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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06744	The displaying of the Popish masse vvherein thou shalt see, what a wicked idoll the masse is, and what great difference there is between the Lords Supper and the Popes Masse: againe, what Popes brought in every part of the masse, and counted it together in such monstrous sort, as it is now used in the Popes kingdome. Written by Thomas Becon; and published in the dayes of Queene Mary.	Becon, Thomas, 1512-1567.	1637 (1637)	STC 1719; ESTC S115076	56,616	332

you cleane contrary to Christs institution And yee may justly be cal'd lecherous priests For ye abhorre godly and lawfull matrimonie and ye defile your selves with all ki●d of stinking whoredome and abominable Sodomitry Maids ye deflowre mens wives ye defile and widowes doe yee corrupt besides much other abomination which chast eares abhorre to heare Men meete to consecrate such a God and fit champions to say such divellish Masses GOD give you grace once to leave this most detestable wickednesse Moreover was not the Sacrament of CHRISTS body and bloud ordained to move and stir all men to friendship love and concord and to put away all hatred variāce and discord and to testifie a brotherly and unfained love betweene them that be the mēbers of Christ. But what friendship or love can bee maintain'd at that ministration of the Sacrament where one eateth and drinketh all alone as ye do at your Masses If it bee a Sacrament of Charitie and Love then ought the members of Christ charitably and lovingly to eat and drinke the Lords Supper together as the Apostle saith Wee are all partakers of one bread and of one cuppe and not one to devoure all alone For charitie consisteth not in one alone but in many And the Lords Supper is called a Communion and not an Union Therefore yee Masse-mongers grievously offend which contrary both to the commandement of CHRIST and the order of Charitie at your Masses eat and drinke up all alone and by this meanes yee make the the Lords Supper a Sacrament rather of hate and dissention than of love and unitie And heere commeth into my remembrance an History of a Christian of a Iew. The Christian perceiving the Iew to bee an honest civill man faithfull in his promise and upright in his dealing toward all men sorrowed greatly in his heart that hee was not also of the Christian beleefe The christian thinking that the most ready way to bring the Iew unto Christ was to leade him to church that he might there heare and see how well God was served among them desired the Iew upon a certaine Sabboth day to goe with him unto the temple of the Christians nothing doubting but if hee would so doe hee should bee allured to give over his Iewish opinions and to become a christian man The Iew consented and went with him to church where he quietly saw and beheld all things He heard iolly ringing pleasant singing and merry organs playing Hee beheld a sort of gay gawdy mawmets and a number of merry fellowes in the quire singing sometime high sometime low sometime in a meane and sometime nothing at all Hee saw also a fellow with a shaven crowne going up and downe in the church and casting water in the peoples teeth and afterward having a iolly coat upon his backe he saw him goe about the church-yard after an Image all the people following him After all these things hee saw that shaveling cast off the gay-coat againe and put on other game plaiers garments so to addres himselfe unto an altar covered with white linnen cloathes wherupon was set as hee thought meate and drinke for he saw the cup there After much singing and piping he saw the sacrificer that stood at the altar lift up a little thin round cake a cup of drinke above his head Here will bee good cheere thought the Iew anon for here are iolly signes proffers But when he saw the people fall downe worship the bread and cup hee marvailed greatly at their madnes Masse ended hee looked alwayes when the people should have beene called to eat and drink with Hicke-scorner that heaved the bread and cup over his head but no man had part with him He devourd all alone like Sim slap sauce when they were departed out of the church going home ward the christian willing to prove how the Iew was affected toward the christian religiō said unto him Sir how like you our religion and serving of God To whom the Iew answered ye have in the temple many things that would make a sad man glad and one that is sorrowfull cheerefull I meane your thundring of bells your playing on the organs your merry singing the casting of water in the peoples teeth and your running one after another about the church-yard like the Prior of Pricklingham and his covent All these things seeme to be matters of mirth used among you as I thinke onely to make you merry But the having of Idols in your temples I do not allow I see you also fall downe and worship a peece of bread and a silver cup which I iudge high abomination and damnable Idolatry And another thing there is used in your temples which I also do nothing like What is that quoth the christian I will tell you said the Iew. Yee talke cracke and boast much of charity but I say right well that there is little used among you For there was an Altar spred with fine white cloths and meat and drinke as I suppose set upon it I alwaies looked when ye should have beene called to eate and drinke together according to the order of charity but that shaveling that stood at the altar in the gay coat did both eat and drink all alone giving you no part with him which is a token of small charity friendship among you Certs you shal redresse these great vices and have more charity among you before I become one of your order And so the Iew refused to be made a christian God have mercy on us Among many other notable faults which the Iew perceived in our Temples this was not the least that one standing with his backe toward the people at an altar did eat and drink al alone giving no man part with him which is a token of small charity and friendship as the Iew said Verily the private masse wherin the sacrament of Christs body and bloud is too much abused hath beene and is the cause that many at this day doe abhorre the name of Christ and utterly condemne the christian religion God for his mercy drive this Idolatrous masse out of this realme once againe and restore unto us the true use of his holy Supper Amen Amen But let us see what followeth in your Popish masse and make an end When the Boy or Parish Clarke commeth againe with the Pax yee hold forth your chalice like Sir Ralph Rinspitcher for a little more drinke And when yee have once drunken up that yee hold forth your Goddard yet once againe to have a little more swill No marvell For peradventure ye fell the night before into a great heate while you kept company with your toying Thais and therfore no marvell silly soules though you drinke solemnly But O good Lord what wiping of the mouth and licking of the fingers is there then It would doe a woman good to see how cleanly Sir Iohn Sweet-lips is And yet not so contented yee goe to the Altars