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A treatise againste the preuee masse in the behalfe and furtheraunce of the mooste hylye communyon made by Edmund Gest. Reade gentyll reader and then iudge. M. D. XLVIII.
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Gest, Edmund.
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1548
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STC 11802; ESTC S110813
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to the dyeng men at home were wantethe an aultare Christe is onlye the eatable aultare heretofore especifyed whom bothe we must and do eate vnto lyfe euerlastynge otherwyse spyrytuallye dead for euer as we maye learne the same in Ihon vt The which christ is named an aultar for that vpoÌ him alone we laye powre our spiritual sacrifices namely our prayers brokeÌ hartes otherwise not acceptable to god the father according to this saying of Peter 1 Petr 2 Offer vp spiritual sacrifices acceptable to god for Iesu christe sake Hebre. 1â By christ sayth Paule we offer the sacrifice of prayse alway to god that is to wete the fruytes of those lippes which confesse his name Thys is the laste argumentacion of them that be deduced fetched out of the scripture which semeth any thing forceable for the prest sacrifice As touchiÌg thys place of Mathew v. When thou offerest a gyft at the aultar etc NotwythstaÌding it meÌcioneth expresli both an aultar an offredge Howbeit for so moch as it was theÌ vttered wheÌ the ceremoniall lawe of Moyses stode in hys wounted effecte and and force whych coÌmaunded theÌ both to be vsed and spokeÌ also to theÌ who were theÌ obliged bounde to obey the sayd law For that theÌ the new testameÌt was not ful institute ratified It enforceth nothyng at al for like offring aultare to be frequeÌted vsed emoÌg vs christians By reason the heretofore named law is through the ordinaunce establyshment of the new testameÌt vtterly abandoned repeled In that sayth Paul he saythe a new Testamente he hath abrogate the old And as touchiÌg thys sayinge of Paule ãâ¦ã And they which wayte at the aultar ar partakers of the aultar it importeth nothing at al in the behalfe of masse sacrifice wherof ther is no meÌcion made It is but the fourmer parte of a symylitude fetched out of the ceremonial law of Moyses and ãâã thus ⪠As in moyses law whoso serued the aultare as thee Leuytes dyd lyued thereby Ryght so now in the new TestameÌt who so preacheth the gospell shal haue hys lyuinge through the preachment therof For Paule in his the alledged texte others incidente hereto endeuoureth hymselue to argue a lyuelyhode to be deiu payable to the gospel preachers of theyr auditours for ther euangelical preachemeÌt Consyder dere reder wel the entier and full sayinge of Paule you shal easely perceaue he meaneth thus Do ye not sayth he vnderstande how that they whych minister in the teÌple haue theyr fyndynge of the temple And they which wayt at the aultar ar partakers of the aultar Euen so also note the applicatioÌ of the fourme two symilitudes dyd the lord ordeyn that they whyche preache the gospell shuld lyue of the gospel Yf the former part of the sayd symylitude were so to be takeÌ that it shuld meane the now ther be certen ministers who shuld serue the aultare it is to wete shuld masse it then the gospel preachers shuld not masse it at al. For that by Paules doctryne to serue the aultare to preache be soundrye and seuerable offices and ministeryes Which thyng accordeth not with our catholique doctrine which teacheth that the gospell preachers must masse it also But wat meane I to be so moche in the soylyng of these two last recited scryptures whych yf they had bene any thynge effectual for the proufe of the prieste sacryfyce as the before alledged seme Mayster doctour Smythe wold haue pleased them wyth in hys boke made for the defence of thee sayde sacryfyce as he hathe doone thee remnaunte and not in the margente therof Thus haue I at full both declared and argued that Christes bodye and bloud ought not to be sacryfyced of the Massers in theyr masse eyther to clense our synne eyther els to thanke and serue god wythall and that the reasons which the catholiques deduce out of the scripture to the mayntenaunce therof enforce nothing for the same But saye oure catholyques the aunciente and holye Doctours as Austeyne Chrisostome and others expressely auouche thee Lordes bodye and bloud to be offered of the ministers whych thyng they wold neuer haue affyrmed oneles they were offered so in verye dede and that accordynge too Gods worde In dede it is fulle certayne that the sayd Doctours auouche both thee LORDES bodye and and hys bloude to bee sacrificed but not after oure Catholiques meaninge For why they vnderstand by the sacryfyce of christes body bloud done by the minister only the resembleance and memorye of the true bloudy sacryfyce of the sayd body bloude which is the coÌmunion not any real true sacrifice of the same executed by the priest as the catholiques mistake theÌ We ofte vse to saye sayth Austen to bonifacius wheÌ eastrr approcheth nyghe that to morow or the next daye is the lordes passion yet it is many yeares sythe he suffered and the passioÌ was neuer but ones And vpon the sonday we saye this daye he dyd agayn ryse howbeit it is many yeres sence he rose Now is there no maÌ so folisshe to reproue vs as lyers for so saying because we name those dayes after the similitude of those in whych these matters were done so that is called the same daye which is not the very same daye but by course of tyme lyke it And it is sayde to be done thee same daye throughe meane of the celebration of the sacrament whych is not done the same daye but longe tofore Was not christ ones sacrificed in hymselue yet in the sacrameÌt is sacrificed for the people not onelye eche ester holy day but eche day And he lieth not who beinge demaunded answereth he is offered For yf the sacramentes haue not some sembleaunce of the matters wherof they be sacramentes they were noo sacramentes at all Of this sembleauÌce oft they take the names of the thynges by theÌ sygnyfyed Lo there it dothe full wel appere that by Austeynes mynde the sacramente of christes body bloud is so named thee sacryfyce of theÌ both as esterday is named the day of the lordes resurrection good frydaye his passyon daye But the sayd dayes benot termed fsr that the lord in very dede agayne ryseth in th one resuffreth in thother but by reason his passyon in th one hys resurrectyoÌ in thother is represented signifyed Therfore the coÌmunioÌ is called the sacrifice of the lordes body bloud not the they be sacrificed verely iÌ the same but in coÌsideracion theyr sacrifice is bothe recorded resembled in the sayde communion or sacramente The celebrating of the coÌmunion saythe Ekius in the tenthe chap. of hys fourmer boke of the masse sacrifice dedicate to the kynge of Pole for the it is an ymage resembling Christes passioÌ the true sacrifice may be named alway a sacrifice As Austeyn sayth to Simplicius Images ar wonte to be called by the names of those thynges wherof they be ymages