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A56195	A rational account why some of His Majesties Protestant subjects do not conform to some exuberances in, and ceremonial appurtenances to the Common prayer published for the instruction of the ignorant, satisfaction of all contenders, and the churches union in Gods publick worship.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.; Stucki, Johann Wilhelm, d. 1607. Antiquitatum convivialum. Liber 2, cap. 26, De vestitu conviviali.	1673 (1673)	Wing P4048; ESTC R7507	105,873	159

to receive the honour and estimation due to the special Messengers and Ministers of Almighty God We therefore following their grave judgement and the antient Custome of the Church of England and hoping that in time newfanglenesse of Apparel in some factious Persons will dye of it self do constitute and appoint That the Archbishop and Bishops shall not intermit to use the accustomed Apparel of their degrees Likewise all Deans Masters of Colledges Archdeacons and Prebendaries in Cathedral and Collegiate Churches being Priests or Deacons Doctors in Divinity Law and Physick Batchelers in Divinity Masters of Arts and Batchelers of Law having any Ecclesiastical living shall usually wear Gownes with standing collers and sleeves straight at the hands or wide sleeves as is used in the Universities with Hoods or Tippets of Silk or Sarcenet and square Caps And that all other Ministers admitted or to be admitted into that Function shall also usually wear the like Apparel as is aforesaid except Tippets only We do further in like manner ordain That all the said Ecclesiastical Persons above mentioned shall usually wear in their Journeyes Cloakes with Sleeves commonly called Priests Cloaks without Gards Welts long Buttons or Cuts And no Ecclesiastical person shall wear any Coif or wrought Nightcap but onely plain Nightcaps of black silk Satten or Velvet In all which particulars concerning the Apparel here prescribed our meaning is not to attribute any holinesse or special worthinesse to the said garments but for decency gravity and order as is before specified In private houses and in their studies the said persons Ecclefiastical may use any comely and Scholar-like Apparel Provided that it be not cuts or pincks and that in publik they go not in their Doublet and Hose without Coats or Cassocks and that they wear not any light-coloured Stockings Likewise poor beneficed men and Curates not being able to provide themselves long Gowns may go in short gowns of the fashion aforesaid Those who will take the pains to compare these Canons of our Protestant Bishops and Clergy with the Canons and Constitutions of our Popish Archbishops foreceited or John Peckhams John Stratfords Constitutions De habitu honestate Clericorum recorded by John Aton and William Lyndwode the premised Popish French Synods Canons and sundry others collected by Laurentius Bochellus Decreta Ecclesiae Gallicanae l. 1. Tit. 7. l. 3. Tit. 1. l. 6. Tit. 17. Shall at first view discern that they were almost verbatim taken out of them and more extensive than they in relation to all Scholars and Students in both Universities who were never before by any Popish Councils or Popes Decrees enjoyned constantly to wear Surplisses in tme of Divine Service and Sacraments These Constitutions and Canons never approved nor assented to by the Lords and Commons then or afterwards assembled in Parliament but by the King alone under his Great Seal and so not binding to the Subjects in their Liberties or Freehold against Magna Charta ch 29 and sundry other Acts recited in Rastal Tit. Accusation and the Petition of Right instead of allaying composing the Spirits wounded the consciences and augmented the number of Nonconformists many hundreds of godly preaching Protestant Ministers Scholars who could not conform unto them being thereupon suspended deprived and thrust out of their Benefices Curatships Fellowships Scholarships to their own and their Families ruine and many learned hopefull Scholars inforced to desert our Universities decline the Ministry and betake themselves to other callings and persons of lesse piety worth merit thrust into their places the Ministry by our Bishops and High Commissioners and some of them imprisoned fined forced to forsake the Kingdom and flie to forein Countries or Plantations to the great grief and discontent of their People friends allies and moderate Protestants which occasioned many new books of Controversie and Apologies on both sides touching Church Vestments Ceremonies and many great complaints animosities against the Bishops and High Commissioners during all King James and King Charles late Reigns till at last they were both suppressed by publick Acts Ordinances and ejected by force of Armes in England and Ireland as well as Scotland which their moderation and prudence in dispensing with these unnecessary Formalities might easily have prevented and their rigorous re-inforcing of or over-eager contending for them against the Letter and purport of his Majesties late pious and gracious Declarations after so long a discontinuance and universal dislike by all sober-minded men in this time of discontent may without Gods infinite mercy and miraculous Providence end in their second subvertion and future suppression which they should timely consider as well for their own preservation as his Majesties and his peoples general satisfaction and the Churches publike Peace Unity after so many dangerous Schisms and Convulsions Having given you this account of the true original institution prescription progress forms of consecration and putting on of these Pontifical and Sacerdotal Vestments in the Churches of Christ of the principal Papal Episcopal Decretals Councils Canons that enjoyn them and Scriptures Arguments against them I shall in the next place examine answer the Scripture Texts Arguments produced by Popish Prelates Canonists School-men and our own Protestant Bishops Writers for their use and continuance in the Church which in my apprehension are very impertinent weak contemptible unable to satisfie any tender Conscience or judicious sober Christians Judgement though highly magnified and cryed up with great gravity seriosity by some Reverend Prelates and Clergy-men as well as many illiterate Novices The 1. Texts produced for the institution use of these Priest Garments under the Gospel are Exod. 28. 2 to 43. c. 29. 5 to 30. c. 31. 10. c. 45. 19 20 21. c. 39. 1 14. c. 40. 13 c. Levit. 6. 11. c. 8. 2. 13. c. 16. 4 23 24 32. Numb 20. 16 18. N●● 7. 70 72. Ezra 2. 69. Ezech. 42. 14. c. 44. 7 19. Where God commanded Moses the chief civil Magistrate to make holy Garments for Aaron the High Priest for glory and honour to minister before God in the Priests Office which Garments are there at large described and to make Coats B●nnets and Girdles for Aarons sons for Glory and Beauty and to make them linnen Breeches to cover their nakednesse which should reach from their loynes even to their thinges and to put them upon Aaron and his Sons when they come into the Ta●ernacle of the Congregation or when they come near unto the Altar to minister in the holy place and to consecrate and sanctifie Aaron and his Sons that they minister to God in the Priests Office that they bear not their iniquity and dye And to take of the blood that is upon the Altar and put it upon the tip of the right ear of Aaron and his Sons and upon the great toe of their right foot and sprinkling the blood and the anointing oyl there prescribed upon Aaron and his Sons and their Garments and he and they

shall be hallowed and their Garments with them Which Garments being accordingly made by B●zaliel by Gods prescription were put upon Aaron and his Sons who were consecrated by Moses together with their holy Garments wherein they the succeeding High-Priests and Jewish Priests usually ministred to the Lord whence they were stiled Priests Garments and holy Garments which they were to put on when they ministred to the Lord and to put off when their ministration was ended as these Texts at large attest From whence Al●uinu● de Divinis officiis c. 38 39. Honorius Augustodunensis in his Gemma Animae l. 1 2. Thomas Waldensis Doctrinalis Tom. 3. Tit. 4. c. 29. De sacris vestibus quibus Sacerdos intrat ad Missam Gulielmus Durantus Rationale Divinorum l. 3. the Roman Missal Pontifical Ceremonial and all who write of Bishops and Priests Vestments under the Gospel and their Consecrations derive both their pattern and legitimation To which I answer That these Texts are so far from justifying that they are the strongest Arguments that can be against the Vestments of Priests and Prelates now contended for upon these several accounts 1. All and every of these Aaronical Vestments under the Law were particularly invented prescribed together with their matter form colour use by God himself in precise terms not by Moses or Aaron and his Sons alone according to their own fancies But the Vestments Garments Rochets Surplisses of Popes Archbishops Bishops Priests Deacons now contended for were neither particularly invented prescribed by God himself or Christ either in respect of their matter form colour use directly or indirectly nor by any one Text in the Old or New Testament but merely invented prescribed by Popes Archbishops Bishops Priests Monks according to their own vain doting fancies Therefore no wayes justified but condemned by these Texts 2ly All these Garments were made and the constant use of them in Divine services and administrations punctually enjoyned by Gods special Command warrant law not by Popes Bishops Councils Decretals Injunctions Constitutions Canons Visitation Articles alone as all Pontifical Sacerdotal Garments Rochets Surplisses Hoods and other such Trinkets are 3ly They were all put on Aaron and his Sons and both of them consecrated together by Moses alone the chief civil Magistrate not by any Pope Bishop Priest or other Ecclesiastical person who now only ingrosse and claim the right of ordaining consecrating all Archbishops Bishops Priests Ministers Deacons Ecclesiastical persons together with the hallowing of their Garments Rochets Surplisses and deem it no lesse than Sacrilege and U●urpation for Kings or Civil Magistrates to ordain or consecrate any of them or order ought concerning them but at their requests and as their Substitutes 4ly These Garments of theirs were different both in matter kind form fashion from Rochets Surplisses Al●ees Hoods Planets Dulmaticks Chymeres Palls Stoles Pectoral Cr●sses Cass●ckes Gownes Black Silken Girdles Copes Miters square Gaps and other Vestments now used contended for by Ceremonial Prelates and Clergy-men Therfore not warranted but condemned by these Texts 5ly These Garments were prescribed to Aaron and his Sons to put on only when they went in to the Tabernacle Altar Temple to offer up Levitical Sacrafices and Services unto God not when they prayed preached instructed the people in their several Cities Synagogues or in their Kings Pallaces as these Texts resolve Therefore no presidents for Bishops Priests or Deacons to imitate when they preach read Prayers officiate or administer Sacraments in Cathedrals or Parish Churches and Chapels 6ly Aaron the High Priest and his Successors with his Sons and Jewish Priests Sacrafices Priesthood Altars Vestments were all temporary typical utterly abolished by the incarnation passion sacrifice resurrection ascention of our Lord Jesus Christ who they typiFIed shadowed as inconsistent with and not fit to be continued under the Gospel as the Epistle to the Hebrews Galatians Romans Collossians Acts 15. and whole New Testament all Commentators on them Old and New resolve especially Hebr. 7 8 9 10. Therefore these Vestments may not ought not to be revived continued under the Gospel unlesse we will revive the Aaronical Priesthood High Priest Priest Levites with their Sacrifice● Altars Tabernacle Temple and all other Levitical Ceremonies Vestments in specie and renounce both Christ himself with his Priesthood Ministry and the Gospel 7ly None were to put on or wear these holy Garments but Aaron and his Sonnes who were all Priests by birth and succession not election and ordination as all Apostles Bishops 〈◊〉 Ministers Deacons were and yet are who being none of the Tribe of Levy or Sonnes of Aaron by natu●al generation can claim no Title by the Law to their Priestly Garments much less by the Gospel which thus expresly resolve● Hebr. 7. 12 13. For the Priesthood being changed there is made of necessity a change also of the Law For he of whom these things are spoken pertaineth to another Tribe of which no man gave attendance at the Altar and of which Tribe Moses spake nothing concerning Priesthood An unanswerable Text against all Evangelical Bishops Ministers Deacons claimes and pretences especially being Gentiles not Jewes by birth and Christians by regeneration to Aaronical Levitical Priestly Vestments or Ornaments which Text I desire them all to answer at their leisures 8ly If any allege they onely use these Garments by way of allusion or imitation not prescription I answer 1. That they have no Precept nor warrant in the Gospel for this their allusion or imitation but direct Precepts warrants cautions against it as inconsistent with the Gospel and Salvation too Hebrews 6 7 8 9 10. c. 12. 27 28 29. c. 13. 10 11. Col. 2. 14 to the end Phil. 3. 2 3. Tit. 1. 10 11. Gal. 4. 30 31. c. 5. 1 2 3 4 11 12. Acts 15. 2ly They have no President from the Apostles or primitive Christians Churches for above 300. years after Christ 3ly If our Bishops Priests Deacons will imitate them in their Garments it must be in fashion species form end use as well as matter and colour the best reallest imitation Our Bishops or the Pope who pre●end themselves the High Priests Successors though they can never prove it must then wear a Brestplate ephod robe broidered coat miter girdle of the same materials form as Aarons were And our Pri●sts Deacons must wear fine linnen Ephods Breeches Bonnets and none but linnen not woolen Garments on them whiles they minister nor any thing that may cause sweat and lay aside all their Surplisses Hoods Gownes Copes Caps Cassocks of wool silk satin 〈◊〉 velvet which now they use else they do not imitate but prevaricate from this president 4ly Then none but Bishops Ministers Deacons nor any Scholars in Colleges Halls nor Singing-men Choristers and others not in sacred Orders must wear Surplisses as now they are enjoyned by the forecited Canons since none but Aaron and his Sonnes alone were

to wear these holy Garments 5ly All these their Garments must be consecrated in the self-same manner as theirs were 1. By Moses the chief Civil Magistrate not by Archbishops Bishops Priests or Presbyters 2ly With sprinkling of blood and holy anoynting oyle upon the Tip of their Ears Bodies Garments after they were put upon their Backs without any solemn Prayers Holy-water sprinkled or Crosses made on them as their Episcopal Vestments Surplisses and Albees are now hallowed not upon their bodies but before they must wear or put them on Upon all which considerations they must now quite disclaim these Texts of Scripture and Aaronical Levitical Garments as fatally destructive to those they contend for upon what ridiculous reasons similitudes dissimilitudes and mystical Monkish reasons and mystical significations you may read in Al●uinus De Divinis Officiis cap. 38 39. Honorius Augustodunensis in his Gemma Animae lib. 1 2. Gulielmus Durantus in his Rubrick to his Rationale Divinorum lib. 3. De Indumentis seu Ornamentis Ecclesiae Sacerdotum atque Pontificum aliorum Ministrorum which I shall here at large insert in his own words for the Readers information conviction reformation or shame of all over-eager Contenders for these Vestment and Ceremonies grounded upon most strange absurd fanatick reasons allusions and superstitious ridiculous mystical whimsies frenzies perversions of Scripture which all sober Christians cannot but reject with greatest contempt though insisted on with much gravity and ferosity by some who would be reputed the Chief Fathers and Pillars of the Church IN quotidiano us●● non est vestibus sacris utendum ad notandum quod sicut mutationem habitus secundum literam facimus ita secundum spiritum agamus Non ergo cum vestibus communis vitae usu pollutis in sancta sa●ctorum ingrediamur sed cum conscientia munda vestibus mundis sacris sacramenta tractemus de Con. di i. c. 1. Unde Stephanus papa de Con. di 1. Vestimenta Statuit sacris vestibus non nisi in Ecclesiasticis Deo dignis officiis uti Ezech. xl iij. Non sanctificabant populum in vestibus suis Habet ergo Hiero Religio divina alterum habitum in Ecclesiasticis officiis alii in communi usu ut cuncto populo Christiano exemplum praebeat bonae convarsationis quatenus loci prius sordes novi Christo siant homines Exuit enim tunc sacerdos Veterem hominem cum actibus suis induit novum qui secundum Deum creatus est Per vestes quoque quibus in sacris utimur tantum non omnia sacramenta fore populo revelanda intelligimus xlij dist in mandatis § siq iij. nolite Et nota quod tempore Ludovici Imperatori● filii Ca●oli magni Episcopi Clerici cingula auro texta exq●isitas vestes alia secularia ornamenta deposuerint Sacrae autem vestes à veteri lege videntur assumptae praecepit enim Dominus Moy●● ut faceret Aaron Sacerdoti filiis ejus vestes sanctas in gloriam decorem ut loti sacris vestibus induti fungerentur officio in sacris Exo. xxviij xxxi xxxv xl c. Docuit enim Dominus Moysem per. xl dies facere Pontificalia Sacerdotalia vestimenta Sacerdotibus Levitis suis ornamenta quoque linteamina sed Maria texuit fecit illa in usum ministerii Tabernaculi saederis Et Ecclesiasti xlvij dedit in celebrationibus decus c. Quaedam tamen ab Apostolis sumuntur sed tam illae quam istae virtutes designant vel mysterium incarnationis Sane Pontifex celebraturus exuit vestes quotidianas induit mundas sacras Et primo sandalia calciat ut sit memor Dominicae incarnationis Secundo sibi ponit amitum ut motus cogitatus fauces linguam cohibeat ut fiat cor mundum spiritum rectum percipiens in visceribus innovatum Tertio albam talarem ut habeat mundiciam carnis perseverantem Quarto singulum ut impetus luxuriae refrenet Quinto stolam in signum obedientiae Sexto tunicam jacentinam i. coelestem conversationem Septimo superinduit Dalmaticam id est sanctam religionem carnis mortificationem Octavo Cirothecas ut declinat vanam gloriam Nono annulum ut diligat sponsam i. Ecclesiam ficut se Decimo Casulam i. charitatem Undecimo sudarium ut quicquid fragilitate vel ignorantia peccat ponitentia tergat Duodecimo pallium supponit ut sftendat se imitatorem Christi qui langores nostros tulit Decimotertio mitram ut sic agat quod coronam mereatur percipere aeternam Decimoquarto baculum i. auctoritatem potestatis doctrinae Et postea tabeta calcat ut terram despicere amare coelestia discat Omnibus autem praemissis vestibus induitur à ministris quia ei ut vestes i●duat spirituales angeli suff●agantur vel quod vicarius est Christi cui angeli ministrant omnia serviant R●●sus pontifex versus aquilonem aspiciens quamvis versus orientem seu versus altare si sit magis accommodum respicere possit tanquam advocatus pugil cum hoste pugnatu●us antiquo vestibus sacris quasi armi induitur juxta Apostolum ut jam dicetur Primo sandalia pro ocreis habet ne quid maculae vel pulveris affectionum inhereat Secundo amitus pro galea caput contegit Tertio alba pro lorica totum corpus cooperuit Quarto cingulum proarcu sub-cingulum pro pharetra a●●●mit est sub-cingulum illud quod dependet a cingulo quo stola pontificis cum ipso cingulo colligatur Quinto stola collum circumdat quasi hastam contra hostem viprans Sexto manipulo pro clava utitur Septimo casula quasi clipeo tegitur manus libro pro gladio armatur De cingulis etiam aliter dicetur infra Haec itaque sunt arma quibus Pontifex vel Sacerdos armari debet contra spirituales nequicias pugnaturus Nam ut inquit Apostolus Arma maliciae nostrae non sunt carnalia sed ad destructionem muniminum potentia Et in alia Episto● Ephes vi c. Induite vos inquit armatura Dei ut posslitis stare adversus insidias diaboli State ergo succincti lumbos vestros in veritate induti lorica justitiae calciati pedes in preparatione Evangelii pacis in omnibus sumentes scutum fidei in quo positis omnia tela nequissimi ignea extinguere galeam salutis assumere gladium spiritus quod est Verbum Dei Haec quidem armatura est praemissa septuplex vestis Sacerdotalis significativa septiplicis virtutis Sacerdotis representativa Christi vestium quibus indutus fuit ipse passionis prout infra dicetur Provideat ergo diligenter Episcopus attendat studiose Sacerdos ut signum sine significato non ferat i. ut vestem sine virtute non portet ne forte similis sit Sepulchro à foris dealbato intus