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A57615	The Romish mass-book with notes and observations thereupon, plainly demonstrating the idolatry and blaspheymy thereof with unanswerable arguments proving it no service of God : published at this juncture to inform mens judgments and put a stop to the designs of those that endeavor to introduce popery amongst us / faithfully translated into English.	R. V.; T. D., 17th cent.	1683 (1683)	Wing R1907; ESTC R27564	73,245	148

For Christs Body is not they confess white round and thin nor his Blood grateful and pleasant And Bread and Wine there is none at all you hear and must believe there 's an end on 't this is Bedlam Doctrine with a Witness 'T is a strange Parodox to me that Christ should eat his own body and drink his own blood yet they affirm it why so why then say I the Body and Blood of Christ was in his own mouth and stomach and yet sitting at the table with his Disciples at the same time It was broken and whole eaten and uneaten and all at once Nay his blood was shed and in the Cup and thence drank by himself yet not one Drop missing out of any Vain of his Body Ay and to confound us the Eater was the thing Eaten and the thing Eaten was the Eater to For with his Body did he Eat and this his Body that he Eat so his Disciples did Eat him as Crucified and dead his Body broken and blood ●●●d but he was still alive untouched and before their faces these are monstrous Goblins The Scripture assures us t is true BREAD and WINE that we receive in the Sacrament Matth. 26. 26. Mark 14. 22. Luke 22. 19. And the Apostle calls it bread no less then three times after the Consecration 1 Cor. 11. 26 28. And calls the Cup the Communion of Christs Blood and Bread the Communion of his Body Chap. 18. V. 16. c. Certainly the most Idolatrous among the Heathens may learn Idolatry from these Nicknamed Christians the Ancient Romans us'd to make their Gods of wise or at least Valient Men the Greeks chose reasonable Creatures for the object of their adoration The Egyptians more brutish then the 〈◊〉 would yet have a living Creature for their chief Diety But papists take a senseless lifeless thing O more then Heathen Idolatry O fulsom Nicknam'd Eucharist away with thee Reader if thou dost but impartially consider these Arguments and brief Reasonings I am satisfied you will judg this Mass to be no Institution of Christs but rather a most abominable rabble of Blashphemys patcht together by the Antichristian synagogue of Rome in opposition to the worship of the Everliving Jesus and a thing quite different from the sacred supper of the Lord. By this Mass ariseth false hope and a false remedy is promised to wicked lives for such if they hear Mass in the Morning think all 's well and bolster themselves up in security giving the reins to all kind of sensuality and the Debaucheryes that are Alamode For who would deny himself of his beloved pleasure though never so contrary to true piety that believes alittle Mercenary Priest A mass or some Holy water can expiate his sin O says one I am now purged from all iniquity and am a good Catholick Innocent as the Child unborn Ay Crys another I thank God I saw my Maker to day I am well enough so takes his Evening wallow in wickedness and next Morning a Mass makes him a Saint again Certainly that can be none of Gods way that incourages men to vice as this 〈…〉 which besides its Numberless abominati● 〈…〉 d in a language unknown to the People and therefore had it been never so good no way edyfying as the Apostle says in one of his Epistles to the Corinthians mentioned before Objection me thinks these words at every plain This is my body what will you make Christ a Lyer the Catholick Church of Rome take them litterally and you ought to believe it Answer the Scripture is not always to be taken a● the lerter foundeth but the intent and purpose of the holy Spirit the Dictator of it is to be minded For ●● you will always follow the bare words you will quickly shake down the greatest part of Christianity What 's plainer then thi my Father is greater then I John 14. 28. whence sprung the Arrian Heresie yet Christ says John 10. 30. I and my Father are one whence some deny'd the distinction of Persons in the Trinity It is said Acts 4 32. that the multitude of believers had one heart and one soul yet every one of them had a heart and soul peculiar to himself He said that the Man and Wife are one Flesh yet each has a distinct Body Judah said of his Brother Joseph he is our Flesh Gen 37. 27. yet he has not their real Flesh 't is said of Melchise●●●h that he had neither Father nor Mother yet he had both Christ is called a Rock a Door a Lamb a Vine c. yet he was not really and materially such the Cup is called the New Testament yet call it a Metonimy so that you may see by these and many other Instances of 〈◊〉 like Nature how frequently such figurative and ●●opical Speeches are used in Scripture as may be seen 〈◊〉 large in a late Book intituled Tropologia and 〈◊〉 sacra c. And why must this only Text be so 〈◊〉 confined to a meer literal interpretation 〈◊〉 the sense and reason in the World 〈…〉 culous to say that a thing is done in 〈…〉 it self this Sacrament is used in 〈…〉 therefore not Christ himself 〈…〉 both Visible and Invisible but the Sacrament is visible and the Body of Christ invisible therefore they are not one the Body of Christ is food not for the Body but for the Soul and therefore it must be received by faith only which is the Souls mouth Hence Augustine says in Johan tract 15. Quid paras ventrem dentem Crede manducasti Why makest thou ready thy Tooth thy Belly Believe thou hast eaten Here 's a Sylogism for you in Datisi Of whatsoever sort the Mouth is of such is its food But the Mouth of the Spirit is spiritual not bodily Ergo it receiveth Christs Body spiritually not bodily Spiritual hunger must be spiritually satisfied the most delicate and pallate pleasing dishes cannot content the longings of the fasting Soul 't is only spiritual Food lie feeds on In my Judgment the very Mice are wiser then these Dating Priests for if the wafer were not real bread for all the Priests conjuring they wou'd never steal it away and eat it But if it be a God then the Church Rats are well fed when they are banqueted with Gods Flesh Under the Law No man was to eat or drink Blood yea the prohibition is repeated in the Acts of the Apostles but these blood thirstly Priests gulge of their Gods Blood unmercifully yea in the very time of their lent even on Good-Friday they eat Flesh and drink blood when the poor Lay-men must not eat an Egg or a Mess of Milk under pain of Church curses if not Damnation If this Bread could be metamorphos'd into Christ real Christ St. Paul needed not to have wish'd to be dissolved and to be with Christ when he might be every day with him at the Altar But alas that Blessed man knew better things The Scripture and all the antient Fathers tells us that Christ is ascended into Heaven and is there to remain at the Right hand of the Father how can it be true then that every Mass Priest can conjure him down to be eaten at pleasure Ay ●●d make a horrible Multiplication of him I could 〈◊〉 〈…〉 though from Antiquity if it were need● 〈◊〉 how can the Sacrament be called a break 〈…〉 〈◊〉 if there be no Bread remaining unriddle 〈◊〉 God makers I have read that Henry the 〈◊〉 Emperor was poyson'd in the Host and victor 〈◊〉 in the Chalice what a poyson'd God! 〈…〉 〈◊〉 Sacrament could speak and doubtless 〈…〉 it were alive it would cry out O! I am bitter 〈◊〉 swallow'd I perish I mould I am kept in a Box f 〈…〉 of Rats if you leave me out all Night I shall be d 〈…〉 before Morning If the Mouse gets me I am gon●● Bread I am no God don't believe the wretches mu● murder murder c. I will conclude my Argument 〈…〉 st this Upstart transubstantiation which wi 〈…〉 up from the bottomless Pit in the time of Pop● 〈◊〉 at the ● at the Latarant Councel in Rome abou● 〈…〉 rs agoe with these pithy Sentences of a few 〈◊〉 Fathers 〈◊〉 in his homily on Levit. says si secundum litera● naris c. that is if ye follow that which is written after 〈…〉 ener unless ye shall eat the Flesh of the Son of Man 〈◊〉 shall be no life in you that letter kills So Chrysosto● 〈◊〉 Hom 46. Caro non prodest c. The flesh profite● that is to say my words must be taken and expounde● 〈◊〉 by Spirit for he that heareth after the flesh gainet● 〈◊〉 Now what is it to understand Carnally to take 〈◊〉 simply as they be spoken and not to consider any fur● 〈◊〉 meaning therein for things must not be judged 〈…〉 seen but all Mysteries must be seen with inwar 〈…〉 that is to say spiritually Teitullian Contra Marc 〈…〉 says Christus accepit panem Corpus suum fe 〈…〉 est Corpus meum dicendo id est figura Corpor 〈…〉 that is Christ took Bread and made it his Body say 〈…〉 Body that is to say the figure of my Body 〈…〉 Augustine Irenaus c. say with one voic●

must know denotes the coming of Christ out of the Virgin 's Womb or a Bridegroom to his Bride here 's like to be Jolly Work 1 He hath sed them with the finest of the Wheat Ay to be sure the Priests won't eat brown Georges when they can get White-bread they are all furnisht with the best Belly-Stuff their belly as well as the Wafer is a God to them This Cake God is a notable Caterer It furnishes 'em with the best bits and most delicate Wines The first Councel of Africa about the time o Pope Boniface the first and the third Councel of Toledo in the days of Pelagius the second and the Councel of Basil did prohibite these kind of Interludes Spiritual Dances and other Antique Freaks upon Festival Days especially in Churches Wee 'll pass by the Mystical sence of their repealed Kyrie Eleisons and Christe Eleisons which are Odd Numbers too viz. 3. 9. as Magical Foolleries and vain babling c. Note that the Fragments which relate to the Holy Ghost and to the Virgin Mary have been added to this hymn by others and not by the makers of the rest however you have them as they are for we cannot find the Authors of them They are only said on the Virgin Maries days that is on the days Dedicated to her CHAP. VI. VVHen he hath done this he kisseth the Altar in the midst and afterwards turns himself to the People saying The Lord be with you Answer And with thy Spirit Priest Let us pray O God who under a Marvelous Sacrament hast left us a Remembrance of thy Passion we beseech thee to grant us so to honour the holy Mysteries of thy Body and Blood that we may always find the Fruit of thy Redemption in us who livest and Reignest with God the Father in the Unity of the Holy Spirit God World without end Amen Here is to be Noted that when either the Collector the Epistle is said his hands are not joined together but the Tops of his Fingers Through our Lord. Here as well in the End of his Prayer as of th● Mass hi●●ands ●●e to be joined together Notes This Priest is terribly in Love with the Table for he kisses it often a piece of Complaisance he is well skill'd in c. his backside is towards the People because the Situation of their Churches are Eastwards but when he Complements them he Vouchsafes to turn about with his Dominus vobiscum but his main Business is to talk with the Altar-trash before him Here his Lordship the Bishop when he says Mass instead of Dominus Vobiscum the Lord be with you is to say Pax Domini sit semper Vobis●um let the Peace of God be always with you in spight of the Bracarean Councel about the time of Pope Honorius the first who Enacted that both Bishop and Priest should salute the People after one and the same Fashion This Oremus of the Priest which signifies Let us Pray should denote that the People which are at Mass should understand what is said else how can they Pray with him when he uses a strange Language see 1 Cor. 14. 2. to the 28 Verse The Epistle in Corpus Christi day is taken from the 1 Cor. 11. from verse 24. to 29. which of it self Confutes this Abominable Mass And if the words are to be understood without a Trope then the Cup must needs be the New Testament and not blood See 1 Cor. 11. 25. and the other Evangelical Texts that treat of the Lords Supper Note also by the way that that Piece of the Epistle to the Corinthians mentioned just now is ill Translated in this mass-Mass-Book and worse applyed For if we compare the Mass with the Lords Supper here described we shall find it to have no face nor form of the same which Paul expresly saith he received of the Lord not daring to add or diminish from the Institution But alas what a Mass indeed of Blasphemy and Superstition is this Popish Mass and what a rabble of Nensensical and Wretched Ceremonies out-doing the silly Heathens attend it In a word it is no more a kin to the Evangelical Sacrament then the Bottomless Pit from whence it came is to Heaven Then follows their Gradual Sequence and Prose as Foppish and Ridiculous as the rest and therefore Omitted that we may hasten to the Canon it self or very body of their Mass CHAP. VII AFterwards let him carry his Mass-Book unto the 1 other side and say O Lord open thou my lips and then my mouth shall shew forth thy Praise When he hath so done let him look to the 2 Sacrifice and lift up the Patten upon which the Host must lye looking into the Chalice whether there be Wine and Water in it or no If there be none then let him take some blessing the Wine and the Water and putting them out into the Chalice let him say Out of the side of our Lord Jesus Christ issued Blood ✚ and likewise the Water of Baptism for the Remission of Sins ✚ let the Wine and the Water be mingled together In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of t●e Holy Ghost ✚ After that let him say Lord Comman● to bless The Lord be in my Heart and in my Lips that I may worthily pronounce the Holy Gospel of Peace In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost Amen ✚ And then let him make a Sign of the Cross When the Deacon readeth the Gospel let him kneel down before the Altar and desire the Priest to bless him saying 3 Lord command to bless Then let the Priest say The Lord be in thy Heart and in thy Lips that thou mayest worthily utter his Gospel in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost ✚ Notes 1 What Ridiculous Tricks are these Now at one end then at the middle next at the end of the Table passes and Repasses short and long turns as the nature of the Jig requires Ye blind Stupid Wretches where did Christ or his Ministers command or practice such Diabolical Fopperies the very Nature of Gods Worship is so Diametrically Opposite to these Monstrous Fooleries that it were folly to confute them any more then by meer naming of them 2 The Bread and Wine not yet Consecrated are here called a Sacrifice and I am willing to believe that these Innocent Creatures have then no harm in them but when the Priests unsanctified breath Pollutes them they become an Idol if not a pair of Idols 3 Here you have the Priest commanding himself to bless himself and after doth that which he commandeth himself Fine Apish Popish Nonsence CHAP. VIII IN all Solemn Feasts let the Deacon kneeling before the Altar desire to have the Incense blessed saying Bless ye Then let the Priest Answer The Lord Be thou blessed by him in whose honour thou shalt be burnt In the Name of the Father c. ✚ After that the Priest