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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01917	Eirenokoinonia. The peace of the communion of the Church of England. Or, The conformitie of the ceremonies of the communion of the Church of England with the ensamples and doctrine of the holy Scriptures, and primitiue Church, established by the Apostles of Christ, and the holy martyrs, and bishops, their successors. By Io: Gordon, Doctor of Diuinitie, and Deane of Salisbury.	Gordon, John, 1544-1619.	1612 (1612)	STC 12056; ESTC S117965	29,676	44

posteritie of Mizram sonne to Cham sonne of Noah which did first inhabite Egypt did retaine the true name of God which they learned of Noah but afterward it was conuerted to a fabulous Idoll which they did call Is Is whereof the Greekes made corruptly Isis Alwayes it is certaine by the Scriptures that the Egyptians did worship Idols in the time of Moses whose Priests were the Wise-men Sorcerers and Charmers that did imitate the miracle of the conuersion of Moses Rodde into a Serpent These Priests did weare linnen Garments and therefore were called linigeri as wee read in Herodot and in the Poets yet notwithstanding God commanded his Priests to weare the white garment although it was abused before the Law in the Egyptian Idolatry Theodoretus writing to the Gentiles in the defence of Christian religion to induce them to become Christians saith that the Israelites did remaine a long time in Egypt where they were infected with the euill manners of the Egyptians were taught by them to offer Sacrifices to the Diabolicke Idols and were accustomed to dauncing and to Instruments of Musicke c. God did deliuer them and gaue them a Law by the which he commanded them to offer to him who is the true God in Sacrifice all those things which they did wickedly worship before to wit in Egypt of earthly Beasts the Goats the Bullockes and Sheepe of flying Beasts the Turtle and the Doue c. God did not institute Sacrifices as hauing neede of killed Beasts or that hee hath any pleasure in the sauour of burnt flesh but hee did so of his wisedome in consideration of the peoples weaknesse euen so did he suffer Musicall Instruments to wit in the time of the Sacrifice not that hee would please his eares with the consent of the singing of them but that he might by little and little draw away the delusions of the Idols Thus farre be the words of Theodoretus Seeing that God ordained the Ceremonies with the which the Israelites were accustomed when they did worship the Idols of Egypt to be vsed in his owne worship it followes that these customes and Ceremonies as also the materiall things that were abused to Idolatry the Surplice Musicke and Musicall Instrument may lawfully be conuerted to some vse in the true worship of God according to these examples of the Ceremoniall Law In the time of the Captiuitie of Babilon Belshazzar did make a great feast and commanded to bring him the golden and siluer vessels which his Father Nabuchadnezzer had brought from the Temple of Ierusalem and the King and his Princes his wiues his Concubines dranke in them and praised the Gods of gold and siluer and notwithstanding that these were prophaned to the Seruice of Idols yet when Cyrus did send the people of Iudah to build vp againe the Temple and the Citie of Ierusalem he restored to them the vessels of the house of the Lord. The Priests of the second Temple did vse them in the seruice of the true God although they were as is said abused in the Idolatrous Feasts to the Seruice of the false Gods of Babilon Euen so the externall Ceremonies as well of cloathing as others which are vsed in the Church of England were first instituted to be vsed in the Seruice of the true Religion but afterward was violently employed by the Popes after they became temporall Tyrants to the Seruice of the new Idoll of the Masse and now againe the Masse being abolished are restored vnto their true and ancient vse in the worship of God By these examples then of the olde Testament it is manifest that it is lawfull to conuert the clothing vesture and Ceremonies abused by the Popish Idolatrie to be vsed in the true worship of God A great number of the Priests were conuerted Acts 6. 7. all which did continue in obseruing of the Law c. Acts 17. 20. So that the Priests being made Christians did wear the linnen Ephod Iosippus who was neare to the Apostles writes of Iames the Iust the Lords Brother that it was permitted to him only to enter into the Sanctuary because he did not weare a woollen but a linnen garment The formes and Ceremonies of the Christian Church were not established in the time of the Acts of the Apostles but afterward and S. Iohn the Euangelist did ouerliue all the Apostles and S. Paul many yeeres for S. Paul and S. Peter were put to death by Nero which was An. 70. But S. Iohn did liue to the time of Traiane the Emperour who did beginne Anno. Dom. 100. and then writ his Euangell 30. yeeres after the death of the Apostles during the which time hee being the alone Apostle that did liue long and being Bishop of Ephesus hee established the forme and Ceremonies of Christian Religion hee did weare as a Priest or Bishop the white Garment of this we haue an euident testimonie written by Policratis Bishop of Ephesus and one of S. Iohns Successors who did write in an Epistle sent to Uictor Bishop of Rome that Iohn who did lie on Christs breast was a Priest and did weare a garment called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is a white loose and long garment The 8. Booke of the Constitutions of the Apostles attributed vnto Clemens Bishop of Rome disciple to S. Peter containeth the formes and Ceremonies of the Churches Seruice and amongst other circumstances it is said that the Bishop ministring the holy Communion is clothed with a white garment which is called splendida ves●is This Booke is named in the last of the Cannons Ecclosiastike called Apostolike which no doubt are very ancient and is approued by Athanasius and many others of the learned Fathers and is the Booke in which the true ministration of the Sacraments is prescribed with the true worship of God and affords vs most euident testimonie against the Popes falsely pretended succession from Peter against the monstrous Transubstantiation and the inuocation of all creatures inferiour to the holy Trinitie whether they be men or Angels And therefore wee shall doe well to follow the authoritie of this most ancient Booke in all controuersies betwixt vs and our Aduersaries the Papists and much more in the matter of the white garment and other Ceremoniall matters These testimonies are sufficient to perswade vs that the Apostles did con●●nue in the ●stablishment of the Christian Religion the vse of the white Garment in the Church Seruice notwithstanding that they knew well that it was before their time abused to the seruice and worship of Idols and false Gods of the Gentiles and her then people Clemens Alexandrinus a very learned Presbiter and Pantenus Disciple who was S. Marke the Euangelists Disciple and did liue but 50. yeeres after S. Iohn is a sufficient witnesse to testifie vnto vs that the vse of the white garment did continue in the true Church of GOD after the death of all the Apostles The words of Clemens Alexandrinus be these The dying of clothes should be reiected to wit from the vse of the Christian seruice for they to wit that dyeth cloathes are very farre from the truth