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A56208	A short sober pacific examination of some exuberances in, and ceremonial appurtenances to the Common prayer especially of the use and frequent repetitions of Glory be to the Father, &c., standing up at it, at Gospels, creeds, and wearing white rochets, surplises, with other canonical vestments in the celebration of divine service and sacraments, whose originals, grounds of institution and prescription, are here truly related and modestly discussed ... / by William Prynne, Esq. ...	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.; Stucki, Johann Wilhelm, d. 1607. Antiquitatum convivialum. Liber 2, cap. 26, De vestitu conviviali.	1661 (1661)	Wing P4081; ESTC R5455	105,415	150

Augustodunensis in his Gemma Animae l. 1 8● 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 Garment● Rochets Surplisses Hoods and other such Trinkets are 3ly They were all put on Aaron and his Sonnes 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 less than Sacrilege and Usurpation 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 kinde form fashion from Rochets Surplisses Albees Hoods Planets Dalmaticks Chymeres Palls Stoles Pectoral Crosses Cassockes Gownes Black Silken Girdles Copes Miters square Caps and other Vestments now used contended for by Ceremonial Prelates and Clergy-men Therefore 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 Sacrifices and Services unto God not when they prayed preached instructed the people in their several Cities Synogogues or in their Kings Palla●es 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 Sacrifices Priesthood Altars Vestments were all temporary typical utterly abolished by the incarnation passion sacrifice res●rrection ascention of our Lord Iesus Christ whom they typified shadowed as inconsistent with and not fit to be continued under the Gospel as on the Epistles 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 unless we will revive the Aaronical Priesthood High Priest Priests Levites with their Sacrifices Altars Tabernacle Temple and all other Levitical Ceremonies Vestments in specie and renounce both Christ himself with his Priesthood Ministrie 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 natural generation can claim no Title by the Law to their Priestly Garments much less by the Gospel which thus expresly resolves 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 Mosco spake nothing concerning Priesthood An unanswerable Text against all Evangelical Bishops Ministers Deacons claims and pretences especially being Gentiles not Iewes 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 only use these Garments by way of allusion and 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. 1 ● 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 realest imitation Out Bishops or the Pope who pretend themselves the High Priests Successors though they can never prove it must then wear a Brestplate ephod robe broidered coat ●●iter girdle of the same materials form as Aarons were And our Priests 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 Gowns Copes Caps Cassocks of wool silk satin sarcenet velvet which now they use else they do not imitate but prevaricate from this president 4ly Then none but Bishops Ministers Deacons not 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 are put upon their Backs without any solemn Prayers Holy-water sprinkled or Crosse● 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

3. 11. Eph. 5. 25 26. Col. 3. 10 11 16 17. 1 Thes 5. 16. 23 27. Hebr. 3. 1. Rev. 1. 5 6. c. 3. 18. c. 7. 14. Lu. 1. 74 75. Tit. 2 12 14. Rom. 1 7. c. 6. 1. 4 c. c. 8. 10 11 29 30. Ephes 4. 24. c. 1. 4. Phil. 1. 1. Philem. 5. 7. 2 Cor. 1. 1. c. 13. 13. Col. 1. 2 4 12 26 Rev. 15. 3. c. 19. 8. Ps. 34. 1. Ps. 62. 8. Psal. 106 3. 1 Tim. 2. 8. 3ly Because they are all equally a chosen generation a royal Priesthood a holy Nation a peculiar people yea made Kings and Priests to God the Father by Iesus Christ as much as Prelates and Clergy-men 1 Pet. 2. 9 10. Rev. 1. 5 6. c. 9. 10. c. 20. 6. Exod. 19. 6. 4ly Because God is no respecter of Persons especially in his immediate worship service but in every Nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is equally aocepted of him Acts 10. 34 35. 1 Pet. 1. 17. Ephes. 1. 6. 5ly Because all the Saints and redeemed of Christ have equally washed their garments and made them white in the blood of the Lamb and are arrayed in Spiritual not Corporal white garments as well as Prelates and Priests Rev. 3. 4 5 18. c. 6. 11. c. 7. 9 13 14. c. 19. 8. Therefore if necessary decent expedient in Gods Divine service all Lay Saints should wear them as well as Bishops or Clergy-men 2ly Then it will necessarily follow that not only Prelates and other Clergy-men but likewise all Christians should wear Rochets Surplisses and white Vestments at all times as well as in time of Divine Service or Sacraments administrations especially in all their private Prayers Devotions in their Closets Houses Families where Bishops Priests Deacons themselves use not to wear them and in all places as well as in Cathedrals Churches Chapels since they ought to be alwaies holy innocent undefiled white pure in all their actions conversations shining as lights of the world in the midst of a polluted and perverse generation as Ephes. 1. 4. c. 5 26 27. c. 4. 22 23 24. Phil. 2. 15. 1 Pet. 1. 15 16. 2 Pet. 3. 11. and other fore-cited Texts resolve 3ly It was an antient custom in the Primitive Church long before Bishops Priests or Deacons wore white Rochets Surplisses and linnen Vestments beginning before 300. years after Christ and continuing near 1400 years space or more in most Christian Churches to put on long white Robes Surplisses Garments on all such Christians as were baptized immediately after their baptism in testimony of their purification and washing from their sinnes in their baptism by the blood of Iesus Christ. Hence Lactantius flourishing about 300. years after Christ in his Book De Resurrectione Christi hath this elegant expression Rex sacer ecce tuiradiat pars magna Trophaei Cum puras animas sacra lavacra beant Candidus egreditur nitidis exercitus undis Atque vetus vitium purgat in amne novo Fulgentes animas vestis quoque candida signat Et grege de niveo gaudia pastor habit This custom of apparelling Baptized Persons in white Robes and Garments is likewise attested by Gregory Nazianzen Oratio 3. Ambrose De Sacramentis l. 3. c 1. and De his qui initiantur c. 7 8. within 370. years after Christ and not long after by Olympiodorus in Eccles. c. 9. Gregorius Turonensis Hist. l. 9. c. 4. and our Venerable Beda Hist. Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum l. 2. c. 14. where relating the History of our King Edwins and his peoples conversion to the Christian Faith and baptizing by Paulinus Anno Christi 627. and of his Sons soon after adds quorum primi Albati adhuc that is whiles cla● in white Garments after their Baptism erepti sunt de hac vitae Abbot Alchuvinus Scholar to Beda and Tutor to Charles the Great describing the forms and Ceremonies of Baptism about the year of Christ 800. records that the person baptized after his baptism elevatur de fonte ut per Gratiam surgat ad vitam Deinde Albis induiiur Uestimentis propter Gratiam regenerationis et castitatem vitae et Angelici splendaris decorem Tunc sacro chrismate caput perungitur mystico tegitur velamine ut intelligat se Diadema Regni Sacerdotis dignittem portare juxtà Apostolum vos estis genus electum Regale Sacerdotale ●fferentes vosmet ipsos Deo vivo hostiam sanctam Deo placentem Therefore they are intituled to wear white Garments Surplisses Rochets as well as any Bishops or Priests whatsoever who upon this account ought not to advance themselves above or distinguish themselves from other baptized Lay-Christians Rabanus Maurus flourishing about 840. years after Christ writing of the Forms and Ceremonies of baptism relates that after baptism a white Garment was delivered to every person baptised Post baptismum traditur Christiano Candida vestis quae signat innocentiam puritatem Christianam quant post ablutas veteres maculas statio sanctae conversationis immaculatam servare debet ad praesentandam ante tribunal Christi Cujus verò renati Albis induuntur vestibus ad mysterium resurgentis Ecclesiae futurum Vtuntur vestibus albis ut quorum primae Nativitatis insantiam vetusti erroris pannus suscaverat habitus secundae regenerationis gloriae praeferat indumentum The continuance of this custom in after ages is attested by Vincentius Beluacensis spec Hist. l. 23. c. 145. Erfordiensis c. 66. Aponius l. 6. in Cantica Cant. the Century Writers Cent. 8 9 10 11 12 13. c. 6. Tit. De Ritibus circa Baptismum and to name no more by our Thomas Waldensis about the year of Christ 1420. Doctrinalis Tom 3. Tit. 5. cap. 52. sect 1 2. De veste candida quam accipit baptizalus which he largely descants upon as a badge of their purification innocency washing away their sins and making them as white as Snow and puting on the Lord Jesus Christ citing Rom. 12. Ezech. 16. Psal. 50. Exod. 24. Heb. 3. Mat. 17. Isai. 1. Cant. 1. all produced by him and other Papist● for Bishops and Priests white Rochets Albees Surplisses Dionysius Areopagita Origen Ambrose and Rabanus to justifie this custom from whence the Lords day Easter week and the Feast of Pentecost on which Christians heretofore were usually baptized and then clad in White Garments were stiled Dominica et feria in albis and by our English Calanders Nation till this day called White-sunday and Whitesontide because all persons baptized on them and Virgins too were then usually clad in White Garments Feria 2. In albis haec hebdomada to wit after Easter in albis vocatur quod Sabbato sancto baptizati vestein candidam quam in baptismo acceperant gestate consueverint ac in ea induti ac albati usque ad alterum Sabbatum quo solenni ritu albas deponebant writes Learned George Cassander If then this antient custom of Clothing all baptized persons in