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A56144	Canterburies doome, or, The first part of a compleat history of the commitment, charge, tryall, condemnation, execution of William Laud, late Arch-bishop of Canterbury containing the severall orders, articles, proceedings in Parliament against him, from his first accusation therein, till his tryall : together with the various evidences and proofs produced against him at the Lords Bar ... : wherein this Arch-prelates manifold trayterous artifices to usher in popery by degrees, are cleerly detected, and the ecclesiasticall history of our church-affaires, during his pontificall domination, faithfully presented to the publike view of the world / by William Prynne, of Lincolns Inne, Esquire ...	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1646 (1646)	Wing P3917; ESTC R19620	792,548	593

within the Church least they should be polluted with the feet of those who passed by 8ly That none should touch the consecrated Altars Vessells Vestments or be enabled to keep them but consecrated persons 9ly That if the Altar of any Church were renewed or the walls new built or defiled with murther blood-shed or the meeting or burying of Hereticks therein that then it should be re-consecrated otherwise not 10. That no man whatsover should presume to build any Church before the Bishop of the City first came to the place fixed a Crosse thereon and the Patron informed him what stipend he would alow for the finding of Tapers Gardians to keep it Priests to Officiat in it agree to have it consecrated and to sprinkle the floore and Court thereof with holy water Of latter times many Ethnicall superstitious Exercismes Conjurations Vnctions Ceremonies Notions and frantick inventions have bin added by Popes and Prelates to these consecrations recorded at large in the Roman Caeremonialls Pontificalls Thomas Beacons Reliques of Rome Mr. Calfehill and others whereby it will appeare to be most Popish superstitious in the highest degree whatever is pretended to the contrary Whereupon it was exploded condemned by our Church State Bishops and other writers in the beginning of Reformation as Popish Jewish Superstitious and by forraigne Protestant writers See Aretij Problemata Locus 121 De Encaenijs as we have formerly proved Therefore it must needs be a Popish designe in this Archbishop to revive it now For his Argument that Churches cannot be called Holy unlesse consecrated by a Bishop it being his consecration that makes them so We answer 1. That Bishop Pilkinton and others define this very Doctrine of his to be Popery as we haye proved so doth Aretius too Secondly That the most Holy Place was so stiled though never consecrated 1 King 8. 6. 10. So Jerusalem is called very frequently the Holy City Matth 4. 5. c. 27. 53. though never consecrated And God told Moses the place whereon thou standest is holy ground Exodus 3. 5. though never consecrated by a Bishop Thirdly Our owne Homilies informe us That the Church is counted and talled Holy not of it selfe nor yet for its consecration by a Bishop but because Gods people resorting thither are holy and exercise themselves in holy and heavenly things Fourthly The hearing and preaching of Gods Word Prayer and receiving the Sacraments therin are sufficient of themselves to sanctifie and make it holy without any other consecration See 1 Tim. 45. Centur Mag 3. and 4. c. 6. Aretij Problemaia Locus 126. who resolves further against this superstition Vana est etiamilla superstitio quod dicunt Nisi dedicatur Templum non posse ibi preces haberi non exandiri orantes non rectè praedicari verbum Dei nec Sacramenta administrari quae sententia MANIFESTE JVDAISMUM RESIPIT Christus tamen praemonstravit Horam nunc esse ut veri adoratores nec in monteistonec Jerosolymis sed ubique lieorum Deum adorent in spiritu veritate Athanasius sane non erubuit preces habere populum ad audiendum verbum Dei convocare in Templum Alexandrinum majus quamvis nondum esset Dedicatione consecratum nondum enim jusserat Imperator Id nostri hodie magnum nefas ducunt Fifthly sanctification in its owne nature is nothing else but a sequestring of any thing from a common or ordinary use to a religious and sacred purpose And this may be done without a Bishops exorcisme or conjuration in which respect the first borne first fruits and oblations among the Jewes were termed Holy though never solemnly consecrated because appropriated and devoted unto God For his other Argument that if places bee not holy persons cannot be so and our Church allowes of the consecration of persons Ergo of places It is both a fallhood and absurdity For first it is God and his Spirit only that make persons holy not Prelates who never sanctifie places as they do persons Secondly Our Church allowes only of the Ordination not consecration of Bishops and Ministers confirmed by Statute many of whom ordained such are so far from being holy that they are most polluted and unclean but not of consecrating Churches utterly exploded by the Common Prayer Booke and book of Ordination comprising all the authorized Rites and Ceremonies of our Church whereof consecration of Churches is none And thus much in answer to his defence in generall for consecration of Churches Secondly For the particulars Objected our witnesses depose that his comming to Creed Church was pompous not decent that he fell downe on his knees to pronounce the place and ground holy in the name of the Father Sonne and Holy Ghost not to adore and pray to God which the Examples of Moses Aaron and Hezekiah warrant not who never fell down at the Tabernacle door not bowed the head and worshipped to consecrate either the Tabernacle Temple or Altar And whereas he objects that his pronouncing of the place holy as soon he entred into it was legall c. we answer 1. That himselfe avers that no Church or place is legally holy before it be consecrated and when he pronounced it holy upon his entrance to it hee had not consecrated it therfore by his own doctrine it was not legally holy when he pronounced it so Secondly If our Churches be legally holy by their consecration then the consecration of our Popish Prelates in times of Popery with superstitious Popish Ceremonies conjurations Exorcismes enoylings processions sprinklings with holy water made them so since most of them were onely consecrated in though none re-consecrated since the times of Popery And if such Popish consecrations make them legally and really holy then they are of as great efficacy at his owne or Bishop Andrewes his forme and no difference at all between them Thirdly For Iustinian he makes no mention at all in that Title of consecration of Churches and stiles them holy Churches only in respect of the holy duties publikely performed in them For his throwing up of dust two witnesses expresly depose it which must overballance his own bare negation and there is so little difference between dust and ashes that they are usually coupled together as Synonimaes in Scripture and Authors That he took his forme from Bishop Andrewes is only averred by himselfe nor proved by any witnesses but that it agrees with that in the Pontificall which we found in his Study even in terminis is most cleare and therefore we cannot but presume he derived it from thence However if Bishop Andrewes imitated the Pontificall and he Bishop Andrewes the charge is still alike both of them imitating and complying with the Pope herein He grants his prayer taken out of the Pontificall therefore no doubt the rest especially his frequent bowings and Jackanapes trickes at the Altar which he cunningly pretermits and answers not For Dr. Ienison he objected only his preaching against Images to him at his censure

stone in A Chappell O Lord Mercifull and gracious these thy people are preparing to build a place for thy service Accept I humbly beseech thee their present devotion and make them perfect both in their present and future duty That while thou givest them case to honour thee they may with the greater Alacrity goe on in thy service And now O Lord I have by thy mercy and goodnesse put to my hand to lay the first stone in this building T is a Corner stone make it I beseech thee a happy foundation a durable building Let it rise up and be made and continue a house of praier and devotion through allages that thy people may be taught to beleeve in Jesus Ch. the true Corner stone upon whom they and their soules may be built safe for ever Grant this for the same Jesus Christ our most blessed Lord and Saviour To whom with the Father and the Holy Spirit be ascribed all power majesty and dominion this day and for ever Amen Now this Ceremony of consecrating and laying the first stone of a Chappell or Church by the Bishop is expresly taken out of the Roman Pontificall pars 2. cap. De Benedictione impositione primarij lapidis pro Ecclesia edificanda p. 199. c. Where all the solemnity of this consecration is at large prescribed and the substance of the Prayer the Bishop used upon this occasion thence derived This ceremony of consecrating and laying the first stone of a Church or Chappell is severely censured as ridiculous Popish Superstitions by Matthew Parker his predecessor Archbishop of Canterbury in his Antiquitates Ecclesia Britannicae p. 85. Quibus enim non dicam verbis sed portentis haec hujusmodi à Pontificiis adorantur Q. Primarius lapis caementum per Ecclesia aedificanda Lapis cum caemento Episcopi manibus primum aqua benedicta sparsus insculpto Gracis signo his sententiis in fundamento positus est lapidem quem reprobaverunt aedifieantes hic factus est in caput Anguli Devide tu es Petrus super hanc Petram c. postea precabantur ut qui ad perficiendam Ecclesiam auxilium dederunt corporis animae salutem consequantur c. Yet notwithstanding the Popish Prelate in contempt of his Predecessors Judgement needs must introduce this Popish Innovation not onely at Hammersmith but even at the Cathedrall of Pauls it selfe where he consecrated and laid the first stone at its reparation with many prayers and Ceremonies And not content herewith caused a second Edition of Sir Tho. Ridlyes View of the Civill and Ecclesiasticall Law to be re-printed at Oxford Anno 1634. Cum Privilegio with some Marginall Additions added to it by J. G. Master of Arts p. 51. 52 191 192 193. Wherein he justifies the consecrating of Churches Chappels and the foundation-stone thereof by the Bishop in these words The Bishop with Prayer is to lay the first stone of a Church or Monastary and lift up his hands to heaven and consecrate the place to God by prayer and there erect the symbole of our Salvation we mean the venerable and truely precious Rood That this Ceremony of laying the first stone hath been of ancient use in the Greeke Church may be observed out of their Euchologue where it is said That the Bishop after some other Rites performed standing in the place where the holy Altar shall be set saith a prayer which being ended he giveth the Ita missa est and then taking up one of the stones and having cut a crosse upon it himselfe with his own hands layeth it upon the ground-worke then he pronounceth the c. and so the workemen begin the building That which followeth in the Euchologue discovereth the forme and manner of setting up the Crucifix which the Law calleth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The like ceremonies are used in the Latine Church as this day as may be seen in their Pontificall page 281. of that which Clement the 8. set out at Rome in the yeare 1565. The crucifix must be sent to the place where the Church is to be erected and there the Bishop useth certaine prayers fumeth the ground with his Incense circular-wise crosseth the corner stone which he layeth for the foundation and when he maketh the consecration the crosse must he set up behinde the holy Altar there being prepared for it some lofty structure c. Which addition was patched to Doctor Ridley meerly to countenance and justifie the Arch-bishops consecrations of this kinde of which we shall produce some other Instances We read in his Diary under his own hand this Memoriall following May 26. 1632. Saturday Trinity Sunday Eve I consecrated the Lord Treasurers Chappell at Roe-hampton And in an Abstract of the Arch-bishops Metropoliticall Visitation Anno 1635. found in his studdy we finde his Visitor and Vicar Generall interdicted the Chappell of Buckston and of Down in Derbyshire though long used for want of consecration and in some Visitation Articles this inquiry made Whether any Chaplaines did Preach or administer the Sacrament in any Chappell not consecrated In the year 1636. there was a great contestation between the Arch-bishop and the University of Cambridge heard before his Majesty and his Privy Councell at Hampton Court whether the Archbishop meerly as Metropolitan or the King alone as King and founder of the University should have the Visitation thereof where it was ruled for the Arch-bishop against the King and University At which time the Arch-bishop declared that one principall cause why he desired to visit the University of Cambridge was because there were some Chappels belonging to Colledges where Divine Service had been used and the Sacrament administred divers years though they were never consecrated by any Bishop as namely Emanuel Colledge Chappell built in the year 1584. And Sidney Sussex Colledge Chappell built in the year 1598. And ever since used as Chappels without any Bishops consecration no Archbishop or Bishop of the Diocesse taking any exceptions at it yet now forsooth the Archbishop as Metropolitan must become Visitor to the University of Cambridge to consecrate these Chappels as if they were prophane before and the holy Ordinances used in them not sufficient to hallow them without his Popish Episcopall consecration-ceremonies Bishop Pilkington Walter Haddon Mr. Fox and others much jeer and deride the madnesse folly and superstition of Cardinall Poole and his Deputy Visitors of this very University of Cambridge for digging up Mr. Bucers and Paulus Fagius bones out of S. Maries Church in Cambridge 3. yeares after they were interred and interdicting and new consecrating the Church again as prophaned by them for fear their Masses and Divine Service there used should be nothing worth the place being made prophane and unholy by these heretickes funeralls as they judged them when as the Church was holy enough to say Masse in for three yeares space before and all that would not heare it must be imprisoned burned although

his Consecrating of Churches and Chappels after the popish manner wherein the case stands briefly thus The Pope his Romish Prelates had in times of ignorance superstition for their own proper lucre introduced solemn consecrations of Churches Chappels with all furniture belonging to them appropriated these Fopperies to Bishops as a jurisdiction peculiar to them alone though we reade in Scripture that the Tabernacle all the furniture thereto belonging was consecrated only by Moses and the Temple at Jerusalem by King Solomon the chief temporall Magistrates not by Aaron or the High Priests as they were among the Romans by the Senate These formes of consecrations full of Ethnicall ridiculous superstitions exorcismes conjurations were contained only in Roman Pontificals Missals Ceremonials which were wholly abolished upon the reformation of Religion in King Edwards daies by the expresse statutes of 3 4 E. 6. cap. 1. 5. 5 6 E. 6. cap. 1. and after that by the statute of 1 Eliz. cap. 2. 8 Eliz. cap. 1. which abrogited all rites ceremonies and consecrations whatsoever but those comprised in the Books of Common Prayer and Ordination of Ministers where there is not one syllable to be found touching consecration of Churches or Chappels or Church-yards nor any forme of such consecrations reteined or prescribed which by these Acts were wholly discontinued abolished in our Church till this Papish Prelate to renue them and to assume a Papall power of making Churches Chappels Altars and their furniture holier then other places by his solemne consecrations of them as if the meere sequestring of them from a common or prophane to a sacred use were not a sufficient consecration of them without a Bishops Benediction and exercising of those creatures suspended thereunto We shall begin first with his consecration of Churches next of Chappels Anno 1630. St. Katherines Creed-church in London being repaired only by the parishioners not new built from the ground when Mountain was Bishop of London and the Church thought holy enough by him without any new consecration not requisite in such a case by the very Canon law this popish Prelate succeeding Mountaiue in the Bishoprick of London suspended this new repaired Church for a time from all Divine service Sermons and Sacraments till it was re-consecrated by himself of which he writ down this speciall memoriall with his own hand in his Diary read in the Lords House in manner following January 16. 1630. Sunday I consecrated S. Katherine Creed-church in London In what a popish ridiculous bedlam manner was thus attested upon oath by M. Willingham a parishioner there who then took special Notes of all the passages in short-writing thinking some good use might be made thereof in after-times the particulars whereof he thus expressed That the Archbishop then of London on the 16 of January 1630. being the Lords day came in the morning about nine of the clock in a pompous manner to Creed-church accompanied with Sir Henry Martin Dr. Rive Dr. Duck and many other High-commissioners and Civillians there being a very great concourse of people to behold this novelty the Church doores were garded with many Halberders at the Bishops approaching near the West door of the Church the hangbies of the Bishop cryed out with a loud voyce Open open ye everlasting doores that the King of glory may enter in and presently as by miracle the doores flew open and the Bishop with three or four great Doctors and many other principall men entred in and as soon as they were in the Church the Bishop fell down upon his knees with his eyes lifted up and his hands and armes spread abroad uttering many words and saying This place is holy and this ground is holy In the name of the Father the Sonne and the Holy Ghost I pronounce it holy and then he took up some of the earth or dust and threw it up into the aire as the frantick perseenting Jewes did when they were raging mad against Paul this was done in the great middle Isle several times as they came up Eastwards towards the Chancel which Chancel was then paved when they approached near to the Rayle and Lords Table unto which was an ascent of two or three steps the Bishop lowly ducked and bowed towards it some five or six times and returning went round about the Church in Procession on the inside thereof they saying the 100 Psalme and after that the 90 Psalme prescribed in the Roman Pontificall for this purpose p. 262. and then this Prayer Lord Jesu Christ who art the eternall Word of thy eternall Father God Almighty to be blessed for ever and diddest at first in the beginning of time create man out of the dust of the earth to restore and repair in him the ruine and fall of Angels and when as he by transgression had lost his originall state diddest according to thy threatning returne him againe unto his dust but so that he should not perish everlastingly but should in due time by an omnipotent power be raised againe out of the earth and therefore in assurance of the resurrection the bodies of men the work of thine own hands are in this place to be deposited in their sepulchres graves or vaults as in a repository or resting place untill the end of all things when that mighty Arch-angell shall sound his last Trumpet with Rise ye dead and come to judgement accept we beseech thee this our holy service who doe give and consecrate this beautifull Church unto thee and we separate it unto thee and thy Church AS HOLY GROVND not to be prophaned any more to common use this we beseech thee to accept at our hands for Christ Jesus sake c. Then was read aloud the 23 chapter of Genesis which being read then followed another prayer taken almost verbatim out of the Roman Pontificall beginning thus Merciful God the resurrection and the life of all that trust in thee wee most humbly intreat thee to vouchsafe us of thy grace that all those thy servants who from hence forth shall come into or be intered within the Circuit of this holy and sacred place now by our service HALLOWED unto thee may so lead their lives in thy feare that they may leave them in thy favour and that their bodies resting in their Sepulchres in this Church in peace untill thy comming unto Iudgment may rise again unto immortall life and live with thee for ever in those glorious mantions of eternity Heare us O Saviour for thy passion sake heare us O Father for thy Christs sake heare us O Sanctifying Spirit for thy comforts sake who livest and reignest one God c. Then The peace of God followed c. After all this the Bishop betook himselfe to sit under a cloath of State in an Isle of the chancell neare the Communion Table and taking a written book in his hand in imitation of the Roman Pontificall and the Councell of Trents Decrees therein cited pag. 247 c.

makes the consecration the Crosse must bee set up behinde the holy Altar word being brought to the Patriarch concerning the Church that is to be built letters are directed either to the Exarch or to some of the Bishops to request that the Church may be founded Consecrated and entituled to the Patriarchs 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Consecrated in the Name of such a Saint page 193. Things for the most part were altogether disposed by but nothing at all without the Bishops Jurisdiction That the Patriarch or Bishop should challenge this Jurisdiction over the new Church c. it seemes most reasonable For what did the lay Patron more do then a man of Israell who brought a Lambe but the Priest made it an Offering and an Attonement The Patron parhaps might chuse the place but till the Prelate came and sanctified the Ground it might be as well a Denne of Theeves as a House of Prayer The Patron might bring the Stones the Bishop made it a Church till then nothing was but the breathlesse body of a Temple the soule being yet to come from a Diviner influence of the Diocesan therefore the priviledge of a new Church followed not the building but the consecration of it c. Richard Tedder in his Visitation Sermon Licensed by Doctor Samuell Baker Feb. 6. 1636. Printed at London 1637. It is the Consecration that makes Churches holy and makes God esteeme them so which though they be not capable of Grace yet they receive by their Consecration a spirituall power whereby they are made fit for Divine Service and being consecrated there is no danger in aseribing a holinesie unto them 21. Totall and finall Apostacy from Grace Predestination a desperate Doctrine Resisting of Grace BIshop Mountague in his Appeale pag. 29. 30 31. Ex Artic. 16. After that wee have received the Holy Ghost we may depart away from Grace Till the Church expound otherwise it is as free for me to take it according to the Letter as for you to devise a figure The Article insisteth on men justified after Grace received challenged it was in this sense as unsound at the Conference at Hampton Court but defended maintained avowed averred for true ancient justifiable good and Catholike by the greatest Bishops and Learnedst Divines then living in this Church against that absolute irrespective necessitating and fatall decree of your new Predestination stiled then and there by Bishop Bancroft in publike audience with much vehemency without any Checke dislike distast dissent for we reade of none a desperate doctrine of Predestination At what time also that Reverend Prelate and most accomplisht Divine Dr. Overall Bish of Norwich c. said That a justified man might fall away from Grace and so ipso facto incurre Gods wrath and was in state of wrath and damnation untill he did recover againe Pag. 33. Can your Learning and understanding make any other Construction of these words then That a man may fall away from Grace and become no Child of God at all This is spoken and meant Not only of totall lapse for a time but also of finall separation and for ever Pag. 37. I see no reason why I might not have beene as confident in maintaining falling away from Grace as you and your Divines are upon weaker grounds in defending the contrary Pag. 60. I must confesse my dissent through and sincere from the faction of Novelizing Puritans but in no one point more than in this their desperate Doctrine of Predestination Vide pag. 50. and 70. 71. c. to like purpose Pag. 72. Id. It is not in reason probable that you should have the doctrin of the Church on your side against Master Mountague For the Church holdeth and teacheth punctually and that against the Opinion and with the dislike of the Learnedest of your side that Faith true justifying Faith once had may be lost and recovered againe that a man endued with Gods holy Spirit and enlightened with the heavenly light may loose that holy Spirit have that light put out become like unto Saul and Iudas Pag. 89. If a man justified may fall away from Grace which is the Doctrine of the Church of England then without question hee may resist the grace of God offered Pag. 214. It is an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of your other singularity That Faith once had cannot be lost totally and for ever Edmond Reeve pag. 13. Mar. The Church signifyeth that it is possible for such as are made the Members of Christ to become the members of the Devill if they take not due care Pag. 64. Seeing then that some have perished which have beene pronounced to have beene in the number of Gods Elect. Shelfords five Treatises pag. 187. Such as shall fall double from lesse and from greater grace and never rise for such Justice hath a double due a naturall and a supernaturall death seated not only in paenâ damni but in paenâ sensus which the torments of hell fire afford 22. That there is universall Grace and Redemption and no absolute Reprobation THis having beene formerly touched in the Evidence concerning Arminianisme wee shall bee the briefer in it here Edmond Reeve writes thus page 19. 20. Whereby doth God the Father draw all mankind unto Christ Ans Holy Church doth signifie it unto us where it saith that Almighty God doth shew unto all that be in error the light of his truth to the intent they may returne into the way of Righteousnesse St. Iohn saith Christ is the light that lighteth every man which commeth into the world Many Scriptures more declare that God is mercifull to universall mankinde not willing the death of a sinner c. as the Divine service teacheth and informeth us The which Doctrine of hers as sundry more though we in our youngnesse of Christian knowledge do not understand yet are we to believe also to know that the Fathers which set forth the divine service did perfectly understand like as also we are to beleive that the Fathers of the Church now and alwayes doe in the great Mystery of Godlinesse comprehend many things which the Common people doe not yea also some things which Ministers of the inferrior Order as Priests Pastors and Teachers do not apprehend who are therefore to bee guided in Divinity by those most reverend and right reverend Fathers in God and not to say that such and such sayings in the Communion Booke are untrue because they understand them not Page 60. Saint Paul saith That he gave himselfe a ransome for all hee died for universall mankind Againe the death of Christ is available for the redemption of all the world Page 61. Whereas it is said by some that Christ died not for Vniversall mankind efficiently or effectually namely for such as perish they consider not what the Scripture signifieth Christ to have done yet hee did it not in phantasy but in reality in every deed Page 66. 67. How could the Church ordaine and require for to

bound up in Bibles why then did he give order that they should bee only sold in private not in publique If unlawfull Popish Idolatrous or superstitious contrary to the Scripture our owne Statutes Homilies Jnjunctions VVriters as we have proved them then they ought not by his direction to sell or binde them up in Bibles no more privately these publikely And whereas he Objects that the Latine Bible produced wherein some of these pictures were bound was printed at Amsterdam wee grant it But the Pictures in it were printed and bound up with it here in London not at Amsterdam and these Pictures by the Archbishops owne direction were bound and sold with many English Bibles in which act he so much gloried instead of being ashamed of it that he would have these Bibles thus bound up with Pictures called the Arch-Bishops Bibles by way of distinction As for the English Bibles printed with Pictures in Queene Elizabeths dayes they had no other Pictures in them but onely of the Arke Temple and such like not any Pictures of Christ the Virgin Mary or any persons of the Trinity All which considered this part of his charge stickes still upon him in each particular notwithstanding all his evasions Seventhly They Object against me the Consecration of Churches and Chappell 's as a Popish Innovation tending to introduce Popery among us and have instanced in my consecrating of Creed-Church St. Giles Church in the fields and the Church-yard there for consecrating whereof the Parish paid me 15. l. The Church of Stanmore Magna my Chappell at Aberguilly the forme and furniture whereof were excepted against as Popish the Chappell of Hamer-Smith where they alleadge I consecrated the first stone when it was layd the Chappell of Roe-Hampton and that I would have consecrated other Chapells Cambridge To this I answer first in generall that the Consecration of Churches is very ancient and warranted by Scripture and Ecclesiasticall stories In the Old Testament wee read that the Tabernacle with all the Vessells Ornaments thereto belonging were solemnly consecrated by Moses That afterward when the Temple was built it was solemnly dedicated and consecrated to God by King Solomon and all his Princes and people After this when the Temple had bin shut up and defiled the Priests and Levites by Hezekiah his command sanctified and cleansed both it and the Vessells thereof So King Josias purged the House of the Lord. After which when the Temple was re-edified the Children of Jsrael the Priests and the Levites kept the dedication of the House of God with joy and offered in the Dedication of the House of God an hundred bullockes which Feast of Dedication was observed by the Jewes even in our Saviours time as wee read in the New Testament Iohn 10. 22. In the reigne of Constantine the great when Christian Churches began to be built or re-edified wee no sooner read of their building but of their solemne consecration and Dedication as of the consecration of the Church of Tyre with sundry others mentioned by Eusebius in his Ecclesiasticall History l. 10. c. 3. Devita Constantini l. 4. c. 40. After which wee finde this practise continued in the Christian Church in all ages as Ecclesiasticall Histories the Consecration Sermons of sundry Fathers the Canons of ancient Councels and the Canonists in their titles De Consecratione Ecclesiarum prove at large Wherefore this can be no Popery ner Innovation Yea if Churches were not consecrated then I say they could not bee termed Holy for it is the Consecration makes them holy And if places be not holy then persons also cannot be holy when they are consecrated and entred into holy Orders As for Bishop Pilkinton and Archbishop Parker they speake not simply against consecrations in generall for they were consecrated Bishops and the book of Ordination is confirmed by Parliament nor yet against consecrating of Churches in generall but against the Popish consecrations of them used by some moderne Romish Prelates For my form of consecrating them it was not taken out of the Roman Pontificall but that which was used by Bishop Andrewes from whom I had it This forme I followed at Creed Church and the rest Secondly To the particular consecration of Churches Objected I answer First to that concerning Katherin Creed-Church It was testified that I came thither in a Pompous manner I deny it it was only in a grave and seemly manner It is Objected that as soone as I came within the Church doore I fell downe upon my knees True it was no more then my duty being an Oratory Moses and Aaron fell down on their faces at the doore of the Tabernacle Hezekiah and the people bowed and worshiped as I have proved at large in my Speech in Star-chamber And O come let us worship and fall downe and kneell before the Lord our Maker is the common Introitus in our owne and other Lyturgies It is objected I pronounced the place and ground holy I did so and it is an ordinary and legall Speech there being a relative though not an inherent holinesse in Churches Dedicated to Gods service Hence wee read in Iustinian Codicis l. 1. tit 5. this Title DESACROS ANCTIS ECCLESIIS as they are there often stiled Therefore Churches are holy and their consecration makes them so Wheras it was said I threw up dust into the ayre This I deny and where it was alleadged that this was in imitation of the Roman Pontificall that is a mistake for the Pontificall prescribes Cinis a hes not dust to be cast abroad and Greek Letters to be made therein with many other vanities For my forme of consecration Bishop Andrewes made it from whom I desired a Coppy and had it which I observed It was objected that the form of prayer I used is in the Masse Booke and Roman Pontificall It may bee so many other very good prayers are in it yet they be good It was further alleaged that I objected Doctor Denisons Sermon to him at his censure in the High Commission I Objected only his extravagances and that was no hurt For St. Giles Church it is true I consecrated first the Church and then the Church-yard which is the usuall manner as for the fees amounting to 15. l. I returned them againe and bestowed them on the poore of the Parish But it hath bin Objected that these were no new Churches but Churches only new repaired therfore not to be re-consecrated I answer that there was some new ground taken in at Saint Giles and admit there were still the same longitude and latitude yet the walls and structure being for the most part new the Churches in this respect were new and to be new consecrated Thirdly to the consecration of the Objected Chappell 's I confesse their consecrations and though there be no expresse forme for consecrating of Chappell 's in the Pontificall nor mention in Ecclesiasticall story of Chappels consecrations yet seeing they are

confirmer of the good and a reformer of the Reprobate all her visitants were but so many converts whose bad affections and erronious opinions the sweetnes of her discourse had rectefied the Leprosie of sin was her daily cure and they whom vice had blinded were by her restored to their inward light and their prostrate Soules adored Divine Majesticall vertue residing in this sacred Temple the knowledge of her humbled the most 〈…〉 Natures for the lustre of her merits rendered their owne obscure And in his Epistle to the Masculine Reader But this I will say that though I impute not the late troubles and afflictions of the Protestant party in Germany to the small Reverence there paid her many of Gods judgments according to Saint Augustine being secret none unjust yet truly I beleeve that the under-valuing of one so great and deare in Christs esteeme as his Mother cannot but bee displeasing to him and that the more we ascribe to her setting Invocation a part the more gracious we appeare in his sight He concludes it thus I will only adde this that since the finishing of this story I have read a Booke of the now Bishop of Chicester intituled Apparacus c. And I am glad to finde that I have not digressed from him in any one particular Soe he Loe therefore what a Metomorphosis of our Religion is here Here is a new Goddesse brought in among us the Virgin Mary adorned extolled deified with Titles Courtships Encomium Hymnes taken out of Popish Missalis Houres Breviaries Poems The Author glorieth that he is the first who hath written as he saith in our Vulgar tongue on this our blessed Virgin And God grant he be the last But he beares himselfe in all this upon the Church of England where wee pray you at last wee perceive this Church of England is the then Bishop of Chihester Mountague in his Apparatus from whom hee hath not digressed in any particular This Booke of Staffords giving very great scandall to Protestants and encouragement to Papists Mr. Henry Burton in his Sermon intituled For God and the King page 123. 124. 125. discovered censured these extravagant Popish Passages in it advising the people to beware of it For which among other things he was brought into the Star-Chamber and there censured But on the contrary this Popish Booke of Staffords with the forementioned scandalous Passages in it were by the Archbishops speciall direction professedly justified both by Doctor Heylin in his Moderate Answer to Mr. Burton licensed by the Arch-bishops owne Chaplaine and written by his command pag. 123. 124. and by Christopher Dow in his Innovations unjustly charged page 51. 54. and this Booke neither called in nor corrected so audatiously Popishwas he growne in this particular among many others 20. That the Church is alwayes Visible Bishop Mountague his Appeale Page 139. The Church of Rome hath ever beene visible The Church of Rome is and ever was a true Church since it was a Church Therfore the true Church hath ever bin visible Which he thus seconds Orig. Ecclesiasticarum Tomi prio pars poster page 463. Sanctè credimus defendimus c. Ecclesiam nullis interceptam intercisam intercapedinibus perpetuô extantem alicubi visibilem oculis usurpandam in eum finem et eo modo ut intelligere possint quibus curae illud est apud quos habeatur verbum vitae c. 21. That Churches Altars Chalices Church-yards c. ought to bee Consecrated by the Bishop and that his Consecration puts an inherent holinesse into them That one part of the Church or Chappell is holier then another That the place within the new Railes where the Altar stands is Sanctum Sanctorum into which none but Priests ought to enter yea Christs Throne and Mercy seat DOctor Pocklingtons Altare Christianum page 51. Dedication and Consecration of Churches used by Godly Bishops and taxed by the Centurists for the mystery of Iniquity I will passe from the placing of the Bishops Chaire to the dedication of his Church where it was set The dedication of Churches within two hundred yeares after Christ shewes cleerely 〈…〉 were Churches Saint Clemens his Command both for building and Consecrating of Churches makes it apparent page 80. At the upper end of the Chancell was a place inclosed and Railed in from the rest of the Chancell whereunto none neither Priests that were Penitents nor Deacons were permitted to enter and there to communicate and officiat in the Consecration of the Eucharist or in the administration thereof unto Priests but they themselves This place was called Sacrarium here stood the Altar or Lords Table and hitherto none might approach but the Priests themselves The Canon is cleare for it no Lay-man may come within the Altar Page 83. Prayer for Kings for Bishops for the whole Church and the Lords Prayer was then only said at the Altar by the Priest in the holy of holies Hee deserves not to be named in the Priests prayer at the Altar that is an occasion to withdraw Priests from the Altar page 108. They had shut up the Doore of the holy of holies whereunto he was entred to doe his reverence to the holy Altar Page 141. A man may as lawfully and Christianly administer the blessed Sacrament in a Barne or Towne-hall as in any place that is not Consecrated to such holy uses And when the Church was Consecrated was not the Altar the chiefest place which with most Ceremony and devotion was hallowed when it was hallowed was it not kept more carefully from Prophanation then any other part of the Church was there not a Feast annually kept in a joyfull remembrance of the Dedication of every Church and did not the consecration of the Altar carry the name of the Feast page 142. Was not the Altar set in Sacrario or sancto sanctorum in the highest place of all whereunto the Priest ascended by steppes and degrees and when they so assended were there not said Psalmes of degrees This holy Altar is in his owne nature but a stone but being consecrated and dedicated benedictionem accipit Shelfords five Treatises page 2. From hence appeareth that the Altar is the principall part of Gods House as being the cause and Originall of all the rest c. Doctor Ridley his view of the Civill Law reprinted at Oxford 1634. in the marginall Annotations newly added to it page 52. The Bishop of the place shall come lift up his hands to Heaven and consecrate the place to God P. 191. For that which concernes foundation and erection All that the Patron had free to himselfe was but the thought hee might thinke where he would designe the ground c. but this was nothing without execution and to this the Diocesan vvas to be required as the most principall and most effectuall agent If the Patron built a Church upon his ovvne ground vvithout the Bishops consent the Bishop might pull it dovvne vvithout the Patrons consent page 192. When he