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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

Latimer Cook Pet. Martyr Sir John Cheek John a Lasco Mr. Peter Mr. Cecyl Sir Tho. Smith Mr. Taylor of Hadley Dr. May Mr. Traheron Dr. Lyel Mr. Skiner Justice Hales Justice Bromley Goodrick Gosnal Stamford Carel Lucas and Brook Recorder of London These were the Flowers of the English Reformation and Men eminent for Sacred and Polite Literature And I think the Judgment of such a valuable Sett of Men deserves a Particular Regard And therefore wonder with what Confidence some can pretend to have such a mighty Veneration for our first Reformers when yet they so zealously defend and are so eager for retaining what the Old Reformers thought better abolisht and quite remov'd Thus you have th' express Opinion of many great and good Men against your erecting a pair of Devotional Organs in the Christian Church But if you think that you can't attain the Supremacy of Bliss without Converting the Church into an Organical Quire e'en go on and let your well-instructed Organist begin his Anthem of O be joyful while the rest of the Parish are devoutly Praying like ' mselves From all blindness of Heart from Pride Vain-Glory and from all the Deceits of the World the Flesh and the Devil and Contempt of thy Word and Commandment Good Lord deliver us And for once I 'll suppose my self in the AMEN-Officer's Desk and presume to say A m e n But before you begin you 'd do well to take Advice from those that are able to give it and who more fit to Counsel you in this Grand Affair than 3. The Church of England it self whose Judgement comes next to be consider'd and if you 'll not be advis'd by her for my Part I shall give you over as a pack of obstinate Sons of the Church But what saith the Church of England Why to be brief She utterly Condemns the Use of Organs in Divine Worship as unlawful and Thanks God She was rid of 'm in the Infancy of the Reformation as appears by the following Passage out of her Homilies Alas Gossip said a Woman to her Neighbour What shall we do at Church Since all the Saints or Images are tak'n away since all the goodly sights we were wont to have are gone Book of Homilies of the Time and Place of Prayer Part II. p. 131. Lond. Prinsed 1621. since we cannot hear the like Piping Singing Chanting and playing upon the Organs that we cou'd hear before To this the Church very gravely Replies But dearly Beloved we ought greatly to rejoice and give God thanks that our Churches are deliver'd out of all those things which displeased God so sore and filthily defil'd his Holy House Take Notice here 1. That 't was the Opinion of the Church of England in Queen Elizabeth's days that Organs in Churches did greatly displease God And are they more acceptable in God's account now Or are our Ecclesiastical Engineers grown more wise than their famous Ancestors 2. That Organs did filthily defile God's House and therefore she thanks God for the removal of this Organical defilement among other Superstitions But least you shou'd Question the Authenticalness of the good Old Homilies and to look upon the Evidence as weak and impertinent I 'll add 3. That the Thirty Fifth Article of the Church of England confirms the Doctrine of the Homilies as good sound and wholesome Whoever therefore asserts this New or rather Old Romish mode of Worship by Organs directly contradicts the Judgment of the Renowned Church of England And yet these Organical Hot-spurs wou'd be thought her only true Sons tho' at the same time they publickly and cotumaciously Rebel against her Maternal Authority The Church of England in another place saith * Of Ceremonies why some be abolisht and some retain'd in the Preface part of the Common Prayer That some Ceremonies enter'd into the Church by indiscreet Devotion and such a Zeal as was without Knowledge And for because they were winked at in the beginning they grew daily to more and more abuses which not only for their unprofitableness but also because they have much blinded the people and obscur'd the Glory of God are worthy to be cut away and clean rejected Injenuous Confession Monstrum horrendum The Mother and Children so very unlike What pitty is it that so Excellent a Mother shou'd have such a degenerate Brood but corruptio optimi pessima 4. As to the Popish Churches I shall only declare the Sentiments of some of their learned Men touching the concern in debate We 'll begin 1. With Thomas Aquinas † Instrumenta Musica sicut Cytharas non assu●it Ecclesia in Divinas laudes nè videatur judaizare Aquin. Sum. 2a. 2ae Qu. 91. Art 2. Obj. 4 ta who liv'd about the Year 1270 he tells us that Organs were not receiv'd into the Church in his time The Church saith he does not take Musical Instruments into the Divine Praises least it shou'd seem to judaize And it 's observable that Cardinal Cajetan ‖ Notandum tempore Thomae Cajet in eund loc sum Tho. Aquin. upon Aquinas saith Take notice that in the times of St. Thomas the Church made no use of Organs And Gregory de Valentia is of the same Opinion It 's manifest from hence that the Gallican Churches which boast so much of Antiquity had no Organs in their Churches about 500 Years ago 2. Others of the Romish Stamp look upon Organs to be really prejudicial to the Devotion of the Holy Church tho' they may accidentally excite the Mind Cornelius Agrippa who was Counsellor to Charles the V. and a Papist as appears by his Reflections on Luther vehemently † De Vanitate Scient Cap. 6. 17. declaims against Organs as abus'd ad fornicariam pruriginem and filling the Church with such a loud noise that the Worshippers can neither hear nor attend to what is spoken He looks upon Church-Musick to be a Lecherous licentious sort of Devotion and resents it ill that the Holy Mysteries shou'd be chanted out by a Company of wanton Musicians who 're hir'd with a great Summ of Money * Ibid. And Aquinas in th' above quoted Question † Aquin. Sum 2a 2ae Qu. 91. Art 2. Resp 4ta ad 4t Objectionem saith out of Aristotle That those sort of Musical Instruments do rather Create in the Mind a sensual Delectation than Form in the Mind a good Disposition Another Learned Papist who resolv'd not t' approve all he saw and heard in the Romish Synagogue saith in these Words Let a Man be a greater Worldling than Crassus a greater Reviler than Zoilus yet is he accouned a Devout Man because he Sings Service well tho' he understands nothing of it Nor are they Content with this but we have also brought into Churches a Laborious and Theatrical Musick a tumultuous pratling of divers Voices such a one as I think was ne'r heard upon any Stage among the Romans or Graecians All Places roar with Pipes Eras. in 1 Corinth

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-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