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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07609	A treatise of the holy sacrifice of the masse, and excellencies therof. Written in Spanish by the R. F. Ant. de Molina, a Carthusian monke, & translated into English by I.R. of the Society of Iesus. VVith order, hovv to be present at the said Holy Mystery, vvith deuotion & profit	Molina, Antonio de, d. 1619?; Floyd, John, 1572-1649, attributed name.; Wilson, John, ca. 1575-ca. 1645?	1623 (1623)	STC 18001; ESTC S112780	50,509	307

for this end is the Aultar built Aultar and Sacrifice being correlatiues Wherefore the errour of vnfortunate Heretickes is in this particular so strange and so contrary to the light of reason that it could haue entred but into minds afore through malice obstinate and through infidelity blinded who from errours run into errour still greater and more foule But heerin they are Ministers of the Diuell who by their mediation endeauoureth to doe the holy Church all the mischiefe he is able and the cursed Caytiffe knowes the greatest mischiefe he can doe is to driue away or hinder the most holy sacrifice of the Altar as de facto he hath driuen away and exiled the same out of townes and countries wherin preuayle these errours and pestilentiall doctrines Wherin also they declare themselues Percursors of the most wicked Antichrist coÌ„cerning whome the Saints of God commonly affirme that the first and principall thing he shall attempt to the detrimeÌ„t of the Church is with most extreme rigour to inhibite the exercise of the most holy sacrifice of the Aultar Thus many Fathers and graue Authours vnderstand that which Daniel sayth in his prophecy That in the thousand two hundred and ninety dayes that is in the three yeares and halfe that Antichrists raigne shal continew the continuall sacrifice shall be taken away froÌ„ the Church he shall cause his image to be placed in the Temple that himself alone may be adored as God the text sayth He shall take away the continuall Sacrifice and destroy the place of sanctification strength against the coÌ„tinuall sacrifice is giuen him in regard of sinnes This drift which the Diuel shall then prosecute by the meanes of Antichrist he now endeauours to settle by the help of these Hereticks who by procuring to take froÌ„ the Catholicke Church the most holy Sacrifice bringe therwith innumerable and inestimable mischiefes and would haue the Christian people which hath receaued more of God and greater benefits to be more vngratefull vnto their God then any other Nation in the world This the holy and venerable Abbot Petrus Cluniacensis liuing in the same age with S. Bernard well noted and signified in these wordes They that attempt to take from the Church of Christ the sacrifice by the Diuells suggestions doe their best that that nation which hath byn graced of God with more singular benefits and fauours should be lesse thankefull to him and yield him lesse worship and honour But I will leaue these Heretickes as men without discretion and common sense to theÌ„selues my purpose not being to dispute this controuersie with them but only to giue a warning vnto the faythfull of their errours impertineÌ„cies Al Catholike Christians are to belieue as a most sure and infallible principle that in the Catholicke Church there is a proper true and most excellent sacrifice which is offered vnto the eternall Father by the handes of Priests as being Minister of Christ Iesus the high Priest and soueraigne Bishop For this hath euer byn the beliefe of the holy Church since the tyme of the Apostles this the doctrine perpetually deliuered by the holy Fathers this the fayth determined established in the sacred Councels and last of all in the holy Councell of Trent in these words Whosoeuer shal say that in the masse is not offered a true and proper sacrifice vnto God or that the sacrifice is no other then the giuing of Christ to be eaten let him be accursed The holy Masse then is the only and most holy Sacrifice of the new TestameÌ„t instituted by Christ our Lord not when he did offer himselfe on the crosse though then he offered a Sacrifice but that was a bloudy sacrifice consumed with payne and wounds the conuulsions of death in which manner only he would offer it that tyme but in his last supper when he consecrated his pretious body bloud vnder the formes and accidents of bread and wine For then he not only gaue it vnto his Disciples as a sacramentall food for the sustenance of their soules but also offered the same vnto his eternal Father as an vnbloudy sacrifice made them Priests with faculty to offer in the like manner granted vnto them vnto their successors vnto the worldes end saying Do this in remembrance of me that is the same thing that I doe you likewise doe in my name memory Wherfore two doctrines as most firme and Catholicke truth are settled by the premisses the one that in the ChristiaÌ„ Church there is a true and proper Sacrifice the other that this sacrifice is offered only in the Masse of the excellencies whereof we now are to treate That the Masse was giuen vnto this Sacrifice by the Apostles euer vsed in the Church And the signification thereof CHAP. II. HERETICKES not only deny and would take from the Church the most holy Sacrifice of the Masse but also cannot endure the very word name of Masse and soe they haue declared to affirme with sacrilegious mouth that the Masse is the inuention of the Pope and his followers The most impious Martin Luther Captayne of these wicked sectaries hath written a booke with this title De abroganda Missa The title is lyke the booke and the booke lyke the Authour and the whole lyke the matter haÌ„dled therin wherin he doth acknowledge that by confereÌ„ce had with the Diuell appearing to him he was perswaded to abrogate the best thing the most sacred and venerable that is in the Church And though neyther my drift nor the ayme of this Treatise be to dispute with Heretickes which thinge graue writers of this age haue fitly performed yet for the confirmation of Catholickes as also for confusion of Hereticks who sticke not to vtter whatsoeuer they can imagine to be disgracefull to the Church without care whether they speake true or false I thinke it reason briefly to set downe the truth of this matter It is therfore to be known that not only the Sacrifice of the Masse was instituted by our Sauiour in his last supper but also the name of Masse was giuen vnto it by the Apostles themselues froÌ„ that tyme hath euer been vsed by the holy Church The first that sayd Masse after our Sauiours Ascension is thought to haue byn S. Iames the youÌ„ger termed Brother of our Lord. For though S. Peter were superiour and head of all as being the soueraigne Bishop yet he would yield that honour vnto this glorious S. Iames because he was Bishop of Hierusalem which was the first Church in the world it is thought this Church to haue byn the sacred Cenacle where Christ kept his last supper and where afterward the holy Ghost came downe vpon the Disciples In this Masse did the holy Apostles and Disciples communicate and the most sacred Virgin then first receaued in the most holy Sacrament her glorious and immortall Sonne whome before she had receaued and apparelled with flesh in her immaculate wombe This Blessed Apostle

A TREATISE OF THE HOLY SACRIFICE OF THE MASSE And Excellencies therof Written in Spanish by the R. F. Ant. de Molina a Carthusian Monke translated into English by I. R. of the Society of IESVS VVith Order hovv to be present at the said Holy Mystery vvith Deuotion Profit IHS Permissu Superiorum M.DC.XXIII TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE AND MOST VERTVOVS Gentlewoman Mrs MARY PETRE c. THE CONstant report of your Deuotion to the most holy Mystery of the Masse hath emboldened me to present vnto your Seruice this Infant of a Spanish Descent clad in English Attyre to attend vpoÌ„ you in your Chappell at such publicke or priuate Solemnities Not doubting but that he shall receaue such Entertainment at your deuout Hands as his EducatioÌ„ deserueth especially at this Tyme when so happy a Vnion firme Friendship is novv most happily concluded between two so mighty Kingdomes by so Fortunate and Hopefull a Mariage Wherto if I should adde my commendacions of his worth I might therby rather do him Wronge then Honour knowing his Tallents and other good parts to be such as may beseeme his Seruice though perhaps not so familiarly acquainted with the fashions of your English Court as is required yet because I know your Disposition to be Noble and your Minde greatly addicted to Piety Deuotion and also that the Present cannot be but acceptable I do in the best manner I can commend him to your Honourable Custody Protection my selfe to your vertuous Prayers resting Your assured SeruaÌ„t in Christ Iesus I. VV. THE TABLE Of the Contents of the Ensuing Booke CHAP. I. THat in the Catholike Church there is a true and proper Sacrifice which is that of the Holy Masse pag. 1. CHAP. II. That the name of Masse was giueÌ„ vnto this sacrifice by the Apostles euer vsed in the Church And the signification therof pag. 18 CHAP. III. That the Masse is an Embassage vnto the most holy Trinity in the behalfe of humane kind about the most important affaires in the World pag. 32 CHAP. IIII. That the Masse is a liuely representation of the Mysteries of our Sauiour which are renewed and mystically performed againe therin pag. 49 CHAP. V. That the Masse is a true and proper Sacrifice the same and of the same value as that which Christ offered on the Crosse. p. 76 CHAP. VI. That the Sacrifice of the Masse hath all the titles and reasons for which sacrifices are offered vnto God pag. 100 CHAP. VII That the Masse is a most perfect Holocauste pag. 113 CHAP. VIII That the Masse is a most perfect Sacrifice of Thanks-giuing pag. 123 CHAP. IX That the Masse is a most perfect Sacrifice of Propitiation for sinnes pag. 129 CHAP. X. That the Masse is a most efficacious Sacrifice to obtayne whatsoeuer we demand pag. 139 CHAP. XI That the Masse is the thing most Venerable which is in the Church pag. 152 CHAP. XII That the Masse is a thing of greatest honour vnto God p. 167 CHAP. XIII That the Masse is a Present most gratefull vnto our Sauiours Humanity vnto the most Blessed Virgin pag. 187 CHAP. XIIII The externall Reuerence and Worship to be vsed in the holy Masse pag. 206 CHAP. XV. Of the Reuerence due vnto Churches holy Places p. 233 CHAP. XVI Of being present and hearing the Holy Office of Masse which hath alwayes byn in most high esteeme publickely celebrated euery where both among the Syrians the Grecians and the Latines euer since the tyme of the Apostles pag. 259 Approbatio HVNC pium Tractatum in Anglicanum Sermonem ex Hispanico versum magnam legentibus ConsolationeÌ„ afferre posse iudico Io. Floydus Soc. Iesu Theol. A TREATISE OF THE Holy Sacrifice of the Masse and the excellencyes thereof That in the Catholicke Church where is a true proper Sacrifice which is that of the Holy Masse CHAP. I. IN the first place we must lay for foundation That in the Christian Church there is some speciall and proper Sacrifice to be offered vnto God which is a truth so certayne and so cleere that no doubt can be made therof but by men impertinent and without iudgment wherof the Heretickes of our tyme may seeme destitute For amoÌ„gst diuers absurdities vnto which through rashnes and pertinacity they are fallen this is one That there is no true and proper Sacrifice in the Christian Church Wherin they stand not only against the venerable antiquity of the Fathers and Doctours of the Church against the definitions of the sacred CouÌ„cels against the manifest testimonies of the Scriptures which can be vnderstood in no other sense but also against the very light of reason For it is a thing necessary and essentiall to euery well ordered Common-wealth to be furnished with Sacrifices wherby to honour God as euen heatheÌ„ Philosophers acknowledge Plato Aristotle Xenophon others Neyther was there euer in the world any CoÌ„mon-wealth howsoeuer rude and barbarous that had not some kind of Sacrifice for the worship of God or of that thinge which they were perswaded to bee God How then can any man with reason imagine that Christ our Lord hath left his Church which is the most perfect of all CoÌ„moÌ„-wealths imperfect defectuous in a matter so much importing and essentiall Specially the Doctrine of S. Thomas receaued by the consent of Deuines being most true that men are bound to offer sacrifice vnto God eueÌ„ by the law of Nature why shoud our Sauiour leaue no meanes to his faithfull how to comply with this Law Seing also according to true Theology Grace destroyes not nature but addes perfection thereunto And seeing these three thinges Law Priest-hood Sacrifice are so ioyned and combined togeather that change or innouatioÌ„ being made in ony one of them the same must needs redouÌ„d to both the other as the Apostle proueth effectually writing vnto the Hebrews That the Priest-hood being translated the translatioÌ„ of the Law must also needes be consequent therevpon It is cleare that Christ our Sauiour as he changed the old Law into another new and better the auncient Priest-hood into another new and more perfect so likewyse in the same measure and proportion he ordayned another Sacrifice to succeed the elder by so much more excellent then those were by how much the new Law surpasseth the old It being also a thing so certayne that in the Law of the Ghospell there be Priests that euen Heretikes cannot deny it though they vnderstand the same amisse peruert the meaning therof certayne also it is there must be a Sacrifice which these Priests are to offer otherwise what neede or vse should there be of Priests The lyke argumeÌ„t is drawn from the Aultar which to be found in the Christian Church is a thing most certaine being affirmed by S. Paul by the third Canon of the Apostles and vniformely by all the Saints it is most vndoubted that there is a sacrifice to be offered on this Aultar because

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