Chap, V:. ne H Is T 0 Ry of t!Je PURITANS. ina to iddatry and fuper!lit ion, t"njuntl. 2. 23, 2). Therefore in-N.CharleSI. !l:ad of coilforming to the cha pel at Whitehall, li:e ought as dean ~. of that· chapel, to have reformed it to our laws, homilies, and injunc- · tiOI'lS. T he like may be fa id of the credentia [or fide-table J whl·ch is taken Prynne, p. exprefs!y out of the roman ceremonial and pontifical, and is ufed amongfl: 6 3• 4 68 · the papiil:s on ly in their mo!l folemn maffes. It was never heard of in any protefl:ant church, nor in the church of England, till the archbithop's time; and as for the !lale pretext, of his h aving it from bifuop Andre·ws; if it be true, we are cer-tain that bijhopcould have it no where elfe but from the roman mi/Ja!. The arras hangings, with the pictu re of Chrifl: at his Jail fupper, with lb. p. 62. a crucifix, are no lefs popiih than the former, being enjoined by the roman aremom;ale, Ed. Par. 1633· lib. I. c. 12. p. 69, 70. in>thefe words, quod Ji a/tareparieti adhcereat, applicari poterit iP.Jiparietifitpra a/tarepannusaliquis cceteris nobilior & jpeciofior, ubi intextce fint D . N. J ~fu Chrijti aut gloriqfce virginis, vel fontlorum imagim:s. g the altar befixed to the wall/et there beJome hangings more noble anrl beautiful than the reji, faftmed upon the wall over the altar, in which are wrought the images if Chrifl, the bl~lfed virgin, or the foints. Befides\ thefe things being condemned by ou r !latutes homilies and injunctions, as we have already proved, ought not certainly to have been introduced by a prelate, who challenges all that is between heaven and hell, juflly to tax him in any one particular fovouring if popijh jitperftitio?z or idolatry. " Another innovation charged on the archbilhop, was his introducing /hzt~quity of " divers fuper!litions into divine worihip, as bowing towards the altar, bvwmg tob · ' ,t: J · · · h 1 J , . wa•·ds the a/- " owzng at toe name o 1 Esus, en;ommg t epeopte to uo re'i.:erence at ttJetr tar. '' entrance into chu1·ch, reading the J:cond.fervice at the communion-table, M. charge. "flanding up at the GLORIA PATRI, and introducing the zife if cop.es and Prynne, p. " church mufic. They objected further, his repa iring old crucifi xes, his 72 • &c. " new !latiltes of the univedi ty of Oxford, among which, fome were ar- " bitrary, and othe rs very fuper!litious; of the former fort, are the im- ,, pofin g ne-v oaths ; the fiatute of banniti01z; referring fame mifde- " meanors to arbitrary penalties, and obliging fiudents to go to prifon on " the vice-cha1H:ellor's or proctor's command. ·of the latter fort, are bow- " ing to the altar, fi nging tbe litany, and reading Iatin prayers in lent ; to- " gether with the abovementioned fuper!litions in the manner of divine " worihip." The arch~ifhop anfwered, th~t bowing in divine worlhip was practifed Abp's an– amocg the )f'iiJS, 2 Chron. XXIX. 29. and the pfalmift fays, 0 come,fwer.. . let us worjhip, and bow down, let us kneel before the Lord our Maker Laud s H 6 ilt. P . l' p. 313, 3 I, la.
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