i36 The HIS1'0R y of the PuRITANS. VoL. n. K. Charles t Sherfteld's cafe, they appr'ehehd the authocity of the vefl:ry was fufficicnt t644· , in a place exempt from the jurifdiction of the biiliop, as St. Edmund's 1..../"v""'-.J church was. And the managers are flill of opinion, that the fl:atute of Ed~vardVI. extends to images in glafs·windows ; and that which con– firms them in it is, that the injunctions of queen Elizabeth made in purfu– ance of this law, extend in direct terms to images in glafs-windows; and the pratlice of thofe times in defacing them, infa\!Jblyptoves it. Co>zfecration ( 2.) Another popiili innovation charged on the arch bilhop was, " his of church." " jitperjlitious manner qj confecrating chapels, churches, and church-yards; an~ J, 11 fi '•i '' they infl:anced in Creed-church, of which the reader has had an account ~;dic~:io~." '' before; and in St. Gilds in the fields, which being fallen to decay, M. charge. " was in part re-edified and finifhed in biiliop Mountaine's time, divine Prynne, p. "fervice, and adminifl:ration of (acraments having been performed in it 114' 4 97· "three or fout years before his death; but no fooner was the archbi· " fhop tranflated to the fee of London, than he interdicted the church, " and lhu t up the doors for feveral weeks, till he had re-confecrated it, " after the manner of Creed-church, to the very great cofl: and charge of . " the pariili, and contrary to the judgment of bilhop Parker, and our ·" firfl: reformers." '' They objected further, his confecrating altars with all their furni– " ture, as pattens, chalices, altar-cloths, &c. even to the knife that was " to cut the facramental bread; and his dedicating the churches to certain " faints, together with his promoting annu al revels, or feafts of dedica– " tion on the Lord's -day in feveral parts of the country, whereby that '' holy day was profaned, and the people encouraged in fuperfl:ition and " ignorance." .Abp's anfwer The archbifho.p anfwered to the conjecrati01t if churches, that the prac– to the confetice was as ancien t as Mojes, who confecrated the tabernacle, with all its cratm• fr. I d . h h I fi d r d b ;hurchu. veae s an ornaments ; t at t e temp e was a terwar s contecrate y Laud's hi£\. king Solomon; that as foon as chrifl:ian churches began to be built, in the P· 339• 340. reign of Co??flantine the great, they were confecrated as Eufebius teflifies concerning the church of T'yre, in hi<> ecclefiaftical hifl:ory, l. 1 o. cap. 3· Prynne, P· and fo it has continued down to the prefent time. Befides if churches IIS, were not confecrated they would not be holy; nor does archbi(hop Park– er fpeak againfl: confecrations in general, but againft popiili confecra– tions, which mine were not (fays the archbiiliop) for I had them from biiliopAndrews. To feafls of As to the manner of confecrating Creed church, St. Gi!es's, &c. his grace dedication. t: n· d 1 1 h h I con1eHe t Jat when 1e came to t e church-door, t at paffage in t le pfalms was read, lift up your heads, 0 ;•e gates, even lift them up, ye everlafling doors, that the king of glory may come in; that he kneeled and bowed at his entrance into the church as Mofes and Aaron did at the door of
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