Lame Giles Halting, Errata
Errata, and Omissions.
COurteous Reader, I thought good to admonish thee of one grosse omission, which through the Printers carelesnesse hath happened in the 36. page, line 1. betweene idolatrous too? and Francis de Croy, &c. which because it interrupts the Discourse, I shall request thee instead of Francis de Croy, &c. to reade as followeth.
Bowing at, to, or before Altars, how highly soever some men esteeme it, had its originall from idolatrous Pagans: who, as they aInstaurat que choros, misti que Altaria …ircum Cretes que Dryopes que fremunt, picti que Agathyrsi &c. stant arae circum. Virgil. AEneid. l. 4, p. 179, 184, Dona ferunt, cumulant que oneratis lancibus Aras: Tum Salii ad cantus incensa Altaria circum, Populeis adsunt incincti tempora ramis Hic iuvenum chorus, ille senum, &c. Virg. AE neid. l. 8, Antwerpiae 1613, p. 280, see Strabo Geog l. 10, Ovid Fastorū l. 4, 5, 6. & Alexander ab Alexandro l. 4, c. 17, f. 226, 227, accordingly.danced and stood round about their Altars when they sacrificed; in which, on which, or at leastwise by and over which, the bSee Exod. 34, 13. Deutr. 7, 5; c. 12 3; … Kings 11, 18; Ezech. 6, 4, 6; 2 Chron. 14, 3; c. 34, 4; Acts 17, 16, 23, 29, & Dr. Rainolds De Idol. Rom. Ecclesiae, l, 2, c; 3, sect; 46.Images of their Idols were placed or ingraven; (in imitation of which, most Popish glittering Altars have their gaudy Crucifixes, Saints, or Images standing on them, neare them, over them; to intice the people to bow downe unto them: when as God commanded all his Altars, to be made of nought cExod: 20, 24, 25, 26; Deut: 27 5, 6, Iosh: 8, …, 31.but earth; or of unhewen stones: (not polished, graven marble, golde, or silver:) without any images or curious sculptures; the better to keepe the people from bowing to them, or before them; to which more dSee Exod: 20, 23, 24, Psal: 115, 4, & 135, 15, Isay 2, 20, & 30, 22, Ier, 10, 4, Ezech; 16, 17, 18, Dan, 3, 1, to 8, & 5, 4, 23, Hosea 13, 2, & Acts 17, 29, Quis ergo dubitat horum imagines consecratas vulgus orare, et publice colere, dum opinio et mens imperitorum artis concinnitate deeipitur, auri fulgore perstring…tur, argenti nitore, et candore eboris hebitatur, Minucius Felix, Octav, p, 73, 74, 75, see the 2, and 3, part of the Homily against the perill of Idolatry accordingly.rich materialls of silver, gold and pearles, set out by art, might easily induce them;) so they likewise honoured their Altars with cappe and knee, eAutante ora Deum pingues spatiatur ad Aras Dicitur ante Aras media inter numina Di…um: Multa Iovem manibus supplex orasse supinis Virg. AEneid l. 4. p. 171 175. Iam que dies epulata novem gens omnis, & Aris factus honos AEneid. l. 5. p. 213 Hane Aram luco statuit quaemaxima semper, Dicetur nobis, & erit quae maxima semper AEneid l. 8, p. 279 anotable description of an high Altar.bowing downe unto them, yea war shipping, praying at them and before them. Whence God enjoynes the Israelites. [Exod. 34. 13. Deutr. 7. 5. c: 12, 3. Iudg. 6. 25, 26, 28, 30. 2 Kings 11. 18. 2 Chron: 14, 3, c. 30. 14, c. 32, 12. c. 33, 15, & 34, 4, 5, 7. Isay 36, 7. Hosea 8, 11, & 10. 1, 2.] to throw downe and quite demolish the Altars and Images of these Idolaters, (which the good Kings of Israel did accordingly.) not onelyonly because they sacrificed on them, but because they also worshipped and bowed to them, and before them: As Exod. 20, 4, 5, 23; 24, 25. c: 23, 24, c: 34, 13. Levit. 26. 1. Deutr. 7. 5. cap: 12, 2, 3. 2 Kings 11, 18, c: 18. 22. 2 Chron: 14, 3, 5. c: 28. 24. 25. c: 30, 14. c: 32, 12. c: 34, 4, 5, 7. Isay 2. 8, 9. c: 17, 8. c: 36, 7. Hosea 10. 1, 2. Acts 17, 23. 2 Chron: 25: 14. compared together: incomparable Dr. Rainolds, De Roman…e Ecclesi… Idololatria, l: 2, c: 3, sect: 46, p: 431, 432, Francis De Cr…y in his first Conformity, cap: 24, with others testifie. Then reade as in the Copy.
Other materiall Omissions and Errataes there are, which because they are already corrected, I here passe by, informing thee onelyonly of one thing worth thy observation: To wit, that it appeares expresly by Levit: 1, 11, 16. Exod: 20, 26. c: 26, 35, c: 40, 6, 7. 26, to 34. Iosh: 22, 10, 11, 2 Sam: 24, 18, 25. 1 Kings 6, 22. c: 8, 64 c: 18, 32, 35. 2 Kings 11, 11 c: 12; 9. c: 16, 14, c: 1, 5. c: 23, 12, 2 Chron: 1, 6. c: 5, 12. c: 15, 8. c: 33, 4, 5. Psal: 26, 6. Isay 19, 19. Ier: 11, 13. c: 17, 2. Ez…ch: 6, 4, 5. c: 8, 5. c: 9, 2. c: 40, 47. Ioel 2, 17. Matth: 23, 35, that both religious and idolatrous Altars heretofore, did not stand Eastward, nor yet at the east and of their Temples against a wall, at Popish Altars, and some Communion-tables turned Altar-wise, now doe … Northward, or Southward; either before the d…es, or in the Court, the porch, the entrance, the body, or middest of their Temples; and that in such a manner, as men might have space enough either to stand, or walke even round about them. And hence I suppose ourfThe last Ru…e before the …. Common-Prayer-Booke, our gCanon 82.Canons, hIniunction ult. For Tables in the Church.& Qu. Elizabeths Injunctions, expresly order: That all our Communion Tables, when the Sacrament is administred; shall stand, (not in the East end of the Chancel Altarwise,*No Table ever stands so at which men use to eate; the placing of it therfore in this posture like a Kitchin Dresser, Bench, or Sidetable, doth in a manner make it cease to be a Communion-table, and addes disgrace unto it. with one side against the wall, where some unconformable over-Conformists have lately hedged them in; for which an Inditement lies against them upon the Statute of 1. Eliz. cap. 2. besides other Ecclesiasticall Censures by their Ordinary:) but in the body of the Church or Chancell, so as the Communicants may place themselves round about them. Men usuallyiPsal, 128, 3. 1 Sam. 16, 11. sit round about their Tables at meales: yeakSee Mat, 26 20, 26, 27. Mat. 14, 18, &c. Luk 12, 14, 27, 30. Iohn 13, 12, 28 1 Cor. 10, 16, 11. c. 11, 20, to the end. See Luke 24, 30, c. 7 37, 49. c. 11, 37 Mat. 9, 10, Mat 16, 14. Ps… 128, 3, 1 Sam. 16, 11, & Godwins Iewish Antiquities, l. 3 c. 11. p. 114, 115, 116. How Christ, his Apostles, and the Iewes did use to sit round about their Tables; and that Christ did sit so when he instituted the Sacramēt. Therfore if we will imitate Christ, our Communion tables must bee so placed, that the Communicants may sit or kneele round about them. Christ himself & Apostles sate round the Table when he instituted this his holy Sacrament, as all the Evangelists witnesse, and so should we doe too. VVhichWhich I observe the rather, to controll the irregular practise of some ignorant Popish Innovatours: who against the expresse command both of our Common-prayer-booke, Canons, Injunctions, yea the very practise of Christ, his Apostles, and of the Church before & since their time; dare turn Communion-tables into Altars, (though we have now none else butlRom. 15, 27 1. Pet, 2, 5. Iohn 12, 1, Phil, 4, 18. Heb. 13, 10, 15. c. 4, 26, 27, 28. c. 10, to the 14. spirituall Priests and Sacrifices, and so no Altars, but one spirituall Altar, which is Christ:) or at leastwise place thē Altarwise, against the wall and East-end of the Church, even when the Communion is administred. VVhichWhich uncanonicall practises I hope they will now reforme; or else I trust our Bishops in their Consistories, or in their default, our Iudges and …ustices in their Sessions, will legally proceede against them; and against those who set up Images and Saints Pictures in our Churches, contrary to the express Statute of 3. E. 6. c. 10. the Homelies against the perill of, … …blished by the 22. and 35. Articles of our Church, and by the Statute of 13, Eliz. c. 12. which confirmes our Articles, as the undoubted Doctrine of the Church of England, and so by consequent our Homilies … contrary to Qu. Eliz. Injunctions, Injunct. 2, 3, 23, 25. and the Articles to be enquired of in Visit…tions, set forth in 1559. Artic: 2, & 45 All which expresly command all Images, *… the Stat. of 13 Eliz. c. 2. al such as bring over any consecrated Ag… Dei, Crosses, Pictures, …eads or such like superstitious things, & such who wittingly buy, receive, or weare the same, incurre a Premunire. And yet how many now transgresse this Law?Crucifixes, Shrines, Pictures, Paintings, Candlestickes, Bundles and Rolls of waxe, and all other Monuments of f…ined Miracles, Pilgrimages, Idolatry and Supersticion, to be taken away, defaced, destroyed, and utterly extinct, so that there remaine no memory of the same in walls, glasse-windowes, or elsewhere, neither in Churches, nor private houses. Yea contrary to the Statate of 3. Iacobi chap. 5. VVhichWhich as it enacts:*See 3, & 4, E. 6, c. 10, to the same effect That no person or persons shall bring from beyond the seas, nor shall print, sell, or buy any Popish Primmers, Ladies Psalters, Manuels, Rosaries, Popish Catechismes, Missalls, Breviaries, Portalls, Legends and Lives of Saints, containing superstitious matter, printed or written in any language whatsoever, nor any other superstitious bookes printed or written in the English Tongue; upon pain of forfeiture of 40 shillings for every such booke. (A law that needs due execution now, when so many of these Bookes are brought over into England every*Especially the last, when there were few else, but such bookes as these brought over. Mart, and sold publickly almost in every shop without controll:) soit authorizeth Iustices of the Peace, Majors, Baylifes, and other chiefe Officers in their liberties, to search the houses & lodgings both of convicted and suspected Recusants for such books, and reliques, and to deface and burne their *The Altar doth alwayes sanctify the sacrifice, not the sacrifice the Altar, Mat: 23, 18, 19, 20. If then wee have any Altars now, then our Altars consecrate the Sacrament, not the Priests, or words of consecration: and so our Altars are greater and better than our Sacraments.Altars, Pictures, Beades, and Crucifixes, as the very Reliques of Popery and monuments of Idolatry: All which our Church, our State, thus abolishing and condemning, I hope they will speedily inflict such penalties on all those Popish agents who now endeavor to reduce thē, as their offence demerits, and our Lawes prescribe.
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End of the text · William Prynne, Lame Giles Halting (1630)