ornaments and consecration of priestes speciallye the ornament called the Ephod Ephod the which the sacrifices the Israelites did abuse by their idolatries Another holy signe there was of the purging sprinckling water Pourging water cōsecrated Num. 19. ordeyned by god to Moyses Aaron the high prieste This sprinckled water was consecrated with ashes gathered by a cleane person of the sacrifice offered in Holocausta To witte of a Cowe all redde with out any spot which had neuer ben laboured The Wood ordeyned to make the fyer for the burntofferyng was Cedre Hisope Purple with Crimsin With this water were sprinckled poluted persons for the purging cleansing of their corporall defylings At the enteryng of the temple or tabernacle was a Lauer made of Brasse Exod. 38. and forged first with thimages of the women of Israell in this Lauer was put the sprinckling water wherew t the sacrificers are sprīkled before the celebrating of their sacrifices to the end they might be purified obteyne grace remission of their synnes After the death of the great priest Aaron the people of Israel vnthankfull to god for the goodnes sent them of him murmuring as anoyed with the heauenly Manna frely geuen vnto them for their norriture were punished by the biting of venemous serpents But the mercifull god gaue vnto thē an holy signe whereby thei shuld be saued restored to helth to witte the brasen serpent Brasen serpēt Iohn 3.7 lifted vp in the ayre a figure of Iesus Christ crucified These were in sūme the most part of the signes sacrifices sacramentes ordeyned of god in the first church of the Israelites figures of the true perfect sacrifice performed by Iesus Christ the true Messias euerlasting priest sitting at the right hand of god the father Sacramentes broken by Adam Gene. 3. Now resteth in summe to bring forth how man by his owne proper fault dyd fall in obliuion and disobedience of god his creator abusing gods fauour and corrupting the holy signes sacrifices and sacramentes ordeyned to hym What persuaded our first father and his companion to hyde them selues at the hearing of gods voyce but because they had abused the holy signe and broken the lawe of the fruites to them forbidden This holy signe which our first and vniuersall father had abused was the originall of other vices corruptions hereafter described into the which all men are fallen sauoring of the corrupted lumpe of Adam Leauing the perticuler corruptions of the signes sacrifices and sacramentes Corruption of the sacrifice by Aaron Exod. 32. Deute 9. before the law written by Moyses we wil begin to bring forth briefly the most notable errours committed by the most great sacrificers as kinges priests and others hauing the chief gouernment of the people When Moyses was abiding in moūt Synay to receiue the commaundementes of God his brother Aaron the high priest forged a calfe of gold of the golden earings geuen vnto him by the people of Israell he buylded an aulter offered incens and celebrated sacrifice causing the common people to worshyppe the molten Image Was not this an abusing of the sacrifices ordeyned of god a corrupting of the true vsage of the same in causing the Calfe to be worshipped in place of the slaine offered sacrifice as it was appoynted in the lawe Corruption of the sacrifice by Nadab and Abiu Leui. 10. Num. 11. His sonnes also Nadab Abiu were not they consumed with fyer for abusing the vse of sacrifices in takyng vnhallowed Wood corrupting the lawe The people of Israel vnthankfull for the goodnes done vnto them in being delyuered from the Pharoanicall captiuitie did they not murmour against the holy sacrament of heauenly Manna when they did disdeyne and contempne this bread of lyfe demaunded fleshe to eate iosua 7. Acham the sonne of Charmes did not he violate the laws of holy sygnes when he committed sacrilege and kept backe the spoyles of Hierico vowed consecrated to god for sacrifices If any more curiously desyre to sée the continuall abuses corruptions of the people them selues let hym read the histories of the Iudges of Israell iud 2.3.6 8.9 in all times he shal fynd man neuer to be content with the true worshipping ordained of God But in stead of outwarde signes ordayned of god to drawe the people to feare obedience they haue forged inuentions And in place of reuerēsing the aulters arke of couenaunt in the name of the onely god beyng outwarde sacred signes Iudg. 10. The Isrelites infected with the Idolatries of their neighbours the Sirians Sidonians Moabites Ammonites Philistines did erect alters vnto their strang gods Baall and Astaroth Iephtha iudge captaine of the Isralites did not he corrupt the law of sacrifices when he sacrificed his owne proper daughter excusing himselfe by a vowe whyche he made which was not appointed to him of god The vngentle sacrifice of Iephtha iud 11. The holy signe ordayned of god for the hygh priest to celebrat sacrifices in called Ephod the vppermost garment iudg 8.9 idolatrye by the golden EPhod Iudg. 17.18 was not it abused by Gedeon captayne of the Isralites whan as of the spoiles of the Madianites of their earings he made an Ephod of gold wherby the people fell into great idolatrye How long time was this holy outward signe Ephod abused an ymage beyng erected by the mother of Michas in Silo priestes sacrificers appointed expressly to sacrifice therevnto an alter buylded and the true vse of sacrifices corrupted So longe as the temple contynued in Silo into what wicked maners dyd the priestes and sacrificers fall which were ordained of god for the ministery of sacrifices holy sacramentes when they vsurped by long possession to haue thys priuilege of the people that when they did sacrifice and the fleshe of thoffered sacrifice was seathing 1. Samuel 2. their boye or seruaunt hauing a three grained fleshoke of yron in his hand had liberty to catche out of the potte or cawdron all that he cold carry with his hoke further the leuiticall tirranny was such that this seruant of the priest had liberty to demand of the sacrifice geuer fleshe to roste for the sacrificer otherwise to take it by force euen as he wold Was not this a great abuse detestable corruption practised by the priestes chiefe sacrificers vnder the pretence of sacrifices What greater corruptiō can be declared than that of the sonnes of the chiefe priest Ely called Ophni Phinees Ophni Phinies corruptera of the sacrifices 1. Samuel 4. Who vnder pretence of deuotion committed shamefull whoredom with the couered wemē behinde the holy Tabernacle instituted of god for the whiche wickednes they were miserably slayne and the arke of couenaunt taken awaye by the Philistines 1. Samuel 5.6 Which they set in the temple of their god dagon The arcke of the holy couenaunt but god
th one of these two holy sacraments we be regenerate by thother nourished And the regeneration is as merueylous vnto mans wisdome as the norrishement For after mans carnall iudgement it seemeth vnpossible twise to be engendred But our good god hath vsed like interpretation for the regeneration as he did for the comunion of his fleshe his blood namely that these sacramental termes must be spiritually vnderstand not carnally for the fleshe profyteth nothynge but the spirit quickneth That whych is of the flesh Iohn 3. is fleshly that which of the spirit is spirituall The holye Apostle geuynge vnto the Corinthians that which he receyued at the hand of God 1. Cor. 11. did admonishe them of the second comming of Iesu Christe in loking for the which he commaunded to communicate the body bloode of Iesus Christ by breaking of bread the cuppe of blessyng called the newe Testament and the new couenant contracted by the blood of Iesus Christ For as much then as we are assured of the second cōminge of Iesus Christ Being gon vp into heauen and sytteth on the right hand of god his father vntill the day appoynted that he must come againe to iudge the quicke and the dead How do ye agrée o Massalians with this yssue when as by your magicke you saye that euerye daye you cause to come downe and make to retourne the bodye of Iesus Chryste in fleshe and bone before the tyme appointed of hys second comming be come This witchcrafte was restored by you from the fyrst authour of your Masse sacrifice Numa Pompilius Tit. Liuius 1. Decade 1. who by hys witchcraft gaue to vnderstande that he caused hys Nymphe goddesse Acgerie and also his Iupiter Elicius to descende from heauen Valcai Max. lib. 1. cap. 3. by whose meanes the heauenly secretes mysteryes were reueled vnto him Euen so by your withcraft the rounde host consecrated is transubstantiated into the true reall bodye of Iesus Christ The bread being no more bread Howe haue ye learned this boldenes to bruse breake in pieces the bodye of Iesus Christ accordinge to the inuention of Sergius the second of that name your predecessour bishop of Rome Are not you more detestable hangmen then your predecessours lieutenaunts of the churche of Rome iohn 19. Exod 12. Num. 9. which crucified Iesus Christ but without brusing breaking his bodye in pieces as it was prophesied before Corruption of the holy sacraments And that more is you are not content to breake it in thre pieces but in your Masse sacrifice ye haue enterprised to drowne or steepe one portion of it in the wyne chaunged into blood to deuour it Against transubstantiatiō To confirme your witchcraft of transubstantiation haue ye not ordeyned to preserue your lytle rounde prynted hosts the whiche you do kepe laye vp so curiouslye in bores shrynes after they be chaunged into fleshe bone into the reall bodye of Iesus Christ Is not thys a detestable herisie to beleue that the bodye of Iesus Christ can receyue corruption Yea Harman cōtt often it is eaten of wormes mytes rattes myce Can you interpret Blond Platine that this is an accidence without substaunce seing that your hosts become often stinking corrupt with in your boxes Many times also deuoured of earthly brute beasts that which you cause to be burned their ashes to be put into the place for reliks When the bishop of Rome Victor the iij. of the name receyued poyson by your transubstantiated wyne was it an accidence without substance Or when themperour Henry the 7. of that name was poysoned in eating a litle round host consecrated was it an accidence without substaunce seing it gaue him his deathes wound There is a more manifest appearaunce in the heauenly Manna geuen vnto the people of Israel Neem 1. Psal 78.104 Iohn 6. Sapi. 16. the which notwithstanding that it became corrupt if it were kept yet being put in the secret place of the arcke of the couenaunt it was preserued without corruption was it therefore transubstantiated into flesh bone to be called the heauenly bread the bread which came down from heauen the bread of lyfe the bread of angels The expositiō of the sacramētal words Now it remaineth to bring into iudgement the subtel reasons of the Massayers which for the whole foundation of their witchcrafte do carnally abyde in this word Est saying these words are expressly written This is my body this is my blood when Iesus christ did institute the cōmunion of his body of his bloode vnder the signes of bread wine But I beseche all that are zelous of the honour of god diligently to cōsider the holy institution of the sacrament by the which god wold declare signifie the cōmunion of his body by the bread the drinking of his blood by the wine the cup. All will confesse that the true principall nourishment of the body of man is conteyned vnder the kinds of bread wine so that the true bread is often taken in the holye scriptures for the nourishment life of man But let vs begin to bring in the places of the Bible To the first man created to the lykenes of god Genes 3. for punishmēt of his offence was it not said vnto him before the he must eate his bread in the sweat of his body Genes 28. Is there any man so ignoraunt that wil not confesse all the food life of man to be vnderstād by the bread when Iacob prayed vnto god to geue him bread clothing did not he vnderstand by the bread al that was necessary for his nourishmēt Exod. 16. Neem 9. Psalm 78. Sapi. 15. Iohn 6. Genes 14. when it is recited that god made it to rain bread vpon the people of Israel in the wildernes that with this heauenly bread the children of Israel wer filled was not this terme bread vnderstand of the heauenly Manna sent of god for the nourishing of the people Israel This manna is it not called the breade of heauen the breade of angells geuen vnto the people without trauell Genes 41. Genes 47. Num. 21. Leuit. 26. When Melchisedech would releue the hooste of the good Father Abraham dyd he not presente vnto hym breade and Wyne When Abraham wold gratifie and refresh the .3 angels apearing to him did he not offer to thē Cakes baked in the ashes Gaue he not to Agar breade for her norishment The mother of Isaac fauouringe her wel beloued sonne gaue hym bread Ioseph in Egipt offred bread vnto his brethren for their norrishement When one wil discribe a famine darth dothe he not saye there lacketh breade When god promiseth any fauour vnto people keping his commaundementes iohn 4. Psalm 104. Math 4. Luke 4. iohn 6. Math. 4. doth he not geue them assurance of sufficient breade When he commended the poore
expounders do declare the roūd host to be deuided in thre parts one for those which ar in paradise another for those whiche are in purgatorie to haue remission of their synnes and the thyrde drenched in wyne for those whiche are lyuyng in thys worlde But the Alcoran of Durand declareth the thre parts of the host broken to represent the thre fashioned body of christ in the sepulchre sleping in the earth lying and after resing againe The other subtell doctour Biel because he would not confesse the bodye of christ in the round host to be brused and broken doth subtelly defyne the breaking of the hoste to be done in an accidence without a substance Be not these horrible heresies to make the soules to communicate which are in heauen or in purgatorie instituted by Sergius doctour of the Machomet by the meanes of one round host deuoured by the massalian But you O Massalians maye here obiect vnto me the vse of the primatiue churche obserued in the communion of the holy supper whereas euery one of the assemblye in the temple did take a portion of the broken bread consecrated to eate and communicate together A communiō of holy bread The which vse hath bene kept vnto this daye in your Missal sacrifices celebrated vpon Sondayes the which you cause to be distributed by morcelles of holy bread vnto thassistaunts within the temple But in this auncient communion doth abide nothing but an image onely Because the Massalians absing the holye sacrament haue reserued for them selues only the litle rounde hoste conscrated to be deuoured Notable differences betwene the round host the holye bread without geuing any portion vnto the assistaunts vnto whome they leaue the bittes of holy bread which are foure square for the moste parte The round host without leauen and the holy bread is with leauen The rounde hoste is without salt the holy bread with salt The rounde host is printed full of pictures the holy bread is wtout print or picture The rounde host is worshipped the holy bread is receyued with thanks geuing The round host is deuoured of the priest the holy bread is deuided among thassemble to cōmunicate to eate together The round host is stieped in wyne the holy bread is eaten without wyne To be short there is as great difference betwene these two kynds of cōmunion as there is betwene thauncient lawe of the Idolators the lawe of the ghospell Prouided always that they agre in one poynct that is that both in the one the other there is a corruption of the holy sacrament of the supper ordeyned of god It resteth to come downe to the deepe Maze of Idolatrie Transubstantiation We haue recited the history of the people of Israel which did not content them selues with the heauenly bread Manna geuen vnto them of God during the tyme that they were in the wildernes but did murmur against god and Moyses their leader requiring to eate fleshe The people also of Rome beinge Heathen and Infidelles were not contented with the institution of Pompilian touchynge the communion of the lytle rounde Cakes Blond lib. 1. de Rō trium But the bishiops of Rome Idolators did institute the killing and offering vp of beastes to the ende to eate and communicate the fleshe of the offerings in in their sacrifices specially the shepe the Sowe the Goate and the Beofe whiche firste were ordeyned by Euander king of Arcadie To the ende therefore that the Massalian should not go out of kynde from the Idolatries of their predecessours they haue folowed this communion of fleshe and are not contented with the lytle rounde vnleauened hosts consecrated and prynted full of pictures but haue in tyme inuented a new witch crafte Hosts of meale are chaunged into flesh and wyne in to blood to chaunge theyr litle hostes of floure into flesh and bone the bread being no more bread but an accidence wtout substaunce and by this meanes to chaunge their rounde host of meale into an host of fleshe and bloude The wyne also offered in their Masse challices to be chaunged into bloude the wyne beyng no more wyne but an accident without substaunce Was there euer any witchcrafte more abhominable and heresie more detestable than this transubstantiation of the Masse When the children of Israel were weryed with the eating of Manna and the heauenly bread demaunding flesh was the Manna turned into fleshe bones and bloode When the Romains the auncient Idolaters did chaunge theyr round hosts of meale and demaunded to eate of the fleshe in their sacrifices did they vse this witchcraft of transubstantiation Wherefore I do frely affirme that the Massalians haue lately instituted this addicion of the Masse yea more than 1000 yeres after the incarnation of Iesus Christ In the yere of Christ 1062. in Chrono log Fon. Volater This heresie began to sprede abroad greatly in the tyme of the Antichrist Nicolaite crept into the Romaine bishopricke by the conspiratie of Hildebrant hauing chased awaye by force the other chosen bishop namely Benedict the .xij. Lanfranc de sacr of that name in the yere of Iesus christ 1062. Afterward it aduaunce it self by a conspiratie holden in the Lateran at Rome during the ecclesiasticall tyrranny of Innocent the third of the name about 200 yeres after the solemne recantatiō of Berengarius deane of S. Maurice of Angiers Against transubstantiatiō Against the which abhominable witchcraft herisie we must briefely bring in by the way of recapitulation the institutions of the sacraments ordeyned of god First the fruites of the knowledge of good euill Trees of lyfe forbidden to our first father Adam as holy signes sacraments of feare obedience wherevpon did hange life death were they chaunged conuerted into knowledge or death leauing the nature of trées fruits reduced in to an accidence without substaunce Heauenlye Manna the rock flowing water the Manna from heauen the rock flowing with water of life sacraments agreing with the holy sacrament of the supper were they changed into an accidence wtout substaunce Lambes offered by Abell the lambes without spot offered by Abel in sacrifice wel pleasing to god were they chaūged into another nature Circumcision The lytle skynne cutte of for a note marke of the couenaunt vnto the good patriarch Abraham his posteritie was it chaunged into an accident wtout substaunce Pascal lambe The blood of the Paschal lambe for thassuraunce of the helth of Israell was it chaunged into another substaunce The fleshe of the vnspotted lambe ordeyned to be eaten in the daye of the Passeouer a true figure of the holye sacrament of the Supper was it chaunged into an accidence withoute substaunce The brasen Serpente Brasen Serpent by the onelye syght whereof health was geuen vnto disseases left it to be a serpent of brasse was it chaunged in beynge ordeyned a sacrament and holy sygne