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A60395	A short treatise of altars, altar-furniture, altar-cringing, and musick of all the quire, singing-men and choristers, when the holy Communion was administered in the cathedrall church of Durham by prebendaries and petty-canons, in glorious copes embroidered with images, 1629 / written at the same time by Peter Smart ...	Smart, Peter, 1569-1652?	1643 (1643)	Wing S4014; ESTC R20243	26,828	32

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Cosin going out turn back to make l●gs do they take their leave of God do they depart from God They call them comely gestures which are indeed Fryar-like most ridiculous and phantasticall and as they are used in a principall part of Gods service they are not onely histrionicall and mimicall but impious and Idolatrous Why are not the like comely gestures used at the Altar of the Font when the Sacrament of Baptisme is administred Is not Baptisme as comely a Ceremony because so many legs and curches no not one at all is made to the Font Is not comelinesse fit for all times and places in the house of God Must the Altar at the East end of the Church be so duckt unto and worshipped with comely gestures and the West-Altar want all comelinesse of gestures But it offends them that they should be called Altar-worshippers so it would have done the Idolatrous Israelites if one had called them Calf-worshippers for they professed themselves to be worshippers of God which brought them out of the land of Egypt which they knew their golden Calfe did not Therefore Aaron built an Altar before it and made proclamation saying Tomorrow is a feast to the Lord Then the people shouted and sang and danced about the Altar and the Calfe with great devotion Exod. 3● and perhaps made low legs and curches beholding so goodly an object a Calfe of gold whith religious admiration as some of us doe to our gay gilded Altar For every man and woman which makes a leg or curchee they do it to some visible object directly before them as Abraham and Let did to the Angels that came unto them in the likenesse of men and to the people of the land before whom they bowed themselves with civill reverence as Iacob also did when he met his brother Esau hee bowed his body thrice to the ground to appease his wrath But when they or any else did worship God they did prostrate themselves upon their faces or fell downe on their knees lifting up their hearts with hands and eyes to heaven they used not to make legs to God above in heaven And this the very Heathen knew by the light of nature for the Poet speaking of Cassandra King Pryamus his daughter which was taken prisoner at the burning of Troy writeth thus in 2. Aeneid Ad coelum tendens ardentia lumina frustra Lumina nam teneras arcebant vincula palmas Vp to the skies in vaine her eyes Cassandra she lifted Eyes for palmes of her hands from lifting manacles hindred She implored the help of God above in her distresse lookind upward she made not a low curchie to God in Heaven whom she saw not so it is said of S. Stephen in the seventh of the Acts That he looked up to heaven and saw the glory of God and Iesus standing at the right hand of God and said Behold I see the heavens open and the Son of man standing at the right hand of God It had beene an absurd thing in Stephen to have made legs to God the Father and his Son Christ whom he saw above his head in heaven as our leg-makers say they doe to God and Christ at the Altar before them For although God be every where round about us as well at the Font in the West end of the Church as at the Communion Table in the East and although heaven be round about the world yet every man wheresoever he be even our Antipodes are taught by the light of nature to apprehend the glorious majesty of God to be above his head in heaven There to be worshipped with lifting up of heart hands and eyes and not in those parts of heaven which are before behinde on the right hand on the left or under our feete as it seemeth on the other side of the world Christ teacheth us to say Our Father which art in heaven Indeed the Gentiles which worshipped visible Deities in their Images or annexed to them bowed downe their bodies before the same Idols as that Roman Q. Catulus did of whom Cicero reporteth these verses Constiteram solem exorientem fortè salutans Cum subito à dextris Roscius exoritur Vp as he rose once stood I the Sun with a congy saluting Roscius o' th right hand when I spied on a sudd●n arising So that he bowed his knee reverently to the Sun before his face not above his head no higher appearing above the Horizon then the height of Roscius standing on his feet In like manner our Altar-worshippers bow their bodies downe to the ground to the Altar standing on the earth directly before their faces yet they say they make legs to God and to Christ not to the Altar then which what can be more absurd When they have done their prayers upon their knees then to stand up and to make a low leg to God and going out of the Quire doore to turne about and looking on the Altar make a leg againe to God taking as it were his leave of God and farewell departing from God as one man doth of another they take their leaves bid one another farewell when they part company shake hands and mutually make legs To teach the Coristers going up to the Altar to make legs to God when they light the Tapers and when they have done them to goe backwards with their faces to the East and looking on the Altar make legs againe to God at every approaching neere it and every departing from it at the taking up or setting downe of any thing upon the Altar ever and anon to make a low curtsie to make a profound leg to God especially going out of the Church as it were taking his leave and departing from God which is a phrase of speech as absurd as the action it selfe is vaine superstitious and Idolatrous 15 D Co●n dishonoured and reviled Christian people in the Church yet he made low legs to the Altar so low that his breech was higher then his head as vvas proved before the Lords in Parliament Again are they not absurd Ideots or rather incarnate devils who in ti●e of Divine Service will take poore men standing quietly in the Church and thrust them out by their heads and shoulders calling them Pagans Why stand you here you Pagans if you will not observe the Ceremonies of our Church get you out of the Church Who will say to others even Gentlewomen of the best rank sitting in their pues Can ye not stand you lazie sows taking them by their armes and tearing their sleeves to raise them up when the Nicene Creed is sung thus Doct. Cosin did Who going up to the Altar in a Cope will say in his pride and contempt of poore people stand out of my way ye dirty whor●s dishonouring the Image of God in them and immediatly make a low leg downe to the ground before his Idol the Altar honouring it being a stock or a stone having unchristianly and uncivilly disgraced and abused his

of especially saith the Homily that this Supper be in such wise ministred as our Lord and Saviour did and commanded to be done as his holy Apostle used it and the good Fathers of the primitive Church frequented it For as that worthy father Ambrose saith He is unworthy of the Lord that otherwise doth celebrate that mysterie then it was delivered by him neither can he be devout that otherwise doth presume to receive it then it was given by the Author Now who knoweth not what strange alterations have beene brought into this Church within these few yeares how the Ministers of this Sacrament have presumed lately to change in many things the administration thereof not onely from the practise of the primitive Church and the institution of the author Christ but also from the Rubricks and Canons of the Church and the ancient usuall custome of this place For it is turned rather into a theatricall Stage-play where mens eares are filled with pleasant tunes of musicall instruments and voyces of not communicating singers and their eyes fed with pompous spectacles of glittering pictures and histrionicall gestures of men arrayed in massing and pibald not decent robes And other unlawfull superstitious and vaine rites and ridiculous ceremonies are used with which that holy action is defiled and disgraced Therefore I did well and according to my duty and vocation in admonishing that Congregation then assembled to receive as they were wont to doe in their owne parish Churches as our Church commandeth and to forbeare from communicating in this Cathedrall Church till things were amended which lately were mar'd le●t receiving the body and blood of Christ in uncomely and unlawfull manner it should tend to their greater harme and sorrow as the Homily teacheth Augustine saith upon Psal 21. Tempus lugendi est cum passio Domini celebratur tempus gemendi est tempus flendi tempus confitendi 19 The celebration of the Lords supper is the memoriall of his death and passion caused by our sins therfore it is a time of lamentation and weeping not of rejoycing not of pompous and g●o●●ous ceremonies not of musick and melody deprecandi When the Passion of the Lord is celebrated in the holy Communion by the breaking of his body which is the bread of life and powring out his blood which is the true aqua vitae the refreshing the comforting the quickning wine and water of life to languishing and dying soules That is a time of mourning a time of sighing a time of weeping and lamenting a time of confessing and begging pardon it is not a time of piping and singing of wearing and beholding brave cloathes and pictures And Cyprian saith In the presence of the Lord teares doe never beg pardon in vaine and the sacrifice of a contrite heart never receives repulse And againe he saith in treating of the Lords Supper and the receiving thereof As often as I see thee sighing in the presence of the Lord I doubt not but the Holy Ghost is breathing upon thee Cùm intueor flentem sentio ignoscentem So often as I see thee weeping I perceive God pardoning And who comes to crave pardon of an angry King and terrible Judge whom he grievously offended with many haynons crimes deserving death who I say dare come into his presence Pompaticè glori●se saith Cyprian pompously and gloriously in slanting apparell in goodly Babylonish robes imbroidered with Images of silver gold and pearle and with an excellent consort of Musitians singing merrily piping and playing joyfully and jollily And D. Buckeridge the late Bishop of Rochester now of Ely saith very well in his Book of kneeling at the Communion What hath musick to do with mourning or a song of mirth with a day of the greatest sorrow which is the Passion of Christ when the seeds of contrition and repentance must be sowed with teares that the harvest in Heaven may be reaped with joy And againe we must come weeping before him that offered up supplications and prayers with strong cries and teares to redeeme us Heb. 5. 7. Wee must prostrate our selves humbly before our Judge that is offended by us and weepe before him whom wee would pacifie with our teares and compunction So then saith he since we come to the Lords house and table to pacifie him let our caraiage be such that we stir him not to more anger we must shut up our senses that they wander not our eyes must see Gods beauty not gad after vanities and send teares as Embassadors Our eares must attend the word of truth not delicious tunes of musicall melody 20 Such gaudy ornaments and paultry furniture as are used in Du●ham Cathedrall at the Communion with organs other musick hinder godly meditations therefore K. Iames when he received the Communion at Durham on Easter Day 1617. commanded all things to be done plainly without musick or other bravery Why then are set before us so many objects of vanity so many allurements of our outward senses our eyes eares consequently our minds from the meditation of Christs death passion and our sins which were the only cause of all our miseries his lamentable sufferings Can such paltry toyes bring to our memory Christ and his blood-shedding Crosses Crucifixes Tapers Candlesticks gilded Angels painted Images golden Copes gorgious Altars sumptuous Organs with Sackbuts and Cornets piping so loud at the Communion table that they may be heard halfe a mile from the Church Bernard saith no. Orantium in se retorquent aspectum impediunt affectum Such glorious spectacles draw away from God the minds of them that pray they further not but hinder entire affections and godly meditations The consideration of which impediments of devotion moved our most learned and religious King Iames when he received the holy Communion in this Cathedrall Church upon Easter-day 1617. to give charge or at least in his name charge was given upon my knowledge I speake it and in my hearing in mine own house that the Communion should be administred in plain māne● it was expresly commanded that no chaunting should be used by the Quire-men nor playing on the Organs or other Instruments Which my selfe being treasurer of this Church at that time and receiving the Communion with his Majesty as my office required I did see take order should be performed according to the Kings pleasure direction at which time there were no Images or other gay and gaudy monuments of superstition and Idolatry to be seene Two Copes indeed were worne both decent as the Canons prescribe not party-coloured nor pibald like ours at Durham but plaine without any picture or other imbroidring of Crosses or Images which the doctrine of the Church of England in the book of Homilies and Injunctions straightly forbids in our Churches to be used at any part of Gods service especially at the Communion table or in windowes ab●●● it And shall we ●ffect so excessive and extraordinary bravery such a deale and so great variety of delicious musick at the receiving of the holy Communion an action of the greatest humiliation and mourning which the religiou● wisedome of so learned a Prince forbad and refused 21 When we come to Gods ●ble we must endeavour to pacifie his anger with our humiliation and mourning and not provoke him against us with our proud behaviour merriment and flaunting bravery When we come to Gods house and sacred table to pacifie him saith the Bishop of Rochester in his Book of kneeling at the Communion pag. 19. our carriage must be such that we stir him not to more anger and how can lie but be angry when we turne our mourning into merriment our fasting and prayer into stage-playing saith he And again in the same book we must weep before him to wash away our ●ins and deplore and prevent our present and future misery The depth of sin saith he pierced not only his hands and feet but his heart also in which he offered up prayers and supplications with strong cryes and teares that he might overcome the clamour of our crying sins And if our Saviour wept for us the Redeemer for the redeemed we have much more reason to weepe for our selves and let none be found so prophane amongst us that when the son of God wept and suffered for our redemption we should laugh and make merry pipe and sing at our condemnation as if we were senselesse of our owne confusion We may not presume to eate the bread of Heaven and forget the duty of sinfull and earthly men that are but dust and ashes Reverend and dreadfull mysteries must have receivers that come with reverence and dread and such as our action is such must be our affection that is to receive that with feare and trembling and not with piping and singing which is so fearefull and dreadfull in it selfe And then he concludeth with this admonition Behold thou sinner how great reproaches Christ suffers at thy hands who by thy wilfull impieties doest crucifie againe to thy selfe the Lord of life And then resolve that as Christs hands and feet and head and every poare and passage of his body was a fountaine of mercy that runs in his blood so thine heart must be as a spring of sighs and groanes and thine eyes must be as fountaines of teares to wash with Magdalen not so much Christs feet as thine owne soule FINIS