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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

Altar prayes to God the Father to give him the spirit of humility c. Which I have cited more at large to shew the ridiculous grounds of Popish Ceremonies I answer First that in all this there is not one word of bowing to or towards the Altar which certainly would here have been mentioned among other Ceremonies had it been then in use Secondly the last words mention only a kneeling downe at the Altar and that by the Preist at the time of Consecration to pray but no kneeling or bowing to the Altar either before after or without any prayer the Ceremony now contended fore This therefore is not home The tenth Antiquity The tenth is that of Honorius Augustodunensis de antiquo ritu M●ssarum l. 3. c. 30. De Inclinationibus Dam Ecclesiam ingredientes ad Altare inclinamus quasi regem milites adoramus Aeterni quippe Regis Milites sumus cui semper in precinctu specialis militiae assumus Cum autem ad Orientem Occidentem inclinamus Deum ubique praesentem nos adorare monstramus Quem it a rationali motu ab ortu nostrae nativitatis usque ad occasum mortis sequi debemus sicut coelum ab Oriente in Occidentem naturali revolutione ferri videmus Quod Monachi expressius designavit qui se toto corpore ab Oriente in Occidentem girant To which I answer That this Authour lived 1120 yeares after Christ and is the first undoubted writer that makes mention of bowing to the Altar at the en●ring into the Church which I have met with all Which Ceremony as is likely began in his dayes But yet observe First he sayth they bowed To not towards the Altar only Which many of our Novellers deny they doe Secondly that the ground and reason of bowing to the Altar then is farre different from those reasons alleadged for it now They bowed thus Only to restify that they were Gods Soldiours ready at all times to doe him service Not from any reasons drawne from the Altar But wee forsooth must bow to it because it is Gods mercy seat the place of Christs speciall presence on Earth his Chaire of state to testify ou● Communion with the faithfull because it is the principall part of the Church And if all these faile because it is used in Cathedrall Churches Which reason they never dream'd on then Thirdly that as they then bowed to the Altar so likewise they bowed themselves both East and West to testify that God whom they worshipped was every where alike present But our men will only bow Eastward and have all Altars so situated not Westward And confine Gods speciall presence to their Altar and the East end of the Church as if he were not every where present alike Which is directly opposite both to their practise and reason here alleadged to the contrary Fourthly they bowed only to the Altar at their first entrance into the Church ours now not only at their coming in but every time they passe by it towards it repaire to it retire from it and at their going out of the Church besides Fiftly this in that age was the practise only of Monkes when they went to their houres of prayer for of them he speakes as is evident by the precedent and subsequent chapters with reference to these houres Therefore it is no proofe for Ministers or Laymens practise of it then or now The eleaventh Antiquity The eleaventh is that of Rudolphus Tungrensis florishing about the yeare of our Lord 1380. De Canonum observantia propositio 23. Who as he informes us in direct tearmes that Sixtus the second Anno 261 ordained That the Masse should be celebrated upon an Altar QUOD ANTEA NON FIEBAT which before that time was not done a cleare proofe that Christians for 261 yeares after Christ had no Altar in use so he writes That the Preist in that age read the Gosple at the left corner of the Altar according to the Roman Order that on the Right side he might be the readier to receive oblation and performe sacrifice That the Roman Order prescribes that incense with a Tapor should be caried before the Gosple when it was caried to the Altar or Readers seate And then relating divers Ceremonies about the Masse he sayth Sacerdos autem humiliationem Christi usque ad mortem Ctucis nobis indicat quando se usque ad Altare inclinat dicendo habe igitur ohlationem Et statim in sequentibus narrationem de Dominica passione orditur Quam usque ad supplices te rogamus observat Quosque juxta Altare se inclinans Christum in Cruce inclinato capite spiritum tradidisse signat To which I answer That this is no bowing to or towards the Altar But a bowing of the Preist as low as the Altar and by ●r besides the Altar not out of any respect or reverence to it but to sh●w forth Christs humiliation unto the death of the Crosse as i● the Sacrament 1 Cor. 11. 24. 25. 26 instituted for that purpose and then celebrated were not sufficient for that without this idle Ceremonie to shew that Christ bowed his head when he gave up the Ghost as if Christ himselfe at his last supper or his Apostles after him could not have prescribed such Ceremonies for these ends had they thought them necessary T●erefore it s no warrant or proofe of any bowing or inclination to or towards the Altar especially for other ends which is not so much as mentioned in this writer there being non Canon extant for it in his age The twelveth Antiquity The twelveth is that of Eugenius Roblesius Bibl. Patrum Tom. 15. p. 761. G. H. de authoritate ordine Officij M●rzabarici among the Gothes Where J find no mention of the Preists genuflection to the Altar before the ordinary Mas●e or in it But these passages after it Absoluta Missa Sacerdos genubus flexis juxta Altare recitat salve regina D●nde deosculato Altare convertit se ad populum But in the Lenton Masses immediately after the Psalmes Sacerd●s genust xo supragradus Altaris recitat quasdam preces c. Hinc ante sacrificium oblationom Sacerdos genu flexo ad Altare recitat alias preces c. But all this proves only a kneeling and genuflection in prayer at the Altar not any bowing or incuruation to or tow●rds it and that all the time of the Consecration by the Preist alone not by other at other seasous These are all the cheife Authorities I have hitherto observed which seem to give any colour to this bowing to or towards Altars which Ceremonie I cannot finde prescribed in any Bookes of Divine Offices Canonists Missals Caeremonials Primers Psalters Liturgies Masse-Bookes or Masses no not in the Popish Churches much le●●e at home that have hitherto come unto my hands A strong argument and evidence in my judgement that it was never used in former times as now it is of late The fore-cited Authorities two only excepted and those late Popish

packing to Rome their mother or to some English Seminaries or Cloysters where they may say and sacrifice Ma●●e Sure our Homilies informe both them and us that we have no need of Masse or Sacrificing Preists neither yet thankes be to God have wee any Masses to be chaunted unlesse our Cathedrall divine service may be so tearmed which comes nearest Masse of any in our Parish Churches standing in need only of Preaching Ministers not Sacrificing Masse-Preists condemned by our statutes as direct Trayt●rs● to our King and State And if those Jnnovators will-needes enroll themselves in this order of Preists I should not envy them the horne of a Tyburne ●ippert to grace their order and neckes with all nor yet the shaving of their Crownes to the very shoulders ●o use Father Latymers speeches ● which they well demerit in stead of that Egreg●am verò laudem spolia ampla which pricke them on to as●ume this new title office of Preists and Preistshood QVESTION III. The third Question J shall propose to them and all our Prelates is this what Law Canon or ground they have for the Consecrating of Altars a Ceremony already begun at Wolverhampton as you have heard which will shortly creepe up by degrees in other places Or for Consecrating Churches Chappels or Churchyeards Statute I am certaine there is none for it yea sure I am that all the statutes against Mort. concerning divine service and Sacraments and the Booke of Common-prayers with divers of our learned Writers are against it To make this cleare in few wordes 1. First it is apparent that every Consecration of a Church Chappell or Church-yard makes a Mort This is the expresse resolution of the whole Parliament Realme in the Statute of 15. R. 2. c. 5. Rastal Mort. ● and 13. E. 1. c. 32. against Crosses But Mort are directly against the Lawes and Statutes of the Realme as appeares by Brook Fiz and Rastall in their Titles Mort Therefore these Consecrations are so too 2. Secondly they are expresly opposite to the Statutes of 2. and 3. E. 6. c. 1. 5. and 6. E. 6. c. 1. If these statutes with that of Jac● c. 5. were duely executed we should not have so many of those bookes in the Realme as now they are which are freely printed and sould openly in every Stationers shoppe 1. Eliz c. 2. 8. Eliz c. 1. and 3. and 4. E. 6. c. 10. 12. All which for the abandoning of all superstitious service and to take away all occasions of dive sity of opinions rites Ceremonies in our Church clearely and utterly abolish extinguish and forbid for ever to be used or kept in this Realme all bookes called Missals Breviaries Officials Manuals Processionals Legends Primers or other Bookes whatsoever heretofore used for service of the church written or printed in the English or Lattin tongue With all other manner of Rites Ceremonies divine service Consecrations or publike formes of prayer then such only as are mentioned and prescribed in the Booke of Common prayer and other rites aud Ceremonies of the Church of England and in the Booke of Ordination ratified by these Acts In neither of which is there one syllable or Title extant concerning the Consecration of Churches Chappels or Church● yardes or Altars nor any forme of prayer prescribed for the purpose as there is both for the Administration of the Lords supper Baptisme whether publike or private Mariage Buriall of the Dead Churching of Women visitation of the sicke confirmation of Children Ordination of Deacons and Ministers Consecration of Archbishops and Bishops and ●ll other thinges our Church deemes lawfull or necessary Since therefore these statutes have professedly in direct tearmes abolisl●e 〈◊〉 those Popish Books and P●●mers wherein the manner prayers and service for consecrating of Churches Chappels Church-yards or Altars are prescribed and established in their places the Booke of Common-prayer and Ordination of Ministers wherein there is not one syllable concer●ing any such consecrations nor any forme of prayer or service instit●ted for all or either of them as there is for all other rites Ceremonies which our Church holds necessary And since they expresly prohibite all other Rites Ceremonies Formes of Prayer and Consecrations then such as are comprised and prescribed in th●se two Bookes It is infallable that they have utterly abolished and abrogated this Ceremony of Consecrating of Churches Church-yards Chappels and Altars as Iewish Popish Superstitious or at least superfluous and quite excluded it out of our Church As for our Canons Homilies I●junctions and Articles of Religion there is not in all nor any one of them inferred ●re title concerning these Consecrations Which condemne and exclude them by their silence The Homilies likewise have some glances against them For our writers Mr. Tyndall in ●is obedience page 136. 152. of a Christian man William Wra●ghton in his hunting and Rescuing of the Romish Fox Iohn Bale B of Osyrus in Ireland in his Image of both Churches in sundry places Thomas Becon in his Reliques of Rome Mr. Cal●r hill in his booke against Marshall Mr. Fox in his booke of Martyrs And many other of our writers haue expresly censured and de●●ed those Consecrations as Superstitious Iewish Popish and Antichristian styling them conjuring rather then hallewing of Churches Chappels and Altars inv●nted only for profi●● and reserved only to Bishops for gaine sake And to name no more reverent Pilkirg●on sevea●ely censures these Consecrations in these ensewing wordes The Popes Church hath all things pleasant in it to delig●● the people but where the Gospell is preached they knowing that God is not pleased but only with a pure heart they are con●ent with an honest place appointed to resort together in though it were never hallowed by Bishop at all It is written that God dwels not in Temples made with handes nor is worshipped with any worke of mans handes but he is a ●●spirit an invisible substance and will be worshipped in spirit and truth not in outward wordes only of the ●ippe but with the deepe lighes and groanes of the heart and the who●e power of the mind earnest hearty calling on him in prayer by faith And therefore he doth not so much require of us to build him an house of stone and timber but hath willed as to pray in all places and hath taken away that Iewish and Popish holinesse which is thought to be more in one place then in another All the Earth is the Lords and he is present in all places hearing the petitions of them that call upon him in faith Therefore those Bishops which thinke with their conjured water to make one place more holy then the rest are no better then the Iewes deceaving the people and teaching that only to be holy which they have censed crossed oyled and breathed upon For as Christ said to the woman thinking one place to be more holy to pray in then