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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12327	A sermon preached in the cathedrall church of Durham, Iuly, 7. 1628. By Peter Smart	Smart, Peter, 1569-1652?	1640 (1640)	STC 22641; ESTC R212597	19,767	42

Montanists But give me leave I pray you to aske this question why bow you not the knee to the font also it being Lavacrum regenerationis the laver of regeneration as honorable and a more necessary Sacrament For without Baptisme none can bee saved as some teach but many that are baptized dye before they come to the yeares of discretion and probation that they may be fit to receive the Communion yet we see none make leggs to the Font Why doe they not Christ is as much present there and as really and the Font is an Altar as well as the Table and so it was termed in the primitive Church by Prudentius who lived 1300. yeares agoe Who speaking of a combate betweene Chastity and Lust after Chastity had killed Lust Abolens Baptismate labem Catholico in Templo divini Fontis ad Aram Consecrat gladium saith he Having washed away her spots in Baptisme shee consecrates her Sword wherewith she slew her enemies to the Catholick Church and hangs it up Fontis ad Aram at the Altar of the Font Loe here the Font also is called an Altar Therefore honour ye the Font as well as the Table with one and the same worship of bowing the knee to it or else you are Hereticks affording more holinesse and more dignity to one Altar and to one Sacrament then to the other For either your worship is religious or civill if it be civill ye are absurd idiots in honouring stocks and stones more then any poore man who is the image of God for who will lowt too low to a begger as to sweep the ground with his beard if it be not very short If it be religious you are more absurd in preferring the memory of Christs body and blood before the whole Trinity Seeing you are baptised in the name of the Father and of the Sonne and of the Holy Ghost and not in the Name of Christ alone The Lords Table therefore and the Font they are Altars both alike as an apple and an egg are onions both alike that is neither of them properly and truly though they have a kind of resemblance and being both alike and of equall worthinesse why are they so farre put asunder the whole length of the Church one at the head the other at the foo●e Why are they not set in the body of the Church or quire being the fittest place to receive the greatest assemblies and most Communicants Why is the Altar lifted up to the top of the Sanctuary or Chappell or the Font not admitted so much as to the bottome It is not suffered to stand in the wonted place behinde the quire doore why is one preferred as holier then the other being Sacraments of equall dignitie In St. Peters Church at Zur●cke the Lords Table and the Font or Baptistery stood both in one place as witnesseth Hospinian and so they stood here all the time of our former Bishops till the proud Altar mounting aloft shouldered the poore Font out of the quire and ●ossing it from post to pillar thrust it almost quite out of dores Doe I say almost 't is out of the Church quite for one thing is Templum another thing is Ecclesia Ecclesia is the Church where a congregation of people useth to assemble to heare the word preached which in Latine is Concio and it signifieth not onely the Sermon but caetum the multitud● meeting together to heare Gods word And the Preacher is called Ecclesiastes or Concionator derived from the same words Whereupon I conclude that where no congregation useth to meete to heare Sermons that place is no Church and cons●quently the Font being set in no place of assembly it is not in the Church I confesse it is in Templo in part of this vast fabrike but there it is where the people never meet to heare Gods word preached no more then they doe in the steep●● where the bells hang For this cause S. Bernard reprehended in his time Templorum immensas altitudines et immoderatas longitudines the excessive height and immoderate lengths of Temples Why so because he misliked worldly magnificence in the spirituall service of God who dwells not in Temples made with hands Also because hee would not have the Minister and people sundred nor scattered abroad in spatious roomes but joyned together as neer as might bee Who standing in the midst vulgi stante corona the people all about him round in a ring he may better be heard and they edified For all things in the Church ought to bee done to edification saith Paule which then is best when the Minister abides with the people or they draw neere to him Hee may not runne away in a Cope as farre as he can get him from the congregation But what a tricke is this which our newfangled Ceremony-mongers have taken up of late to goe in a Cope to the Altar to say two or three prayers after the Sermon why use they this ceremony not mentioned in the Communion booke or Canons Why suffer they not the Preacher to dismisse the congregation with the blessing of Gods peace as was wont to be done and our last Bishop esteemed to be best How dare ●hey put off and put on a Cope so often in one service not onely to pray but to reade the Epistle and Gospel and ten commandements at the Altar onely and no other place where the Letany and other service is read there being no such thing appointed in the Booke of Common prayer And the Canons according to the advertisements published in the seventh yeare of Queene Elizabeth commanding no Copes to be used but Surplices when all other Prayers are said at the Communion Table save onely at the administration of the holy Communion Why doe they these things contrary to law and never done in our Church before since the Masse was banished Is it because they are enamoured with Copes do they dote upon Copes Or are Psalmes and Chapters read in the body of the Church not for good Gospel nor so worthy to be coped Or is there so neere affinitie betweene Copes and Altars are they so married together that they can not be parted Or thinke they their prayers and other service more holy in such Priestly vestments in sancto sanctorum in that most holy place so devoutly duckt unto by our foolish bewitched and besotted Galathians Againe why sing they the Nicen Creed in a Cope at the Altar the booke appointing it to bee said as the Apostles Creed is said not sung Why make they the people to stand up when it is sung that ceremony of standing being forbidden by law by which you that stand marke what I say you that stand are to bee punished for obeying such unlawfull commands as I meane to prove when time shall serve Lastly why forbid they singing of Psalmes in such a tune as all the people may sing with them and praise God together before and after Sermons as by authority is allowed and

Idols and bowing to them But the Lords table is no Idoll no nor altar if it be the Lords boord as the Communion booke rightly names it For which Stephen Gardener sco●fingly accuseth us that wee have no altars but Tables or Boords ad comedendum bibendum to eate and drink at To which Peter Martyr answereth very well Quid opus est altar● vbi nec ignis ardeat nec victimae caedan●ur what vse is there of an altar where no fire burnes ●or beasts are slaine for sacrifice Shew me either out of the words of C●rst or the Apostles doctrine any commandement for the erecting of altars Wee have tables as St. Paul in his Epistles calls them who knew well enough that Christ did institute the mystery of the Eucharist at his last Supper not an altar but a table There hee supt there hee brake bread and wee know men use to sup and breake bread not upon altars but at tables Origen and Arnobius testifie that the Gentiles in their time 1400. years since made the same objection against Christians that they had not altars If therefore there were none in the primitive Church which was most pure why should we borrow them now of the corrupt Popish Church But what say you saith one of our Ceremony-masters are nat Altars mentioned in the new Testament we have an Altar whereof they have no right to eate which serve the Tabernacle Heb. 13. And in the 6. of the Revel. 9. v. I saw vnder the altar the soules of them that were slaine for the word of God Lo● here altars are plainly named Is not this a substantiall proofe that our Church now hath Altars O learned hea● Thinkes hee indeed that all the Martyrs soules which since Christs time have suffered for the testimony of Jesus are lodged so coldly under an altar stone wailing and crying some of them sixteene hundred yeeres How long Lord how long wilt thou avenge our blood and yet poore soules there must abide till doomes day A damnable heresie I would faine learne of such a dreaming Divine there being so many Altars in the Christian world vnder which of them lie so many millions o● souls for St. I●hn spe●k●s but of one Altar I saw vnder the Altar I p●ay you is not this Altar Christ the Altar of the faithfull E●a 56. So it is expounded by all learned Divines bo●h Papists and Protestan●s And among the rest by one whose authority the proud●st al●ar worsh●pp●r dare not gainsay I mean the King Theologus Rex● that divine Prince King Iames who in his paraph●as● on the Revelation hath these words interpreting the ●ext I saw vnder the Altar the soules of the Ma●t●rs which cyred with a loud voyce how long wilt thou d●lay ô Lord since thou art holy and tru● to revenge our blood For persecution it makes so great a ●umb●r of Martyrs that the soules lying vnder the Altar to wit in the safegard of Iesus Christ who is the onely Altar wher●upon and by whom it is onely lawfull for vs to offer the sacrifice of hearts and lipps to wit our humble prayers to God the Father They did pray and their blood did cry to heaven and crave at the hands of their Father a just revenge of their ●orments vpon the wicked Then white robes were given to every one of them Which saith hee ought to be a wonderfull comfort to all the Church militant Since by this they be assured that the soules of the Martyrs so soone as their bodies are killed shall immediately be rewarded with bright glory in heav●n not going into any other place by the way which is ●ignifi●d by the white robes Thus for his Majesties royall pen by whom we are taught that Christ is our one and onely Altar and that the soules of the Saints being presently rewarded with glory in heay●n not going to any other pl●ce by the way none of them are under our Al●ar though it be a brave one for it is ●ut of their way to heave● from the place where they ●uffered Martyrdome As for that plac● Hebr. 13. W● have an Altar● c. S● Paul himselfe ●xpoun●s ●●●●●●rwards in the ●5 v ●o be Christ saying by him therefore let vs offer the sacr●fice of praise to God continually that is the f●uit of ou● lips giving thankes to his name Which saith Aquinas● cannot be vnderstood of a ma●eriall ●ltar in the Church and whosoever thinks it to be so he is therein more popish then Fryer Thomas himselfe But now I come to their maine argument which they thinke qui●e overthrowes all that I have said concerning Altars and Ceremonies The Kings Chappell say they hath an Altar and all ●urniture belonging thereunto Da●e you disallow in ours what the King hath in his It is little better then treason as one ●aid● ● answer It was never out of the Kings Chappel at least the name of an altar since the first reformation in King Edwards time if it had I suppose it had never come in again● in his r●ligio●s successors raigne B●t it hath bin by Law ●j●cted out of this Church ●nd changed into ● sacred Table ●ieran trapezan as Chrysostome calls it I marvell therefore what lawlesse man could restore it without law Againe what have we to doe with imitation of the court May we be so saw●y as to imitate the King in all things Is it not treasō Is it not rebelliō so to do● What bold presumption is this in a Priest or Prelate to take vpon him to be like the King without his leave and not to suffer for his M●j●sty to have something extraordinary above the vulgar sort in magnificence and state The King comm●nds us to obey his L●wes not imitate his Chappell contrary to his lawes which bind Cathedrall Churches as well as the rest none are exempted none can be dispenst withall The law is this The Communion Table not Altar shall stand in the body of the Church or Chancell where morning and evening prayer be appointed to be said and the Minister shall stand at the north side of the Table Therefore our Communion table must stand as it had wont to doe in the midst of the quire not at the east end as farre as is possible frō the people where no part at all of evening prayer is ever said● and but a peece of the morning and that never till of late Neither must the table be placed along from north to south as the Altar is se● but from E●st to W●st as the custome is of all reformed Churches otherwise the Minister cannot stand at the north side there being neither side toward the North And I trow there are but two ●●des of a long table● and two ends making it square and then it will have foure sides and no end or foure ends and no side at which any Minister can stand to celebrate I confesse it is not ma●eriall which way a man turne his face when he