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A60393	A catalogve of superstitons innovations in the change of services and ceremonies, of presumptuous irregularities, and transgressions, against the Articles of Religion, Act of Parliament for uniformity, canons, advertisements, injunctions, and homilies and lastly, of sundry perjurious violations of the locall statutes of Durham Cathedrall church, which the dean and presendaries, and all other members of the said church, took their corporall oaths, to observe, and obey, at their admittance and installation, according to that in the 13. Chap. De admissione Canonicorum ... / opposed by Peter Smart ...	Smart, Peter, 1569-1652?	1642 (1642)	Wing S4013; ESTC R560	24,629	36

or Bishops Tables and Eucharists In the after times the Fathers presumed to take a greater liberty of speech but they never meant to defend such popish sacriledge as is the having of Priests Sacrifices and Altars And because ages more degenerating did set as it were a Byas upon the phrases Priests Sacrifices Altar which had been used by the Fathers improperly to draw them to a proper signification flat contrary to their first Institution therefore did Protestants wish That those ancient Fathers had rather contained themselves within their more ancient bounds than that their liberty of speech should have occasioned in Romanists that prodigall error in Doctrine Thus much saith Doctor Morton 9. They notoriously offended in removing the Font so often from the ancient usuall place where heretofore it stood contrary to the advertisement The Font shall not be removed and the 81 Canon The Font shall stand in the ancient usuall place 10. They offended highly in adoring the Altar falsly so called for when it is gorgeously adorned with brave and rich Furniture and set up on high at top of the Quire or Chancell removed from the base and prophane multitude as they account them and carrying a greater Majesty than it had being a plain Communion Table standing in the Body of the Church then they bowed down to it and worshipped it more than ever the papists did making it thereby an execrable Idoll they bow down I say their bodies before the same Altar and towards no other thing or place in the Church as if it were the most holy thing the Church of God hath as Doctor Duncomb blasphemously writeth in his Determination holyer than the Bible it self to which none make legs or bow their bodies 11. They have offended in contradicting the Church of England and endamaging our reformed Religion in not defacing nor abolishing monuments of Idolatry but repairing adorning beautifying and multiplying them more than ever they were in time of popery contrary to the 23 Injunction in which charge is given for the abolishing of things superstitious That Candlesticks Pictures Paintings and all manner of Monuments of Idolatry be taken away utterly extinct and destroyed So that there remain no memory of the same in Walls Windows or elsewhere Item In the Articles of the first yeer of the Queens visitation 1559. The second Article enquireth whether Candlesticks Images Pictures and other Monuments of Idolatry and Superstition be abolished Hereby it appeareth that the intention of the Church of England was at the reformation thereof from Popish Superstition and Idolatry that Massing Copes and other Altar Cloaths embroydered with Images That Candlesticks Tapers Crosses Crucifixes c. being once ejected must not be brought in again and set upon the Communion Table or in Windows above the Table as is done in Durham and other Churches adjoyning 12. They offended in rejecting the Homilies and Injunctions and consequently the doctrine of the Church of England because they condemn Images Altars and other superfluous ornaments The Homily of the place and time of prayer hath these words of a woman saying to her neighbour at the first reformation of Churches in England Alas alas what shall we now do at Church since all the Saints are taken away seeing all the goodly fights we were wont to have are gone seeing we cannot have the like piping and chanting and playing on the Organs that we had before But dearly beloved saith the Homily we ought greatly to rejoyce and give God thanks that our Churches are delivered from all these things which displeased God so sore but now those abominations which were taken away at Durham are restored again with great advantage 13. They offended in calling their superstitious Trinkets Ornaments of the Church which our Church disalloweth and condemneth as being disgracements of Religion and abominations in the Church of God Thus saith the Homily against the perill of Idolatry and Superstitious decking of Churches The Lords holy Name ought to be called upon by publike prayer and thanksgiving his holy Sacraments ought duly and reverently to be administred not gaudily flauntingly theatrically histriorically due reverence is stirred up in the hearts of the godly by the confideration of those true ornaments of the house of God and not by any outward Ceremonies or costly and glorious deckings of the said House or Temple of the Lord as Saint Bernard saith Orantium in se retorquent aspectum impediunt affectum Such glorious spectacles draw away from God the minde of them that pray and they hinder holy affections or meditations Praetendunt ornatum saith Heming●us in his Enchiridion speaking of Images Si illi ornat●● adjunctum sit ullu● periculum sit maledictus They pretend that they are set up for Ornaments but cu●sed be such Ornaments to which the perill of Idolatry is joyned And again Spiritus Sanctus saith Ezekiel Chr. 20. Vocat Idola abominationes oculorum sed puluis ciuis ea vocat ornamenta oculorum The holy Ghost calls Images the abhomination of the eyes but man that is but dust and ashes calls them the ornaments of the eyes and then he concludeth Verus ornatus Templorum utilis Deo gratus est concio cantio oratio communio non haec quae vel impediunt vol vitiant The true Ornaments of the Church profitable to men and acceptable to God is the preaching of Gods Word the singing of Psalms the administration of the Sacraments and Prayer and not such things as do hinder and defile the same 14. They have offended against their Mother the Church of England in taking away the ten Commandments where they placed their Altar for having cast out the decent Communion Table at the same time they sent away into the Countrey the Decalogue fairly written in golden Letters contrary to the expresse words of the 82. Canon and practise of all our Churches The ten Commandments shall be set upon the East end of every Church or Chapell where the people may best see and read the same So they were placed in Durham Cathedrall very fairly written and hanging upon the Wall till the Lords Table was taken away and a brave sumptuous Altar daily adored by all sorts of people specially Priests and Clerks with bowing down their bodies before it Till I say a glorious high Altar was erected with Crucifixes and other Images of Saints and Angels even of the Trinity it self Which Idols as the Church of England calls them in her Homilies could not endure the presence of Gods second Commandment which forbids Images and Idolatry and much more reason had they to remove the Decalogue out of their sight since the fourth Commandment also was by them abrogated which commandeth the observation of the Sabbath Remember that thou keep holy the Sabbath day the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God in it thou shalt do no manner of work At the end of the fourth Commandment our Church enjoyneth the people to kneel down and say Lord

have mercy upon us and incline our hearts to keep this Law What Law The Law for observing the Christian Sabbath which word Doctor Linsell said My stomack riseth when I hear Sabbath call it no more Sabbath And Bishop Neal said at his visitation in Durham I see no reason but that the Festivall day of a Saint may be preferred before Sunday what is Sunday 15. They have ridiculously and superstitiously offended in the use of Copes and other superstitious Vestments falsely called Copes at unlawfull times and places And they continued even till this time 1642. in the same abuse being admonished and taught the truth they will not amend nor acknowledge their errour The 24. Canon saith thus in all Cathedrall and Colligiat Churches the holy Communion shall be administred by the Bishop or a Prebendary the principall Minister using a decent Cope and being assisted by the Epistoler and Gospeller agreeably according to the advertisements published Anno 7. Eliz. The advertisements made by Commissioners authorized under the great Seal of England saith thus At the administration of the holy Communion in Cathedrall and Collegiat Churches the principall Minister shall use a Cope with the Epistoler and Gospeller agreeably and at all other prayers at the Communion Table to use no Copes but Surplesses The 45. Canon saith the same When there is no Communion it shall be sufficient to wear Surplesses By this it is manifest That the Copes must be decent and they must never be used save only at the administration of the holy Communion But Durham Innovators did say their second Service daily when there was no Communion at their Altar and after every Sermon one of the Priests did put on a Cope to say two or three Prayers at the Altar not suffering the Minister to dismisse the Congregation with blessing of Gods peace as was wont to be done in Durham and all other Cathedralls of England till very lately some new fangled Deans and ignorant Canons absurdly have imitated Durhams fooleries 16. They offended in using and justifying him that used a Cope in the Pulpit a Hood being appointed and sitting in his Stall in a Cope at time of divine Service and Sermon at which times Hoods are alwayes commanded to be worn by Graduates which are never put on with Copes and Copes are alwayes forbidden save only at the administration of the holy Communion This was done in Durham contrary to the example of all Churches either popish or Reformed contrary also to the expresse words of the Canon and Injunctions In the 25 Canon thus we reade In the time of Divine Service in all Cathedrall and Collegiate Churches Deans and Prebendaries being Graduates shall dayly at the times of Prayers and Preachings wear with their Surplices such hoods as are agreeable to their Degrees The Advertisement saith the same Item That the Dean and Prebendaries wear a Surplice with a Silk Hood in the Quire and when they preach in the Cathedrall or Collegiate Church to wear their Hoods Master Burg●yn the first setter up of Altars and introducer of other popish Ceremonies in that Countrey having taken three Degrees in Cambridge offended thrice in wearing a Cope without his Hood without which Hood he preached twice and once sate in his stall in a Cope when he preached not as if he had been some Sir John lack-latine or simple petty-Canon 17. They offended both in using sumptuous Copes glittering with Images and among the rest of the blessed Trinity God the Father in the likenesse of an old man God the Son in the likenesse of a younger man the holy Ghost in the similitude of a Dove wrought upon red Velvet with Gold Silver and Pearl one of which was taken from a Masse-priest As also in using scurvie py-bald curtal'd and ridiculous Vestments falsly called Copes being indeed very fools coats at the Communion Table and that dayly at the Administration of the holy Communion whereas by the aforesaid 24 Canon a decent Cope is onely commanded and by the Latine Canon all Vestments defiled with superstition are forbidden in the latine Canon de officio Decani thus we are taught Nullus ex ordine Ecclesiastico quocunque nomine censeatur utetur ulla veste superstitione contaminata No Ecclesiasticall person by what name soever he be called shall use the gray Amice as they call it or any other Vesture defiled with like superstition 18 They have wickedly transgressed against the 49. Injunction in abusing the laudible Science of Musicke every day and every Service without understanding of the people and edification The 49. Injunction willeth and commandeth the laudible Science of Musick be so preserved that the same in any part of Service he not so abused in the Church that thereby the Common Prayer should be the worse understood of the hearers That there be a modest and distinct song so used in all parts of the Common Praiers in the Church that the same may be as plainly understood as if it were read without singing And although one Hymne of more exquisite Musick in the beginning or end of Common Prayers may be sung yet respect must be had that the sentence of the Hymne may be understood and perceived Notwithstanding this Injunction our Durhamers have been so eager upon piping and singing that in stead of the Morning Prayer at 6. of the clock which was wont to be read distinctly and plainly for Schollers and Artificers before they begin their work they brought in a solemne Service with singing and Organs Sackbuts and Cornets little whereof could be understood of the people neither would they suffer the Sacrament to be administred without a continuall noise of Musick both instrumentall and vocal to the great disturbance of those holy actions 19 They offended in multiplying unlawfull Anthemes and disallowing lawfull Psalms-singing by the whole Congregation before and after Sermons according to the custome of all Cathedrall and Collegiate Churches and of Durham it self before Doctor Cosins and other of Bishop Neals Chaplains became Cannons of that Church which unlawfull forbidding of Psalms to be sung in a vulgar tune according to the custome of all other Churches they have continued to this present yeer 1642. 20 They offended in singing the Nicene Creed not after the manner of distinct reading as the aforesaid Injunction commands and as that which is called the Apostles Creed is sung yet forcing the people with brawling in the time of Divine Service to stand up upon their feet all the time that it is sung though they understand nothing neither can they perceive whether it be a prayer or a Creed contrary to the Rubrick and Injunction and 18 Cannon which injoyneth the people to stand up when the Apostles Creed is said saying with the Minister in an audible voice which none can do when the Nicene Creed is sung by the whole Quire with all their musical instruments 21 They offended in taking pipers and singers for assistants at the Administration of the holy