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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

ΈΙΡΗΝΟΙΝΩνΊΑ THE PEACE OF THE COMMVNION OF THE CHVRCH 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 Pri mitiue Church established by the Apo stles of Christ and the holy Martyrs and Bishops their Successors By Io GORDON Doctor of Diuinitie and Deane of Salisbury LONDON Printed by T. S. for Nathaniell Butter and are to be solde at the signe of the Pide-Bull neere S. Austins Gate 1612. AD ANGLIAM ANGLIA ter foelix donis ditata supernis Clara viris claris vbere faetasoli Foelix pacis amans dum Rex tua Sceptra gubernat Dum te verafides relligioqueregunt Gentibus externis sociata es foedere pacis Legum scita sonant armafurorque silent His verè es foelix eris at foelicior alma Sinatos poteris iungere pace tuos Rebus at humanis nil omni exparte beatum Nam Proli est discors mens animusquetuae Accipe pacis opus pacata percipe mente Pax hinc visceribus conciliandatuis Parua quidem meritis pro magnis donarependo Haec tibi quae rebus portus aura meis Angligenas iungunt coelum stirps lingua solumque His animosiungant lex pia pacis amor O quam foelices sua verè si bonanôrint Authoremque boni mente micante colant In te Rex Lex Grex feriant rata foeder a pacis Anglia sic foelix cum Grege Regetuo IO GORDONVS The Theses confirmed in this Booke by the authoritie of the holy Scriptures and the Primitiue Church established by the holy Apostles The first THESE THe white Garment was in vse in the Idolatrous Religion of the Egyptians during the time that the ●●●aelites were bondmen in Egypt and did worship the Egyptians Idols but God giuing the Law to Moses conuerted that Idolatrous vse of the said white Garment to his Seruice and in the first establishment of Christs Church in Ierusalem the Priests which were by the Apostles conuerted to the Faith did vse the white Garment in the seruice of Christian Religion the vse whereof did continue from the Primitiue Church to our dayes and therefore the reuerend Bishops and Martyrs of Christ who did reforme the Church of England did lawfully retaine the vse of the white Garment in the Church Seruice notwithstanding the abuse thereof in the Popish Idolatrie The second THESE THe Iewes and the Gentiles in the time of the Natiuitie of Christ were accustomed to lie about a Table set low as well in their ordinarie meales and Suppers as in their solemne feasts and Christ finding this custome in vse in the feasts of the Easter Lambe hee retained it in the Institution and celebration of the holy Communion notwithstanding that it was before his Natiuitie vsed in the solemne Feasts in the Temples of Idols Therefore seeing Christ did neyther stand sit nor kneele in this holy Action but followed the custome receiued there is no necessitie in any of these gestares but they are indifferent so that euery man should follow the receiued Custome in the Church where hee doth liue and dwell And that although this gesture of kneeling was and is yet abused in the Popish Idolatry it was lawfully retained by the godly Reformers of the Church of England The third THESE THE Apostles and Christs Church founded by them did vse to celebrate a publike feast in their Assemblies which was called Agape or the Feast of Charitie because in it the poore were relieued by the rich after which their custome was to celebrate the Lords Supper all lying on Carpets Cushens or the like as Christ did which custome continued in many places many hundred yeeres but the Catholike Church did change this custome both of lying and eating after Supper which change is allowed of by those who in our time haue brought in the gesture of sitting at table in receiuing the Communion And therefore there is no reason but they should as well allow of the change of lying into kneeling The fourth THESE ACcording to the Analogie of the Scriptures kneeling is the most conuenient gesture that is to be vsed in our Inuocations or Prayers before and in the receiuing of the holy Communion in the which Prayers the gesture of kneeling was vsed in the old Masse which was agreeable to our Communion and was not an Idolatrous Institution And therefore the Reformers of the Church of England haue done well to restore the kneeling to the originall vse againe The first THESE THe white Garment was in vse in the Idolatrous Religion of the Egyptians during the time that the Israelites were bond-men in Egypt and did worship the Egyptians Idols but God giuing the Law to Moses conuerted that Idolatrous vse of the said white Garment to his Seruice and in the first establishment of Christs Church in Ierusalem the Priests which were by the Apostles conuerted to the Faith did vse the white Garment in the seruice of Christian Religion the vse whereof did continue from the Primatiue Church to our dayes and therefore the reuerend Bishops and Martyrs of Christ who did reforme the Church of England did lawfully retaine the vse of the white Garment in the Church Seruice notwithstanding the abuse thereof in the Popish Idolatrie The illustration and confirmation of the first part of the first THESIS ACcording to the Greeke Historians the Idoll of Isis was the most ancient that the Egyptians worshipped of the which Herodot saith that all the Egiptians did worship it vnder the forme of a Cow and that they did worship aboue all beasts the Cow Diodorus Siculus in his History of Antiquitie and many other Greeke Writers testifie that Isis was the first inuenter of the sowing and reaping of Cornes The said Diodorus related that in a Colome or Pillar dedicated to this Idoll was written these words I am Isis the Queene of Egipt taught by Mercurius none shall dissolue the lawes which I haue made I am the first inuenter of cornes And Plutarch in his Booke of Isis and Osiris relates that there was an Inscription in the floore of the Temple of Isis in these words I am all that euer was that is and shall be and no mortall man hath euer detected my Garment Wee obserue by the way that the name of Isis in Hebrew is Iesch Iesch est est which signifies alwayes existant not subiect to the course of time which is the essentiall name of GOD mentioned in the third Chapter of Exodus verse 14. Eieh asher eieh I am that I am Thou shalt say vnto the children of Israel I am sent mee vnto you The which name doth come from the Verbe substantiue Haiah signifying it was and in the future time eieh which signifies I shall be as S. Iohn in his Reuelation Chap. 1. ver 4. doth interpret the selfe-same name of God saying from him that was and is and is to come so that it seemeth that the

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 c. It is most conuenient saith hee that those who are candidi pure of minde and are not inwardly còunterfaited to no curious and precious clothing c Daniel saith Clemens doth speake euidently and purely saying the Thrones were placed and one like to be of very olde age did sit on them and his clothing was white as the Snow Iohn saith that hee did see in a vision the Lord wearing such a clothing Also hee saith hee did see the Soules that were Martyrs or witnesses of Christ vnder the Altar and that to euery one of them was giuen ●● white garment c. And the said Clemens saith I doe approue the Philosophers of the I le of Coos who did describe Vertue and Wickednesse by two fit Images Hee made the Image of Vertue standing simply clothed with a white Garment as being the Vertue a pure thing decked with modestie And a little after he saith if any will all edge Christs long clothing of diuers colours it signified the diuen and sundry colours of wisedome and of the Scriptures which neuer withered and the eloquent speeches of the Lord which doth shine with the clearenes of the truth Thus farre the words of Clemens This testimonie which is very euident is a proofe that the vse of the white garment was continued amongst the Christians after the death of the Apostles Tertullianus who did liue an hundred yeeres after S. Iohn saith If thou change thy bond-man to freedome hee is honoured with the brightnesse of a white garment and with the honor to beare a gold Ring to haue the name of a Counseller of Law to be of a Familie and to keepe a Table and from this it commeth that they who are baptised are clothed with white clothing that they may remember that they are made free-men and of bond-men and of slaues of the Diuell they are made the free-men of Christ Eusebius hath inserted in his Historie Ecclesiasticke a Panagiricke or publicke speech made in an assembly of Bishops in the dedication of a Temple builded by Paulinus Bishop of Tirus where hee called the Bishops the Friends and Priests of God hauing an holy long Garment which was white and saith that they were all clothed with the Garment of Priestly office This was the first Temple builded 300. yeeres after Christ when Constantinus Magnus did establish the Christian Religion These testimonies serue to proue that the first three hundred yeeres after Christ which was the time of the perfection of the Primitiue Church when the Bishops and Presbiters were holy Martyrs that they did vse a white garment in exercising the Church seruice Pontius Paulinus S. Augustines Disciple saith to this purpose that the Priest doth bring from the Well of Baptisme the children coloured with white in their body in their heart and minde So that the ancient Primatiue Church called the weeke which followed Easter weeke Septima in albis the weeke in white clothing because the Baptisme was administrated in that weeke and Whitsun weeke onely vnlesse the Children were in danger of their life I hope in God that these testimonies and proofes heretofore cited shall perswade all reasonable mens consciences two poynts concerning this matter the one is that although the white Garment was abused in the seruice of the false Gods and Idols of the Gentiles both before the Law of Moses and also before and in Christ and his Apostles time yet they did not abrogate the vse of the said white Garment but conuerted it to the Seruice of the true God to be vsed in all religious Seruice of the Church and consequently the Reformers of the Church of England haue lawfully retained the vse of the white Garment notwithstanding that it is vsed to the seruice of Idols in the Popish Church The second point is that the vse of the white Garment is an Institution Apostolike and seeing that the said Booke of the Constitution of the Apostles maketh mention thereof and that Iames the Lords Brother and Iohn the Euangelist his beloued Disciple did vse the said Garment as is euident by the testimonies heretofore cited it followeth that the vse of it in our Church Seruices of England hath for the warrant thereof the authoritie of the holy Apostles of Christ so that no man which will follow the example of the Apostles should except anything against the vse of the said white Garment The second THESE THe Iewes and the Gentiles in the time of the Natiuitie of Christ were accustomed to lie about a Table set low as well in their ordinarie meales and Suppers as in their solemne feasts and Christ finding this custome in vse in the feasts of the Easter Lambe hee retained it in the Institution and celebration of the holy Communion notwithstanding that it was before his Natiuitie vsed in the solemne Feasts in the Temples of Idols Therefore seeing Christ did neyther stand sit nor kneele in this holy Action but followed the custome receiued there is no necessitie in any of these gestures but they are indifferent so that euery man should follow the receiued Custome in the Church where hee doth liue and dwell And that although this gesture of kneeling was and is yet abused in the Popish Idolatry it was lawfully retained by the godly Reformers of the Church of England The Testimonies and proofes of this doe follow THe Iewes during the time of the second Temple were Subiects and Tributaries sometime to the Persians sometime to the Grecians and the Syrians and finally were subdued by Pompey and made a Romane Prouince about sixty yeeres before Christs Incarnation being thus subdued they were gouerned by the Romish Deputies who did keepe in Ierusalem a strong Garison of Souldiours so that this was the cause why the Iewes did imitate and follow many of the Customes and Rites of the Persians Greekes and Romanes as well in the solemne feasts of the Church as in their ordinarie dinners and Suppers at home The Heathenish Romane Historiographers and Poets doe teach vs that they were accustomed in their most solemne Sacrifices to make publike Feasts in the Temples of their Idols which they did celebrate lying vpon Beds Carpets or Cushens spread vpon the floore of their Temples euen as they did in their solemne Feasts in their houses The learned doe write that these beds or cushens c. which they did lie vpon were called Puluinaria Decrum which is a kinde of beds dedicated to the Heathenish Gods in the which the Images of their false Gods did lye at great feasting times Also Lectisternia as witnesseth Liuie were beds spread in the Temples of their Idols vpon which the Priests and others that did assist to their sacrifices did lye at their publike feasts The Poet Uirgil who did write