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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

charytable dilection for the which he gaue his onely sonne to say wherefore taried he so long why came he no soner I haue spoken this for to touche and abate the ingratitude and arrogaunce of many poore blynde persones the which at this present tyme to whom it hath pleased God by his infinite bounty many festing him selfe by his holy worde and gospell of saluacion the whych a certayn of tyme by the permission of tyme was dispised contemned caste vnder fote corrupt put in forgetfulnes sai these wordes of plasphemy or other like and wherfore hath he taried so longe wherfore shewed he thys no soner Haue not our predecessors lyued well It suffiseth vs to lyue as they ded so many great clerkes wise folkes folowing the counsailes and determinacions of the vniuersities the Cerimonies and ordynaunces of the Pope may they fayle which be wordes of ignoraūt folkes or mockers hard hertedand obstynate By the which wordes their ignoraūce so clerely doeth shew that it is noyesome as touchinge the misteries of God They vnderstand nothing but by infidelite beinge put in reproued sences wtout teare or reuerence preferring horible blasphemes whiche is a signe of the yre and furor of God decla ryng vpon suche folkes ineuitable ruyne and most dredfull damnacyon Also all suche wordes and allegacions vene inutile vaine without any efficace for the Turkes and Sarasins wyl say asmuch of their lawe Than we muste mekely tak and receiue the gift grate of God at suche tyme as hys good pleasure is to gyue it vs without disputing wherfore he hath taried tyll now wyth out allegyng multitude or puralite of persones nor also speke of the life or ende of them that haue leued here to fore For God is mighti to dispose his creatures at his wil and no mā may say wherfore dost thou so More ouer it were better to folowe the onely Myche hauyng the spirite of God ●o● ii than all the sacrifiers Prophetes of Baall hauing the spirite of errour ii Reg. 28. Howe be it I beuele stedfastly that if in the time past the euangelike truth had ben thus'shewed as it is now that many of our predecessours would rather haue indeuored them mekdly and faithfully to haue receiued it beter thā we do now the world is so peruerted and corrupt by the doctrine of mē which is a leuin of the Pharises Ma. xxvi the which Iesus Christ admonisheth vs to e●chue flee Mark viii Neuertheles we must not for the hardnes and malice of some aduersaries and enimies of the truth Actes iii. leaue to declare and manifest asmuch as shal be possible the pure true worde of God In the which without any doubt al they shall beleue that be ordeyned to the life eternal and none other all to the honor glory and prayse of god To the which thynge as true and obedient childrē to him we ought to procur wtout sparing anye thinge or in aniwise to dissimule This is for an aduertisment that in this presēt mater it behoueth eche one to stay wholy to the holy word of god as to that wherby al creatures shal be iudged All thing ought to be examined and proued and none maye contrary it Now for to touch the purpose wherof presētly we treate It is nedefull by holy scriptures to declare and euidently to shewe how the masse ordeined of the Pope and Bishops and other parsones whiche in greate pride againste right and reason named them selfe of the church is directly against verite manifestly against the holy worde of God And therfore it is an abhominoble thyng that ought not to be permitted to endure by cause the by the same the Lord god is greatly offended And the most parte of the world vnhappily seduced and begiled The whiche masse vnder shadow colour of holynes the more easily to seduse and deceyue the world hath ben brought and thus cautelously compassed not by holy scripture Wherin cannot onely be founde the name of masse But by sondri Popes and Bishops with other lyke it hath ben founde and put in the stead of the holy supper of Iesus Christ of the holy table of the precious holy bread of thākesgeuinge the which ought to be taken of the cōgregation of al faythful Christē people in minde recordation of the death and passion of Iesus Christ in remembraūce also of the charite dilection wherwith he loued vs so muche that he gaue his lyfe for vs Lykewise in significatiō of the charite and loue fraternall wherby we ought to loue eche other as members of the bodye of Iesus Christe In the stead of the whyche so salutary and cōsolable instituciō in pōpious Ceremony for theyr pleasure they haue caused vs for to worship a lytell bread as if it were the very God wherin all idolatry al iniquite and wickednes is reised And this haue they done the better to authorise theyr reygne and lordeshipe the better to exercise theyr tiranny the more easily to make marchādises of our soules deuour the substaunce of the people finally to cause thē selfes to be worshipped For as people effronted without shame hauing harlots foreheades they durst well say publy shed that they were more worthy than angels or the virgin Marye Because that if one of thē albeit that he is infect a harlot full of filthines helde a morcell of breade in his hande he hath the power if he wil furth with wythout declaration at his onely worde there to cause the sonne of god to come and descende in body and in soule all a lyue as byg and as hole as he hanged on the crosse to beare him here there to kepe him in a boxe or an almery to eate hym swalow him whan he list To be short and let him do what he wil it is an horrible thinge to thinke on it And if they be demaūded from whēs they haue cometh to thē this merueilous power more thā the other that be not disguised anointed shorne or cliped They answere better thā they wene For they say it is bycause of the caracter that is to say the tokē meruelous marke wher which they be sygned but if they thoughte well on that that they do say truly shame and feare would styll them For it is wrytten that none maye cheapen sell nor bye but he haue the marke of the beaste Apoc. viii How be it because that our mater may be wel builded clerely vnderstād proued It is necesary to touche declare and shewe in perticuler some pointes of abhominacion that be fosid in this masse For to shew all it is almost impossyble and I beleue that no mā can do it if any hade power gyuen for to do it it behoueth hym to haue a very great boke so much maledictiō is enclosed therin detestable perdition Not withstāding the to many it semeth precious and fayre But as it is writen in S. Luke