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A13142	A summe or a briefe collection of holy signes, sacrifices, and sacraments instituted of God euen since the beginning of the world, and of the true originall of the sacrifice of the Masse; Sum or a brief collection of holy signes, sacrifices and sacraments.	Ling, Nicholas, fl. 1563.; Brett, John, Sir, attributed name.; Devonshire, William Cavendish, Earl of, 1590-1628, attributed name.	1609 (1609)	STC 23434; ESTC S113014	129,473	362

ordeined by them I will onely set forth vnto you two that is to say Waxe Metalles of the one is made the seale of the prince wherewith is sealed graces pardons and forgiuenesses the letters priuiledges grāted by the prince He that counterfeiteth this seale is hee not punished for treason euen as if hee had hurt the very person of the prince Doth not this seale represent the very person of the prince as if hee himselfe were there present yet the waxe notwithstanding that it is called the seale of the prince is not therefore transubstantiate but remaineth still waxe yet after that it hath receiued the reuerend print of the Prince it is no more called waxe but the princes seale The metalles of gold and siluer marked for the coyne of the prince to serue for money although they be no more golde nor siluer but haue changed their names at the will of the prince be it into the name of ducate crowne shillings pence or other names do they leaue to be metalles and the same substance they were before this onely difference there is they are appointed and stamped with the print of the prince which doth really represent him in such sort that hee that clippeth counterfaiteth this money 1. Cor. 11. is punished as for the crime of treason and as he had hurt the proper person of the prince By much better reason the bread and wine consecrated and marked to be sacraments of the body and bloud of Iesus Christ do really represent him not in painting Wherefore he that vseth it vnworthily shall haue euerlasting damnation as a traytor to the maiesty of God If ye O Massalians Nicolaitains transubstātiators are not sufficiently satisfied with the interpretation of Iesus Christ and his Apostles ne yet with similitudes and familier comparisons to bring you to the true way and certaine forme ordeyned of God for the celebration of his holy sacraments in abolishing of your Masse Pompilian Idolatries casting away also your abhominable witchcraft of trāsubstantiation at the least yet will ye giue no credit vnto the interpretation of the ancient doctors of the church Heare then that which S. Augustine doth recite against Adamantine euen as the bloud in many places of the holy scriptures is called the water the rock Christ August cap. 12. ●uthorities of ●he ancient ●octors The exposition of saint Augu●●ine So is the bread called the body of Iesus Christ the which three places must be expounded to be figures and signes When that saith the same doctor Iesus Christ spake these words ●ib de doctri ●●risti in pre●●ti Psal 3. Hoc est corpus meum This is my body and gaue them bread Hee gaue them the signe of his body for he thought otherwise that it was a thing vnlawfull too vncurteous to deuour the flesh body of Iesus Christ if there were not a figure there namely lib. 10. de candes cap. 5. sacrificium de consecr distinct 2. the bread to put vs in minde of the flesh and body of Iesus Christ to haue beene offered vp for our life and euerlasting foode Moreouer the same doctor vseth this interpretation the visible sacrament is the Testament that is to say the holy signe of the inuisible sacrifice The like interpretations are described by Tertulliā against Marcion the heretike Tertul. lib. 1. 3. 4. wherefore then O Massalians haue yee not followed the holy doctors of the Church which would not blaspheme against God by a witchcraft of transubstantiation but haue freely acknowledged the sacrament to be a signe or holy visible figure signifying in spirit by faith the which is inuisible Vt quid paras deutem ventrem crede manducasti ca. Vt quid de consecratione distinct 2. August in bi de remedi wherefore prepare yee the mouth the belly to deuoure the flesh of Christ corporally why do yee not offer your soules by liuely faith worthily to eate Iesus Christ why did you not interprete the eating of the body of Iesus Christ by the notable distinction of the holy Doctor Ierom poeniten in Iohn tract 25. cap. 6. S. Hieron in epist ad Eph. saying the flesh of Iesus Christ is vnderstanded fleshly when there is mention made of the shedding of bloud Ca. dupliciter eadem distinct and crucifying of the body of Iesus Christ for our saluation But spiritually when it is sayd that the flesh is the true meate which must be eaten For another holy doctor I will alledge Gelase Bishop of Rome who disputing against the heretikes Eutichians and Nestoriens Saint Gelase against Eutychius Nestorius doth affirme that the bread and wine consecrated made sacraments do not leaue in substāce still to be bread wine but are figures and signes of the body and bloud of Iesus Christ by the misterie of the sacrament S. Ambrose in his booke of sacraments cap. 11. Will yee haue more large witnesses of S. Ambrose who vpon the Epistle to the Corinthians hath expounded eating and drinking the bread and the wine Origin in Leui. homil 7. to signifie the fleshe and the bloud of Iesus Christ offered for vs Origen also in his homilies hath expounded the sacraments to be figures which must be examined spiritually and not carnally S. Chrys in ●omil 31. cap. 15. com 1 Psal 22. for this faith saith he that the letter killeth if it be not vnderstood spiritually when it is written to eate the fleshe of Christ Wherefore Saint Chysostome warneth to honour this sacrament in offering the soule vnto God for which Christ was crucified and that by this holy sacrament of breade and wine is signified vnto vs the likenesse of the body and bloud of Iesus Christ To make an end it behoueth to bee ruled by the holy interpretatiō of our doctor Iesus Christ and of his Apostles to honor reuerence his holy sacraments ordeined of him for outward signes to lift vppe our mindes to heauen to take that which is represented by the signes not to esteeme them as vaine paintings or fantasies but worthely to receiue them in liuely faith by the vertue of the holy Ghost to the end to bee fed and nourished with heauenly bread in the health of our soules to come to life euerlasting Let vs then be assured in Iesus Christ as members of his body Let vs all come into vnity to communicate one only bread to drinke one only wine made of many graines knit together to the end that wee may say with the holy Apostle all we the faithful are the body of Iesus Christ saued and redeemed by his body crucified bloud shed for vs. Thus dwelling and abiding by faith in Iesus Christ eating him drinking his bloud Let vs beleeue surely that hee was crucified dead and risen againe his body ascended into heauen sitting on the right hand of God in a certaine place vntill that he returne with

in his bookes of Leuiticus and Numbers The Arke of witnes Ex. 25.27.28 Another signe sacrament instituted of God by the Arke of the couenant described in Exodus being a holy signe dedicated to receiue the holy and heauenly answers to the end to bring the people to the remembrance feare and obedience of God to honour accompany the Arke of the couenant Many other exterior signes were ordeyned of God as the ornaments and consecration of Priestes Ephod specially the ornament called the Ephod the which and the sacrifices the Israelites did abuse by their Idolatries Another holy signe there was of the purging and sprinkling water ordeined by God to Moyses and Aaron the high Priest Purging water consecrated Numb 19. This sprinkled water was consecrated with ashes gathered by a clean person of the sacrifice offered in Holocausta To witte of a Cowe all redde without any spot and which had neuer bin laboured The Wood ordeyned to make the fier for the burnt offering was Cedar Hisope Purple with Crimsin With this water were sprinkled polluted persons for the purging and cleansing of their corporall defilings Exod. 38. At the entring of the Temple or Tabernacle was a Lauer made of Brasse forged first with the images of the women of Israell in this Lauer was put the sprinkling water wherewith the sacrificers are sprinkled before the celebrating of their sacrifices to the end they might be purified and obtaine grace remission of their sinnes After the death of the great Priest Aaron the people of Israell vnthankfull to God for the goodnes sent them of him murmuring as annoyed with the heauenly Manna freely giuē vnto them for their noriture were punished by the biting of venemous serpēts But the merciful God gaue vnto them an holy signe whereby they should be saued and restored to health to wit the brasen serpent lifted vp in the aire a figure of Iesus Christ crucified Brasen serpent Iohn 3.7 These were in summe the most part of the signes sacrifices and sacraments ordeyned of God in the first Church of the Israelites figures of the true and perfect sacrifice performed by Iesus Christ the true Messias and euerlasting Priest sitting at the right hand of God the Father Sacraments brokē by Adam Gene. ● Now resteth the summe to bring forth how man by his owne proper fault did fall in obliuiō and disobedience of God his creator abusing Gods fauour and corrupting the holy signes sacrifices sacraments ordeyned to him What perswaded our first father and his companiō to bide themselues at the hearing of Gods voice but because they had abused the holy signe and broken the lawe of the fruits to them forbiddē This holy signe which our first and vniuersall father had abused was the originall of other vices and corruptions hereafter described into the which all men are fallen sauouring of the corrupted lumpe of Adam Leauing the particuler corruptions of the signes Corruption of the sacrifice by Aaron Exo. 32 Deut. 9. sacrifices and sacraments before the law written by Moyses we will begin to bring forth briefly the most notable error committed by the most great sacrificers as Kings Priests and others hauing the chiefe gouernement of the people When Moyses was abiding in the mount Synay to receiue the commandements of God his brother Aaron the high Priest forged a calfe of gold of the golden earings giuen vnto him by the people of Israell he builded an aulter offered incense and celebrated sacrifice causing the common people to worship the molten Image Was not this an abusing of the Sacrifices ordeined of God and a corrupting of the true vsage of the same in causing the calfe to be worshipped in place of the slaine and offered sacrifice as it was appointed in the law Corruption of the sacrifice by Nadab Abihu Leui. 10 Numb 11. His sonnes also Nadab Abihu were not they cōsumed with fire for abusing the vse of sacrifices in taking vnhallowed wood and corrupting the law The people of Israel vnthankfull for the goodnes done vnto them in being deliuered from the Pharaōical captiuity did they not murmure against the holy sacrament of heauenly Manna when they did disdaine and contemne this bread of life Iosua and demanded flesh to eate Achan the sonne of Charmes did not he violate the lawe of the holy signes when he committed sacriledge and kept backe the spoyles of Ierico vowed consecrated to God for sacrifices If any more curiously desire to see the continuall abuses and corruptions of the people themselues Iudg. 2.3.6.8.9 let him reade the histories of the Iudges of Israel and in all times he shall find man neuer to be content with the true worshipping ordeined of God But in steed of outwarde signes ordeined of God to draw the people to feare and obediēce they haue forged inuentions And in place of reuerencing the alters and arke couenant in the name of the only God being outward sacred signes The Israelites infected with the Idolatries of their neighbours the Syrians Iudges 10 Sidonians Moabites Ammonites and Philistines did erect alters vnto their strange Gods The vngentle sacrifice of Iephtha Iudg. 11. Baal and Astaroth Ieptha Iudge and Captain of the Israelites did not he corrupt the lawe of Sacrifices when he sacrificed his owne proper daughter excusing himselfe by a vow which hee made Iudg. 8.9 Idolatry by the Ephod Iudg. 17.18 which was not appointed to him of God The holy signe ordayned of God for the high Priest to celebrate sacrifices in called Ephod the vppermost garment was not it abused by Gedeon captaine of the Israelites when as of the spoiles of the Madianits and of their earings he made an Ephod of gold whereby the people fell into great idolatrie How long time was this holy outward signe Ephod abused an Image being erected by the mother of Michas in Silo Priests sacrificers appointed expresly to sacrifice thereunto an Altar builded and the true vse of sacrifices corrupted So long as the temple continued in Silo into what wicked manners did the Priestes and sacrificers fall which were ordeined of God for the ministrie of sacrifices and holy sacraments when they vsurped by long possession to haue this priuiledge of the people 1 Sam. 2. that when they did sacrifice the flesh of the offered sacrifice was seething their boy or seruant hauing a three grained flesh-hooke of yron in his hand had liberty to catch out of the potte or caldron all that he could cary with his hooke Further the leuiticall tiranny was such that this seruant of the Priest had libertie to demand of the sacrifice giuer flesh to roste for the sacrificer otherwise to take it by force euen as he would Was not this a great abuse and detestable corruption practised by the Pristes and chiefe sacrificers vnder the pretēce of sacrifices What greater corruption can be declared then that of the sonnes of the chiefe Priest

corrupte● with the leuen of sinne Euen so by the second Adam Iesus Christ we are by grace purged from our offences To our first and vniuersall father Adam was giuen a holy signe to exercise his obedience and to his successours was giuen other holy signes sacrifices sacraments instituted of God as the tree of life the fruits of the tree of knowledge of good and euill the raine-bowe circumcision the lambe without blemish the bread without leuain the cloud the fiery piller the red sea diuided the heauenly Manna the water of the rocke the immolation and offering of beasts for sacrifices the arke of couenant the brasen serpent the purging water the Temple builded in the middest of the holy Citie All which sacred signes sacrifices and sacraments were figures of that which was accomplished by Iesus Christ Iesus Christ the tree of life Apoca. 2. Rom. 11. For first hee was the true tree of life planted in the midest of the garden of God in whom and by whom we which were bastard trees are grafted and set to the obtaining of eternall life hee hath giuen vs the keeping of the fruites of the tree of wisedome by his holy gospell and commaunded vs to keepe it whole without abusing without corrupting without adding or diminishing in paine of eternall death Rainebowe He hath bin as the celestial Bow bended in the aire to assure vs of the bande and couenant contracted between God and vs that wee should bee no more drowned in the floud of sinne He was circumcised to accomplish the lawe in himselfe Circumcision Gala. 4. that hee might cut away the foreskinne of our hearts to spoyle vs of our old corrupted skinne in Adam The burning bushe He was the flame in the burning bush taking flesh in the wombe of the virgine conceiued by the grace of the holy Ghost without the seed of man the holy virgin as the bush remaining neuertheles perfect and vncorrupt Hee was sacrificed as the iust innocent Lambe Pascall lambe Iohn 1. Hebr. 13. his bloud being shed to preserue vs frō the tyrannie of Sathan and to open vnto vs the passage into the lād of promise the kingdome of heauen Bread of life Iohn 6. He is the true bread which came downe from heauen without leauen without corruptiō and spot whereof wee must eate for our spirituall nourishment to the ende we may celebrate the feast of the Pharaonicall passage in the land of libertie 1 Cor. 5. The cloude firie piller and red sea Hee was the cloude the fiery pillour the red sea diuided which hath conducted vs which hath deliuered vs from the hands of our enemies 1 Cor. 10. Iohn 19. out of whose side opened came bloud and water for our saluation and redemption He was the heauenly Māna sent from heauen to nourish vs for euer The heauenly Manna the rock flowing water of life 1. Corin. 10. and the true rocke from whence flowed water to quench the thurst of all those for euer which thurst and beleeue in him It was he that made the sacrifice of health for the defacing of our sinnes Sacrifice Heb. 7.8.9.10 the sacrificer and sacrifice the offering and offerer abiding foreuer a sacrificer at the right hand of God his father Heb. 9. He entred into the heauēly sanctuary builded not with the hands of men but with the hand of God The arke of witnes He was the true Arke of couenant appoyntmēt by the which God did manifest and declare his oracles and in the which he did rest to accomplish his diuine and incomprehensible misteries He was as the brasen serpēt fastened to the crosse Brasen serpent Iohn 3. to giue health to the sicknesse of al those which did turne toward him and behold him in faith Temple of God Iohn 2. He was the true temple of God wherin the holy ghost doth dwell in whome and by whome one God in trynity is worshipped The host and holy water Hee was the true and holy sacrifice whereof was made the purging water for the cleansing of all spots hauing by his owne ashes that is by his owne bodie offered vp Iohn 19. sprinckled and watered with water issuing out of his side all people beleeuing in him The ceremoniall law being thus accomplished not by figures but really executed by the incarnation death and resurrection of Iesus Christ our Sauiour our mediatour our euerlasting sacrificer and mercy obtainer the infinite goodnes of God was yet more manifested by the new band Heb. 9. new couenant and new comming of the son of God incarnate For by his new testament confirmed by the death of the testator Rom. 8. he hath made vs fellow heires and inheritours of the kingdome of heauen with God For assurance of this heauenly succession gotten to vs by grace after that he had finished the ceremonial law and abolished the same as we haue shewed by the sacrifice perfectly made by the euerlasting Sacrificer S. Augustine in his 3. booke of the christian doctrine cap. 9. there were left vnto vs two sacred signes and holy sacraments wherein God hath vsed more fauour and more special grace than euer hee did before his incarnation in this that hee hath deliuered vs from the seruile law of circumcision of difference of meates and of diuers sacrifices ordained in the first Church of the Israelites and in discharging vs of this heauy burthen he hath so much the more comforted vs in ordaining vnto vs for a memorie and remembrance of our regeneration and life euerlasting two holy sacraments Sacraments of the new Testament vnder two holy signes To wit the water of Baptisme the bread and wine for the partaking of his bodie and that his grace might extend to all nations God did choose those tokens signes which were most cōmon easie For Circumcision was a speciall marke for Abraham and his posteritie the which Circumcision other nations were not accustomed to vse although Herodote a Greeke in the history which he writeth of the manners of the Egytians Herod lib. 2. doth attribute vnto them the custome to circumcise especially their Priestes But it is easie to coniecture that hee had heard speaking of the Iewes dwelling in Egipt for the space of foure hundred and thirtie yeares obseruing the circumcision Moreouer the Circumcision was ordained for the men onely A comparing of the circumcision with baptisme Exod. 12. and not for the women there was also a day set for Circumcision the eight day after the natiuitie and the cutting of the skinne was paineful and greuous But the grace of God hauing abolished by his incarnation and perfect sacrifice Genes 17. the rigour of the ceremoniall law as wel for the difference of meates as of dayes hath left vnto vs by his new will and couenant the holy signe of water common to all as well men as women without difference of dayes Num. 19. in

of baptisme afterward ordeined by the signe of water which is the lauer of regēeratiō renuing of the holy ghost During the time that the elect people of God were holden in the wildernes of Arabia Manna to them was ministered food of heauenly bread Exod. 16. wherewith they were nourished 40. yeares This holy sacramēt instituted by the power of god was in such great admiration that euery of the people said Manhu 1 Corin. 10. Ioh. 6. what is this here they did see the heauenly Manna giuen vnto thē without trauell a signe of the liuing bread descēded from heauen and giuing life to all the faithfull Also another meruailous signe was ordeined of God by the rocke flowing of liuely water in Hereb to quench the thirst of thirsty people a signe figure of the true rock Iesus christ out of whō did issue water bloud to staunch the thirst of all sinners for euermore Water of the Rocke Exod. 17. Num. 20. 1 Corin. 10 Iohn 19. The signes and sacraments aforesayd Diuers sacrifices ordeined of God in the yeare of the world 2455. were not on●y ordained of God but also the law of Sacrificers was published by Moyses as signes figures and shadowes of the Sacrifice performed by Iesus Christ The Sacrifices are either publike or particulers Holocausta some were here offerings sacrifices cōsumed with fier other were of beasts slaine Diuision of sacrifices drawen out of Exod. Leui. and Num. and offered vp to eate some were of earthly beasts other were beastes of the ayre Among the earthly beasts were such as were most obedient as Beafe Beasts for sacrifices and Veale sheep and Lambe the Goat the Kid Among the birdes also the most tame the Pigion and the Turtle Of Sacrifices some were publike other were particuler the publike either were daily Daies appoin●ed for sacrifices or else seuen times a day or in the new moones or in time of abstinence or else in three feasts celebrated in a yeare To witte in the daies of sweet breade when the pascall Lambe was offered and eaten without leuened breade Exod. 23. in the time also of haruest of first fruites and in the feast of Wine and Oliues toward the end of the yeare ●earch the booke of Philo ●he Iew and Iosephus It is commanded euery day to offer two Lambes the one in the morning the other at night after that the Aultar was perfumed with incense and sweet odours Also some of the sacrifices were ordeined for corporall thinges which were offered with shedding of bloud other for incorporal things without bloud The sacrifices called Holocaustes did cōcerne only the honor of God Holocaustes Philo the Iewe in his treatise of beasts appointed for sacrifices Iosephus lib. 3. cap. 10 de antiqui in lat because all the sacrifice was consumed with fire for the which sacrifice Holocaustes the male not the female was receiued that is to say the Beaf the Lambe the Goat of one yeare For the sacrifice for health it was indifferent to take male or female Leui. 1 2.3.4 alwaies three parts of the sacrifice was reserued for the Priest To witt the fat the two kidneies the kall or the fatte of the flankes Another difference there is also betwixt the sacrifice for health Sacrifice for health and the sacrifice celebrated for sin for in the one was ordeyned to eate all the sacrifice in two daies in the other for sin it was enioyned to eate all in one day onely Sacrifice for sinne By reason whereof some sacrifices were called Holocaustes other for health and other for sinne The sacrifices for sinne were diuerse aswell for because of the persons as for the offerings Sacrifice for the sinne of ignorance For he that sinned by ignorance was clensed by offering an Ewe or a she Goat but the clensing of sinne done wittingly was clensed with a Ramme Sacrifice for the sinne of the high Priest Prince Magistrate particuler person Leuit. 3.4.5.6 The sinne of the great Priest was clensed by offering of a calf of the prince by offering a goat a bul that of the magistrate with a Goat that of any particuler with the offering of a female Sacrifice for the man poluted For the woman deliuered Leuit. 12. The sacrifice for clensing of sin done against God was done with a ram The sacrifice for a man polluted was with an Ewe or a she goat for clensing of a woman after her childbirth was a lambe of one yeare a young pigion a turtle Sacrifice for the Leprous Leui. 14. For the clensing of Lepre were 2 birds aliue pure cleane Cedre wood and Isope 2 whole lambes one Ewe of a yeare with floure and oyle Another sacrifice also was made for the persō poluted by seed shed or mēstruous Sacrifice for the poluted menstruall with 2. turtles 2. yong pigiōs If the great sacrifices did faile then did they repare to doues pigions and turtles th one for the burnt offering the other for the food of the Priests And in all sacrifices there was pure floure without leuen salt Leuen hony forbidden in all sacrifices A sacrifice for the woman suspected of adultery Numb incense and oile And it was not lawfull to offer any thing with leuen or hony vpō the alter Alwaies in the sacrifice ordeined for the purging of women suspected of adulterie there was no incense nor oile as in other sacrifices but for her was offered water mixt with dust or ashes gathered vpon the pauement of the temple Sacrifice of the Nazereus Numb 6. Philo the Iew in the treatise aforesayd Againe there was another sacrifice celebrated for them which had made the great vowe called Naserius when the time of their deuotion was done it was ordeined vnto them to offer three sacrifices a Lambe an Ewe a Ramme One to witte the Lambe for the burnt offering the second being the Ewe for the saluation the third for health Moreouer the heares of him which made the sacrifice should be cast into the fire with the burnt offering to be burned I haue thought good to discourse the diuersitie of sacrifices briefly to the end to make knowen the great goodnesse of our God who by the lawe of Sacrifices published by Moyses would as with a bridle restraine the rude people of Israel which could not forget the idolatries of Egypt wherein they had beene nourished 430. yeares vnder the tyrranny of Pharaoh But what straight lawes what ceremonies sacrifices so euer were ordeined for them euer this people did fall to Idolatry abusing the law of God and corrupting the holy sacraments and sacrifices it shall be declared hereafter If any man be desirous to know more of the multitude diuersitie of sacrifices let him reade the books of Philo the Iewe ●nd Iosephus of the Iudaicall antiquities following that which Moyses hath plainely written