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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80833	Altar-worship, or Bowing to the communion table considered as to the novelty vanity iniquity malignity charged upon it. In an antithesis to the determination of Dr. Eleazar Duncon, lately translated, and sent into the world in a Romish dress, with a cross in the front and fine. By Z. Crofton Presbyter, but proved enemy to all fanaticks.	Crofton, Zachary, 1625 or 6-1672.	1661 (1661)	Wing C6981A; ESTC R31315	36,476	142

IT is a dangerous thing to make Innovations if but in the Circumstances of Gods Worship those humane Additions which would seem to grace the Institution of God deprave it the foolishness of God is wiser than the wisdom of men Idolatry and Falshood is commonly more gaudy and plausible than Truth Bishop Hall Contemplat on the Altar of Ahaz lib. 20. p. 1286. Altar-Worship Or BOWING to the Communion Table Considered As to the Novelty Vanity Iniquity Malignity charged upon it In an Antithesis to the Determination of Dr. Eleazar Duncon Lately translated and sent into the world in a Romish Dress with a Cross in the Front and Fine By Z. Crofton Presbyter but proved Enemy to all Fanaticks Levit. 26.1 You shall not set up any Image in your Land to bow down unto it London Printed for J. R. at the Fountain in Goldsmiths-Row in Cheapside 1661. HOdie tepidi sunt qui Christum cum Belial in side Ceremoniis moribus conciliare satagunt qui cum ex Babylone se egressos glorientur bonique evangelici haberi velint exuvias tamen papatus dignitates ordines vestes stolas infulas casulas cruces Imagines Statuas Altaria Cereos Lampades Calices id genus supellectilia Babylonica pro a diaphoris in Templis cultu Dei mordieus tuentur Pareus expos in Apocalyps cap. 3. v. 15. The Epistle to the Reader Christian Reader REligion mans Glory like Moral and Divine Vertues is attended and often enervated by two Extreams Prophanesse and Superstition equally odious unto God incident unto men and too commonly concomitant and that which is strange ordinarily prevalent in the same Subjects sinking Religion by Prophaness the Defect and at the same time subverting it by Superstition the Excess thereof Such is mans propensity to both these that nothing will restrain many until they run themselves on their own Ruine and when the judgments of a Jealous God hath bid a stand to their furious course hedged up their way turned them by weeping Cross and bound them against the same by the sacred Bonds of most Solemn Oaths yet mercy is no sooner returned on them but like backsliding Israel they forget God deal falsly in his Covenant and go a whoring after their own Inventions Of this evil England is become a most sad and sensible Embleme concerning whose present carriage towards Religion we may expostulate as the Ten somtimes on a bare Jealousie did with the Two Tribes of Israel in Josh 22.16 17 18 19. What trespass is this that ye have committed against the God of Israel to turn away this day from following the Lord in that you have builded you an ALTAR that ye might rebell this day against the Lord Is the Iniquity of Peor too little for us from which we are not cleansed this day although there was a Plague in the Congregation of the Lord but that you must turn away this day from following the Lord and it will be seeing ye rebell to day against the Lord to morrow he will be wroth with the whole Congregation of Israel Wherefore rebel not against the Lord nor rebel against us to build you an ALTAR besides the Altar of the Lord. How Gods Sabbaths have been prophaned and his Sanctuary polluted in our Land we cannot forget and how our Kings Princes and People have been visited by a Jealous God our yet bleeding wounds cannot but mind us How his Hand hath brought our Nation under a most Solemn League and Covenant from which no Power Pope Prince or Parliament can absolve us for the Reformation of Religion according to his Word all the Christian world could not but observe yet wretched we not only forget but with a fretting violence cast off yea break through those Sacred bonds returning like Dogs to our Vomit which is wofully witnessed by that Deluge of Prophaness and Superstition which doth overspread our Land unto the again prophane neglect of Gods Sabbath and polluting his Sanctuary by the whole Mass of Humane Inventions and Idolatrous dregs continued among us at our first Reformation or innovated by our late Prelates in their pursued accommodation and Union with Rome that Mother of Whoredoms for which notwithstanding we have sharply smarted yet we find the same Spirit according to its power forward to appear Amongst which Solemn and Religious Bowing to towards or before the Communion-Table is not the least though by many the least regarded This Ceremony for such they would have us account it is afresh taken up by our now-rising Prelates and their old Superstitious Clergy not only in Cathedral but some Parish Churches But as yet hath obtained that I observe few Advocates who openly plead for this irreligious irrational Adoration only one I. D. hath with a daring Impudence and Jesuitick boldness translated Dr. Eleazar Duncon his Determination De Adoratione Dei adversus Altare delivered some years since in Latine at publick Commencement in the University of Cambridge and that as he professeth to make plain the Catholick Paths unto Vulgar Devotion The Epistle Dedicatory to the translation of Dr. Duncon his Determination lest you should mistake the meaning of his Term Catholick he hath affixed to the Front and end of his Book the Crosse that Catholick Mark of the Romish Church on whose Score as his holy Mother-Church I conceive he would be understood he doth presume to cast the Boldnesse of Dedicating this Translation to Doctor John Gauden one of our now active rising Prelates whom he applauds for his Late Signal Endeavours to vindicate her Honour and restore her Glory I cannot but in Charity hope to see the indignation of this Reverend Patron expressed against this Translators Boldness for that his Non-conformity in this Point at his Late Consecration giveth me cause to think his Name is knavishly prefixed to this Book because his Late unhappy works may I wish only so by accident prove serviceable to Englands sinful shameful return to the Holy-Catholick-Mother-Church of Rome to which the coming abroad of this Book in a Popish Form and Dialect seems to be a Praeludium I heard that a Fool of late seeing the now Altar and Crosses over it at Westminster-Abbey and meeting with a Person of Honour saluted him with a foolish embrace and this homely Complement God blesse you my Lord you are reforming Religion to the Purity it was in in Queen Maries daies Fooles and Children do commonly speak truths If ALTARS be erected and adored without nay contrary to Law and that under Honourable countenance and be pleaded for in plain English under our Prelates Patronage we can expect our Reformation to be resolved into no other Mode That England may have a seasonable warning and the Vulgar a timely Antidote to poyson thus prepared I have opposed unto Dr. Duncons Thesis a plain Antithesis and explained and enforced it with those Considerations which run counter to the Arguments of the Doctor and his contemporary Contestors I have chosen this Method for