Against Symbolizing with Antichrist in Ceremonies, Part · Chapter 1 · Section 36
#Sect. 36. The vſe of the Croſſe is religious not ciuill as the oppoſites proued in this Section, and that which followeth.
WE hauehave examined the firſt ſort of things religious in nature and end, and find no ſhelter for the Croſſe. Come we now vntounto the ſecond, which are religious in ſenſe ſpeciall, to wit, in [State]. Here, that is religious which is Eccleſiaſticall: that ciuill, which politicall: that religious which belongeth to Gods ſeruice: that ciuill which hath the vſe ſolemne in the ſeruice of common wealth. To this agreeth the Etimologie of religio and religioſum which commeth aaAuguſt. de religion. religando ad Deum, from binding to God, or elſe abAul. Gellius lib. 4. cap. 9. relinquendo, the common [ſtate] of ciuill things. The Scripture doth agree likewiſe, which calleth the bread holy and religious, when it is ſet on the table in the holy place; but when it is taken away from thence, then it beginneth to be21. Sam. 21.6. Communis, as Tremellius doth interpret. When a veſtiment is holy, it muſt not be carried out of the Temple, no not to the high Prieſts3Ezech. 42.14. houſe. That which the Prieſt putteth on when he goeth out of the Temple iscOrigin. in Leuit. 20. homil. 11. veſtis communis. This is imitated by the Canon lawe,dDecret. p. 2. cauſ. 11. q. 2. ca. 70. Opus eſt vt de eccleſia, myſtici poculi forma non exeat, It is neceſſary that the forme of the myſtical cup go not out of the Church. TheeHieron. in ezech. li. 13 cap. 44. Amalar. de offi…. eccleſ. li. 2. ca. 16. Fathers (alſo) will hauehave the garments to be religious, that are vſed in the Church: the garments to be common that are without it. WhenfSigebert. in ann. 795. Charles the great forbad the doorekeepers to vſe common garments, pitcheth he not (as it were) the bounds of things common and religious at the porch of the Church. For the firſt, to begin there; for the latter there to end? We our ſelues ſay againſt Lutherans, that the Images are religious which are in the Church; and againſt Papiſts, that the bread of the ſupper is bread common [extra vſum] out of the vſe of the holy Sacrament. Howbeit it doth not ſuffice to make a thing to be religious, that it is in the Temple, vnleſſe alſo it be of it, and hauehave [ſtate] in it, as was before mentioned. The old oke vnderunder which Iacob buried his Images, ſtandeth within the bounds of the Tabernacle in Ioſuahs time, Gen. 35.4. Ioſu. 24.26. Mat. 21.12.and the doues and the oxen, are within the court of the Temple, which yet notwithſtanding are not religious for want of inueſture, and of incorporation. A ſtraunger leaueth meat in an Idols temple, is it (therefore) religious, becauſe in a religious place?gAuguſt. ad public. epiſt. 154. No, becauſe it was not conſecrate to the Idoll. The cup of the ſupper in the dayes ofhTertul de pudic. cap. 10. Caeſar. Baron. Annal. an. 216. Tertullian had a ſhepheard pictured in it, bearing a ſheepe vponupon his ſhoulder, which yet was no more religious then the ſtatue of a good ſhepheard, whichlEuſeb. de rit. Conſtantin. li. 3 cap. 48. Conſtantine ſet vp in foro, in the market, becauſe it was in the ſeruice of God without a ſtate. Now, 3.mTho. Aquin. 2.2. q. 183. art. 1. things are required to a ſtate, Order, Obligation, and a kind of Immobilitie, and the Croſſe and Surplice hauehave all three of them in our Leiturgie. The Croſſe hath an order dependant on Baptiſme, to which it is added. An obligation it hath, becauſe it is ordained by our Church. It hath alſo [quietem] left in holy vſe, and a kind of immobilitie, a kind I ſay which doth ſuffice. As for the Croſſe, Leo the Emperour made a lawe,nCod. li. 1. ti. 3. ca. 26 Ne ſignum crucis inferretur in loca publica, into common places, and Theodoſius, that places ſhould be made religious,oCod. Theodoſ. de pagen. cap. vlt. collocato in ijs Chriſtianae religionis ſigno. As for the Surplice the old vſe thereof had immobilitie altogether in Gods ſeruice; it being vtterly vnlawfull to weare itpDurant. de rit lib. 2 ca. 9. ſec. 1 Caeſar Baron. Annal. in art. …60 elſwhere. I know the friends of theſe ceremonies would be loath to take them downe, ſo much as one haires breadth. Neither will they wholy ſwerue from Surius, miſliking a Croſſe ſhould be vſed by Archers for a marke to ſhoot at in their paſtimes.