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A50522	The works of the pious and profoundly-learned Joseph Mede, B.D., sometime fellow of Christ's Colledge in Cambridge; Works. 1672	Mede, Joseph, 1586-1638.; Worthington, John, 1618-1671.	1672 (1672)	Wing M1588; ESTC R19073	1,655,380	1,052

us was none of the Sublata though somewhere it be as well as the rest And the field of my defence is so much the larger if it be considered that one of the three Res sacrae is capable of Subdivision But enough of this it being no well-becoming Theme to dispute upon I said there was eadem ratio Loci temporis not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but eadem ratio Loci Temporis sacri to wit for the Sanctification i. e. holy and discriminative usance due unto them both and the formal reason in respect whereof it is due For the reason why a thing is to be Sanctified or Sanctè habendum is because it is Sanctum or Sacrum Now whatsoever is appropriate unto God and his Service is such whether the determination thereof be by God's own immediate Ordination or mans Devotion it is all one in this respect so the Appropriation or Dedication thereof be supposed lawful and agreeable to the Divine will For this Sanctification we speak of depends not either upon the difference of the cause or manner whereby the thing is consecrated nor upon the diversity of Natural and Artificial being but upon the Formalis ratio of the Object because it is Holy or Sacred therefore to be sanctified with holy usance For to Sanctifie in Scripture is not only to make holy 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but to do unto a thing as becometh its holiness 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Moreover I believe the Sanctification of Place to be intended in the Fourth Commandment as well as that of Time and that not only from the Rule observed in the interpretation of the rest of the Commandments by one of the kind named to understand all the rest ejusdem generis but especially the Lord himself hath conjoyned them as pairs Levit. 19. 30. Keep my Sabbaths and reverence my Sanctuary And why not when they are so near a-kin being both Circumstances of Action why may I not then say Quae Deus conjunxit nemo separet And it may be if it be well looked into the Sanctification of the Lord's-day might be urged with far more advantage upon the ground I intimate than upon that other which is so much controverted But it is partialitie that undoes all It seems by this Objection I have now answered you supposed the Argument of my Book to be The Reverence of holy Places which is only The Antiquity of them You ask me if I believe indeed that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 was Ignatius his word I say I do till I hear some sufficient reason why I should not For that of my not being able to give an instance of the like either in his time or within 100 years after seems to me to have no force of concluding at all When I affirmed in my Altare That the name of Table could not be shewed given to that whereon the Eucharist was celebrated in any Ecclesiastical Writer confessed to be genuine before 200 years after Christ I inferred not therefrom that therefore the name Table was never used all that time nor if I had would you have believed me And yet to tell you the truth when I wrote that I had some persuasion or suspicion that that Name could not be shewed in any Writer for 3 hundred years after Christ but durst not affirm so much as I thought because I was not sure of Origen But when a Friend of mine soon after wondred how I durst avouch in publick a thing so incredible as this to him seemed to be I discovered that I had affirmed somewhat less than I believed and desired him to make trial whether he could find it in 300 years or not wherein when he had spent some time he could not He alledged indeed Cyprian de Coena Domini but I told him that was confessed of all sides to be none of his c. And now see the luck of it The week before I received yours a Friend shewed me the New Articles of the New Bishop of Norwich his Diocesan wherein besides some other unwonted things which some body will startle at the Bishop avouches upon the credit of his reading That the name Table in that sense is never to be found in any Ecclesiastical Writer of the first 300 years save only once in an occasional passage of Dionysius Areop agita Now Sir what think you of this Yet you see I can shew the name 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 oftner than once in those first 300 years Yea if you would grant me that the Author of that Hierarchical Treatise whosoever he were lived but within the compass of 200 years after Christ I could give you an instance both of the name 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 within the time by you limited For this Dionysius in his Mysterium Synaxeos describes the Deacons standing 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and in his Theory of the same mentions the sending of the Euergumeni at the time of the Eucharist 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 However it be it follows not that because I can shew it but once within that 200 years therefore I should believe it was used never Besides methinks I observe some unreasonableness used in this kind viz. Notwithstanding such paucitie of Monuments remaining unto us of those first Ages upon every unconcluding suspicion to discredit those we have and then when we have done to require proof that such things were in those times which we without proof deny when those who alone could give testimony are disenabled and sometimes for no other reason but because they give such testimony Is this dealing reasonable As for the taking down of S. Gregorie's Church I answer In the Law some things Sacred were unalienable even quoad Individuum as for example such as were consecrated by way of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 See Levit. 27. 28 29. Others were unalienable as touching the kind only and therefore if need were the Individuum might be changed so it were for the better and with the Lord's advantage which the Law provides should be by adding a fifth part thereunto See the rest of the Chapter quoted But what is this to the deciding of the lawfulness or truth of what is in question to alledge that which men do Is not all the world full of Contradictions I verily believe that even those who are zealous for the Sanctification of the Lord's-day do in their practice if not in their Theory too overthrow the Principles whereupon it stands I think I have no more to make answer to and I confess I have done this not without some tediousness For you must pardon me if judging as a Stander-by I am not persuaded you are by nature so prone and pliable as you think to the way which you say I take Yes I now find one thing more S. Gregorie's Church you say is going down at least is to be built elsewhere but we never yet heard the like of the Lord's-day● No but I have namely that

one who durst First presume upon a notorious Sin thereby to give Warning to all others As upon Cain the first Murtherer upon Corah and his Complices who first moved a Sedition upon the point of Equality in the Priesthood upon Absolom the first unnatural Rebel c. But now for this Sin of Sacrilege as God began to punish it very early even in Paradise itself ut suprà so hath he continually pursued and hounded this Sin as in Achan in the Old Testament in Annanias and Sapphira in the New that no man may pretend the Antiquateness of the Old Testament c. And in latter Ages besides what the learned Pens of Sr. Henry Spelman and others have published he had collected many rare Instances of his own private Observation which upon prudential Considerations I forbear to recite And now after all this Is it not admirable to consider how strangely the seeming present Profit of this Sin doth infatuate men That though they daily experiment these Truths yet they will not be persuaded either from Venturing on the Sin or from Continuing in it What doth this but betray in Men the same Shortness and Shallowness of Understanding that we see in Rooks and Martins and other silly Fowls which will needs be building every year in those very places where they are sure to be disturb'd and endanger'd themselves and to have their Nests demolished and their Young destroyed or if any chance to escape yet they always lie at the mercy of every Passenger 6. Of his becoming Facetiousness THose his so grave knotty and crabbed studies did not at all render him Sour or Morose but in due Time and Place he knew how to be Pleasant and Facetious To give the Reader a Tast of this for Divertisement By this time perhaps he will but need it having tired himself with reading these dull and flat Narratives 1. The Chamber he kept in was known to be a Ground-chamber just under the Colledge-Library Partly for the benefit of that for the Library was his other Study and Closet and partly for the conveniency of having no Students over him to disturb him by walking c. he continued there very many years His Bed-chamber-window opened into the Street and in the Summer-time when the Evenings were clear and serene he would leave his Window open all night for fresh air This was not long un-observed by the Hooker who once began to draw away his Bed-cloaths whiles he lay awake Nay friend saith he I pray thee stay till I am asleep c. with that the Hooker ran away and he slept securely with his window still open Not long after the same or another of his Tribe came again and then he was asleep But when the Fellow was plucking away the Cloaths he soon awakened and then said Oh friend if thou takest away my Bed-cloaths his wearing-cloaths he had secured well enough I shall take cold c. And so he was rid of his Chapman again and never heard more of him though his windows were still continued un-shut With which pretty Confidence of his he overcame that of the Hookers and made himself very merry with the story among his friends 2. In the Vacations he was wont to be invited into the Country by a Kinsman and a Knight At his first coming thither being then a young Master of Arts he in curiosity stood observing the Falconer feeding his Hawk and in way of complaisance began to praise the Hawk As first What a brave sharp Bill she had Bill said the Falconer it is a Beak Sir By and by What notable Claws she had Claws Sir said he they are Pounces Anon he commended her fine Feathers Feathers Sir they are Plumes After that her goodly Tail Tail Sir it is a Train Mr. Mede not a little abash'd that he should be thus mistaken all along in those Terms of Art and believing the Falconer would expose him for his Ignorance to his fellow-servants he studied this innocent piece of Revenge The Falconer he saw used to wait at Table and therefore taking his time three or four days after when he thought the thing was quite forgotten he sets them all at the Table on reading of Riddles And when they were well in he turning to the Falconer asked him Friend What kind of Bird is that which hath neither Bill nor Claw nor Feathers nor Tail The Falconer was utterly posed and stood mute Why then said Mr. Mede I will tell you It is your Hawk That hath no Bill but a Beak no Claws but Pounces no Feathers but Plumes no Tail but a Train There was I even with him would he say triumphingly 3. Such Fellow-commoners who came to the University only to see it and to be seen in it he call'd The Vniversity-Tulips that made a Gaudy shew for a while c. To these might be added many more whereof some perhaps would tast a little too salt to some but all of them would relish well enough to younger Palats But I must remember the Gravity of the Person I am speaking of and whiles I am upon this pleasant Argument shall endeavour to imitate his Practice which was to make his Facetiousness always usher in something that was Serious To the next then 7. Some of his handsome and serious sayings SO I call them rather than Apophthegms though some of them may possibly lay claim to that Title 1. It was often in his Mouth Over-doing always undoes very applicable many ways 2. To that stale triumphing Demand of the Romanists Where was your Church before Luther he answered with another Question Where was the fine Flour when the Wheat went to the Mill 3. Where there is Siding and Studium partium the prevailing Party always makes the other complain Iust as it is at the great Crowding in the Commencement-House when an extraordinary Praevaricator comes up the Crowdsways sometimes on one side then they that are crushed to the walls cry out Oh Oh and being sensible of the pain they set their feet against the walls and with their backs and all their strength cause the Press to turn as much to the other side and then these cry out as fast oh oh as the other did before and so alternis vicibus 4. To that old Complaint now newly dressed up and followed with such noises and Hubbubs Is it not great pity that men should be silenced and laid aside only for their not Subscribing his answer was So it is great pity that some goodly fair Houses in the v●idst of a populous City should take fire and therefore must of necessity be pulled down unless you will s●ffer the whole Town to be on a flame and consume to ashes 5. That which followeth cannot properly be called a Saying but rather a Discourse resembling a rich Iewell made up of divers costly Gemms After he had been speaking very Iudiciously and very Piously what great reason we all had to pray earnestly for our Governours in the Church That God