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A60395	A short treatise of altars, altar-furniture, altar-cringing, and musick of all the quire, singing-men and choristers, when the holy Communion was administered in the cathedrall church of Durham by prebendaries and petty-canons, in glorious copes embroidered with images, 1629 / written at the same time by Peter Smart ...	Smart, Peter, 1569-1652?	1643 (1643)	Wing S4014; ESTC R20243	26,828	32

of especially saith the Homily that this Supper be in such wise ministred as our Lord and Saviour did and commanded to be done as his holy Apostle used it and the good Fathers of the primitive Church frequented it For as that worthy father Ambrose saith He is unworthy of the Lord that otherwise doth celebrate that mysterie then it was delivered by him neither can he be devout that otherwise doth presume to receive it then it was given by the Author Now who knoweth not what strange alterations have beene brought into this Church within these few yeares how the Ministers of this Sacrament have presumed lately to change in many things the administration thereof not onely from the practise of the primitive Church and the institution of the author Christ but also from the Rubricks and Canons of the Church and the ancient usuall custome of this place For it is turned rather into a theatricall Stage-play where mens eares are filled with pleasant tunes of musicall instruments and voyces of not communicating singers and their eyes fed with pompous spectacles of glittering pictures and histrionicall gestures of men arrayed in massing and pibald not decent robes And other unlawfull superstitious and vaine rites and ridiculous ceremonies are used with which that holy action is defiled and disgraced Therefore I did well and according to my duty and vocation in admonishing that Congregation then assembled to receive as they were wont to doe in their owne parish Churches as our Church commandeth and to forbeare from communicating in this Cathedrall Church till things were amended which lately were mar'd le●t receiving the body and blood of Christ in uncomely and unlawfull manner it should tend to their greater harme and sorrow as the Homily teacheth Augustine saith upon Psal 21. Tempus lugendi est cum passio Domini celebratur tempus gemendi est tempus flendi tempus confitendi 19 The celebration of the Lords supper is the memoriall of his death and passion caused by our sins therfore it is a time of lamentation and weeping not of rejoycing not of pompous and g●o●●ous ceremonies not of musick and melody deprecandi When the Passion of the Lord is celebrated in the holy Communion by the breaking of his body which is the bread of life and powring out his blood which is the true aqua vitae the refreshing the comforting the quickning wine and water of life to languishing and dying soules That is a time of mourning a time of sighing a time of weeping and lamenting a time of confessing and begging pardon it is not a time of piping and singing of wearing and beholding brave cloathes and pictures And Cyprian saith In the presence of the Lord teares doe never beg pardon in vaine and the sacrifice of a contrite heart never receives repulse And againe he saith in treating of the Lords Supper and the receiving thereof As often as I see thee sighing in the presence of the Lord I doubt not but the Holy Ghost is breathing upon thee Cùm intueor flentem sentio ignoscentem So often as I see thee weeping I perceive God pardoning And who comes to crave pardon of an angry King and terrible Judge whom he grievously offended with many haynons crimes deserving death who I say dare come into his presence Pompaticè glori●se saith Cyprian pompously and gloriously in slanting apparell in goodly Babylonish robes imbroidered with Images of silver gold and pearle and with an excellent consort of Musitians singing merrily piping and playing joyfully and jollily And D. Buckeridge the late Bishop of Rochester now of Ely saith very well in his Book of kneeling at the Communion What hath musick to do with mourning or a song of mirth with a day of the greatest sorrow which is the Passion of Christ when the seeds of contrition and repentance must be sowed with teares that the harvest in Heaven may be reaped with joy And againe we must come weeping before him that offered up supplications and prayers with strong cries and teares to redeeme us Heb. 5. 7. Wee must prostrate our selves humbly before our Judge that is offended by us and weepe before him whom wee would pacifie with our teares and compunction So then saith he since we come to the Lords house and table to pacifie him let our caraiage be such that we stir him not to more anger we must shut up our senses that they wander not our eyes must see Gods beauty not gad after vanities and send teares as Embassadors Our eares must attend the word of truth not delicious tunes of musicall melody 20 Such gaudy ornaments and paultry furniture as are used in Du●ham Cathedrall at the Communion with organs other musick hinder godly meditations therefore K. Iames when he received the Communion at Durham on Easter Day 1617. commanded all things to be done plainly without musick or other bravery Why then are set before us so many objects of vanity so many allurements of our outward senses our eyes eares consequently our minds from the meditation of Christs death passion and our sins which were the only cause of all our miseries his lamentable sufferings Can such paltry toyes bring to our memory Christ and his blood-shedding Crosses Crucifixes Tapers Candlesticks gilded Angels painted Images golden Copes gorgious Altars sumptuous Organs with Sackbuts and Cornets piping so loud at the Communion table that they may be heard halfe a mile from the Church Bernard saith no. Orantium in se retorquent aspectum impediunt affectum Such glorious spectacles draw away from God the minds of them that pray they further not but hinder entire affections and godly meditations The consideration of which impediments of devotion moved our most learned and religious King Iames when he received the holy Communion in this Cathedrall Church upon Easter-day 1617. to give charge or at least in his name charge was given upon my knowledge I speake it and in my hearing in mine own house that the Communion should be administred in plain māne● it was expresly commanded that no chaunting should be used by the Quire-men nor playing on the Organs or other Instruments Which my selfe being treasurer of this Church at that time and receiving the Communion with his Majesty as my office required I did see take order should be performed according to the Kings pleasure direction at which time there were no Images or other gay and gaudy monuments of superstition and Idolatry to be seene Two Copes indeed were worne both decent as the Canons prescribe not party-coloured nor pibald like ours at Durham but plaine without any picture or other imbroidring of Crosses or Images which the doctrine of the Church of England in the book of Homilies and Injunctions straightly forbids in our Churches to be used at any part of Gods service especially at the Communion table or in windowes ab●●● it And shall we ●ffect so excessive and extraordinary bravery such a deale and so great variety of delicious musick at the receiving of the holy Communion an action of the greatest humiliation and mourning which the religiou● wisedome of so learned a Prince forbad and refused 21 When we come to Gods ●ble we must endeavour to pacifie his anger with our humiliation and mourning and not provoke him against us with our proud behaviour merriment and flaunting bravery When we come to Gods house and sacred table to pacifie him saith the Bishop of Rochester in his Book of kneeling at the Communion pag. 19. our carriage must be such that we stir him not to more anger and how can lie but be angry when we turne our mourning into merriment our fasting and prayer into stage-playing saith he And again in the same book we must weep before him to wash away our ●ins and deplore and prevent our present and future misery The depth of sin saith he pierced not only his hands and feet but his heart also in which he offered up prayers and supplications with strong cryes and teares that he might overcome the clamour of our crying sins And if our Saviour wept for us the Redeemer for the redeemed we have much more reason to weepe for our selves and let none be found so prophane amongst us that when the son of God wept and suffered for our redemption we should laugh and make merry pipe and sing at our condemnation as if we were senselesse of our owne confusion We may not presume to eate the bread of Heaven and forget the duty of sinfull and earthly men that are but dust and ashes Reverend and dreadfull mysteries must have receivers that come with reverence and dread and such as our action is such must be our affection that is to receive that with feare and trembling and not with piping and singing which is so fearefull and dreadfull in it selfe And then he concludeth with this admonition Behold thou sinner how great reproaches Christ suffers at thy hands who by thy wilfull impieties doest crucifie againe to thy selfe the Lord of life And then resolve that as Christs hands and feet and head and every poare and passage of his body was a fountaine of mercy that runs in his blood so thine heart must be as a spring of sighs and groanes and thine eyes must be as fountaines of teares to wash with Magdalen not so much Christs feet as thine owne soule FINIS

Christian brethren sisters at the same time Durham high Altar the greatest idoll that ever vvas in the world But the holy Altar say they is not a stock or stone neither may it be called an Idoll Not an Idoll I doe not thinke that any Idoll in the world was ever so worshipped as our Durham Altar hath beene Not the Image of Iupitur Olympius or the Philistims Dagon or the Babilonians Bell or the Trojans Palladium not Apis or Anubis Oxe or Crocadill Dog or Cat qualia demens Aegyptus portenta colit or any other monstrous Deity of the blinde Aegyptians that forlorne and miserable Nation before the comming of Christ who enlightned them with the knowledge of the Gospell was ever so worshipped or had so much cost bestowed on them When they once fell down on their faces before those Idols they had done for that time but every accesse and every regresse and every turning and every rising up and every sitting and kneeling down of the Priest and others about the Altar whether there be a Communion or no hath a low leg to the Altar Neither are they common curtsies ordinary legs such as servants and petitioners use to make to their Lords and Masters but they are wonderfull solemne very profound incurvations before the venerable Altar so low that they seeme sometimes to touch the ground with their noses and beards 16 The Communion table was never so vvorshipped vvith bovving down before it And it is a forbidden ceremony both by the Word of God in the second Commandement and the Church of England Our Saviour Christ living on earth was never so vvorshipped When it was a Table standing in the midst of the Quire it was as good and as holy as now it is being turned to an Altar at the East end of the Church yet no man or woman bowed his or her body to it then as now they do in a prodigious manner Which superstitious ceremony of bowing to that Idoll was generally received and practised amongst us but within these foure or five yeares by the example perswasion and compulsion of our new fangled Popish Arminians without any warrant of Gods Word or direction of the Church in the Book of Common-prayer Canons or Injunctions Nay it is contrary to the second Commandment and forbidden by the Act of Vniformity and the 12. Canon and consequently punishable both in the commanders and obeyers Our Saviour Christ when he lived upon earth was bowed unto and worshipped by them that acknowledged him to be the Son of God The Magi Wisemen of the East fell on their faces and worshipped him they did it once neither they nor the Shepheards nor the blessed Virgin his Mother nor Ioseph her husband danced round about him lying in the cratch or manger ever and anon making low legs before him behinde him on his right hand on his left now one after another now all at once as daylie is done at our high Altar in Durham sometimes far off sometimes close by it now at the South end now at the North end now at the West side sometimes going forwa●d towards it sometimes going backward from it still nodding their heads and making legs and curtsies At which time a delicate noise is heard of Organs Pipers and Singers filling the peoples eares with heavenly harmony as was done when Nabuchadonozers golden Image was consecrated and worshipped 17 Our Durham Innovators Cosin and his fellow●s which have obtruded to the Church such strange alterations of services and ceremonies set up altars and images and bow down before them may they not ●ightly be termed superstitious Ceremony-m●ngers and idolaters They that lately have brought into our Cathedrall Church such fanaticall fopperies such unlawfull rites and abuses whereby it is defiled the service disordered and the Sacraments prophaned as the Homily teacheth They that without authority and against authority even the soveraigne authority of our religious Kings and Princes and Parliaments which established the whole forme of our Liturgy and Ceremonies in decent and comely manner They that with an high hand and great violence durst presumptuously adventure to innovate all things in our Liturgy to overthwart the well setled state of the Church to put us out of the possession of our Religion and forme of Service which was left unto us by our Ancestors and we had quietly possessed above sixty yeares They that not onely observe themselves but compell others to observe and approve their before mentioned ridiculous fooleries superstitious vanities abominations and Idolatries contrary to the custome and practise of this Church contrary to the example of other Cathedrals of this Realme contrary to Laws which straitly forbid under great penalties all Rites and Ceremonies not appointed prescribed by the Book of Common Prayer Injunctions May not such rightly be termed new-fangled Ceremony-mongers Idolatrous Altar-worshippers seditious Innovators schismaticall factious and turbulent breakers of the peace and contemners of governours nay rotten members and rebellious sons of this our Mother the Church of England whose doctrine and discipline they renounce they corrupt and contemne it they shoulder it out with Popish cashiered antiquities and outlandish Arminian novelties 18 May not the people be exhorted to communicate in their owne Parish Churches where the Sacrament is rightly administred and so beare to re●e●ve it in our Cathedrall polluted with idolatry least we receive our own damnation as the Church of England teacheth in the Homilies Now I pray you you I say the people of this City have you not Churches at home in your own Parishes not yet polluted with Idols and Communion-tables not changed into Altars where you may receive with comfort the holy Communion in plaine and simple manner as our Saviour ordained and the primitive Church practised and the Church of England prescribeth But you must needs come hither and wilfully make your selves partakers of our sins and superstitious vanities when you need not seeing that the holy Sacrament is not rightly administred in this Chruch of Durham as it was in our former Bishops time And where it is not lawfully ministred there it cannot safely be received without the danger of damnation Take heed to your selves I warned you before even this time two yeares and now I preach to you the same doctrine againe that I may discharge mine owne conscience and save both mine owne soule and yours if you wil heare obey the voyce of God in this place out of my mouth as I am charged to speake and so do in Ezek. 3. 17. For thus the Church of England teacheth us in the Homily of the worthy receiving the Communion in the first part thereof We must addresse our selves to frequent the same Sacrament in reverent and comely manner left as physick provided for the body being misused more hurteth then profiteth so this comfortable medicine of the soule undecently received tendeth to our greater harme and sorrow But above all things this we must be sure