Authors For it is an hotch-potch devised made by a number of Popes and by others also It is a very beggers cloke cobled clouted and patched with a multitude of popish ragges And yet the Papists affirme it to bee the holiest part of your Masse And it may soone be For there is not one part of the Masse that can worthily be called good as it is used at this present All things are so far out of order without edifying and contrary to Gods holy ordinance The authors of this their goodly and godly Canon they make Pope Aleâ—ander Pope Gelasius Pope Gregory Pope Sixtus Pope Leo and a certaine man called Scholasticus with other And here beginne yee wonderfully to crosse and to pray for the Universall Church first for our LORD Pope secondly for the Bishop of the Diocesse wherein yee dwell thirdly for your King and Queen last of all for all those that be of the Catholike faith And now come yee to your first Memento which serveth for the living where yee stand nodding like a sort of drunkards and praying yee say for all your good friends and benefactors for all that uphold and maintaine the kingdome of the Clergie and defend our mother holy Church against the assaults of the Gospellers and here ye alledge a sort of Saints and ye desire that for their merits and prayers sake yee may bee saved and preserved from all evill O abhominable blasphemers This done yee fall to crouching and beholding the little cake and chalice speaking a few little good words in Latine yee blesse and crosse wonderfully the cake and Chalice as though they were haunted with some ill spirits While yee are thus blessing the boy or Parish Clerke rings the little Sacry bell which biddeth the people lay all things aside now and lift up their heads behold their maker kneele down and worship their Lord God which Sir Iohn shall straight-wayes make with as much speed as may be and shew him unto them above his head Before it was Sursum corda Lift up your hearts unto the Lord but now is sursum capita come in lift up your heads and looke upon your maker betweene the priests hands with his arse turned towards you because no woman at that present shal be inamored with his sweete and loving face Come off kneele downe looke up knocke your brest behold the apple-maker of Kent and marke well him that killed thy father This is the Lord thy God Let us fall downe and worship him O unsufferable Idolatrie Notable is the doctrin of the Nicene Counsell which commandeth that wee shall not direct our mindes downeward to the bread and cup but lift them up to Christ by faith whith is ascended up into heaven really and corporally and not present carnally in the Sacramental bread as the papists teach Christ while we live in this world is not to be seen with the eyes of this body but of the spirit by faith If we wil see and worship Christ aright we must see and worship him in spirit sitting in his glory and majestie above in heaven at the right hand of God his father and not behold him in the Sacramentall bread with the corporall eyes where nothing is to be seene felt tasted or received with the mouth but bread onely But before wee come to your consecration to your Sacring and to the lifting up of your litle great young old God we will first see what Christ did afterward compare your doings with his Christ sitting at the table tooke bread and after hee had given thankes he brake the bread and gave it to his Disciples for to eat Christ sate at the table yee stand at an Altar Christ tooke bread to make it a Sacrament of his body yee take a little thinne round Cake or rather a thinne piece of starch to make it the naturall body of Christ God and man and to offer it for a Sacrifice for the sinnes of the quicke and the dead Christ delivered the bread to his Disciples to eate it in the remembrance of his death ye take the bread and hold it up above your head and make a shew of it to the people and when yee have once so done ye alone devoure and eate it up Christ brake the bread signifying thereby the breaking of his body on the Altar of the Crosse for the Salvation of the world according to this his promise in the Gospell of Saint Iohn I am that living bread which came downe from heaven If any man eateth of this bread hee shall live for ever And the bread that I will give is my flesh which I will give for the life of the world Ye breake the bread also which yee say is the naturall body of Christ flesh bloud and bone But very fondly ye breake it For yee breake your Host I use your own tearmes in three parts holding it over the chalice while you breake it I thinke because yee would lose none of the bloud that should issue out of the body which ye newly have made and now suddainely yee breake and destroy againe When ye have broken your new formed God in three parts two pieces you keepe still in your hands for flying away and the third yee let fall downe into the chalice to lie there awhile a sleeping or to put you in remembrance of your nappy Ale and Tost which your pretty Parnell hath full lovingly prepared for you against your Masse bee done lest you should chance to faint for taking so great paines at your butcherly altar Many significations have the Papists invented for those 3. broken pieces of the cake which all here to rehearse were too long I will rehearse one and if yee desire to know more enquire of your brethren the Papists and they shall easily teach you The first part say they which is both the longest and the greatest doth not onely signifie but also is a Sacrifice of thanksgiving to God the Father for his benefits declared to mankinde in the death of Christ his sonne The second is a Sacrifice propitiatory for the sinnes of the people that â—ee living in this world but specially for the sinnes of such as have bought the Masse for their money that they may bee delivered a poena culpa toties quoties The third piece which is let downe into the chalice is a satisfactory Sacrifice for the soules that lie miserably puling in the hot fire of Purgatorie to deliver them from the grievous paines and bitter torments that they there suffer and through the vertue and merits of that Sacrifice to bring them unto everlasting glory O intollerable abomination Here is the breaking of your Host with the goodly mysteries thereof Christ say the Evangelists took bread brake it and gave it to his Disciples saying Take eat this is my body which is broken for you Doe this in remembrance of me Yee also take bread and breake it
end and there once againe yee wash your hands to shew how â—â—minion trimme fine neat and white-fingered Gentlemen yee are in all your doings but especially in matters pertaining to Lady Venus Court After this yee returne to the Altar and take another licke or two of the dropping of the Chalice because yee would bee loth to lose any thing and taking up your cake in your hand ye come againe to the Altars end where yee began your popish and idolatrous Masse to declare that as good never a whit as never the better and to shew that the matter for the which yee said Masse is as farre forward now as though yee had said none at all After a few Collects mumbled over yee turne you to the people and say Dominus vobiscum bidding them adieu and with Ite Missa est yee bidde them goe and tell them Masse is done And all in Latine because the people understand nothing but English Then fall yee once againe to kneeling downe at the altar and because yee are our Ladies knights yee salute her most humbly with some devout Orison That done ye rise up againe like tall fellowes and saying the beginning of S. Iohns Gospell ye blesse you Secrosse you as though a thousand Devills were about ye After all these things yee trusse up your trinkets yee shut your booke ye fold up your corporasse cloath yee winde up your chalice ye put off your fooles coate your vestment your stole your Fannell your girdle your Albe and your Amice yee put out the candle solemnly making curtesie to your God that hangeth over the altar ye trudg out of the Church either home or else to the alehouse being now at libertie all the whole day after to doe what ye list with a safe conscience to â—dise to card to hunt to hawke to bowle to bib to make good cheere to play revell rout to drinke them all out to set cocke on the hoope let the divell pay the Maltman to fish in Venus pond to sacrifice to Bacchus and what not And here is your goodly godly massing wherwith ye bewitch the ignorant and make the simple people to doate I passe over your monstrous and apish toyes your inclinations and prostrations your complications and explications your elevations and extensions your incurvations and genuflexions your inspirations and exosculations your benedictions humiliations your pulsations pausations with your consignations and all other abominations What Christian heart can abide either to say heare or see such a divellish and abominable kind of massing as ye use at this day yee doe nothing at all in your masse that agreeeth with Christs institution The Lords Supper and your peevish popish private masse doe agree together like God and the divell Christ and Beliall light and darkenesse truth and falsehood and as the common proverbe is like harpe and harrow or like the hare and the hound Sowre and sweete are not so contrary one to another as your Masse is contrary to Christs holy Communion as yee have abundantly heard heretofore For whereas Christ preached at the institution of his holy Supper yee preach nothing at all at your Masse Whereas Christ ministred his blessed Supper at a table yee say your popish Masse at an Altar Whereas Christ did sit while he have the Sacrament of his body and bloud to his Disciples yee stand and by no means will sit when yee receive it Whereas Christ did use none other apparell but his â—suall garments yee disguise your selves with such geare as is more meet for a gameâ— player than for a sober minister Wheras Christ at his supper both prayed gave thanks to his heavenly Father in that tongue which those that were present did understand ye at your Masse speake all things in such a tongue as yee your selves for the most part understand not and so are they that are present unedified Whereas Christ in his holy supper gave the sacrament of his body and blood to all his Disciples yee in your abominable masses give it to none but yee your selves eate and drinke up altogether alone Whereas Christ at his mawndy gave to his Discipler holy Bread and holy Wine to bee figures signes and memorialls of his blessed body breaking and of his pretious blood shedding yee at your Masses take upon you to eate and drinke not spiritually but corporally and naturally the corporall and naturall body and bloud of our Saviour Christ as hee was borne of the Virgin and hung on the crosse Wheras Christ ministred with true and perfect breaâ— yee minister with starch or with a thinne waâ—er Cake Whereas CHRIST delivered the Cuppe contayning Wine onely in it yee in your Chalice put both Wine and Water mingled together Whereas Christ gave the Sacrament of his body and bloud to his Disciples sitting at the Table yee give the Sacrament to such as kneele before the Altar Whereas Christ gave his Disciples the Sacramentall bread and the cup into their handes yee put the bread into the mouths of the Communicants and by no meanes will you suffer them to touch your Popes holy chalice wheras Christ delivered the Sacrament of his body and bloud under both kinds to his disciples and so commanded it to be observed in his holy congregation yee contrary to Christs institution ordinance minister it to the common people under one kind only whereas Christ did institute his holy Supper to bee eaten and drunke in the remembrance of his blessed passion and precious death yee reserve the Sacramentall bread and hang it up in your pixes carry it about for a pageant at your pompous popish processions whereas Christ ordayned his blessed Supper to bee a Sacrament of thanksgiving you make your Masse to be a Sacrifice propitiatory satisfactory and expiatory for the sinnes both of the quicke and the dead Whereas Christ at his Supper gave the Sacrament of his body and bloud freely to his Disciples you sell your Masses and make merchandise of the Sacrament as the Costard-monger doth of his costards and of his other fruits To conclude whereas Christ appointed the Sacrament of his body and bloud to put us in remembrance of his blessed body breaking and precious bloudshedding and to stirre us up unto mutuall love and unto thankesgiving to his heavenly Father for the benefits received by the death of his Sonne Christ yee apply your Masses to a thousand severall purposes cleane contrary as to the getting of faire weather rain health long life riches victory in battell overhand of enemies c. To driving away of devills chasing away of agues putting away of pestilences curing of measled swine healing of sicke horses helping of chickens of the pip making hot of a Winchester goose restoring of a good name procuring of friends preserving of evill chances bringing of good lucke pacifying of Gods wrath obtaining of remission of sinnes delivering of soules out of Purgatory yea out of Hell
but had in an everlasting remembrance first of all preached a most fruitfull and comfortable Sermon to his Disciples and afterward as he sate at the table with them hee tooke bread into his hands and after he had given thankes to his heavenly Father as his manner was for his corporall gifts but specially for the deare love that hee of his owne meere mercie and free heartie good will bare toward mankind he brake bread and gave bread unto his disciples saying Take yee eat yee this is my body which is betrayed for you Doe this in remembrance of me And as hee tooke the bread and made it a Sacrament that is to say an holy signe figure token and Memoriall of his Body breaking so likewise he took the wine and made that a Sacrament holy signe figure token and Memoriall of his bloud shedding and after thankesgiving to his heavenly Father for the benefits aforesaid he delivered the Cup unto his Disciples saying Drinke of this all ye This Cup is a new Testament in my bloud which is shed for many for the remission of sins Doe this so oft as yee shall drinke it in the remembrance of me And this heavenly banket once done they said grace that is to say they praised God by saying either certaine Psalmes of David or some other thankesgivings and so departed Here is the whole institution of the Lords Supper Now let us compare Christs Supper with your Popish and Idolatrous Masse and see how well Christs doings and yours agree together If ye be the Ministers of Christ and not of Antichtist the servants of God and not of the Divell then will you follow your Master Christ which saith I have given you an example that as I have done so likewise yee should doe Let us now then goe in hand with the matter First we reade that Christ before hee fed his Disciples with the mysticall food of his body and bloud made a Sermon unto them wherewith as with a certaine most wholesome preparative hee made meet the minds of his Disciples unto so worthy a banket giving all faithfull Ministers an example that whensoever they with the congregation doe come together to celebrate the Lords Supper there should be some Sermon or exhortation made unto the people that they might the better examine themselves and the more deepely consider the thing that they goe about And according to the example of Christ not only the Apostle but all the holy Fathers also of the Primitive church used the trade and so did it continue in the Church of Christ till Antichrist the Bishop of Rome had driven Christ out of place and set up himselfe as God Againe till hee had expulsed the Supper of the Lord and set up his owne peevish yea theevish Idolatrous Masse as wee may see in the monuments of the ancient Writers They continued saith blessed Luke in the Apostles doctrine and fellowshippe and in breaking of bread and in prayers And Saint Paul saith As often as ye shall eat this bread and drinke of the cup shew set forth declare and preach the Lords death till he come A practise hereof have we in the Acts of the Apostles where wee reade That upon one of the Sabbath dayes when the Disciples came together for to breake bread so termeth S. Luke the receiving of the Sacrament of Christs body and blood blessed Paul preached unto them and continued the preaching unto midnight And the Sermon ended they brake bread ate thanked God and departed For if the Sacrament of Christ be never so comfortable yet if they bee not known what they are to what use they were instituted what joyfull promises are annexed unto them what they signifie and preach unto the faithfull receivers c. What other things are they to us thaÌ„ the pretious stone was to Aesops Cock A SacrameÌ„t ministred without preaching of the word is but a dumb ceremony a glasse offered to a blind man and a tale told to one that is deafe The Apostles before the ministration of any Sacrament preached and so did the holy Fathers of the primitive Church Saint Iohn Baptist the sonne of the Priest Zachary preached unto the people before hee baptized them Our Saviour Christ a little before his ascension said to his Apostles â—oe and teach all nations baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Sonne and of the holy Ghost Here is Baptism the preaching of the word joyned together And as concerning the blessed Sacrament of Christs body and blood did not our Saviour Christ preach at the institution and ministration of it Are we not also commanded by the holy Apostle that whensoever wee come to receive the blessed Communion the death of the Lord should be preached declared and set forth Did not the Apostles of Christ and all the godly Bishops of the primitive Church observe the same order They considered right well how little the ministration of the Sacraments availeth without the preaching of the Word For as S. Paul saith how shall they believe without a Preacher Faith commeth by hearing and hearing commeth by the Word of God None therefore of the Lords Sacraments ought publickely to be administred without preaching of the word yea that not in a strange tongue but in such a speech as the people understand or else it were as good to speake the words unto a sâ—rt of sheepe or geese as unto them that are gathered together at the ministration of any Sacrament And this meant Saint Augustine when hee said Take away the Word and what is Water but water But let the word bee added to the ElemeÌ„t it is made a SacrameÌ„t Whence hath the water such a power that it should touch body and wash the heart but by the vertue of working of the word not because it is spoken but because it is beleeved The word signifyeth here not only the speaking of Ego baptizote c. or Hoc est corpus meum c. pronounced by the Priest in a strange tongue but the preaching of the word of God uttered by the mouth of the Ministers in such a language as the people understand or else how shall they beleeve It is not the utterance of Gods word in an unknowne speech that bringeth faith but when it is so spoken that it is understood of them that heare it and that faith through the operation of the holy Ghost ensueth which otherwise is cold lyeth idle and worketh nothing in the heart of the hearer for as S. Augustine saith Take away the Word and what is Water but water that is to say take away the preaching of Gods word from the SacrameÌ„t of Baptism which declareth what Baptisme is who instituted it to what use it was ordained what fruits and commodities wee receive by it c. And what doth the water of Baptisme profit I speake concerning such as are come to the use of reason
or such as are present at the ministration of Baptisme And so likewise may wee say of the Sacrament of Christs body and bloud Take away the word and what is Bread but Bread What is wine but wine that is to say Take away the preaching of the Lords death from the holy Cōmunion and what doth it profit to eat drinke the Sacramentall bread and wine seeing the mystery is not knowne nor understood But put the preaching of the word to the Elements water bread and wine and so are they made holy and honourable Sacraments full of singular joy and great comfort as Saint Augustine saith Let the word be added to the Element and it is made a Sacrament Therefore where the Lords Supper is rightly ministred there is declared the death and passion of Christ there is shewed forth the misery of man from the which hee could have beene no otherwise released but only by the death of Christ there is taught what the Sacrament is what it signifyeth and to what use Christ our Saviour did institute it there are the people exhorted not rashly nor with unwashed feet as they use to say to come unto the Lords Table but to prove trie and examin themselves whether they come with such faith and love unto that most worthy mystery as they ought least they eat and drinke their own damnation there are they stored up unto the workes of mercie toward the poore and unto hearty thankesgiving to God the Father for the death of his Son Christ there also are they put in remembrance that after they have tasted those heavenly mysteries have spiritually fed upon the body bloud of Christ which through faith are present and truly received in spirit of faithful Cōmunicants and are become one body with Christ they ought no more to returne unto their old sinfull wicked conversation but from henceforth to serve their Lord God in holines righteousnes all the daies of their life Is there any such thing done in the popish Masse Who preacheth Who maketh the exhortation Who moveth the people to repentance faith love and amendment of life mutuall recōciliation workes of mercie or unto thankesgiving to God the Father for the death of his Sonne Christ Who playeth the Schoolmaster and giveth the people such exhortations that they goe home from your Masses better learned than they came thither What theese ever lest his theft What false lawyer gave over his bribing what whore forsooke her whordome what wicked man at any time repented him of his wickednesse by comming unto your Masse Yea rather they goe from your Masse so well instructed that they thinke that now they have heard a Masse they may doe all the day after what they will Amends is made beforehand If they bribe poll pill steale lye slander blaspheme kill murder runne on whoring play the harlot fall to drunkennesse to dicing to carding and doe all other unlawfull things it maketh no matter for they have heard Masse They have satisfyed for the sinne before it be committed The hearing of masse hath dispatcht al the matter aforehand And what marvaile is it though such abomination followeth of your massing seeing the people heareth no goodnesse at it but rather are confirmed in all kind of ungodlinesse The chiefest jewell of all I meane the preaching of Gods word is utterly exiled from your Masse as all goodnesse is besides There is none of you all that stand up in the pulpit that lift up your voice to declare unto the people either their wickednesse or preach unto them the most joyfull pleasant and comfortable Gospel of our Saviour Christ. If there bee any preaching at all the Bells make it when the popish Clark ringeth to Masse The Bells being hanged up tell the people somewhat which they understand namely that there is a popish masse ready at hand come heare it who list and be never the better when yee have done But ye speake nothing at all that the people understand and so are yee worse than the Bells Oh how often have I seene here in England at the ministration of the holy Communion people sitting at the Lords table after they have heard the sermon or the godly exhortation set forth in the Booke of Common prayer read unto them by the minister bitterly weep heartily repent and sorrowfully lament their too much unkindnesse and unthankfulnesse toward the Lord God for the death of his Sonne Christ and for his other benefits againe their negligence in doing their duty toward their poore neighbours what free and large gifts also have I seene given to the poore mens boxe what laying aside of al enmity and renewing of unfained mutuall reconciliation what loving embracing and holy kissing of one another What assurance of heartytty friendship for ever to continue where immortall hatred was before what godlinesse also of life have I seen afterward practised by them that were the Communicants what alteration of manners What newnesse of conversation The covetous man to abhorre his covetousnesse the Adulterer to leave his adultery the Whore to defie her whoredom the Proud man to detest his pride the Vsurer to give over his usury and so forth by hearing the word of God preached and by the worthy receiving of the holy Communion hath full oft bin seen in England when the doctrine of the Gospell flourished among us Never saw I one point of like godlinesse practised of any man by hearing your popish Masses but as they have come thither wicked and ungodly so have they departed againe with the same ungodlines and wickednes rather being the worse than the better by hearing that your Idolatrous masse and yet Oh God be mercifull unto us and forgive us our sinnes the glorious and blessed Cōmunion is now through the craft and subtilty of the devil and through the wilinesse of his sturdy stout champions that filthy Synagogue of Sathan utterly banished out of this Realme unto the great dishonour of God and unspeakable sorrow of all true Christians and that most vile most stinking most pestiferous most abominable most wicked most devillish most idolatrous popish private Masse received again set up and magnifyed above the starres yea and above God and his holy ordinance when indeed of all Idols the Masse is most to be abhorred of such as feare and love God But though your Masse were never so good as indeed it is starke naught without comparison yet forasmuch as it is done without the preaching of the word and in a strange it is altogether unprofitable yea and abominable Notwithstanding behold the hypocrisie and counterfeit holinesse yea rather your double dissimulation and devillish deceiving of the simple people when yee have stood awhile pattering like a sort of asses yee know not what at the lower end of the Altar saying the Introite or office of the Masse as they call it the Kyrrys the Gloria in Excelsis the Collects
they bee here recited was Pope Alexander about the yeare of our Lord 112. Here doe yee not rehearse the words truely as our Saviour CHRIST spake them Some words yee added and some yee have taken away But I much marvell at your grosse ignorance in this one thing Yee put a difference betweene Blessing and Thankesgiving For when yee rehearse this word Beâ—edixit he blessed you crosse and blesse the bread with your greasie fingers as though Christs blessing in that place were the wagging of his fingers and not rather thankesgiving For where Saint Marke hath Cum Benedixisset When he had blessed Saint Matthew Luke and Paul hath Cum Gratias egisset When he had given thankes So that to blesse after Markes phrase is nothing else than to give thankes to praise and to magnifie And so is it taken in divers places of the holy Scriptures both in the old and new Testament Again ye put to these foure words of Christ Hoc est corpus meum this word Enim and ye say Hoc est enim carpus 〈◊〉 one word more than ever Christ put in because ye may be found still as ye are even abominable liars But for putting in this one word Enim which is of so great vertue say ye that without it there can bee no perfect Consecration and then what is to bee thought I pray you of Christ and of his Apostles of the Primative Church and of the Greekes at this day which never used that word being your owne superfluous addition yee most wickedly leave out these most necessary words that CHRIST spake which is betrayed for you Doe this in the remembrance of mee This joyfull promise that Christs body was betrayed given and broken for us with the residue ye leave out as a thing pertaining nothing to the purpose And yet are they so necessary that without the knowledge of them the Sacrament profiteth nothing at all If I receive the Sacrament a thousand times yet if I know not to what use it was instituted of Christ what profits and benefits I have by the worthy receiving of it If I doe not set before the eyes of my minde the death of Christ and faithfully beleeve to have remission forgivenesse of al my sins by the breaking of Christs body by the sheadding of his most pretious bloud c. it profiteth me no more thaÌ„ the pretious stone did profit Aesops Cock Again those words which Christ spake openly to his Disciples unto their great joy and comfort you partly leave out and partly whisper in hocker mocker to your selves that no man may bee the better for your doings and that the people may bee kept still in blindnesse Our Saviour CHRIST saith What I tell you in darkenesse that speake yee in light And what ye heare in the eare that preachye on the house tops But ye doe cleane contrary For that which Christ spake openly to his Disciples ye mutter it softly to your selves O cruell soule-slayers and bloudie murtherers But is this your dexterity uprightnes and true dealing with the Word of God So to corrupt and mangle the words of the glorious Testament of the Sonne of God It is not lawfull to alter a mortall mans Testament and dare ye presume O yee Antichrists to alter and change the blessed Testament and heavenly will of the King of Glory Are ye faithfull Ministers which deale so unfaithfully with your Lord and Master Ye that deale so wickedly with God how wil ye deale with man God keepe all faithfull people out of your clawes After ye have once spoken these five words Hoc est enim corpus meum over the bread and have blasted breathed and blowed upon it yee kneele down to it and worship it like abominable Idolaters and afterward ye hold it up above your pestilent pilde shaven shamelesse heads that the people by looking upon it and worshipping it may be partakers also of your abominable Idolatry not being contented with your own damnable estate except ye bring other also into the same danger The Author of your levation lifting the bread above your head was Pope Honori the third about the yeare of our LORD 1 10. which commanded that the Host should bee lifted up above the Priests head at Masse and that all the people should fall downe and worship it O Antichrist Here may all men see how ancient a thing your holy sakering is which is counted the best and chiefest part of your Masse when notwithstanding it is the most wicked and most abhominable part of your idolatrous Masse Verily it is not much more than three hundred yeares old Let the lying Papists therfore bee ashamed to brag that their divellish Masse came from the Apostles seeing it is proved to be a new and late invention of Antichrist And although the whole Masse of the Papists be utterly wicked and abhominable yet this part which they call the Sakering is most wicked and abominable for as much as it provoketh the people that are present to commit most detestable Idolatries For the people take it to be their god They beleeve that bread w ch the Priest heaveth above his head to bee Christ perfect God perfect man Therfore kneel they down unto it knocke their breasts lift up their heads worshippe and honour it When the Bel once rings if they cannot conveniently see they forsake their seats and runne from Altar to Altar from Sakering to Sakering peeping here and tooting there and gazing at that thing which the pilde-pate Priest holdeth up in his hands And if the Priest bee weake in the armes and heave not up high enough the rude people of the Countrey in divers parts of England will crie out to the Priest hold up Sir Iohn hold up Heave it a little higher And one will say to another Stoupe downe thou fellow afore that I may see my Maker For I cannot be merry except I see my LORD GOD once in a day O abomination Ah Woe worth you yee Masse-mongers that are the authors of this abominable Idolatrie and through your wicked massing send thousands to the Devill except the mercy of God bee the greater Better were â—e Masse-mongers to leave your fat Benefices your rich Prebeuds your wealthy Deanries your honourable Chaplainships your long Gownes your Sarseneâ— Tiopets and your shaven crownes and become watertankard-bearers in London or to cobble a shoo or goe to plough and cart yea to have a milstone tyed about your neck and be cast into the bottome of the sea than your most stinking wicked and vile massing to provoke so many people unto Idolatry and to bring the wrath of God and everlasting damnation upoÌ„ them except they repent and amend Verily I say unto you it shall bee easier for the Land of So dome at the day of Iudgement than for you But I know what yee will say That we hold up is the very
Christ as concerning his corporall presence is no more in the earth but in heaven only Christ hath in him two natures the nature of God and the nature of man As concerning his divine nature hee is in heaven in earth and in every place But as touching his humane nature hee is in heaven onely and there shall remaine untill the Day of Iudgement as Saint Augustine saith as concerning the presence of his Majestie wee have Christ alwayes but as touching the presence of his flesh it was truely sayd to his Disciples Mee shall yee not alwayes have with you For the Church had him a few dayes after thâ— presence of his flesh but now it holdeth him by faith and seeth him not with the eyes Againe he saith God and man is one person and both is one Christ Iesus in every place in that he is God but in heaven in that he is man Also in another place Where and in what manner Christ is in heaven it is a vaine and superfluous thing to aske or demand but wee must surely beleeve that hee is onely in heaven If hee be onely in heaven as concerning his corporall presence as both the Scriptures and Saint Augustine affirme how then is hee either in your round cake at Masse or else hanging up in your popish Pixe over the Altar with an halter But let us heare what the ancient Doctour Virgilius writeth concerning this matter The Sonne of God saith he as concerning his Humanitie is gone away from us but as touching his Divinity hee saith unto us Behold I am with you alwayes unto the end of the world Againe forasmuch as the word is every where and his flesh is not every where it appeareth that one and the same CHRIST is of both natures and that hee is in every place as concerning the nature of his Godhead Againe that hee is contayned in a place as touching the nature of his manhood Of these Authorities doth it manifestly appeare that Christ inasmuch as he is God is in every place but having respect to that hee is a man he is only in one place that is to say in heaven If he bee only in heaven inasmuch as he is man then consider yee what is to be thought of the doctrine of the Papists which teach that Christs naturall body is in every place wheresoever his Godhead is O Antichrists If this be not to play the Hereticke Marcions part and utterly to destroy the verity of Christs humane nature or of his naturall body what is it But Saint Augustine saith very well in this behalfe wee must take heed saith hee that we doe not so set forth maintaine or affirme the Godhead of the Man Christ that wee take away or destroy the truth of his body For it doth not follow that that which is in God should be every where as God Christ inasmuch as he is God is every where but being man hee is onely in heaven But yee will object according to your old wont the omnipotencie or almighty power of God and say that forasmuch as he is omnipotent and almighty he may both make the bread his body and also bee in as many places concerning the corporall presence as he list that is to say in infinite places at once I answer God is not called Almighty because he can doe all things but because he is able to doe whatsoever his Godly pleasure is to doe For there are certaine things which God cannot doe as for example hee cannot denie himselfe hee cannot lye hee cannot save such as die in infidelity hee cannot make another of like power with himselfe hee cannot save the reprobate nor condemne the Elect which have their names written in the Booke of life c. Whatsoever is contrary to his Word that cannot God doe But it is contrary to the Word of God for Christs body to bee in more places at once than in one yea to bee both in heaven sitting at the right hand of God the Father and heere also in earth at your popish Masses in a thousand places at once therefore is not God able to make his body to bee in so many places at once as ye faine forasmuch as the nature of God onely is infinite and the nature of all creatures is contained in some certaine one place at once But here againe yee will bring forth these promises of CHRIST Wheresoever two or three be gathered together in my Name there am I in the middest of them Againe I am with you alwayes unto the end of the world These promises and such like are to bee understood not of the corporall presence here on earth but of his Grace as the Doctors themselves doe declare It is to bee noted marked and considered saith Cyril that although Christ hath taken away the presence of his body from hence yet by the Majesty of his God-head hee is alwayes present as hee at his departure promised his Disciples Behold saith he I am with you alwayes unto the very end of the world The like saying of Saint Augustine heard wee before Of all these things heretofore spoken it is evident that the naturall body of Christ is not here in earth as yee Masse-mongers would gladly make us beleeve but in heaven onely and there shall remaine untill the day of Iudgement Christ in the mean season being here present with us by his Spirit and Grace Seeing then that the Sacramentall bread is not the naturall body of Christ God and man but a figure Sacrament and holy signe of his body with what forehead dare you either affirme that your little thinne round cake after five words pronounced over it and you breathing blasting and blowing upon it to be the true naturall reall corporeall and substantiall body of Christ God and Man as hee was borne of the Virgine Marie and suffered for us on the Altar of the crosse or worship it your selves or yet provoke others so to doe according to Pope Honorius decree and not after Christs institution What is Idolatrie if this bee not Idolatrie To worship a piece of bread for God what heathen Idolater ever so doted If good king Ezekias lived in these our dayes hee would rather play with the Sacrament of Christs body and bloud as he did with the Brasen Serpent than hee would suffer such abomiable Idolatry to be committed at the ministration of it to the great dishonour of God the utter defacing of Christs passion and bloud and death and to the dreadfull damnation of innumerable souls O England England teares yea teares of bloud mayest thou well weepe which in the prosperous time of that most godly King Edward the Sixt wert blessedly purged of all superstition Idolatry and popish doctrine and hadst restored unto thee the true Gospel of thy salvation and the right ministration of the Lords Sacraments But now for thine unthankfulnesse toward the Lord thy God all these heavenly treasures are
farre to be obeyed as the limits of Gods Word doe suffer Iâ— their Lawes and Acts agree with the Word of God they are to be obeyed if they be contrary to the commandement of God it is to bee answered with the Apostles We must â—bey God more than men Furthermore if â—ee be afraid of losing your livings anâ— by that meanes of falliâ—g into beggery remember that he for whose sake yee forsake your Idolatrous Massing that ye may serve him with a pure conscience according to his word will never forsake you nor leave you succourlesse and unprovided for Sooner shall God deale with you as he did with the Children of Israel iâ— the wildernes with Eli as with the Widow of of Sarepta with Daniel with the people whom CHRIST fed in the desert as wee reade in the Historie of the Gospell and with such other as unfainedly feared God than ye shall want any good thing Hear what David saith They which seeke after the Lord shall want no manner of thing that is good Againe I have beene young and now I am old and yet saw I the righteous never forsaken nor their seed begging their bread on the earth Our Saviour Christ also saith There is no man that hath forsaken house or brethren or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands for my sake and the Gospels but he shall receive an hundred fold Now in this life houses and brethren and sisters and mothers and children and lands with persecution and in the world to come everlasting life And God himselfe saith I will not leave thee nor forsake thee Having these loving promises of God feare yee not the losse of your livings nor the hatred of the wicked worldlings If God provideth for you as undoubtedly hee doth what can ye want If God bee your friend your buckler shield who can hurt you As Saint Paul saith If God be on our side who can be against us Now have yee heard how far the Masse dissenteth from the Lords Supper Ye have heard what manifest blasphemies and intollerable untruthes bee contained in the Masse Ye have heard that the Masse is the invention of the Devill the Nurse-childe of Antichrist and the welbeloved darling of all them that have received the Beasts marke Ye have heard that no Christian man can either say Masse or heare Masse with a good conscience To end yee have heard that the Masse is the fountaine well head-spring and originall of all Idolatry superstition wickednes sin abomination and that it is not Gods worship but Idoll service Considering therfore these things if ye tender the glory of God your owne salvation and the peace quietnesse and safegard of our country flee Idolatry forsake your abominable Massing and serve the LORD our God according to his holy Word So shal God blesse you with all good things both in this world and in the world to come Fare yee well The Grace of our Lord Iesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Ghost be with you all Amen Man How long O Lord. Christ I come quickly Man O come Lord Iesu. Give the glory to God alone The Abomination of the Popish Masse What Christ did when hee ordained his holy Supper Matth 26. Matth. 14. Luke 22. 1 Cor. 11. Iohn 13. Christ preached before his Supper Acts 2. 1 Cor. 11. Acts 20. Note Maâ—â— 3. Mat. 28. Iohn 13. 14. 15. 16. 1 Cor. 11. Ministration of the Sacraments without preaching profiteth little In Ioan tract 80. What things ought to be preached at the ministration of the Lords Supper Luke 1. The popish Masse hath no preaching No goodnes is learned at the popish Masse The Masse is the nurse of all vice Esay 58. Marke 16. The Bells are better preachers than the Massers What goodnesse followed the ministration of the holy Communion No man better for hearing Masse The Masse is to be abhorred of all good men The Masse-mongers are double dissemblers The people are mocked at the popish Masse Christ ministred his Supper at a Table The Primative Church used no Altars but Tables at the Lords Supper Why Christ ministred at a Table rather than at an Altar 1 Cor. 10. Christ alone is our Altar Heb. 13. Rom. 8. 1 Tâ—m 2. 1 Iohn 2. Abomination The communion of the bodie and bloud of Christ ought to be ministred at a Table Christ ministred without Copt or Vestment A Surplesse tollerable without the rest of massing apparel Fannell Fools coat otherwise called a vestment Shaven crowne Never none evill of that marke for Lady Venus pastime What the garments of the Priests in the old Law signified Spiced consciences Rom. 13. Christ sate at his Supper Gestures Why the Iewes stood at the eating of the Paschal Lamb. Psal. 39. Heb. 13. 1 Pet. 3. Why Christ with his Disciples sate at his Supper Apoc. 13. The doctrine of Christ is perfect and sufficient for our salvation Matth 23. Christ is no lesse present at Baptisme than at the Supper An error of the Papists A comparison between the old Idolatrous Priests and ours The God of the Papists Dan. 14. What the Papists doe at their Masse Priests massing vestments Altars Hallowing of altars Altar clothes Corporasse Cups of wood Chalices of glasse chalices of Silver and gold Bread Confiâ—eor An errour of the Papists concerning confession An error of the Papists concerning the intercession of Saintsâ— The Masse is a monster of lies The Iâ—troite or office of the Masse The Kyry Gloria in excelsis The Papists cannot agree Collects The Epistle The Grayle The Allelujah The Tract or Sequence The Gospel Why the people stand up at the Gospel The Creed Censing of the Altars The Offertory A blasphemous prayer at the offertory Idolatry The death of Christ is the alone sacrifice for sinne Sacrifice ought to bee offered to God alone Esay 42. Psal. 114. A new Sacrifice Washing of hands Matth. 27. Crossing Kissing Turne and Returne The Secrets The Preface Kissing the Canon of the Masâ— The Sanctu The Authors of the Canon Crossing The first Memento Why the Priest at Masse turneth his backe to the people Idolatrie The Councell of Nice An errour of the Papists What Christ did Comparison betweene Christ and the Massemongers Iohn 6. Breaking of the Host in three parts What the breaking of the Host signifyeth and is Note Matth. 25. 〈◊〉 14. Luke 22. I Cor. 11. A point of little good-fellowship Handling of the Sacramentall bread Of the hand and mouth Beware yee that maâ—ntaine Massemongers Note Touching of the chalice Idolatrie â—â—â—iding at Easter A point of little good fellowship Antichrists Why the Lords Supper was instituted Consecration Iugâ—â—ng Ignorance Blessing signiâ—ieth thankesgiving Enim Corrupters of Christs Testament Note well Antichrists Matth. 10. Corrupters â—dolatry Sakering or Levation The Sakering is the most abominable part of the Masse Matth. 18. Matth. 10. The objections of the Papists concerning Christs corporall presence in the Sacrament An absâ—rditie Iohn 15. 10. Mat. 11. 17 3 King 13. Iohn 19. Libr 4. Cont. Marc. Coâ—tra Adiâ—ant 〈◊〉 Mat. 26. Titus 3. Serm. de Chrism Contr. Adimanâ—um Christs naturall body cannot be but in one place at once Iohn 14. 16. Mark 16. Luke 24. Acts 1. Act. 2. Rom. 8. Eph. 4. Cel. 3. 1 Thes. 14. 1 Tim. 3. Heb. 10. 1 Pet. 3. 1 Iohn 2. Tract 50. in Iohan. Hd. Dardâ—n De fide Syn. â— 6 Lib. 1. cont Eâ—tich Ad Dardan Note well the omnipotencie or almighty power of God Why God is called Almighty The promises of Christ concerning concerning his presence Mar. 18. Matth. 28. In Ioh. l. c. 16. Idolatry 2 King 1â— The Doctrine of the Papists concerning the presence of Christ in the Sacrament is new The Feast of Corpus Christi Matth. 26. The Sacrament ought to be received of the people in both kinds Sacrilege The Councell of Constance Gelâ—sius Decree The Greeks and Bohems Idolatry A Lye Crossing Prov. 30. Idolatry Kissing The second Memento Praying for the soules departed The holy Scripture teacheth not prayer for the dead Prayer Rom. 14. 1 Iohn 5. 1 King 18. Luke 16. Iohn 3. Eâ—cces 11. Adfratres iâ— Eremo Serm. 57. Ser. dâ—temp Diâ— 17. Coâ—tr Demes What it is to rest with Christ after this life Apoc. 14 Psalm 116. Sapiâ—nt 3. The second Sakerinâ— otherwise called Gods hopping about the chalice The Pater noster c. 1. The breaking of the Host in three parts Agnus Idolatry Idolatry An history of a certain Emperour of Turkie The petty degree of the Papists God Noâ—â— Rom. 4. The Pax. The Pax. A Lie three for failing Christs ordinance is that the congregatioÌ„ should receive the Sacrament together Act. 2. 20. 1 Cor. 10. 1 Cor. 11. The Papists at their Masse in receiving the Sacrament tarry for the people as the Abbot tarrieth for his Covent The private Masse is of the Devill and not of God Every man ought to receive the Sacrament for himselfe Abacâ—k 2. Rom. 1. The Vision of Saint Anthony Note well The Lords Supper is a Sacrament oâ— love and concord 1 Cor. 10. An history of a Christian and a Iew. Drinke and still drinke Rinsing of the Chalice Washing of the hands Licking of the Chalice What the comming againe to the Altars end signifyeth An Orison for our Lady Saint Iohns Gospell God give you good night at Algate How the Priests spend the day after they have said Masse Good stuffe worke for the Tinker A comparison between the Lords supper and the popish Masse The vertues of the Masse The Masse serveth for all purposes Note in how damnable a state the Masse-monger is Exod. 12. â— King 6. Mat. 22. Ioh. 13. 1 Cor. 11 Rev. 20. Note well Act. 5. Exod. 1. Dan. 3. 1 Mac. 1. 2 Cron. 15. 1 King 18. â— King 9. 2 King 11. 〈…〉 How farre Civil Mastistrates are to be obeyed Act. 5. Poverty Exod. 16. 3 King 17. Dan 14. Marke 14. Psal. 34. Psal. 37. Mark 10. Ios. 1. Rom. 8. 2 Cor 13. Psal. 13. Apoc. 12. Apoc. 22.
but ye give it to your selves But as Christ gave the bread to his Disciples willing them to eat it in remembrance of his passion and death so ought yee to doe to the faithfull congregation that are present and not like swinish beasts to eate and drinke up all alone your selves and afterward to blesse the people wiâ—h an empty cup as ye doe at your high and solemne feasts But this doe yee not therefore are ye plaine Antichrists Take this bread saith our Saviour Christ. Take it in your hands Hand off say yee Papists Gape and wee will put it in your mouths and feed yee as children use to feed their Iack-dawes Handle so pretious a relique Marry Sir God forbidde The woman peradventure hath lien with her husband all night or the husband with the wife and shall such touch the pretious body of our Lord with their handes Marry Sir God forbid That were a piteous case But yee abominable Whoremasters ye filthy fornicators yee stinking Sodomites ye deceitfull Deflowrers of mayds yee devillish defilers of mens wives yee cankred corrupters of widowes and yee lecherous locusts may lie with your whores and harlots all night and the next day after goe to Masse consecrate make touch handle breake and devoure your God and yet ye defile the Sacrament nothing at all O abominable Whorehunters O monstrous Massmongers Honest Matrimonie after your corrupt judgements defileth the Sacrament of Christs body and bloud but filthy fornication abominable adultery wicked whoredome and stinking Sodomitrie advanceth the dignity thereof O right Chaplins of that filthy Idoll Priapus But come off I pray you what hath the hand more offended than the mouth that it may not touch the Sacrament Are they not both the good creatures of God are they not made both of one substance and to say the truth there commeth not so much evil from the hand as there doth out of the mouth For out of the mouth come Blasphemies cursed speakings evil reportes bannings slanders lies malicious words filthy tales idle talke singing of bawdy ballads c. But from the hand commeth vertuous occupation honest labour painefull travaile getting of thy living helping of our neighbors and almes-giving to the poore But yee are alwayes like your selves that is to say very Antichrists For yee are evermore contrary to Christ. Christ delivered the Sacrament into his Disciples hands and you put it into the Communicants mouths as though the people were not so wise as to put a morsel of bread in their owne mouthes The people are much bound to you that have so good opinion of them Ye make them momes indeed asses louts and your very riding fools God once open their eyes that they may perceive your jugling Ye are well worthy to have your tithes and offerings truely payd yee doe your duty so well Verily they that give ought to find you Masse-mongers withall and to maintaine you in your abominable massing doe nothing else but offend God dishonor Christ tread under foote the pretious bloud of Christ make Christs death of no price maintaine Idolatrie defie the holy Communion destroy the Christian common-weale uphold Antichrists brood cherish Satans Chaplains pamper Priapus pildepates make fat Venus stout stallions enrich Bacchus Sacrificers and nourish such monsters as doe nothing else than murther kill and slay the soules of so many as follow your damnable Doctrine and hant your Idolatrous Masses Let the Christians therefore beware how and upon whom they bestow their goods lest by giving to Massing priests they get to themselves everlasting damnation The doer and maintainer shall receive like punishment He that readeth the practises of the ancient Church shall evidently see that the manner of the godly Ministers at that time was not to put the Sacramentall bread into the peoples mouths as yee doe at this present but to give it them into their hands For it was not then taken and honored for a God as it is now but it was reverently used and taken as an holy and worthy Sacrament of Christ. But what marvaile is it though yee will not suffer the people to handle the Sacramentall bread seeing yee will not suffer the coÌ„municants to touch your Popes holy chalice wherein notwithstanding is not the Sacrament of Christs bloud but only meere wine dedicated and appointed to no godly use Ye are contrary to Christ in all things God amend you Take eat saith our Saviour Christ. Nay say ye Masse-mongers neither take yee nor eat but come heare Masse devoutly see us take and eat up altogether and it is enough for you Fall down kneele worship your Maker that wee shew unto you Honor your God that is hanged up in the pixe over the Altar and so shall yee be good Catholickes and deare children of our mother holy Church If yee come at Easter according to P. Zepherinus commandemeÌ„t and then receive your maker devoutly it is enough for you At all other times we wil receive the Sacrament for you and it shall do you as much good as though you had eaten it your selfe O false and subtile hypocrits O wicked corrupters of the Lords blessed Testament If other men shold eat up your dinners and suppers in your stead as ye eat up the SacrameÌ„t from the people ye should not have so fat panches as yee have nor yet so frie in your grease as you doe Christ delivered the Sacramental bread to his Disciples and bade them eate but yee eat up all your selves and will give no man part with you O cankred carles O churlish chuffes And here may we note by the way to what end the Sacramental bread is ordained not that it should be kneeled to nor honored as a God nor gazed on nor carried about in popish pompous processions nor offered up for a sacrifice for the sins of the quick the dead nor yet to reserve it to hang it up in the pixe over the Altar as yee Papists doe but that it should be received and eaten of the faithfull Communicants at the Lords Supper in remembrance of CHRISTS death Take eat saith our Saviour Christ. Hitherto have wee heard that your peevish popish private pedlary pelting masse agreeth with the Lords blessed Supper and holy Communion nothing at all Let us now see how well ye behave your selves in the words of Consecration as yee call them wherein after your opinion hangeth all the matter Christ said This is my bodie which is betrayed for you Doe this in the remembrance of me Now let us behold your consecration Taking the little Cake in your hands yee say these words The day before hee suffered hee tooke bread into his holy and worshipfull hands and lifting up his eyes unto heaven to the God his Father Almightie and giving the thanks he blessed brake and gave to his Disciples saying Take and eat of this all ye For this is my body The Author of these words as