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A70471	A treatise of the episcopacy, liturgies, and ecclesiastical ceremonies of the primitive times and of the mutations which happened to them in the succeeding ages gathered out of the works of the ancient fathers and doctors of the church / by John Lloyd, B.D., presbyter of the church of North-Mimmes in Hertfordshire.	Lloyd, John, Presbyter of the Church of North-Mimmes.	1660 (1660)	Wing L2655A; ESTC R21763	79,334	101

A TREATISE OF THE EPISCOPACY LITURGIES AND ECCLESIASTICAL CEREMONIES OF THE PRIMITIVE TIMES AND Of the mutations which happened to them in the fucceeding Ages GATHERED Out of the Works of the ancient Fathers and Doctors of the Church By John Lloyd B. D. Presbyter of the Church of North-Mimmes in Hertfordshire Let your moderation be known unto all men the Lord is at hand Phil. 4.5 Multum sacerdotalis officii meritum splendescit ubi sic summorum servatur auctoritas ut in nu●● inferiorum putatur imminuta libertas Leonis Epist 61. Episcopi sacerdotes se esse noverint non Dominos honorent clericos quafi clericos ut ipsis à clericis quasi Episcopis honor deferatur Hierom. ad Nepotianum De vita clericorum LONDON Printed by W. G. for John Sherley at the Sign of the Pelican and Robert Littlebury at the Sign of the Unicorn in Little Britain M.DC.LX TO The Right Reverend Father in God IOHN LORD BISHOP OF EXCESTER MY LORD WHen the dark night of our confusions was by Gods wonderful mercy never to be forgotten well nigh at an end by the near approaching of our Sun the breath of our nostrils our dread Soveraign Lord the Kings Majesty unto the horizon of his paenitent and loyal Subjects in his hereditary Kingdomes and Dominions whereby all began to be revived to be prepared for the receiving all good impressions in this beginning of our happiness considering with my self by what best means men of different apprehensions concerning Ecclesiastical things might be brought unto godly unity and meet uniformity therein I thought that the knowledge of the state of the Church of Christ in the Apostles dayes and in the four Centuries following their times as to the form of Ecclesiastical Government Discipline Liturgy and Rites used in them would very much conduce to the attainment of that blessed end For in those dayes many thousands of holy Confessors and Martyrs flourished in those times lived the most reverend Fathers of the first four general Councils of Nice Constantinople Ephesus and Chalcedon celebrated over all the Christian world of whose wisdome and godly care to do nothing in those particulars against the institutions of Christ and his Apostles but rather to do all things as might be most pleasing to God and most conducing to the edification of the Church no prudent and charitable man can entertain the least doubt Men they were and might erre but that so many men of extraordinary holinesse and wisdome compared to the best men of these latter Centuries should unanimously agree for the space of two three or four hundred years in setting up and practising superstition is incredible to them who believe that God hath promised to teach the humble his way and shew his covenant to them that fear him and not to forsake them which have not first forsaken him Having therefore reason and religion to assure me that all understanding and sober men if they could once see the form of Church-government with the Liturgies and Rites used by those Primitive Churches demonstrated by undeniable testimonies of pure antiquity would easily be induced to embrace them so far as they should appear to be convenient for Christian unity and edification in the present circumstances of time place and persons whereof not private men but the Governours Civil and Ecclesiastical are the onely Judges on earth I made what inquiry I could if any book were extant in the English tongue containing a brief full and plain demonstration of all the said Ecclesiastical things which might be had at a cheap rate soon read over and easily understood by all men of indifferent capacity whereby the knowledge of those things might be the more divulged But after diligent inquiry finding none I resolved being the work was within the limits of my vocation and in reading the ancient writers I had with no small diligence noted the passages conducing thereto invocato Dei Opt. Max. Nomine to use my poor talent with my best indevour to write such a little book which should comprehend in it the sum and substance of all the matters above specified as briefly fully and plainly as I could And this was the beginning of this small Treatise which being ended in convenient time was offered to worthy men of excellent indowments to be perused by them in hope that one or other of them knowing the usefulness of the matter treated of and observing the too plain low and uneven manner of writing would be moved to put forth a work upon that subject which being replenished with good variety of well ordered matters adorned with convenient eloquence and commended by the worthy name of an Author famous for his learning eloquence and vertues would be by all readily entertained greedily read and would sweetly convey the things desired to be published to the knowledge of all men But herein my hope failed me For those worthy persons were so imployed in the high and weighty affaires of the Church that they had no leisure to go about this although an useful work yet of less profit to the Church and less proportionable to their great abilities then the sublime imployment wherein their time was spent What remained then but that either that needful work must be altogether wanting or this poor treatise so void of due ornaments must be suffred to go abroad I had indeed once in a manner resolved to bury it in my study but an occasion bringing the matterr into a new debate I suffered some reasons to prevaile with me to give it leave to present it self to the view of the world yet not without some honourable Patron the glorious lustre of whose great learning Excellent Vertues and pretious name might both illumminate it and conciliate for the mean and obscure author some room in the good esteem and affection of learned and good men For which end I thought it most convenient to make choise of one of those very bright stars which his Majesties wisdome and goodness had been pleased to set in the firmament of our Church among whom your Lordship was first presented to my thoughts in your very learned elegant and eloquent works especially both in your testification of your great and very remarkable zeal for the now most blessed and glorious Saint and Martyr our late glorious King CHARLS the first and in your no less zealous fidelity to our most dear and dread Soveraign Lord King CHARLES the second manifested in times of greatest peril and also in your sighs groans complaints and prayers for and of the Church of England in her deep distress in your prudent indefatigable endevours for her restauration in those parts of your Lordships most learned writings wherein as in exceeding fair monuments more lasting then brasse you consecrate the blessed Memories of many very precious names viz. of the right reverend Fathers Bishop Andrews Bishop Morton Bishop Potter Bishop Hall Bishop Brownrigg and other honourable persons never to be remembred without

him a very notorious defect in fulfilling his duty of which yet if there was any the least probable appearance of repentance he was not denied the necessary viaticum as the Council of Nice calls it The best men ready to depart to a better life desired and took this caelestial meat for their comfort and refreshment in their passage to God Some ministers are so strict and parsimonious in giving the Holy Sacrament that they deny the same unto a considerable part yea often to most part of their parish which before had been admitted to it without using the method prescribed by our Saviour in Matth. chap. 18. vers 15 16 17. Which text requires publick accusation and proof in the presence of the governours of the Church and their publick condemnation before the publick execution of so high a censure They are also so hard hearted to dying men earnestly desiring that soul-confirming most refreshing viaticum that although they cannot truely before God and men if put to it assure it that they remain in a state of sin inconsistent with any degree of saving grace as in case of denial they should be upon good grounds assured yet they can be so uncharitable and unmerciful as to deny it unto them These extreams on the one hand and on the other hand partly the not forgotten great abuse of the holy censures by Chancellors and Commissaries partly the late ejecting of the set publick formes of prayers out of the Churches and partly the general contempt of all the holy ordinances spread over the Kingdomes by the several Sects brought in and maintained by the Regicides to strengthen and perpetuate themselves if they could in their most impious usurpation and tyranny these I say have made the Communion of Saints in the publick prayers and the holy Sacraments to be of very small esteem with most insomuch that very many are brought to believe they may go to heaven notwithstanding the neglect of them for which most pestilent disease if seasonable and convenient medicine be not found out and wifely applied the Church of England will be uncapable of receiving any benefit by the meer Ecclesiastical Discipline and the onely restraint under God against the growing sad effects of irreligious profaness will lie in the sole power of the Regal auctority What gesture of body was used in those ancient times in receiving the holy Communion Sect. 17. whether standing or kneeling or at some times the one and at other times the other is not very clearly and expressely set down by the writers of that age that I can remember This onely is certain that they did not kneel in the receiving of it on the Lords days because it was against a Canon of the Church to adore God by bowing of the knee on those dayes It is probable that on other days except in the Pentecost they received kneeling Hieron in Esa c. 45. for St. Hierom saith that it was an Ecclesiastical Custome to bow the knee to Christ Idem in Epist ad Ephes c. 3. which we may understand to be in the receiving of that holy Sacrament as well as in the publick prayers notwithstanding that this holy Doctor saith in another place that every one that is subject unto Christ is said to bend his knee unto him and citing the words of St. Paul at the name of Jesus every knee shall be bowed addeth that the words do not pertain to the knees of the body but to the subjection of the mind and inclination of the soul and obsequiousness of the heart to God Which this most learned Father would never have said or written if the Custome of the Church had been in his time to kneel not onely unto Christ himself but also to his name Jesus or if he had thought that this place of the Apostle did signifie it to be every mans duty to make the name Jesus a co-object with Christ of his adoration by the bowing of the knee as some of the latter Schoolmen have taught In the time of St. Hierom and before the standing in receiving the Eucharist on the Lords day was accompanied with a low bowing of the body even nigh to a prostration for St. Augustine writing upon the 98 Psalm faith August in Ps 98. none eateth that flesh unless he first hath adored it And in the words following he speaketh of inclination and prostration to that earth that is the flesh of our Saviour not considered as apart from but as in and with the most blessed Divine person Cyrill Hierosol Catech. Mystagog 5. Cyrill of Jerusalem speaking of the Holy Communion saith take the body of Christ saying Amen and a little after come saith he to the Cup of his blood not extending thy hands but incurving them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and in manner of adoring and worshiping saying Amen But now that the more urgent reasons which moved the Fathers of the Primitive Church not to use kneeling in adoring God on the Lords days are ceased it seems most convenient to kneel in taking the Holy Sacrament upon what day soever we receive it for the nearer Christ comes to us and the more he doth descend and condescend in coming to us yea and into us mystically in those external weak Elements the more should we descend humble and debase our selves by the inward bowing of our souls and the external bending of our knees in the receiving of him thereby testifying our own unworthiness of that Grace and commending the exceeding freeness of it In the Kingdome of Prester John they stand when they receive the holy Communion In giving the Sacrament the Bishop or Presbyter said Francisc Alvarus apud Cassandri liturg De Sacrament l. 4. c. 6. the body of the Lord and the receive said Amen saith Ambrose About the year 600 in the Sacramentary of Gregory the great it is said while the priest giveth the Lords body let him say The Body of our Lord Jesus Christ preserve thee to eternal life Amen And in giving the Cup let him say The blood of our Lord Jesus Christ preserve thee to eternal life In the mass of some Armenians in Russia the priest communicating faith Apud Cassand liturg By faith I believe in the most holy Trinity the Father Son and Holy Ghost By faith I eate thy quickning and saving body O Lord Jesus Christ let it be unto me to the absolution and remission of my sinnes And in drinking the Cup I drink by faith thy holy unmixed blood blotting out sins Apud Eundem O Lord Jesus Christ for the remission of my sins and of my Parents and of all the world Every Communicant of the Armernians in India goeth before the foot of the altar to receive It is provided in the Council of Laodic before the year 400 Can. 19. that only the ministers might go in to the altar and there take the Communion Can. 17. In the fourth Council of Tolet. it was appointed