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A03139	Antidotum Lincolniense· or An answer to a book entituled, The holy table, name, & thing, &c. said to be written long agoe by a minister in Lincolnshire, and printed for the diocese of Lincolne, a⁰. 1637 VVritten and inscribed to the grave, learned, and religious clergie of the diocese of Lincoln. By Pet: Heylyn chapleine in ordinary to his Matie.	Heylyn, Peter, 1600-1662.	1637 (1637)	STC 13267; ESTC S104010	242,879	383

which respect those and all other Ceremonies of the Iewes are by the Fathers said to bee not onely dangerous but deadly to us Christian men The Passion of our Saviour as by the Lords own Ordinance it was prefigured to the Iews in the legall Sacrifices à Parte ante so by Christs institution is it to bee commemorated by us Christians in the holy Supper à Parte post A Sacrifice it was in figure a Sacrifice in fact and so by consequence a Sacrifice in the commemorations or upon the Post-fact A Sacrifice there was among the Iewes shewing forth Christs death unto them before his comming in the flesh a Sacrifice there must bee amongst the Christians to shew forth the Lords death till he come in judgement And if a Sacrifice must bee there must be also Priests to doe and Altars whereupon to doe it because without a Priest and Altar there can bee no sacrifice Yet so that the precedent sacrifice was of a different nature from the subsequent and so are also both the Priest and Altar from those before a bloudy sacrifice then an unbloudy now a Priest derived from Aaron then from Melchisedech now an Altar for Mosaicall sacrifices then for Evangelicall now The Sacrifice prescribed by Christ Qui novi Testamenti novam docuit oblationem saith Irenaeus l. 4. c. 32. who the same night in which he was betrayed tooke bread And when be had given thankes he brake it and said Take eat this is my body which is broken for you Doe this in remembrance of me Likewise also he tooke the Cup when hee had supped saying This Cup is the New Testament in my blood doe this as often as you drinke it in remembrance of mee Which words if they expresse not plaine enough the nature of this Sacrifice to bee commemorative we may take those that follow by way of Commentary For as often as yee eate this bread and drinke this Cup ye doe shew the Lords death till he come Then for the Priests they were appointed by him also even the holy Apostles who being onely present at the Institution received a power from Christ to celebrate these holy mysteries in the Church of God A power not personall unto them but such as was from them to bee derived upon others and by them communicated unto others for the instruction of Gods people and the performance of his service Though the Apostles at that time might represent the Church of Christ and every part and member of it yet this gives no authority unto private men to intermeddle in the sacrifice but unto the Apostles onely and their successours in the Evangelicall Priesthood Our Saviour hath left certaine markes of characters by which each member of the Church may soone finde his dutie For the Apostles and their successors in the Priesthood there is an edite bibite an eating an drinking as private men men of no Orders in the Church but there is an Hoc facite belonging to them onely as they are Priests under and of the Gospell Hoc facite is for the Priest who hath power to consecrate Hoc edite is both for Priest and people which are admitted to communicate and so is the Hoc bibite too by the Papists leave Were it not thus but that the people might hoc facere take bread and breake and ●lesse it and distribute it unto one another wee should soone see a quicke come off of our whole religion The people then being prepared and fitted for it may edere and bibere but they must not facere that belongs onely to the Priests who claime that power from the Apostles on them conferred by our Redeemer Last of all for the Altar wee need not goe farre S. Paul in whom wee finde both the Priest and Sacrifice will helpe us to an Altar also He calleth it once a Table and once an Altar a Table in the tenth of the same Epistle non potestis mensae Domini participes esse yee cannot bee partakers of the Lords Table and the table of Devils an Altar in the last of the Hebrewes Habe●●us Altare wee have an Altar whereof they have no right to ●ate that serve the Tabernacle an Altar in relation to the Sacrifice which is there commemorated a Table in relation to the Sacrament which is thence participated Nay so indi●ferent were those words to that blessed spirit that as it seemes he stood not on the choice of either but used the word Table to denote those Altars on which the Gentiles sacrificed to their wretched Idols which he cals mensa● Daemoniorum the table of Devils in the Text remembred If wee consult the Fathers who lived next those times wee finde not that they altered any thing in the present businesse for which they had so good authority from the Lords Apostles but without any scruple or opposition that we can meet with used as they had occasion the name of Sacrifice and Priest and Altar in their severall writings Not that they tied themselves to those words alone but that they balked them not when they came in their way as if they were afraid to take notice of them Denys the Areopagite if it were hee that wrote the books de Ecclesiastica Hierarchia hath in one chapter all those names of Priest Altar Sacrifice 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in his native language Sacerdos Altare Sacrificium in the translation the Altar being honoured with the attribute of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or divine the Sacrifice with that of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or most pure and holy These workes of Dionysius Monsieur du Moulin doth acknowledge to be very profitable Vtilia sane plena bonae frugis but withall thinkes they are of a later date And therefore on unto Ignatius of whom there is lesse question amongst learned men who in his severall Epistles useth the aforesaid names or termes as being generally received and of common usage First for the Altar the Doctor shewed you in his Coal that it is found there thrice at least 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ad Magnes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ad Philadelph one altar and one Altar in every Church and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gods Altar in his Epistle ad Tarsens what is objected against these we shall see hereafter So for the Minister he cals him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Priest which your good friend Vedelius translates Sacerdos 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Excellent or estimable are the Priests and Deacons but more the Bishop In the Epistle ad Smyr●enses the same word occurres to signifie the Priest or Minister of Christs holy Gospell as also that of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 rendred by your Vedelius Sacerdotium by us called the Priesthood Last of all for your sacrific● the same Ignatius gives it for a rule as the times then were that it is not lawfull for the Priest without the notice of his Bishop 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉

the Margin The Table or the Altar were to them such indifferent words that they used both equally 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith Eusebius in the tenth and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith Eusebius in the sixt Chapter of his fi●s● de Demonstratione Evangelica Altars saith S. Austin in the tenth and mensa saith the same S. Austin in his 17 de Civitate Gregory Nyssen in one breath doth make use of both and cals the same one thing 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the holy Table the undefiled Altar Altars of stone 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in this Gregory Nyssen Altars of wood ligna Altaris in S. Austin both used with such indifferency that Nyssen calleth his stone Altar by the name of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Table and Austin calleth his wooden Table Altare Altar So that in all this search into antiquitie wee find a generall consent in the Church of God touching the businesse now in hand the Sacrament of the Lords Supper being confessed to be a Sacrifice the Minister therein inti●uled by the name of Priest that on the w ch the Priest did consecrate being as usually called by the name of Altar as by that of Table and you may ●ake this testimony also from the mouth of a Gentile that the Christians called their Table by the name of Altar 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as it is in Zozimus lib. 5. Not an improper Altar and an improper Sacrifice as you idly dreame of For Sacrifices Priests and Altars being Relatives as your selfe confesseth the Sacri●ice and the Altar being improper must needs inferre that even our Priesthood is improper also And wee may speake in proper and significant termes as the Fathers did without approving either the Popish Masse or the Iewish Sacrifices from which the Doctor is as farre as either you that made the booke or hee that licensed it though you have both agreed together to breed some base suspition of him as if he meant somewhat else than for feare of our gracious King he dares speake out The Doctor I assure you dares speake what hee thinkes though you as I perswade my selfe thinke not what you speake and will now tell you what hee thinkes to bee the Doctrine of this Church in this present businesse of Sacrifices Priests and Altars that wee may see shee is no flincher from the words and notions no more than from the Doctrines of most orthodox Antiquity And first beginning with the Priesthood in case you are not growne ashamed of that holy calling you may remēber that you were admitted into holy Orders by no other name Being presented to the B●sh at your Ordination you did require to bee admitted to the Order of Priesthood and being demanded by the Bishop if you did thinke in your heart that you were truly called according to the will of our Lord Iesus Christ and the order of this Church of England unto the Ministerie of the Priesthood you answered positively that you did if you thought otherwise than you said as you doe sometimes you lyed not unto men but unto God Looke in the Booke of Ordination and you shall finde it oftner than once or twice entituled the Office of Priesthood and the holy Office of Priesthood the parties thereunto admitted called by no other name than that of Priests Or if you thinke the Booke of Ordination is no good authority to which you have subscribed however in your subscription to the Articles look then upon the Liturgie and the Rubricks of it by w ch you would perswade the world that you are very much directed in all this businesse Finde you not there the name of Priest exceeding frequent especially in that part therof which concerns the Sacrament The Priest standing at the North side of the Table Then shall the Priest rehearse distinctly all the tenne Commandements Then shall the Priest say to them that come to receive the holy Communion Then shall the Priest turning himselfe to the people give the absolution Then shall the Priest kneeling downe at Gods Boord c. Infinitum est ire per singula It were an infinite labour to summe up all places of and in the Rubricks wherein the Minister is called by the name of Priest which being so as so it is and that your own sweet selfe hath told us that Altar Priest and Sacrifice are Relatives the Church of England keeping still as well the Office of Priesthood as the name of Priest must needs admit of Altars and of Sacrifices as things peculiar to the Priesthood But not to trust so great a matter to your rules of Logicke wee will next see what is the judgement of the Church in the point of Sacrifice Two wayes there are by which the Church declares her selfe in the present businesse First positively in the Booke of Articles and that of Homilies and practically in the Booke of Common prayers First in the Articles The offering of Christ once made is that perfect redemption propitiation and satisfaction for all the sinnes of the whole world both originall and actuall and there is no other satisfaction for sinne but that alone This Sacrifice or oblation once for ever made and never more to bee repeated was by our Saviours owne appointment to bee commemorated and represented to us for the better quickning of our faith whereof if there be nothing said in the Booke of Articles it is because the Articles related chiefly unto points in Controversie but in the Booke of Homilies which doe relate unto the Articles as confirmed in them and are though not dogmaticall but rather popular discourses a Comment as it were on those points of doctrine which are determined of elsewhere wee finde it thus That the great love of our Saviour Christ to mankinde doth not only appeare in that deare-bought benefit of our redemption and satisfaction by his death and passion but also in that he hath so kindly provided that the same most mercifull work might bee had in continuall remembrance Amongst the which meanes is the publick celebration of the memorie of his pre●ious death at the Lords Table our Saviour having ordained and established the remembrance of his great mercie expressed in his passion in the Institution of his heavenly Supper Here is a commemoration of that blessed Sacrifice which Christ once offered a publick celebration of the memorie thereof and a continuall remembrance of it by himselfe ordained Which if it seeme not full enough for the Commemorative sacrifice in the Church observed the Homilie will tell us further that this Lords supper is in such wise to be done and ministred as our Lord and Saviour did and commanded it to be done as his holy Apostles used it and the good Fathers in the Primitive Church frequented it So that what ever hath beene proved to bee the purpose of the Institution the practise of the holy Apostles and usage of the ancient Fathers will fall within the meaning and intention of

High-Priest himselfe to partake thereof Of what I pray you Not of the things professed in the Christian Church I hope you will not say but it was lawfull to the Priests to be partakers of the doctrine of our Lord and Saviour Why did the Apostles preach unto the Iewes in case it were not lawfull for them to make profession of the Faith Therefore the Father must needs meane the Christians Sacrifices performed upon the Altar which the Apostle speakes of of which it was not lawfull for the High-Priest continuing as he was High-Priest to bee partaker And this I take the rather to have beene his meaning because Theophylact who followed Chrysostome so exactly that hee doth seeme to have abridged him doth thus descant on it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Having before said v. 9. that no regard was to be had of meats lest our owne Ordinances 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 might bee thought contemptible as things unobserved hee addes that we have Ordinances of our own 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not about meats as were the Iewes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but such as doe concerne the Altar or the unbloody sacrifice of Christs quickning body Of which which sacrifice 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it is not lawfull for the Priests to bee partakers as long as they doe service to the Tabernacle i. e. the legall signes and shadows The like saith also Oecumenius with his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which you have Englished Tenets with the like felicitie as you did the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Chrysost. For Oecumenius saying as Theophylact had done before because the Apostle had affirmed That no regard was to bee had of meates c. hee addes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and have not we also our owne Ordinances or observations To which hee answers with Theophylact but a great deale plainer Yes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not of meats but of our Altar If you goe downe ward to the Latines they are cleare as day Haymo who lived about the yeare ●●0 affirmes expresly on the place Altare Ecclesiae est ubi quotidie corpus consecratur Christi that is the Altar of the Church whereon the body of Christ is daily consecrated And so Remigius who lived and writ about those times Ha●emus ergo Altare Ecclesiae ubi consecratur corpus Dominicum the same in sense though not in words with that of Haymo This Doctor Fulk almost as great a Clerke as you conceives to bee so really intended by Oecumenius and Haymo that he reports that they did doate upon the place even as you say the Doctor melts upon the place But say you what you will As long as hee can back it with so good authority the Doctor will make more of Habemus Altare than before hee did though you should raise Iohn Philpot from the dead to expound it otherwise as neare told he did in the Acts and Mon. p. 90. of your holy Table From the Apostles Text both re nomine proceed wee to the Apostles Canons nomine at the least if not re also which if not writ by them are by the Doctor said to be of good antiquity nor doe you deny it Onely you ●ling them off with a Schoole-boyes jest affirming confidently that all good Schollers reckon those Canons but as so many Pot-gunnes Not all good Scholers certainly you are out in that What thinke you of my Lord of Chichester of whom the Doctor and the Minister of Linc. too may well learne as long as they live He a geod Scholler in your own confession doth not alone call them the Apostles Canons but cites the 40 of them as a full and strong authority to prove that by the ancient Canons Church-men had leave to give and bequeath their Goods and Chattels by their last Will and Testament And this in his reply unto Io. Selden whom he knew too well to thinke hee would give back at the report or blow of a School-boyes Pot-gunne Next where those three Canons that the Doctor cited doe speake so clearly of the Altar and that by the same name 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 used by the Apostle to the Hebrewes that there is no deniall of it you flie unto your wonted refuge a scornfull and prophane derision Hee that shall read say you what is presented on these Altars for the maintenance of the Bishop and his Clergie will conceive them rather to bee so many Pantries Larders or Store-houses than consecrated Altars O Curvae in terris animae coelestium inanes So dead a soule so void of all coelestiall impressions did I never meet with I am confirmed now more than ever for the first Author of the Dresser otherwise you had never beene allowed and licensed to call it as you doe a Pantrie or a Larder and a Store-house I see there is good provision towards and as much devotion Your Pig●on-house wee have seene already and Pottage you will serve in presently if we can bee patient Larders we have and Store-houses and Pantries which portend good cheare Thinke you a man that heares you talke thus would not conceive your Kitchin were your Chappell the Dresser in the same your High-Altar and that your Requiem Altars were your Larder Pantrie and Store-house Get but a Cooke to bee your Chaplaine and on my life Comus the old belly god amongst the Gentiles was never sacrificed unto with such propriety of V●ensils and rich magnificence as you will sacrifice every day to your god your Belly Nor need you feare that your estate will not hold out I hope you are a provident Gentleman and make your Altars bring you in what your Altars spend you For say you not in that which followeth that Iudas his bagge may with as good reason as these Tables bee called ●n Altar I wonder what fine adjunct you will finde out next You cannot probably goe on and not set downe ad mens●m daemoniorum that Table of Devils which Saint Paul speakes of Iudas his bagge Just so yet you would shift this off unto Baronius as you have done the Dresser on the rude people of Grantham Baronius as you say implieth it Doth he so indeed All that Baroni●● saith is this that those who ministred in the Church did from the first beginnings of the Church receive their maintenance from the oblations of the faithfull Immo cum adhuc dominus supe●stes c. And that the Lord himselfe when he preached the Gospell used from these offerings to provide for himselfe and his For Iudas saith S. Iohn bearing the bagge Ea qu●● mittebantur portabat did carrie up and downe that store which was sent in to him What say you doth the Cardinall imply in this that Iud●s his bagge may with good reason any how be called an Altar Take heed of Iudas and his ●agge of Iudas and his qualities for feare you come unto that end that Iudas did Your answers to the Doctors allegations