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A39076 An exposition of the holy ornaments and ceremonies which the Church uses at Mass Collected from several authors. And now publish'd for the common good of all Catholicks, and others. 1686 (1686) Wing E3888CA; Wing M1947C; ESTC R219775 13,409 54

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Vestment THe Vestment represents that Purple Garment wherewith the Jews did cloath our Lord and Saviour after that his most tender Body was all in gory Blood with those cruel stripes and in scornful mockery expos'd him to the Peoples view with a Reed in his hand and a Crown of Thorns on his Head saying John 19. Ecce Homo Behold the Man This Vestment consists of two parts which signifie the two-fold Charity the one towards God which is the larger the other towards our Neighbour Deut. 6. we being commanded to love God above all things and our Neighbour as our selves The great Cross upon the back of the Vestment is to put us in mind of our Divine Redeemer as he went forth of Jerusalem carrying his heavy Cross upon his wounded Shoulders Finally the Priest when he puts on the Vestment saith Lord who assurest us that thy Yoke is sweet and thy Burthen light vouchsafe that I may so wear it that thereby I may obtain thy boly Grace Amen What the Priest thus attired doth represent to us THe Priest coming forth to the Sacrifice thus attir'd with these holy Ornaments doth represent our blessed Saviour led forth thro the streets of Jerusalem to his bitter Death and Passion And by the Altar is signified Mount Calvary upon which he was Crucified for our Redemption And it is worthy to be here noted that who mock and scorn both at these holy Ornaments as likewise at the Priest for wearing them do rightly resemble the spiteful Jews who most blasphemously mock'd and scorn'd our Saviour Jesus Christ himself in the Purple Robe and Thorny Crown which they had put upon him for that end What is represented by the Clerk carrying the Book before the Priest THe Clark carrying the Book before the Priest doth represent the Angel Gabriel who brought the good tidings of our Saviour becoming incarnate for our Salvation which is a high Office and ought to be used by the Clark with all devout Piety and Reverence And would Christians but consider the ●onour and infinite great spiritual gains which are to be got by those who have the happiness to serve their Sovereign Lord with due Re●erence and Devotion in that near approaching Office they would not permit nor make it as they do their Lackeys imployment nor would they suffer their Servant to deprive them of that honour whereof the greatest Mortal Prince is far unworthy Wherefore the Missal is laid first on the right side of the Altar THe Clark carrieth the Book to the right end of the Altar where he layeth it down shut to be opened afterwards by the Priest himself Hereby to signifie to us how the holy Gospel was first manifest to the Jews as is testified Acts 13. To you it behoved us first to to speak the Word of God Wherefore the Book is shut when it is laid upon the Altar THe Book is shut to shew that all things were closed under dark shadows and figures until the coming of Jesus Christ who revealed the Mys●eries of our holy Faith to the Apostles And so ought the Priest to Preach to Teach and to lay open the Word of God and the holy Scripture to the People as his there laying open the Book doth signifie THe Priest in this sort adorned and accompanied with the Clark to assist him having placed the Chalice upon the Altar and opened the Book descends to the lowest step where in imitation of the humble Publican he profoundly boweth himself to the Crucifix saying Luke 18. at least in his heart God be merciful to me a Sinner And then with all fervent Devotion and true Reverence he beginneth the most holy Sacrifice of the Mass in which ●esus Christ true God and Man ●s really offered the memory of his Death and Passion is renew'd his Sacred Merits are thereby apply'd in remission of our Sins our Souls are replenished with many heavenly Benedictions and therein is given unto us the happy pledge of Future and Eternal Glory And the faithful Christian assisting devoutly at this Holy Sacrifice doth offer together with the Priest the self-same Victim in expiation for his Sins which was offered upon the Cross for the Redemption of all the World it being the self-same Price and Satisfaction of Application upon the Altar as it was of Redemption upon the Cross And it is that clean and pure Sacrifice foretold and promis'd also b the Prophet Malacky to be continually Mal. c. 1. and in all places offered in his Name All which seriously considered Oh! with what Affection Reverence Purity and Devotion ought we to assist at this Divine Sacrifice so venerable unto Angels as may greatly confound our Impiety and little true respect we bear to those dreadful Mysteries at which Oh! how usually do careless Christians to their great reproach assist with less respect and Reverence than they durst appear in a Princes Chamber ADVERTISEMENTS The Succession of the Church and Sacraments from Christ and his Apostles to the end of the World cleared and stated according to the Antient Doctrine of the Greek and Latine Fathers Price 6 d. A short Catechism by way of Question and Answer The Answers of which are taken from express words of Scripture With some plain Inferences arising from the said Texts concerning Succession and the Blessed Sacrament A brief Discourse of Confession to a Lawful Priest Wherein is treated of the Last Judgement Price bound 1 s. THE METHOD Of saying the ROSARY Of Our BLESSED LADY As it was Ordered by Pope ●IUS the Fifth of the Holy Order of Preachers And as it is said in Her Majesties Chappel at St. JAMES's The Sixteenth Edition MRA At London In the Year 1686. An ADVERTISEMENT Concerning the following Method of saying the ROSARY THE Devotion of the Rosary so called because it is as it were a Chaplet of Spiritual Roses that is of most sweet and devout Prayers was first revealed by the B. Virgin to St. Dominick the Father and Founder of the Holy Order of Preachers as a Devotion most efficacious for the obtaining all favours from God and averting all evils from our selves It consists of Fifteen Pater Noster's and a Hundred and fifty Ave Mary's and is divided into three Parts whereof each contains in it Five Decads that is Five Pater Noster's and Fifty Ave Mary's To each of these Decads in the following Method is assigned one of the principal Mysteries of the Life of our Saviour or his B. Mother as matter of Meditation wherein the Mind is to exercise it self while it prays and therefore is prefixed before the beginning of each Decad The Mysteries also in number Fifteen are divided into three Parts answerable to the three Parts of the Rosary that is into Five joyful Mysteries for the first part of the Rosary Five Sorrowful for the Second and five Glorious for the Third Now the use of the following Method or manner of saying the Rosary consisteth in a devout Application or Attention of the
AN EXPOSITION OF THE Holy Ornaments AND Ceremonies WHICH THE CHURCH USES AT MASS Collected from several Authors And now publish'd for the common good of all Catholicks and others London Printed for N. T. 1686. HEre followeth a brief Signification of the Priestly Ornaments us'd at Mass as also a short Declaration of the Ceremonies and Holy Mysteries of that Divine Sacrifice for Comfort and Instruction of the Church thereby to renew in our minds a grateful memory of those several dolorous passages of the bitter Passion of our Divine Redeemer who did suffer so much in satisfaction of his Eternal Father's Justice for our Sins Of the Holy ORNAMENTS AND CEREMONIES Which the Church useth at MASS Of the Holy Altar and what it signifies TO begin with the holy Altar where the Victim for the Sacrifice of Redemption of all the World is offer'd It signifies Mount Calvary whereon Jesus Christ the only Son of God and second Person of the holy Trinity our only Saviour was Crucified upon a reproachful Cross Which very word of Altar we also find to have relation unto Sacrifice which must necessarily be offer'd to God in that Church where his true Faith is profess'd And therefore this name of Altar is mention'd by S. Paul Heb. 13.10 We have an Altar whereof they have not power to eat who serve the Tabernacle And 1 Cor. 9.13 and S. Mar. 5.24 All which is a warrant abundantly sufficient for us to use this Name of Altar Which also represents the Table whereon our Redeemer did Celebrate his Last Supper with his Disciples the night before his bitter Death and Passion Of the Altar-Cloaths THe Linnen for the Altar or the Altar-cloaths are to be very pure and white they representing the purity of our blessed Saviour's Humanity free from all stain of Sin or disorder'd Passion That Linnen is also to be bless'd to signifie the great Sanctity of the Life of Jesus Christ which we must endeavour the best we can to imitate Of the lighted Candles on the Altar THe lighted Candles upon he Altar admonish us according to S. Luke to be ready in imitation of the wise Virgins with the Oyl of Good works in our Lamps of True Faith and to expect at the pronouncing these sacred and operative words of Consecration the real and true substantial presence of that our Divine and Heavenly Spouse Mat. 5.16 who requires the light of our Good Works so to shine before Men as thereby they may be moved to glorifie the Father who is in Heaven The two Candles signifie the two Testaments of holy Scripture the Old and New They also signifie the light of Faith revealed to the Jew and Gentile And they advertise us of the great splendour both of Faith of Good Life and Works requir'd in the Celebrating of so high and dreadful a Mystery Of the Cross and Crucifix THe Cross or Crucifix is the principal Ornament upon the Altar which ought never to be wanting at the Celebration of the Mass It betokens our Blessed Redeemer's Victory over Death and is placed at the midst of the Altar most in view to represent to our mind the Death and Passion of Jesus Christ which is there chiefly to be confider'd and piously meditated in that holy Sacrifice Of the Chalice THe Chalice doth represent the Cup wherein our B. Saviour did Consecrate his most precious Blood Mat. 26. And it puts us in mind of his Sacred Passion our B. Saviour himself so calling it The Chalice of his Passion Of the Patten THe Patten serves for the use of the Consecrated Body of our Lord as the Chalice doth for his most precious Blood And as it covers the top of the Chalice it represents the stone which was roll'd against the door of the holy Sepulchre Mark 15. Of the Corporal THe white Linnen Corporal upon which is Consecrated the most precious Body and Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ doth represent to us that white and pure Syndon wherein Joseph of Arimathea involved his most sacred Corps before it was bury'd The clean and bright purity whereof doth aptly admonish all such as by the holy Communion receive and harbour within their Breasts this sacred and most precious Body of Jesus Christ to be chaste and clean both of Body and Soul and endu'd with true purity of intention Of the Vail THe Vail doth cover both Patten and Chalice all round about and it represents to us the Handkerchief wherewith our Saviours most Divine Head was covered when he was laid in the Sepulchre whereof mention is made John 20. S. Peter having discover'd it in the Sepulchre And he there beheld the Linnen lying apart and the Handkerchief which had been wrapp'd about his head Of the several colours which the Church useth for Ornament and the meaning of them THe Prophet Ezekiel in his 6th chap. speaking of the splendour of the Church seems to place a great part of her glory in the various colours of her beautiful Robes Which variety of mystical colours simbolizing with the several virtues of the glorious Saints doth greatly adorn and beautify this holy Spouse and is to us a motive and great encouragement to imitate those holy virtues which by these various colours used in the Church are so fitly propos'd to our view Nor was it without great reason that God in the old Law appointed those four different colours for the Priests and Churches Ornaments which were the colour bissmus that is a yellow colour like to that of raw Silk The second was purpureus the Purple colour The third was byacinthinus that is a violet red blew or violet purple The fourth was coccineus that is a Scarlet or Crimson colour And as these different colours had their several mystical meaning for the Peoples instruction so I doubt not but the impartial Reader will confess no less to be contain'd in the meaning of these colours which the Church inspired by the Holy Ghost hath appointed to be us'd in the Law of Grace for the Ornament of Christ's Holy Church and for the Priests Vestments belonging to the same as by this brief Declaration it will appear What the White Colour used by the Church means THe white colour is used upon the Feasts of Angels Confessors and Virgins To represent to us the imitation of their holy Chastity and Saintly Purity As also upon the solemn Feasts of the Nativity of our Lord and Saviour upon the Resurrection Ascension Corpus Christi and other the chiefest Feasts of the greated Mysteries of our Faith which are to be celebrated in the white colour of symbolizing Joy as testifie our Saviours glorious spendor at his Transfiguration the two Angels in white who denounced his Resurrection and the joyful white of his Saints in Heaven Apoc. 3.4 and Apoc. cap. 4. vers 4. What is signified by the Red Colour REd is the scarlet dye of our Blessed Saviour's Passion and is the proper colour for the Churches Ornaments upon the Feasts of the holy Cross