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A48312	A letter (against the erection of an altar) written Iune 29, 1635 to the Reverend Father Iohn L. Bishop of Chester / by Iohn Ley ...	Ley, John, 1583-1662.	1641 (1641)	Wing L1881; ESTC R21374	21,366	40

the forecited saying of Minutius Felix by pretence of the privacie of the Christian profession as though they had Altars but privately out of the sight of the Heathens yet it is plain by Origen who flourished not long before Minutius in his answer to Celsus ſ Pro Aris nobis esse mentem suam cuique ex qua ●ursum feruntur vere ac infallibiliter suaveolentis suffitus preces è pura conscientia Orig contra Cels lib. 8. Tom. 2. pag. 794. that the Christians had neither Altars nor Images For Altars which belong to our present purpose saith he our minde serves turne from which are sent up the sweet incense of prayers out of a pure conscience Since Christians had Temples the Authors that mention Altars are Optatus Ambrose Athanasius the two Gregories Chrysostome Hierom and Augustine They are to be understood not of an Altar properly but of a communion Table as may appeare by u Quis fidelium nescit in peragendis my●●eriis ipsa ligna linteamine cooperiri Optat advers Parmen l. ● pag. 166. Optatus w 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Euseb lib 1. Demonstr Evangel Eusebius and x Lignis Altaris ejusdem effractis immaniter cecide●unt c. Aug. ep 50. Bonif Tom. 2. pag. 248. Augustine which as for the matter of it it was not made of stone but of wood so for the site of it it was not set in the end of the Chancell but in the middle at least so as it might be removed and so placed at the Communion that the people might come round about it as Bishop y B. Jewel in his third Article p. 145. Iewel observeth against Doctor Harding and z B. Morton of the Sacrament l. 6. p. 50. marg Bishop Morton in his late learned book of the Sacrament of the Lords Supper And though Bellarmine brag of the antiquity of Altars yet as secretly confessing the seniority of woodden Tables before them he is faine to say he insists not in his disputation upon the Altar of a Non disputamus de Altari lapideo sed id ●mne vocamus Altare ubi recipitur victima per verba consecrationis effecta Bel. de Missa lib. 1. cap. 27. Tom. 3. p. 341. Stone but calls that whatsoever it be an Altar whereon the Sacrifice such as he and others beleeving the mysterie of iniquity doe imagine is made by the words of consecration And as I doubt not but a Table may be made of stone so an Altar may be made of b Altaria lapidea vel lignea in Templis Christianorum requirunt Paraeus in Ep. ad Heb. c. 13 ver 10. p. 554. wood and for that there was a particular ordinance Exod. 27.1 that it should be made of Shitim wood overlayd with brasse and it may be moveable too as a Table yea as a Trencher though it be of stone For the Papists have their c Aquin. artp 3. qu 83. art 3. ad 2. Altare portatile Papistarum Chamier Tom. 4. lib. 7. c. 13. p. 387 portable Altars made of a piece of a slate stone light and little for commodious carriage from place to place as they please But the Altars which give the strongest support to their superstition are stonie fixed fabricks which whensoever they began for the time is uncertaine are most in use in the Popish Churches and required as necessary by Popish Doctors to be of stone else d Durand rational divin●r l. 1. c 7. nu 28. f. 35. b. they may not be consecrated as signifying Christ the Rock and his resting in a stony Sepulchre and for the upper part of it it must be of one intire stone All this is the determination of c Aquin. part 3 qu. 83 art 3. ad 5 Aquinas to whose writings f Aug. Hunnius in ep ded Pio Quinto praefixa operibus Aquinat edit Plant. ●an 1569. Pope Innocent gave the first place after the Canon of the Scripture Against these our third Reason may be Reason 3 the danger of depravation and corruption of the doctrine of the Church by changing the Christian Sacrament into a Popish Sacrifice for from literall and reall Altars properly so called Bellarmine and Brerely inferre a litterall and a reall Sacrifice The name of an Altar in Greeke and Hebrew saith g Nomen Altaris Sacrificium innuit Graecè Latiné ●el de Missa lib. 1. c. 2. Tom. 3. pag. 307. col 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Bellarmine doth intimate a Sacrifice Item h Altaria non consu eviss● erigi nisi ob sacrificium propriè dictum Bel. de Missa lib. 1. c. 16. sag 332. col 1. Altars are not used to be set up but for Sacrifice properly so called Againe saith he i Altare propriè dictum non erigicur nisi ad Sacrificium propriè dictum Bel. ibid. lib. 1. c. 14. p. 327. col 1. Altars properly taken are not set up but for Sacrifice properly taken And again k Altaria signa evidentissima esse Sacrificii propriè dicti Bel. de Mis l. 1. c. 16. p. 332. Altars are most evident signes of a Sacrifice properly so called l Brerely of the Mosse Tract 1. subd 2. p. 64 65. Altars and Sacrifices inferre one another saith Brerely They make the like inference I grant from the name Priest as we may see by m Bel lib. 1. de Missa cap. 17. pag. 332. col 2. Bellarmine who makes that title one of his topicks to prove his Sacrifice but not with like advantage as they argue from the Altar for the one is offered but to the eare the other to the eye and we see by experience that the Poet spake like a Prophet when he said n Segnius irritant animum demissa per aures Quam quae sunt oculis subjectae fidelibus H●rat that the objects of the eare are more weake in their working than those of the eye the one is but a transient word the other is a permanent worke the one is properly an Altar the other noteth not properly a Priest in the Evangelicall Church But what need wee be troubled at the consequence of a Sacrifice upon an Altar when by Sacrifice we may understand that which is Orthodox in sense and not unwonted for use in the true Church of God For as many of the Ancients use the word Altar so doe they the word Sacrifice also yea and some of the most learned and best reputed Papists give a sound interpretation of it as their Master of the Sentences and their Angelicall Doctor the two most renowned Rabbies in the Romish Church who say o Quaeritur si quod gerit Sacerdos propriè dica●ur Sacrificium ad hoc breviter dici potest vocari Sacrificium quia memoria est representatio veri Sacrificii Sanctae Immolationis factae in ara Crucis P. Lumb lib. 4. dist 12. fol. 357. p. 1. It is therefore called a Sacrifice because it is the memoriall