A short sober pacific examination of some exuberances in, and ceremonial appurtenances to the Common prayer especially of the use and frequent repetitions of Glory be to the Father, &c., standing up at it, at Gospels, creeds, and wearing white rochets, surplises, with other canonical vestments in the celebration of divine service and sacraments, whose originals, grounds of institution and prescription, are here truly related and modestly discussed ... / by William Prynne, Esq. ...

Oremus.

DOmine Omnipotens bonarum virtutum dator, & omnium benedictionum largus infusor, Supplices te rogamus ut manibus nostris opem tuae benectionis in∣fundas, & has Caligas & Sandalia, vel Amictum, vel Al∣bam, vel Cingulum, vel Stolam, vel Manipulum, vel Tunicellam, vel Dalmatieam, vel Planetam divino cul∣tui Praeparata, vel praeparatum, vel praeparatam) vir∣tute sancti spiritus bene••••dicere, sancti••••sicare, & con∣se••••crare digneris, & omnibus eis (vel eo, vel ea) uten∣tibus gratiam sanctisicationis sacri mysterii tui benignus concede, ut in conspectu tui sancti, immacnlati atque irrepraehensibiles appareant, & auxilium misericordiae tuae acquirant. Per Dominum nostrum Jesum Chri∣stum filium tuum, qui tecum vivit & regnat in unitate spiritus sancti Deus, per omnia saecula saeculorum. A∣men.

Deinde aspergit ea aqua benedicta.

Before and after which follow several Chapters and forms, De Benedictione Mapparum, sou Linteaminum sacri Al∣taris, De Benedictione Corporalium, De Benedictione novae Cru∣cis, De Benedictione Crucis Pectoralis, De Benedictione Imagi∣num aliorum Sanctorum, De Benedictione vasorum & aliorum vasorum in genere. De Benedictione Tabernaculi sive vas∣culi pro Ss. Eucharistia Conservanda, De Benedictione Cap∣sarum pro Reliquiis & aliis Sanctuariis includendis, De Be∣nedictione & impositione primae lapidis pro Ecclesia aedificanda, De Ecclesiae Benedictione seu Consecratione, De Altaris con∣secratione, De Benedictione Tobaleorum, Vasorum & Orna∣mentorum Ecclesiae & Altaris consecratorum, De Altaris consecratione quae sit sine Ecclesiae dedicatione, De Altaris consecratione, cujus Sepulchrum Reliquiarum est in medio summitatis stipitis, De Altaris portabilis consecratione, De Benedictione Cimaeterii, De Reconciliatione Ecclesiae & Cimae∣teris, De Reconciliatione Caemiterii, sine Ecclesiae Reconcilia∣tione, De Consecratione Patenae & Calicis, De Benedicti∣one Signi vel Campanae: (One Consecration and Super∣stition still engendring another almost in infinitum accor∣ding to Popes and Prelates fanatick devises.) All which traine and beadroll of consecrated particulars must dance attendance on massings Priests and Prelates, to make their Popish Masse, and Divine service compleatly meritorious, that I say not impious, theatrecal, ri∣diculous, and their Bishops, Priests, little different from, if not far worse and more antique than common Stage∣players; as those who seriously peruse their Roman Pon∣tificals, Ceremonials, Missals, and Durantus his Rationale Divinorum cannot but conclude: And therefore should resolve with the Apostle, 1 Cor. 13. 11. When I became a man, I put away (these) childish things, which old childish Prelates, and his pueri senes, overmuch admire and contend for, as if all Religion and Devotion consisted in such Fopperyes.

When all these Massing Utensils are thus consecrated, and these Episcopal and Sacerdotal Garments hallowed by Bishops; yet neither Priests nor Bishops must presume

to put any of them on to say Masse, or administer Sacra∣ments, without the use of special Prayers prescribed by, and thus registred in the Praeparatio ad Missam, prefixed to all the Roman Missals, set forth and revised by Pope Pius the fifth, and Clement the eighth.