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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

JAMES Earl of DERBY VNMASKING OF the Masse-Priest WITH A DVE 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 LONDON Printed for RICHARD WHITTAKER and are to be sold at his shop in Pauls Church-yard at the Kings head 1624. TO THE RIGHT NOBLE AND TRAVELY Religious IAMES Lord STRANGE Heire to the Right Honorable WILLIAM Earle of Darby I. L. wisheth encrease of blessings Internall Externall Eternall RIGHT HONORABLE AS the God of Nature hath Decked that Great Man the World with diuers ornaments it being in nothing more admirable then in variety so hath the same God inriched that little World Man with sundry endowments he being in nothing more profitable to the Church then in Diuersity For to some he hath giuen to be Apostles to others to be Prophets to others to be Teachers and all this for the gathering together of the Saints for the workes of the Ministry for the building vp of the body of Christ. So that wherein one is Defectiue another is Excellent that the Church of Christ may bee perfectly instructed in all things by the mutuall labours of each fellow member Hence it comes to passe that some men abound with variety of Tongues others with interpretation of Languages some with the smoothnes of Doctrine and others are acquainted with the knotty study of Polemicall Theologie there being nothing commodious for that Mysticall body of Christ which cannot be supplied by one member or other And albeit this renowned Kingdome of great Britaine flowes with multitudes of most pregnant wits as once did Canaan with 〈◊〉 and Hony who are sarre more powerfully able to buckle with our Aduersaries then my selfe yet beeing confident in the Almighty I 〈◊〉 with little Dauid aduentured to encounter with this great 〈◊〉 of Gath the Romish 〈◊〉 hoping my labours albeit vnpollished with Eligancy of stile shall not bee altogether vnprofitable to the Church The insolency of the Romish Foxes as in all places of this Land so more especially in those parts where your 〈◊〉 hath Command and Mansion and my selfe Residence and Imployment hath forced me to the search of this subiect The setling of weake and confirmation of sound Protestants hath pressed it to the Presse The bonds of Respect and Duty wherein I am obliged vnto your Honor bind both my selfe and it vnto your Noble Selfe vnto whose Patronage I Commend it and vnder whose Name I commit it to the wide World The Motiues that induce me to Dedicate this small Treatise to your Honor are First the Externall Nobility of your Birth being so Noble a Branch equally springing from two Illustrious Stems Secondly the Internall Nobility of your Grace manifested by your so sincere affection to Religion wherein with Timothy your Honour hath beene instructed from your Child-hood and to the true Professours whereof your Lordship hath vouchsafed alwayes a gracious countenance Thirdly your purpose to visite other Kingdomes abroad where doubtlesse occasion will be offered vnto your Lordship to maintaine that Truth wherein you haue beene bred and to oppose that Falshood which you cannot but detest 〈◊〉 I presumed to preferre this part of my studies vnto your Honorable Patronage that it might remaine with your Honor as an Antidote against the Poyson of Popery and Infection of the Romish Locusts Lastly that hereby I might render vnto your Honor some testimonie of thankfulnesse for those manie vndeserued Fauours which Your Lordship hath beene pleased to conferre vppon mee that as I remaine bound vnto Your Honor for euer So heereby I might free my selfe from the staine of Ingratitude Accept therefore I most humbly beseech your Honor this pleadge of his vnfained thankfulnesse who shall continually pray to God to blesse your Lordshippe with aboundance of Honor Wealth Grace Prosperity in this World and the full Fruition of Eternall Glory in the World to come Your Honours in all seruice to be Commanded IOHN LEVVIS To the Christian Reader CHristian Reader the audacious and frequent practise of the Masse-Priests in offering their blasphemous Sacrifice with the vnsufferable impudency of the Romish Laity both in conference to iustifie and by presence to communicate therein more especially in our Northerne parts where I am Resident hath constrained me to wade into this abstruse Mystery not intending to make it the Worlds common obiect as may appeare by the stile but rather to furnish my selfe with Defensiue and Offensiue armour matter of answer and opposition in case of encounter What intention had vowed mine owne intreaty of Friends and desire of the Common good hath made thine If thou know the Author censure not his youth seeing the scantinesse of yeares is supplied by the largnesse of Industry but if thou finde any fruite worth gathering taste it thankfully rendring God the glory me thy Prayers The solidity of the matter I hope thou canst not impeach the plainnesse vsed in Penning with the Faults escaped in Printing I hope thou wilt winke at Iudge me Thine in any Christian seruice 〈◊〉 LEVVIS In Blasphemiam Sacrificorum PRiests make Christ Body and Soule you must not doubt They 〈◊〉 drinke box him vp and beare about One's too little Bread and Wine Hold him seuerall so we dine Thou with thy Christ I with mine Is thy mouth the Virgins Wombe Is bread her Seede Are thy Words the Holy Ghost Is this our Creede Oh presumptuous vndertaker Neuer Cake could make a Baker Yet the Priest can make his Maker What 's become of all those Christs the Priests haue made Do those hoasts of Hosts abide or doe they fade One Christ abides but all those flie One Christ liues but all those die One is true the rest a lie MELCHIZEDECHS Antitype Or The eternall Priesthood and All sufficient sacrifice of Christ. Hebr 10. 12. But he hauing offred one Sacrifice for sinne sitteth for euer at the right hand of God THe Authour of this Epistle writing vnto the beleeuing Iewes which had receiued the doctrine of Christ intends not to persuade them that Iesus was the Messiah foretolde by the Prophets to bee the Sauiour of the world for of this they were already satisfied but his scope and intent is rather more fully to informe them concerning the offices of Christ which he prooues largely and exactly to be three Propheticall Kingly and Priestly These hee layes downe generally in the three first verses of this Epistle For first hee shewes that whereas the Lord had spoken obscurely and vmbratically by his Prophets touching the Christ yet now hee spake personally by his Sonne who was the Messiah himselfe and the great Prophet of his Church Secondly he shewes that Iesus was our Lord and King appointed by his father as heire of all things by whom he made the world in whom alone the glorie and maiesty of the father is to be contemplated who sustaineth all things by his mightie word each creature obeying his