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A56208	A short sober pacific examination of some exuberances in, and ceremonial appurtenances to the Common prayer especially of the use and frequent repetitions of Glory be to the Father, &c., standing up at it, at Gospels, creeds, and wearing white rochets, surplises, with other canonical vestments in the celebration of divine service and sacraments, whose originals, grounds of institution and prescription, are here truly related and modestly discussed ... / by William Prynne, Esq. ...	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.; Stucki, Johann Wilhelm, d. 1607. Antiquitatum convivialum. Liber 2, cap. 26, De vestitu conviviali.	1661 (1661)	Wing P4081; ESTC R5455	105,415	150

Augustodunensis in his Gemma Animae l. 1 8● 2. Thomas Waldensis Doctrinalis Tom. 3. Tit. 4. c. 29. De sacris vestibus quibus Sacerdos intrat ad Missam Gulielmus Durantus Rationale Divinorum l. 3. the Roman Missal Pontifical Ceremonial and all who write of Bishops and Priests Vestments under the Gospel and their Consecrations derive both their pattern and legitimation To which I answer That these Texts are so far from justifying that they are the strongest Arguments that can be against the Vestments of Priests and Prelates now contended for upon these several accounts 1. All and every of these Aaronical Vestments under the Law were particularly invented prescribed together with their matter form colour use by God himself in precise terms not by Moses or Aaron and his Sons alone according to their own fancies But the Vestments Garments Rochets Surplisses of Popes Archbishops Bishops Priests Deacons now contended for were neither particularly invented prescribed by God himself or Christ either in respect of their matter form colour use directly or indirectly nor by any one Text in the Old or New Testament but merely invented prescribed by Popes Archbishops Bishops Priests Monks according to their own vain doting fancies Therefore no wayes justified but condemned by these Texts 2ly All these Garments were made and the constant use of them in Divine services and administrations punctually enjoyned by Gods special Command warrant law not by Popes Bishops Councils Decretals Injunctions Constitutions Canons Visitation Articles alone as all Pontifical Sacerdotal Garment● Rochets Surplisses Hoods and other such Trinkets are 3ly They were all put on Aaron and his Sonnes and both of them consecrated together by Moses alone the chief civil Magistrate not by any Pope Bishop Priest or other Ecclesiastical person who now only ingrosse and claim the right of ordaining consecrating all Archbishops Bishops Priests Ministers Deacons Ecclesiastical persons together with the hallowing of their Garments Rochets Surplisses and deem it no less than Sacrilege and Usurpation for Kings or Civil Magistrates to ordain or consecrate any of them or order ought concerning them but at their requests and as their Substitutes 4ly These Garments of theirs were different both in matter kinde form fashion from Rochets Surplisses Albees Hoods Planets Dalmaticks Chymeres Palls Stoles Pectoral Crosses Cassockes Gownes Black Silken Girdles Copes Miters square Caps and other Vestments now used contended for by Ceremonial Prelates and Clergy-men Therefore not warranted but condemned by these Texts 5ly These Garments were prescribed to Aaron and his Sons to put on only when they went in to the Tabernacle Altar Temple to offer up Levitical Sacrifices and Services unto God not when they prayed preached instructed the people in their several Cities Synogogues or in their Kings Palla●es as these Texts resolve Therefore no presidents for Bishops Priests or Deacons to imitate when they preach read Prayers officiate or administer Sacraments in Cathedrals or Parish Churches and Chapels 6ly Aaron the High Priest and his Successors with his Sons and Jewish Priests Sacrifices Priesthood Altars Vestments were all temporary typical utterly abolished by the incarnation passion sacrifice res●rrection ascention of our Lord Iesus Christ whom they typified shadowed as inconsistent with and not fit to be continued under the Gospel as on the Epistles to the Hebrews Galatians Romans Collossians Acts 15. and whole New Testament all Commentators on them Old and New resolve especially Hebr. 7 8 9 10. Therefore these Vestments may not ought not to be revived continued under the Gospel unless we will revive the Aaronical Priesthood High Priest Priests Levites with their Sacrifices Altars Tabernacle Temple and all other Levitical Ceremonies Vestments in specie and renounce both Christ himself with his Priesthood Ministrie and the Gospel 7ly None were to put on or wear these holy Garments but Aaron and his sonnes who were all Priests by birth and succession not election and ordination as all Apostles Bishops Ministers Deacons were and yet are who being none of the Tribe of Levy or Sonnes of Aaron by natural generation can claim no Title by the Law to their Priestly Garments much less by the Gospel which thus expresly resolves Hebr. 7. 12 13. For the Priesthood being changed there is made of necessity a change also of the Law For he of whom these things are spoken pertaineth to another Tribe of which no man gave attendance at the Altar and of which Tribe Mosco spake nothing concerning Priesthood An unanswerable Text against all Evangelical Bishops Ministers Deacons claims and pretences especially being Gentiles not Iewes by birth and Christians by regeneration to Aaronical Levitical Priestly Vestments or Ornaments which Text I desire them all to answer at their leisures 8ly If any allege they only use these Garments by way of allusion and imitation not prescription I answer 1. That they have no Precept nor warrant in the Gospel for this their allusion or imitation but direct Precepts warrants cautions against it as inconsistent with the Gospel and Salvation too Hebrews 6. 7 8 9 10. c. 12. 27 28 29. c. 13. 10 11. Col. 2. 1 ● to the end Phil. 3. 2 3. Tit. 1. 10. 11. Gal. 4. 30 31. c. 5. 1 2 3 4 11 12. Acts 15. 2ly They have no President from the Apostles or primitive Christians Churches for above 300. years after Christ. 3ly If our Bishops Priests Deacons will imitate them in their Garments it must be in fashion species form end use as well as matter and colour the best realest imitation Out Bishops or the Pope who pretend themselves the High Priests Successors though they can never prove it must then wear a Brestplate ephod robe broidered coat ●●iter girdle of the same materials form as Aarons were And our Priests Deacons must wear fine linnen Ephods Breeches Bonnets and none but linnen not woolen Garments on them whiles they minister nor any thing that may cause sweat and lay aside all their Surplisses Hoods Gowns Copes Caps Cassocks of wool silk satin sarcenet velvet which now they use else they do not imitate but prevaricate from this president 4ly Then none but Bishops Ministers Deacons not any Scholars in Colleges Halls nor Singing-men Choristers and others not in sacred Orders must wear Surplisses as now they are enjoyned by the forecited Canons since none but Aaron and his Sonnes alone were to wear these holy Garments 5ly All these their Garments must be consecrated in the self-same manner as theirs were 1. By Moses the chief Civil Magistrate not by Archbishops Bishops Priests or Presbyters 2ly With sprinkling of blood and holy anoynting oyle upon the Tip of their Ears Bodies Garments after they are put upon their Backs without any solemn Prayers Holy-water sprinkled or Crosse● made on them as their Episcopal Vestments Surplisses and Albees are now hallowed not upon their bodies but before they must wear or put them on Upon all which

Masters of Arts and Bachelers of Law having any Ecclesiastical living shall usually wear Gownes with standing collers and sleeves straight at the hands or wide sleeves as is used in the Vniversities with Hoods or Tippets of Silk or Sarcenet and square Caps And that all other Ministers admitted or to be admitted into that function shall also usually wear the like Apparel as is aforesaid except Tippets only We doe further in like manner ordain That all the said Ecclesiastical persons above mentioned shall usually wear in their journeyes Cloaks with sleeves commonly called Priests Cloaks without Gards Welts long Buttons or cuts And no Ecclesiastical person shall wear any Coif or wrought Nightcap but only plain Night-caps of black silke Satten or Velvet In all which particulars concerning the Apparel here prescribed our meaning is not to attribute any holinesse or special worthinesse to the said garments but for decencie gravitie and order as is before specified In private houses and in their studies the said persons Ecclesiastical may use any comely and Scholar-like Apparel Provided that it be not cut or pinckt and that in publike they go not in their Doublet and Hose without Coats or Cassocks and that they wear not any light-coloured Stockings Likewise poor beneficed men and Curates not being able to provide themselves long Gownes may go in short gowns of the fashion aforesaid Those who will take the pains to compare these Canons of our Protestant Bishops and Clergie with the Canons and Constitutions of our Popish Archbishops forecited or Iohn Peckhams and Iohn Stratfords Constitutions De habitu honestate Clericorum recorded by Iohn Aton and William Lyndwode the premised Popish French Synods Canons and sundrie others collected by Laurentius Bochellus Decreta Ecclesiae Gallicanae l. 1. Tit. 7. l. 3. Tit. 1. l. 6. Tit. 17. Shall at first view discern that they were almost verbatim taken out of them and more extensive than they in relation to all Scholars and Students in both Universities who were never before by any Popish Councils or Popes Decrees enjoyned constantly to wear Surplisses in time of Divine Service and Sacraments These Constitutions and Canon● never approved nor assented to by the Lords and Commons then or afterwards assembled in Parliament but by the King alone under his Great Seal and so not binding to the Subjects in their Liberties or Freehold against Magna Charta ch 29. and sundry other Acts recited in Rastal Tit. Accusation and the Petition of Right instead of allaying composing the Spirits wounded the consciences and augmented the number of Nonconformists many hundreds of godly preaching Protestant Ministers Scholars who could not conform unto them being thereupon suspended deprived and thrust out of their Benefices Curatships Fellowships Scholarships to their own and their Families ruine and many learned hopefull Scholars inforced to desert our Universities decline the Ministry and betake themselves to other callings and persons of lesse pietie worth merit thrust into their places the Ministrie by our Bishops and High Commissioners and some of them imprisoned fined forced to forsake the Kingdom and flie to forein Countries or Plantations to the great grief and discontent of their people friends allies and moderate Protestants which occasioned many new Books of Controversie and Apologies on both sides touching Church vestments Ceremonies and many great complaints animosities against the Bishops and High Commissioners during all King Iames and King Charles late Reigns till at last they were both suppressed by publick Acts Ordinances and ejected by force of Armes in England and Ireland as well as Scotland which their moderation and prudence in dispens●ing with these unnecessary Formalities might easily have prevented and their rigorous re-inforcing of or over-eager contending for them against the Letter and purport of his Majesties late pious and gracious Declarations after so long a discontinuance and universal dislike by all sober-minded men in this time of discontent may without Gods infinite mercy and miraculous Providence end in their second subvertion and future suppression which they should timely consider as well for their own preservation as his Majesties and his peoples generall satisfaction and the Churches publike Peace Unity after so many dangerous Schisms and Convulsions Having given you this account of the true original institution prescription progress forms of consecration putting on of these Pontifical Sacerdotal Vestments in the Churches of Christ of the principal Papal Episcopal Decretals Councils Canons that enjoyn them and Scriptures Arguments against them I shall in the next place examine answer the Scripture Texts Arguments produced by Popish Prelates Canonists School-men and our own Protestant Bishops Writers for their use and continuance in the Church which in my apprehension are very impertinent weak contemptible unable to satisfie any tender Conscience or judicious sober Christians Judgement though highly magnified and cryed up with great gravity seriosity by some Reverend Prelates and Clergy-men as well as many illeterate Novices The 1. Texts produced for the institution use of these Priests Garments under the Gospel are Exod. 28. 2 to 43. c. 29. 5 to 30 c. 31. 10. c. 35. 19 20 21. c. 39. 1 14. c. 40 13 c. Levit. 6. 11. c. 8. 2 13. c. 16. 4 23 24 32. Numb 20. 16 18. Neh. 7. 70 72. F●zra 2. 69. Ezech. 42. 14. c. 44. 17 19. Where God commanded Moses the chief civil Magistrate to make holy Garments for Aaron the High Priest for glory and honour to minister before God in the Priests Office which Garments are there at large described and to make Coats Bonnets and Girdles for Aarons sons for Glory and Beauty and to make them linnen Breeches to cover their nakednesse which should reach from their loynes even to their thighes and to put them upon Aaron and his Sons when they come into the Tabernacle of the Congregation or when they come near unto the Altar to minister in the holy place and to consecrate and sanctifie Aaron and his Sons that they minister to God in the Priests Office that they bear not their iniquity and dye And to take of the blood that is upon the Altar and put it upon the tip of the right ear of Aaron and his Sons and upon the great toe of their right foot and sprinkle the blood and the anoynting oy there prescribed upon Aaron and his Sons and their Garments and he and they shall be hallowed and their Garments with them Which Garments being accordingly made by Bezaliel by Gods prescription were put upon Aaron and his Sons who were consecrated by Moses together with their holy Garments wherein they the succeeding High-Priests and Iewish Priests usually ministred to the Lord whence they were stiled Priests Garments and holy Garments which they were to put on when they ministred to the Lord and to put off when their ministration was ended as these Texts at large attest From whence Alcuinus de Divinis Officiis c. 38 39. Honorius