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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03141	A coale from the altar. Or An ansvver to a letter not long since written to the Vicar of Gr. against the placing of the Communion table at the east end of the chancell; and now of late dispersed abroad to the disturbance of the Church. First sent by a iudicious and learned divine for the satisfaction of his private friend; and by him commended to the presse, for the benefit of others	Heylyn, Peter, 1600-1662.; Williams, John, 1582-1650.	1636 (1636)	STC 13270.5; ESTC S119828	38,864	84

doe declare against it so there is much that may be said in defence therof and of that much we will use nothing but that which will agree with the capacitie of the meanest man and shall be proved by that authoritie which the Epistoler trusts to most in all this businesse even the Acts and Monuments To which we shall adjoyne for our more assurance the Testimony of two Acts of Parliament one under King Edward the sixth th' other under Queene Elizabeth First for the Acts and Monuments we find that not a few of those which suffered death for their opposing of the grosse carnall Doctrine of Transubstantiation did not only well enough endure the name of Altar but without any doubt or scruple called the Lords Supper sometimes a Sacrifice and many times the Sacrament of the Altar So speaks Iohn Fryth Secondly They examin●d me touching the Sacrament of the Altar Whether it was the very Body of Christ or not Act and Monuments part 2. pag. 307. Iohn Lambert thus As concerning th' other six Sacraments I make you the same Answer that I have done unto the Sacrament of the Altar and no other pag. 401. And in another place CHRIST being offered up once for all in his owne proper person is yet sayd to bee offered up not onely every yeare at Easter but also every day in the celebration of the Sacrament because his Oblation once for ever made is thereby represented pa. 435. Archbishop Cranmer also though he opposed the Statute of the Six Articles particularly that of Transubstantiation which hee throughly canvast yet at the phrase or terme of Sacrament of the Altar hee tooke no offence but useth it as formerly had been accustomed pag. 443. 6. NOr was it a new name taken up of late but such as some of them acknowledge to be derived from pure Antiquity those too such as liv'd and suffered after the name of Altar had bin left out of the Booke of Common Prayer which was last established Iohn Philpott thus That partly because it is a Sacrament of that lively Sacrifice which CHRIST offered for our sins upon the Altar of the Crosse and partly because that Christs body crucified for us was that bloody Sacrifice which the blood-shedding of all the beasts offered upon the Altar in the old Law did prefigurate signifie unto us the old Writers doe sometimes call the Sacrament of the Body and Blood of CHRIST amongst other names which they ascribe thereunto the Sacrament of the Altar Part. 3. pag. 23. Thus Bishop Latimer plainely granteth that the Lords Table may be called an Alt●r and that the Doctors call it so in many places though there be no propitiatory Sacrifice but onely CHRIST pag. 85. And lastly Bishop Ridley do●h not only call it the Sacrament of the Altar affirming thus that in the Sacrament of the Altar is the naturall body and blood of CHRIST c. pag. 492. But in reply unto an Argument of the Bishop of Lincolnes taken out of Cyrill doth resolve it thus That the Word ALTARE in the Scripture signifieth as well the Altar whereupon the Iewes were wont to offer their burnt Sacrifices as the Table of the Lords Supper And that S. Cyrill meaneth by this word ALTARE not the Iewish Altar but the Table of the Lord and by that saying Altars are erected in Christs name Ergo CHRIST is come hee meanes that the Communion is administred in his remembrance Ergo CHRIST is come pag. 497. Which being the language of the Prelates and other learned men then living it is no marvell if in the Parliament 1. Edw. 6. cap. 1. the same name occurre The Parliaments in matters which concerned Gods Service did then use to speake according as the Church had taught them Now in that Parliament however it was resolved that the whole Communion should be restored which in effect was a plaine abolition of the former Masse yet is that Act which so restores it entituled An Act against such persons as shall speake irreverently against the Sacrament of the Body and Blood of CHRIST commonly called The Sacrament of the Altar and for the receiving thereof under both kinds And in the body of the Act there is speciall Order taken for a Writt to bee directed to the Bishop of the Diocesse on such delinquencies where it is called expressely Sacro sanctum Sacramentum Altaris the holy Sacrament of the Altar Which being repealed by Queene Mary in the first Parliament of her reigne because of the Communion under both kinds in the same allowed of was afterwards revived by Queene Elizabeth both the head and body and every branch and member of it 1. Eliz cap. 1. So that we have a Sacrifice and an Altar and a Sacrament of the Altar on all sides acknowledged neither the Prince or Prelates the Priest or people dissen●ing from it some of those termes being further justified by the Statute Lawes SECT II. NExt for the second point the standing of the Communion Table Altar-wise the said Epistoler thus declares himselfe to the Vicar of Gr. If you meane saith he by Altar-wise that it should stand in that place of the Chancell where the Altar stood I thinke somewhat may be said for because the ●njunctions 1559. did so place it And I conceive it to bee the most decent scituation when it is not used and for use too where the Quire is mounted up by steps and open so that hee that officiates may be seen and heard of all the Congregation Such an one I heare your Chancell is not But if you meane by Altarwise that it should stand along close by the wall so as you be forced to officiate at one end thereof as you may have observed in great mens Chappels I doe not believe that ever the Communion Tables were otherwise than by casualty so placed in Countrey Churches This I have laid together as being but a Preamble to the next Discourse and rather matter of opinion and hearesay than of proofe reason or authority For it stands onely on I thinke and I conceive and I have heard and I believe not which no man can interpret to be Demonstrations Therefore to looke upon the passage as it lyeth together we have a plaine confession that if by placing of the Table Altarwise is meant the setting of it in that place where the Altar stood there is then somewhat at the least to be said for that because the Injunctions did so place it and next an absolute revocation of the said confession where it is said that if by Altarwise is meant that it should stand along close by the wall then hee believeth not that ever the Communion Table was so placed unlesse by causualty in Country Churches Quo teneam nodo This is just fast and loo●e and I know not what the reconciliation of two Contradictions The Queenes Injunctions were set out for the ●eiglement and direction of all the Churches in this kingdome and it is said in them that the