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A56208	A short sober pacific examination of some exuberances in, and ceremonial appurtenances to the Common prayer especially of the use and frequent repetitions of Glory be to the Father, &c., standing up at it, at Gospels, creeds, and wearing white rochets, surplises, with other canonical vestments in the celebration of divine service and sacraments, whose originals, grounds of institution and prescription, are here truly related and modestly discussed ... / by William Prynne, Esq. ...	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.; Stucki, Johann Wilhelm, d. 1607. Antiquitatum convivialum. Liber 2, cap. 26, De vestitu conviviali.	1661 (1661)	Wing P4081; ESTC R5455	105,415	150

and other Vestments in Divine Offices Churches then answer the Arguments Reasons produced for their use and continuance It is ingenuously acknowledged by Alerinus de Divinis Officiis c. 38 39. Honorius Augustoduncnsis Gulielmus Durantus Thomas Waldensis some Popish Councils and the very Roman Pontifical and Missal That white Surplisses and other Prntifical Sacerdotal Vestments under the Gospell were originally assumed from Aaron the Levitical Priests garments under the old abolished ceremonial Law But who first invented or enjoyned them to be worn in time of Divine service Masse or Administration of Sacraments they do not mention nor yet the various mystical significations groundless grounds and frantick reasons of their several Institutions I finde in a spurious Decretal Epistle attributed to Pope Stephen Anno Christi 2 6 1. this general Clause concerning Priests Vestments That the Garments wherein Priests and other Ministers of the Church ought to celebrate Divine service and minister unto the Lord ought to be consecrated and decent and applyed to none other use nor yet to be worn or touched by any but sacred Persons But what these Vestments were he particularly defines not If Surplisses or white Rochets as some conceit then they ought not to be touched by Scholars Choristers Singing-men and others who are no consecrated Priests nor in sacred Orders as they are now in Cathedrals and some Colledges in our Universities against this Popes and other his Successors Decrees This Decree the Century writers stile idle s●perfluous altogether disagreeing with the word of God and savouring of the mysterie of Iniquity Flaccus Alcuinus De Divinis Officiis c. 38 39 40. Bochellus Decret Eccles. Gal l. 1. Tit. 7. l. 6. Tit. 17. Honorius Augstodunensts in his Gemma Animae l. 1. Gulielmus Durantus Rationale Divinorum l. 3. Tho. Waldensis Tom. 3. tit 4. cap. 29 30. Franciscus Zerula Paxis Episeopalis pars 1. Pontificale Missale Romanum with sundry others have large discourses concerning the several sacred Vestments of Popes Archbishops Bishops Deans Deacons Priests and particularly of Albees and Surplisses But who first introduced them into Christian Churches is a Question not easily resolved The next Authority I meet withall is the Decree of Pope Fusebius about the year 309. first recorded by Gratian and others out of him Consulto omnium statuimus ut sacrificium Altaris non in serico panno aut tincto quisqvam celebrare praesumat sed in puro lineo vel linteo ab Episcopo consccrato terreno scilicet lino procreato atque contexto sicut corpus Domini Iesu Christi in Sindone linea mundo sepultum fuit John 19. 40. Mar. 15. 46. Mat. 27. 59. Lu. 23. 53. But this Decree of his as it is forged spurious repugnant to the History of that Time the phrase tenent and practise of that Age and superstitious as the Century writers prove and style it so the reason produced by the Author of it why Priests and Clergy-men should celebrate the Sacrament of the Altar not in a silken or died but in a pure white linnen Garment made of Flax ingendred out of the Earth because Christs body was buried in linen cloaths is very absurd Had Christ celebrated his last Supper or preached prayed in a linen Surplisse whiles he lived the inference had been tollerable But since he never did it for ought appears and the Evangelists precisely record that at his miraculous transfiguration only when he went apart up into a high Mountain with three of his Disciples alone from all other company his Rayment formerly of another colour became shining exceeding wht●c as snow so as no Fuller on earth can white them and that only till his transfiguration was past the Argument recoyles upon the Author of this Imposture with great disadvantage For 1. Christ never preached nor celebrated his last Supper in a white linnen Garment or Surplisse whiles he lived Therefore no Priests Bishops or Ministers who are his Embassadors and should imitate his Example ought to do it after his death 2ly Christ did not put on these linnen Garments himself or to officiate in them but Ioseph of Aramathea and N●●bodemus wrapped his dead Corps in them to bury it Therefore Bishops Priests Deacons should never put on white Rochets or Surplisses on their backs to preach pray or celebrate the Lords supper whiles they live but only their dead Corps be wrapped up in them when they are interred 3ly These white linnen Garments wherein Christs body was wrapped were only his Winding-sheet and Grave-cloaths not a Surplisse Albee Stole or Rochet neither were they consecrated by a Pope or Bishop not worn in a Church but only in a Scpulchre yea our Saviour left them lying in his Sepulchre when he role again John 20. 5 6 7 8. and never wore them afterwards Ergo Bishops Priests Deacons should only wear unconsecrated Winding-sheets and sine linnen Garments in their Graves when dead and there leave them when they riseagain not consecrated Rochets Surplisses Albees Stoles in the Church when living ●ly Christs body was not wrapped in these linnen cloa●● in any relation to his Priestly office or function but only as a mere dead Corps to be interred it being thenfual manner of the Jewe thus to bury dead Corps as well Laymen as Priests witness Iohn 19. 29 quoted by this impostor Then took they the body of Iesus and 〈◊〉 it in linnen cloaths with the spices as the manner of the Ie●es is to bury compared with Iohn 11. 44. So the Nasamones Graecians Spartians Argives Syra●s●●ns Sycionians and other Nations wrapped the dead bodies of their deceased Friends in white linnen cloaths with spices and balmes and so intorred them Therefore if this reason be solid all Men and Women as well Jewes as Genti●es Pagans as Christians should wear whice Rochets Surplisses Albees Stoles in Churches as well as Popes Archbishops Bishops Priests and Deacons because they are all alike interred and wrapped in white linnen Grave cloaths when buried in their Graves The first probable authority in any true Antiquity for Bishops Ministers and Deaeons wearing white Vestments in the celebration of the Lords Supper is that of Hierom about 410. years after Christ Advers Pelagiano 1. 1. c. 9. Vnde adjungis genera vestium ornamentorum Deo esse contraria Quae sunt rogo inimiciti● conira Deum sr tunicam habuero mundiorem si Episcopus Presbyter Diaconus reliquus ordo Ecclesiasticus in Administatione Sacrificiorum cum candida veste processcrint● Cavete Clerici cavete Monachi viduae virgines periclitamini nisi sordidas vos atque pannòsas vulgus aspicerit Ta●●o de hominibus saeculi quibus apertè bellum indicitur inimicitiae contra Deum si pretiosis atque nitentibus utuntur Exuviis And in his Commentariorum 1. 13. in Ezech e. 44. Vestibus lineis utuntur Aegyptii Sacerdotes non selum intrinsecus sed extringsecus he means their

Augustodunensis in his Gemma Animae l. 1 8● 2. Thomas Waldensis Doctrinalis Tom. 3. Tit. 4. c. 29. De sacris vestibus quibus Sacerdos intrat ad Missam Gulielmus Durantus Rationale Divinorum l. 3. the Roman Missal Pontifical Ceremonial and all who write of Bishops and Priests Vestments under the Gospel and their Consecrations derive both their pattern and legitimation To which I answer That these Texts are so far from justifying that they are the strongest Arguments that can be against the Vestments of Priests and Prelates now contended for upon these several accounts 1. All and every of these Aaronical Vestments under the Law were particularly invented prescribed together with their matter form colour use by God himself in precise terms not by Moses or Aaron and his Sons alone according to their own fancies But the Vestments Garments Rochets Surplisses of Popes Archbishops Bishops Priests Deacons now contended for were neither particularly invented prescribed by God himself or Christ either in respect of their matter form colour use directly or indirectly nor by any one Text in the Old or New Testament but merely invented prescribed by Popes Archbishops Bishops Priests Monks according to their own vain doting fancies Therefore no wayes justified but condemned by these Texts 2ly All these Garments were made and the constant use of them in Divine services and administrations punctually enjoyned by Gods special Command warrant law not by Popes Bishops Councils Decretals Injunctions Constitutions Canons Visitation Articles alone as all Pontifical Sacerdotal Garment● Rochets Surplisses Hoods and other such Trinkets are 3ly They were all put on Aaron and his Sonnes and both of them consecrated together by Moses alone the chief civil Magistrate not by any Pope Bishop Priest or other Ecclesiastical person who now only ingrosse and claim the right of ordaining consecrating all Archbishops Bishops Priests Ministers Deacons Ecclesiastical persons together with the hallowing of their Garments Rochets Surplisses and deem it no less than Sacrilege and Usurpation for Kings or Civil Magistrates to ordain or consecrate any of them or order ought concerning them but at their requests and as their Substitutes 4ly These Garments of theirs were different both in matter kinde form fashion from Rochets Surplisses Albees Hoods Planets Dalmaticks Chymeres Palls Stoles Pectoral Crosses Cassockes Gownes Black Silken Girdles Copes Miters square Caps and other Vestments now used contended for by Ceremonial Prelates and Clergy-men Therefore not warranted but condemned by these Texts 5ly These Garments were prescribed to Aaron and his Sons to put on only when they went in to the Tabernacle Altar Temple to offer up Levitical Sacrifices and Services unto God not when they prayed preached instructed the people in their several Cities Synogogues or in their Kings Palla●es as these Texts resolve Therefore no presidents for Bishops Priests or Deacons to imitate when they preach read Prayers officiate or administer Sacraments in Cathedrals or Parish Churches and Chapels 6ly Aaron the High Priest and his Successors with his Sons and Jewish Priests Sacrifices Priesthood Altars Vestments were all temporary typical utterly abolished by the incarnation passion sacrifice res●rrection ascention of our Lord Iesus Christ whom they typified shadowed as inconsistent with and not fit to be continued under the Gospel as on the Epistles to the Hebrews Galatians Romans Collossians Acts 15. and whole New Testament all Commentators on them Old and New resolve especially Hebr. 7 8 9 10. Therefore these Vestments may not ought not to be revived continued under the Gospel unless we will revive the Aaronical Priesthood High Priest Priests Levites with their Sacrifices Altars Tabernacle Temple and all other Levitical Ceremonies Vestments in specie and renounce both Christ himself with his Priesthood Ministrie and the Gospel 7ly None were to put on or wear these holy Garments but Aaron and his sonnes who were all Priests by birth and succession not election and ordination as all Apostles Bishops Ministers Deacons were and yet are who being none of the Tribe of Levy or Sonnes of Aaron by natural generation can claim no Title by the Law to their Priestly Garments much less by the Gospel which thus expresly resolves Hebr. 7. 12 13. For the Priesthood being changed there is made of necessity a change also of the Law For he of whom these things are spoken pertaineth to another Tribe of which no man gave attendance at the Altar and of which Tribe Mosco spake nothing concerning Priesthood An unanswerable Text against all Evangelical Bishops Ministers Deacons claims and pretences especially being Gentiles not Iewes by birth and Christians by regeneration to Aaronical Levitical Priestly Vestments or Ornaments which Text I desire them all to answer at their leisures 8ly If any allege they only use these Garments by way of allusion and imitation not prescription I answer 1. That they have no Precept nor warrant in the Gospel for this their allusion or imitation but direct Precepts warrants cautions against it as inconsistent with the Gospel and Salvation too Hebrews 6. 7 8 9 10. c. 12. 27 28 29. c. 13. 10 11. Col. 2. 1 ● to the end Phil. 3. 2 3. Tit. 1. 10. 11. Gal. 4. 30 31. c. 5. 1 2 3 4 11 12. Acts 15. 2ly They have no President from the Apostles or primitive Christians Churches for above 300. years after Christ. 3ly If our Bishops Priests Deacons will imitate them in their Garments it must be in fashion species form end use as well as matter and colour the best realest imitation Out Bishops or the Pope who pretend themselves the High Priests Successors though they can never prove it must then wear a Brestplate ephod robe broidered coat ●●iter girdle of the same materials form as Aarons were And our Priests Deacons must wear fine linnen Ephods Breeches Bonnets and none but linnen not woolen Garments on them whiles they minister nor any thing that may cause sweat and lay aside all their Surplisses Hoods Gowns Copes Caps Cassocks of wool silk satin sarcenet velvet which now they use else they do not imitate but prevaricate from this president 4ly Then none but Bishops Ministers Deacons not any Scholars in Colleges Halls nor Singing-men Choristers and others not in sacred Orders must wear Surplisses as now they are enjoyned by the forecited Canons since none but Aaron and his Sonnes alone were to wear these holy Garments 5ly All these their Garments must be consecrated in the self-same manner as theirs were 1. By Moses the chief Civil Magistrate not by Archbishops Bishops Priests or Presbyters 2ly With sprinkling of blood and holy anoynting oyle upon the Tip of their Ears Bodies Garments after they are put upon their Backs without any solemn Prayers Holy-water sprinkled or Crosse● made on them as their Episcopal Vestments Surplisses and Albees are now hallowed not upon their bodies but before they must wear or put them on Upon all which

other Ceremonies Customes Crossings of the Body in several places and antique gestures which Priests and Prelates are to use in reading the Gospel fitter for the Stage than the Church or Gospel and to provoke laughter than Devotion It seems this Custom of standing at the Gospel began of late to be discontinued or neglected even by Popish Priests and Laicks whereupon the Popish Council of ●hemes in France Anno 1583. re-inforced it by this Canon Dum legitur Evangelium vel Praefatio omnes assurgant Let all stand up whiles the Gospel or Preface is read Thi● Ceremony or Gesture of Standing is likewise customarily used by most at the respective rehearsing of the Creed commonly called the Apostles Nicene and Athanasius Creeds though not prescribed by any Rubrick Law of our Church nor yet by any Popish Canons or Decrees to my remembrance as standing up at Gloria Patri and the Gospels are If it be only used out of pure devotion more attentively to hear mind what is read or spoken no prudent Christian can justly censure but approve it But if done merely out of Custom or because the Creed is the word of the Gospel according to its sense or to distinguish between the recital of the Creed and other parts of Divine worship or to advance the Creeds composed by men out of the Scriptures themselves of Divine inspiration authority before the sacred Fountains from whence they flow or to stand up for or stand to or stand fastin them as we use to speak more than to any other parts of the Scripture being all of like sacred inspiration and Divine authority it is no wayes excusable much lesse justifiable by any understanding Christians To close up this Discourse touching standing up at Gloria Patri Gospels and Creeds it is unquestionable that the posture of standing is in it self indifferent and may b● lawfully used in any part of Divine publick worship so as it be not done out of singularity opposition to decency and order or for superstitious or unanswerable grounds but only to raise up our drowsie bodies hearts spirits more attentively fervently devoutly to read hear pray and discharge that part of Gods worship wherein we use it The Primitive Christians and Universal Church for above Eight hundred years after his Nativity in memory of Christs resurrection did use to pray on all Lords dayes and between Easter and Whitsontide and worship God standing not kneeling nor bowing their knees at all when they prayed or worshipped which they prescribed prohibiting kneeling on these days by sundry Councils and reputing it a kinde of crime or impiety Whence they stiled their Meetings on the Lords day Stationes à stando Stations from this their standing at them and the Christians of those times Stationarii as Tertullian b Cyprian the Council of Nice Can. 20. the 6. Synod of Constantinople in Trullo can 90. the Synod of Towers under Charles the Great can 37 the Council of Aquisgrane under L●dovicus pius c. 47. the Century writers Cent. 3. cap. 6. col 153. Centur. 3 5 6 7. c. 6. with sundry others attest From whence it is apparent 1. That they held this gesture of standing lawfull and that they stood at the reading of the Psalmes Epistles and all Lessons out of the Old Testament as well as at the Gospels making no distinction between them 2ly That they received the Lords Supper standing not kneeling 3ly That they neither bowed their knees nor heads at the Name JESUS when ever read or heard first introduced by Pope Gregory the 10th about the year 1272. who restrained the use of it only to the Celebration of the Masse and never practised before his time for ought appears by Ecclesiastical Historiaus Fathers Councils or Decretals of Popes themselves Yet notwithstanding this antient universally received Custom of the Church though ratified by sundry Councils of praying performing all parts of Gods publick worship only standing not kneeling on every Lords day and between Easter and Whitsontide is long since quite laid aside in all or most Christian Churches and therefore the use of Gloria Patri Of standing up at it and at the Gospels and Creeds not so antient nor universal nor grounded on so good reasons as these Stations together with the late cringing and bowing at the name Iesus may now with much more reason be set aside and discontinued for our Churches Peace Settlement and Unity in Gods worship SECT IV. Of the use of white Surplisses Rochers with other Episocopal and Sacerdotal Consecrated Vestments in the Celebration of Divine Service and Sacraments in Churches THe last thing I shall examine is the pretended necessity decency or expediency of Bishops Ministers D●acous Scholars Choristers wearing of white Surp●isses Rochets and other sacred Vestments Habits Ornaments in the celebration of Divine service and Sacraments which many have formerly and now of late over-rigidly contended for refusing to admit such into Fellowships or Orders who out of scruple of Conscience refused to wear them and silencing deprivi●g many godly orthodox painfull learned preaching Ministers who could not in judgment or conscience submit to use them Not to enter into any General discouse concerning the several uses of Apparel as 1. To cover our nakedness 2ly To keep our Bodies warm and defend them from cold heat rain winde tempe●ts 3ly To adorn our Bodies in a modest decent comely manner without lasciviousness ●rodigality or fantastickness 4ly To distinguish the Male and Female Sexes and some Ranks Callings of men from others of a different Degree or Profession I shall only premise these 13. considerations which I suppose must be acknowledged by the most zealous Contenders for these Pontifical and Ecclesiastical Vestments and Habits without dispute when duly pondered 1. That there is no particular kinde fashion form of holy Garments instituted or prescribed by God in sacred Writ to Bishops Ministers or Deacons in and under the Gospel as there was to Aaron the High Priest and Iewish Priests and Levites under the Law 2ly That there is no one Text throughout the New Testament nor authentick Testimony to prove that either Christ or his Apostles or any Bishops Ministers or Deacons in the Apostles times or for some hundreds of years after them were distinguished by their Apparel from other Christians or Believers or that they preached prayed or administred the Sacraments in any consecrated Vestments whatsoever much lesse in such Rochets Surplesses or other Pontifical Habits as are now so eagerly contested for but only in their ordinary wearing Apparel the fashion or colour whereof is no where particularly described much lesse prescribed in the Gospel to all or any Ministers Bishops or Deacons And why should not all Prelates and Ministers be content to imitate and conform themselves to their Example as they are enjoyned Ephes. 1. 2. Phil. 3. 17. 1 Pet. 2. 21. unlesse they will be reputed as in truth

Pagan not Christian Priests Porre re●●gio divina alterum habitum habet in Ministerio alterum in usu vitaque communi Which compared with his former passage intimates that some Ecclesiastical Persons did then wear white Vestments in the Religious publick exercise of their Ministry and Administration of the Sacrament which is further evidenced by St. Chrysostont ad Populum Antioehiae Serm. 60. Wherein he applying his Speech to the Ministers who distributed the Lords Supper to the people useth this expression Hoc vestra dignitas hoc securitas hoc omnis Corona to keep scandalous unworthy persons from the Lords Table non ut albam et splendidam tuntcam circumeatis induti Which he repeats again in his 83. Homily upon Matth. 26. Haec est dignitas vestra haec stabilitas haec Corona praecipua non nt tunicam induti candidi●mant per Ecclesiam ambuletis Whence the Century Writers observe Candidae vestis meminit tantum obiter Chrysostomus dum de Sacramenti corporis ac sanguinis Dominici administratione disserit From these passages of Hierom and Chrysostom Durantus Mr. Hooker and others justifie the Antiquity use of Surplisses though they do not positively define these white Garments to be Surplisses nor can they prove they were constantly and universally used by much lesse prescribed to all Ministers Deacons and Ecclesiastical persons in that age or some hundreds of years after by any Oecumenical National or Provincial Councils Gregory of Towers in the 4th Book of his Histories c. 60. makes mention of the Arch-deacons putting on the Albe upon the Bishop when he officiated which some take to be a Surplisse about 640. years after Christ but for Bishops or Priests constant use of them by any Canon or Law in that age I yet remember none About 700. years after Christ Pope Sylvester and other Popes brought in the use of Stoles Surplisses with other Priests Massing Vestments by degrees and soon after turned their Masses and Divine Services by their manifold disguised Vestments Ceremonies Processions Bowings Crossings ridiculous antique fanatick innovations gestures into a meer Pagentry or Enterlude as is evident by Ordo Romanus Antiquus de Divinis Catholioae Ecclesiae Officiis said to be compiled about 800. years after Christ by Abbot Alcuinus Tutor to Charles the Great De Divinis Officiis cap. 38 39. published about the year ●02 where he at large describes the use original and reason of instituting the several sorts of Pontifical and Priests Vestments both under the Law and Gospel paralelling them and the grounds of their institution together After whose time I find several Canons made in divers Provincial Councils in France for the use of Albees and Surplisses in the Celebration of Masses and Sacraments the use of them being continued and successively prescribed in all Popish Churches ●ince that age to this very day which not only make the putting on or wearing a Surplisse by every Priest in the Act of his Ordination and of a Rochet with sundry other Episcopal Vestments and Ornaments upon Bishops a principal part badge of their Cousecration as the Roman Pontifical and Ceremonial prescribe in their Rubricks but likewise in their Missals Pontifical and Ceremonial of Bishops enjoyne set forms of Prayers and Crossings to be used by Bishops in the consecration of and putting on of Rochers Albees and other Trinkets when they are to officiate or discharge their Ministry in them which I shall here insert that all may discern their superstition and vanity I shall begin with their consecration of these Garments Benedictio Sacerdotalium indumentorum in genere V. Adjutorium nostrum in nomine Domini R. Quifecit Caelum terram V. Dominus vobiscum R. Et cum spiritu tuo Oremus OMnipotens sempiterne Deus qui per Moysen famulum tuum pontificalia sacerdotalia seu levitica vestimenta ad explendum in conspectu tuo ministerium eorum ad honorem decorem nominis tui fieri de crevisti adesto propitius invocationibus nostris haec indumenta sacerdotalia desuper irrigante gratia tua ingenti benedictione per nostrae humilitatis servitium purifi●●care bene●●dicere conse●●crare digneris ●●tit divinis culribus sacris my steriis apta benedicta existant his quoque sacris vestibus Pontifices Sacerdotes seu Levitae tui induti ab omnibus impulsionibus fell tentationibus malignorum spirituum muniti defensi esse mei eantur tuisque mysteriis aptè coneligne servire inhaerere atque in his tibi placitè devote perseverare tribue Per Christum Dominum nostrum R. Amen Oremus DEus invictae virtut is triumphator omnium rerum creator ac sanctificator intende propitius preces nostras haec indumenta leviticae sacerdotalis pontificalis gloriae ministris tuis fruenda tuo ore proprio bene●●dicere sanctifi●●care conse●●crare digneris omnesque cis utentes tuis mysteriis aptos tibi devote ac laudabiliter servientes gratos efficere digneris Per Dominum nostrum Oremus DOmine Deus omnipotens qui vestimenta Pontificibus Sacerdotibus Levitis in usum tabernaculi soederis necessaria Moysen famulum tuum agere jussisti eumque spiritu sapientiae ad id peragendum replevisti haec vestimenta in usum cul●u mysterii tui bene●●dicere sancti●●ficare conse●●crare digneris atque ministros altaris tui qui eainduerint septiformis Spiritus gratia dignanter repleri atque castitatis stola beata sacias cum bonorum fructu operum ministerii congruentis immortalitate vestiri Per Christum Dominum R. Aman. D●inde aspergit ipsaindumenta aqua benedicta Specialis Benedictio cujuslibet Indumenti V. Adjutorium nostrum in nomine Domini R. Qui fecit coelum terram V. Dominus vobiscum R. Et cum spiritu tuo Oremus DOmine Omnipotens bonarum virtutum dator omnium benedictionum largus infusor Supplices te rogamus ut manibus nostris opem tuae benectionis infundas has Caligas Sandalia vel Amictum vel Albam vel Cingulum vel Stolam vel Manipulum vel Tunicellam vel Dalmatieam vel Planetam divino cultui Praeparata vel praeparatum vel praeparatam virtute sancti spiritus bene●●dicere sancti●●sicare conse●●crare digneris omnibus eis vel eo vel ea utentibus gratiam sanctisicationis sacri mysterii tui benignus concede ut in conspectu tui sancti immacnlati atque irrepraehensibiles appareant auxilium misericordiae tuae acquirant Per Dominum nostrum Jesum Christum filium tuum qui tecum vivit regnat in unitate spiritus sancti Deus per omnia saecula saeculorum Amen Deinde aspergit ea aqua benedicta Before and after which follow several Chapters and forms De Benedictione Mapparum sou Linteaminum sacri Altaris De Benedictione Corporalium De Benedictione novae Crucis De Benedictione Crucis

the Rochet Surpliss Caps and Vestments prescribed by the Book of 2 3 E. 6. quite laid aside the reason whereof are expressed in the Preface to that Book why some Ceremonies were continued and others laid aside and in the Articles of Religion set forth by Edward the 6th Anno 1552. Artic. 21. 23. Neither were they actually or legally revived by the Common-prayer-book revised corrected ratified by the Statute of 1 Eliz. c. 2. that Act injoyning all things to be done according to the Book of 5 6 Ed. 6. and none other or otherwise in which there was nothing concerning these Garments What hot unchristian Schismes Contests about Rochets Surplisses the form of Bishops Priests ordinary Vestments and Formalities afterwards sprung up between our most zealous Protestant Bishops and Ministers in the fi●st 7. years of Q. Elizabeths reign you may read at leasure in Dr. Heylins late partial History of the Reformation of the Church of England of Q● Elizabeth wherein he layes many black aspertions upon K. Edw. the 6 himself his Government the L. Protector sundry of our godly Bishops Martyrs Divines at home and Peter Martyr Calvin Zuinglius Alasco Beza with other chief Protestant Divines of reformed Churches abroad worthy the Ferula These controversies about Church vestments c. continued all her Reign growing every year higher higher every Parliament in her time as appears by the Journals being troubled with many Petitions Bills against them which the Bishops by their power in the Lords house suppressed and the world was filled with Books proet contra concerning them as the Books of Mr. Cartwright Mr. Vd●ll Penry Martin Mar-Prelate Altare Damascenum A Brief Discourse against the outward apparel and ministring Garments of the Popish Church printed 1578. A Discourse whether it be a mortal Sin to transgress the commandements of Civil Magistracy concerning the Apparel of Ministers The Declaration of certain Ministers in London refusing to wear the Apparel prescribed Mr. Philip Stubs with sundry more on the one side and Queen Elizabeths Advertisements in the seventh year of her Reign by her High Commissioners advice Archbithop Whitegift his Answer to the Admonition to the Parliament and Defence of his Answer against the Reply of T. C. 1574. in Folio Dr. Iohn Bridges his Defence of the Government now established in the Church of England 1584. Mr. Richard Hooker of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Policy 1593. with others on the other hand evidence Neither did these unnecessary unhappy Controversies about Priests Vestments and Ceremonies which perplexed our Church and gave great advantage to our Romish Adversaries expire with Queen Elizabeth but survived and grew to a heighth at the beginning of K. Iames his Reign who to silence or allay them appointed a special Conference at Hampton Court between the Bishops and Non-Conformists Party whereof Learned Dr. Ranolds was one about Reformation of Church matters Anno 1603. which many hoped would have put a period to these Contests but instead thereof did much increase them through the Bishops obstinacy potency pride who refusing to comply with the moderate just desires of their Fellow-Ministers and Protestant Christian Brethren in some superfluous Trifles particularly concerning the wearing of the Surpliss then and yet commonly termed A Raggc of Popery soon after in their Convocation held at London 1603. prescribed the constant wearing of Surplisses and Copes Hoods besides not only to Cathedral Church-men but likewise to all Ministers Curates reading Divine Service or administring the Sacraments in Parish Churches or Chapels and likewise to Fellows and Schollars in the Universities for which there was no former binding Law nor Canon by these ensuing Constitutions Canon 16 and 17. In the whole Divine Service and Administration of the Holy Communion in all Colleges and Halls in both Vniversities the Order Form and Ceremonies shall be duely observed as they are set down and prescribed in the Book of Common-Prayer without any omission or alteration even in the faulty old English Translation all Masters and Fellows of Colleges and Halls and all the Schollars and Students in either of the Universities shall in their Churches and Chapels upon all Sundayes Holy-dayes and their Ev●s at the time of Divine Service wear Surplisses according to the Order of the Church of England which had no such Order that I can find before and such as are Graduates shall agreeably wear with their Surplisses such Hoods as do severally appertain to their Degrees Canon 24. In all Collegiate and Cathedral Churches the Holy Communion shall be administred upon principal Feast-dayes sometimes by the Bishop if he be present and sometimes times by the Dean and at sometimes by a Canon or Prebendary the principal Minister using a decent Cope and being assisted with the Gospeller and Epistolar agreeably according to advertisements published by Queen Elizabeth An. 7. Canon 25. In the time of Divine Service and Prayers in all Cathedral and Collegiate Churches when there is no Communion it shall be sufficient to wear Surplisses saving that all Deans Masters and Heads of Collegiate Churches Canons and Prebends being Graduates shall daily at the times both of Prayer and Preaching wear with their Surplisses such Hoods as are agreeable to their Degrees Canon 58. Every Minister saying the publ●ke Prayers or ministring the Sacrament or other Rites of the Church shall wear a decent and comely Surplisse with Slèeves to be prouided at the charge of the parish And if any question arise touching the matter decency or comlinesse thereof the same shall be decided by the discretion of the Ordinary Furthermore such Ministers who are Graduates shall wear upon their Surplesses at such time such Hoods as by the Orders of the Vniversities are agreeable to their Degrees which no Minister shall wear being no Graduate under pain of Suspension Notwithstanding it shall be lawfull for such Ministers as are no Graduates To wear upon their Surplisses instead of Hoods some decent Tippet of Black so it be not silk After which followes this 74. Canon prescribing the form species of their ordinary wearing Apparrel The true ancient and flourishing Churches of Christ being ever desirous that their Prelacy and Clergy might be had as well in outward reverence as otherwise regarded for the worthinesse of their Ministry did think it ●it by a prescript form of decent and comely Apparell to have them known to the people and thereby to receive the honour and estimation due to the speical Messengers and Ministers of Almighty God We therefore following their grave judgement and the ancient Custom of the Church of England and hoping that in time new●anglenesse of Apparel in some factious persons will dye of it self doe constitute and appoint That the Archbishop and Bishops shall not intermit to use the accustomed Apparel of their degrees Likewise all Deans Masters of Colledges Archdeacons and Prebendaries in Cathedral and Collegiate Churches being Priests or Deacons Doctors in Divinity Law and Physick Bachelers in Divinity

this day the Nobles and better sort of Women use to mourn in White array The better fort of Turks use to mourn in White and in Iapan White is a Funeral colour Black a Feastival Yea at this Day the Queens of France after their Husband Kings decease wear White Garments during their Widow-hood in token of grief and retiredness and in many places of England when any Maids dye before mariage other Virgins use to accompany their Hearse to their Graves in white Wastcoats Gloves Ribonds Therefore white Garments cannot be of themselves a badge of joy chearfullness triumph for then white Winding-sheets should be so wherein we all inter dead Corps 3ly White Garments are no peculiar badge of Evangelical Bishops or Ministers of the Gospel and that only in Divine administrations For as I never read that Christ or his Apostles or the primitive Evangelical Bishops Ministers Deacons for above 350. years af●er Christ used any such Vestments Surplisses Rochets in divine Administrations which doubtlesse they would have done had they deemed them necessary decent or expedient so on the contrary I read 1. That the Tapyrae Bactriani Iberi and other barbarous Nations about Hyrcania compell their Women to wear and walk ab●oad Albis Lunicis in White Coats and short cut hair when as the Men only wear black vestments and let their Hair grow long 2. That the Romans in their Circentian Playes had 4. Factions clad in 4. several sorts of coloured Garments just like the Popish Priests and Prelates according to the four seasons of the year to wit in Green-coloured Garments dedicated to the Spring in Rose-coloured Vestments devoted to the Harvest in Violet-coloured consecrated to Winter and in White Garments dedicated to Autumn when men as well as fruits and leave● usually drop into their Graves And that the Romans used to resort to behold their Playes Toga candida in a white Gown or Surplisse which was no act of Religion but Pastime 3ly That those who stood for any elective Offices among the Romans were usually clad in white Garments from whence they were stiled Candidati as Caelius Rhodiginus proves at large out of Titus Livius Plutarch Pliny Vlpian Iuvenal and others which Candidates usually bribed the people to gain their Voyces with mony meat drink feasts notwithstanding many successive severe Lawes made against it as too many Knights Citizens Burgesses now use to bribe their Electors before and at every Parliamentary election with Gifts Feasts and drunken entertainments for which they deserve expulsion out of the House of Commons far better than Thomas Long who in the Parliament of 8. Elizabeth was expelled the Commons House upon examination of his Case only for giving the Maior of Westbury in Wiltshire 4 l. to be elected a Burgesse to serve in that Parliament for this his corrupt dealing which was to poyson the very Fountain it self and the Maior fined and imprisoned where as some now spend one two or three thousand pounds apiece in Counties to be elected Knights and others one two three four or five hundred pounds a piece or more to be chosen Citizens and Burgesses for the last this approching Parliament in Bribes Wine Ale Bear Tobacco Feasts and drunken entertainments which will hardly produce a sober Parliament and for which the Elements now mourn yea drop down showers of Wrath uponus for which bribery they well deserve to be cast out of the Parliament-house and fined treble the value of their Bribes and expences to his Majesty ●ince the Pagan Romans were so just as by the Law of C. Petilius Tribune of the people to impose a fine and penalty of ambition upon Q. Coponius quod vini amphoram ei cujus suffragio magistratum petebai dono dederat And if his giving but a Quare or Pottle of Wine was reputed a Bribe deserving punishment what do they demerit who give whole Tuns Buts of Wine and many Barrels of Ale Bear to their Electors for their Voyces Yea those Mercinaries who thus unworthily sell their Voyces deserve to be for ever disabled to have any voyce in future Elections and this Roman Law is now fit to be enacted among us Vt in petendis honoribus candidati sine toga ad Comitia descenderent ne pecuniis in sinu reconditis tribuum suffragia merearentur 4ly That the idolatrous Priests of Isis among the Aegyptians when they sacrificed to this Idoll did shave their Crownes and wear white Surplisses Garments just as the Popish Priests do now above a 1000. years before Christians took up this fashion and the Roman Matrons in the Feast of their Goddesse Ceres did annually sacrifice to her veste candida in a white Garment ut tunc Diis gratum esse censerent si à laetis nec à sunere pollutis celebraretur 5ly That the four Monks of Saint Denis Abbey in France who carry the Canopy over the viol of Holy oyl pretended to be sent from Heaven at the French Kings Coronation albis induti are arayed in white Surplisses and Rochets though not in holy Orders 6ly That our Bishops themselves and the Abbot formerly but now the Dean of Westminster at our Kings Coronation stripping off his ordinary Apparel put on him a Collobium Dalmatica or close Pall linnen Gloves and Sandals immediately after his consecrating as they use to do on Bishops and Priests of whole holy Vestments these are parcel Either therefore they must acknowledge our Kings to be Bishops and Priests as well as themselves or disclaim these Vestments as proper or peculiar to Bishops Priests and Clergy-men 4ly Admit white Garments Rochets Surplisses a Badge of Innocency Purity Holynesse as is pretended and therfore fit to be worn in time of Divine service and Sacraments by Bishops Priests Deacons and other Ecclesiastical Persons Then it will certainly follow from hence 1. That all Christians whatsoever ought to wear white Surplisses Rochets Albees as well as Popes Archbishops Metropolitans Bishops Arch-deacons Deans Prebends Priests Ministers Deacons and other Church-men 1. Because they are all equally purified washed from their sinnes externally by Baptisme and internally by the blood of Iesus Christ yea justified sanctified and made holy without spot or blemish as well as any Prelates Priests or Clergy-men whatsoever Eph. 5. 25 26 27. Rev. 1. 5 6. c. 7. 14. 1 John 1. 9. c. 2. 1 2. 1 Cor. 6. 11. Tit. 3. 5. Hebr. 10. 22. Psalm 51. 7. Isay 1. 18. 2ly Because they are all commanded to be pure holy blamelesse undefiled in all manner of conversati●● and godlynesse even as God is holy as well as Clergy-men Upon which account they are usually stiled Saints holy men holy brethren and redeemed by Christ for this very end that they should walk before and serve him in holynesse and righteousness all the daies of their lives 1 Pet. 1. 15 16. Rom. 11. 49. c. 19. 2. c. 20. 7. 2 Pet.