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A53658	Church-pageantry display'd, or, Organ-worship, arraign'd and condemn'd, as inconsistent with the revelation and worship of the Gospel, the sentiments of the ancient fathers, the Church of England, and several eminent divines, both Protestants and Papists. By Eugenius Junior - in answer to a letter about organs.	Owen, James, 1654-1706.	1700 (1700)	Wing O706A; ESTC R25513	24,345	29

to creep to Church and lay their left Ear to the leading Organ-Pipe the Cure is Effected only they must be sure to pay the Piper for Money is all Nay Zenocrates cur'd Mad-Men by the means of Musick Well then if you 'l be advised by a Friend send your Organical Musick to New-Bedlam and first try the experiment there for I 'm sure there are many in that dismal Place that want help Particularly two forlorn Church Parsons Mr. Pr d. Who you 'l find 'i th Tenth Figure And Mr. Perkins who was put in but few Months ago by my Lord Mayor upon the Request of his Grace of Canterbury as the publick News told us I 'd have you make tryal of skill on 'm for a good pair of Organs are an admirable Catholicon and therefore don't despair of success And when you 've turn'd Bedlam into a Colledge of Wisdom I do assure you I 'll heartily joyn Hand and Heart with you and be the most forward in the Croud to Cry Oh happy Cathedralists And what mighty Advantage have those that dwell near a Cathedral or an Organical Church Where a Man Ears shall be constantly regail'd with Harmonious Melody and the Health of the Body secur'd by the secret Charms of Canonical chanting And what is more for we 've reserv'd the best Wine till last the sweet and Melodious sound of the Pipes especially if they be consecrated will Effectually dispel all gloomy Thoughts out of your Minds and you shall be as Merry as forty Beggars in a Barn and never fall any more into the Quagmire of Melancholly and madness But after all the Patriarchs of St. Davids and St. Asaph must confess that the charming Melody of Organs has not been able to preserve the Sacred Quire from the great Plague of Simony But both Church and State have honorably Acquitted ' emselves from this Guilt by exposing the Criminals to the Righteous and publick Censure of the Law But pray Sir to be serious upon what bottom do your Friends and you go I 've been told you can't regularly Erect a pair of Organs in your Parish-Church unless you be Authoriz'd by some just Power either by the King Parliament Convocation Canons or Rubrick And if you 're not authoriz'd by these or some or one of 'm I humbly conceive you're accountable to Authority for a breach of the Law of Uniformity But I 'm sure you 've no power from His Majesty no warrant from any Statute Enacted by Parliament nor from any Canon or any Convocation nor from any Rubrick in our English-Common-Prayer-Book for the setting up Organ-Worship in your Parochial Church And many of the Learned are of Opinion that according to th' Act of Uniformity and the Constitution of the Church of England no particular Pastor of a Parish-Church is allow'd to introduce new Rites and Modes of Worship into his Parish-Church over and above what are Appointed by the Act of Uniformity without a warrant either from a Parliament or Convocation The Church of England her self speaks expresly to this very purpose in her Discourse about the Abolition of Ceremonies Her Words are That no Man ought to take in Hand or presume to appoint any publick or common Order in Christ's Church except he be lawfully called and authoriz'd thereunto Pray then Sir have not your Organical Friends by their appointing this new Model of Worship out-run Canons Convocations Rubricks and Homilies and travel'd as far as Rome it self before some of their Brethren have crept as far as Canterbury And pray Sir mayn't overdoing the Rule as well as underdoing Mayn't excesses as well as defects in reference to the same Canon be a real Schism in the Church How comes it to pass that only defects in Dissenters are Sins and yet excesses in Conformists are such Vertues Why is' t that a Man may advance towards Rome and be no Schismatick but yet one glance o' th' Eye towards Geneva makes him a damnable one What is' t no Crime in a Church-Man to out run the Constable In a word mayn't the Statute of Uniformity be violated by a Supra-Conformity as well as by Subter-Conformity And if so your Organ-Adorers ought to be Excommunicated ipso facto and not restor'd until they Repent and publickly revoke this wicked Error As to Mr. Baxter's Arguguments for Organs I 'm ready to account for 'm if call'd upon And as to the Parish it self where these Organs are to be Erected It 's reported to be generally poor and not without just reasons complains bitterly of some late unreasonable Impositions laid upon 't by Lay-kirk-Officers And Sir shall we encourage 'm to add to the Burthen For you know that the purchase of a pair of Organs will be very chargeable And must the Purses of the poor Parishioners be squeez'd again to gratify the Musical fancy of a few Persons that are a little more Merrily giv'n than their mortifi'd Neighbours Besides will any of our Friends be so unnatural to Posterity as to entail perpetual Italian Gabels as an Inheritance upon ' m For you and they can't but know that a pair of Organs will be a constant Charge to the Parish and you 've already more Poor than you 're well able to maintain Therefore in the Name of the Poor of the Parish what do you mean Will you bring in the Babylonian Bell and Dragon among 'm to devour 'm a live I 've read that Pharoah's Lean Kine eat up the Fat Ones but for the Fat Ones to eat up the Lean is most horridly unconscionably But thus 't is in some Towns and Parishes as in some Fish-Ponds Five or Ten great Jacks devour all the small Fry and so if things go on at this rate in a short time we must all joyn in Consort with the Jovial Beggar and sing A begging we willgo The poor Parishioners must throw away their Money upon Organs when 't may be their Family want Bread at home Nay and these poor Sheep must not bleat neither tho' severely clipt they must be dumb and if any of them be so mad as plead Poverty or complain of Oppression then a parcel of sinful Scoundrels are immediately sent to rifle the House and these forsooth are authoriz'd to turn Auctioneers and to sell the Poor man's Goods by an inch of Candle and his Neighbour for 's impertinence is consign'd over to the Ecclesiastical Purgatory the most intollerable Grievance that the English Nation this Day groans under * Notes in usum Sarum p. where he 's worri'd out of 's Life by a mercyless Crew of Infernal Locusts that feed upon the Sins of the People Now Sir it 's hop'd you 're in some measure convinc'd how you and your Organical Companions have Erred and strayed from your Ways like lost Sheep and have followed too much the Devices and desires of your own Hearts for from the whole it 's evident that Organ-Worship was part of the Ceremonial Law which is now abrogated that the Apostolical and Primitive

Fathers have not as much as a favourable Sentence to befriend the Cause of your admired Organs that Organ-Worship is a Popish Neoterical practice foisted into the Church when Church-Men had prostituted ' mselves to the Babylonian Whore and ever since this and such like Meritorious Pomp has been accounted the greatest Splendor of the Romish Hierarchy The Church of England her self has born a very ample Testimony against you and what will the true Sons of the Church as they call ' mselves have no Umbrage of regard to her grave Dictates To own her as a Mother and yet to slight her Advice shows that you mind your beloved Organs more than your Fifth Commandment In a forequoted place the Church complains bitterly of the excess and Multitude of Ceremonies that the burthen of 'm was intollerable These are her own Words And what will you add more when your good Antient Mother complains there are too many already One wou'd think that they that cry up the Church the Church shou'd show greater degrees of Reverence to her Maternal Authority and not prefer sensitive Contentments before their Mothers Blessing But I perceive that those who Proclaim themselves the Sons of the Church and pray make Room for them for they be bulky ones God bless 'm after all are but a parcel of over-grown Children that are past Correction And Children will be Children still and therefore no wonder that there are so many tak'n up with Childish Toys and Bartholomew trifles but one wou'd think you and your Musical Acquaintance big enough to be asham'd to ride upon a Penny Colt or a two Penny Gelding tho the famous Alcibiades did once to please a Child Condescend Ludere par impar equitare arundine longâ To play the Fool at Even or Old And for a Hobby-horse ride a Rod. But if Organs are so eminently useful pray shall I ask you a few Innocent Questions before we part 1. Why have you been so long without ' m No doubt but ye are the Men and Wisdom shall dye with you But how then comes it to pass that you did not think sooner of this Ecclesiastical Artillery to mend your crazy Devotion Or were our Organical Friends born under a Midsummer-Moon Whether they were or not I dare not pretend to so much Astrology as to determine it But sure I am the Lord of their First-House was wonderfully culminant or else it 's impossible it shou'd ever enter into their Pericrany's to advance Folly and Vanity Pride and Pomp into the Ecclesiastical Throne in so notorious a manner 2. If Musick in Divine Worship be so good why don't you add more Musical Instruments For good added to good makes the greater good and you know two good things are better than one and the more the Merryer Ay but nothing compar'd to a pair of Organs Oh Organs dainty brave Organs they 're all in all the very Cream of the jest and Prim'st Jannock 'i th oon In a word we 've luckily hit upon a Soverain Remedy that'l never fail to rouse up the most Phlegmatick Endymion in the Paroch 3. If there be such Excellency in Organs why are there so many Parishes that were never yet honour'd with a Choir of Musical Levites If they 're ignorant and don 't know the worth of this sort of Musical Devotion Then the Beams of the Ecclesiastical Light are not so diffusive and penetrating as is usually pretended and our Parochial Guides are accountable for this our damnable Sin of Ignorance But and if they be poor and can't purchase and maintain a pair of Expenceful Organs without selling their Patrimony then in the Name of the poor Parishes of England I humbly beg and beseech all Parsons by what Names or Titles soever dignified or distinguished who have their hundreds and their thousands per Annnm to contribute towards the purchasing of Religious Organs for 'm and towards the Annual charge that attend them But mum not a Penny I 'll secure you But it 's time to think of parting for it 's late And besides you know it 's excessive Cold and that our Consort of vocal and Instrumental Musick has lasted long longer than any that has been known in Salisbury-Court for these Seven Years last past 〈◊〉 pray Sir Excuse my freedom and attribute the Exorbitancy of my Pen to that pleasant motion which the very thoughts of Melodious Musick put upon my juvenile Blood And as to this trouble I question not but you 'l be so just as to place it to your own Account because your excess of Reverence for Ecclesiastical Musick and your earnest Request to me for my Sentiments about it drew it upon your self and I hope you 'l Love me never the less because I part abruptly and conclude without Ceremony SIR Your's Affectionately to serve you without the Accent of Organs ADVERTISEMENT A Letter to a Friend in the Country concerning the Use of Instrumental Musick in the Worship of God In Answer to Mr. Newte's Sermon Preach'd at Tiverton in Devon on the Occasion of an Organ being Erected in that Parish-Church Printed for A. Baldwin at the Oxfard-Arms in Warwick-Lane 1698.