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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61802	A discourse concerning the necessity of reformation with respect to the errors and corruptions of the Church of Rome : the first part.	Stratford, Nicholas, 1633-1707.	1685 (1685)	Wing S5930; ESTC R10160	55,727	60

Doctrine of S. Paul 't is more for the edification of the Church that the publick Prayers should be said in a Tongue common to the Clergy and People than in Latin k Ex hac Pauli doctrina habetur quod melius est ad edisicationem Ecclesiae orationes publicas quae audiente populo dicuntur dici lingua communi Clericis Populo quam dici latine Comment in c. 14. Ep. 1. ad Corintle And Mr. Harding says I grant they viz. the People cannot say Amen to the Blessing or Thanksgiving of the Priest so well as if they understood the Latin Tongue perfectly l Artic. 3. Divis 29. And Father Paul thought the Latin Service a great Corruption and Abuse as we may see in his History of the Council of Trent m l. 6. In which he also tells us That in the Roman Pontifical there remaineth yet a Form of the Ordination of Readers in the Church in which it is said that they must study to read distinctly and plainly that the People may understand n Ibid. To conclude this upon these and such like Considerations The Emperor at the Council of Trent requir'd That Divine Service might be so said that it might be understood both by him that said it and by him that heard it † History of the Council of Trent p. 513. 2. Another Corruption is the propitiatory Sacrifice of the Mass The Church of England doth not quarrel at the name of Sacrifice she not only grants but asserts that the Eucharist is a commemorative and representative Sacrifice And this was the meaning of the ancient Fathers who frequently call it a Remembrance or Commemoration a Resemblance or Representation of the Sacrifice which Christ once offer'd upon the Cross o Euseb Demonst Evang. l. r. c. 10. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chrysost Hom. 17. in Epist ad Heb. And this is as much as Cassander seems to mean by it p Cassand Consult Art ● 24. de Sacrificio Corp. sang Christi But this will not satisfie the present Church of Rome but Christ as they will have it is truly and properly sacrificed that is according to their own notion of a Sacrifice Christ is truly and properly put to death as oft as the Priest says Mass For in a true Sacrifice as Bellarmine tells us q De Missa l. 1. c. 2. c. 27. the thing sacrificed must be destroy'd and if it be a thing that hath Life it must be kill'd And so inde●d many of the Romanists roundly assert that Christ every day is by the Mass-Priest Which besides that it is contrary to the Doctrine of the ancient Church and to the words of the Apostle who tells us That Jesus Christ offer'd not himself often as the High Priest enter'd into the Holy place every year with the Blood of others for then must he often have suffer'd from the Foundation of the World But now once in the end of the World hath he appear'd to put away sin by the Sacrifice of himself And as it is appointed to men once to dye but after this the Judgment so Christ was once offer'd to bear the sins of many r Heb. 9. 25 26 27 28. And again That after Christ had offer'd one Sacrifice for ever he sate down on the right hand of God And that by one Offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified s Heb. 10. 10 12 14. And whereas the Apostle argues the perfection of Christ's Sacrifice above those of the Law because those were offer'd year by year but the Sacrifice of Christ's Body was offer'd once for all If Christ be dayly sacrific'd in the Mass the Sacrifice of Christ must be much more defective than those of the Law for one Sacrifice of Expiation for the whole Congregation of Israel was thought sufficient for the whole year Whereas the Sacrifice of Christ's Body is repeated every day Yea for one single Person he may be sacrificed a thousand times over and this Sacrifice so often repeated and a thousand times more may perhaps be of so little Virtue as not to procure the release of that one poor Soul out of Purgatory Consider further that this is inconsistent with the end they assign of Sacrifice which is to testifie our subjection to God which cannot be done by offering up God himself in Sacrifice for what we offer in Sacrifice we are not subject to but have the disposal of and dominion over it Besides all this 't is a piece of Worship more absurd and impious than was ever practis'd by the most barbarous Heathen they indeed sometimes offer'd their Sons and Daughters in Sacrifice but we never read that they were so sottish as to make a Sacrifice of their God And therefore our Church hath deservedly condemn'd the Sacrifices of Masses as blasphemous Fables and dangerous Deceits (a) Articles of Religion anno 1562. A●t 31. 3. The solitary Mass in which the Priest alone who Consecrates Communicates can no way be reconciled either with the Doctrine and Institution of Christ who when he had broken the Bread gave it to his Disciples and said take ye eat ye and commanded his Disciples to do as he had done Or with the words of S. Paul to the Corinthians who supposes them to meet together to eat the Lord's Body and commands them to stay one for another (b) 1 Cor. 11. 31. And from this meeting the Sacrament was call'd by the Ancients Synaxis the Collection or gathering together of the Faithful as it is by us still call'd the Communion Furthermore 't is inconsistent with the nature and intendment of the Sacrament which is a Feast of Love and design'd to unite us more closely together in brotherly Love one to another by representing to us by our eating together at the same Table and partaking of one and the same Loaf that we all belong to one Family and are Children of one Father 'T is contrary to the Practice of the Apostles and first Christians who were wont to assemble on the first day of the week to break Bread (c) Act. 20. 7. And that it was unknown to the Christian Church for many Ages is freely confess'd by the Romanists themselves Even Bellarmine grants that we no where expresly read that the Sacrifice was offered by the Ancients without some one or more communicating besides the Priest (d) Bell. de Missa l. 2. c. 9. tho 't is true he says we may by many conjectures collect that it was but how weak his Conjectures are will be evident to any man who will be at the pains to read them Harding confesses that in the Primitive Church the People receiv'd every day with the Priest and that private Mass came in afterward by the negligence and indevotion of the People (e) Article 1. Divis 7. Cassander questions whether solitary Mass came not first into use after the days of Gregory the Great that is more than