them are a thing whereof no trace is to be found in all Antiquitie As also the taxe of the Papall Chauncerie wherein the Absolutions for * Cap. de absolut oÌ„ibus Absolutio pro co qui interfecit patrem matrem gros 7 Absolut io pro eo qui falsificavit litteras Apostolicas grossos 15. Murther for Parricide Inceste Perjury are taxed at a certaine rate of money So many groats or so many Ducats for a man that hath killed his Father so much for him that hath lyen with his Mother A Roman Jesuit called Silvester Petra sancta wrote lately a Booke against me wherein he teaches us a thing which we knew not before He saith in the thirteenth Chapter that during the time of Advent and Lent the Pope permits not a man in Rome to passe the whole night in a bawdy house that would be thought 〈◊〉 violating of the holynesse of Lent Wherefore in those dayes of devotion it is onely permitted to passe the whole day and a part of the night in the Bawdy-house Can such Lawes be found in the Ancient Church Briefly it is a very new Religion and a heape of doctrines and Lawes unheard off in all Antiquitie expressly invented for gain and for the raising of the Popes Empire and building up that Monarchie which was not in the first ages of the Church And for to keepe the People in ignorance least they should discover these Mysteries For example Indulgences Privâ—â—â— Masses Masses and Sâ—ffrage◠〈…〉 dead are very lucrative 〈…〉 to the Pope and 〈…〉 Auriculâ—◠〈…〉 the 〈…〉 Conscienâ—◠〈…〉 jection 〈…〉 is not givâ—◠〈…〉 and satisâ—â—◠〈…〉 Monkes serve to fill up that Spirituall Treasure of the Pope whereof he carries the keyes distributing these satisfactions to the people by his Indulgences so lucrative and profitable to the Pope and his Clergie By Absolutions the Priests make themselves Judges of Soules and Judges in Gods cause In reserving to themselves and unto Kings the communion of the Cup they make themselves companions unto Kings and exalt themselves above the People By the single life of Bishops and other Clergie men the Pope keepes the Ecclesiasticall goods from being wasted and consumed and from being diverted and turned to the reliefe and enriching of the Children In painting God the Father dressed like a Pope they plant this opinion in the minde of the People that the Pope is like unto God and that God makes great account of the Pope since he borrowes his habit By Canonizing of Saints the Pope makes the People to worship his groomes and gives the title of Saint for a recompence of Services By the Sacrament of Penance the Pope and his Priests usurpe the power of imposing corporall and pecuniary punishments * Thus caused he Henry the second of England to be whipt by a troope of Monkes As is to be seene in Matth. Paris and in West monasteriensis so farre as to cause Kings to â—e whipt By the Service in the Latin â—ongue hee entertaines the People in â—gnorance and giving them his tongue planteth in the midst of them a marke of his Empire He gives them the Roman Language for to came and inure â—hem to the Roman Religion The Popes power to unthrone Kings makes him King of Kings and exalts him on an Empire above all the Greatnesse that is in the World Images which are called ignorant mens Books accustome the People to forget and be without the Scriptures which in those Countries where the inquisition raignes is a Booke altogether unknowne among the People By Transubstantiation Priests make Christ and have him in their owne power By Holy-dayes that the Pope ordaines he rules the Civill Government causing the Shops to be shut up and the Seates of Justice and of the Kings Counsell to cease When the Merchants shop shutteth the Clergie-mens shop openeth For then doe the People goe to gaine Pardons as they tearme it and visit Reliques and alwayes the Bason is by By the distinction of meates and fasting dayes the Pope rules the Markets and bellies and Kitchins and Kings and Peoples tables And the more prohibitions there is the oftner come they to the Pope and to the Prelates for to have dispensations The Pope hath made of Matrimonie a Sacrament that he might take away from the civill Magistrates and Judges Secular the right of judging of such causes for it belongs to the Church to judge of Sacraments By Dispensations in degrees of consanguinity which in the Word of God hinders the Marriage the Pope maketh that the Children of Princes for such dispensations are given but to Great ones are obliged to defend the Popes Authority if they will be held for legitimate By Annates or first fruites of Benefices and the sale of Archiepiscopall Cloakes the Pope makes an incredible gaine And there is such a Cloake for which he drawes above threescore thousand Ducats By the power which the Pope assumes to himselfe to change the Commandements of God and to dispense of Vowes and Oathes made unto God he exalts himselfe above God For hee that can free and exempt men from obeying God and being faithfull to him must be greater than God The Invocation of Saints the Adoration of Reliques and the Miracles which are said to be wrought at those Reliques serve to build up many Churches Monasteries which are as so many props to the Papall Domination In sum all the subtilty and policy in the World hath been brought therein Never was there any Empire built with so much craft and cunning The doctrine which teacheth that Christ Jesus by his death hath delivered us from the guilt and punishment of sinnes before Baptisme but as for the sinnes committed after Baptisme that we must beare the punishment for them either in this life or in Purgatory hath clipped Christs benefice for to make place unto their traffick and for to give credit to their Indulgences and Masses for the dead In a word they make profit of all Death it selfe is tributary to the Roman Clergie CHAP. XXIII Answer to the Question made unto us by our Adversaries Where was your Religion before Calvin THis demand which every foot is made unto us by our Adversaries viz. Shew us where your Religion was before Calvin is altogether injust and deceitful For to keepe us from examining the Roman Religion by the holy Scripture they amuse us with humane Histories For this is not a question of Divinity but of History wherein God hath not commanded us to be learned and skilfull that wee may bee saved But hath commanded us to be instructed in his Word At the day of judgement God shall not aske us whether we have beleeved as they did beleeve before Calvin but Saint Paul tels us that God shall judge us according to his Gospell and that men shall be judged by the Law of God Rom. 2.12 16 That if for to be saved it were necessary to know the History of the ages before Calvin mounting upwards
THE ANATOMIE OF THE MASSE Wherein is shewed by the Holy Scriptures and by the testimony of the Ancient Church that the MASSE is contrary unto the Word of God and farre from the way of Salvation By PETER du MOVLIN Doctor and Professor in Divinity And Translated into English By JAM MOUNTAINE LONDON Printed by J. B. for Humphrey Robinson and are to be sold at his Shop at the Signe of the three Pigeons in Pauls Church-Yard 1641. Imprimatur Tho Wykes R. P. Episc Lond. Capell Domest TO The Right Honourable and most Illustrious Lords The Earle of Bedford The Earle of Hartford The Earle of Essex The Earle of Warwick The Viscount Say and Seale The Viscount Savile Lord Wharton Lord Brooke RIGHT HONOVRABLE GOD having been pleased not to suffer my heart to be much enamoured with worldly preferments imployes of that nature whereby I have possessed my soule in quietnesse and enjoyed more liberty In acknowledgement of that favour and being perswaded withall that God hath not weaned me from these pleasures for to sit still to be idle my chiefe studie hath been according to my poore ability to busie my mind and to apply my heart to spirituall things which might both better my selfe and others and make me if not so rich and so considerable in this life yet I am sure through God his free mercy rich and eminent enough in the life to come Wherefore in the prosecution of that holy resolution after severall Works of this nature which by Gods providence I have given to the publick in the French tongue and which I may say it truly without vanity have not been without fruit It hath pleased the same divine Wisdome to put into my heart to give unto this Pious Nation this little Work in their owne language And forasmuch as your Honours are of the eminentest of the kingdome and of the mainest and principal Pillars which under your most Pious and most Gratious Soveraigne uphold both this Church and Common wealth furthermore seeing also that all the eyes of this florishing Nation grounded upon that assured knowledge it hath of your fervent Love to GOD Loyalty to your PRINCE and tender affection to your Countrey are now fixed upon you as upon so many Moses standing in the gap between them and Gods threatning judgements I have thought my selfe bound in duty having so faire an opportunity as this is to crowd among the rest into your presence and to shew as wel as others this publick and true testimony of my most humble respects in presenting first with all humility this poore labour of mine unto your Honors joyntly being unwilling so long as I finde divers presidents of the like dedications to divide and separate those whom GOD and the KING have joyned together beseeching you to accept of it to vouchsafe it your Patronage and to beare in its forefront your Honourable Names I presume that for the Author his sake your Honors will not deny me that favour And the rather because it tends to the same end that yee aime at to wit Gods Glory and the furtherance of True Religion For Most Illustrious Lords I have beene an eye-witnesse above this eighteen years of that Constant Zeale and Exemplary Pietie which is so resplendent in your Honors And oftentimes being ravished in admiration to see such extraordinary gifts graces in such great Persons notwithstanding the corruption of the times I have blessed God heartily for it and prayed his Divine Majestie to powre more and more upon your Lordships the dew of his heavenly graces unto the end And indeed Right Honourable to conclude this in a word I can attest upon mine owne knowledge of that eighteen yeares standing that although your Honours doe live here among men your conversation hath been for the most part with God neglecting no meanes for all your great and weighty occasions to waite and attend upon his service in his holy Courts and Sanctuaries But alas all that I can say in that behalfe is but as a drop of water throwne into the vast Ocean And therefore Right Honorable I must crave leave to say no more and aske pardon that I have said so little and so far short of what your Honors deserve As for the Author and Worke I should say something too if he and his Workes were not better knowne than I can expresse Yet I will say this by the way that he hath been is and long may hee be one of the Worthiest and most powerfull Instruments in Gods hand for the conversion of Soules destruction of Babel and rearing up of Bethel as this Age hath afforded And for this particular Worke of his it shall suffice me to say to give it the highest commendation I can that it is Peter du Moulins Finally Right Honourable I should say something also touching my selfe which shall bee onely to beseech againe your Lordships to be pleased to Pardon the boldnesse of a poore stranger in dedicating this small book and first fruits of his that have seene the light in the English tongue unto your Honours excuse the defects that may be found in the same though I hope you shall finde it faithfully translated and free from any grosse barbarismes in the Language and to attribute that excesse of temeritie to the excesse of the honour I beare unto your Lordships for whom I shall never cease to call upon God for an encrease of Honor and long Prosperity here on Earth untill that being full of dayes and having finished your course in his feare yee receive that Crowne of glory which is laid up for you in Heaven And so fearing to be too tedious and troublesome unto your Honours I humbly take my leave and rest Most Renowned Lords Your most humble and most devoted servant JAM MOVNTAINE A TABLE OF THE CHAPTERS FIRST BOOKE Chap. 1. THe Institution of the holy Supper by our Lord Jesus Christ as it is contained in the first Epistle of the Apostle Saint Paul to the Corinthians Chapter 11. page 1. Chap. II. Foure and thirty contrarieties betweene the holy Supper and the Masse And how farre the Church of Rome is departed from the institution of the Lord. pag. 3. Chap. III. How the change in the Lords Institution hath changed the nature of the Sacrament And that in the Masse there is no consecration 24. Chap. IV. That by altering the Lords Institution the Romane Church hath changed the nature of Christ 26. Chap. V. Of Maldonat his audaciousnesse in giving Saint Paul and Saint Luke the lie and in correcting Saint Matthew and Mark And of the fruit of the Vine 30. Chap. VI. How much Christ is dishonoured by this Doctrine And of the character indelible And of the power of creating ones Creator 35. Chap. VII That the very words of the Masse are contrary to Transubstantiation 41. Chap. VIII Recrimination of our Adversaries 43. Chap. IX Causes why the Pope admitteth not of any alteration in the Masse and will not
the power of Priests who make him and pin him up and walke him and may if they will cast him into the fire As Gabriel Biel a famous Doctor saith in the first Lesson upon the Canon of the Masse †Biel Lect. 1. in Canonem Missae Super utrumque corpus Christi Sacerdos insignes habet potesiates The Priest hath great power over the one and the other body of Christ that is to say over the Church and over the consecrated hoste Whereupon he addeth * Quis hujus rei â—ndâ—t similia Qui creavit me si fas est dicere dedit mihi creare se Eâ— qui creavit me creatur mediante me Who ever saw things like unto this He that hath created me if I may say so hath given me to create him And he that hath created mee without me is created by my meanes Thus Priests doe create Christ in the Masse and make Christ who is made already As if one should beget a man already born CHAP. VII That the very words of the Masse are contrary to Transubstantiation IN the midst of this alteration of the Lords Institution God hath permitted that in the Masse some clauses should remaine which manifestly condemne the Transubstantiation For a great part of the Canon of the Masse are prayers which have beene added when they did not yet beleeve the Transubstantiation As when the Priest having before him the consecrated hoste saith * Osserimus praeclarae â—uae Majestati de tuis domis datis hostiam puram Wee offer to thine excellent Majesty of thy gifts and presents a pure hoste By these gifts they understand at this day Christ himselfe Surely never a man in his right sense called Christ gifts and presents in the plurall But that agrees very well with the bread and wine The Priest goes on saying †Supra quae propitio aâ— sereno vuliu respicere digneris accepta habere sicut accepta habere d gnatus es munera pueri tui justi Abel Vpon which things vouchsafe to looke with a cheerefull eye Is it not a jeast to call Christ these things and for a full measure of abuse to aske of God that he may looke upon Christ with a gracious eye as if Christ had need of our recommendation Moreover the Priest demandeth of God afterward that he would be pleased to have these gifts and presents as acceptable as he had acceptable the presents of Abel That is to say that Christ may be as acceptable unto God as the beasts sacrificed by Abel This prayer is good being said upon the bread and the wine but being said upon Christ it is altogether blasphemous Chiefly this is evident in that the Priest looking upon the consecrated hoste and the chalice saith that * Per Christum Dominum nostrum per quem haec omnia Domine semper bona creas sanctificas vivificas henedicis by Christ our Lord God creates alwayes for us these good things sanctifies them and vivifies them Can Christ be called these good things Doth God create and vivifie Christ alwayes And since God creates these things through Jesus Christ as the Masse saith it is certaine these things are not Christ But all that agrees very well with the bread and wine We must not omit that Christ giveing the bread to his Disciples said simply Take Eate But in the Canon of the Masse there is Accipite manducate ex hoc omnes Take and eate all of it Whosoever added these words E X HOC lie did not beleeve that in the Eucharist the Lords body was really eaten by the mouth of the body For to eate of that is to eate a part thereof and not all Which cannot be said of Christs naturall body CHAP. VIII Recrimination of our Adversaries THe Prophet Elisha accused the Israelites of Idolatry and of forsaking Gods Covenant They out of revenge called him bald-pate which was a reproach nothing belonging to the doctrine We stand upon the like termes with our Adversaries We accuse the Roman Church to have brough in Idolatry in the Masse worshipping of the Sacrament and a Sacrifice of Christs body which Christ hath not instituted To have taken away from the people the halfe of the Sacrament To have changed the nature of the Sacrament yea of Christ himselfe which are thing of importance and altogether essentiall to the Eucharist and to Christian Religion But they out of recrimination tell us that we have likewise changed many things in the Lords Institutution For say they ye solemnizâ— the Supper in the morning but Chriâ—â— instituted it after Supper Ye celebrate it in a Temple but Christ did celebrate it in an upper Chamber Yee receive women to the Communion But when Christ instituted the Eucharist there were none but men Things whereof the two first are indifferent and all three not onely are not of the essence of that Sacrament but even make no part of that action To this objection Christ affords us an answer For hee said Doe this in remembrance of mee Hee said not Doe this in such a place nor at such an houre nor with such a Sexe or such persons But hee said Doe this commanding us to doe as hee hath done and to imitate his action Christ did not exclude women If any had beene there present worthy to be partakers of the holy Supper he would not have rejected them CHAP. IX Causes why the Pope admitteth not of any alteration in the Masse and will not conforme himselfe to the Lords Institution THough the abuse be so apparent yet the Church of Rome and the Pope will not let goe their hold and suffer any change or alteration to be made in the Masse The cause of that is easie to be knowne For if the Church of Rome should yeeld to the least alteration it would overthrow the three Maximes that are the basis whereon all Popery is grounded whereof the first is that the Church of Rome cannot erre the second that the Pope and Church of Rome are not subject to the holy Scripture and have greater authority than the holy Scripture the third that the Pope and Church of Rome have power to change Gods Commandemens and make new Articles of Faith All which things are seene not one by practice in that all the doctrine 〈◊〉 the Roman Church is contrary to thâ— holy Scripture but also by example of Popish Councels and open profeâ—sion of the principall Doctors of thaâ— Church whereof I will alleadge soâ—â— places in the next chapter CHAP. X. Places wherin the Doctors and Councels of the Roman Church maintain that the Pope and the Church of Rome are not subject to thâ— Scripture and have greater authority than the Scripture anâ— may make voide and abolish thâ— Commandements of God THe Romish Decree and its Glosseâ— are all stuffed with this brave maxime * Can. Lect. Dist 34. in Gloss Papa dispensat contra Apostolum Innec III. Dâ—cretaâ—â—le Concessione Praeâ—end Tu. 8. c p. Proposâ—â—t