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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

piping and singing beautifying of temples beyond all meane and measure pollute and defile the house of God and none but rotten members of our Church can say the contrary 6 Bernard Augustine Ierome c. reprehend the too too great magnificence of temples esp●cially when they are made theaters rather to delight the peoples ears and ey● with melodio is tunes and pompous spect●cles then oratories to pray and praise God and be edified by preaching Bernard also reprehended in his time excessive heights and immoderate lengths of Churches because he misliked worldly magnificence in the spirituall service of God who dwels not in Temples made with hands So likewise doth Augustine Ierome Iustin Martyr and others they condemne gay ornaments and pompous spectacles of glittering pictures with melodious tunes of pipers and singers in the spirituall service of God especially at the administration of the holy Communion and Baptisme because they hinder godly meditations upon our Saviour Christ his bitter death and passion and our regeneration represented unto us in those mystical Sacraments For thus writeth Bernard in his Apologie against the superfluous ornaments of Churches I let passe the great statelinesse of temples their immoderate lengths their vaine breadths their sumptuous polishings their curious paintings which while they draw the sight of them that pray unto them they hinder their affection and they seem to me to resemble the old custome of the Jewes Mark this saith a learned writer in his Commentary on Iude how Bernard saith that those things which now adayes the defenders of superstitious vanities in Popery say were ordained to help devotion as gilded images and costly ornaments curious and sumptuous paintings and polishings of Altars and Temples they are so far from helping that they hinder devotion they withdraw saith Bernard not only the sight of them that pray but their affection also and they smell rather of Judaisme then Christianisme 7 The Iews had but one temple in the whole world and that was beautified with all manner of sumptuous ornaments altars and vestments for the Priests to offer sacrifices which could be done no where els it had singers also and musicall instruments But the synagogues which are answerable to Churches where the law of God was read and expounded every Sabbath day had none of those ornaments neither Priests nor priestly vestments nor altars nor s●crifices nor musick either instrumentall or vocall neither should our Church have the like because they are synagogues rather then temples Synagoga a congregation an assembly And Ierome in his Epistle to Nepotian concerning the life and conversation of the Clergy saith Iewrie had a rich temple and all things then made of gold then those things were allowed of the Lord. Then that is they are not now allowed of the Lord. And where were they allowed of the Lord Not in the Synagogues which the Jewes had in all cities of the countrey where they assembled to heare the Law and the Prophets read and expounded every Sabboth day they had not there either Altars bloody sacrifice or incense golden vessels or Priestly vestments musicall instruments or singers but only in the Temple of Jerusalem as David the King and Prophet by the instinct of Gods Spirit ordained there to be used only when solemne sacrifice was offered For thus writeth Arias Montanus Fuit in templo suggestum inter sacerdotes populum atrium constitutum in quo Levitae musicis instrumentis solennium quotidianorum sacrificiorum tempore canerent There was a pulpit gallery or scaffold erected in a great roome or court betwixt the Priests and the people where the Levites might sing and play upon their musicall instruments when the solemne sacrifices were daily offered Daily saith he but Flavius Iosephus the Jew being himself both Priest and Levite knew better what was done he in his seventh book of Antiquities saith David that renowned Prophet of God devised many instruments of musick and he taught the Levites to sing and play hymnes to the Lord per Sabbathorum dies aliásque sol●nnitates at the solemnities of Festivall dayes and Sabbaths Therefore not every day in the week nor thrice every day they did not turn the houres of prayer into solemne services with piping and chanting morning and evening and mid-day as our new-fangled ceremony-mongers of late most audaciously attempted to do in this Church of Durham and did so indeed the space of two years without authority contrary to the Injunctions statutes and customes of our Church which they were sworne to observe Vitalianus himselfe was not so impudently presumptuous who was the first Pope that brought Organs into Churches not into his own Chappell at Rome for there they are not yet nor ever were saith Cardinall Cajetan not to be used but onely upon holy-Holy-Dayes and this he did about the yeare of our Lord 660. about 60. years after Gregory the great who would never have allowed such excesse of piping and chanting Of this Vitalianus borne at Signium a town in Italy thus writeth Mantuan Signius adjunxit molli conflata metallo Organa quae festis resonent ad sacra diebus First Pope Vitalian to the singers joyned his Organs Which might on Holy-Dayes at Service pipe to the people 8 The singing of Psalm●s commended and practised by Ambrose Constantine the great Basil and the whole Primitive Church but organs and prick-song were never heard of in the Church till Pope Vitalian brought them in Athanasius that great pillar of the Church which he supported against Arrianisme Canendi usum in Ecclesiis interdixit vanitates fugitans In detestation of superstitious vanities he utterly forbad the use of chanting in Churches but he forbade not the singing of Psalms in a plaine tune by the whole congregation which was then allowed and highly commended by Ambrose and Gelasius and practised by the Emperour himselfe as Eusebius witnesseth in the fourth Book of the life of Constantine the great Cantare primus incepit unà oravit conciones stans reverenter audiit adeò ut rogatus ut consideret responderit fas non esse dogmata de Deo remisse segniter audire This most famous Christian Emperour that ever the Church of Christ had he first began to sing the Psalme he joyned with the people in prayer to God standing up reverently he heard Sermons insomuch as being intreated to sit downe he answered it is not lawfull to heare the doctrine of God slothfully and carelesly So that he used not the gesture of standing superstitiously as a ceremony more holy then sitting or kneeling as our upstart reformers do in this Church of Durham compelling all the people to stand looking about them like fooles and noddies all the time that the Nicene Creed is sung with the Organ c. which Creed Why Constantine stood to heare they can neither say by heart nor understand one word when it is sung But onely that religious Prince stood upon his feet that he might