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A04482	The true copies of the letters betwene the reuerend father in God Iohn Bisshop of Sarum and D. Cole vpon occasion of a sermon that the said Bishop preached before the Quenes Maiestie, and hir most honorable Counsel. 1560. Set forthe and allowed, according to the order appointed in the Quenes Maiesties iniunctions. Cum gratia & priuilegio Regiæ Maiestatis per septennium.	Jewel, John, 1522-1571.; Cole, Henry, 1500?-1580. aut	1560 (1560)	STC 14613; ESTC S107807	107,547	377

The olde doctours holy fathers of the church s. Ciprian S. Chrisostom s ▪ Ambrose S. Hierom s. Augustin others that receiued the sacrament at the Apostles hands and as it may be thought continewed the same in suche sort as they had receiued it neuer make mention in any of all theyr bokes of adouring or worshipping of the sacrament It is a very new deuise and as it is well knowne came but lately into the church About thre hundred yeres past Honorius beynge then Bishop of Rome commaunded the sacramēt to be lifted vp the people reuerently to bow down to it ▪ After hym Urbanus the fourth appointed a holy daye of Corpus Christi and graunted out large pardons to the kepers of it that the people shuld with better wyll resorte to the churche and kepe it holy This is the greatest ●…ntiquity of the whole mater aboute t●…re hundred yeares ago it was fir●…e found out and put in prac●…ise But Christ and his Apostles the ho●…y fathers in the primitiue c●…urche y ● doctours that folowed them and other learned and godly mē what soeuer for the space of M. cc. yeres after Christ neuer heard of it Once again I say for the space of M. cc. yeres after Christes ascension into heauen this worshipping of y ● sacramēt was neuer known or practised in any place within y ● who le catholike churche of Christ throughout the whole world But after it was once receyued put in vse and the people began to worship the sacrament w t godlye honour the learned men schole doctours that then were sawe it coulde not stande withoute great daunger cōfessed that the ignorant sort therby might sone be led into idolatry Marke I beseche you what I say for I know vnto sum men it semeth not possible y t there may be any kind of daunger in worshipping the sacramente of Christes body And therfore sum haue alledged Saint Augustius words in this behalfe Nemo māducat nisi prius adoret No mon eateth Christes body but first he doth worship it And agayn Non peccamus adorando sed mag●…s p●…caremus non adorando 〈◊〉 offende not in worshippinge the fleshe of Christ but 〈◊〉 we shoulde offence if we shoulde not worship it But in dede the schole doctours and learned men sawe there might be daunger in worshipping the sacrament and therfore gaue warning of it Io●…n Duns and william Durand say thus if there remayned the substaunce of bread after consecration the people would therof take occasion of Idolatry and in steade of Christes bodye woulde geue godly worship vnto y ● bread And therfore they thought it best to remoue away the bread ▪ and to bring in transubstātiation a word ne●…ly deuised ▪ neuer once herd or spoken of before the councel of Laterane holden at Rome in the yere of our Lorde M. ccxv But the olde doctours fathers which fyrste planted the churche and to whome more credit is to be geuē wryte plainlye that in the sacramente after consecration there remayneth styll very bread wyne in nature and substaunce as before And to alleadg one or two in stead of many Saint Augustine sayeth in a sermon ad infantes Quod videtis in m●…nsa panis est That thynge that ye see vpon the table is bred Gelasius also sayth in lyke sort Non desinit esse substātia panis vel natura vini sed manē●… in suae proprietate naturae It leaueth not to be the substaunce of bread or the nature of wyne but they remayne in the propertie of theyr own nature Theodoretus and olde doctour of the church likwyse saith Christus ea sy mbola quae videntur cor poris sanguinis sui appelatione honorauit non naturam transmutans sed naturae adiiciens gratiam Christ saith Theodoretus honoted the bread a●…d wyne which we see with the names of hys bodye and bloud not chaunging the nature therof but vnto the same nature ioyninge his grace I knowe not ▪ what maye be more clearlye 〈◊〉 Saint Augustin sayth it is bread Gelasius saith it leaueth not to be the substaunce nature of bread and wyne Theodoretus sayth Christ honoured the bread and wyne with the natures of his body and bloud ▪ but yet chaunged not theyr nature ▪ Thus the olde godly bishops and fathers of the churche acknowledge and affirm that bread remayneth in the sacrament after cōsecratiō But Duns and Durand and sum others of y ● yong fathers and doctours say if the people worship the sacrament and bread remain then must they nedes be in great daunger of idolatry Wherfore we may wel conclude of them both for as much as it is cleare by the olde doctours y ● bread remaineth that the people resortinge to the masse and ther●… worshipping the sacrament must nedes be in daunger of idolatrye Fartherthey say Idolatry may be done to y e sacrament if a man happen to worship the accidents of the bread that is to say y ● whitenes or roūdnes or other such outward fourmes or shewes of breade as he seeth with his eye and geue the honoure vnto in y t stede of Christs body O miserable people y t thus is lead to worship they know not what For alas how many of thē vnderstandeth these distinc●…ions or care for them how many of thē vnderstand after what sorte accidentia may be sine subiecto or how whytenes is founded in the sacramente or what is the difference betwene substantia and accidens Or what priest when he went to masse euer taughte the people to knowe these thynges to auoyde the daunger Undoubtedlye I could neuer yet perceyue by any readinge eyther of the scriptures or els of other prophane writings but that y e people of all ages hath euer more ben redier to receyue idolatrye then to learne y e distinctions and quiddities of Logike or Philosophye Thus we see euen by the confession of Duns Durand other theyr owne doctours that he that goeth to the masse worshippeth the sacramēt onlese he be learned and take good hede maye soone commit idolatrye The doctrine of it selfe is newe y e prosite of it such as the churche of god for the space of twelue hundred yeares was well hable to be without it The ieopardy of it great and horrible scarcely possible to be auoided I speake not these thinges good bretherne to thentente to spoyle Chryst of the honour that is due vnto hym I knowe and confesse that Christes blessed body is most worthy of al honour I know 〈◊〉 the flesh of the son of God is not therfore the lesse honourable because it is now become glorious and sytteth in heauen at the right hand of God his father The body of Christ sitting aboue al heauēs is worshipped of vs beynge here beneath in earth Therefore the priest at the Communion before he enter into y ● holy misteries geueth warninge vnto the people to mount vp wyth theyr mynds into heauen

do this That is to say Practise this that I haue here done aud that in such fourme and sort as ye haue sene me do it S. Paule lykewyse when he sawe ▪ that the vse of the sacrament was growen to disorder y t euerye man toke his own supper priuately to himselfe that therby both the holy communion and also brotherly loue and vnity was dispised as it hath ben in the west part of the church now a great meany of yeares in this latter tyme he called them bak again to the beginning thereof to the institution of Christ as geuing thē therby to vnderstande that the sacrament cannot be better vsed then Christe himselfe vsed it This he saith Cum conueneritis in vnum locum non potestis dominicam caenam manducare vnusquisque enim praesumit caenam suam when ye resort together into one place ye cānot eat y e Lords supper For euery one of you eateth his own supper afore hand Therefore he sayth vnto thē Alter alterum expectate Tary ye wait one for an other so receiue the holy communion altogether For this is it ▪ y t I deliuered vnto you and the same self thing I receyued of the Lorde Here haue I brefely shewed the disorder of the priuate masse by y ● fyrste institution of the sacrament and by the commaundement and authority of S. Paul Nowe will I by Goddes grace also declare and open the same by the examples and whole practise of the primitiue churche and by the auncient D●…ctours and other learned fathers that followed after y e Apostles tyme for the space of sixe hundred yeares or more And I trust ye shall clearly se that for so long tyme there was no priuate masse in the catholike Churche of Christ in anye countrye or cost through oute the worlde For all the writers that were within the compasse of that tyme haue lefte behynde them witnesse sufficient of a Communiō but not one of them all could euer tel vs of any priuat masse Clemēs who as they say was scholar to Saint Peter wryteth thus in an epistle to S. Iames. Tot in altare holocausta offerantur quot populo sufficere debeant Let there be so many hostes offred vpō y ● altare as may be sufficiēt for y ● people to receyue Dionysius an auncient writer and as sum haue thought disciple vnto S. Paul although the contrary may appeare plainly by hys own wordes in a litel boke that he hath made of the whole order of the church in his tyme settynge forth the maner of the Lords supper wryteth thus Tum sacerdos ad sacram communionem ipse conuertitur reliquos vt vnà comunicēt hortatur That is y ● priest both turneth him self to the Communion also exhorteth the reast to cōmunicate and receyue wyth him And farther he saith sumpta demum atque omnibꝰ tradita communione diuina gratias referens finem misteriis imponit That is The priest whē he hath receyued himself deliuered the holy communion to al y ● people geueth God thanks maketh an ende of the misteries Hitherto we finde plain tokens of a communion But not one word of the priuate Masse Iustinus martyr in his apollogie or defence of the Chrystian faith sheweth in what sorte the Lordes supper was vsed in hys tyme. Diaconus saith he hortatur populum vt illorum quae proposita sunt velint esse participes That is the deacon exhorteth the people y ● they will be partakers of those things y ● be laid forth before thē Farther he saith Diaconi distribuunt ad participandum praesentium vnicuique ex cōsecrato pane vino aqua illis vero qui non adsunt deferunt domum That is y ● deacons deliuer of y e consecrate bread and wyne water to euery one y ● is there present And if there be any away they cary it home to thē Here also we fynd a communion but no priuate masse S. Ambrose rebuketh his people y t were then growen negligēt in reciuyng the Lordes supper vsed to excuse the mater for y t they thought themself not worthie Si non es dignus quotidiè ergo nec semel dignus es in toto anno If thou be not worthy saith s. Ambrose euery day then art thou not worthy once in a yeare And agayne the same S. Ambrose expounding these wordes of S. Paule Alius alium expectate wryteth thus Expectandum dicit vt multorū oblatio simul celebret omnibus ministretur That is he cōmaundeth them to tarye one for an other that the oblation of many may be celebrate or done together and so be ministred vnto thē al. These wordes also sauer altogether of a Communion and nothing of a priuate Masse Saint Hierom S. Augustyn the ecclesiasticall historie wytnesseth that vntill y t tyme cōmenly euery wher but specialli in Rome y e people vsed to cōmunicate euery day Leo wrytig vnto Dioscorus the Bishop of Alexandria gaue him this aduise y t wher the church was so litle that it was not able to receyue all the whole people to communicate altogether thē the priest should minister two or thre communions in one day y t as the people came in had once filled y ● church so they shoulde receyne the communion and afterward geue place to others S. Hierom wryting vpon the xi chapter of the fyrst to the Corinthians hath these words Caena dominica omnibus debe●… esse communis quia ille omnibus discipulis suis qui aderant aequaliter tradidit sacramenta That is ▪ the supper of the Lord must be comen to all the people For Christ gaue his sacraments to all his disciples y ● were present I leaue out other authorities for shortnes sake for it wold be to long to say as much herein as might be sayd All these holye doctours godly fathers geue vs most perfyt euidence of a communion without mention making of any priuate Masse Thus the catholike churche of Christ vsed the holy communion at the beginning And euen thus the most parte of Christian people throughout the whole world the Iudians the Mauritanians the Egiptians the Persians the Arabians the Armenians y ● Gre●…anst and as many as beare the name of Christ hath kept and cōtinued y ● same amongst thēselues from the fyrst tyme they receyued the Gospell vntil thys daye And neuer receyued or vsed the Priuate Masse But what better witnesse may we vse in this behalf thē the very masse boke it self whiche is y e rule and direction of the masse If the masse boke it selfe beare witnes against the priuat masse then I trust our cause shall appeare sumwhat better then it hath ben takē heretofore Firste by the way before I enter nere into the matter y ● praiers that be vsed in the Masse be commen aswell to y e people as to the priest The priest saith Oremꝰ let vs pray And so goeth forth in