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A10197	A quench-coale. Or A briefe disquisition and inquirie, in vvhat place of the church or chancell the Lords-table ought to be situated, especially vvhen the Sacrament is administered? VVherein is evidently proved, that the Lords-table ought to be placed in the midst of the church, chancell, or quire north and south, not altar-wise, with one side against the wall: that it neither is nor ought to be stiled an altar; that Christians have no other altar but Christ alone, who hath abolished all other altars, which are either heathenish, Jewish, or popish, and not tollerable among Christians. All the pretences, authorities, arguments of Mr. Richard Shelford, Edmond Reeve, Dr. John Pocklington, and a late Coale from the altar, to the contrary in defence of altars, calling the Lords-table an altar, or placing it altarwise, are here likewise fully answered and proved to be vaine or forged. By a well-wisher to the truth of God, and the Church of England.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1637 (1637)	STC 20474; ESTC S101532	299,489	452

resolution to breake off his covenant of peace of grace with us and to denounce open warre against us from Heaven And therefore hath bent his bow turned the string of it towards Heaven and the backe of it upon us and made ready his arrowes upon the string to discharge them against the faces of us his on gracio●s rebels enem●ies who proceed to provoke him dayly more and more Psal. 7. 12. Psal. 11. 2. And hath not God himselfe if I may so speake made this very Comentary on this text and Prodigy Hath he not shot abrode his Psal. 95. 5. 6. Arrows of the Plague and Pestilence among us and made them in Newcastle London and other places where they have wounded thousands to death even Ier 46. 10. almost drunk● with our bloud Yet Isay. 5. 25. c. 9. 12. 17. 31. c. 10. 4. for all that his anger this bow and arrow of his is not turned away but still str●t●hed aut and full bent against us Neither can wee either Imagine or divine when the arrowes of this his pestiferous qui●er wil be spent since they fall thicker among us every day and wee have not yet put on the armes of publike fasting prayer humiliation and repentance bu● rather of feasting dancing masking playing chambring da●lying and what not the only armour of proofe that can ward off their deadly stroke But when God hath short out this ●heefe of Plague Arrowes at us with this bow of his Shall we then thinke he haith no other arrowes to let flie against us O! I Cannot but with feare and troubling suspect the contrary Never was there any such Raine-bow as this seene before in any age for ought I can finde in storie but one and that vvas here in England too pertending the heaviest woefull dayes and tidings to it that ever it heard or saw before For th●● Month time of the day forme continuance it was the same with this only differing in the day of the month and ●pparition of two Sunnes then whereas now there were three Which Mr. Fox thus relates See Acts Monuments Edit 1610. p 1333. and Dr. Hackewell out of him See 〈◊〉 for the government of the worldy l. 2. who accounts it one of the strongest prodigies that ever he read off Upon the●● 5. day of February An. 1555. that was seene saith Fox within the City of London where some saw this last sight too about 9. of the clocke in the fore-noone strong sights There was seen two Sunnes both shining at once the one a good pretty way distant from the other as these 3. now seene were it the same time was also seene a Raine-bovv turned contrary and a great deale higher then hath been a●customed The common standing of the Raine-bovv is thus● But this stood this● with the head dovvneward and the feete as it vvere upvvard Both these sights vvere seen as vvell at West-minster in Cheap-side on the south-side of Paules as in very many other places and that by a great number of honest men Also certaine Aldermen went out of the Guld hall to behold the sight What these prodigies did then protend the subsequent story of Queen Maries blo●dy unhappy dayes at large recorded in the Acts Monument● and other histories of our ovvne can vvitnes And Mr. Fox his marginall Note annexed to this passage strong sights seene before the comming in of King Philip Subversion of Religion can testify God forbid J should he so presumptuous as peremptorily to determine that these late Apparitions should bode us any such blacke ominous euents The piety of our most gracious Soveraigne his zeale and care for religion manifested both in his ovvne private practise and in his fore-mentioned Declarations Together vvith his most admirable clemency prohibit me from the very thoughts of any such unluckey Divination But were it not for this confidence and full persuasion of his Majesties incomparable goodnes clemency zeale and love to our Religion for which all succeeding ages will adore his memorie And were it not for those many godly Christians of all sorts and rankes of men which are every where scattered up and downe among us though many by our Bishops tyranny have beene forced to flie the Realme more like to follow through the open desperate designes and practises of some swaging domine●ing Prelates who doe what they list on the one hand And the secret ●reacheries of the Iesuites Priests Papists on the other hand to undermine our Religion and ruine both it Church State all else at once are such and our backslidings toward Rome within these 4 yeares past so great and manifold that I should not only feare but expect the selfesame consequents now which then ensued But blessed be our good God our gracious King is safe and for ever may he be so and so our Religion and wee seeme in despite of all the hellish powderplots now prepared to blow up us and it at once Which Plots being here in part discovered and layd more fully open in some other new printed Troatises I doubt not but his most royall Majesty and honourable Lords who hitherto out of State policy and abundant clemency have convinced all these late dangerous Innovations the better to discover and more justly to proceed against the plotters and fomenters of them sufficiently detected by name in the last Parliaments remonstrance to this purpose will now at last when the Romish Priests and Projectors are growen so open insolent and notorious provide a speedy remedy to the eye of all good subjects to wit the extirpation of that generation of Vipers which hath long been gnawing out their owne mothers bowels The prosperity and florishing of our Religion Church State the diversion of all gods inflicted menaced judgments and their owne eternall honour To which blessed worke as I have here contributed my poore 〈◊〉 on deavours so I hope all true English hearts that have 〈◊〉 sparlie of loyalty in them to their Soveraigne love to 〈◊〉 Country or zeale to the established Religion of our 〈◊〉 Which in their breast will now without more delay 〈◊〉 most assistance it being now high time or 〈◊〉 thus to doe 〈◊〉 no man say these things stood now upon are but triuiall 〈◊〉 they either are or make way for that which is the maine 〈◊〉 That which Chrysostome writes in a like rase See 〈…〉 Cor. 3. I may truly apply to this Hoc parum non 〈…〉 Imò vero est fere ●●tum Ci●o eum neglectum sit 〈◊〉 Parva itaquè nunquam despiciamus ne in magna in●●●●● It is a true saying of Pope Gregory the first See Maral 〈◊〉 13. and we have found it experimentally true in these 〈◊〉 here debated Qui modica spernit paulatim 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 curare parva negligimus inseusibiliter seducti au●●●● 〈◊〉 majora perpetiamus Esus quippe potusque ad Lu●●●● 〈◊〉 L●sus as our playing with Popish novelties Ceremonies and royes hath done ad idololatriam traxit Quia s●in

bolstred up by some great Prelates neare your Majesty As that he hath received two or three great livings for his encouragement since and is now lately advanced to be your Majesties Chaplaine in Ordinary and an head of a Colledge in Cambridge to helpe to poyson that Fountaine of learning and religion with the drugges and dregges of Rome to the great griefe and discontent of thousands Honest Mr. Smart his prosecutour for shewing himselfe a faithfull Subject to your Majesty being in the meane time violently thrust out of his Preberdary of Durham and his Benefice deprived degraded imprisoned fined and utterly ruinated in his Estate by your High Commissioners at Yorke though a man every way conformable to the established Doctrine and Discipline of the Church of England only for opposing these Innovations of his and preaching a Sermon against them in the Cathedrall at Durham That of the Poet being here really verified Dat veniam Corvis vexat Censura Colnmbis These things no doubt have been concealed from your Majesty Which now being discovered I trust you will lay them to heart and learne to distinguish good Subjects from bad in despite of all calumnies cast upon them by these persidious instruments I have the rather given your Majesty this hint of Dr. Cosens his words and practises whom the Papists of Durham now much honour and challeng for their owne because he was one of the first men that brought Altars into our Church and the first I heare off that turned his Communion Table Altar-wise and then into an Altar Mr. Burgin one of his Disciples was the next that imitated him who taking away his Communion-Table erected an Altar in the East-end of the Chancle of his Parish-Church within the Bishopricke of Durham Which Altar made of a Gravestone he layd upon a wall of stone not a frame adorning it with guilded hangings Which done he read Second Service at it though above halfe his Parishioners could neither heare nor see him and fell devoutly to adore it till at last his foot hanging in his gowne he unhappily fell downe against the Altar-steps brake all his nose and face so as he sacrificed his owne blood both upon the steps Altar itselfe in stead of Christs and was not able to walke abroade in many dayes after From these two presidents and beginnings have all those other Innovation● of this Nature sprung which now spread themselves farre and neare over all your Realmes of England Scotland and Ireland too So farre more prevalent and powerfull is Dr. Cosens and his party then either your Majesty your Lawes Declarations and loyall Subjects or the established Doctrine and Discipline of the Church of England All which with the Booke of Common-prayer must now be Subject to their correction and controll 2. The second publike Monument of our Church which these Innovatours have corrupted is the Eucharisticall prayer in the Booke of Common-prayer appointed for the 5. of November in perpetuall thankfulnes to God for the deliverance of your Royall Father your Majesty and the whole Realme from that infernall divelish matchlesse Powder-plot of the Papists prescribed and set forth by the expresse Statute of 3. Iacobi ● 1. which corruption nearely concernes your Majesty yea the whole Realme and in my poore understanding deserves as heavy a Censure as any of those Powder-Traytors suffered All the Bookes of this kinde from 3. Iacobi till 1635. rendred the chiefe passages in this prayer in these tearmes Roote out that Antichristian and Babilonish Sect which say of Ierusalem downe with it downe with it even to the ground c. And to that end strengthen the hands of our Gracious King the Nobles and Magistrates of the Land with Iudgement and Iustice to cut off these workers of Iniquity VVHOSE RELIGION IS REBELLION VVHOSE FAITH IS FACTION VVHOSE PRACTICE IS MURTHERING OF SOULES AND BODIES and to roote them out of the confines of this Kingdome This prayer which some have observed not to have been read but purposely omitted in your Majesties Chapple the two fift of Novembers last past be like by their direction who have since perverted it in the last Edition 1635. is thus treacherously Metamorphosed Roote out that Babilonish and Antichristian Sect OF THEM which say of Ierusalem c And to that end strengthen the hands of our Gracious King c. to cut off THOSE for THESE workers of Iniquity VVHO TURNE RELIGION INTO REBELLION and FAITH INTO FACTION In which strange alteration there are these notorious treacheries yea villanies included not to be stighted over 1. First there is a diverting of the maine edge and substance of this Prayer from the Iesuites Priests Papists and Antichristian Babilonish Sect of Rome particularly designed in the first Prayer-Bookes upon those Loyall Subjects and Religious Christians whom the Papists at first and prophane licentious Romanizing spirits since have slaundered with the name of Puritans On whom as these Hell●sh Traytours and their Confederates would have fathered this damnable plot at first had it taken effect as blessed be God it never did to make them more odious to the World Which themselves confessed upon their examinations and our Historians record So they have now turned the whole scope of this prayer and by cousequence the very practise and treason itselfe upon these poore Innocents The only men aymed at in this alteration And the chiefe men declaimed against both at Court Westminster Paules and our Universities in the Sermons there preached of late yeares on the fift of November wherein most have paralleld them with And many affirmed them to be farre worse then any Priests or Iesuites So much wee poore Puritans never yet guilty of the least treason or Rebellion against their Princes in this Iland nor of any such forgeries Jnnovations or Romish practises as I have here discovered beholding to the Iesuites Priests and some English Prelates who have been guilty of many hundred treasons Conspiracies and Rebellions against your Majesties Royall Progenitors as our Historians and writers witnesse And here by the way your Majesty in despite of envy and calumny may take Notice First that those who are now slaundered under the name of Puritans are your best and loyallest Subjects because most hated and slaundered by Iesuites Priests and Traytors who would Father all villanies and treasons on them And hate them most of any people because truest to their Soveraignes 2. Secondly that no kinde of people in the World are So much slaundered and traduced as they though the Innocentest men of all othors This the practise of the Papists to translate this Powder-plot with all their treasons and rebellions from themselves to them and most Sermons preached before your Majesty can witnes VVherein such things are broached such slaunders raysed of Puritans by Poeticall braines and yet vented out in the Pulpit as sacred Oracles which the Divell himselfe would blush to relate and the Auditours know to be meere sigments And

If any thinke I have gone to farre in this Let him know That it is only the zeale of doing your Majesty my Country and Mother Church of England faithfull service without feare or flattery it being now no time to mince things or dissemble longer which hath thus farre transported me In whose just important cause and quarrell how faint hearted soever others shew themselves I shal be ever ready through Gods assistance not only to spend my Li●e my Limbes my Fortunes and Liberty but my very Life and Soule Chusing rather to hazard all or any of these then to behold my God my Soveraigne my Country my Rel●gion secretly undermined abused betrayed trampled upon or ruined and yet sit mute neither discovering the contrivers the instruments nor close cariages of such Antichristian treacherous disloyall designes for feare of any danger person or Prelate whatsoever● And if J did it not when I had meanes and oportunity I should neither deeme my selfe a faithfull Servant to my God nor a loyall Subject to your Majesty my Soveraigne And now since I have lanched thus farre out into this tempestuous Ocean perchance with hazard of drowning or Pyrats unlesse your Majesty rescue me by a Patent of safe conduct and calme these boysterous Seas when they arise to overflow me give me leave to wade but one step further to acquaint your Highnes with the evill dangerous fruites of these lewd practises Bookes Innovations and then I shall cast anker in the secure Harbour of your Royall Grace and Protection 1. First they have produced aboundance of Schismes Factions ●arres discontents quarrels heart-burnings if not mutuall malice hatred and reproaches among your people in all places of your Realmes and quite rent asunder that ancient unity peace love and mutuall charity which flourished among them before these Innovations crept into the Church 2. Secondly they have not only grieved vexed the righteous soules but even quite dejected the spirits and broken the hearts of many thousand godly L●ts and most faithfull Subjects to your Majesty who even pine away and languish under them for griefe and sorrow of heart 3. Thirdly they have bred a generall feare in the hearts an over-great jealousie in the heades of your Loyall Subjects of an approaching alteration of Religion and totall Apostasie unto the Sea of Rome They having little left to secure or arme them against this feare and jealousie but the syncerity of your Majesties owne Royal heart to our Religion your comfortable pious Declaracions now trampled by these Novellers under feet in open scorne and the zeale of divers of your Nobility to whom Gods truth and our Religion are dearer then their soules Which no doubt they will now declare by their actions in this time of need To your Majesties great joy and ease and the daunting of these strange audacious Innovatours though hitherto many of them have been over-silent 4. Fourthly they have caused many to turne Atheists Skeptickes or Newters in Religion seeing our Church so wavering and unconstant Many to fall off to Popery and hundred thousands of Papists from conversion by encouraging and hardning them in their Antichristian Errours and Superstitions to which they see us running if not flying so fast of late that they say they need not come towards us since wee are posting so fast to them 5. Fiftly they have caused thousands of godly Christians the best Preservatives against Plagues and Iudgments to flie out to forraigne Countries and Plantations Hundreds to seperate from our Church as now quite Romish and Antichristian And made thousands ready for to seperate it being now a common received opinion among many That our Churches especially our Cathedrals are now so farre Popish in all respects Latine Service only excepted which they say is countervayled by their merry all-sung never-wept Service which the people understand no more then Latine that we have now the same or at least as just cause to seperate from them as our godly Martyrs and Church had to seperate from Rome in the beginning of Reformation And though the same reasons hold not alike of all Churches for the present yet that they hold as firme in regard of the future since now wee and all our Churches are taught and commaunded to imitate our Prelates and Cathedrals in all their Romish Rites and Ceremonies as their Mother Churches and true patternes of Imitation So that unlesse a speedy Reformation follow of these late Corruptions and Innovations halfe the Kingdome for ought I can conjecture are like either to turne professed Seperatists or else to leave the Realme To such a passe have your busy Prelates lately brought things by their new Devises Bookes Articles Ceremonies Superstitions and their Suppressing of Lectures Preaching and godly comformable Ministers Sermons of Lords-dayes after-noones Repetition of Sermons and the like 6. Sixtly they give a great occasion to Iesuites Seminarie-Priests and Friers of which there are now swarmes in England there being above 60. Benedictine Monkes only besides other Orders in England Anno 1624. as appeares by the Letter of Rudesindus Barlo President of the English FRIERS of that Order to the C●lledge of the Cardinals at Rome dated the 12. of December 1624. and many more no question of that order now Who at this present use few other Arguments to seduce your Majesties Subjects from their alleagiance and Religion to Popery then the fore-named Jnnovations and new printed Popish Bookes which they buy up with greedines Resi●dus Barlo in his fore-cited Letter to the Cardin●●s of Rome to institute either Dr. Kellyson or Dr. Smith two of his order or both of them Bishops over the Priests in England writes very confidently That if one of these were made a Romish B●shop here Latio●es intra unicum biennium fructus in Angl●cana missione aspecturi sitis quàm hactenus in ●adem nullo existente Episcopo per sexaginta jam elapses annos conspexoritis They should see more joyfull fruites in this English mission within one two yeares then before they had seen in three-score when there was no Bishop And I may as truely say that since these Innovations have growen publike and got head among us these new Bookes been licensed and all Confutation of them stopped at our Presses the Priestes Iesuites and Popish Monkes who have now a Bishop or two at least have perverted more by meanes of them alone for they could never hurt or wound us but with our owne men and weapons then in sixtie yeares before As therefore the encrease of Papists was one maine ground and chiefe cause lately alleadged in the Star-chamber of resuming the London-Derry plantation into your Majesties hands So the selfe same reason should now move your Majesty to recall these severall Innovations and burne up these late Novell ridiculous Pamphlets in affront of our best and solidest Writers which withdraw so many from your Alegiance and give the Priests and Iesuites cause to triumph over us yea to

revealed That Crucifixes and Images in Churches are Lawfull and necessary comly Ornaments That Christ is Really present upon Earth on the High-Altar and Communion-Table That Communion-Tables are Altars Ministers of the Gospell Priests serving at the Altar The Sacrament of the Lords Supper the Sacrament of the Altar and may yea ought so to be phrased That men ought to bow to Altars and Communion-Tables and to place and Rayle them in Altar-wise at the East end of the Church and come up to them and receive when there is a Sacrament And that Ministers must read their Second Service at them when there is none That auricular Confession to a Priest and Absolution are very fitting and necessary points much insisted on and pressed at this present when Cleargie-mens sinnes are so open and notorious that they need no Confession but correction rather That the Lords-day is no Sabbath That it is Iewish to call or keep it as a Sabbath That it is not of divine but humane Institution nor within the morality of the fourth Commaundement That two howers only of it are to be sanctified nor the whole day That Morrises Dancing Sports and Pastimes yea labours of mens calling not specially prohibited by some humane Lawes even out of cases of necessity are Lawfull on it That men may fall totally and finally from Grace That they have free-will and may exactly fulfill the Law of God if they please themselves That men are justified by workes yea by charity and not by faith alone That men are Elected from the foresight of faith and workes and Reprobated only out of the foresight of their sinnes That there is an universall grace given to all men whereby they may be saved if they will That Christ died alike for all men wha soaver That preaching is an extraordinary thing necessary only for extraordinary times and belonging to none but extraordinary men That one Sermon in a Month is enough and better then two a day That reading is properly preaching That Arch-Bishops and Bishops Episcopall Iurisdiction and degree is above other Ministers Iure divino That the Ministers know more then the Lay-people the Bishops more then the Ministers the Arch-Bishops more then the Bishops And therefore what ever the Ministers shall teach or prescribe the people what ever the Bishops the Ministers and people what ever the Arch-Bishops the Bishops Ministers and people too are bound to believe and obey without further question or dispute That the Popes Lawes Decrees and Canon-Law are still in force and our Church ought to be governed by them and our Ecclesiasticall Courts proceed Legally according to them That Bishops have power to make and publish Articles Canons Injunctions Oathes Orders Rites Ceremonies in their owne names and rights and to enforce both Ministers and people to obey them That they may silence suspend and excommunicate yea deprive and imprison Ministers at their pleasure without any Legall cause That Bishops are not bound to preach so much or so oft as other men though they have greater wages and so should doe more worke That they may Lawfully and laudablie neglect their spirituall functions to mannage temporall Offices and affaires exercise both Swords at once and rule both Church and State together When I see out owne Divines if we may believe them by publike License in printed Bookes defending all these with sundrie other erronious Romish Positions maintaining all Popish Ceremonies conforming themselves to Popish Masse-Priests in their noddes cringes genuflections habits preaching writing Ceremonies And joyning thus with them in a most treacherous confederacie against the established Doctrine Discipline of the Church of England as many late Writers and by Name Bishop Mountague Bishop White Edmond Reene Dr. Pocklington Dr. Heylyn Dr. Primerose Dr. Laurence Dr. Read Mr. Shelford Mr. Chowne Mr. Studly with others in their late printed Bookes Bishop Wren and other our Prelates in their Visitation Articles and hundreds in their unprinted Sermons both in the Court City Uniuersitie and Country have done When I behold our Lords Tables euery where called and turned into Altars or rayled Altar-wise Our Ministers transformed into Priests and so stiled Our Religion Metamorphosed into externall Popish Pompe and Ceremonies Our Devotion into Superstition Our Holines into professed prophanesse Our godnes into impiory Our Preaching into Piping and Dauncing Our Lords dayes into Play-dayes Our Conscience into unconscio● ablenes Our feare of God into Atheisme Our Bishops for the most part into Bite-shrepes Our Ecclestasticall High Commisioners into Spanish Inquisitours and meere Tyrants Our Pastors into Wolves Our Religious Fasting even in this time of Plague and danger into Feasting Our devout Prayers into carnall lollity Our Profession of Religion into Derision and Gods Word yea Heaven and Hell into a Fable And that principally by meanes of some 〈◊〉 Authorized Bookes in print which no man can have free liberty to answer this being one grand Policy of our Popish Innovatours to ingrosse the power and commaund of all our printing Presses into their owne hands and to stay whatever may either detect or crosse their Antichristian Romish designes When I behold all this I say even with a bleeding heart and troubled spirit how can I but unloose my hitherto silent tongue and penne and cry out aloud that all may heare to these open Powder Traytours who would blow up our Religion and our Church at once O men doe not thus murther and destroy the Church of England Now because I cannot at once encounter all those who are guilty of this unnaturall Treachery nor crush all these viperous Cockatrices in the shell I have here single out some three or foure of them to combate with especially the Authour of A Coale from the Altar intiteled A Iudicious Learned Divine Whose Coale set on fire by Mr. Samuell Baker in the Bishops of Londons Open hath kindled a new Combustion every-where in our Church concerning Altars the Sacrament of the Altar the ●●●●swing of the Communion Table an Altar and the placing of it Altar-wise with one side against the Wall as the East end of the Church VVhich they have earnestly pleaded for in late printed Bookes in open affront and defiance to our Statu●es Articles of Religion Booke of Common-Prayer Injunctions Canons Martyrs and most Eminent Writers Which particulars though they seeme small at first view and are slighted by many as matters of no great moment yet all Circumstances considered they are very important and the conniving at them without Opposition like to prove fatall to our Religion as the Reading of the Treatise itselfe will evidence more at large To make this apparant in few words There is no man almost so ignorant as not to know So blinde as not to see that there is a strong faction sprung up of late among us the heades whereof were particularly voted and descried in Parliament-House the last Parliament who labour with all diligence power and cunning artifice to bring the whole body of Popery

into our Church againe yet secretly by degrees with as little noyse as might be by those severall Stratagemes and meanes which that cunning-pated Iesuite Adam Contzin in his Booke of Politickes printed at Mentz Anno 1621. hath prescribed them for that purpose Which they prosecute and follow to an haires-breadth To effect this Plot the better according to the Popes consultation and direction in his Conclave they first vented all the Arminian points in printed Bookes Which though at first oppugned by many to their hazard have now under a pretence of silencing all controversies in this kinde quite silenced the truth itselfe Being now publikely printed and preached every where without controll contrary to his Majesties Proclamation concerning the inhibiting and calling in of Mountagues Booke which led the Dance in his Declaration before the 39. Articles And concerning the Dissolution of the last Parliament Which are now made snares only by these potent Confederates contrary to his Majesties pious intention to suppresse the truth and bring those into trouble who defend it against Arminian Novelties or Popish Tenents either by printing or preaching Next after this they began to crie up practise and enjoyne m●ny superstitious Popish Ceremonies especially bowing at the name of Iesus both in time of Divine Service and Sermons to the end it might usher in bowing to Altars Images Crucifixes with adoration of the Sacramentall bread and wine Which Ceremonie getting head by violence many suffring for opposing it and others either ignorantly or cowardly submitting to it though not prescribed in the Booke of Common-Prayer Then they began at first in some private places to set up Images Altars yea Crusifixes in Churches directly contrary to our Homilies To call Lords-Tables Altars To turne them Altar-wise or into Altars and bow downe unto them And because an Altar without a Priest was to no purpose they next begin to tearme themselves with other Ministers by no other name but Priestes Yea Priestes to dance attendance on these new Altars both in their Sermons Bookes and VVritings VVhich being done but secretly in corners as every Evill is bashfull at first and creepes up but by degrees these new devises also got● ground by litle and litle some potent Bishops setting them on and countenancing them under hand Crushing such who chiefly oppugned these Innovations in the High-Commission and elsewhere And having thus by publike Censures and these under●and Devises given open countenance to them and disheartned people from opposing them they grew in a short time so impudent as openly to plead for Jmages Altars Priestes turning of Communion-Tables Altar-wise bowing to them and at the name of Iesus reading of Second Service at them standing up at Gloria Patri the Gospell c. and that not only in the Pulpit but in the High-Commission and in print setting some shallow-pated fellowes as Giles Widdowes Reeve and Shelford in the fore-front to breake the Ice to see how the people would relish them And then when these men had borne the brunt and blame for a while and the strangenes of the things was almost vanished seconding them with others of better note and parts to give greater Countenance to them that people might the more willingly embrace these Innovations VVhich being thus once pleaded for in print our Bishops the chiefe Plotters and fomenters of them begin first more covertly under-hand by way of persuasion and intreatie and now at last openly in their Visitation-Articles by way of peremptorie commaund one pragmaticall impudent Prelate giving the first onset and then others seconding him in their fore-plotted order to enjoyne all these Innovations Popish Practises and Ceremonies to be put in full execution throughout their Diocesse And now they are growen so impudent as to excommunicate suspend yea Censure in the High Commission all such Church-wardens and Ministers who out of Conscience towards God Obedience to his Majesties Lawes and Declarations or love to Religion dare oppose or not sub●●ie unto 〈◊〉 many Church-wardens being excommunicated for not 〈◊〉 in the Table Altarwise And many Ministers suspended excommunicated put from their Livings if not field 〈◊〉 imprisoned too especially in Bishop Wrens and Bishop 〈◊〉 Diocesse for not bowing to the Altar and as the names Iesus not reading Second Service at the High Altar 〈◊〉 Lords-Table for opposing the rayling in of the Table Altar-wise without Lawfull Authority or preaching against or not yeelding to these Popish Proceedings VVhich have lately gotten such head in most places that now all thing except Latine Service are prepared for the Masse in many Churches which added to these Novelties will make us perfect Papists For we have Altars with Altar-clothe●● Tapers Bisons and other Romish furniture on them Priestes Crucifixes bowing to Altars coming up to the Altar and there kneeling downe to receive all Popish Trinekets and Massing Ceremonies Copes Organs Vestments especially in our Cathedrals which now must be Pattern● of Imitation to all other Churches in the Diocesse all which being but meere Preparations for the Masse how soone that also may steale in upon us if his Majesties pious care with other our Magistrates vigilancie and inferiour Minister out-cries who are over-silent in such an exigent prevent 〈◊〉 not with speed by these active hot-spurs machinations who have made such a swift progresse in all the other particulars which they impudently presse and justice with bra●e● faces and obdurate hearts not fearing already to stile th● Lords Supper an unbloody Sacrifice the Sacrament and Sacrifice of the Altar and to maintaine a corporall presence in the Eucharist I feare to divine And when Masse is once installed and sett up the next thing these Novellers are to effect Popery wil be perfectly restored with it and then face well all our Religion which we have enjoyed with all extern● peace and felicity attending it Now 〈◊〉 it is plaine according to the moderne Papists and these Innovatours Doctrine that there can be no Masse without an Altar or Super-Altar No Altar but at the East end of the Church as remote from the people as they he for the better officiating of private Masse And neither Masse nor Altar without a Sacrifice a Sacrament of the Altar and a Priest to Consecrate and Offer it The oppugning of these Innovations the immediate Harbengers and fore-runners both of Masse and open Poperie without which there can be no Masse and Poperie can never get head among us and by conniving at which without ●●ong and sodaine Opposition both Masse and Popery the things principally a●med at without which these other are to no purpose will presently perke up and get quiet possession among us to the utter overthrow of our Religion must needs be of great consequence 〈◊〉 know that when a Ciety is beleaguerd whiles the 〈◊〉 and Out workes are safe and defended the Citty is in no danger of surprisall But if the Enemies once get them all is in danger to be lost Our Lords-Tables Ministers Lords

Supper yea the very use and defence of these Titles 〈◊〉 well as the things are the Bulworkes and Out-workes of our Religion as long as we maintained them there was as feare of Masse or open Popery But since the Altars and the name of Altars invaded and thrust out our Lords-Tables and their names Priestes out Ministers and the Title of Ministers and those other Massing Ceremonies prevayled the Outworkes of our Religion are quite lost and taken with many of the In-workes too by our Popish Adversaries and all is in great danger of speedy surpris●●● Is it not then high time for us to awake and bestirre ourselves To beat out these secret Traytours which demolish these Out-fortifications or betray them to our Romish Adversaries and to make good and regaine these Sconces if it be possible without which all wil be hazarded if not quite l●st and that in a litle space for ought we know Let no man then thinke slightly of these smaller matters without which the grandest designes of our Popish Adversaries cannot be effected or proceed But let all rather labour to prie into that great Treacherous plot and hidden mystery of Iniquity which sets all these under-wheeles on worke and endeavour all they may to oppose that imminent inundation of the whole body of Popery flowing in a maine upon us all which wise men both foresee and feare● Which it wil be in vaine to doe if we permit these Bankes these Bulworkes J here content for to be broken downe● Which alone will secure us if maintained but ruine all if once demolished by forraigne Opposites or homebred Traytours For the Coale from the Altar the maine Treatise I he●● encounter which fires all these fortifications at once that the enemies may enter and surprise us whiles we either neglect or strive to quench the flame The Authour thereof 〈◊〉 seemes was ashamed to owne it by his name though as impudent as shamelesse as active an instrument of mischiefe as great an incendiary for his yeares as any living in our Church if he on whom fame hath fathered it be the man The Title informes us that he is a Divine yea a judicio● Learned Divine perchance in his owne and some other conceit But certainly what ever his Learning is sure I at his Iudgement is not very great and his honestie lesse as will appeare in the Quench-Coale For the Letter he undertakes to answer which he would injuriously without any ground Father upon Mr. Cotton of Boston the more to abuse had Censure the true Authour of it with whom he hath lately had some personall quarrels and contests is certainly knowen to be Dr. Williams now Bishop of Lincolne and Deane of Westminster a man farre more Learned and judicious then the Answerer and every way able to make good his owne Letter which I have not particularly undertaken to defend dealing in this Controversie with the Coale no further then concernes the points debated in the Letter and that in generall without any relation unto the Epistoler who no doubt will answer for himselfe without a Proctor As for this Quench-Coale having to doe with others as well as the Coale I have therein followed mine owne Method though confused not the Coales And cleared the points in Controversie by our owne English Martyrs VVriters and Records omitting Forraigners partly for brevity sake and partly because impertinent in these particulars which principally concerne the practise and judgement only of our owne Church In which as I wonder much that the rumored Authour of the Coale could finde no Lords-day Sabbath though he writ An History of it so J wonder how he could finde an Altar in it Our Church having cashered Altars as Popish Heathenish Iewish yet he deemes the Christian And retained prescribed the Name and Sanctification of the Lords-day Sabbath which he brandes as Iewish as if Altars were not more Iewish then it And here good Reader I desire thee to obserue 〈◊〉 they are that thus plead most stifly for Altars calling Comunion-Tables Altars and turning them Altar-wise 〈◊〉 those who write and preach against the name 〈◊〉 Sanctification of the Lords-day Sabbath as Iewish Certainly these men I feare are quite distracted thr●● malice or tossed to and for with a spirit of giddines 〈◊〉 they could not so earnestly oppose write against Iuda● as they tearme it with the one hand and yet at the 〈◊〉 time embrace and write for it with the other Now if Judaisme be so distastfull to them as that 〈◊〉 cannot brooke the name much lesse the Sanctification of 〈◊〉 Lords-day Sabbath which the Homilies of the Time and 〈◊〉 of Prayer and the third part of the Homilie against Rebellus to which they have subscribed pleades for as truly Christian How then can they write for Altars yea the naming of 〈◊〉 Lords-Table an Altar and his Supper the Sacrament of 〈◊〉 Altar which the first part of the Homilie against the 〈◊〉 of Idolatrie p. 18. and the second Part of the Sermon of 〈◊〉 Time and Place of Prayer p. 131. condem● both as Iewish Popish and Heathenish as many of our Writers before and since these Homilies have done Let them therefore either reject Altars as they doe● Christian Sabbath because they are Iewish Or else 〈◊〉 and plead for this Sabbath and its strict Sanctification ●●●mitting it be Iewish as it is not because they write so 〈◊〉 lie for Altars more Iewish farre then the names or strict Sanctification of the Lords-day Sabbath To draw to a Conclusion All J have here written is ●y out of pure zeale to Gods glory the Patronage of his 〈◊〉 and benefit of his Churh without any private spleene particular persons If any good accrue to Gods people by it or this my Mo●● Church of England I desire God may have the glory 〈◊〉 whom alone it is due If no publike benefit be reaped by 〈◊〉 nor satisfaction given to private Christians in these ●ggering times to settle both their Iudgements Conscien● and Practise as I hope there will Yet I have done my 〈◊〉 endeavour The Successe is Gods alone not mine to 〈◊〉 To his Blessing I commend both thee and it desiring 〈◊〉 the short space I had to compile it in may excuse the de●● in the composition So I rest Thy Friend in the Lord. Iuli● the tenth 1636. Courteous Reader this should have come in at the 3. Question concerning the Consecration of Churches Immediatly before the words of Bishop Pilkington there cited Page 214. Line 32. Mathew Parker the Learned Arch-Bishop of Canterbury relating the forme of Consecrating Churches Chapples Altars Foundation-stones Vestments Chalices and the like out of the ancient Missals and Saxon Pontificals which our Bishops at this day use Concludes thus of them all Who can doubt but that Papall Rites and Ceremonies abound with these kinde of Exorcismes which differ nothing at all from these anciently used in the Ordalium and vulgar forme of Purgation which they at length condemned

people and the ignorant evill perswaded Preist will dream alway of Sacrifice Therfore were it best that the Magistrates remove all the Monuments and Tokens of Idolatry and superstition then should the true Religion of God sooner take place which he thus seconds in his 8. Sermon upon Ionah A great shame it is for a Noble King Emperour or Magistrate contrary to Gods word to deteyne or keep from the devill or his Ministers any of their goods o● Treasure as the Candles Images Crosses vestiments Altars For it they be kept in the Church as things indifferent at length they will be maintayned as things necessary as now we find true by late wofull experience And in his 4. Sermon upon Jonah hee proceeds thus But this prayer of Jonas is so acceptable it might be thought of some men that the place where Jonas prayed in should have be●tered it as the foolish opinion of the world is at this time that judgeth the Prayer sayd at the High Altar to be better then that which is sayd in the Quier that in the Quier better then that which is sayd in the body of the Church that in the body of the Church better then that which is sayd in the Feild or in a mans Chamber But our Prophet sayth the Lord hath no respect to the place but to the heart faith of him that prayeth And that appeareth For penitent Jonas prayeth out of the whales belly and miserable Job upon the dung heape Daniell in the Cave of the Lyons Hieremie in the claypit the theife upon the Crosse S. Stephen under the Stones wherfore the grace of God is to bee prayed for in every place and every where as our necessity shall have need and wanteth solace Although I commend the prayer made to God in the name of Christ to belike in every place because that our necessity requireth helpe in every place yet I doe not condemne the publike place of prayer whereas Gods word is preached his holy Sacrament used and common prayer made unto God but allow the same and sory it is no more frequented haunted but this I would wish that the Magistrates would put both the Preist Minister and the people into one place and shut up the partition called the C●auncell that seperateth the Congregation of Christ one from the other as though the vayle and partition of the Temple in the old Law yet should remaine in the Church where indeed all signes types are ended in Christ And in case this were done it should not only expresse the dignity grace of the New Testament but also cause the people the better to understand the things read there by the Minister and also provoke the sayd Minister to a more study of the things he readeth least he should be found by the Iudgement of the Congregation not worthy neither to read nor Minister in the Church further that such as would receive the Holy Communion of the body and blood of Christ might both heare and see playnly what is done as it was used in the Primative Church when as the abomination done upon Altars was not knowne nor the Sacrifice of Christs precious blood so conculcated and troden under feet Hereupon as also upon M. Bucers forecited opinion to this purpose and William Salisburyes Battery of the Popes Batereulx London 1559. and not upon M. Calvins Letter as the late Author of a Coale from the Altar misreports p. 29. 40. all the Altars in England by the King and his Councells direction were utterly taken away out of all Cathedrall Collegiate Parish Churches and Chappell 's and Tables sett up in their steed in such manner as they stood till now of late to witt in the middest of the Church or Chauncell as appeares by that is storied of Bishop Farrar by M. Fox concerning the Church of Carmarthen in Wales where the Archdeacon of Carmarthen in his visitation under this good Bishop finding an Altar sett up in the body of the Church for Celebration of the Communion contrary to the King and Councells Ordinance caused the sayd Altar to be taken away and a Table TO BE SET IN THE MIDDLE OF THE CHURCH which the Vicar removing Bishop Farrar himselfe in the third yeare of King Edwards Raigne Commaunded the Vicar to sett the Table WITHOUT THE CHANCELL againe neere the place where it stood before for the ministration of the Communion After this in the 5. 6. yeare of King Edwards Raigne as Altars themselves were quite cashered out of the Church according to the prophesie of William Mauldon who in th● dayes of King Henry the 8. when the Masse most flourished and the Altars with the Sacrament thereof were in most High veneration so as in mans reason it might seeme unpossible that the glorie opinion of them soe depely rooted in the hearts of 〈◊〉 many could by any meanes possible so soone decay and vanish to naught yet not withstanding he being under the age of 17. yeares by the spirit no doubt of prophesie declared to his Parents that they should see it shortly even come to passe that both the Sacrament of the Altar and the Altars themselves with all such plantations as the Heavenly Father did not plant should be plucked up by the rootes c. so the very name of them was wholly expunged out of the Booke of Common Prayer by the whole Convocation and Parliament and the name of Gods-boord Lords-Table Table and Holy-Table inserted and retained both in the Rubricke and Order for the Celebrating of the Communion therein prescribed the Table enjoyned therein at the tyme of Celebrating the Communion to stand in the body of the Church or Chauncell And in the Homilies then published by the King and Parliaments authority the name of Altar was wholly omitted in the Homilies concerning the right use of the Church and of the worthy receiving the Sacrament and the name of the Lords Table only used and mentioned in them as he that reades them may discerne A truth so cleare that the nameles Author of the Coale from the Altar p. 39. 40. confesseth that the former Liturgie wherein was the name of Altar was called in by Parliament 5. and 6. C. 6. 11. and the word Altar left out of the Common-Prayer Booke then established ye● upon this only ground not from any scanda● which was taken at the name of Altar by the Common people but from the dislike taken against the whole Liturgie by Calvin who was all in all with my Lord Protector c. A very likely tale I promise you As if the whole Parliament and Clergie of England would be so rash or inconsiderate as to alter their whole Liturgie formerly confirmed by Parleament only to humor M. Calvin without any Scripture reason or other convincing considerations and upon no other groundes Certainly either this ground of the Alteration is but forged and conjecturall though positively layd downe or else the Church of England

of her Commissioners in causes Eclesiasticall or of the Metropolitane of this Realme ordaine or publish such further Ceremonies or Rites as may be most for the advancement of Gods glory the edyfying of his Church and the due reverence of Christs Holy mysteries and Sacraments A power not personal sayth the Coale to the Queen only when shee was alone but such as was to be continued also unto her Successors So that in case the Common-prayer Booke had determined positively that the Table shoule be placed at all times in the vale of the Church or Chauncel which is not determined of or that the Ordinary by his owne oppointment could not have otherwise appointe which yet is not so the Kings most excellent Majesteye on information of the irreverent usage of the holy Table by all sorts of people as it hath been accustomed in these later dayes in sitting on it in time of Sermon otherwise prophanely abusing it in taking Accounts making Rates such like businesses may by the last clause of the side for the due reverence of Christs holy mysteries Sacraments with the advise Counsel of the Metropolitane comaund it to be placed where the Altar stood to be railed about for the greater decency To this I answer first That a possead Esse non valet consequentia The Kingh by virtue of this Act by the advise of the Metropolitanne may commaund the Table to be placed where the Altar stood there rayled in Ergo it ought there to be placed railed in before or without the Kings Commaund is no good Argument yea the contrary holds good The Table ought not so to beplaced or railed in but by his Magesteyes expresse Commaund that by some publike Act and writing under his great Seale as is evident by Queen Elizabeths Injunctions the Booke of Orders Anno 1561. the Booke of Advertissements Anno 1565 with the Statute of 25. H 8. ● 19. the King being to Cammand nothing of this nature to all his Subjects but by matter of Record under his great Seale as all his Proclamations writs doe testify But his Majesteye hath yet given noe such expresse commaund by any publike Act or writing under his great Seale Therfore it ought not to be done 2. This branch of the Statute takes away all power from the Metropolitane Prelates Ordinaries to ordaine or publish any new Rites or Ceremonies what soever o● to alter any formerly prescribed or established vesting this power only in the Queens Majesteyes her Commissioners Metrapolitane being only to advise her in cause she require their advise but not to doe any thing them selves in their owne names either with or with our the Queenes advise they being as some say in a Premunire if they doe it by the State of 25. H. 8. c. 19. compared with 27. H. 8. c. 15. 35. H. 8. c 16. 3. 4. Ed● 6 c. 11. his Majesteyes and the Bishops owne resolution in the Declaration before the 39 Articles of Religion reprinted by his Majesteyes speciall Commaund London 1628. By what right or power then I pray with what great affront to his Majesteyes Prerogrative Royall can or doe our Arch-Bishops Bishops Arch-Deacons Ordinaries officials in their severall visitations take upon them to prescribe new rites Ceremonies of their owne devising to print pubblish them in their owne names without any Commission from his Majesteyes in their visitation Articles to injoyne Ministers Church-wardens Sidemen to submit unto them suspending questioning excommunicating them in case they refuse to doe it when as them selves for making they for submitting to any such Rites Ceremonies or Constitutions are ipso facto excommunicated by the 12. Canon made in Convocation Anno 1603 By what right or authority doe they now set up Altars insteed of Tables order give in charge in printed Articles that Communion Tables shal be changed removed sett Altarwise against the East end of the the Chauncel there rayled in that the Ministers shall bow cring unto them administer the Sacrament yea read the 2. service as they call it at the Table even when there is no Sacrament that all the Communicants shall come up to receive that all men shall stand up at Gloria Patri the Gosple Athanasius the Nicene Creed bow at every naming of Iesus Woemen to be Churched with vayles not without things no wayes prescribed by the Booke of Comon prayer or Commaunded by his Mayestey under the great Seale suspending silencing depriving excommunicating Ministers and vexing his Mayesteyes subjects severall wayes for not submitting to these their Novell Articles Injunctions being all Derogatorie to his Majesteyes Ecclesiasticall Prerogative contrary to this objected clause of the Statute and to the first clause thereof which enacts That no manner of Parson vicar or other Minister what soever shall wilfully or obstinately standing in the same use or by open fact deed or thenreatning compell cause procure or maintaine any person vicar or other Minister in any Cathedrall or parrish Church or Chapple to use ANY OTHER RITE CEREMONY ORDER FORME OR MANNER of celebrating the Lords Supper Mattens Evening song Administration of the Sacraments then is mentioned and sett forth in the Booke of Common Prayer and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England under the penalties therein expressed which Booke neither prescribes nor mentions all or any of these Nouell Rites Ceremonies The Coalier therfore might well have f●●o ne this objection which fals so heavy upon him these Prelates which set him no worke to blow a brode his Coale from the Altar to kindle a combustion in our Church 3. I answer that this clause is meerly personall to the Queen because she and her Commissioners only is named in it not her Heires Successors their Commissioners that for two reasons First for the Parleament then knew her syncerity love to Religion and her desire to aduance it of which she had given good Testimonie all King Edward the 6. time but especially in Queen Maries dayes therfore they would trust her with such a power But they then knew not neither could they divine who might chance to be her Heyre or Successor to the Crowne nor what they might prove in point of Religion Therfore they would not adventure to intrust them with such an authority who might peraduenture overturne the Rites and Ceremonies of the Church with the due use reverence of Christe holy misteries Sacraments formerly setled by this Act the Booke of Common prayer by vertue or coulor of this clause without a Parliament but limited it only to the Queen 2. Because the Booke of Common Prayer administration of the Sacrament other Rites Ceremonies of the Church of England being then but newly corrected published there might there upon as comonly it fals out upon all Alterations grow some questions doubts inconveniences about it or