fill their eyes with dumb shows, not only to set up the crucifix on the altar, on the pillars, on the tapestry, on the east glass window, where it may be most conspicuous to the eye, but chiefly to cause the priest at the altar to make a world of crosses and gestures, all which must have a deep spiritual sense. Will not the present rubrick give us leave to entertain our people with the same shows? The crucifixes are already set upon the altar, on the tapestry, on the walls, on the glass windows, in fair and large figures. The lawfulness of crossing, not only in Baptism, but in the Supper and anywhere, is avowed, as in the Self-conviction is shewn: what other bar is left us to receive all the crossings that are in the mass, but the sole pleasure of our Prelates, who, when they will, may practise that which they maintain, and force us to the particular use of those things which they have already put in our Book in general terms ?"— A Parallel or Brief Comparison of the Liturgy with the Mass-Book, &c. pp. 44, 45, and 57, 58. [411] "The priest may say it [the Consecration-prayer] in what language he will, and in so quiet silence as he pleases, for who can challenge him when he is in his sanctuary, divided by his veils and rails from the people ?"-Ibid. p. 47. [412] "While also they scrape out of the English rubrick the giving to the people the Communion in their hand, and put in for it the giving of it in due order, they make way to another popish abuse of putting the bread in the people's mouth, as being too profane to handle that which so oft after the consecration they call the Body of the LORD; and by this due order they evidently distinguish the people from the clergy that are present: the one communicates at the altar, but the other is more unholy than to get leave to come near the altar; but, were he a king, he must receive the Communion without the rail. This, divers of them in their late writs avow to have been the practice of antiquity, which they pretend themselves desirous to imitate....... We must come to the west side of the altar, and so turn our back: we must be both within the rail of timber and veil of cloth, lest men should either see or hear us, so we may use any language we will, for GOD understands all, and the elements none."-Ibid. pp. 81, and 89. Miscellaneous. [413] Daily Service. 1640.] "The Liturgy of the Church of England hath been hitherto esteemed sacred, reverently used by holy martyrs, daily frequented by devout protestants."—An Humble Remonstrance to the High Court of Parliament. [414] Archbishop Laud's Opinion of Galleries in Churches. Ibid.] "The truth is, I did never like galleries in any church. They utterly deface the grave beauty and decency of those sacred places; and make them look more like a theatre than a church. Nor, in my judgment, do they make any great accommodation for the auditory: for in most places they hinder as much room beneath as they make above; rendering all, or most of all, those places useless by the noise and trampling of them which stand above in the galleries.”—Answer to Articles by Scottish Commissioners. Archbishop Laud's Troubles, &c. p. 96. [415] Reservation of the Blessed Sacrament for the Sick. 1548, 2 Edw. VI.] "And if the same day there be a celebration of the Holy Communion in the church, then shall the Priest reserve (at the open Communion) so much of the Sacrament of the Body and Blood as shall serve the sick person, and so many as shall communicate with him (if there be any); and so soon as he conveniently may, after the open Communion ended in the church, shall go and minister the same."-Rubrick in the Communion Service. [416] Fresco-Painting of the Last Judgment in Peterborough Cathedral. 1643.] "When they had demolished the quire, the East end was the next they aimed at, where one espying in the roof, right over the Communion-table, our SAVIOUR pourtrayed, coming in glory with His holy Angels, and at the four corners four Evangelists, (none of P which they will endure, as knowing how opposite they are unto them,) he charged his musket to shatter them down, but by the rebound of his own shot was struck blind."-Mercurius Rusticus, pp. 247, 248. [417] Splendour of the Anglican Service. 1641.] "We know, sir, that one of your own Bishops said it in the hearing of many not long since, but you may well remember it, That the service of the Church of England was now so drest, that if the Pope should come and see it he would claim it as his own, but that it is in English."—An Answer to the Humble Remonstrance by Smectymnuus. [418] A Riot in Canterbury in behalf of Christmas-Day. 1647.] "News came of a great disorder and tumult in Canterbury about the observation of Christmas-day. The Mayor endeavouring the execution of the ordinance for abolishing holy-days, was much abused by the rude multitude, had his head broken, and was dragged up and down till he got into an house for his safety.". Whitelock's Memorials, p. 285, fol. 1732. [419] Pues. "Prologues, like bells, to churches toll you in [420] The Blessed Virgin styled "Our Lady." 1662-1844.] "The Annunciation of our Lady."- Common Prayer-Book. 1665, 17 Car. II.] "Thirty days after the Feast of the Annunciation of our blessed Lady, S. Mary the Virgin."-Archbishop Sheldon's Orders to the Bishops of his Diocese. Cardwell's Documentary Annals, vol. II. p. 272. [421] Canonical Hours observed by Archbishop Laud. "They said my prayers were in canonical hours, Hora Sexta, and Hora Nona, &c. I enjoined myself several hours of prayer-that, I hope, is no sin and if some of them were church-hours, that's no sin neither seven times a day will I praise Thee, was the prophet David's, long before any canonical hours. And among Christians they were in use before popery got any head. God grant this may be my greatest sin."-Archbishop Laud's Troubles, &c. p. 314. [422] R. Sherlock, D.D., sometime Rector of Winwick. Circa 1664.] "He was very spare and slender of body; and it was thought he impaired its strength very much by his frequent fasting and abstinence. However he would not endure to be told thereof; for upon any such suggestion he was ready to reply, 'That he did eat and drink too much; and that many, if not most of men (using the proverb) did dig their graves with their teeth. Upon this account, for that he was so much devoted to austerity of life, and was so strict an observer of the holy time of Lent, and other stated fasts of the Church; for this and the like, the ignorance of some, and that, and ill-will in others, would needs have him tainted with popery. He often forsook his warm bed in the cold season of night, that he might betake himself to his devotions; so that he spent his time in watching, weeping, and praying, when others were at their repose and sleeping..........He had David's Psalms ad unguem, making responses all by heart: evening and morning, as the Church prescribes, he attended public prayers and upon more solemn days of fasting and humiliation, as upon Ash-Wednesday, Good-Friday, &c., after Divine service had been celebrated in the church he would in his private chapel read prayers again, making then use of the Psalms and Lessons, as appointed by the calendar in ordinary course for the day; when those that were proper and peculiar to that day had been read before. Whenever the Absolution was pronounced, or the Benediction given, being upon his bended knees, he bared his venerable grey hairs, and lowly bowed his head, as if he would have kissed the ground. Very often in private he hath been seen and heard to weep and pray and beat his breast; not only kneeling, but sometimes throwing himself flat upon the earth; lying prostrate on the ground as if he had been licking up the dust; thus profoundly humbling himself even to the lowest."-Funeral Sermon by the Rev. Thomas Crane, M.A. The Practical Christian or Devout Penitent, &c. pp. xli.-xliii. 12mo. 1841. [423] The Manner of Celebrating the Blessed Eucharist in Archbishop Laud's Chapel and in Cathedrals. Temp. Charles I.] "The second charge of this day was about the administration of the Sacrament in my chapel. The witnesses two. The first was Dr. Haywood, who had been my chaplain in the house. They had got from others the ceremonies there used, and then brought him upon oath. He confessed he administered in a cope. And the Canon warranted it. He confesses (as it was urged) that he fetched the elements from the credential (a little sidetable as they called it), and set them reverently upon the Communiontable. Where's the offence? For first, the Communion-table was little, and there was hardly room for the elements to stand conveniently there while the service was in administration. And secondly, I did not this without example; for both Bishop Andrewes and some other Bishops used it so all their time, and no exception taken. The second witness was Robert Cornwall, one of my menial servants; a very forward witness he shewed himself; but said no more than is said and answered before. Both of them confessing that I was sometimes present."—Archbishop Laud's Troubles, &c. p. 318. [424] "There was a little more ceremony in cathedrals, where the wafers and wine being first placed with great solemnity on the credentia or side-table, were to be removed from thence by one of the Archbishop's Chaplains, who, as soon as he turns about his face to the altar with the elements in his hands, bows three times; and |