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A27512 A short view of the prelatical church of England laid open in ten sections by way of quere and petition to the High and Honourable Court of Parliament, the several heads whereof are set down in the next two pages / written a little before the fall of that hierarchie, about the year 1641, by Iohn Barnard, sometime minister of Batcomb in Somerset-shire ; whereunto is added The anatomy of The common-prayer. Bernard, Richard, 1568-1641.; Bernard, John. 1661 (1661) Wing B2034; ESTC R17815 85,593 122

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so ordered a● decency and the dignity of so holy an Office shall require We have thought fit by the advice of our Brethren the Bishops who are to assist in that sacred Administration and with whom we have consulted in that behalf to order That at seven of the clock in the morning of the said day the Lords Bishops Elect do attend us at the Dean of Christ-Church his house and that all the Bishops Consecrators be there also in their corner'd Caps Rochets and Chimers That notice be given to the said Deans of the two Cathedral Churches of D●blin that they likewise are expected to attend at the same time and place in their formalities That the said Deans respectively shall give orders to the Dignitaries Prebendaries Canons Pettit-Canons Vicars Chorals and Choristers that they do attend at the same hour in their respective formalities in the body of Christ-Church That the Vice Chancellor or Pro-Vice Chancellor of the University all Doctors of Divinity and of the Law as also all the Ministers and Civilians in this City with the whole University do likewise repair thither so far as they can conveniently furnish themselves with gowns and formalities to their respective Offices and Dignities appertaining That the order of proceeding be as followeth The Pursivant of the Court of Prerogative and the Apparatour general bare-headed The Vergers of the said two Cathedrals also bare-headed The Choristers two and two and the rest of the Procedents also in order two and two as followeth Vicars-Chorals Pettit-canons Prebends Dignitaries The said two Deans The Bishops Elect in their Albs. The Lord Primates Gent. Usher and Secretary bare-headed The Lord Primate The other Bishops Consecrators two and two The Bedel of the University The Vice-Chancellor or Provice-Chancellor and Provost Deans and Doctors two and two That the abovesaid orders may proceed with a silent solemn and slow-paced gravity until the time of entrance into the West-gate of St. Patricks Church where the Vicars and Choristers are to proceed singing into the Quire and there continue singing the te Deum accompanied with the Organ untill the Archbishops Bishops and the rest of the principal precedents shall be placed and seated in their respective stalls That the office of morning prayer be solemnly celebrated by the Dean of the said Church Which ended Dr. Jer. Taylor Lord Bishop Elect of Down designed to preach the Concio ad Clerum is to ascend the Pulpit during the singing of per veni nobis That after the said Bishop hath ended his Sermon he be conveyed by the Verger to his Stall That upon his Lordships descent from the Pulpit an Anthem be sung That from the end of the Anthem the voice of the Organ be heard and continued until the Lord Primate and the other Bishops who are to consecrate ascend into the enclosure within the rails and somewhat longer at least till the noise which may be occasioned by the usual motion of the People from their places after Sermon shall cease That after the Primate and Bishops Consecrators are seated in their chairs and the sound of the Organs continuing the Vicar-General as sent by the said Primate is to go to the Lords Elect sitting in their stalls and so with the Dean of St. Patrick to conduct their Lordships to the enclosure and there to range them in their order according as direction shall be given by the Primate That then the office of consecration be celebrated which ended the Anthem to that purpose composed by the Dean of St. Patricks called Quam denuo exaltavit Dominus coronam be sung as it here followeth Anthem after the Consecration Treble Now that the Lord hath re-advanct the Crown Which thirst of spoil and frantick zeal threw down Tenor. Now that the Lord the Miter hath restor'd Which with the Crown lay in the dust abhor'd Treble Praise him ye Kings Chorus all sing Tenor Praise him ye Priests Chorus all sing Glory to Christ our High-Priest Highe●● King Treble May Judahs Royal Scepter still shine clear Tenor. May Aarons holy Rod still blossoms bear Treble and Tenor. Scepter and Rod rule still and guide our land And those whom God anoints f●el no rude hand May Love Peace Plenty wait on Crown and Chair And may both share in blessings as in care Chorus Angels look down and joy to see Like that above a Monarchy Angels look down and joy to see Like that above an Hierarchy That while Veni Creator is in singing the Bishops to be consecrated shall have their Rochets and Chimers put on which done the consecration ended and the Anthem and Te Deum sung the Communion is to follow and after the Communion the blessing to be pronounced by the Lord Primate That after the Consecration ended the whole P●ocession do attend us to the Primate his lodgings That the laetificetur cor Regis be sung before the Lord Primate as he goeth from the quire to the outward part of the Church That in the return of his Grace from the Church the procession be so altered that the now consecrated Arch-Bishops and Bishops be disposed with the other B●shops Consecrators according to the respective dignities of their Sees Quality and Seniority of Consecration This is an exact Copy Jo. Armacanus A Particular of the manifold Evils Pressures and Grievances caused practised and occasioned by the Prelates and their Dependants I. FIrst the subjecting and inclining all Ministers under them and their Authority and so by degrees exempting of them from the Temporal power whence follows II. The faint-heartedness of Ministers to preach the truth of GOD least they should displease the Prelates as namely the Doctrine of Predestination of Free-grace of Perseverance of Original sin remaining after Baptisme of the Sab●ath the Doctrine against Vniversal Grace Election for faith fore-seen Free will against Antichrist Non residents humane Inventions of GODS worship All which are generally with-field from the peoples knowledge because not relishing to the Bishops III. The incouragement of Ministers to dispise the Temporal Magistracie the Nobles and Gentry of the Land to abuse the Subject● and live contentiously with their nighbours knowing that they being the Bishops Creatures they shall be supported IV. The restraint of many godly and able men from the Ministry and thrusting out of many Congregations their faithful dil●gent and powerful Ministers who lived peaceably with them and did them good only because they cannot in conscience submit unto and maintain the Bishops needlesse divices nay sometimes for no other cause but for their zeale in preaching or great Auditories V. The suppressing of that Godly design set on foot by certain Sects and sugred with many great gifts by sundry well-affected persons for the buying of Impropriations and placing of able Ministers in them maintaining of Lectures and founding of Free-schooles which the Prelates could not endure least it should darken their glories and draw the Ministers from their dependance upon them VI. The great increase of Idle lewd and
could not have hatched the Dragon that was sent unto Scotland The Superstitions of this Bulk are such and so many that if Paul were here and saw them as hee saw that of Athens hee would undoudtedly cry out Act. 17. Men and Brethren I see that in all things you are too Superstitious We may better apply that Speech of Tacitus concerning Superstition 22 Annal lib. 14 not exitialis hurtful or dangerous but execrabilis cursed and execrable and so it is indeed both to whole Churches and other People whose eyes God hath opened to see the evil of it which wee are confident you do Act. 25 27. and I say as Paul said to King Agrippa Wee know you beleeve it But as it seemed unreasonable to Festus to send Paul a Prisoner without the charge laid against him Act. 26.27 so we neither will nor dare charge any thing upon this Lyturgy which wee shall not Prove nor desire the outing of it without good and sound Reasons for our desire and therefore wee humbly and heartily desire your Honours to take into your consideration these five Reasons following The first is from the Name wherein the Champions of the Service-book agree with the Papists calling it the Masse The second is from the Ground of it The third is from the Matter of it The fourth is from the Manner of it The fifth is from the Effects of it to which wee will adde some Motives CHAP. II. Of the Name FOr the First the Service-book-men and the Papists do mutually interchange the Name of Lyturgy and Masse the latter call their Masse by the name of Lyturgy the Jesuite Sanctes Professeth That the most convenient Name that can be given to the Masse Liturg. p. 8. is that of Lyturgy or Service not but that the word Lyturgy is of good use for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifieth to officiate in sacred Worship witness Act. 13.1 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as they were ministring unto the Lord. Where the Rhemists vaunt of a coined liberty Ro 15.16 to translate the word saying Masse which were to cross the truth and all the learned upon the place as Oecumenius Theophylact and Chrysostome yea and their own Expositors as Casetan and others the Apostle rendreth it by another Word of the same value 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but howsoever they scrape kindness to a word of use till they abuse it yet who knoweth not that knoweth any thing that their Liturgie is the very Lethargie of Worship And what difference between our Liturgie and theirs Truly nothing but a pair of sheers and putting ours in a Coat of another tongue as shall afterward abundantly appear only ours hath not all that theirs hath but ours hath nothing to a word but out of theirs And thence it is that our Lyturgian Patrons do meet the Jesuite mid-way by owning the name of Masse to our Service-Book Sunday n● sabbath Witness Pocklington who calls the second Service just the same with the Masse so Cozens witness Master Smart's Sermon and not only so in relation to the second Service Antic p. 10. but even in regard of the whole Bulk as Pocklington in the end of his Altare c. and Mountague In name you see then there is an unanimous agreement and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 names are the very images of things for their agreement in matter manner in all things of importance we shall make it as evident as the former in the mean time what reason is there that we should groan still under the burthen of a Lyturgie born in upon us under the Name and Nature of a Masse which is nothing but a Mass of Idolatry and an Idol of Abomination The name is a name of Blasphemy out of the Devils Cabula as we take it For what language it is or what it signifieth for any thing we know was never yet known the Hebrews call their Tribute by the name of Missa witnesse that place in Exodus laying out the oppression of the Israelites by Pharaoh and his Princes or Officers Exod. 1.11 who are called Officers of the Tribute set over Gods people the Word Tribute in the first language is Missa of thé word Messas as the Learned observe which signifieth to melt both the name and Etimologie suit very well with the Popish Masse for it hath melted away true Religion and Spiritual devotion and as it inslaveth the souls of people by leaving them naked as Solomon saith of the Preaching of the Word Prov. 29.18 for so the word signifieth so it is made an engine to screw out the bowels of their estates wasting melting mens substance as the snow against the Sun besides the universal experience of the extortion of the Mass where ever it beareth sway we may instance it too fully in this Island where infinite Masses of Money hath been melted away within these few Yeares without any profit to the King or Subject but to the great prejudice of both for the exhausting of the Subject is the emptinesse of the King Tiberius could say Adulterinum est aurum quod cum subditorum lachrymis exprimitur it is a base kind of Gold that is squeezed out with the tears of the subject but who hath cast the State in this consumption of mony Who hath made the hearts to ake and the Souls to groan of honest Housholders when they have been forced it may be to part with more than they had Who in time of Peace and under good Laws have caused mens Houses and Fields forcibly to be entred their Goods to be carried away Who have caused the Kings liege People and that for obeying the Laws of God man to be carried to stifling Prisons contrary to the Laws of the Land and priviledge of the Subject Who have caused some to be Tormented and Tortured with unparalel'd cruelty both for kind and continuance Lastly Who have been the Incendiaries or Firebrands to melt away if they could the Kings love to his Subjects and the Subjects true loyalty to the King who we say but these Lyturgian Lords and their Jesuited confederates together with their Popish and hellishly prophane Priests Officers and Appendices to prove these or any of them were to shew a Man the Sun and many sheets could not hold the Particulars But to the purpose in hand the Service or Masse-Book as they call it is the main engine it is the Saddle and we to speak a homely Truth are the Asses for Englishmen are called by the Jesuites the Popes Asses the Hierarchie their Adherents are our riders the Saddle hath so pinched and galled our Backs that we know not how to take on the burthen of the Lord Jesus though it be very light our riders have with Spur and Rod of their Rhadamanthean Courts and Temporal Usurpations so jaded us with leave be it spoken that they have almost rid the Spirit of zeal and courage out of us and had they but