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A06886 A declaration of thee power of Gods worde concerning the holy supper of the Lord, confutynge all lyers and fals teachers, whych mayntayne theyr maskynge mass inuented agaynst the woorde of God, and the Kynges Maiesties most godly proceadynge compyled anno d[omi]ni M.D.XLVIII Mardeley, John. 1548 (1548) STC 17317; ESTC S104366 26,391 72

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hym self oftē tymes and after he ●ayth he shulde haue suffered oftē ●y●he the begynning of the worlde Thys ●exte dothe clearly expresse that Iesus christ offereth not hym self many tymes or that he shulde dye many tymes for Iesus christe to dye and to be offered vnto hys father is al one Nowe shall he neuer dye more wherby he shal neuer be sacrifyced and in sacryfyce he wyl neuer offer hym self more thā it foloweth that no man can offre and sacryfy ce hym agayne for yf he offre not hym selfe ●howe maye other offre him for certaynly sythe the death death of christ all vysyble sacrifyces is ceased and the state of sacri fyces is appered wherfore they a● vayne seductors begylers lyars may be knowen to be fooles vnwytty vnhappy voyd of brayne Now ●or a more ampie probacion pounder well the. x ▪ chapter of the same Epystle whych maketh mencion thorowly of thys sacry●yce of Iesus christ the whyche hathe made an ende of all vysyble sacryfyces so that none doth abyde for synne Behold I come lord god to thende that I may do thy wyll by the whych wyll we be sanctyfyed by the oblacyons made by Iesus Christe for by one oblatiō he hath made the sanctifyed y t is the faith full perfyte for euer eternally for after he sayth I shal haue no more mynd of theyr sinnes and of theyr iniquities and where there is remyssion of thē ther is no more oblation for synne But S. Paul declareth vnto vs what sacrifice we shuld offer let vs folow hys deuyne councell I praye you my bre thren by the mercy of god that ye offre youre bodyes in a lyuely sacryfyce holylye and pleasaunte to god c. To offer thys sacryfyce We be all ordeyned of God Kynges and priestes wythoute any soche disguysed shauen shorne ce remonies for we be to vyle vnworthi to offer vnto god ani new sacryfice for synne for asmoche as christ hath offered vp hym selfe to hys father for vs as touchyng to worshyp the sacramēt In the who le scriptures nother by any wrytyng of the old holy fathers doc tores as S. Augustyne Ambrose Hierome Cypriane Chrisostome Fulgēcius and soch other neuer taught men to worshippe it for yf these holy fathers had taken these textes before resyted carnally as they toke it spirituallye then in theyr workes they wold haue tau ght mē to worshypped it but they neuer taught mē to worshyp thys sacramēt bycause they toke it spiritually and therfore to worshyp it it is dampnable Idolatrye for god wyl gyue hys honour to non other for thys holy supper of the lord is takyng for a plege of euer lastyng lyfe whych the faythefull desyre moste humblye to receyue wyth a manyfest perticipation euen that thynge whyche we touche in the Image of the sacrament whiche is the pledge and the Image of another thynge that is to say they represent another thing but not thēselues yea they whyche is shewed vnto the beleuers y ● death of christ inui●ybly for a perpetual remembraunce of hys passion for christ sayth in the gospel Do this in my remembraunce and S. paul expoundeth it thus So ofte as ye eate of thys bread and drynke of thys wyne you shall shew y ● death of the lord tyll he come Thus we be taught both of Iesus Christe and S. Paul That the bread and the wyne is set furthe to our eyes for a fygure or a memorye of the lordes deathe That as often as we shal receyue thys holy supper of the lorde it may put vs in remē braūce in this tyme present what Christ hathe done for vs in tymes paste that we maye be made mynd full of hys paynefull death passion whyche he suffered for vs that we may be made also worthy partakers of that godly communion by the whych we are delyue red frō death and knowinge that after thys lyfe we shall come to y ● vysyon or Christe where we shall haue no neade of any soch instrumentes to put vs in remembraun ce any more by any ext●r●●ll sygne what cor●st ●●the ●o●● for ●s for we lokyng of hym face to face shal not be a●moni●●ed by any out warde or iemporall thyng●s out onely to be fully certy●yed by the contemplacion of the truth it self and to geue glory● and prayse to the auctour of our helth ▪ for euer Now it is to be noted that y ● faith full receaueth not the thynge loked vpon wyth our carnall eyes in the mystery of thys sacrament but that whych is beleued for the meate is spyrytuall and the d●ynke is spirituall and fead●th y e sou le spiritually and y ● g●ueth euerla stynge lyfe to the beleuers secretl●e as ●●●e ●a●youre saythe hym sel●e ●●e spyryte is he that quycke neth The ●●easshe profyteth nothynge proffeteth nothyng Here breuely haue I declared vnto you y e true vnderstanding of the most blessed sacrament of the bodye blood of christ both by the mynd of christe hym selfe S. Paul the euāgelistes and the olde fathers and holy doc tors as here is recyted and yf any wyll diligētly read the scriptures they shall fynde and clearly percea ue that for the space of L. ix yeares al the doctors to affyrme this sacrament to be a mysterye neuer knew of thys transubstanciation of the bread and wyne as the se deuelish dreamers dothe teache therfore beleue them not for they are blynd leaders of the blynde so that the leader the folower shal fal bothe into the pyt And as it is mencyoned in the. i. of Sapience what a terrible sentence they shal geue agaynst thē selues in the latter daye of iudgement in horrible fear shal they confesse openly befo re the hyghe iudge Iesu Christ to whom is generall power bothe in heauen and earthe that all hathe bene dampnable follyshenes that they haue gone aboute that they haue erred from the truth haue bene wilfully ignoraunt and that they haue tyred thē selues in thee waye of wyckednes destruction and so forthe Thus these vngodly teachers of theyr own dreames shal why she the great mountayns to ouer whelme thē in that dreadfull daye therfore heare what S. Paul sayth Thoughe we our selues or an angel from heauē preache any other Gospell vnto you then that wee haue preached vnto you hold him accursed Now hath paule preached vnto you as ye haue harde and we sayth he y t is all those whych hath preached the same gospel But these lordly lubbers as glorious glottones haue preached vnto you and do The Gospell of theyr father the Antichrist of Rome that is a great tab bel of ceremonies as rynging syn ging knelyng kyssyng mocking mowing lyenge and sellinge the holy sacramentes as it is wryttē none may sel or bye but he haue y ● marke of the beast ▪ these be the lycherouse locustes of Egypte thee vpholders of Sodome Gomor The popes owne cattell● tokened
so earnestly of these thynges that he calleth heauē and ●arth to wyt nesse wyth hym that be ●yd premo nyshe and declare to vs before of these Antichristes that shuld come Declarynge therby what care and sorowe he taketh for vs and how sore he lamenteth that we shulde be thus seduced and disceaued by soche blasphemous Antichrystes as these be whych wold appoynte vs another Gospell of theyr own braynes to feade vs wyth dreges of theyr inuented Sacramentes and lowsye Ceremonyes whyche they patched vnto thee worde of worde of God as necessarye vnto our saluaciō hauing not the scrip ●ures for the stablyshement of the same and it wold then compel the people of God as well to receyue theym wyth asmoche reuerēce as those sacramēte● other ordina● ces instytuted by the word of god These blyndes guydes the Prop●et Esaye threateneth the euerlastynge nyght of infydelyte or vn belefe and vnto them also that be leue eyther any new reuelatyons or els any apparicions of dead sp● rites wythoute the worde of God the wordes be these shall the people seke counsell of theyr God or shall they aske counsel of the dead for the liuing shal thei not rather loke and searche thee lawe of thee Lorde and take the testymony of god vnto counsell for yf they tell you not sayth he accordynge vnto thys worde They shal haue no mornyng lyght Oh mercyful lord what sore and greuous saying is thys yea it is a threatenyug vnto them that vnderstād what thys voyce is and what darkenes thys signifyeth thys mornynge lyghte sayth Esay is Christ the lyght o● the world as he sayth hym self byd dynge vs walke in the lyght whyle ye haue it that no darknes com passe you thye lyght the prince of all darkenes stale fyrst from mankynde thoro we infydelytie robbed vs of thee true knowledge of God and brought vs into aldarkenes of errours and supersticiō by these lyenge prophetes whyche wolde bryng v● to infydelitye by theyr darke doct●yne of vnwrytē veryt●es but it so pleased the sonne of righteousnes to restore thys lyght vnto the world agayne and hys commynge was vnto vs thee bryght mornynge whych the prophet speaketh of in this place But alas it is no maruel that we haue so longe walked in thys darknes for we haue bene taught by Balā● prophet a new christ and haue for sakē the word of God and sought thys lyght in the deuylles doctryne and mens tradicions hauynge oure confydence in fantasys that wee haue beleued dead spyrytes made newe articles of our faythe as that ther is a purgatorye after thys ●y●● out of the whych soules may be redemed thorow y ● sacrifyce of y ● masse whych y ● antychriste of Ro●● hys lying shauelinges make to be a sacry●yce for y ● quyck the dead ●●trarye to y ● instituciō ordayna●ce of christ Hauīg not one word of y ● scripture ●or the stablishment of these theyr dreames A●d ●●t the● cōti●ue in y ● ministraciō o●●●asse dayly agaynst y ● kynges mai●●●●e● most● godly procead●●g●s ●y ●cca●yon whereof the people commyt Idolatrye alas it is to be ●●●●●ied to ●e y ● sturdynes of these Babilonical papistes whyche wyl not gyu● place to y ● truth but shal styl cōtinue in theyr maskyng contrary to the worde of god o most execrable antichristes which take vpō you to offer vp a sygne for a sauyour whych is made by the handes of a wycked man and bringe m● to worship bread wyne in stede of the eternall God whych ar to fals god● as they are vsed by your lyftīg vp wher fynd you in the word of god y ● ye ought so to do but only by your Romysh fathers apoyntmēt Christe neuer cōmaūded his word to be preched vnto bread wy●e whych are but two dead thinges but to soch people as had fayth to beleue folow y ● same he bad y t faythful beleuers of this holy supper to take eate this bred not to knele to it to worship it as god For S. Augu the old doctors calleth it a sacramēt a mystery mistical meat whi che is not eatē w t to the bely but w t eares fayth as touching ho nour worship to be done to it it is playn y dolatry This most odiouse veneraciō was added by your pope not w t out the ꝑpetual ●urse of god as appereth in Deut. xii Apo. xxii For in your popes masse nether is y ● lordes death set out to be vnderstand or preached nor yet his body bloud frutfully theri● receaued nether ar y ● hearers ther of ●swaded to cōtinual thākes geuing nor yet christianli exorted to a mutual loue cōcord but the deuoutest y t cometh to y ● masse of you rs one ha●eth another one dis●ay neth another one troubleth another one robbeth another besides y ● abhominable suꝑsticious ydo latries which ar dayly therin cōmitted this your abominable ma sse bi so mani pestelēt popes dūsed which were peruerters and stin●kinge Sodomites not regardinge the sayinge of the holy Apostle S. S. Paul but peruertyng the scrip tures for y ● mayntenaūce of theyr belies and for lucre sake whyche sayd Ro. xv I dare not speake of any of those thynges y ● christ hath not wroughte by me O shamelesse beastes thē how dare ye be so bold as contraay to gods holy worde inuent and make the vytuperable masse wherin is the gloriouse sup per of the Lorde whych was hys owne instytucyon most blasphemously blemysshed and broughte cleane out of remembraunce in y ● christen church wherfore a remēbraunce of christes death to his cō gregacion was that heauenly sup per fyrst ordeyned and a vnyuersall thankes geuynge for the most frutefull benefyte of the same In that holy and sacred supper ar the mutuall members of Christes mistical body ther gathered together and knyt perfeyghtly together to theyr headde wyth the ioyntes of fayth and synowes of loue where as it is truelye mynistred But in your popysshe masse theyr is no soche godly order dyd not Iesus christ in the institucion of thys sa cramēt all bread symply saye vnto hys apostles take eate he sayde not behold and worshyp dyd euer any of the Apostles prouoke anye mā to soch worshippīg as these Idolaters do Marke how far these tals ꝓphetes of Baal swerue frō the doctrine of S. paul as abhomi nable scorners theues which pra ctyse nothyng els but the vtter de structyon of soules inuenters of tumulte sedicid amōges the peo ple. Brethrē sayth he I besech you marke thē that make diuision and geue occasiōs of euyl contrary to the doctryne that ye haue learned and aduoyd thē for they that are soch serue not y ● lord Iesus Christ but theyr own bellyes wyth swe te prechinges flatterīg wordes deceyue the hartes of the innocen tes what may be more plainly spo
ken agaynst thys your new inueu ted sacryfice of the masse as ye● cal it than that ye be sowers of diuysyon enemyes to your Kyng hurters of the publyke whelth breakers of the cōmaundemētes bothe of god and the magestrates now whose subiectes be you neyther gods nor the Kynges but obediēt ministers to your father the great anthichrist of rome it manifestly appereth why holde ye not vp the eternal testamēt of god to be worshipped in the whych is christ con teyned both really substauncyal ly no that were nothing for your proffect comodytie thys blindnes of mē obstenate malice wher thorow the blaspheme God hys word is rather to be lamēted thē to be conuict by the word of God the thīg is so vituperable Ye blid bussardes wher haue ye one ioynt of the worde of god to make thys holy supper a sacryfyce eyther for to be worshypped but onely ye receyued that doctryne of the wycked lanfraneus the great enemye of gods truth true religion and papa innocencius whyche added thys transubstancion thys vnkno wen god wherunto ye cause thee people to cōmit ydolatrye Christe sayth math xxviii Teache them to kepe all thynges that I haue com maunded you and I hō in the viii chap. of his gospel sayth yf ye aby de in my word ye are my disciples in dede and ye shal know y ● truth and the truthe shal make you free he that is of god he heaxeth y ● wor des of god and euerye one that is of y ● truth heareth my voyce now to worship here by loue any vysyble thynge declareth ●laynlye ye heare not the voyce of God for he hath not so commaunded you for thus sayth christ yf ye kepe my cō maundemētes ye shal abyde in my loue ye ar my frendes yf ye doo those thynges that I cōmaunded you But and yf ye leaue the commaundemētes of god mayntayne your own constitucions cast asyde the cōmaundemētes of God to kepe your owne tradicions thē are ye false lyenge Prophetes of whom Hieremy wold haue vs to be ware ●● Where he saythe take hede sayth he ye trust not in coun sels that begyle you and do● you no good and further he also sayth heare not the wordes of the Prophetes that preche theyr own drea mes and y ● prophet Ezechiel both in the. xviii xxxiii● of hys boke saythe h●are o ye house of Israell sayth y ● lord is not my way ryght or ar not your wayes rather wycked The chyldren of thy people of thy people saye tu●●he the way of the lord is not ryghte wher as theyr own way is rather vnrighte what can be more playnly sette forth to declare your abhominaci on not only concerning the abuse of y ● holy supper of y e Lord in these thiges before spokē but also your olde leuen wherwythe ye haue so sowred poysoned the veritye of gods word by your beggetly tradi●●●s vnwritten verities that therby ye haue spoyled robbed y ● people of the true ministracion of thee Sacramentes as vnlawfull biers and sellers of gods mystery Lyke robbers theues ydolaters ●urtherers whych ought to be dryuen oute of gods church wyth whyppes for dysceauyng the peo ple as ye long haue done yet do to thys daye they be not ashamed both to wryt and preche that the very natural body of christe both in quantite and qualitie is cōtay ned ●yally vnder the forme of bred in the sacramēt and is a dayly oblacion both for the quicke and the dead and muste also be taken for a sacrifice of no lesse value effeca●ye thē the body which christ hym self offered vpon the crosse who that beleueth not this shall be an heretique what abominable theues and mockers be these whyche teache the doctryne they practyse nothynge els but vtter destructiō of soules what a● these els but spi rituall theues seysmatiques and soule murtherers Rebeles tray tours to god and to man Neuer dyd crewell pharao holde the peo ple of Israel in so wycked captiui tie as dothe these supersticious ge neracion these ydle Sodomyties holde the most dearly redemed heretage of the Lord Yf any thynge vnder the heauens hath neade of reformacion let all men that myn deth any godlynes thinke thys to be one let vs beware of these trāsgressores of gods commaundemētes for theyr own tradicions for these be they whō S. paule dothe admonyshe vs of in hys fyrste Epystle to Time ●he vi chapter Yf any man teache otherwyse and is not contente wyth the Doctryne of godlynesse he is puf●e vp kno weth nothynge but wastethe hys braynes about questiōs and stryfe of wordes wherof spryng enuy raylinges euel ●urmy●ynges and ha●ne disputacions of men with corrupte myndes and destitu●e of the truth ▪ whych thynke y t lucre is godlynesse from soch seperate thy selfe And say not Ihon in the second pystie the fyrst chapter sayth Whosoeuer transgresseth and aby deth not in the doctryne of christ hath not god He that endureth in the doctryne of christ hath both y ● father and the sonne Yf ther come any to you y ● bryng not thys lear ●ynge wyth hym receaue not him to your house nether byd him god spade for he that byddeth him god spede is partaker of his euel dedes and Hebre. xiii be not carryed about wythe dyuerse and straunge learnyng here is to be perceaued Whether thee teachynge of these mermaydes songe be swete accordynge to the scriptures or els full of poysone ar not to them y ● geue hearing to this theyr dāpnable meolody which ledeth to death the hearers therof But yet neuer was Gnato vnredy of hys flatteryng seates to compase his cloked ●olusiōs where he fyndethyching cares by hys ypocrytical speache but now to proue by gods infalla ble word whether Christes natural body be in y ● sacramēt as they say wold make you to beleue or not you shal not ꝑceaue by y e scrip tures nether by y ● ordināce of chri ste nor yet by any reason it can so be now let vs heare what wytnesse christ him self the euerlasting word of god geueth of his scriptu re The hyghe doctours dysputed here of euē in christes tyme which thought y t the scripture w tout the tradiciōs of thelders was not suf fyciēt for theyr salua●iō and for y ● enstructiō her of one of those doctors came vnto christ said May ster what may I do to inheret euerlastinge lyfe Christe answered this curious doctour sending him to thee scripture s●yinge what is wryttē in y ● lawe or what doest y ● red therin as though he shuld say thynkest y ● that god is a cha●gling or a wauerig red which wil alter his mide euery hour as mē chaūge their lawes ymagyn dayly new opiniōs of god thou shalt wel vnderstand that the worde
our saluacion aud for the probatiō therof I wil lay this sentence of the old church confyrmed of christ agaynste these blasphemouse teachers of these vnsauerye sacryfyces of Baal and Bel of theyr holy fathers of rome inuented contrarye vnto the censer word of god which is wrytten in the ▪ xii of Ihon. The word whi che I haue spoken shall iudge thē in the last daye sayth christ Now thē these enuyous Edomites whi che teache the people a new found doctryne made of theyr own bray nes as thys is to cause the people to beleue that the natural body of christ is in the sacramēt or to make it an oblacion propiciotorie or expietorie and to be worshypped this teachyng is not found in the scripture of god but in theyr own ymagynacions and priuate inter pretacion for the mayntenaunce of theyr owne bellyes S. Peter sayth that the scripture is not expounded after the appetyte of any pryuat persone but euē as it was geuen by the spyryte of god not by manes wyll so must it be declared by the same spyryte full well knew the Apostle S. Paule when he sayd to the Thessaloniās The mystery of iniquitie euē now begynneth to worke and also prophesyed what shulde folowe after hys tyme saying Take ye hede to your selues and to all the flocke ouer whych the holy ghost hathe put you ouersears to fead the congregation of God whych be purchased wyth hys owne blood for I know thys well that after my departynge shall entre in greuouse wolues among you whych shal not spare thee flocke and euen of your selues shall aryse men speakynge peruerse thynges to draw disciples after them and therfore watche c. What more euident to kē can be geuen of you set forth by Paule ar ye not rauening wolues what els doo you but spoyle and robbe the people of God whē ye teache and instruct them contrarye to the verytie of the gospel to folowe your lying sygnes and beggerly ceremonies as S. Paul calleth them to reherse thē it shal not nead but touchynge thys holy mysterye of Christes bodye and blood which ye haue so sore deformed blemyshed spotted by your straunsubstanciatyon and other abuses to the destructyon of the people fyrst institucion of christ I muste of verye sorowfulnes of harte approue you by thee scripture to bee verye theues murtherers and deceauers and where I haue already declared and approned by the worde of god and thee olde wryters whose sayingee I haue in maner but gleyned wyth ruthe the mohabite as the history maketh mencyon what that most holy blessed sacrament of the bo dye blood of our lord is it is to be beleued but as a mystery fyfygure representynge to the eyes of our faythe the death and passion of christ crucifyed for our synnes and rose agayne for our iustification as verely as that bread is broken emonge● vs so vetriye was christes body broken for our synnes as verely as we receaue that sacramentall bread into our bellye thorow eating it so verely do we receaue y ● frute of his death meretes into our soules by beleuyng in him so that the body of christ in thys sacrament is not corporal but spiritual and the blood of chri ste is not ther corporal but spiritual So that nothynge is to be ta ken in this holy mystery but spiri tually Here is the bodye of christ but not corporally here is y ● blood of christ but not corporally These be the ▪ woordes of Barthram a learned Priest wrytten Lvii. yea res here to fore so nowe thys is proued sufficient to stablysshe the faythe of all men I truste in thys poynt And as to the worshipping therof or to be a sacrifice as they saye You shall haue the scriptures to confute that doctryne sufficientlye fyrste the supper of thee Lorde ought to be done after thee ordinaunces of christ as appereth the fyrst Epystle to the Corinthi the. xi chap. And vpon those wordes to it is a memorial of y ● death of Christe whych brought saluaci on and not a sacrifyce but a remē braunce of the sacrifyce that was once offered vp vpō the crosse for therin is a promyse made as appe reth in the. C. and. it Psal. Christ shalbe our bishop for euermore or dayned of the father and thys pro mes is performed for christ hathe entered once into the holye place by an oblacion makynge perfecte for euermore so that we nead not to haue hym offered vp for vs agayne the whyche dyeth nomore We know that the oblaciō whych Moyses made was for synnes as appereth in the leuitical law whē the oblation dyd sanctifye thee blood dyd wasshe Thē yf this one sacrifice in the whych christe dyd offere vp hym selfe dyd satisfy for the synnes of the whole world accordinge to the seyenge of Esaye He dyd bear our synnes he was torne for oure wyckednesse As S. Ihon sayth he is our satisfaction and so forth so that all oblations whych ar besydes thys is but vay ne as to rear an new oblatiō and to set lytle by y ● fyrst to make god a lyar and to denye Christ whych bought vs after the wordes of S. Peter For yf the synnes be released and forgeuē in the sacrifyce of the masse it foloweth that that on ly sacrifyce of the crosse dyd not sa tisfye for all synnes is not that to deny the lorde whych dyd rede me vs not wyth corruptible thin ges as with gold and syluer but wyth hys owne precyouse blood so that thys holy sacrifice whych is Iesus christe the verye lambe and most holy Enocēt wythout spotte The whych alone taketh away the synnes of the world hath offered for vs to God the father hym selfe hath geuen his lyfe and shed hys blood for our redemption ▪ Makynge an ende and consumation of all outward and vysyble sacryfyces and S. Paul to the Hebreus wryteth it is cōuenable to haue a byshop holy innocente seperate frome synners hygher then the skyes and in the. ix chap ter of y ● same Epystle is sayd thus christ y ● bishop of goodnes came in presence by a greater and a perfyter tabernacle not made wyth hā des not by the blood of gotes or of calues but by hys owne precyouse bloode is ones entered into the sanctuarye hath founde eter nall redemption here is playne euydent that for our saluation redemption we haue no neade of any other sacrifyce or dayly offeringe for them selues and for vs Except we wyll haue them our re demers and to renounce the obia ciō of Iesu christ and yet further it is sayd in the same chapter Ie sus is not entered into the sanctu arye made with handes but chefe ly in heauē to thende that now he may appere for vs before the face of hys father not by ●au●e that he offered not