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A60393	A catalogve of superstitons innovations in the change of services and ceremonies, of presumptuous irregularities, and transgressions, against the Articles of Religion, Act of Parliament for uniformity, canons, advertisements, injunctions, and homilies and lastly, of sundry perjurious violations of the locall statutes of Durham Cathedrall church, which the dean and presendaries, and all other members of the said church, took their corporall oaths, to observe, and obey, at their admittance and installation, according to that in the 13. Chap. De admissione Canonicorum ... / opposed by Peter Smart ...	Smart, Peter, 1569-1652?	1642 (1642)	Wing S4013; ESTC R560	24,629	36

or Bishops Tables and Eucharists In the after times the Fathers presumed to take a greater liberty of speech but they never meant to defend such popish sacriledge as is the having of Priests Sacrifices and Altars And because ages more degenerating did set as it were a Byas upon the phrases Priests Sacrifices Altar which had been used by the Fathers improperly to draw them to a proper signification flat contrary to their first Institution therefore did Protestants wish That those ancient Fathers had rather contained themselves within their more ancient bounds than that their liberty of speech should have occasioned in Romanists that prodigall error in Doctrine Thus much saith Doctor Morton 9. They notoriously offended in removing the Font so often from the ancient usuall place where heretofore it stood contrary to the advertisement The Font shall not be removed and the 81 Canon The Font shall stand in the ancient usuall place 10. They offended highly in adoring the Altar falsly so called for when it is gorgeously adorned with brave and rich Furniture and set up on high at top of the Quire or Chancell removed from the base and prophane multitude as they account them and carrying a greater Majesty than it had being a plain Communion Table standing in the Body of the Church then they bowed down to it and worshipped it more than ever the papists did making it thereby an execrable Idoll they bow down I say their bodies before the same Altar and towards no other thing or place in the Church as if it were the most holy thing the Church of God hath as Doctor Duncomb blasphemously writeth in his Determination holyer than the Bible it self to which none make legs or bow their bodies 11. They have offended in contradicting the Church of England and endamaging our reformed Religion in not defacing nor abolishing monuments of Idolatry but repairing adorning beautifying and multiplying them more than ever they were in time of popery contrary to the 23 Injunction in which charge is given for the abolishing of things superstitious That Candlesticks Pictures Paintings and all manner of Monuments of Idolatry be taken away utterly extinct and destroyed So that there remain no memory of the same in Walls Windows or elsewhere Item In the Articles of the first yeer of the Queens visitation 1559. The second Article enquireth whether Candlesticks Images Pictures and other Monuments of Idolatry and Superstition be abolished Hereby it appeareth that the intention of the Church of England was at the reformation thereof from Popish Superstition and Idolatry that Massing Copes and other Altar Cloaths embroydered with Images That Candlesticks Tapers Crosses Crucifixes c. being once ejected must not be brought in again and set upon the Communion Table or in Windows above the Table as is done in Durham and other Churches adjoyning 12. They offended in rejecting the Homilies and Injunctions and consequently the doctrine of the Church of England because they condemn Images Altars and other superfluous ornaments The Homily of the place and time of prayer hath these words of a woman saying to her neighbour at the first reformation of Churches in England Alas alas what shall we now do at Church since all the Saints are taken away seeing all the goodly fights we were wont to have are gone seeing we cannot have the like piping and chanting and playing on the Organs that we had before But dearly beloved saith the Homily we ought greatly to rejoyce and give God thanks that our Churches are delivered from all these things which displeased God so sore but now those abominations which were taken away at Durham are restored again with great advantage 13. They offended in calling their superstitious Trinkets Ornaments of the Church which our Church disalloweth and condemneth as being disgracements of Religion and abominations in the Church of God Thus saith the Homily against the perill of Idolatry and Superstitious decking of Churches The Lords holy Name ought to be called upon by publike prayer and thanksgiving his holy Sacraments ought duly and reverently to be administred not gaudily flauntingly theatrically histriorically due reverence is stirred up in the hearts of the godly by the confideration of those true ornaments of the house of God and not by any outward Ceremonies or costly and glorious deckings of the said House or Temple of the Lord as Saint Bernard saith Orantium in se retorquent aspectum impediunt affectum Such glorious spectacles draw away from God the minde of them that pray and they hinder holy affections or meditations Praetendunt ornatum saith Heming●us in his Enchiridion speaking of Images Si illi ornat●● adjunctum sit ullu● periculum sit maledictus They pretend that they are set up for Ornaments but cu●sed be such Ornaments to which the perill of Idolatry is joyned And again Spiritus Sanctus saith Ezekiel Chr. 20. Vocat Idola abominationes oculorum sed puluis ciuis ea vocat ornamenta oculorum The holy Ghost calls Images the abhomination of the eyes but man that is but dust and ashes calls them the ornaments of the eyes and then he concludeth Verus ornatus Templorum utilis Deo gratus est concio cantio oratio communio non haec quae vel impediunt vol vitiant The true Ornaments of the Church profitable to men and acceptable to God is the preaching of Gods Word the singing of Psalms the administration of the Sacraments and Prayer and not such things as do hinder and defile the same 14. They have offended against their Mother the Church of England in taking away the ten Commandments where they placed their Altar for having cast out the decent Communion Table at the same time they sent away into the Countrey the Decalogue fairly written in golden Letters contrary to the expresse words of the 82. Canon and practise of all our Churches The ten Commandments shall be set upon the East end of every Church or Chapell where the people may best see and read the same So they were placed in Durham Cathedrall very fairly written and hanging upon the Wall till the Lords Table was taken away and a brave sumptuous Altar daily adored by all sorts of people specially Priests and Clerks with bowing down their bodies before it Till I say a glorious high Altar was erected with Crucifixes and other Images of Saints and Angels even of the Trinity it self Which Idols as the Church of England calls them in her Homilies could not endure the presence of Gods second Commandment which forbids Images and Idolatry and much more reason had they to remove the Decalogue out of their sight since the fourth Commandment also was by them abrogated which commandeth the observation of the Sabbath Remember that thou keep holy the Sabbath day the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God in it thou shalt do no manner of work At the end of the fourth Commandment our Church enjoyneth the people to kneel down and say Lord have mercy upon us and incline our hearts to keep this Law What

in the Chapter house unlesse the crime be so great that the Visitor must examine and correct it by whom and none else t●e delinquent may be deprived and not by the Bishop uulesse Idem Canonicus in offensa aliqua aut crimine gravi veluti Haeresi adulterio furto perjurio atqueid genus aliis culpabilis inventus fuerit And then saith the statute 37. chap. Fiat sequestratio praebendae interim dum talis accusatio coram Episcopo visitatore pendeat Now it is well knowne that the late Bishop Howson in his Visitation 1631. and at sundry other times cleered me not culpable of any fault which could deserve so great punishment or any at all But contrarily did say that Doctor Cosin was a factions and seditious man and that he deserved to be expeld for corrupting the Church Service and Ceremonies They Doctor Cosin and others proceeded against me maliciously and trecherously by a strange and unheard of suspension from comming to Durham Church onely at the same time that I kept residence contrary to the statutes which bind me to be present in the time of Divine Service every day and this they did in the midst of my Residence so that I could not come to Church ten daies together being prohibited by the sentence of suspension naild up upon my stall They are bound by oath to maintaine and cause others to maintaine all rights priviledges and customes of the Church this Law right and custome they perjuriously violated 39. They perfidiously and most uncharitably conspired against me all of them not one excepted not to come to my residence continuing one and twenty daies and though they were oft invited and kindly intreated yet not one of them would once come to my house such a thing was never heard of before And it is contrary to their Oath Omnes probatas Probandas bujus Ecclesiae consuetudines observabo I take my Oath that I will observe all approved customes of the Church 40. They made another most damnable conspiracy against me in the Chapter-house in sending letters full of horrible slanders and diabolicall calumniations to Doctor Laud then Bishop of London and soure other Bishops which are since dead and this they did many times one of which Letters I have full of untruths making the Bishops beleeve 〈◊〉 I am an enemy to the Church a man unsufferable and that I 〈…〉 against his Majesties Chappell All which are most false and some of them knew they were false and therefore they are perjured and by the statute to be expeld Statuimus ut nemo in virtute juramenti Ecc●●si● prastiticontra Decanum aut Canonicos quicquam dicat aut denuntiet nisi quod verum crediderit cap. 40. By vertue of their Oath all are injoyned to say nothing against any Canon but what they beleeved to be true And this sending of Letters by Messengers hyred on purpose was oftentimes on the Churches charges whereof a good part was mine own 〈…〉 and in all other suite● against my selfe they used my owne mony which is theevery robbing me and endevouring to kill me with my owne sword 41. They made a sequestration of all my living belonging to my Pre●●●● All the Prebendaries then in Durham with the Deane concurring to belie and slander me viz. that I preacht contra pios salubr●● ritus Edclesiae in grave p●riculum animae suae c. That I preacht against the godly and wholsome Ceremonies of the Church whereas there was not a word spoken against any approved Ceremony of our Church but onely against unlawfull Innovations condemned by our Church If they can name any truely I will loose my life 42. And although Haec lis nunquam pend●bat coram Episcopo visitatort for Bishop Howson kept no visitation till my cause was transmitted to London and York they made that damnable sequestration twice first before the suspension sealed the 9 of August 1628. which because they thought to be wrong they amended that errour with a capitall crime for scraping out the date an● what they would beside and writing other words or figures in place thereof they sealed that false sequestration ag tine contrary to their Oath in these words Statuimus eti m ut Sigillum Commune nunquam albae chartae aut Palinxesto opponatur sub poena perjurii perpetuae amotionis ab ha●ecelesiae illius qui opposut quiad id faciendum consenserit ad satisfaciend●m pro damnissint obligati The Common seale must not be put to scrape parchment under the paine of perjury and expulsion out of the Church of Durham and the must be bound to make satisfaction for the wrong done These treacherons Durhamers Doctor Cosin Mr. J●mes with their fellowes were not content with their Vill●nous casting me into the whirlepoole of the high Commission where I have been cost from Durham to London from London to York from prison to prison more then 13. yeares together and utterly undone by their barbarous more then Turkish and Paganish Practises They were not content I say to plague me with all manner of punishments the merciless Commisioners could inflict upon me in all the fores●id places but in the Chipter houses they would bite me and prejudicate my cause before it came to tryall with a malitious sequestration of my living twise sealed in the comp sse of one moneth and that perfidiously and sl●nrdrously fraughted with diabolicall calumniations They perjuriously have offended in detaining from me all that I have lost these 14 yeares since 1628 with above 1200. pound which I have spent siucethis Parliament began in maintaining witnesses c. whilest they maintaine their witnesses as they have done all their suits of law against me upon the Church cost and by the statutes of Durham Church which they tooke their Corporall Oathes to obey they are bound to pay to me as appeares by the 14. and 15 Chapters If any Prebendary be absent from Durham Church being hindred by any lawfull impediment and namely by imprisonment he shall enjoy all profits and commodities arising any wayes from his Prebend as if he had all that time beene present The words of the statute are these Quod si ob aliquod illorum impedimeenterum viz. profectionem ad Parliamentum moram ibidem Incarceratonem non voluntarium c. iliquem Canonicorum abesse ab ecclesia hac comingerit in omnibus tamen commodis emolumintis ration●● corporis prabenda sua quotidianarum distributionum a dicta ecclesia percipiendis pro praesente haberi volumut I Peter Smart one of the Prebendaries have beene absent from the Church of Durham 12. yeares I have beene all that time Ligiteme impeditus for I have beene by my false brethrens fault and procurement imprisoned and by wrongfull excommunication suspension and degradation as is adjudged by the high Court of Parliament kept from my house and Church and all my meanes hath beene taken from me the sum of all which amounted to above 14000. pound a great