Chap. V. Tbe HIS T 0 R Y of the PuRITANS. To which the archbiilio p, being out of countenance, made no other K. Charles I. reply, but that he had forgot it. ~ As to the furniture upon the altar, he ad<ied, that it was no other ' than was ufed in the king's chapel at Whitehall before his time, and and was both ntcefhry and decent ; as is likewife the credentia or fidetable, the form of which he took from biiliop Andrews's model; and the piece of arras that was hung up over the al tar in pailion week, he apprehended was very proper for the place and occafion, fu ch reprefentations being approved by the luthetmzs, and even by Calvin himfelf, as had been already tb own. The managers replied to the antiquity of altars, that thou gh the name M. replv to is often mentioned in fcripture, yet 'tis never applied to the Lord's tab!!' ; antiq. of a!- ' d · ,fl · r. · 1 L d' bl d tars, and but attars an prre 1 .s are put 1n oppo.11tton to t 1e or : s ta . e, an m1 - railing tbem ni il ers of the new tefl:ament, 1 Cor. IX. I 3, I 4· Chntl: lwnfelf cele- zn. brated the facrament at a table, not at an altar, and he tails it a {uppe r Prynne, p. not a facrifice; nor can it be pretended by any law or c~non of the 4 80 • +81 • church of England, that it is called an altar more than once, jtat. 1 E dward VI. cap. 1. which fiatute was repea led within t hree years , and another made, in which the word altar is changed into table. 'T is eviden t Life of bp. · from the unanimous fuffrage of moft of the f:tthers that lived within three Williams. hundred years after Cbrifl:, and by our mofl: learned reformers, that for ·above two hundred and fifty years after Chrifl:, there were no altars in .churches but only tables; pope Sixtus I I. being the firfl: that introdnced them ; and the canons of the popilh council of A ix, I 58 3· being the on- Prynne, p. · ly ones that can be pro<iuced for railing them in; one of which prefcr ibes 62. thus unumrptodque altare.fepiatur omnino.feptoferreo, vel lapideo velligneo. Let every altar be encompaifed with a rail of iron fione or wood. The text, H eb. xiii. 1 o. We have an altar, whereqf they have no right to eat ~vhich ferve the tabernacle, is certainly meant of Chrijl hin!fe!J; and not of the altar if wood or}tone, as our protefiant writrrs have proved at large; agreeably to which all altars in churches were commanded to be taken away and removed, as fuperfl:itious and popiili, by public laws and in– junctions at the reformation, and tables were fet up in their fl:ead, which continued till the arcbbiiliop was pleafed to turn them again into altars. Bu~ the archbiihop is pleafed to maintain, that the queen's injunBions To their jitu– prefcnbe the. communion: tables to beJet in the place where the altar .ftood, ation. and that thts was anctently at the eafl end of the choir; whereas we af- dlta 1 rs anfi h I · bl d , , . ctent y not rm, t at 1e Is not a e to pro uce one precedent or authonty 111 all anti- fixed to the quity for this aifertion; on the contrary, we are able to demonfl:rate to eajl wall if your lordiliips, that altars and Lord's tables amongfl:;'ews and chrtijlians the cbancel. · ~- ~ · ' Prynne, p. fiood 48 2, 484-.
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