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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

all certayne that God hath the power to make all the Asses Horses and Mules in the world for to speake as he made Balaams asse to speake howbeit he doth it not More ouer we haue neuer red in holy scripture that he hath multiplied put at one tyme on bodye in sondry places But rather made it to transport fro one place to a nother at hys plesure Da. xiiii as appereth of Habacuc that by that an angell was in continent horne from Iudea in to Babilon but whā he was in on place he left the other Acte viii Likewise it is say●e of Philip after that he had baptised the gelded man a man of authorite with Candace quene of the Ethiopiens that the spirite of our Lorde rauished hym sodenly and was founde in Azoto But that one onely bodye hath ben in sondry places at once was neuer red Wherefore to saye that God doth such a miracle without apperteining without sight of ani thing without any knowlege the folishe dreame is to greate The workes of God be manifest cleare open and certayne He neuer did miracle on any maner body without manifesting it The workes of God be not couered special whan they concerne bodily thynges but as I sayed be cleare and open Than to say and affirme such a miracle without euidence and ryght greate certitude is greatly to erre and to constreyne the people to beleue by fire water bloude sheding death prisonmēt cordes and hangment is most cruell tiranny Moreouer we haue infalible certification by the holy scripture of the cōing of the son of man that whā it would please him to depart fro heauen he should be visible manifest For as S Math sayth ma. vviiii Yt any say vnto you Christ is here or there beleue him not for as the lyghtning issueth fro the orient appereth vnto the occident so shal be the cominge of the son of man And therof the holy angels of God gaue greate witnes whā they sayd to the apostles Ye men of Galile what stand ye styl be holding the skye Actes .i. Thys Iesus that is receyued from you in to heauen shal come as ye saw him ascende to heauen That is to wyte openly visibly clerely and manifestly not hid courted wrapped or clothed wyth breade or dowghe And if vnto all this be answred by sophistical fātasi that is vnderstād alonely of the coming at the daye of iugement not in the sacramēt wherefore as they saye he remaineth with vs in body soule perpetually although that he hideth him sheweth him not This is a saing at wil wherewith they haue abused vs in tyme past whiche saynge was easy light to beleue here before when we beleued it by the seduction of hypocrites Also that saiyng is a blaspheminge Ma. vvv maketh Iesus Christ a lier Which saith expressli that we shal haue alway poore folke with vs but we shall not haue him alway The which wordes we must necessaryly vnderstād of his body his humanite For as touchinge his holy sprite it is ouer all alway with them that be his as it is sayd in S. Math. ma● xxviii Behold I am with you to the end of the worlde Nowe is this an ouer dullynge darkening of the spirite vnderstanding of the people to bind them cause them to stop and stey at a litell bread at a thynge visible and corruptible to cause thē to seke him there which is of soue rayn maiesty in triumphaunt glory For now he is out of his tyme and out of his infirmite and neuertheles in the putting and holding of him without any order thus in a lūp of dough he should be more set by thā euer he was in the presence of Pilate Yea if one woulde saye a furbisher of olde baggage Nay like as a dominican said somtyme in the cite of Geneue opēly preached that he made him selfe as litle as a Pismire And if it wer not that the mater is so ernest and that I haue dolor of the folyshnes of such one graceles I could not abstayne me for laughyng But in leauinge the fooles in theyr foly I would wite what v●ilite or profit mighte com to vs that he were with vs in a lytel morsel of breade so hyd ●●●n xvi whan he hym selfe sayde if he ascended not to hys father that the holy Gost shoulde not come and whan he was ascended into heauen that he woulde send him whiche be dyd at the daye of Penthecost and sytte also on them that it pleased him To be briefe this popishe doctrine is cause of the vniuersall distruction almooste of all the world And they ought not for the couering of theyr yes and the better to exercyse thir vnsaciat auaryce for their pryde their marchaundise and rapine for to giue some apparence and colour to their mater for to allege or bring furth these wordes Thys is my body that is giuen for you For by them none other thinge is shewed but presence sacramētal in the bread and wyne not as it hath be sayde vulgare or commmune but significatiue and Sacramental which is and ought to be taken in greate reuerence in minde of the death and passion of Iesus Christ representyng the brenninge loue greate charite wherwyth he loued vs and bys holy spirite wherwyth he hath quickened vs. Betokenynge also the lone that in veri charite we oughte to loue eche other as membres of one bodye wherof Iesus Christ is the head and that it is so the same wordes gitreth know ledge therof For it is certaine that that which we do se that is to wyte the breade or as they saye the whitnes of bread is not the bodye of Iesus Christe Therfore if any saye to me It is true that whiche is seen is not the bodye These 〈◊〉 ioy●x c●●teyn● but vnder that or within that which is seen the body is conteyned and encloses Thys is well glosed and thus alterynge the purpose and the wordes of Iesus Christ thei be nomore takē in their purenes and simplicitie as he preferred them with out glose or addition for he sayde not vnder that or wythin that is conteyned mi bodye but symply sayd Thys is my body as it was said of the Paschall lambe Exod. ●● This is the passage of the Lorde God And neuertheles it is very euidente that the lambe was not the passage but that onely it betokened the passage Lamb● Passaige In thys maner also the breade is not the bodye but it sygnifieth the bodye as in another place it is sayde that Iesus Christ is the stone ●●e●●o howbeit it is certain that he was not the stone i. Co● ● but that by the stone he was signinified or represented To thys purpose sayeth saynte Austine thus Res significantes accipiunt nomina rerum significatorum Non enim dicitur petra significa bat Christum sed absolute dicitur petra erat Christus In lyke maner

oughte owe will they or not to Princes and lordes For s Paul writeth thus Omnis anima potestatibus supereminētibus subdita sit Ro. xiiii That is to say euery soule be subiect to the hie powers But the holy Apostle sayd not Omnis anima laica that is to say euerye lay mans soule but eueri soul As it was once answred in a college of Paris by a master Asse whose nosethrels fete ought to haue bene clouē sent to pasture Out of all this spronge another fruite more pleasaunt agreable and dilicious to the tendre and dilicate gentilmen That is that by one accord yea by a commune lawe made among them selues they should lyue in mery wanton nes and lecherous idelnes without laboure or trauaile For their hādes be to soft but to plai at tennes boules tables cardes and dyce to leape and daunce for theyr pastime but for to labour fye because they be anoynted greased and their pates plucked And al this solatious goodnes commeth of this ioly masse O masse masse howe gentle art thou howe louyng and pleasaunte to these folke Howe can they hate the howe can they leaue the howe can the banysh the syth thou haste set them in such an easy quiete and rest to labour nothyng at al. And that mor is if they can reade or synge a masse lifte vp theyr armes and knele haueyng a portuouse to bable theyr mattens they nede none other thynge As for bokes volumes and quaiers of holy scripture to search and study it forceth not for they he not requisit for the masse ☞ And as for study it is a melancholious busines werines and a noyous not cōuenient for such ydle beastes that wold lyue wythout any thought and by the sweat af other mens faces Oh howe contrary is S. Paule to them The which not wythstandyng that he was an Apostle of Iesus Christ a Bishop but not mytred nor horned a Doctour of veritie a doctour of the church but not hooded nerthells he wroght wyth hys handes and for to do so he admonisheth and desyreth euery persō but what haue they to do wyth God or saynt Paule ☞ Yet an other fruite of this masse and thā a great euyl I wyl shewe as nowe The fruite is greate and encreased for neuer henne layed so many egges and hatched so many chyckens as this masse hathe brought vs shorne poules And what man can thincke the nombre of the cockerelles that runne after harlottes as cockes after hennes And whan these iolye louers haue layd their layghters and sitten their brodes thei sit in their temples singing as cockes on their perches yea properlier to say de skant in counterfeit thinges gapyng criyng howlyng So many cockes cockrels pullets that is to say of Monkes Friers Nūnes prestes laisisters this fat masse hatched fed that it is wōder to beleue and to satisfie so great anombre it was of force necessary to bild many henhouses nestes to lodge so many lapwynges Thā nōbre if ye can al the cloisters abbaies priories monasteries temples chanonries prebendes alters portatifs not portat ifs and such other thinges that the masse hath brought furth And vpon that thinke a litel I praie you and ye shall perceiue what it mā ye be is it not wel multiplyed Auarice hath wroghte a pase as wytnesseth one of theyr order named Willam de Peraldo in his tyme bishop of Lyons in the some that he hath made of vertues vices 〈…〉 de P●●at do in the seconde parte in the title of Simony Where as he sayeth the auarice hath found the multitude of al tars the colectes of the masse the whych thing finalli is tourned into horrible idolatry For by the meanes the pore people haue be lerned to seke worship god in tēples places made with mēs hand Albeit as Esaye saith S. Stephā allegeth that the most highest is not habitaūt in the maner as they wene for Esai 〈◊〉 Bi ●eta vii the tēple of the liuing god is the hert soule the spirite of the faithful For the whiche cause Iesus Christ said that the true worshipers worshipped not the Lorde God ueyther in the mountayne nor in Ierusalem Iohn .iiii. but in spirite and truth And therfore faith Saint Paule that the faithfull is the habitation and temples of the holy gost And also Iesus Christe wyllynge to geue consolacion to all faythfull people in speakynge of hys father of him selfe and of the spirite of verite which the world can not comprise sayd thus We shall come to hym and make oure dwelling wyth hym he sayd not that we shoulde come into a tēple or in such a place or in suche an aultar ● Cor. vi vi Cor. vi But he sayd we should come to him and make our dwelling with him Wherfore thā by your aduise hath the people thus be taught to renne hither and thyder Ioh. xiiii but for to catche such as they bringe O insaciable coueytousnes Lertaynly I dare wel saye that the brybats or watchinge theues lurkinge in wooddes be not to be dreade as these Antichristes the whiche haue not alonly pylled robbed the temporall goodes fro the people but haue caste out and by thyr false doctrine almooste al the world out of the waye of saluacion and streied it from the Lorde God and from all verite Hereabout we ought not to speake but onely he wayle sob and weepe by greate dolour heuines And therefore I leaue to speake of their false miracles of their idols of Golde Siluer stone earth and of woode c. Of their pilgrymages theyr viages and such maners deceites whereby the worlde is brought in to a darke botomles pyt ☞ This is the euil that at the beginninge of thys vngracious fruyte I was in purpose to speake that of all euills it is the greateste and neuer man coulde imagine worsse And what would ye worsse then to begiuen into reproued sences To be striken with so greate darkenes that they do come and iudge the good to be ill Be qui dicit is ma●●t Sonū and the ill to be good All thys by thys masse is come on the people as ye maye clerely vnderstande by this that is declared aboue Esaie .v. ☞ Of thys euil aboue all other the Prophet tes haue made mencion whan by greate threte ninges of the euyll that was to come ouer the misbeleuinge people Esaie .vii. Mat. xiii Mar. iiii Luc. viii Ioha xii Ac. xxviii Rom. xi Ps Lviii haue aforespoken the blindnes and cursednes therof And is it reason that be wyll not take and receyue blissinge that cur singe come to hym Wherevpon it nedeth not to pretende or allege ignoraunce saing if there be any euill it is onely for them that hath inuēted it truely also for them that foloweth it As it is writen Yf one blinde man lede another Mat. xv● both of them falleth in the diche And therfore I praye euery

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