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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80833	Altar-worship, or Bowing to the communion table considered as to the novelty vanity iniquity malignity charged upon it. In an antithesis to the determination of Dr. Eleazar Duncon, lately translated, and sent into the world in a Romish dress, with a cross in the front and fine. By Z. Crofton Presbyter, but proved enemy to all fanaticks.	Crofton, Zachary, 1625 or 6-1672.	1661 (1661)	Wing C6981A; ESTC R31315	36,476	142

to all the world that it is all acase to offer false worship to the true God as to offer true worship to a false God As God will admit no Corrivals in the honour due to him so he will receive no homage that is not directed by him It is a dangerous thing in the service of God to deviate from his own institutions whilst we have to do with a power which is wise to prescribe his own worship just to require what he hath prescribed and jealous to revenge that which is offered unto him he having not required it Moses might neither the add nor alter a pin in the Tabernacle which God prescribed nor might Solomon decline the Pattern of the Temple which God had made known to his Father David Bishop Hall contemplating the fatall chance of the Sons of Aaron serving God with false fire doth thus observe upon it When we bring Zeal without Knowledge misconceipts of Faith carnal Affections the devices of our Will-worship superstitious devotions into Gods Service we bring common fire unto his Altar these flames were never of his kindling He hateth both Altar Fire Priest and Sacrifice Let me therefore say to our Altar-Adorers To the Law and the Testimony produce divine prescription for your Devotion and religious bowing to towards or before the Communion Table that you stand not under the charge of iniquity even an apparent Superstition advancing as divine worship what is not of divine appointment But where shall we find a warrant for solemn and religious bowing to towards or before the Communion Table The Gospell of Jesus Christ or Epistles Canons Acts or Traditions of his Apostles afford us none and it being a Relative Worship of God in the nature of it by an outward frame or similitude will on a rationall consideration be found repugnant to the Second Command which interdicts all media cultus externall Objects to be worshipped though God be the ultimate object to whom such worship is intended and so it is much at one as to worship God by or before an Image Yet lest our Zelots should fall inevitably under the charge of Superstition they will produce Scripture-proof to justifie their Table-Adoration and thus they rally them That the Jews admonished by the Oracles of their Prophets and Priests were accustomed to worship the true and living God with their bodies prostrate on the ground and their head bowed down to the pavement of the Temple before the holy Altar is plain from the Testimonies of holy Scripture out of 1 Kings 8.22 2 Kings 18.22 Where the most pious King Hezekiah saith Before this Altar bow your selves Out of 2 Chron. 7.3 And again 2 Chron 32.12 Before one Altar shall ye worship So Dr. Duncon Determ And Dr. Morton in the place before quoted is made thus to speak We bow before the Gommunion Table even as the people of God did in adoring him before the Arke his Footstool Psalm 99.5 And in 1 Chron. 28.2 As Daniels bowing at prayer in Chaldea looking towards the Temple at Hierusalem where the Temple of Gods worship was Dan. 6.10 And David would be known to have done saying in Psalm 5.7 I will worship towards thy holy Temple Unto these are added by Shelford Reeve Pocklington and Widdows Psal 99.5 Exod. 12.27 Isa 36.7 and the like which are the same or to the same purpose with those before alledged And shall we now say there is no direction from Scripture for bowing to the Communion Table to which I say in general If I should say nothing by way of reply who so readeth these Scriptures will soon see that he must strain his Reason if from any or all these Texts he infer a direction for Altar-worship I shall not stand to examine each Text particularly and to shew to Bedlam-Logick in irrational theological inferences by which they are improved and extorted to acquit the vanity of our Altar-worship frō the iniquity of humāe Invention but refer my Reader to the Quench-coal supposed to be Mr. Prins where he shall find them exactly examined pag. 240. 241 242 243 244. I shall only detect the fallacy of this argumentation by these more general answers First Jewish practise before Christ came in the flesh will make no warrant or give no direction for that worship which is to be now tendred unto God because their practises bottomed upon speciall peculiar Reasons are now expired and abolished serving to shew us how God was worshipped not how he is to be worshipped among which the Temple and Altar and Adoration towards them was not the least nay these were the chiefest and this way of Judaizing hath not been the least spring of the Superstitions sprung up in the Church of Rome Before therefore these Scriptures will make any warrant for a conform carriage in us we must know whether these practises were not particular to the Jewes peculiar Types and Shadows expired on the appearing of the Substance Jesus Christ our only Temple and Altar which if it could be denyed yet the case will be found different between this Adoration and our Bowing to the Communion Table and therefore I would admonish our Altar-worshippers to consider whether they are not mistaken in these Three Things the Object the Act and Authority of Worship The Object of that Worship and adoration was either in general Gods Footstool which some understand of the Earth in general Isa 66.1 Or in special the Arke that Symbole of his presence 1 Chron. 28.12 And in particular the Temple at Hierusalem and the Altar in that Temple places and instruments sanctified by Gods especiall presence and solemnly consecrated according to his own prescription but these are so far from being Common Tables in every Common Church in any Country Place or City that they are not Tables in any Synagogue the proper patern of our Churches not so much as the Holy Tables in the Temple I presume our Table-Cringers cannot but know there was in the Tabernacle and Temple a Table on which stood the Shew-bread and Silver Candlesticks Methinks they should give us some evidence of the Priests and People bowing to towards or before that which was also consecrated for it is most irrationall to inferr the Jewes worshipped towards the TEMPLE and ALTAR when they cannot make our Table an Altar or Chancel a Temple holy place or holy thing as I have before noted 2. The Act of Worship performed among the Jews was no less different from our bowing and cringing than was the Object This Act of Worship was a praying towards the Temple or offering of Incense or Sacrifice upon the Altar as is evident Psalm 28.2 1 Kings 8.20 30 33 35 38 42 44 48. 2 Chron 26.20 21. And by that of Daniel who prayed towards the Temple it was not a bare bowing before it when no duty was in hand or did direct the same and that at coming in or going out or any time passing by the Temple or Altar as is the devoir done to our