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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

Deacons who wear them only for a few hours in the Church and are clad in Black Garments only all the day week year which are as contrary to Innocency purity as white is unto black 2ly White is not alwayes a badge or Garment of Joy but oft times of Mourning and Grief as in the Cases of pennance and degradations forecited and in these ensuing Presidents Alexander ab Alexandro Bremus and others record that the Grecians Spartians Argivi Syracusians used to put on Albas vestes white Garments when they mourned for their deceased Friends and Kings in which they followed their Corps to their Graves involved usually in white Winding sheets and Cere-cloathes Plutarch and Aretius out of him informs us That the Roman Matrons mourned in white Garments In China at this day the Nobles and better sort of Women use to mourn in White array The better sort of Turks use to mourn in White and in Japan White is a Funeral colour Black a Festival Yea at this Day the Queens of France after their Husband Kings decease wear White Garments during their Widow-hood in token of Grief and Retiredness and in many places of England when any Maids dye before mariage other Virgins use to accompany their Hearse to their Graves in white Wastcoats Gloves Ribonds Therefore white Garments cannot be of themselves a badge of Joy Chearfullnesse Triumph for then white Winding-sheets should be wherein we all inter dead Corps 3ly White Garments are no peculiar badge of Evangelical Bishops or Ministers of the Gospel and that only in Divine administrations For as I never read that Christ or his Apostles or the primitive Evangelical Bishops Ministers Deacons or for above 350. years after Christ used any such Vestments Surplisses Rochets in Divine administratious which doubtlesse they would have done had they deemed them necessary decent or expedient so on the contrary I read 1. That the Tapyrae Bactriani Iberi and other barbarous Nations about Hyrcania compell their Women to wear and walk abroad Albis Tunicis in White Coats and short cut hair when as the Men only wear Black Vestments and let their Hair grow long 2. That the Romans in their Circentian Playes had 4. Factions clad in 4. several sorts of coloured Garments just like the Popish Priests and Prelates according to the four seasons of the year to wit in Green-coloured Garments dedicated to the Spring in Rose-coloured Vestments devoted to the Harvest in Violet-coloured consecrated to Winter and in White Garments dedicated to Autumn when men as well as fruits and leaves usually drop into their Graves And that the Romans used to resort to and behold their Playes Toga Candida in a white Gown or Surplisse which was no act of Religion but Pastime 3ly That those who stood for any elective Offices among the Romans were usually clad in white Garments from whence they were stiled Candidati as Caelius Rhodiginus proves at large out of Titus Livius Plutarch Pliny Vlpian Juvenal and others which Candidates usually bribed the People to gain their Voyces with mony meat drink feasts notwithstanding many successive severe Lawes made against it as too many Knights Citizens Burgesses now use to bribe their Electors before and at every Parliamentary election with Gifts Feasts and drunken entertainments for which they deserve expulsion out of the House of Commons far better than Thomas Long who in the Parliament of 8. Elizabeth was expelled the Commons House upon examination of his Case only for giving the Maior of Westbury in Wiltshire 4. l. to be elected a Burgesse to serve in that Parliament for this his corrupt dealing which was to poyson the very Fountain it self and the Maior fined and imprisoned whereas some now spend one two or three thousand pounds a piece in Countries to be elected Knights and others one two three four or five hundred pounds a piece or more to be chosen Citizens and Burgesses for the last this approaching Parliament in Bribes wine ale beer tobacco feasts and drunken entertainments which will hardly produce a sober Parliament and for which the Elements now mourn yea drop down showers of Wrath upon us for which bribery they well deserve to be cast out of the Parliament-house and fined treble the value of their Bribes and Expences to his Majesty since the Pagan Romans were so just as by the Law of C. Petilius Tribune of the people to impose a fine and penalty of ambition upon Q. Coponius quod vini amphoram ei cujus suffragio magistratum petebat dono dederat And if his giving but a Quart or Pottle of Wine was reputed a Bribe deserving punishment what do they demerit who give whole Tuns Buts of Wine and many Barrels of Ale Beer to their Electors for their Voyces Yea those Mercinaries who thus unworthily sell their Voyces deserve to be for ever disabled to have any voyce in future Elections and this Roman Law is now fit to be enacted among us Vt in petendis honoribus candidati sine toga ad Comitia descenderent ne pecuniis in sinu reconditis tribuum suffragia mercarentur 4ly That the idolatrous Priests of Isis amongst the Aegyptians when they sacrificed to this Idoll did shave their Crowns and wear white Surplisses Garments just as the Popish Priests do now above a 1000. years before Christians took up this fashion and the Roman Matrons in the Feast of their Goddesse Ceres did annually sacrifice to her veste candida in a white Garment ut tunc Diis gratum esse censerent si à laetis nec à funere pollutis celebraretur 5ly That the four Monks of St. Denis Abbey in France who carry the Canopy over the viol of Holy Oyl pretended to be sent from Heaven at the French Kings Coronation albis induti are arrayed in white Surplisses and Rochets though not in holy Orders 6ly That our Bishops themselves and the Abbot formerly but now the Dean of Westminster at our Kings Coronation stripping off his ordinary Apparel put on him a Collobium Dalmatica or close Pall linnen Gloves and Sandals immediately after his consecrating as they use to do on Bishops and Priests of whose holy Vestments these are parcel Either therefore they must acknowledge our Kings to be Bishops and Priests as well as themselves or disclaim these Vestments as proper or peculiar to Bishops Priest and Clergy-men 4ly Admit white Garments Rochets Surplisses a Badge of Innocency Purity Holynesse as is pretended and therefore fit to be worn in time of Divine service and Sacraments by Bishops Priest Deacons and other Ecclesiastical Persons Then it will certainly follow from hence 1. That all Christians whatsoever ought to wear white Surplisses Rochets Albees as well as Popes Archbishops Metropolitans Bishops Arch-Deacons Deans Prebends Priests Ministers Deacons and other Church-men 1. Because they are all equally purified washed from their sins externally by

the form or colour of their Ordinary or Priestly Vestments Accounterments which if so necessary expedient decent as they are now pretended would certainly have there been specified recommended or prescribed to all succeeding Bishops and Deacons 5ly That the Apostle in this very Epistle to Timothy where he most particularly enjoyns the use of publick and private Prayers to Bishops Ministers and all other Christians and the manner how they should perform the same useth only these expressions I exhort therefore that first of all Supplications Prayers Intercessions and Thanksgivings be made for all men for Kings and all in Authority that under them we may live a quiet and peaceable life in all godlynesse and honesty I will therefore that men pray every where lifting up holy Hands he would doubtlesse have added putting on holy Garments Rochets Surplesses Albees Hoods c. had they been necessary decent expedient without wrath or doubtings In like manner also that Women adorn themselves with modest Apparel with shamefastnesse and sobriety now almost quite out of fashion even in Churches as well as Theatres not with broydred or plaited hair or gold or pearls or costly array or spots or patches now much in fashion both in and out of Church but which becommeth Women professing godlynesse with good works Let the women learn in silence c. This transition from Ministers Deacons and mens praying in every place with pure hands to womens apparel especially in the Church as the last words evidence without one syllable of Mens Bishops Ministers or Deacons apparel or Church-vestments before or after it in this Epistle or any other is an unanswerable argument in my weak judgement against the necessity or peremptory prescription of any Rochets Surplisses or other kind of Vestments since invented enjoyned by Popes or Popish Prelates Priests Monks or any other Prelates in the celebration of Divine Service Masses Sacraments 6ly That our Saviour himself gave this special charge to his Disciples recorded by two Evangelists Take no thought for your life what you shall eat or what you shall drink nor yet for your body what you shall put on Is not or for the life is more than meat and the body than rayment If then the Apostles and Disciples themselves were thus specially prohibited to take any thought for their ordinary necessary Rayment and wearing Apparel much more then for any extraordinary unnecessary Surplisses Rochets Canonical or Pontifical Massing Vestments wherein they preach pray or administer the Sacraments Of which Popes Archbishops Bishops Priests Deacons and Cathedral-men have been heretofore and some now be so over-carefull so immoderately zealous as by sundry successive Councils Synods Canons Decretals Injunctions Rubricks Censures indispensibly to impose yea force them upon their Fellow-Ministers and Christians against their judgements wills consciences or else to deprive them of their Ministry Gods publick Ordinances Sacraments contrary to this express Inhibition of Christ himself whom the highly affront therein 7ly That God by St. Paul give this Divine Precept or Admonition to Timothy and all other Bishops Ministers Deacons Christians Godlyness with contentment is great gain for we brought nothing into this world and it 〈◊〉 certain we can carry nothing out And having food and rayment though ordinary course mean let us be therewith content O that all over-covetous worldly pompous Prelates and Clergy-men would seriously ponder believe practise and preach over this Text by their heavenly world-contemning lives instead of vexing disquieting discontenting themselves and all others with Law-sutes Citations Injunctions Censures about their Lordly Mannors Palaces Temporalties Pontifical Ornaments and Priestly Vestments This would make all to love honour reverence them with and from their souls who now repute them the worldlyest the proudest and most avaritious of all men professing Christianity even when they are departing out of this world and dropping into their very Graves if not into a deeper Pit to the scandal of the Gospel and their holy Function Let me only mind them of two conclusions from this Text. 1. That if all Bishops and Ministers ought to be contented with bare necessary rayment as well as food then they ought not to lade and cloath themselves with so many superfluous unnecessary Pontifical robes and Priestly vestments as now they wear and put on even in Gods own presence House whiles they are discharging their Duties and performing Divine services unto him much lesse to force or impose them upon their Brethren and Fellow Ministers who are and would be content with their ordinary Garments without these superfluities and are highly discontented that they are enjoyned to put them on against this Precept the forecited Texts yea the very dictates of their own Judgments and Consciences 2ly That they must speedily leave all their worldly Temporalties Episcopal robes Priestly vestments behind them and shall neither carry them hence into their Graves much lesse to Heaven or another world why then should they either trouble themselves with them or their Fellow-Ministers Christians about them who take no contentment in them and desire to officiate and serve God in their Ministry without them 8ly Which is most observable That when Christ himself commissioned and sent forth his Disciples to preach teach and discharge their Ministerial function he expresly enjoyned them among other things not to provide take or put on two Coats Neither to have two Coats a piece as being an impediment to their preaching and Ministry In obedience to which command the most laborious preaching Gospel-spreading Saint Paul whiles he was travailing from Country to Country and City to City to preach the Gospel left his Cloak at Troas with Carpus as a cumbersom impediment to his Ministry which he sent for after he was Prisoner at Rome when he could no longer walk abroad to preach With what colour then of Piety Decency Expediency or Necessity can Popes Patriarks Metropolitans Arch-Bishops Bishops when they go to say Masse read Divine service preach baptize celebrate the Lords Supper confer Orders keep Visitations consecrate Churches Chapels Vessels Vestments Kings put on adorn and load themselves with Miters Caps Cassocks Gownes Rochets Surplesses Copes Hoods Stoles Planets Palls Dalmaticks Pectoral Crosses Girdles Colobiums Chymers Gloves Sandals Handkerchiefs Scarffes without which by their own Canons Decretals Missals Pontificals Pro●●ssionals Ceremonials they neither may nor must officiate and enjoyn all Ministers Priests Deacons under severest censures and deprivations to wear Cassocks on their ordinary Apparel Girdles and Gownes upon them Surplesses or Copes upon their Gownes and if Doctors and Graduates Hoods Scarfes and Tippets upon them which hinder and make them unapt to preach or discharge their Ministry against these reiterated Precepts of our Saviour recorded by three Evangelists for their own and all other Ministers imitation or how can they ever answer in the great day of judgement when they shall appear naked before the Tribunal of our Lord Jesus Christ their high contemptuous