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A06882	A declaration of the masse the fruite thereof, the cause and the meane, wherefore and howe it ought to be maynteyned. Newly perused and augmented by the first author therof. Maister Anthony Marcort at Geneue. Tra[n]slated newly out of French into Englishe. Anno M.D.XLvii.; Petit traicté de la Sainte Eucharistie. English	Marcourt, Antoine de, d. ca. 1560.; Vingle, Pierre de, attributed name. aut; Viret, Pierre, 1511-1571, attributed name. aut; Geranius, Cephas. aut	1547 (1547)	STC 17314; ESTC S103750	36,879	64

and a vnhappy arrogaunce For the which to abate and put doune in the sayed chaptre forthwyth it sayeth after thys maner Yf we sinne willyngly after that we haue receyued knowledge of veritie there is lefte vs no more sacrifice for synnes The which wordes in whatsoeuer maner that any wyl take them be so cleare so quicke mightie that they can not be ynough merueiled at howe the worlde hath ben so abused blynded and deceyued to suffre as yet willyngly suche sacrifice or to presente any sacrifice visible and outward vnto the Lord God for our synnes seynge that so constantly so myghtyly so many tymes and often the sayed holy Apostle affirmeth and saith that there is no more sacrifice nor neuer shal be For after Iesus Christe it behoueth not to loke for any other sacrifier But it hath behoued and so god hath permitted that Satā by hym and hys ministers haue seduced the worlde a fewe excepte For it was a fore spoken and prophecyed that all shoulde be thus wasted lost Mat. xxiiii And finally for to manifeste the power glory and magnificence of the souereigne Lorde the whych by the sounde of his word ii Theff●● ii and by the spirite of his mouth shall put to ruyne and ouerthrowe the reygne of his enemyes that is to wyt Antychrist the worlde hell and Satan ☞ Alas is not thys a greate misery to thys vnhappy worlde to haue so greatly dispised these fore alleged sentēces to haue cōtempned them in this wyse so coldly passed them ouer withoutany other aduisemēt neuer willing to cōsider that there is great differēce betwene sacrifice and testamēt For whā we offre a sacrifice to God we gyue a present to him wherby it is verye euident that whan we take and receyue of hym any thyng that it is no sacrifice but a liberall gyfte and pure mercy ☞ And who than is so blynded that he seeth not here clearly that by gift of a testament confirmed by the death of the testatour by greate loue and charite he hath wholy giuē him selfe vnto vs Saint Luke toucheth it at the quicke when he sayth thus Luke xxii Thys chalice is the newe testamēt in my bloud that shal be shed for you Testament he sayeth not example to do sacrifice At thys poynt they haue very ill thought whan by forgetfulnes to the ende that I saye not my sunderstanding suche a gyft they haue wylled to chaūge into sacrifice Yf we wyl do sacrifice let vs do that saynt Paule sayth and beleue his diuine counsel where he sayth thus Roma xii I praye you than my brethren by the mercy of God that ye offre your bodyes in a liuely sacrifice holily pleasaunt to God c. To such sacrifice we be all ordeyned of God priestes kynges without beyng shauen shorne ceremonies or dysguysed Not for to offre his sonne vnto hym agayne For to offre vnto him suche offeryng we be to vnworthy to vile and infecte forasmuche as he offered hym selfe to his father for vs. ☞ The which oblation for al times is ryght sufficient and perfyte or elles it behoued for to reiterate or renew it because it should be vnperfite or elles certainly inconuenient to seeke any other whych by stronge argumēt of scripture I shewe thus ☞ In the epistle to the Hebrewes by diuers argumentes it is concluded that for the death of an high Bishop there must an other be ordeined and by the death of hym another Hebrues .x. so consequently vnto the tyme that there come one entyerly immortall whych is oure onely mediatour Iesus Christe Note this The whiche alway assisteth for vs in the presence of God Lykewyse for the imperfection of the sacrifices of the ☜ olde law it behoued euery day to beginne vnto the tyme that one was offered entyerly perfite and consummate which must not be renued The whyche moste holy and moste perfyte hath be made by our high Bishop and pastour Iesus Christ whych offered him selfe in sacrifice and none other thing no better thynge nor none so good could be found next God Al this is declared more at large in the .v. vi viii and .x chapitres of the said epistle ☞ Now I demaund of all sacrifiers if the sacrifice be perfite or vnperfite wherefore abuse they thus the pore worlde No est dare me di●t and sel a thinge that is nothynge worth If it be perfitte why is it dayly renued and so often times by thousandes begonne agayne Put your selfe forth poore sacrififiers and if ye haue power to answer answer for gladly I woulde vpon this heare your answer i●q neuer The which I knowe that ☞ ye wyl bring forth ad Calendas grecas that is to say neuer after your honest custome ☞ For the whiche thinges that be so euident and manifeste that any man ought to be ashamed to saye the contrary some wyly foxes all ashamed of theyr matter to couer and excuse theyr malyce to abuse and begyle the worlde againe as theyr maner hath ben and is alwaies to resiste and gainsey the veritie as nowe are many not ashamed to speake properly to say they haue not done sacrifice but onely haue offered sacrifice of prayse whiche is openly agaynst the Canon of theyr masse by the which they name and call this breade after that they haue pronounced the wordes which they call sacramentalles holy sacrifice holy oblation presented and giuen to God as the sacrifice of Abell and Abraham and commonly they call it Corpus domini the holy hooste and suche maner of names ☞ Also for to pray to God and offre to hym a sacrament of prayse needeth neyther breade nor wine there needeth neither light nor cādle shauyng or sheryng nor diguysyng with vnaccustomed and wy de garmentes wherby they can no longer couer theyr abuse theyr malyce and errours by suche fictions and legerdemaynes wherby alwaies they distroye them selues hauynge so litle wytte that in so speakyng they confounde it wholy them selues For sacrifice of prayse is comen to all persones Be it man woman or chylde they are all bounde to offre sacrifice of prayse And by thys meanes if in theyr masse be none other sacrifice but prayse a woman myght say it yea a litle childe which is directly agaynste the accustomed doctrine But it muste needes be that suche lyinge dreames distroye it selfe ☞ Now haue they sayd ouer al vniuersities Papalles that the masse sayde or songe by an vnthryfty harlotte priest was and is as good as the masse of the mooste holy prieste that is The which thing we cōfesse to be more verified thā they wene For the best of thē both is but wretchydnes howbeit theyr intention is to say that that cometh not of the vertue of him that doeth suche worke but by the vertue of the thinge wrought that is to say offered to God sacrificed and presentyng and in theyr Latine they do say Non virtute operis operantis sed virtute

they haue done in the Popysh churche which is a great wickednes and extreme sacrilege openly agaynste the institution and ordinaūce of Iesus that so expressely and so euidently had conioyned them But what care vnkinde folke ennemies to the veritie of the ordinaunces thereof for they be wise and not vnwitty Yf saynte Paule were alyue O how he would crie against such a cursed abuse so would saint Austine S. Ciprian and all other induced with the good spirite ☞ But to returue to the purpose it is certayne that of the same breade whiche they had vsed in eating the Lambe of passing called the Pascall lambe Iesus Christe toke and brake sayeng take eate this is my body Where vpon in the sermon afore sayed thys good doctour Ciprian sayd thus Ante verba illa cibus ille cōmunis tantum nutriendo corpori cōmodus erat sed er quo a domino dictum est hoc facite in meam commemorationē c. panis iste solemni benedictione sacratus ad totiꝰ hominis vitam salutemque proficit That is to saye before the wordes of Iesus Christe this meate that was commune auayled to feede the body onely But syth that the lorde had spoken this bread cōsecrate by solempne blissyng profiteth to the life and entier saluation of man Thys breade than by one such and so singuler application so high solempne and excellent blessing is chaunged and altered not in corporall sence but to intellectuall spirite not of kinde or substaunce but of operation of nature of signification dignitie and office yea to the faythful but nothinge to the vnfaythful but perdition ☞ The whyche thynge yll vnderstande hath gyuen occacion to the schole men at thys presente tyme curiously and vaynely to dispute that is to wit if the accidētes may be separate remaine without substaūce substaūce wtout accidentes other diueres allegations which are not to the purpose of Iesus Christe nor of his church but serue to confuse the world and to bringe the christen religion to sclaūder mockery and irrision for of one incōuenience if it be not withstande many other will folowe ☞ Who may than any more susteyne support and endure suche folke the which as presumptuous and arrogaunt without feare or reuerence haue be so bold to cōclude that there is neyther breade nor wyne but haue dreamed and inuented a wanton and a newe terme of speakynge that they haue called as is aboue spoken transsubstātiation The whiche in the holy scripture was neuer reade Nor by the sayntes and good Fathers of the primatyue churche imagined Whereby as enemyes of God his worde by very ryght ought to be expulsed cast awaye or the better and fayrer to speake as piuishe fooles they ought to be contempned and dispised ☞ How be it if any shoulde demaunde them by what veritie suche a thynge is done They wyll answere forthwyth by the doctrines of theyr scholes that it is in the vertue of the sacramentall wordes proferred and pronounced ouer the breade In suche wyse that yf there were no bodye that vnderstode or hearde the sayd wordes that neuertheles the sayed transubstantiation woulde folowe so that the sacrifice had his full strength wyth matter conuenable c. But certainly I greatly wonder haue pitie on them that they be so blynde and haue not so muche vnderstandyng to consider that oure Lorde spake not to the breade whan he sayed Take eate thys is my bodye Nor he spake not to the wyne As. S. Luke reciteth whan he wrote And toke the cup gaue thankes and sayed Take ye it distribute amonge you Also afterwarde likewise he gaue the cup after supper sayinge Thys cuppe is the newe Testamente in my bloude whiche is shed for you In the whiche writynges and all other of the new testament this matter is very euident that he neuer spake to the breade nor wyne Than it maye be well sayed that these poore folke be very vnwitty in secrete hidyng aside not willynge to be hearde and vnderstande of anye blowe and speake thus ouer the breade and wyne Wherof oure Lorde Iesus Christe neuer gaue vnto them neither exāple nor word But it is the custome that alwayes one errour engendreth an other errour ¶ The .iii. declaration is of the assistence or corporal presence of Iesus Christe in the Sacramente of breade and wyne at the Masse IN thys poynt more than in any other they haue fayled erred greatly whā they sayd wrote preached gaue to vnderstande and taught that in the steade of bread and wyne as they saye vnder the shapes or kyndnes visible whyte or blake yelowe or redde it is al one the body of Iesus Christe really and in dede entyerly corporally personally in fleshe and bone as greate and perfite as presently he lyued And in this wise they haue prouoked almooste the vniuersall worlde to manifeste and open ydolatri Agaynst the whiche importable abusion it behoueth to resiste myghtily wyth the holy scriptures And fyrste of all we muste reteyne and note wel the artycle of our faith Rom. vii that Iesus Christ died for oure sinnes and arose for oure Iustification ma● xvii● And after his resurrection ascēded in to heauen and sytteth on the right hāde of his father reigninge in maiestye to whome al power is giuen in heauen in earth in hel Philip. ii That he ascended into heauen visible in the presence of the Apostles and disciples it is certaine ●ciuū i. Of the which wonderful ascēcion they were faith full and true wytnesses Mar. xvi as it appeareth in the Act. of the Apostles by S. Marke in the last Chap. of his Gospell Also S. Paul writinge to the Collossiens sayth in thys maner Cos i●i Yf ye be risen wyth Christe seke heauenly thynges that be aboue where Christe is sytting on the ryght hande of the father If foloweth well than syth that Iesus Christe is aboue in heauen sittynge on the right hande of his father that he is not here in earth betwen the preistes handes nor closed in a boxe or aulmery for his body was neuer but in one place at once Therefore if hys bodie be in heauen for that tyme it is not in earth and if he were in earth it shoulde not be in heauen for of certayne a very perfighte bodye is but in one place at ones as I sayde afore Caue●d● a sabe●●●● and it is no nede to dreame or allege any miracle of God and saie that god is almyghtye to make it be done and to multiplie it at ones in sondri places for that is the rauinge ymaginacion of man wythout foundacion of scripture And that God maketh suche a multiplicacion we haue none assuraunce of scripture nor deuine promise Argumentū a posse ad esse ni●●● cōcludit Wherfore to saye God maye do it ergo he dothe it That saynge is nothynge worth for here is no question of the power of God And it is