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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

Trinity by Saints and Angels before either of them were created or at least from the Creation till this present time without variation or intermission which is both false and absurd to assert Yea litterally taken Archbps Bishops Deans Chapters Prebends Cathedralists who are most zealous for its continuance have least reason of any other Christians to practise chaunt repeat it since they have so much degenerated swarved from the Bishops Ministers in the Apostles age and Primitive Church in their daily Preaching Manners Habits Vestments Ornaments Church-musick Piety Humility Jurisdidictions Temporal possessions Ceremonies Government by a joynt Council of Presbyters Ecclesiastical centsure Of neither whereof they can truly say As it was in the beginning is now nor yet and ever shall be world without end Amen which they should henceforth discontinue unlesse they will really conform themselves in all things to the primitive Bishops and Ministers in point of worship doctrine disciplne administration of Sacraments Cereremonies Vestments Church-service and contempt of Worldly Pomp Riches Honours Heavenly conversation and comply with his Majesties most gracious Declarations touching Ecclesiastical affairs and the endowment of poor Vicaridges with competent maintenance for the benefit of the Peoples souls and bodyes to which they are very a verse 11. The usual custome of repeating Gloria Patri c. As it was in the beginning c. interchangably by the Ministers and People the Minister sometimes reciting the first clause and the Clerk and People the latter sometimes the Clerk and People rehearsing the fi●st part and the Minister the last by way of Dialogue Antiphony and Responsals as it is contrary to the Rubrick which prescribes the Priest alone to rehearse it not the People who are but to say Amen thereto So is it contrary to the practise of Gods Church in the first and purest times And the recital thereof with a loud obstreperous voyce as well by Women as Men repugnant to the Apostles express precepts 1 Cor. 14. 34 35. Let your Women keep silence in the Churches for it is not permitted unto them t● speak for it is a shame for them to speak in the Church Therefore most fit to be reformed for the future and laid quite aside 12. The repetition of Glory be to the Father c. after every Psalme Hymne and Versicle according to the Rubrick in times of Divine service hath introduced a New disorderly confused Custome and Ceremony in Cathedral and some other Churches though prescribed by no Rubrick Law Sanction or Canon of our Church of starting and standing up at every rehearsal of it and quatting down again as soon as it is repeated which gives a great offence to many therefore I shall next discusse it SECT II. Of Ministers and Peoples rising and standing up at every Rehersal of Glory be to the Father c. THough the Gesture of rising and standing up during any part of Divine Service simply considered in it self be a thing indifferent and lawfull as well as kneeling or sitting as the Marginal Scriptures evidence yet the customary constant usage thereof at Gloria Patri in all Cathedral most Parish Churches Chapels newly revived gives great distast to many sober Christians upon these ensuing Considerations which make them to disgust the use of Gloria Patri it self as an unnecessary superfluity which may well be spared 1. Because there is no precept nor president for any such usage or custom in the old or new Testament nor in the Primitive Church when purest devoutest for above 700 years after Christ. 2. There is no Rubrick Law legal Canon or Injunction for it in our own Church since the Reformation of Religion as there was before in times of Popery it being exploded upon the Reformation and Establishment of the Book of Common-Prayer though since introduced by Degree● in Cathedrals and Parish Churches by innovating Prelates and Prelatical Clergy-men without any Law against the minds of our first Reformers who exploded it 3. Because the frequent sudden starting and standing up in the reading of the Psalms other parts of the Liturgy at and during every Rehearsal of Gloria Patri pronouncing it promiscously with a loud voyce as well by Men as Women who are to keep silence and not suffered to speak in the Church whiles others sit as before because this Ceremony is not prescribed and then quatting down again to the disturbance of those who sit by or near them and offence of those who scruple dislike this illegal Innovation as an undecent and disorderly custom introduced without any solid reason contrary to the Apostles prescription and direction 1 Cor. 14. 33 34 35 40. and 1 Tim. 2. 11. 12. Let all thingste done decently and in order for God is not the Author of confusion but peace Let your women keep silence in the Churches c. This chaunting and rehearsing of Gloria Patri by all the people with a loud voyce together with the Priest at the end of the Psalm was long since thus censured as a strange disorderly Innovation by Cassianus a Presbyter of Marselles Illud autem quod in hac Provincia vidimus ut uno cantante in clausula Psalmi omnes adstantes concinent cum ●amore Gloria Patri et Filio et Spirituisancto nusquam per Orientem audivimus sed cum silentio omnium ab eo qui cantat finito Psalmo or ationem succedere Therefore most fit to be Reformed now there being no Rubrick Law or Canon that prescribes it in our Church 4. Because it is directly contrary to the president and practise of the 24. Elders and the great multitude of Saints of all Nations and kinreds and people Rev. 4. 11 12. cap. 7. 10 11 12. Who when they gave praise and glory unto God did all fall down on their faces not stand up upon their feet before the Throne and him that sat thereon saying Thou art worthy O Lord to receive glory and honour and praise Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honour and power and might be unto our God for ever and ever Amen The same in substance and words almost with Gloria Patri c. at which all now use to rise and stand upright insteed of falling down on their faces Yea rise up not only from their seats but knees when they are praying O Lord make haste to help us to Chant or say Glory be to the Father c. subjoyned to that and other Prayers 5. Because this starting and standing up at Gloria Patri was originally introduced prescribed by Popish Missals Councils Canons Priests and taken up in imitation of Popish Prelates Priests Monks Papists in their Celebration of their Masses in which they all stand up together when Gloria Patri is repeated at the entrances of their several Masses the end of every Psalme and other parts of their Masse When and by what Popes and Councils it was first introduced I cannot certainly define Chronicon Reichespengense

they are the greatest Non-conformists 3ly The Gospel being commanded to be preached to all Nations who were as different in their Manners Habits Fashions Customes Laws Ceremonies Governments as in their Climates and Languages it was neither possible convenient nor reasonable to prescribe any one set-form of Bishops Ministers or Deacons Vestments Liturgy or Administration of Sacraments to them all but to leave them arbitrary and indifferent with this general limitation Let all things be done decently and in order 4ly That though all Qualifications and Duties of Eangelical Bishops Deacons and their Wives too be most fully and particularly set down in the Epistles of Timothy and Titus yet there is not one syllable in them concerning the forme or colour of their Ordinary or Prieslly Vestments Accounterments which if so necessary expedient decent as they are now pretended would certainly have there been specified recommended or prescribed to all succeeding Bishops and Deacons 5ly That the Apostle in this very Epistle to Timothy where he most particularly enjoynes the use of publick and private Prayers to Bishops Ministers and all other Christians and the manner how they should perform the same useth only these expressions I exhort therefore that first of all Supplications Prayers Iutercessions and Thanksgivings be made for all men for Kings and all in Authority that under them we may live a quiet and peaceable life in all godlyness and honesty I will therefore that men pray every where lifting up holy Hands he would doubtlesse have added putting on holy Garments Rochets Surplesses Albees Hoods c. had they been necessary decent expedient without wrath or doubtings In like manner also that Women adorn themselves with modest Apparel with shamefastness and sobriety now almost quite out of fashion even in Churches as well as Theatres not with broydred or plaited hair or gold or pearles or costly array or spots or patches now much in fashion both in aud out of Church but which becommeth Women professing godlyness with good works Let the Women learn in silence c. This transition from Ministers Deacons and mens praying in every place with pure hands to womens apparel especially in the Church as the last words evidence without one syllable of M●ns Bishops Ministers or Deacons apparel or Church-vestments before or after it in this Epistle or any other is an unanswerable argument in my weak judgment against the necessity or peremptory prescription of any Rochets Surplesses or other kinde of Vestments since invented enjoyned by Popes or Popish Prelates Priests Monks or any other Prelates in the celebration of Divine Service Masses Sacraments 6ly That our Saviour himself gave this special charge to his Disciples recorded by two Evangelists Take no thought for your life what you shall eat or what you shall drink nor yet for your body what you shall put on Is not or for the life is more than meat and the body than rayment If then the Apostles and Disciples themselves were thus specially prohibited to take any thought for their ordinary necessary Rayment and wearing Apparel much more then for any extraordinary unnecessary Surplesses Rochets Canouical or Pontifical Massing Vestments wherein they preach pray or administer the Sacraments Of which Popes Archbishops Bishops Priests Deacons and Cathedral-men have been heretofore and some now be so over-carefull so immoderately zealous as by sundry successive Councils Synods Canons Decretals Injunctions Rubricks Censures indispensibly to impose yea force them upon their Fellow-Ministers and Christians against their judgements wills consciences or else to deprive them of their Ministry Gods publick Ordinances Sacraments contrary to this express Inhibition of Christ himself whom they highly atfront therein 7ly That God by St. Paul gives this Divine Precept or Admonition to Timotby and all other Bishops Ministers Deacons Christians Godlyness with contentment is great gain for we brought nothing into this world and it is certain we can carry nothing out And having food and rayment though ordinary course mean let us be therewith content O that all over-covetous worldly pompous Prelates and Clergy-men would seriously ponder believe practise and preach over this Text by their heavenly world-contemning lives instead of vexing disquieting discontenting themselves and all others with Law-sutes Citations Injunctions Censures about their Lorldly Mannors Pallaces Temporalties Pontifical Ornaments and Priestly Vestments This would make all to love honour reverence them with and from their souls who now repute them the worldlyest the proudest and most avaritious of all men professing Christianity even when they are departing out of this world and dropping into their very Graves if not into a deeper Pit to the scandal of the Gospel and their holy Function Let me only mind them of two conclusions from this Text. 1. That if all Bishops and Ministers ought to be contented with bare necessary rayment as well as food then they ought not to lade and cloath themselves with so many super●luous unnecessary Pontifical robes and Priestly vestments as now they wear and put on even in Gods own presence House whiles they are discharging their Duties and performing Divine services unto him much lesse to force or impose them upon their Brethren and Fellow-Ministers who are and would be content with their ordinary Garments without these superfluities and are highly discontented that they are injoyned to put them on against this Precept the forecited Texts yea the very dictates of their own Judgements and Consciences 2ly That they must speedily leave all their worldly Temporalties Episcopal robes Priestly vestments behind them and shall neither carry them hence into their Graves much lesse to Heaven or another world why then should they either trouble themselves with them or their Fellow-Ministers and Christians about them who take no contentment in them and desire to officiate and serve God in their Ministry without them 8ly Which is most observable That when Christ himself commissioned and sent forth his Disciples to preach teach and discharge their Ministerial function he expresly enjoyned them among other things not to provide take or put on two Coats neither to have two Coats a piece as being an impediment to their preaching and Ministry In obedience to which command the most laborious preaching Gospel-spreading Saint Parl whiles he was travelling from Country to Country and City to City to preach the Gospel left his Cloak at Troas with Carpus as a cumbersom impediment to his Ministry which he sent for after he was P●isoner at Rome when he could no longer walk abroad to preach With what colour then of Piety Decency Expediency or Necessity can Popes Patriarks Metropolitans Archbishops Bishops when they go to say Masse read Divine service preach baptize celebrate the Lords Supper confer Orders keep Visitations consecrate Churches Chapels Vessels Vestments Kings put on adorn and load themselves with Miters Caps Cossacks Gownes Rochets Surplesses Copes Hoods Stoles Planets Palls Dalmaticks Pectoral Crosses Girdles Colobiums Chymers Gloves Sandals