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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07609	A treatise of the holy sacrifice of the masse, and excellencies therof. Written in Spanish by the R. F. Ant. de Molina, a Carthusian monke, & translated into English by I.R. of the Society of Iesus. VVith order, hovv to be present at the said Holy Mystery, vvith deuotion & profit	Molina, Antonio de, d. 1619?; Floyd, John, 1572-1649, attributed name.; Wilson, John, ca. 1575-ca. 1645?	1623 (1623)	STC 18001; ESTC S112780	50,509	307

his Disciples finding some that had lost all respect and reuerence towardes the holynes of the Temple buying and selling and negotiating in the same though these negotiations were about thinges belonging vnto the Sacrifices that were therein dayly and howerly offered yet he tooke such indignation and displeasure against thē that he made a whippe of certayne cordes he there found and therewith set vpon them and droue them out of the Temple threw downe their tables cast their siluer and moneys on the ground rebuked them sharply with hard tearmes in a manner calling them theeues saying Make not of the house of my Father a denne of theeues This happened not only once in the beginning of his holy Predication but also the second tyme he did the very same towardes the end of his life the very last time or the last sauing one that euer he entred into the Temple By this fact giuing vs to vnderstād what great account he maketh that all decency religious respect should be vsed towardes his house and holy Temple because only against the breach hereof he shewed such extraordinary displeasure and with demonstratiō of anger against the prophaners of his house he would beginne and conclude the course of his preaching Wherupon the holy Euangelist noteth that his Disciples reflecting vpon this his fact called to mind and vnderstood that to him agreed that which is writtē in the Psalme sixty eight The zeale of the house of God eateth vp my very bowells and the disorders of them that beare not respect vnto it fall vpon me and are an heauy and burdensome load vnto me Now we are to note that our Churches are tearmed the house of God not only for the reason in regard of which the Temple of Ierusalē was so entitled which many times and absolutly is tearmed in holy Scripture the house of God because there lodged the Ark of Couenāt there God was worshipped and adored there Sacrifice offered vnto him there he gaue audience vnto men and heard the petitions they made vnto him Not only for these respects Christians Churches be tearmed the House of God but also vpon greater reasons in regard of which this honorable stile doth belonge vnto them much more properly then it did vnto the auncient Temple to wit because God himselfe dwelleth in them really personally in the most Blessed Sacramēt in which the person of the Worde and only begotten Sonne of God abides in more particular manner then in any other parte or creature in the world For not only there he is according to his Diuinity in regard of which he is euery where by Essence Presence Power but also the most sacred Humanity of our Lord Iesus Christ the which is seated in Heauen at the right hand of the eternall Father this selfe-some Humanity with the selfe same Glory Maiesty and Greatnes is really and personally in the most holy Sacrament though couered with the sacramentall formes of Bread so that his presence is inuisible but only vnto eyes enlightned with fayth who see his wordes verified This is my body and his promise accōplished Behold I am with you all dayes vnto the consummatiō of the world This is the glory and most singular priuiledge of the Christiā people to haue Iesus Christ the true GOD for their Neighbour a soiourner in all the Churches of Christianity in such sort that there is not any Catholike Towne or Villadge how small and contemptible soeuer wherein our Lord hath not his proper and peculiar house so that if in a Village there be but twelue Neighbours he maketh the thirteenth Thus God would honour and fauour the Christian people a thing most worthy to be esteemed and honoured in farre more excellent manmer then we doe honour and esteeme the same For this cause I sayd in the beginning of this Chapter that there is no need to say much of this poynt but only that we open the eyes of fayth and consider attentiuely that Temples be the house of God and that in euery one of them IESVS Christ our Lord is really and personally present with all his Glory and Maiesty a truth most sure certayne yea that also many thousāds of Angels accompany him making the Church his Court therein yielding him perpetuall prayses and continuall honour And so in the prayer of the holy Diuine Office wherewith the last Houre and Compline is concluded sayth in this manner Visit we beseech thee o Lord this habitation and let thyne Angels who dwell therin keepe vs. The glorious Apostle S. Paul in Epistle to the Hebrews seemes to affirm no lesse where he sayth You are not come to a materiall mountayne nor vnto a fire that may be seene but you are come to the mountayne of Syon the Citty of the liuing God the Heauenly Ierusalem the resort of many thousandes of Angels the Church of the Primitiues If this be so as without question it is to the end that we beare due respect reuerence and veneration vnto holy places no more is needfull but that we open our eyes and consider the great reuerence and veneration that is due vnto the Holy places which are the true houses of God where he is present hath his aboade togeather with his Celestiall Courtyers And if we looke into holy Scripture we shall find it a very auncient custome of holy Men to beare great respect vnto such places where God was present or did manifest himselfe in particular manner In Genesis is written of the Patriarch Iacob that flying from the house of his Father to auoyde the wrath of his Brother Esau the first dayes iourney he was benighted in a forlorne place There falling a sleep he saw a great Ladder which did reach from Heauen vnto earth vpon the which Angels went vp downe and God stood on the toppe thereof The holy Iacob awaking out of his sleepe conceaued so great reuerēce vnto that place because he had seene the former vision therein that full of feare and astonishment he sayd How dreadfull is this place verily here is nothing else but the court of God gate of Heauen In testimony wherof he cōsecrated the sayd place as far as he could raysing vp the stone that he had laid that night vnder his head anointing it with oyle which was still taken for the signe of consecration and leauing the same there as a tokē that the place was sacred and honour and veneration due vnto it because God had therin shewed himself and vnto the Citty that was neere vnto that place called Luza he gaue the name of Bethel which signifyes House of God In Exodus it is recorded that holy Moyses leading the flocke of his Father-in-law through the most solitary woodiest part of the Mount Horeb God appeared vnto him in a very strāg and meruaylous manner to wit in a Bush which did burn with a great fire but did not consume And when Moyses did approach to see the sayd Miracle more