Touching Prayer.
THese were their Ceremonies, to stand in prayer and not to kneele, and all the Dominicall or Lordes dayes, Basil. de Spiritu sancto cap. 27. Tertullianus
Cassander Anglicanus shewing the necessity of conformitie to the prescribed ceremonies of our church, in case of depriuation. By Iohn Sprint, minister of Thornbury in Glocester-shire, sometimes of Christ-Church in Oxon.
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- Cassander Anglicanus shewing the necessity of conformitie to the prescribed ceremonies of our church, in case of depriuation. By Iohn Sprint, minister of Thornbury in Glocester-shire, sometimes of Christ-Church in Oxon.
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- Sprint, John, d. 1623.
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- London :: Imprinted by Iohn Bill,
- Anno M.DC.XVIII. [1618]
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de resurrectione carnis, Hieron. cont. Lucif. cap. 4. This Cere∣mony was done in token or signification of their resurrec∣tion, and further to teach them that on the day of Christ his resurrection, they ought to seeke heauenly things, Basil ibidem August. Epist. 119. de consecrat. dist. 3. cap. 10. quoniam, out of the Nicene Councell where it was decreed: This was commended to bee an Apostolicall tradition, Tertull. cont. Marci. & de coron. mil.
To stand in prayer and not to kneele, on all dayes be∣tweene Easter and Whitsontide, commended also as Apo∣stolicall, Basil. Tertul. Hieron. ibid.
To pray towards the East, and that for this cause and sig∣nification, because we seeke to Paradise our old and auncient countrie, and is commended and Apostolicall, Basil. ibid.
To pray in some places by candle light, Socrat. lib. 5. cap. 22. in the day time, Hier. con. vigil.
They did also weare a linnen garment, or Surplesse in the worships of God, Crys. hom. 83. in Mat. Hier. lib. 1. contra Pelag. and of this iudgement is Zanch. de redemp. cap. 16. lib. 1. fol. 444. a. and citeth Hier. P. Martyr. Loc. Epist. Hoopero fol. 1087. citeth Chrisostom, and Cyprians examples out of Pontius Diacon. and Saint Iohns Petalus out of Ecclesiastical Historie, to prooue that the originall of the Surplesse was not of Antichrist, Bulling. and Gual. in an Epistle doe cite Theodoret. hist. 2. 27. Socra. 6. 22. Iohn the Euangelist his example out of Euzebius, Pontius Diacon. of Cyprian, and Chrisostom. It is cited by A. B B. C. Whitgift defence. fol. 2618. Polanus citeth Hieron. comment. in Esec. cap. 44. fol. 807. Zepperus citeth Chrysostome and Hieron. shewing that they vsed them for a signe and admonition of honest and pure life de Polit. Eccl. lib. 1. cap. 12. the like doth Zanch. vt sup.