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A12324	The vanitie & downe-fall of superstitious Popish ceremonies, or, A sermon preached in the cathedrall church of Durham by one Mr. Peter Smart, a præbend there, July 27. 1628 : containing not onely an historicall relation of all those severall Popish ceremonies and practises which Mr. Iohn Cosens hath lately brought into the said cathedrall church: but likewise a punctuall confutation of them; especially of erecting altars, and cringing to them, (a practise much in vse of late) and of praying towards the east.	Smart, Peter, 1569-1652?	1628 (1628)	STC 22640.3; ESTC S2885	22,911	48

lawfull for vs to offer the sacrifice of hearts and lipps to wit our humble prayers to God the Father They did pray and their blood did cry to heaven and craue at the hands of their Father a iust revenge of their torments vpon the wicked Then white robes were given to every one of them Which saith he ought to be a wonderfull comfort to all the Church militant Since by this they be assured that the soules of the Martyrs so soone as their bodies are killed shall immediately be rewarded with bright glory in heaven not going into any other place by the way which is signified by the white robes Thus for his Maiesties royall pen by whom we are taught that Christ is our one and onely Altar and that the soules of the Saints being presently rewarded with glory in heaven and not going to any other place by the way none of them are vnder our Altar though it be a braue one for it is out of their way to heaven from the place where they suffered Martyrdome As for that place Hebr. 13. We haue an Altar c. St. Paul himselfe expounds it afterwards in the 15 verse to be Christ saying by him therefore ●et vs offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually that is the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name Which saith Aquinas cannot be vnderstood of a materiall Altar in the Church and whosoever thinks it to be so he is therein more popish then Frier Thomas himselfe But now I come to their maine argument which they think quite overthrowes all that I haue said concerning Altars and Ceremonies The Kings Chappell say they hath an Altar and all furniture belonging thereunto Dare you disallow in ours what the King hath in his It is little better then treason as one said I answere It was never out of the Kings Chappell at least the name of an altar since the first reformation in King Edwards time if it had I suppose it had never come in againe in his religoius successours raigne But it hath been by law eiected out of this Church and changed into a sacred table Ieran Bape●an as Chrysostome calls it I marvell therefore what lawlesse man could restore it without law Againe what haue we doe with imitation of the Court● May we be so sawcy as to imitate the King in all things Is it not treason Is not rebellion so to doe What ●old presumption is this in a Priest or Prelate to take vpon him to be like the King without his leaue and not to suffer for his Maiesty to haue something extraordinary aboue the vulgar sort in magnificence and state The King commands vs to obey his lawes not imitate his Chappell contrary to his lawes which binde Cathedrall Churches as well as as the rest none are exempted none can be dispenst withall The law is this The Communion Table not Altar shall stand in the body of the Church or Chancell where morning and evening prayer be appointed to be said and the Minister shall stand at the northside of the Table Therefore our Communion table must stand as it had wont to doe in the midst of the quire not at the east end as farre as is possible from the people where no part at all of evening prayer is ever said and but a peece of the morning and that never till of late Neither must the Table be placed along from north to south as the altar is set but from east to west as the custome is of all reformed Churches otherwise the Minister cannot stand at the north side there being neither side toward the north And I trow there are but two sides of a long table and two ends make it square and then it will haue foure sides and no end or foure ends and no side at which any Minister can stand to celebrate I confesse it is not materiall which way a man turne his face when he ministers and prayeth if it be left as a thing indifferent without superstition A● St. Augustine saith Cum quis quaerit orare collocat membra sic●t ei occurrit when any mangoes about to pray be pleaseth his body as occasion serveth And St. Paul exhorteth every man to lift vp pure hands whether toward the east or west it makes no matter Yet indeed it is more dangerous to pray toward the east because the idolatrous Heathen which worshipped the Sun rising did so And it was the custome of the Iewes to pray westward lest they should be entised to worship the Orientall Sunne as the Heathen did Which God himselfe in the 8. chap. of Ezech. 16. v. reckoneth among the abominations of the idolatrous Israelites who turning their backs toward the Temple worshipped the Sunne toward the East But the Iewes saith Bellarmine which served the Lord prayed toward the West Therefore Christians must turne them toward the East A bolde reason The Iewes did well in avoiding all occasion of Idolatry vnto which the vulgar sort is too prone as appeareth by the people of this place how soone learned they to bow downe to the Altar and worship it The Iewes I say did well therefore may Christians doe ill in imitating the idolatrous Gentiles in that foolish popish superstitious observation of turning their faces eastward when they pray And why may we not imitate the Iewes in the things they did well the reason of their so doing being not ceremoniall but morall The ceremoniall law is indeed abrogated therefore we may not retaine it but the morall law is still in force binding both Iewes and Christians to avoid Idolatry But see the shamelesnesse of a doting Iesuite he is content we should imitate the Iewes in their ceremonies long since disanulled and ended in having Altars Sacrifices Priests priestly vestiments oyntments incense But he will not haue vs be like the Iewes in casting Idols out of our Churches and in shunning all occasions of Idolatry by turning our backs on the East when we pray as they did Our good Princes and learned Bishops when they began to reforme the Church of England were carefull that wee should bee like the Iewes rather in this point then the idolatrous Papists or Gentiles And therefore they ordeined by law that the Communion table should not stand Altarwise the two ends looking to the south and north as of purpose Altars were set in Popery that the Masse priest might stand on the west side with his face toward the East and his back to the people But contrariwise they appointed the table to bee placed in the midst of the Church to be moveable fastned neither to wall nor floore the ends standing from East to West as I said before And they precisely inioyned the Minister to stand at the celebration of the Lords Supper on the north side of the Table to the intent they should not be like superstitious shauelings Which make mee to wonder at the presumptuous boldnesse of him or them which immediately after the death of our last learned Bishop before wee had another about eleven yeares ago took vpon him I know not by what authority to alter the situation of the Communion table from the ould manner of standing which it had kept in all Bishops times from the beginning of Queen Elizabeths raigne saue onely when the Rebels possest this Church and sang Masse therin The Lords table I say eleven yeares agoe was turned to an altar and so placed that the Minister cannot stand to doe his office on the north side as the law expresly chargeth him to doe because there is no side of the table standing northward He I say that contrary to law d●rst doe this in imitation of Papists and Rebels deserues hee not to bee sharply censured why doe I say durst he doe it Non audet stygius Pluto tentare quod audet Effrenis Monachus The Divellin hell dare not attempt more then an vnruly Monke or Frierdare doe A Divell and a Frier will adventure strangely I haue heard of a Divell that preacht I haue heard of a Frier that preacht in a rope but I neuer heard of either Divell or Frier that preached in a Cope But why is the Communion table set in the east end of the Church and not in the west end or middle rather whereas Socrates saith in his 5 book 21 chap. that in a Temple at Antioch the altar was placed at the west end And Gentean Hervet a popish writer describing the fashion of the Greeke Church at this time saith In Graeconum Templis vnicum est Altare ia● in medio Choro The Graecians haue but one Altar in a Church and that in the middle of the Quire Therefore neither the Graecians nor the people of Antioch looked eastward but rather westward when they prayed Binius also and Bawnius say that because the Manichees which dia worship the Sunne prayed toward the East Leo the first ordeined that to discerne Catholikes from hereticks Ad 〈◊〉 conversi Deum colerent The Catholicks should worship toward the West Afterward by the constitution of Pope Vigilius it was ordeined that the Minister standing at the Altar should pray toward the West It came therefore from Antichrist to restrain Christian liberty by commanding will-worship the doctrine of men without any warrant out of Gods word Againe Necromancers and Sorcerers turne their faces to the East when they act their inchantments and it little becomes Christians to follow Witches and Coniurers in their superstitious and divelish devotions by preferring East before West It being a Ceremony of all other most foolish hereticall Papisticall Paganicall and Magicall Let vs therefore in the name of God hate with the Prophet David the abominations and superstitious vanities If we hate them not God will hate vs and abhorre our festivities with all the pomp and glory of our Church As he tolde the Israelites in the fifth of Amps v. 21. I hate and abborre your feast dayes I will not smell your solemne assemblies Take away from me the noise of thy songs I will not heare the melody of thy instruments for ye haue borne the Tabernacle of Molocke and Chiun your Images the starre of your God which you made to your selues Such Molocks such Chiuns such Images and starres some of vs here haue made to themselues lift vp your eyes you praised them set vp aloft round this Church Harke then what Christ saith to the Angel of the Church of Ephe●us Revel 2.