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A05408	The vnmasking of the masse-priest vvith a due and diligent examination of their holy sacrifice. By C.A. Shewing how they partake with all the ancient heretiques, in their profane, impious, and idolatrous worship.; Melchizedech's anti-type	Lewis, John, b. 1595 or 6.	1624 (1624)	STC 15560; ESTC S103079	137,447	244

giue thine onely Sonne c. as is set downe in the book of Common prayer and vsed at the administration of the Communion by the Church of England Ierom added the Epistle and Gospell and that all men should stand vp at the reading of the Gospell 〈◊〉 they borrowed from the Church of 〈◊〉 the singing of the Creed was added by Pope Marke the first which Damasus afterward renewed Gelasius added the Antiphony which they call Tractum with the hymnes and prefaces which goe before the Canon which are nine in number the tenth to the honour of the Virgine Mary the mother of God Pope Vrbane added Aaron first burnt frankincense on the Altar according as God commanded Moses and Pope Leo the third commanded the same to be vsed in the Church which also the Heathens did vse The washing of the hands was a ceremony taken from the custome of the Iewes and from the Gentiles whose vse was to wash their hands when they sacrificed Xystus the first appointed that in the preface Holy Holy Holy Lord God of Sabbath should bee sung Whereby it appeares that the Canon of the Masse was neither all composed by one man nor was digested into that forme wherein now it is Which appeares by this that Pope Alexander the first who 〈◊〉 ccclx. yeares before Gelasius and Syricius in memorie of the passion of Christ caused these words to be added who the day before he suffered vnto these words this is my body whereby it is 〈◊〉 that that was the beginning of the Canon Leo'1 afterwards added therefore this 〈◊〉 and this holy sacrifice and immaculate host Gregory annexed three prayers which are these Dispose our dayes in thy peace and deliuer vs from eternall damnation and cause vs to be numbered among thine elect So others added other things after the Canon is ended then is said the peace of God then was appointed that the Priests should kisse one another by Innocent the first and that the people should kisse the pax by Leo the second Now for the ceremonies of the Masse most of them were borrowed from the Iewes and ancient Idolatry of the Romanes instituted by Numa Pompilius their second King about 700. yeares before the incarnation of Christ. As their shauing of Priests which the ancient Idolatrous Romanes vsed after the forme of the Babylonians or of the Herculean Priests called for the same cause Stephanophores as bearing a crowne vpon their heads these were by the Heathenish Romanes tearmed Curiones from whence our Romish Priesthood haue borrowed the name of Curate Next the vestment of the Priest which Numa Pompilius ordained to be White called by the Latins Alba and with the Vestment hath continued to this day wherein the Priest celebrateth Masse But our Romanists scorning to bee beholding to their Idolatrous Predecessours will haue this Aulbe to figure the conuersation of Christ in his flesh or the purity of his body incarnate in the wombe of the Virgin Others interpret the white colour to signifie chastity and continency Others signifie by the Aulbe the White garment presented by Herod vnto Christ when he was sent backe as a foole to Pilate Aboue this the old Roman Idolators vsed an ornament for the breast of brasse or copper which is by the Church of Rome now turned into gold or siluer tearmed the Cheasuble They vsed also a vayle to couer their heads called an Amice first inuented by AEneas which also our Masse Priests vse and they will haue it to represent the vayle wherewith Christ was couered when the Iewes mocked him in the house of Caiphas Or the Diuinity of Christ hid vnder the humanity Adde vnto these the Stole the Manuple and the Zone which three saith one do represent the three cords wherwith Christ was bound and led before the High Priest Or by the Zone saith Biel were figured the rods wherewith Christ was whipped by the Stole laid a crosse the crosse that Christ carryed on his shoulders The Manuple carryed on the left arme represents the band of loue wherwith Christ was holden Another interpreteth the Zone or Girdle wherwith the Aulbe is trussed or tyed together to signifie the band of the charity of God The Stole put vpon the Amice on the necke of the Priest in forme of the crosse to figure the obedience of Iesus Christ vnto the death of the Crosse. The Manuple carryed vpon the left hand to figure the eternall felicity of Iesus Christ. Another saith the Amice figureth Faith the Stole humility of obedience and the Manuple the watchfull and hearty deuotion of the Massing Sacrificer Thus are they vncertaine among themselues of the figuratiue representations of their Sacrificall Vestments The next ceremonie was Holy-water borrowed from the ancient Idolaters of Rome and inuented by Numa who ordained that the people should bee sprinkled with sea or salt water because that salt was of a fierie nature which is apt to purifie hereby they purged and cleansed the faults of the people especially lying and periury Pope Alexander the first of that name and one of the first corrupters of the holy sacraments following the Idolatry of Pompilius commanded this coniuring and consecrating of holy water to driue away diuells But to colour this 〈◊〉 hee vseth this comparison If it be so saith Pope Alexander that the ashes of a red cow offered vp in sacrifices mingled with water of the fountaine purified the people of the Iewes by greater reason the water sprinkled with salt should purifie Christians and chase away 〈◊〉 Thus haue they continued that Idolatrous vse of Holy water still in the Church of Rome which the Heathens did vse 360. yeares after Christ as appeares by that story of Valentinian After the sprinkling of Holy-water followes the Procession which Platina ascribes to Agapetus Bishop of Rome but I find it well nigh a 1000. yeares before him practised by the ancient Idolatrous Romanes called Supplication The order of Procession instituted by Numa either to appease the wrath of their gods or to obtaine peace or the fruits of the earth was this First before the Procession went young children then the Priests clad in white Vestments singing hymnes prayses and songs vnto their gods after followed the High Bishop called by them Pontifex Maximus which title was after giuen to all the Emperours of Rome that were not Christians as appeares by their coynes and Sculptures then the ancient Senators of Rome and their wiues and children with crownes on their heads In the Procession was carryed commonly the Pagent or shrine of Iupiter or Anubis oy some of the Priests clad in white Vestments their heads beeing shauen and hauing a crowne vpon their heads This crowne was in such repute that the Emperour Antonius Commodus himselfe being the High Bishop caused his head to be shauen and to be crowned to beare the shrine of the god Anubis Before the shrine went a Torch-bearer carrying a taper light

two persons of Christ and Iudas then hee stretcheth out his armes to figure Christ stretched on the crosse Which done he maketh three crosses to represent the threefold estate of such as haue benefit by that sacrifice namely those in Heauen on earth in purgatory He smiteth afterwards his breast to play the part of the Publican repenting in the Temple But this smiting must be with the three hinder-most fingers for the thombe and the fore-finger are reserued to consecrate and transubstantiate the Host into the body of Christ moreouer he smiteth his breast three times to figure the three-fold offence of thought word and deede Then he eleuateth the host to be adored Then he lifteth vp his voyce to represent the person of the theefe or the Centurion which confessed Christ in his passion Six other crosses are againe made three vpon the chalice couered to represent the three houres that Christ hanged on the crosse aliue and the other three on the chalice vncouered with the round host lifted vp againe to figure the three houres that Christ hanged on the crosse dead Then he kisseth the chalice and maketh two crosses to figure the water and blood that issued out of the side of Christ. Then the Priest must take the couering cloath off from the chalice and couer it with the patyne to figure the breaking of the vaile of the Temple in the middest at the death of Christ. This done the host is put from aboue the chalice and is couched vnder the corporas to figure the burying of Christ. The Priest hauing thus acted the parts of Christ of the holy Theefe of Iudas then acteth the person of the Centurion in singing the Pater Noster by the seauen petitions whereof Durandus would signifie the seauen weepings of the Virgin Mary or the seauen graces of the Holy Ghost or the seauen Beatitudes or the seauen deadly sinnes This song finished the Priest keepeth silence to signifie the silence or rest of Christ in the Sepulcher Who sees not here a Masse of fopperies and will-worship in this sacrifice of the Masse shall not God say vnto our Masse-mungers as he did vnto the Israelites Who required these things at your hands where hath Christ either giuen precept or example to make such representations of his passion by externall mummeries and histrionicall gestures But these things are of great antiquity and haue beene of long vse in the Church and why should wee now become Innouatours Answere I answere wee are not Innouatours because we abolish these Popish Idolatries and keepe our selues to the practise of the Primitiue Church but they are Innouatours that haue brought these superstitions into the Church And 〈◊〉 as they pleade Antiquity I answer first Antiquity or continuance of an euill is no ground for a tolleration and idolatry in religion is not to be permitted though neuer so ancient for by the same argument may the Turkes 〈◊〉 their Mahometan Alcoran which they haue possessed about 900 yeares vnder the which law they haue subdued nations conquered Realmes and Empires By the same reason might the Israelites iustifie the sacrificing of their children vnto Moloch in the valley of Tophet a most detestable Idolatry yet pactised well nigh the space of 1200 yeares till it was quite abolished by that good King Iosiah The Brazen Serpent a thing commanded by God himselfe possessed by the Israelites for the space of 900. yeares vnto which the people had burnt incense from time to time yet neither the long continuance nor the generall practise of such an Idolatry could preuaile with Hezechiah for tolleration Could the people of Israel be excused for committing 〈◊〉 by the two calues of Dan and Bethel erected by 〈◊〉 and worshipped for the space of three or foure hundred yeares No the long practise of an euill can afford no ground for permission but Idolatry though neuer so aged is to be extirpated as Theodosius the Emperour answered vnto the Senatours of Rome when they pressed him with the antiquity of their Pompilian religion which they had obserued for the space of 1000. yeares Againe the Masse is not so ancient as our aduersaries pretend neither in respect of the Canon nor in respect of the Ceremonies least of all in respect of the Sacrifice The Canon being patched together by sundry Popes who haue added their parts and parcels at seuerall times The Ceremonies as the diuers garments holy-water wax-tapers the Offertory Prayer for the dead Procession the like crept in also by degrees one after another as their owne Histories declare sufficiently And the sacrifice not acknowledged by any till within these 400 and odde yeares about the time of the Lateran Councell vnder Innocent the third Now let the indifferent Reader iudge of the impudencie of our Aduersaries who bragge so much of antiquitie endeauouring to deduce their Masse from the Apostles time against their owne consciences and the credit of all hystories For hereby clearely is declared the induction not onely of the Ceremonies but also of the very Canon of the Masse all which do not sauour only of Innouation but also of Iudaisme and Gentilisme the badges of a false and superstitious Sacrifice The third part of this confutation followes wherein we shall giue answer vnto some of the maine and principall arguments wherewith they endeauour to establish their battered and shaken imposture and to oppugne the inuincible truth of God and his Church So that wilfully they ouerturne the very principles of nature the order of all things the humanity of their Sauiour the truth of the Sacrament the truth of Scripture the foundations of all 〈◊〉 confusedly iumbling heauen and earth together rather then they will admit of a tropicall speech in our Sauiours consecration And first for the maintaining of the sacrifice of the Masse they alleadge That Christ is a Priest for euer after the order of Melchizedech but the proper act of Melchizedechs Priesthood did consist in sacrificing vnder the formes of bread and wine Ergo. The eternity of Christs Priesthood standeth in the sacrificing of his body and blood in those formes by those Priests whom hee hath promised to continue in his Church till the worlds end Rhemist annot Heb. 7. sest 8. Bellar. cap 6. Hoffmeyst assert sacrific missae And that Melchizedechs Priesthood consisted in oblation of bread and wine they would prooue by these Reasons First from the word He brought forth The Hebrew word is properly applyed to the bringing forth of a sacrifice as Gen. 4. The like word is vsed to signifie Cain and Abels sacrifice Secondly because Abraham had no need of bread and wine to refresh himselfe being returned with so great spoyle from his enemies and so hauing sufficient to refresh himselfe with it is likely Melchizedech brought them forth to offer to God Thirdly as Melchizedech is said to be the Priest of the High God so it was requisite that the Scripture also should make mention of his