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A60393	A catalogve of superstitons innovations in the change of services and ceremonies, of presumptuous irregularities, and transgressions, against the Articles of Religion, Act of Parliament for uniformity, canons, advertisements, injunctions, and homilies and lastly, of sundry perjurious violations of the locall statutes of Durham Cathedrall church, which the dean and presendaries, and all other members of the said church, took their corporall oaths, to observe, and obey, at their admittance and installation, according to that in the 13. Chap. De admissione Canonicorum ... / opposed by Peter Smart ...	Smart, Peter, 1569-1652?	1642 (1642)	Wing S4013; ESTC R560	24,629	36

Church of England Articles of Religion Injunctions Rubricks Cannons c. Now let us take a view and see of which amongst the 50. I or my accusers and persecuters of Durham London and Yorke are most guilty and deserve more to be punished 1 Innovators in Durham contrarie to the Injunction commanding Altars to be removed and Communion Tables set up have done quite otherwise they have cast out of the Church lawfull Tables and brought in unlawfull Altars 2 They have left the language of their Mother the Church of England in using the word Altar and leaving Table 3 Instead of a decent Table they have set up a brave and sumptuous Altar with much Superstitious and unlawfull Furniture 4 Instead of a Wooden Table standing on a Frame they made a Stone Altar on a Wall or St one Pillars and consequently heavie and unmovable wheras it should be light and portable that it might be removed as occasion requireth 5 The Rubricke commands the Communion Table be placed where Morning Prayer and Evening Prayer are appointed to be said that is in the body of the Church or Chancell but they place their Altars at the East end of their Chancells or Quires where Evening Prayer is never said nor all Morning Prayer so that the People cannot well heare nor be so well edified 6 Our Church commands that the Minister Officiating shall stand at the North-side of the Table but they set up Altars or Tables Altar-wise along by the Wall with neither side toward the North. 7 Our Lyturgie and all our Church Books use constantly the words Minister Sacraments Communion Table but our Durhamors and Yorkers say falsly that the words Altar Sacrifice Priest are indifferently used in our Lyturgie where indeed they are never used only in the Rubricks Priest is used somtimes never in the Text Minister is used alwayes in the Text and somtimes in the Rubricks 8 They preferre Altars Priests Sacrifices before Communion Tables Ministers Sacraments alleadging falsly that the Fathers of the Primitive Church did so I say the learned Divines that reformed the church of England rejected many things which some of the Fathers erroneously maintained as namely this of Altar Priest Sacrifice and our learned Bishop Morton saith the same That their libertie of Speech occasioned in Romanists that prodigall error in Doctrine 9 They removed the Font from place to place from the East end of the Church to the West end from the North to the South where lately it stood I say with the Injunction the Font must not be removed and 81 Cannon the Font shall stand in the ancient usuall place 10 They adored their brave Altar making legges to it and bowing down their bodies oftentimes and profoundly before it more then ever the Papists use to doe I say the Table is as holy as the Altar yet none make legges to the Communion Table when it stands as the Church appoints in the body of the Church In these 10. points concerning Altars judge rightly ô Bishop and High Commissioner who maintains the truth who obeyes the Laws and orders of the Church of England they that did all things wrong or I that opposed my selfe lawfully against their unlawfull Innovations yet you have condemned me only for doing my duty But did you ever punish the wrong doers mine adversaries did you ever call them in question did you amend any thing that was done amisse in the Church No verily but you have assisted cherished and rewarded them with great preferments you have joyned with them in persecuting me with all rigour and extremitie As for example Doctor Duncon one of my spightfullest persecutors hath written a Treatise call'd A Determination in defence of Altars and bowing down before Altars which is a Ceremonie not allow'd by the Church of England but forbidden by the Act of Parliament for uniformitie yet he proveth it by many foolish reasons amongst which this is a principallone the Altar is the most holything the Church of God hath therfore it must devoutly be bowed unto His words are these or to this effect Sanctitas excellentia Altaris prae reliquis omnibus in Ecclesia and againe Altare est optima praecipua sanctissima pars universae supellectilis Ecclesiasticae The sanctitie the excellencie of the Altar above all other things in the Church The Altar is the best the noblest the holyest part of all Ecclesiasticall stuffe or implements And againe thus he writeth The Latine Worthies Heroes terme it Sacrum Sanctum Venerandum Altare sacred holy venerable Altar and they make comparison saith he Inter Altare apud Christianos et Sanctum Sanctorum apud Judaeos illudq multis nominibus praeferunt Hinc etiam est quod Altaria septis et cancellis undiquaque munire et vallare consueverunt ne laicorum aliquis propius quam par est ad Altare ccederet Heroes scilicet rather Blasphemous wretches which dare compare their false Imaginary Idolized Altar set up in Churches by Antichristian Priests in the place of Gods holy Table compare it I say and in many respects preferre it also before the sanctum sanctorum of the Iewes the inward most holy Sanctuary into which the High-Priest alone might goe and that no more then once in a whole yeare read what Saint Paul writes Heb. 9. 2 3. to the 11. And as the most holy inward Sanctuary where the Arke of the Covenant the Tables of the Law the 10 Commandements c. were placed was divided from the outward Sanctuary by a second Vaile so must our Priests have a holy Chancell parted from the Church with Railes and within that Holy Holy Holy Sanctuary or Chancell where the Altar that glorious S●at must stand enclosed with Rails to keep our laiks from aproaching to neer the Sacred Altar Thus much and twenty times more writeth Bishop Neales Chaplaine Duncon in justification of Altars and Altar cringings I wonder that none of you Bishops Deanes and arch-Deacons have taken this Duncon with his determination unto examination that it might be purged with fire as many better Bookes have bin I know some of you have seene it and perused it The learned Bishop of Lincolne in his Holy Table Name and thing writes that lately there came to his hands a certaine Determination concerning Altars a Treatise well Languaged but of poore stuffe poor● God knowes hungry and ragged nasty and scab'd and swarming with loathsome vermine as by Gods helpe I shall make manifest to the world hereafter if no man else will take it in hand 11. The Church of England commands that all Monuments of Idol●try and Superstition Images pictures paintings crosses Crucifixes Candlesticks c. be defaced and abolished that no memory of them remaine in walls windowes or elsewhere These I preached against and for preaching this truth I have bin persecuted by them who instead of defacing Images they have given them new faces bravely painted and guilded instead of abolishing them they have multiplied them and renewed their memory in

A CATALOGVE OF SUPERSTITIOUS INNOVATIONS IN The change of Services and Ceremonies of presumptuous irregularities and transgressions against the Articles of Religion Act of Parliament for uniformity Canons Advertisements Injunctions and Homilies And Lastly Of sundry perjurious Violations of the locall Statutes of Durham Cathedrall Church which the Dean and Prebendaries and all other Members of the said Church took their corporall Oaths to observe and obey at their admittance and installation according to that in the 13. Chap. Deadmissione Canonicorum Omnes cujuscunque nominis conditionis fuerit jurabunt Brought into Durham Cathedrall by Bishop Neal and the Dean and Prebendaries of the said Church Opposed by Peter Smart Prebendary of Durham lately restored to his said Prebend All censures and sentences of the Commissioners and other Judges being Reversed and Cancelled by the High Court of Parliament after his eleven yeers imprisonment and fourteen yeers persecution in the severall High Commissions of Durham London and York for Preaching against the Superstitious Innovations in Durham aforesaid London Printed for Joseph Hunscott 1642 A Catalogue of Superstitious Innovations in the change of Services and Ceremonies Of presumptuous irregularities and transgressions against the Articles of Religion Act of Parliament for uniformity Canons Advertisements Iujunctions and Homilies c. INnovators in Durbam offended against the Church of England in taking away the Communion-Table and in place thereof erecting an Altar contrary to the Injunction for Tables in Churches which commandeth Altars to be removed and Communion-Tables brought into all Churches and Chappels both Cathedrall and others that uniformity might be observed 2. They likewise offended against the Church of England in all her Church-Books in which the word Altar for Communion-Table is never put I mean the new Testament the Book of Common-prayer the Injunctions Canons Articles of Religion and Homilies they offended I say in that they give to the holy Table the name of an Altar it being no true Altar not so much as the Image of an Altar or having any likenesse or resemblance of an Altar 3. They offended in making it a brave and sumptuous Altar with much gay and gaudy superstitious and unlawfull furniture whereas according to the advertisements and eighty two Canon it ought to be a Table not an Altar a decent Table not curiously carved not gorgeously beautified painted and guilded to move admiration nor vile filthy and rotten to make it base and contemptible in the sight of the people 4. They offended in making it of stone whereas it should be of Wood and setting it upon stone Pillars or upon a Wall whereas it should stand upon a frame according to the Injunctions Can. de Ae●ituis Ecclesiarum And the Latine Canon which saith Curabunt Mensam ex asseribus compositè junct●m quae administrationi sacro-sancte communionis inseruiat and practise of Durham and other Cathedrall and Parish Churches since the reformation 1. Eliz. when stone Altars were demolished because they were unmoveable fastned to the ground and so heavy that twenty men could not bear one stone Altar but they should be light and portable for it is the Deacons Office to carry or remoue the Table and how can it be portable if it be like to Durham Altar on stone columes or Wormeth Altar on a stone Wall and how can the Deacons do their Office in removing the Table from place to place as occasion serveth and our Church enjoyneth which is unpossible if it be of Marble stone● and a double Table as Durham is so heavy as a Wain-load of stones and fastned to the ground also 5. They impudently transgressed especially in some Parish Churches in not placing the holy Table where morning Prayer and evening Prayer are appointed to be said but at the East end of the Church or Chancell whereno part of evening Prayer is ever said in any Church at an Altar or Table but in Parish Churches where there are long and narrow Chancels the people in the Body of the Church neither hear nor see the Priest at his Altar in the East and consequently cannot be edified Also in Cathedrall Churches where the Table is placed so far from the Congregation the Minister officiating thereat cannot so well be heard nor the people so well be edified as when the Table standeth in the Body of the Church or Quire neer amongst the people 6. Innovators in Durbam and York have notoriously transgressed against the Book of common Prayer both in Cathedrall and Parish Churches and Chappell 's in setting the Communion Table with neither side toward the North so that the Minister cannot stand at the North side as the Rubrick enjoyns him to do and as the custome is of all Ministers officiating 7. Innovators in Durham and York have grievously offended in teaching falsly and maintaining That Priests Sacrifices and Altars are indifferently used for Ministers Sacraments and Communion Tables in the Liturgy of the Church of England for those things are indifferently used which are used pr●miscuè as Synonimous words of the same signification are used commonly But our Church Liturgy useth not the words Priest Sacrifice and Altar indifferently and so commonly as the words Minister Sacrament and Communion Table For Altar is never mentioned in our Liturgie but the Lords Table and Lords Boord nor Sacrament is ever tearmed a Sacrifice in the Liturgy for at the Communion all that receive are appointed to say Accept O Lord this our Sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving And again not the Minister alone but all the Communicants must say We offer and present unto thee O Lord our souls and Bodies to be an holy and lively Sacrifice neither is the word Priest ever so much as once mentioned in the Text of our Liturgy save onely in the Rubrick which are rules and directions how to use the Liturgy As for example In the Absolution God hath given power and commandment to his Ministers not Priests to declare and pronounce to his people being penitent the Absolution and Remission of their sinnes And in the Letany That it will please thee to illuminate all Bishops Pastors and Ministers of the Church c. And another place Endues by Ministers with righteousnesse not Priests because the word Priest implyes a Sacrifice as saith Bishop Latimer and it is never used in the Word of God for a Minister of the Gospel so that by using the words Altar Priest Sacrifice they speak not the language of their Mother the Church of England 8. They offended in opposing the Fathers and the primitive Church against the Church of England and the grave and learned Bishops which reformed the same in defence of Altars Priests Sacrifices c. which they preferre before Communion Tables Ministers and Sacraments Doctor Morton now Bishop of Durham in his Apologie pag. 165. saith Primitive antiquity as hath been confessed by Papists themselves did abstain from the names of Priest Altar and Sacrifices tearming them according to the tenor of the new Testament Elders

or Bishops Tables and Eucharists In the after times the Fathers presumed to take a greater liberty of speech but they never meant to defend such popish sacriledge as is the having of Priests Sacrifices and Altars And because ages more degenerating did set as it were a Byas upon the phrases Priests Sacrifices Altar which had been used by the Fathers improperly to draw them to a proper signification flat contrary to their first Institution therefore did Protestants wish That those ancient Fathers had rather contained themselves within their more ancient bounds than that their liberty of speech should have occasioned in Romanists that prodigall error in Doctrine Thus much saith Doctor Morton 9. They notoriously offended in removing the Font so often from the ancient usuall place where heretofore it stood contrary to the advertisement The Font shall not be removed and the 81 Canon The Font shall stand in the ancient usuall place 10. They offended highly in adoring the Altar falsly so called for when it is gorgeously adorned with brave and rich Furniture and set up on high at top of the Quire or Chancell removed from the base and prophane multitude as they account them and carrying a greater Majesty than it had being a plain Communion Table standing in the Body of the Church then they bowed down to it and worshipped it more than ever the papists did making it thereby an execrable Idoll they bow down I say their bodies before the same Altar and towards no other thing or place in the Church as if it were the most holy thing the Church of God hath as Doctor Duncomb blasphemously writeth in his Determination holyer than the Bible it self to which none make legs or bow their bodies 11. They have offended in contradicting the Church of England and endamaging our reformed Religion in not defacing nor abolishing monuments of Idolatry but repairing adorning beautifying and multiplying them more than ever they were in time of popery contrary to the 23 Injunction in which charge is given for the abolishing of things superstitious That Candlesticks Pictures Paintings and all manner of Monuments of Idolatry be taken away utterly extinct and destroyed So that there remain no memory of the same in Walls Windows or elsewhere Item In the Articles of the first yeer of the Queens visitation 1559. The second Article enquireth whether Candlesticks Images Pictures and other Monuments of Idolatry and Superstition be abolished Hereby it appeareth that the intention of the Church of England was at the reformation thereof from Popish Superstition and Idolatry that Massing Copes and other Altar Cloaths embroydered with Images That Candlesticks Tapers Crosses Crucifixes c. being once ejected must not be brought in again and set upon the Communion Table or in Windows above the Table as is done in Durham and other Churches adjoyning 12. They offended in rejecting the Homilies and Injunctions and consequently the doctrine of the Church of England because they condemn Images Altars and other superfluous ornaments The Homily of the place and time of prayer hath these words of a woman saying to her neighbour at the first reformation of Churches in England Alas alas what shall we now do at Church since all the Saints are taken away seeing all the goodly fights we were wont to have are gone seeing we cannot have the like piping and chanting and playing on the Organs that we had before But dearly beloved saith the Homily we ought greatly to rejoyce and give God thanks that our Churches are delivered from all these things which displeased God so sore but now those abominations which were taken away at Durham are restored again with great advantage 13. They offended in calling their superstitious Trinkets Ornaments of the Church which our Church disalloweth and condemneth as being disgracements of Religion and abominations in the Church of God Thus saith the Homily against the perill of Idolatry and Superstitious decking of Churches The Lords holy Name ought to be called upon by publike prayer and thanksgiving his holy Sacraments ought duly and reverently to be administred not gaudily flauntingly theatrically histriorically due reverence is stirred up in the hearts of the godly by the confideration of those true ornaments of the house of God and not by any outward Ceremonies or costly and glorious deckings of the said House or Temple of the Lord as Saint Bernard saith Orantium in se retorquent aspectum impediunt affectum Such glorious spectacles draw away from God the minde of them that pray and they hinder holy affections or meditations Praetendunt ornatum saith Heming●us in his Enchiridion speaking of Images Si illi ornat●● adjunctum sit ullu● periculum sit maledictus They pretend that they are set up for Ornaments but cu●sed be such Ornaments to which the perill of Idolatry is joyned And again Spiritus Sanctus saith Ezekiel Chr. 20. Vocat Idola abominationes oculorum sed puluis ciuis ea vocat ornamenta oculorum The holy Ghost calls Images the abhomination of the eyes but man that is but dust and ashes calls them the ornaments of the eyes and then he concludeth Verus ornatus Templorum utilis Deo gratus est concio cantio oratio communio non haec quae vel impediunt vol vitiant The true Ornaments of the Church profitable to men and acceptable to God is the preaching of Gods Word the singing of Psalms the administration of the Sacraments and Prayer and not such things as do hinder and defile the same 14. They have offended against their Mother the Church of England in taking away the ten Commandments where they placed their Altar for having cast out the decent Communion Table at the same time they sent away into the Countrey the Decalogue fairly written in golden Letters contrary to the expresse words of the 82. Canon and practise of all our Churches The ten Commandments shall be set upon the East end of every Church or Chapell where the people may best see and read the same So they were placed in Durham Cathedrall very fairly written and hanging upon the Wall till the Lords Table was taken away and a brave sumptuous Altar daily adored by all sorts of people specially Priests and Clerks with bowing down their bodies before it Till I say a glorious high Altar was erected with Crucifixes and other Images of Saints and Angels even of the Trinity it self Which Idols as the Church of England calls them in her Homilies could not endure the presence of Gods second Commandment which forbids Images and Idolatry and much more reason had they to remove the Decalogue out of their sight since the fourth Commandment also was by them abrogated which commandeth the observation of the Sabbath Remember that thou keep holy the Sabbath day the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God in it thou shalt do no manner of work At the end of the fourth Commandment our Church enjoyneth the people to kneel down and say Lord

prescribed in the book of Common Prayer but they have added diminished and altred the whole form of Divine Service and two yeers together they have had no ordinary Morning Service according to the Rubricks 28 For 2 yeers together from 1627. till 1629. our Durham Innovators Mr. Cosin and his Associates would not suffer any ordinary Morning Prayer to be said at the due and usuall time between 9 and 11 in the place where Evening Prayer was duely said but every day working dayes and holy dayes they went to the Altar as they termed it to say a second Service so they call the Communion Service which is no part of the ordinary Morning Prayer as appeareth by the last Rubrick before the Letanie and before that which they call the second Service Thus endeth the order of Morning and Evening Prayer throughout the yeer Neither is the place where their Altar stands the accustomed place for saying any Divine Service being at the East end of the Quire or Chancell so farre in some Churches from the Congregation that they can neither see the Minister nor hear what he saith nor understand so well as they do the Evening Prayer said in the usuall place among them 29 The first Rubrick in the book of Common Prayer is this The order where Morning and Evening Prayer shall be used and said The Morning and Evening Prayer shall be used in the accustomed place of the Church Chappell or Chancell And the Chancels shall remain as they have done in times past This Rubrick our Durham Innovators have violated sundry waies for here we see one place is appointed for Morning and Evening Prayer not two places one for Morning and another for Evening Prayer Evening Prayer hath been used in the accustomed place in which it is alwayes said in the midst of the Quire This alteration our irregular Durhamers made themselves without the determination of the Ordinarie who by the 14 Cannon is limited that he may do nothing whereby edification may be hindred and how can the people be edified when they cannot hear the Minister as is done in Mr. Burgoyns Church at Warmoth c Again whereas the Rubrick saith Chancels shall remain as they have done in times past our new fangled Durhamers and other countrey Priests following their example have made Cancellos inter Cancellos Chancels within Chancels that is an Inclosure to divide their Altar Eastward from the Quire as the Sanctum Sanctorum was separated with curtains from the rest of the Temple who ever heard of 2 Chancels in one Church till Durhamers invented it contrary to this Rubrick and the example of all Churches in England in former times So that they have a holy Church a more holy Chancell and at the East end thereof a most holy inclosure where the Altar must stand unto which no man or woman may have accesse but Priests onely 30 Another Rubrick saith Then shall follow certain Psalms in order as they be appointed in the Table made for that purpose And another Rubrick saith Then shall be read 2 Lessons distinctly with a loud voice that the people may hear the first of the Old Testament the second of the New like as they be appointed in the Kalender The Minister that readeth the Lessons standing and turning him so as he may be best heard of all that be present No Psalms nor Chapters were read either of the old or new Testament which is a principall part of Divine Service by our Durham Innovators for the space of two yeers and consequently they had no ordinary Morning Service in their Cathedrall in the usuall place time and form as is prescribed in the book of Common Prayer Cannons Injunctions and Act of Parliament for Uniformity which commands all Churches to be uniform unto none of which Durham Cathedrall was agreeable in their Morning Services 31 The Act of Parliament for Uniformity hath these words If any person or Minister in any Cathedrall or parish Church shall by open fact or deed or by threatning compell any to sing or say any common or open prayer otherwise or in any other manner or form then is mentioned in the book of Common Prayer let him be indicted Again in the same Act no rite order form or manner at Mattens or Even song may be used in Cathedrall or Parish Churches but that which is appointed in the book of Common Prayer The form of Morning prayer was altred in Durham Cathedrall by dividing it into 2 parts to be said at two distinct times Most of the Rubricks with sundry Cannons and Injunctions have been violated and broken by means of that division Many rites and ceremonies have been changed unlawfully used Men have been injoyned at forbidden times to weare unlawfull vestments condemned by our Church some have been compelled with threatning and penalties to obey their unlawfull commands As was evidently seen in the morning Prayer which by the Injunction and custome of 60 yeers continuance was said in a place appointed thereunto by one petty Cannon alone plainly distinctly and briefly to be ended at seven a clock But new fangled Durhamers would have their new devised morning prayer to be said and sung solemnly in the Quire with all the voices of men and children and musicall instruments whom they forced to be present at that unlawfull Service and there to abide till all was done at 8 a clock whereby they have deserved many wayes to be indicted and for their contumacy deprived of all their livings according to the Statute In that being often admonished they would not amend for the space of two yeers 32 But the most notorious Innovation and most contrary to the foresaid Act of Uniformitie was that which Mr. Cosin and his Associates took up at Durham about the yeer 1626. to go in a Cope to the Altar to say 2. or 3. prayers after every Sermon which is a strange ceremony not mentioned in the book of Common Prayer or Cannons and consequently forbidden They would not suffer the Preacher to dismisse the Congregation with the blessing of Gods peace as was wont to be done in Durham and all other Churches of England They alledge for themselves the Rubrick after the Nicene Creed After the Creed if there be no Sermon shall follow one of the Homilies set forth by common Authority And after such Sermon Homily or exhortation the Curate shall declare unto the people whether there be any holidayes or fasting dayes in the weeke following And earnestly exhort them to remember the poore This Rubrick makes nothing for this fond Innovation for it saith After the Creed if there be no Sermon shall follow one of the Homilies And then it saith after such Sermon Homily or Exhortation the Curate shall declare whether therebe any holidayes or fasting dayes Here is a contradiction or rather a nonsence if the words be no● rightly understood If there be no Sermon and then After such Sermon Homily or Exhortation what meaneth this After such Sermon

walls windowes copes c. 12. They reject the Homilies because they disallow Images Altars and other Superstitious Ornaments with Organs and chanting without understanding I defend the Homilies and the Doctrine of the Church of England taught in them 13 They terme their Images and other Superstitious trinkets Ornaments of the Church but I with the Homilies St. Bernard and Hemingius say they are disgracements of religion and impediments of pietie they are abominations in the sight of God and godly men 14 They taking libertie to themselves to set up Altars and Images and to abolish the Sabbath day the name whereof they cannot endure to heare have taken away the ten Commandements quite out of Durham Cathedrall because the 2. forbiddeth Images the 4. enjoyneth the observation of a Sabbath this they have done contrarie to the expresse words of 84. Cannon 15 They have used Copes and other superstitious Vestments falsly called Copes at their Altar when there was no Communion and after every Sermon to say Prayers in Copes contrary to the expresse words of the Advertisement and the 24 25. Can. 16. They have Preached and justified him that Preached in the Pulpit and sate in his stall wearing a Cope and not a Hood contrary to the Advertisement and the 25 Cannon and they did Article against me and censured me at Yorke for blaming in Mr. Burgain of Durham this notorious irregularitie but him they excused they never call'd him in question 17 They used in Durham and still they use not decent but sumptuous Copes embroidered with Images and they have used py-bald curtaild ridiculous Vestmēts even at the administration of the holy Communion contrary to the 24. and the latine Canon de officio Decani which command decent Copes to be used never but at the Communion they forbid all Vestments superstitione contaminatas defiled with Superstition that is such as have Images on them or have bin used at Masse In these 7. points concerning the abolishing of the Monuments ●f Idolatry defacing of Images rejecting the Doctrine of the Church of England in the Book of Homilies against excessive cost upon Organs Altars Idols which falsly they call Ornaments of the Church being indeed pollutions of Religion and abominations In taking out of the Church the Decalogue because the 2. Commandement forbids the bowing down to Images and the 4. commandeth the keeping holy the Sabbath In using Copes at the Altar when there is no Communion and those not decent but either rascall Robe● very fooles coats or exceeding sumptuous glittering with Images in preaching in a Cope sitting in a Stall in a Cope to heare Service when Copes are forbidden and Hoods injoyned In all these 7. judge O Bishop or High Commissioner who is faulty who transgresseth the Laws and Orders of the Church which of us is conformable to the Church of England who deserves punishment and who should be rewarded I have observed all these Laws and Canons yet I have been punished with all rigour and extremitie my persecutors of Durham and York having broken all Laws of the Church have never been call'd in question some of them have been advanced to high dignities and preferments Is this Prelaticall Iustice is this Episcepall government surely the judges of hell Minos and Radamanthus would never pronounce so injust sentences 18 The 49 Injunction commandeth that Musicke be not abused in the Church that the Common Prayer should be worse understood That there should be modest and distinct singing to the intent all may be understood plainly and the sense perceived But Durhamers have used excessive Musicke both Instrumentall and vocall even at 6 a clock Prayer in the morning used to be read plainly and the administration of Sacraments wherby those holy actions have been greatly disturbed 19 The preface to the Communion Book commandeth Anthems to be cut off and Psalmes are allowed to be sung before and after Sermons But our Innovators of Durham have forbidden all singing of Psalmes till this last yeare 1641. from 1629. all which time no Psalme hath bin sung in Durham Church 20 The Nicene Creed hath been sung not after the manner of distinct reading that the people might understand and the people have bin compelled with fighting and brawling to stand on their feet though they could not repeat the same Creed in an audible voice as the 18. Canon appoints 21. They tooke for Assistants at the Communion the whole quire men and Children which communicated not contrarie to the custome and practise of all Cathedrall Churches 22 They chaunted or approved him that did sit in his stall to sing prick song which both custom and Law forbids Preachers and Praebends to doe but they would not suffer Psalmes to be sung that all the Congregation might sing with them 23 24 They took the Morning Prayer at 6 of the clocke quite away for two years together a most impudent Innovation contrary to all the Cathedralls of England and in this they violated many Lawes and Injunctions especially the Injunction made by Commissioners under the great Seale of England prime Eliz. for the Church of Durham and in so doing they incurd the terrible crime of perjury because that morning-prayer was established by Law and custome which all took their othes that they would observe 25. They confounded and turned all forenoone services upside downe by saying the whole ordinary service with Psalmes and Chapters read at six of the clocke in the morning and saying a new found second service without either Chapters or Psalmes betweene ten and eleven the usuall time in all Churches for the ordinary service to be said 26. They removed the ordinary service a whole twelve Mo●eth together from Ten of clocke to eight and all that time they had three forenoon services afterwards they placed the ordinary and most solemne service both Sundayes and working dayes in the roome of morning prayer at six a clocke and they called the people thereunto by the ringing of six bells to which not three persons usually resorted in Winter time especially 27. They did not observe the time place order and fashion of rights and ceremonies as the 14. Canon prescribes without adding or diminishing any thing in matter or forme 28. They said evening prayer in the accustomed place alwayes but the Altar at the East end of the Quire where they said their second service is no accustome d place for any service but it is an Innovation in Durham begun by Bishop Neals Chaplains 29 They made Chancels within Chancels contrary to the Rubrick which saith chancels shall remaine as they were in times past a strange Innovation 30 The Act of Parliament commands all Churches to be Vniforme but Durham Cathedrall was agreeable to none in their forenoone Services 31 No rite order forme or manner of saying Mattens may be used in Cathedrall or Parish Churches then what is appointed in the Booke of Common Prayer and if any Person compell by deeds or threatnings to say Prayers in any other manner let him be Indicted Mr. Cosin and his Associates have transgressed against this claus of the act for uniformity oftentimes notoriously 32 They suffer not the Preacher to dismisse the Congregation but the Sermon being done he comes downe from the Pulpit and another goeth to the Communion Table and having said 2 or 3 Prayers he saith the Peace of God and the People depart which is grounded upon a Rubricke misunderstood 33 They have spoken and Preached against the Religion established terming the Reformation of our Church a deformation and the Reformers ignorant Calvinisticall Bishops 34 They tooke upon them to make new Orders for the observation of unlawfull Services and Ceremonies for which they are Excommunicated And they have given to the Bishops transcendent Authoritie in ordering Church matters which notwithstanding is limited by the locall Statutes of Durham Church and by the Cannons his Office is to Preach and not to hinder Preaching c. 35 They make Gloria Patri a fourth Creed and therefore they injoyn the Ceremonie of standing which is a Prayer and a part of the Letany at which all must kneele 36 They lighted on Candlemas Day more then 200 waxe Candles when none were needfull the day being lengthened 2 houres the 2 of February being equall to the 18. of October St. Lukes on which Day no Church lighted Candles 37 They constantly observe that unlawfull Ceremonie of turning faces to the East not allowed by the Church and some when they officiate at the Communion Table looke toward the East turning their backs to the People after the manner of Masse Priests In these 20. from 17 to 37. mine Adversaries of Durham have offended they have violated above 40. Orders Cannons Injunctions Rubrickes not onely in Ceremonies but in the most substantiall parts of Gods Service and Sacraments yet which of them was ever punished convented or Questioned before a Bishop or other Ecclesiasticall judge for so great and so many presumptuous irregularities and Innovations which have ●●●●throwne the whole frame of our Church Discipline and Gouernment I that to my knowledge have Transgressed in nothing I that oftentimes offered the Comissioners Bishop Harsnet and his Colleagues which censured me so cruelly that if they would shew me my error and in what I offended against the Church of ENGLAND in Doctrine or Ceremonie I would amend and make satisfaction But it is great Tyranny and Div●llish oppression to kill a true Man unlesse he will betray Truth and renounce his Religion O ye Bishops and other Spirituall Iudges how terrible have you been in destroying painfull Preachers for not observing the Crosse in Baptisme and other trifling Ceremonies But these monstrous Hell hounds of Durham and Yorke those Popish Hereticall ●●rminian Schismaticall Innovators and most pernitious corruptors of Religion amongst us you let them scape nay some of you have abetted and assisted them unpersecuting me and others living peaceably amongst you you help these Enemies of God to afflict and vexe me you honour and reward Wolves and make them strong to worry Christs Sheepe and Lambs Psal 94. O Lord God to whom Vengeance belongeth thon GOD to whom Vengeance belongeth shew thy selfe Arise thou Iudge of the World and reward the proud after their deservings and so forth to the 6 Verse FINIS