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A56149 The altar dispute, or, A discovrse concerning the severall innovations of the altar wherein is discussed severall of the chiefe grounds and foundations whereon our altar champions have erected their buildings / by H. P. Parker, Henry, 1604-1652. 1642 (1642) Wing P393; ESTC R21276 49,491 88

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might be communicable without disorder So now it were disorder and the confusion of Corah for a secular man to usurpe the function of a Minister but it is not the same to challenge an equall prerogative in the spirituall empire of our Saviour In the like manner we say of places the sanctity of them is altered not destroyed we say God is now more extensively and universally present by his grace then hee was amongst the Jewes In Judea as to his terrestriall habitation he did confine himselfe within the wals of one Temple but now that of Malachy is verified where the Lord ●aith from the rising of the Sunne unto the going downe of the same my name shall be great among the Gentiles and in every place I●cense shall be offered unto my name and a pure offering Besides as God now inhabits amongst us more universally so also more amiably or else no Lay-men nor Priests but with such and such restraints might make any addresse at all into the Church or C●●●cell which the Papists themselves doe not maintaine To the Jewes God was more dreadfull as to servants to us he is more milde as to sonnes The Law was delivered with terror and so kept for it was made mortall to approach either the Moune where the Law was delivered or to touch the Arke where it was kept But when our Saviour came into the world to publish his Gospel he tooke not on the habit of a Lord but of a servant and as his entrance so his life and death was and as his soveraignty was acquired so it seemes to be maintained ever since In the like manner wee say also that there is a change of things Many externall rites and customes of reverence which consisted in the rigorous observations of times and in the lotions of their bodies and purity of garments and cleannesse of diet are vanished and yet some equity of these still remaines according to the rules of order and decencie but no further Though these rites were honourable to God and conducing to decencie and the pompe of Religion yet the strictnesse thereof is now relinquished according to the Heb. 3. 10. for there they are called carnall ordinances imposed on the Jewes only untill the time of reformation Wherefore let the Doctor con●ider if all the Jewish rites which were requisite to the externall honour of Religion bee not as properly vindicated and maintained by these arguments as the distinct sanctity of places in the Church and yet these no Papist will defend Neverthelesse I doe not speake against all pompe in Religion I onely say that simplicity seemes more sutable with these times of Christianity wherein wee worship such a Saviour as we doe And on the other side it is most apparent that our pompe addes nothing to God for Aaron in all his beauty Solomon in all his Majesty did retribute no more honour to God then Abraham or Isaack in their naked simplicity But it hath beene rather observed that when the Church had woodden Chalices it had golden Priests but God send us golden Priests and golden Chalices both After our Saviours death Saint Stephen and Saint Paul were accused amongst the Jewes for speaking against these Mosaicall distinctions in the Temple and here Doctor Lawrence sayes if the accusation were true it was just I will aske the Doctor this question Was the Temple at that time de jure Jewish or Christian was Moses or Christ to take place in it if he say Christ as he must then why should he thinke Saint Stephen and Saint Paul more unworthy to enter into the most honourable parts of the Temple then any of the Jewish priests It ought not to be presumed that these blessed followers of Christ did generally vilifie the honour of Gods house but their crime was that they did preach against the Mosaicall strictnesse of the limits and divisions of the Temple shewing that all places therein were approachable by the ador●●s of Christ There can be no other charge probable and if the Doctor say that in this they were justly accused he is as wrongfull a judge over them as any of the Jewes whatsoever could be Now we come to Fathers and Antiquity The Primitive Christians sayes Doctor Lawrence distinguished their Oratories into an ●●rium Sanctum and Sanctum Sanctorum and accordingly put more holinesse in one then in the other having an Altar here answerable to an Arke there and in signe of perpetuity poynted their Churches East looking towards the Temple In this conceit Doctor La●rence goes not alone onely the other Doctors because the changing of the Scene from the Sanctum to the Sanctum Sanctorum from the Altar to the Arke upon the sudden would be too remarkable are more sparing of language But what an argument is this Because the Primitive Christians did build their Churches with some kinds of divisions resembling the Jewish Temple and because they did esteeme one place more holy then another therefore they did esteeme the very Jewish holinesse and distinctions in all things equally in force It should seeme the Altar was advanced to an higher dignity and removed out of the Sanctum to possesse the place of the Arke and the Mercie seate because this alteration suits with the Doctors purpose but in all other things the Jewish honour and holinesse remaines unchanged in our Churches The building of our Churches East also looking towards the Jewish Temple shewes the perpetuity of holinesse and although this be but a particular reason not to be extended to any Churches but such as stand West from Judaea yet for the Doctors benefit it must be taken for universall Neither must we make any use of this Doctors argument to any other purpose although it be as apply able to the Heathen Temples as to ours or the Jewish for they had the same divisions also whereof some were more holy and unaccessible then others But it is apparent that the Jewish sanctity in its strictnesse cannot be attributed to our Quire by our Doctors owne Tenet for he himselfe grants it accessible to Priests and all within Orders and we on the other side in an equitable sense allow it more reverence then other parts of the Church therefore what kinde of honour is it which the Doctor challenges both different from the Jewish and ours also If the Primitive Church stood wholly to the Jewish patterne then they may be produced against the Doctor as well as against us if not how are they produced against us in this point more then against the Doctor himselfe That antiquity did observe a difference betweene common and consecrated ground and also betweene one consecrated place and another and in the fashion of their buildings hold some complyance with Jewes and Gentiles both so farre as the rules of decencie and charity did require certainly it was piously and prudently done That which we say is onely this First we doe not perceive that antiquity did strictly adhere to the Jewish discipline