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A68080	The interpretacyon, and sygnyfycacyon of the Masse Here begynneth a good deuoute boke to the honoure of god, of our lady his mother, [and] of all sayntes, and ryght profytable to all good Catholyke persones, to knowe howe they shall deuoutly here masse. And how salutaryly they shal confesse them. And how reuerently and honourably they shall go to the holy sacrament or table of our sauyour Ihesu chryste, with dyuerse other profytable documents and oraysons or prayers here conteyned, composed and ordeyned by frere Gararde, frere mynoure, of the ordre of the Obseruauntes.	Gherit, van der Goude, fl. 1507.	1532 (1532)	STC 11549; ESTC S110806	95,539	244

and accordynge to the prolyxyte of the tyme that he was last confessed And than he doth serche for a good confessoure / that can helpe examyne hym in that wherin he is ygnoraūt Who that so goth to the holy sacramēt with repentaunce and contrycyon of his synnes receyueth in the holy sacrament remyssyon of all his synnes / confessed and forgoten But yf he do renne neclygently to confesse hym / as the dogge to the potage / without remembrynge his euyll lyfe / it shall not helpe nor profyte hym afore god / that he hath forgoten his synnes For it semeth that he careth not for it / and that he doth dyspyse it ¶ Secondaryly / the man maye doubte in deedly synne for the erraunt and varyable conscyēce / so that he maketh cōscyence where it nedeth not / wherof cōmeth ofte tymes great peryll For the varyable conscyence byndeth the man to electe a good sage and wyse confessoure / whiche hath knowlege and vnderstādynge therof / and so he shall take awaye from hym the varyable cōscyence or the erroure of the same And than he shall go to the holy sacrament but so longe as that erroure of conscyence dureth or the most parte / he shall not go to the sacramēt But yf the man doubte yf it be deedly syn̄e or no / he shall confesse hym afore that he go to the holy sacrament / or els he shall cōmyt a deedly synne / in puttyng hym ī the peryll of deedly synne ¶ Thyrdly / the man maye yet be in deedly synne / and that he knoweth well that he hath not confessed hym therof And neuertheles he shulde haue confessed hym therof / where he cōmytteth a deedly synne bycause he doth not knowe it / for he is boūde to knowe it And in so goynge to the holy sacramēt it is deedly synne and the ygnoraūce doth not excuse afore god / for he myght go / where he myght be instructed ¶ The thyrde Chapytre / yf the man maye go vnworthely to the holy sacrament / or be dampned for certayne deedly synnes whiche he hath forgoten and that he knoweth not VPon this answereth / saynt Bonauenture that ī case that the man haue fyue poyntes in hym / god shall not compt his synnes forgoten / albeit that there were many ¶ Fyrste / he shall aduyse hym selfe well afore that he go to his confessoure / in examynyng his conscyence in the .x. cōmaūdementes / and in the .vii. deedly synnes / and afterwarde in his state / offyce or crafte ¶ Secondaryly / he shall praye to god dylygently that he maye haue knowlege of his synnes forgoten / of the whiche he is redy to confesse hym and to do penaunce for the same after the counceyll of his confessoure ¶ Thyrdly / he shall gladly go to the Sermons for to here and lerne / what thynge is deedly synne and what is not ¶ Fourthly / he shall take counceyll with his confessoure / and shall demaunde that wherin he doubteth / whether it be deedly synne or venyall For many folkes do make no synne of that that is synne / thynkynge so to begyle theyr confessours / the which neuerthelesse shall be reputed great synne afore god ¶ Fyfthly / the man shall kepe hym in as moche as he can and may from deedly syn̄e for those that synne an hondreth tymes and esteme it no more thā yf they dyd it not but .x. or .xx. tymes / it is no meruayle yf they do forget moche / the which our lorde god wyll iuge at the daye of iugement ¶ The fourth Chapytre / wherby the man maye truste that he receyueth the holy sacrament worthely / who is in the state of grace SAynt Thomas saythe / that no man so longe as he lyueth here ī erth may knowe certaynly yf he be in the state of grace / yf he receyue worthely the holy sacramēt or no / excepte that god do manyfest and showe it vnto hym For saint Paule speketh of hym selfe / I do not knowlege me to be culpable in any deedly synne / yet notwithstandyng I am not iustyfyed afore our lord god whiche knoweth all the hertes Neuertheles after that the man hath confessed hym selfe afore his confessoure / and hath dylygently declared all his synnes There be yet foure tokens / by the whiche he maye surely truste and also haue knowlege / that he is well cōfessed and that he is in the state of grace / so goth worthely to the holy sacrament ¶ The fyrste / yf the man after his confessyon / gladly doth here the worde of god and to speke of god For our lorde sayth / he that is of god / gladly doth here to speke of god ¶ The seconde is / so longe as the man feleth hym selfe redy to dwell to serue god / it is a token that he is in the loue of god for where the charyte and loue of god is / there it doth worke some good / and yf it can not do it by workes / it doth it by desyre And as saynt Gregorye sayth / the token of loue is the showynge of the workes ¶ The thyrde is / that the man ought to haue a stedfast purpose / from hensforth neuer to synne more For so longe as the man is in the mynde and wyll to synne / so longe is he in the state of dampnacyon ¶ The fourth is / that the man ought to haue great repentaūce and contrycyon of his synnes passed Therfore the man shall not reioyse nor vaunte hym selfe / nor also shall not reherse his synnes for by hauynge pleasure and delyte in any deedly synne / a man maye cōmyt another deedly synne of newe / and is great peryll and daunger to the soule In these foure poyntes as saynt Gregorye sayth doth consyste true and perfyte penaunce ¶ The fyfth Chapytre / yf the man be boūde in and for any cause / to confesse hym more than ones in the yere YT is cōmaūded in the Canon lawe / that all good catholyke persones which be come to theyr aege certayne great necessyties excepte at the leste / ones in the yere do confesse them and do receyue the holy sacrament / or elles he that doth it not / he shall be excōmunycate in his lyfe / and after his deth he shal be buryed in the feldes lyke a beest Yet notwithstādynge doctours do saye / that the man is bounde vnder the payne of a deedly synne / to confesse hym in contynent and not to tarye to Easter / and that for foure reasons and causes ¶ Fyrste / so ofte as the man is in peryll of his lyfe as women afore that they begynne to trauayle and laboure of theyr chylde / or those that wyl interpryse any great iourney or to go ouer the see or those that do go to the warre for to fyght / or those that do vndertake any thynge / wherof many do dye / or those that be in peryll to dye / as in the tyme of pestylence ¶ Secondaryly

cōmaundement and that he myght here masse yf he wolde in rysynge a lytell erlyer in the mornynge / than the mayster is excused / and the seruaunt onely shall make acōpte therof afore god ¶ The .xi. Chapytre Yf it be suffycyēt that a man here one masse the Sondaye / in leuynge the sermon and euensonge the same daye AFter the cōmaundement of god man is bounde to kepe sanctyfye the holy daye by good workꝭ not onely by one good worke as to here masse / but rather by many good workes / for as Doctours do saye / that man whiche wyll accōplysshe the thyrde cōmaūdement of god / as to sanctyfye the sondaye he shall do that same daye after his power / syxe thynges ¶ Fyrste he shal here masse as is aforesayd ¶ Secōdaryly he shal also here the sermon yf it be possyble / for yf the man dyde leue or lease it by contempte or custome / he shulde syn̄e greatly And yf he can not here the sermon / he shall rede in the stede of the sermon some other good thynge ¶ Thyrdly / the man also shal gyue that same daye an almous for the loue of god / yf he be of power And in case that he be not of substaunce to gyue almous it is suffycyent / yf he haue a good wyll so to do ¶ Fourthly / the man shall praye that same daye for his greatest helth ¶ Fyfthly / he shall remembre that daye the goodnesse and benefytes that he hath receyued of god / princypally that god hath creat hym of nothynge / and hath called hym vnto the holy catholyke fayth And delyuered hym by his precyous blode / and this doyng the man shall loue god with all his herte ¶ Syxtly / the man is also bounde the same daye / to make a generall confessyon of all his mortall synnes / the whiche he hathe done sens his last confessyon / and therof to haue contrycion and repentaunce bytwene god and his conscyence For this cōmaundement of god / to sanctyfye the Sondaye / no man maye accomplysshe beynge in the state of deedly synne Yet neuertheles the man is not bounde to confesse hym but at the tyme ordeyned and instytute by the churche but in certayne causes hereafter in the fyfth Chapytre of this boke wryten Yet he is bounde that same daye to make a generall confessyon and to haue contrycyon / and to purpose neuer after to synne ¶ The .xii. Chapytre / howe the man shall behaue hym selfe in the masse tyme / after the ordynaunce of the holy churche and the lawe Canon WE fynde wrytten in Canon lawe in dyuerse places / that oure mother the holy churche hath ordeyned nyne ordinaūces or maners of the masse / the which all chrysten people ought to kepe ¶ Fyrste / the man albeit that he haue herde one masse / yet he shall here the hygh masse / yf it be not that he be lawfully excused for certayne necessyties / as is aforesayde ¶ Secōdaryly / the mā shal also here masse in his parysshe churche / and he shall not go by contempte to any other ¶ Thyrdly / those that wyll deuoutly here masse / they shall leue theyr hawkes theyr dogges at the churche dore / or elles at home in theyr howses ¶ Fourthly / the laye people shall not sytte or stande by the hyghe aulter / pryncypally whyles that the masse is sayd And aboue all the women shall absent them from the aulter ¶ Fyfthly / the man shal kepe scylence / and shall make no trouble nor noyse ī the masse tyme / but shall praye with a feruent herte ¶ Syxtly / euery man whan he heryth the gospell red shal stande vpryght redy with his body to defēde the holy catholyke fayth / whiche god hath spoken in the holy gospell ¶ Seuenthly / euery person herynge the name of Ihesus shall knele or bowe with his knees / or he shall inclyne with his heed in sygne and token of reuerence / for so ofte as the person doth it / he doth meryte threscore dayes of pardon / gyuen by two popes ¶ Eyghtly / all good catholyke people shal knele downe of both theyr knees whan the preest doth lyft our lord Ihesu in the masse and shal worshyp the holy sacrament with great reuerence ¶ The .ix. euery good chrysten mā and woman shall offre some thynge at the masse / for god spekyng in the olde testament sayth Ye shall not come in my presence voyde or Idle / that is to saye / that at the leste ye shal offre vnto god a feruent prayer and orayson And there where it is the custome / the man shall gyue ī the masse tyme temporall goodes and offrynges But to this no man is bounde except in great hygh feestes after the custome of the countre or place ¶ The .xiii. Chapytre / Yf the man be bounde to here masse of his Curate / and in his owne parysshe IT is wryten ī the Canon lawe / that he whiche contempneth his owne curate churche / and goth to here masse ī another place shal be chased out of that churche where he goth vnto This cōmaundement hath our mother holy churche gyuen / for to cōstrayne them that do rebell agaynst theyr curates / in contempnynge them and also theyr mother the holy churche / and to brynge them to subieccyon and humylytye Yet neuerthelesse yf any man do go to here dyuyne seruyce in any other churche / without any contempte / but rather that he hath greater deuocyon there or better place / or that he doth here the sermon there and other seruyces / whiche he can not here in his parysshe churche or for any other iuste cause / he dothe not offende / in case that his bysshop or curate haue not forbyd hym the same ¶ The .xiiii. Chapytre / Yf masse maye be sayde in places not halowed / as within the howse WE haue it wryten ī the Canon lawe / that in as moche as is possyble / a man shall not say masse withoute places dedycate and halowed / and pryncypally in the shyppes beynge vpon the see / for the daūger that maye come therof It is better to be sayd in the feldes vpon a stone halowed or dedycate sette in a case of wood with two fayre to welles spred vpon the same / or one to well doubled c. There can no masse be sayde in a howse or a chambre / without lycēce of the bysshop but the freers whiche be called freers prechers / myneurs haue pryuylege and lycence to say masse in the howse / in tyme of necessytye / howe be it they maye not mynyste the sacrament to no person vnder the payne of excomynycacyon / withoute lycence of the Curate ¶ The .xv. Chapytre / yf a man the sondaye in the masse tyme may saye that thynge / whiche is cōmaunde hym in penaunce SOme doctours do saye / that the sōdayes whā a mā hereth but one masse that he ought not to say or