us your 〈◊〉 laudable practice in not keeping backe but onely admonishing p●blicke off●nders upon the evidence of ●act and that no● publickly neither nor by name unlesse there had been somewhat singular in it which no man ever had observed but your own deere selfe and that to be proposed as an I●stituti● sacerdotum for all men else to regulate their actions by But for the third you say that it directs the Curate how to deale with those whom hee perceives by intimation given and direction returned from his Ordinary to continue in unrepented hatred and malice whom having the direction of his Ordinary he may keep from receiving t●e Sacrament and that in an instant without chopping or dividing the divine service And then that otherwise it were an unreasonable and illegall thing that a Christian man laying open claim to his right in the Sacrament should be debarred from it by the meere discretion of a C●rate Po●r● Priests I lament your case who are not onely by this Minister of Lincoln Diocese debarred from moving and removing the holy Table but absolutely turned out of all autoritie from bindring scandal●●s and unworthy pe●sons to approach unto it That 's by this Minister conferred on his Deacon also because forsooth it did belong unto the Deacon to cry 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 looke to the door●s there to the doores and to take care the Cate●●●meni and those which were not to communicate should avoid the Church O saclum insipidum infacetum Such a dull drowsie disputant did never undertake so great an Argument As if the Deacon did these things of his own authoritie not as a Minister unto the Priest and to save him a labour That which comes after from the Iesuites and other Schoolmen will concerne us little who are not to be governed by their dictates and decisions but by the rules and Canons of the Church of England Now for the Rubrick that saith thus The Curate shall not suffer those to be partakers of the Lords Table betwixt whom hee perceiveth malice and hatred to raigne untill hee know them to be reconciled and that of two persons which are at variance that one of them be content to forgive the other c. the Minister in that case ought to admit the penitent person to the holy Communion and not him that is obstinate So for the Canons they runne thus No Minister shall in any wise admit to the receiving of the holy Communion any of his Cure which be openly known to live in sinne notorious without repentance nor any who have maliciously contended with their neighbours untill they shall be reconciled nor any Churchwardens or Sidemen who wilfully incurre the horrible crime of perjurie in not presenting as they ought nor unto any that refuse to kneel or to be present at publick praiers or that be open depravers of the Booke of Common Praier or any thing cōtained in the Book of Articles or the Book of ordering Priests and Bishops or any that have depraved his Majesties Sovereigne authoritie in causes Ecclesiasticall c. Here is no running to the Ordinary to receive direction what to do but an authority le●t unto the Priest without further trouble and more then so a charge imposed upon him not to do the contrarie Onely it is provided that every Minister so repelling any shall on complaint or being required by the Ordinarie signifie the cause unto him and therein obey his Order and Direction Therin upon the post-fact after the repelling and on return of the Certificate and not before as you would have it for proof wherof with an unparalleld kinde of impudence you cite those very Canons against themselv●s But so extreme a spleene you have against the Clergie that upon all and no occasions you labour throughout your Pamphlet to lay them open and expose them to the contempt and scorne of the common people Now as you labour to expose the Clergie to contempt and scorne so you endevour secretly and upon the by to make the Chappels

a remote and another province pag. 3. who used to travaile Grantham Roade p. 71. and was a friend unto the Vicar pag. 110. Iohn Coal as hee is called by name pag. 88. New-castle Coal as from the place and parts of his habitation pag. 114. A man whose learning lay in unlearned Liturgies pag. 85. and used to crack of somewhat unto his Novices pag. 122. but to be pit●yed for all that in being married to a widdow pag. 168. Who the man aimes at in these casts is not here considerable It is possible hee aimes at no body but at have amongst you However all this while that I may keepe my selfe unto my Accidence Petrus dormit securus and may sleepe safely if he will for none of all these by-blowes doe reflect on him Done with much cunning I assure you but with ill successe For now he least of all expects it I must draw the Curtaine and let him see his Adversary though he hide himself Me me adsum qui feci in the Poets words I am the man that never yet saw Grantham Steeple though for the Churches sake I undertooke the Patronage of the poor dead Vicar The letter to the Vicar being much sought after and by some factious hands spread abroad of purpose to hinder that good worke of uniformity which is now in hand did first occasion me to write that answer to it which passeth by the name of A Coal from the Altar Now a necessity is laid upon me to defend my selfe and with my selfe that answere also from the most insolent though weake assaults of this uncertaine certaine Minister of the Diocesse of Lincoln who comes into the field with no other weapons than insolence ignorance and falsehood In my defence whereof and all my references thereunto I am to give you notice here that whereas there were two Editions of it one presently upon the other I relate onely in this Antidote to the first Edition because the Minister takes no notice but of that alone The method which I use in this Antidotum shall be shewn you next that you may know the better what you are to look for The whole discourse I have divided into three Sections Into the first wherof I have reduced the point in controversie as it relates to us of the Church of England following the Minister at the heeles in his three first Chapters touching the state of the question the Regall and Episcopall power in matter of Ceremony and in the fourth bringing unto the test all that he hath related in severall places of his booke touching the taking downe of Altars and alteration of the Liturgie in King Edwards time The second Section comprehends the tendries of the Primitive Church concerning Sacrifices Priests and Altars together with their generall usage in placing of the Altar or holy Table and that containes foure Chapters also In which we have not only assured our cause both by the judgement and the usage of the purest Ages but answered all those Arguments or Cavils rather which by the Minister have been studied to oppose the same The third and last exhibites to you those Extravagancies and Vagaries which every where appeare in the Ministers booke and are not any way reducible to the point in hand wherein wee have good store of confident ignorance fal●●fications farre more grosse because more unnecessary and not a little of the old Lincolnshire Abridgement And in this wise I have di●posed it for your ease who shall please to reade it that as you are affected with it you may end the booke either at the first or second Section or else peruse and reade it thorowly as your stomack serves you In all and every part of the whole discourse as I have laid downe nothing without good authority so have I faithfully reported those authorities which are there laid down as one that cannot but have learned by this very minister that all fals dealing in that kinde however it may serve for a present shift yet in the end 〈◊〉 both shame to them that use it and disadvantag● to the cause Great is the 〈…〉 the last though for a while suppressed by mens subtile practises Nor would I that the truth should fare the worse or finde the lesse esteeme amongst you because the contrary opinion hath been undertaken by one that calls himselfe a Minister of Lincoln Diocesse You are now made the Judges in the present controversie and therefore it concernes you in an high degree to deale uprightly in the cause without the least respect of persons and having heard both parties speake to weigh their Arguments and then give sentence as you finde it Or in the language of Minutius Quantum potestis singula ponderare ea verò quae recta sunt eligere suscipere probare And that you may so doe and then judge accordingly the God of truth conduct you in the wayes of truth and leade you in the pathes of righteousnesse for his owne names sake Westminster May 10. 1637. PErlegi librum hunc cui titulus est Antidotum Lincolniense c. in quo nihil reperio sanae doctrinae aut bonis moribus contrarium qu● minus cum utilitate publicâ imprimatur Ex Aedibus Londin Maii die 7. 1637. Sa Baker The Contents of each severall Section and Chapter contained in this Treatise SECTION I. CHAP. I. Of the state of the question and the occasion of writing the letter to the Vicar of Gr. The Author of the Coale from the Altar defended against him that made the holy Table in respect of libelling railing falsifying his authorities and all those accusations returned on the Accusers head The Minister of Lincolnshires advantage in making his own tale altering the whole state of the question The Vicar cleared from removing the Communion Table of his own accord as also from a purpose of erecting an Altar of stone by the Bishops letter That scandalous terme of Dresser not taken by the writer of that letter from the countrey people The Vicars light behaviour at bowing at the name of IESUS a loose surmise The Alderman and men of Gr repaire unto the Bishop The agitation of the businesse there The letter written and dispersed up and downe the countrey but never sent unto the Vicar The Minister of Lincolnshire hath foulely falsified the Bishops letter A parallel betweene the old and the new Editions of the letter CHAP. II. Of the Regall power in matters Ecclesiasticall and whether it was ever exercised in setling the Communion Table in forme of an Altar The vaine ambition of the Minister of Linc to be thought a Royalist His practise contrary to his speculations The Doctor cleared from the two Cavils of the Minister of Linc touching the Stat. 1. Eliz The Minister of Linc falsifieth both the Doctors words and the Lo Chancellour Egertons The Puritans more beholding to him than the King The Minister of Linc misreporteth the Doctors words onely to picke a quarrell with his Majesties Chappell A

use of a table is to eate upon Reasons c. 1550. Vide Acts Monum●nts pag. 1211. Pag. 74. The Church in her Liturgie and Canons calling the same a table onely do not you call it an Altar Pag. 17. The Church in her Liturgy and Canons calling the same a Table onely do not you now under the Reformation call it an Altar Pag. 74. In King Edwards Liturgie of 1549. it is every where called an Altar Pag. 17. In King Edwards Liturgie of 1549. it is almost every where called an Altar Pag. 74. The people being scandalized herewith in Countrey Churches first beats them downe de facto then the supreme Magistrates by a kinde of law puts them downe de jure Pag. 17. The people being scandalized herewith in Country Churches first it seemes beat them downe de facto then the supreme Magistrate as here the King by the advice of Archbishop Cranmer and the rest of his Counsell did Anno 1550. by a kinde of law put them downe de jure 4. Ed. 6. Novemb. 24. Pag. 74. And setting tables in their roomes tooke from us the children the Church and Common-wealth both the name and the nature of former Alters Pag. 17. And setting these tables in their roomes tooke away from us the children of this Church Common-wealth both the name and the nature of those former Altars Pag. 75. It is in the Christian Church 200. yeares more ancient than the name of an Altar as you may see most learnedly proved out of S. Paul Origen and Arnobius if you but reade a booke that is in your Church Pag. 18. It is in the Christian Church at the least 200. yeeres more ancient than the name of an Altar in that sense as you may see most learnedly proved beside what we learne out of S. Paul out of Origen and Arnobius if you doe but reade a booke that is in the Church Pag. 76. That your table should stand in the higher part of the Chur you have my assent already in opinion but that it should be there fixed is so far from being Canonicall that it is directly against the Canon Pag. 18 19. That your table should stand in the higher part of the Chancel you have my assent in opinion already And so it was appointed to stand out of the Communion orders by the Commissioners for causes Ecclesiastical 1561 But that it should bee there fixed is so far from being the onely Canonicall way that it is directly against the Canon Pag. 77. This table must not stand Altar-wise you at the North end thereof but table-wise and you must officiate at the North end of the same Pap. 20. This table without some new Canon is not to stand Altar-wise and you at the North end thereof but table-wise and you must officiate on the North side of the same by the Liturgy Pag. 78. And therefore your Parishioners must bee judges of your audiblenesse in this case Pag. 20. And therefore your Parishioners must bee Iudges of your audiblenesse in this case and upon complaint to the Ordinary must be relieved Thus have I shewed in briefe your 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 your tricks and artifices whereby you seeke to varnish a rotten cause falsifying the very Text which you are to comment on that it may fit your notes the better A pregnant evidence that there is no faire dealing to be looked for from you when you shall come either to repeate your adversaries words or cite your Authors But faire or foule we must goe through with you now we have begun and so on in Gods name CHAP. II. Of the Regall power in matters Ecclesiasticall and whether it was ever exercised in setling the Communion table in forme of an Altar The vaine ambition of the Minister of Linc to be tho●gh● a Royalist His practise contrary to his speculations The Doctor cleared from the two Cavils of the Minister of Linc touching the Stat. 1. Eliz. The Minister of Linc ●alsifieth both the Doctors words and the Lo Chancellour Egertons The Puritans more beholding to him than the King The Minister of Linc misreporteth the Doctors words onely to picke a quarrell with his Majesties Chappell A second on-set on the Chappell grounded upon another f●lsification of the Doctors words Of mother Chappell 's The Royall Chappell how it may be said to interpret Rubricks The Minister of Linc quarrels with Queene Elizabeths Chappell and for that purpose falsifieth both his forraine authors and domestick evidences Not keeping but adoring images enquired into in the first ye●re of Queene Elizabeth That by the Queenes Injunctions Orders and Advertisements the Table was to stand where the Altar did The idle answer of the Minister of Linc to the Doctors argument Altars and Pigeon-houses all alike with this Linc Minister The Minister of Linc false and faulty argument drawn from the perusers of the Liturgy the troubles at Franck ●ort and Miles Huggards testimony Of standing at the North-side of the Table The Minister of Linc produceth the Pontificall against himselfe His idle cavils with the Doctor touching the Latine translation of the Common prayer Book The Parliament determined nothing concerning taking downe of Altars The meaning and intention of that Rubrick The Minister of Linc palters with his Majesties Declaration about S. Gregories A copy of the Declaration The s●mme and substance of the Declaration Regall decisions in particular cases of what power and efficacy PLutarch relates of Alexander that he did use to say of his two chiefe favourits Craterus and Hephestion that the one of them was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the other 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the one a lover of Alexander the other of the King Hephestion loved his person as a private friend Craterus his estate and Monarchy as a publique Minister Princes are then best served when these affections meet together when those that either are about their persons or under their dominions do Craterū cū Hephestione confundere and love them not alone as men but Princes whom they doe most truly love Both of these parts this Some-body whom I am to deale with would faine seeme to act and he doth act them rightly as a player doth in a disguise or borrowed shape which he can put off when he lists the play be ended But yet for all his vizard it is no hard matter to discerne him his left hand pulling downe what his right hand buildeth all that authority and regard which he bestowed upon the King in the speculation being gone in 〈◊〉 as they say when it should be reduced to practise Of the originall of the Regall power you tell us very rightly that it is from God that the Kings of England have had the flowers of Ecclesiasticall jurisdiction stuck in their Imperiall garlands by the finger of Almighty God from the very beginning of this Christian Monarchy within this Island and that the Kings Majesty may command a greater matter of this nature than that the

the particular fancie of any humorous person but to the judgement of the Ordinarie to whose place and function it doth properly belong to give direction in that point both for the thing it self and for the time when and how long as he may finde cause These are his Ma ties words indeed mentis aureae verba bractcata as you rightly call them but they oppose not any thing that the Doctor saith You finde not in the Doctor that the placing of the holy table or the interpreting of those Canons and Rubricks which concerne it was either left to the discretion of the Parish or to the particular fancie of any humorous person in the same which is the onely thing which that part of his Majesties Declaration doth relate unto That which the Doctor saith is this that by the declaration of his Majesties pleasure in that present businesse there was incouragement given to the Metropolitans Bishops and other Ordinaries to doe the like i. e. to place the holy table in the severall Churches committed to them as it was placed in S. Gregories by the Ordinary thereof This I am sure his Majesties words which you applaud so doe not contradict And on the oth●r side that the whole Declaration laid together gives that incouragement to the Ordinaries which the Doctor speakes of you might plainly see but that you had no mind that any Ordinarie should be incouraged to so good a work which you deride and scorn throughout your booke as shall be shewn more fully in the next Chapter Mean time that all the world may see how wilfully you shut your eyes and stop your eares against whatever is contained therein which you like not of I will once more set down the said Declaration and after gather thence some few observations either to cure you of your wilfulnesse or to shame you for it At VVhite Hall the third day of November 1633. Present the Kings most excellent Majestie L● Arch B. of Cant. Lo Keeper Lo Arch B. of York Lo Treasurer Lo Privie Seale Lo D. of Lennox Lo High Chamberlain E. Marshall Lo Chamberlain E. of Bridgwater E. of Carlile Lo Cottington M. Treasurer M. Comptroller M. Secretary Cooke M. Secretary Windebank THis day was debated before his Majesty sitting in Counsell the question and difference which grew about the removing of the Communion table in S. Gregories Church neer the Cathedrall Church of S. Paul from the middle of the Chancell to the upper end and there placed Altar●wise in such maner as it standeth in the said Cathedrall Mother Church as also in all other Cathedrals and in his Majesties owne Chappell and as is consonant to the practise of approved Antiquity Which removall and placing of it in that sort was done by order from the Deane and Chapter of S. Pauls who are Ordinaries thereof as was avowed before his Majesty by D r. King and D r. Montfort two of the Prebends there Yet some few of the Parishioners being but five in number did complaine of this Act by Appeale to the Court of Arches pretending that the booke of Common-prayer and the 82. Canon doe give permission to place the Communion table where it may stand with most fitnesse and convenience Now his Majesty having heard a particular relation made by the Counsell of both parties of all the cariage and proceedings in this cause was pleased to declare his dislike of all Innovation and receding from ancient constitutions grounded upon just and warrantable reasons especially in matters concerning Ecclesiasticall order and government knowing how easily men are drawne to affect novelties and how soone weake judgements in such cases may be over-taken and abused And he was also pleased to observe that if those few Parishioners might have their wills the difference thereby from the foresaid Cathedrall mother Church by which all other Churches depending thereon ought to be guided would be the more notorious and give more subject of discourse disputes that might be spared by reason of S. Gregories standing close to the wall thereof And likewise for so much as concerns the liberty given by the said Common booke or Canon for placing the Communion table in any Church or Chappell with most conveniency that liberty is not so to be understood as if it were ever left to the discretion of the Parish much lesse to the particular fancy of any humorous person but to the judgement of the Ordinary to whose place and function it doth properly belong to give direction in that point both for the thing it self and for the time when and how long as hee may finde cause Vpon which consideration his Majesty declared himselfe That he well approved and confirmed the Act of the said Ordinary and also gave command that if those few Parishioners before mentioned doe proceed in their said appeale then the Dean of the Arches who was then attending at the hearing of the cause shall confirme the said Order of the aforesaid Deane and Chapter This is the Declaration of his sacred Majesty faithfully copyed out of the Registers of his Counsell-Table Out of the which I doe observe first that the Ordinary did de facto remove the Communion-Table from the middle of the Chancell and place it Altar wise at the upper end Secondly that in the doing of it they did propose unto themselves the patterne not alone of their owne Cathedrall mother Church but of all other Cathedralls and his Majesties Chappell and therewithall the practice of approved Antiquity Thirdly that his most excellent Majestie upon the hearing of the businesse declaring his dislike of all Innovations did yet approve the order of the Ordinary which shewes that hee conceived it not to be any variance from the ancient constitutions of this Church Fourthly that all Parochiall Churches ought to be guided by the patterne of the Mother Church upon the which they doe depend Fifthly that not the people but the Ordinary is to interpret as well the R●brick as the Canon touching the most convenient placing of the holy table Sixthly that i● pertaineth to the place and function of the Ordinary to give directions in that kinde both for the thing it selfe how it shall stand and for the time when and how long it shall so stand as hee findes occasion And last of all that notwithstanding any thing that was objected from the said Canon and Communion booke his Majesty did well approve the Act of the said Ordinary and not approve it onely but confirme it too giving command to the Deane of the Arches that he should finally and judicially confirme the same if the appeale were followed by the said Parishioners This is I trow a Declaration of his Majesties pleasure not onely in relation to the present case that of S. Gregories then and there by him determined but to all others also of the same nature Hee that so well approved that Act of the Deane and Chapter of S. Pauls would questionlesse approve the like in another Ordinary ●or