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A20148	No parliament powder But shot and powder for the Pope. And for all his Cardinalles, Bishops, Abbots, Fryers, Monkes; the maisters and great doctours of Sorbonne. Sent to his vn-holynesse, and them all, for a newe-yeares gift. 1609.; Sac & pieces pour le pape de Romme, ses cardinaux & evesques. English	Denakol.; Philagathus, fl. 1609.	1609 (1609)	STC 6582; ESTC S118652	52,903	98

that there are some who receiuing onely the body of our Lord doe abstaine from the Chalice wherein because they sinne through superstition they ought to receiue the Sacraments together or else to bee reiected from them quite For the diuision of so great a mysterie cannot be committed without notorious sacriledge The Apostles and Gods Church IN regard that wormes Mice Spiders and other creatures may and doe eate your Transubstantiated bread which being kept ouer long corrupteth and putrifieth of it selfe hereby it may be manifestly knowne that the signe of the Sacrament is not the thing signified thereby that is to say That the bread which is a signe as hath bin sufficiently proued already according as our Lord hath willed cannot thus be conuerted or transubstātiated into his natural body For it were a great fearefull blasphemie to say that the body of Iesus Christ should bee subiect to putrifaction corruption or the teeth of brute beasts Hence would ensue that Christ should bee lesse sufficient and more inferiour in power and vertue then were the Gods and Idols of the Gentiles For they defended themselues and spake by the cunning of him who thorowe Gods iust iudgement did hoodwinke and blinde the poore credulous world raysing beleife of such a transubstantiation after hee had once newly forged it in his owne shop Now the Church of God being instructed by the sanctified spirit beleeueth much more wisely namely That Iesus Christ is risen from the dead being no more subiected to death For he is glorified immortall and incorruptible sitting now at the right hand of God his Father from whence hee will not descend vntill such time as hee shall come to iudge both quicke and dead and render to euery one according to his workes Then will hee punish most grieuously these correcters and falsifiers of his word that haue changed and ouerturned the institution forme and true manner of his Sacraments And hee will iudge the horrible slaunder of our aduersaries who doe vniustly accuse vs to doubt of Gods power and deny that he cannot conuert the bread into the body of his sonne Iesus Christ But in this Article and difference of the Supper we pretend no disputation of Gods power which wee beleeue and confesse to be infinite and incomprehensible For heerein onely lyeth our controuersie that the will of God is such according to the testimonie of his owne holy word By the which we prooue clearly that we doe receiue and eate by faith and spiritually the very body and precious blood of Iesus Christ This confession is incorruptible not subiect to wormes Mice Spiders or to bee burned in the fire which being eternall is prepared for all them that shall breath foorth such blasphemies against our Lord and Master Iesus Christ The Pope and his Church OVr holy Father the Pope supreame head and President in the Councell of Orleance hath ordained and decreed as it is written in the fift Chapter to be seene That if the bodie of Iesus Christ be receiued and vomited by a sicke bodie If by humane frailty no person can be found that will licke vp and receiue the same againe I meane the same body of Iesus Christ so disgorged That then that body of our Lord is to bee burned and the ashes thereof put among the Reliques Also if the body of Iesus Christ bee lost or rotten by ouer-bad smell or age it shall be burned and the ashes layd vpon the Altar Moreouer if the body of Iesus Christ by the eating of Mice or Spiders do become much lessened impaired or gnawed by byting or if the very worme be found in it It shall bee burned But if there doe remaine any part of Christs body which is not gnawen or much out of order it is more safely done to take and eate that Neuerthelesse if it be greatly gnawen rotten and impaired by some vermine or putrifaction It shall incontinently be burned and the sacred ashes shall be reuerently put and kept among the Reliques Such is our holy ordinance which we will haue to be obserued vpon paine of Excommunication As most amply wee haue ordained and decreed in the sayd Councell and caused to be written vnder the title of Consecration the second distinction And yet much more clearely in the Cautells of our holy Masse OF ONE ONELY MEDIATOVR There is one MEDIATOVR between God and man which is the man CHRIST IESVS 1. Tim. 2. 5. Wee haue one Aduocate with the Father IESVS CHRIST the iust And he is the reconciliation for our sinnes and not for ours onely but also for the sinnes of the whole world 1. Iohn 1. 2. The Apostles and Gods Church THat is not the Church of God which beside both reproouing changing his word cannot so content it selfe but also disalloweth the sufficiencie of one onely Aduocate and Mediatour sole God and searcher of all hearts For the Apostles and the whole Church after them did reiect all other Aduocates and Mediatours contenting themselues with Iesus Christ onely who prayeth for vs as most euidently is testified vnto vs in the Scriptures and is likewise to be seene in the writings of the Doctours and Fathers of the Church And because we are to handle this point somewhat briefly Saint Ambrose deliuering the word for the whole Church speaketh thus There hath beene a miserable custome in saying that men might goe of and by themselues to God euen as by Earles and Princes they can make way to Kings Is there any man so mad or forgetfull of his owne saluation to attribute a Kings honour to a Prince or an Earle Why we see that if any man should dare but to speak this of his own King of good right hee ought to bee condemned as guilty of treason Shall not they then be held for much more faultie as dare attribute the honour of Gods name to creatures And in leauing our Lord shall honour such as are but seruantes with themselues Though men in Kings Courts are in more eminent place then others yet in the King of Kings Court the greatest meanest are all but seruantes and the poorest as soone heard as the proudest and sooner too For this cause men gaine accesse to a King by meanes of Princes and Lords because the king himselfe is but a man and knowes not otherwise how to deale in matters faithfully concerning his common-wealth But to gaine the fauour of God from whom nothing can be hidden because he knowes the hearts of all men their works wants or whatsoeuer There needs no other fauourite to present our supplication by but only an humble contrite and repentant heart These are the wordes of this worthy Father With him do consent many other Doctours of the Church affirming it to bee blasphemie and sacriledge to haue any other Aduocate Mediatour or Intercessour but Iesus Christ onely If any man shall make doubt hereof let him read what is learnedly written by diuers to

spiritually vnderstood For it is the spirit that quickeneth the flesh profiteth nothing All this hath this learned Doctour written and in many other places very amply And to the end it may not appeare that this man onely was of this opinion wee are willing to alleadge the sayings of many other holy Fathers as of S. Chrisostome speaking thus Christ hath ordained the Table of his holy Supper to the ende that in this Sacrament hee might shewe vs daily bread and wine as the similitude of his body and blood for the nature of the wine remaineth euer The like saith S. Dionisius Ireneus and Origen who haue all with one consent and accord written the very same as is to bee seene in the Booke called the Ecclesiasticall Hierarchie and diuers others Moreouer wee will not conceale the Nicene Councell wherein it was decreed as followeth Wee are not bound to matters heere beneath as the bread and wine proposed on the Lords table But wee must by faith lift vp your spirits on high Considering and vnderstanding that the Lambe of God taking away the sinnes of the world is in this holy Table who is not offered in sacrifice by Priests after the maner of beasts And in taking his precious body and blood wee beleeue these are the signes of our resurrection You see heere the testimonie of many holy Fathers and Doctours of the Church who receiued this doctrine from the Apostles in this manner so truely as they are not to be gain-said The Pope and his Church THe Priest hauing an intention to consecrate saying but foure or fiue wordes leauing Enim vpon all the bread which is in the Market and vpon all the wine which is in a Sellar immediatly all the breads and and wines are conuerted and transubstantiated into the naturall body and blood of Christ So saith our learned Master Ioannes Scotus in quarto sententiarum I Gelasius Pope of Rome haue no way approoued your Transubstantiation For I will neuer vnsay that which I haue written against Eutichus and Nestorius Heretiques to wit The Sacraments of the body and blood of Iesus Christ which wee receiue are diuine things Therefore we are made partakers by them of the diuine nature and yet notwithstanding the substance of bread and wine doe not cease to be there still And surely the Image and similitude of Christs body and blood are celebrated in the action of the misteries It is then euidently shewen vnto vs what we ought to vnderstand in Iesus Christ our Lord. I Venerable Bede will neuer receiue your Transubstantiation for I will neuer reuoke that which I haue written vpon the 22. Chapter of Saint Luke namely Iesus Christ hath left the Sacraments of his flesh and blood vnder the figures of bread and wine in stead of the flesh and blood of the Lambe To the end that hee might shew himselfe to bee hee to whom our Lord had sworne and neuer would repent him Thou art the euerlasting Sacrificer I Drhumatus Monke of the holy Order of S. Benedict can no way approoue your Transubstantiation For I will neuer deny what I haue commented vpon S. Matth. to wit The wine doth cherish augment our blood for this cause is not the blood of Christ improperly figured thereby Because whatsoeuer commeth of him to vs doth cherish vs with a true and perfect ioy and increaseth all our happinesse Our Lord gaue to his Disciples the Sacrament of his body in remission of their sinnes and to preserue charitie among them To the end that keeping this act of his in their remembrance they might affixe in figure what he had done for them and neuer cast this charitie into obliuion This is my body that is to say in a Sacrament I Adrain Pope of Rome notwithstanding the ordinances of my Predecessors yet as I haue written in my fourth booke I confesse that the Church ought to know that she is not Mistresse but Minister of the Sacraments And that shee cannot institute any forme of Sacraments no more then shee can abolish any diuine Law The Apostles and Gods Church THe Disciple cannot be more perfect or wiser then his Master it is sufficient for him that he is as he is In regard wherof we will neither diminish nor ad any thing to the institution of our Lord and Master Iesus Christ whom we will onely heare and following his example as hee hath commanded vs wee will receiue and administer the holy Sacrament of his Supper vnder the two kinds of bread and wine nor dare wee doe otherwise without offering sacriledge The Councell of Basill vnderstood our Lordes will well enough when they ordained that Laye people should communicate in both kindes And S. Cyprian directly opposeth himselfe to any such contradiction of Iesus Christ affirming it to be full of sacriledge in his sermon to repentant sinners and these are his words How shall we exhort the people to spend their blood for the confession of Christ if we doe denie them his blood for whom they are to combate Or how shall we make them able to drinke of the cup of Martyrdome except wee first admit them to drinke of our Lords Cuppe Moreouer our Lord Iesus Christ and his Apostles did neuer teach or command vs to hide or keepe close the bread of the holy Supper or to cary it about hither and thither For the Church hauing beene alwayes obedient to his doctrine will neuer doe so And that full well vnderstood S. Clemens speaking thus As many Hostes as will suffise the people are to bee offered at the Altar If there shall any remaine or be left they are not to be kept vntill the morrow but by diligence of the Clerks with feare and trembling they are to bee receiued and eaten And Origen also opposeth himselfe against this superstitious vice which would haue intruded it selfe into the Church in his time hee saith Our Lord hath not ordained or appointed that the bread should bee kept vntill the morrow which hee purposed to giue to his Disciples but he sayd vnto them Take and eate Behold then how we will follow and imitate the Church of God without declining to the right hand or to the left The Pope and his Church THe Sacrament of the Altar ought to bee taken in bread and wine of the Priests onely But to Lay people it is to bee giuen vnder the kinde of bread onely Tit. de consecrat Distinct 2. Concerning them that be sicke the body of Iesus Christ ought to be caryed to them with great deuotion solemnitie and reuerence For this is the commandement of God and of his Church I Gelasius Pope of Rome doe oppose my selfe against your ordinance and will by no meanes approue it For I will neuer contradict that which I haue written in the Canon Comperimus de consecrat Distinct 2. speaking thus Wee haue vnderstood

hath taken such boldnesse vpon him as to dispense against the Gospels and destroy the holy commaundements of God and his worde which we beleeue notwithstanding shall endure for euer But he that fighteth against so strong a foundation declareth himselfe to be Gods enemie and Antechrist manifestly As after many testimonies of sacred Scriptures Saint Gregorie himselfe dooth giue vs a good aduertisement saying It is sacriledge and a foretelling of Antechrists cōming t● constitute an vniuersall Bishop of the whole Church For if he that nameth himselfe vniuersall doe fall the whole Church is ouerthrowne And proceeding on still to the same purpose he concludeth thus I boldly say that whosoeuer calleth himselfe vniuersall B●shop or desireth to be so named is the fore-runner of Antechrist in that he preferreth himselfe in his owne pride before and aboue all other Behold now how God hath suffered that these diuelish Cautelles of the man of sinne should be made manifest euen by themselues euen those that he thought to defend couer himself withal As we could much more amply discouer as well by the testimonie of the worde of God as by the expositions of many holy Fathers of the Church But the faithfull Reader making acceptaunce of this our slender trauell may if please him haue accesse to the Fathers themselues as for his more ease we haue quoated them in the Margent The Pope and his Church OVr holy Father the Pope is instituted of God to be head and vniuersall Prince of his holie Church hauing receiued the keyes thereof with intire full and incomprehensible power to binde and loose pardon and retaine all sinnes yea in such sort and manner as there is no one that dare say to him wherefore doest thou this or that For it is an indubitable veritie yea altogether inuincible that our holy father the Pope the great successor of Saint Peter hath such power and authoritie as he may iudge the whole world but hee is not to bee censured or iudged by any person And his power is so great and admirable that he can dispense against the Gospels against the word of God and consequently against all the Apostles doctrine yea and against the right of nature As it is most amplie written and recited in the holy Decretales and in the Canō Lector cum Glos 34. Dist Canon Presbiter cum Glos 82. Dist Apostolorum 17. Quaest 4. Canon Si quis Dist 40. Canon Si Papa Dist 26. Et eadem Canon satis cano simplici Can. Incipitis OF FREE-WILL Verely verely I say vnto you that whosoeuer committeth sinne he is the seruant of sinne Iohn 8. 34. It is God which worketh in you both the will and the deed euen of his owne good pleasure Phil. 2. 1● Not that wee are sufficient of our selues to thinke any good thing as of our selues but all our sufficiencie is of God 2. Cor. 3. 5. The Apostles and Gods Church IN this matter wee may iustly answere as S. Hierome did writhing against Pelagius saying thus The Philosophers the Patriarches of Heretiques by peruerse doctrine haue polluted the puritie of the Church Moreouer in regard of our purposed breuitie it shall suffise vs to alleadge S. Augustine with whom do many Fathers consent in detestation of the Pelagian heresie which our aduersaries doe so boldely maintaine These are his words We cannot consent with them who by ouer great pride do labor to exalt and aduaunce a freedom of will for in their so doing they are the cause of more euil then good and they but striue to ouerthrow men But we in humilitie doe consider that which the Apostle saith It is God which worketh in vs both the will and the deed according to his owne good pleasure And we render thanks to our Lord and redeemer who without any former merits in vs hath healed our woundes and vlcers and reconciled vs to God hauing redeemed vs from captiuitie and hath brought vs out of darknesse into light and called vs from death to life The Pope and his Church WE doe constantly mainetaine and confesse a liberall and Free-will not onely in the state of innocencie but likewise in the state of corruption with sinne For it is written That God made man right and left him in the hand of his councell to doe what he would So that man being richly furnished with this noble francke and Free-will might worke of himselfe good or euill euen by his owne motion and can merit the first grace of congruitie As more amply is written and declared by our Master of the Sentences and others in their seuerall Expositions OF MARIAGE AND OF VOVVES It were good for a man not to touch a woman Neuerthelesse to auoyd fornication let euery man haue his wife and let euery woman haue her husband 1. Cor. 7. 12. Mariage is honourable among all and the bed vndefiled but Whoremongers and Adulterers God will iudge Hebrewes 13. 4. My praise shall be of thee in the great Congregation my Vowes will I performe before them that feare thee Psalm 32. 25. The Apostles and Gods Church SAINT Paul beeing a vessell of Election doth assure vs that Mariage is honorable among all and the bed vndefiled But your holy Father telleth vs the contrary to wit that Mariage cannot bee without vncleanesse and carnall filthinesse Now which of these two shall we say to be the false witnesse As for S. Paul we are very certaine that his testimonie proceeded from the spirit of God in regard whereof we will rather giue faith to him then to your holy Father although hee bee seated in Gods Temple for God and shewes himselfe as if hee were God Of whō likewise the Apostle speaketh That in the latter times there shall some depart from the faith and shal giue heed vnto spirits of errour and doctrines of deuils Speaking lyes through hypocrisie and haue their consciences burned with an hot yron Forbidding to marry The Pope and his Church OVr Mother holy Church following our holy Father her vniuersall Head considering aduisedly that Mariage could not bee performed without vncleannesse pollution and carnall immundicitie For this cause hath iustly and holily prohibited and forbidden and so doth still forbidde Mariage to Priestes Deacons and Subdeacons for they are tyed and obliged to a vow of chastitie from which no man can free or deliuer them The Apostles and Gods Church THe Church of God did neuer learne of Iesus Christ nor of his Apostles to forbid holy and honourable Mariage to any person whatsoeuer except to such as are named in the 18. Chapter of Leuiticus Therefore we will not receiue any such doctrine of deuils For the holy Apostles were diuers of them maried and such as lawfully succeded after them according as Saint Clemens testifieth writing against them that contemned Mariage where he saith