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A12324	The vanitie & downe-fall of superstitious Popish ceremonies, or, A sermon preached in the cathedrall church of Durham by one Mr. Peter Smart, a præbend there, July 27. 1628 : containing not onely an historicall relation of all those severall Popish ceremonies and practises which Mr. Iohn Cosens hath lately brought into the said cathedrall church: but likewise a punctuall confutation of them; especially of erecting altars, and cringing to them, (a practise much in vse of late) and of praying towards the east.	Smart, Peter, 1569-1652?	1628 (1628)	STC 22640.3; ESTC S2885	22,911	48

to serue God in spirit and truth but he will affect some superstitious Ceremony to worship God therewith Whereas Christs Church in stead of many rites and signes of which the Iewish religion consisted A Christo acceperit paucam saith he eademque factu facillima intellectu augustissima observatione castissima The Church hath received of Christ but a few and those most easie to be done maiesticall for contemplation chast and vndefiled in observation Quid hac ad insulsas Caeremoniarum nugas Quid ad superstitionem plusquam Iudaicam Quid ad Philaricam tyrannidem quae extruciat miseras conscientias Quid ad tot Idololatriae portenta What are these to the trifles of vnsavoury Ceremonies To superstition more then Iudaicall To their divelish tyranny in tormenting wretched consciences Nay what are they to the prodigious monsters of Popish Idolatry Whereupon he concludeth Non esse Caeremoniarū multitudine onerandam Ecclesiam Christs Church may not be over whelmed with an Ocen Sea of Ceremonies It must fly the superfluous furniture of pompous rites and Papall Pageants devised onely to astonish simple people to ravish their eyes and mindes and to amaze them with admiration Now indeed the originall cause of most of our superstitious ceremonies is that Popish opinion that Christs Church hath yet Priests Sacrifices and Altars Whereas in truth Christ was sent of God to be the last priest which should offer the last Sacrifice vpon the last Altar that ever the world should haue He had saith Paul Hebr. 7. Aparabaton ierosunen a Priesthood which could not passe or be resigned to any ther He was not to haue any successour being a Priest for ever after the order of Melchisedick Having neither beginning of dayes nor end of life but made like vnto the Sonne of God abideth a Priest continually Not made as the sonnes of Aaron were after the law of a carnall commandement but after the power of an endlesse life saith he in the 16. verse For they being mortall men could not otherwise continue but by their lineall succeeding of their dying fathers one after another till the passion of Christ After whose sacrifice offered on the Crosse which was the conclusion and consummation of all sacrifices the whole Ceremoniall Law Mosaicall Sacrifices and Priesthood were to end with the beautifull Temple and Altar therein Onely the sacrifice of prayer of praise thanksgiving which every faithfull man and woman must offer to God vpon the most holy Altar Christ is left to the Church So Ireneus calls him lib. 4. Altare nostrum Christus Christ is our Altar And Epiphanius saith Christus est Victima Sacerdos Altare Deus homo omnia in omnibus pro nobis factus Christ is the Sacrifice the Priest the Altar both God and man made all in all for our sakes To revive therefore and raise vp againe Iewish types and figures long since dead and buried in bringing in Altars in stead of Tables Priests in stead of Ministers propitiatory sacrifices in stead of Sacraments Is it not Antichristian presumption and sacrilegious impiety robbing Christ of his honour and vs of our salvation What is it else but an apostacy a publike protestation to renounce the onely sacrifice and the onely sacrificer Christ Iesus It is the reiteration saith a learned writer of the expiatory sacrifice offered by Christ vpon the Altar of the Crosse and the surrogation of an vpstart Priest for Christ the eternall Sacrificer and Priest for ever after the order of Melchisedeke The ordinary Glosse saith well Externi ritus Ceremoniae Legis quia fuerunt vmbra Christi tum venturi et mysteriorum ideo adveniente veritate Evangelica illicita facta sunt evannerunt The externall rites and Ceremonies of the Law because they were shadowes of Christ to come and of his mysteries therefore the truth of the Gospell being once come they are made vnlawfull and haue vanished out of sight They ought not then to be patternes or presidents for Christians to follow since the comming of Christ who hath accomplished all And the renewing of them derogateth much from Christs soveraigne sacrifice for it implieth imperfection in the same As St. Paul proveth by the legall sacrifices offered so often because they were imperfect Origen writeth thus in his Treatise on Matthew veniente Principe Sacerdotum the Prince of Priests being come the Priest in figure ceased The Temple made of stones is destroyed to giue place to the Temple made of lively stones Effossum est Altare quod erat deorsum The Altar below on earth was broken downe because the heavenly Altar had appeared What haue we then to doe with them if they be past and gone Surely nothing True Christians ever since their Lords death haue left them both Priests and Altars to Iewes and Gentiles But the whore of Babylons bastardly brood doing vpon their Mothers beauty that painted Harlot the Church of Rome haue laboured to restore her all her robes and iewells againe especially her looking glasse the Masse in which she may behold all her bravery For they despising the plaine simplicity and modest attire of that graue matron Christs holy spouse haue turned her officers all out of dores with all hir houshold stuffe hir Tables hir Cupps hir bookes hir Communions the very names of hir Ministers and such like words vsed by the holy Ghost throughout the new Testament In stead whereof the words Priest and Altar are taken vp by them because without Priest no Sacrifice can be offered without Priest and Sacrifice there is no vse of an Altar and without all 3. Priests Sacrifice and Altar there can be no Masse But the Masse comming in brings in with it an inundation of Ceremonies Crosses and Crucifixes and Challices and Images Copes and Candlesticks and Tapers and Basons and a thousand such Trinckets which attend vpon the Masse All which wee haue seene in this Church since the Communion table was turned to an Altar Yet indeed it is no Altar that 's but a nick-name it is wrongfully so called For if it be an Altar there must needes be a Sacrifice offered by a Priest to God but in the Communion nothing is offered to God but prayers but praise and thanksgiving which the hearts and lipps of all faithfull Communicants offer to God by their Mediator Christ They lay them not on a Table they lay not their thanks they lay not their prayers vpon an Altar either of wood or stone as the Aaronicall Priests laid their burnt offerings and incense We set indeed the bread and wine vpon the table besigning them to a Sacramentall vse by the consecration of Gods holy word we doe not offer them to God but God offereth them and giveth them to vs and with them his sonne Christ if we be faithfull and worthy receivers To such they are in deed and in truth spiritually and Sacramentally the very body and blood of Christ then which more holy things the whole world affordeth not But if it