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A02630 An ansvvere to Maister Iuelles chalenge, by Doctor Harding Harding, Thomas, 1516-1572. 1564 (1564) STC 12758; ESTC S103740 230,710 411

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in the stalle and hauing takē a long iourney being bothe wicked and aliantes with very great feare and trembling adored him Wherefore let vs folowe at least those aliants vs I saye that are citizens of heauen For they whereas they sawe but that stalle and cabben onely and none of all the thinges thou seest nowe came notwithstāding with the greatest reuerēce and feare that was possible But thou seest it not in a stalle of beastes but on the aulter not a woman to holde it in her armes but a priest present and the holy ghoste plentyfully spredde vpon the sacrifice This father in his Masse maketh a prayer in presence of the blessed Sacrament almost with the same wordes that S. Basile did Attēde domine Iesu Christe Deus noster etc. Looke vpon vs o lord Iesus Christ our God from thy holy habitacle and from the throne of the glory of thy kingdom and come to sanctifie vs who sittest on high with the father and art here inuisibly with vs and make vs worthy by thy mighty hāde that we may be partakers of thy vnspotted body and pretiouse bloude and through vs all the people In the same Chrysostomes liturgie or Masse a most euident testimonie of adoration of the Sacramēt is thus vttered Sacerdos adorat et diaconus in eo in quo est loco ter secretò dicētes Deus propitius esto etc. The priest adoreth and the deacon likewise in the place he standeth in saying three tymes secretly God be mercifull to me a synner So the people and likewise all make their adoration deuoutely and reuerently In the same father is an other prayer which the greke priestes doo vse to this daye at their adoration of Christes body in the Sacrament and it is expressed in these wordes Domine non sum dignus etc. Lord I am not worthy that thou enter vnder the filthy roofe of my soule But as thou tookest in good parte to lye in the denne and stall of brute beastes and in the house of Simon the leprouse receiuedst also a harlot and a synner like me comming vnto thee vouchesafe also to enter into the stalle of my soule voyde of reason and into my fylthy body being dead and leprouse And as thou dydst not abhorre the fowle mowth of a harlot kissing thyne vndefyled feete So my lord God abhorre not me though a synner but vouchesafe of thy goodnesse and benignitie that I maye be made partaker of thy most holy body and bloude S. Ambrose after long serche and discussion De spirit● sancto li. 3. cap. 12. Psal 96. how that saying of the prophete might be vnderstanded Adore and worship ye his footestoole because it is holy At length concludeth so as by the footestoole he vnderstandeth the earth because it is written Esa 66. Heauen is my seate and the earth is my footestoole And because the earth is not to be adored for that it is a creature by this earth he vnderstādeth that earth which our lord Iesus tooke in the assumption of his fleshe of the virgine Marye and hereupon he vttereth those plaine wordes for testimonie of the adoration Iraque per scabellum terra intelligitur per terrā autem caro Christi quam hodie quoque in mysterijs adoramus quam Apostoli in domino Iesu adorarunt And thus by the footestoole earth may be vnderstanded and by earth the fleshe of Christ which euen now adayes also we adore in the mysteries and the Apostles adored in our lord Iesus S. Augustines learned handling of this place of the psalme adore ye his footestoole because it is holy maketh so euidently for this purpose that of all other auctorities which in great number might be brought for prouse of the same it ought least to be omitted The place being long I will recite it in English onely His wordes be these Adore ye his footestoole In Psal 98 because it is holy See ye brethren what that is he byddeth vs to adore ●sa 66. In an other place the scripture sayeth heauē is my seate and the earth is my footestoole What doth he then bydde vs adore and worship the earth because he sayde in an other place that it is the footestoole of God And how shall we adore the earth whereas the scripture sayeth plainely Deut. 6.10 Thou shalt adore thy lord thy God and here he sayeth adore ye his footestoole But he expoūdeth to me what his footestoole is Matth. 4. and sayeth And the earth is my footestoole I am made doubtefull afrayed I am to adore the earth least he damne me that made heauen and earth Againe I am afrayed not to adore the footestoole of my lord because the Psalme sayeth to me Adore ye his footestoole I seeke what thing is his footestoole and the scripture telleth me The earth is my footestoole Being thus wauering I tourne me to Christ because him I seeke here and I fynde how without impietie the earth may be adored For he tooke of earth earth because fleshe is of earth and of the fleshe of Marye he tooke fleshe And because he walked here in fleshe and that very fleshe he gaue vs to eate to Saluation and no man eateth that fleshe excepte first he adore it it is fownde out how such a footestoole of our lord may be adored and how we not onely synne not by adoring but synne by not adoring Doth not the fleshe quicken and geue lyfe Our lord him selfe sayde when he spake of the commendation it selfe of that earth Ioan. 6. it is the spirite that quikneth but the fleshe profiteth nothing Therfore when thou bowest thy selfe and fallest downe to euery such earth beholde it not as earth but that holy one whose footestoole it is that thou doest adore for because of him thow doest adore And therefore here he added Adore ye his footestoole because it is holy Who is holy he for whose loue thou adorest his footestoole And when thou adorest him remaine not by cogitation in fleshe that thou be not quikned of the spirite For the spirite sayeth he quikneth and the fleshe profiteth nothing And then when our lord commended this vnto vs he had spoken of his fleshe and had sayde Excepte a man eate my fleshe he shall not haue in him lyfe euerlastyng Againe S. Augustine sheweth the maner and custome of his tyme touching the adoration of Christ in the Sacrament writing thus ad Honoratum Epist 120. cap. 21. vpon the verse of the xxj psalme Edent pauperes saturabuntur that is the poore shall eate and be filled and vpon that other Manducauerunt adorauerunt omnes diuites terrae all the riche of the earth haue eaten and adored It is not without cause sayeth he that the riche and the poore be so distincted that of the poore it was sayde before the poore shall eate and be fylled and here of the riche they haue eaten and adored all that be the riche of the earth For they haue bē brought to
the table of Christ and doo take of his body and bloud but they doo adore onely and be not also fylled for as much as they doo not folowe him Likewise in his exposition vpon that Psalme In Psal 2● All the riche also sayeth he there of the earth haue eaten the body of the humblenes of their lord neither haue they ben fylled as the poore vntill the folowing But yet they haue adored and worshipped it that is by adoration they haue acknowleged Christ their lord there present Furthermore writing against Faustus the heretike of the Maniches secte amongest other thinges he sheweth how the Ethnikes thought that christē people for the honour they dyd before the blessed Sacramēt that is of the bread and wyne consecrated dyd honor Bacchus and Ceres which were false goddes honoured of the Gentiles for the inuention of wyne and corne Whereof may iustly be gathered an argument that in those dayes faithfull people worshipped the body and bloud of Christ in the Sacramēt vnder the formes of bread and wyne For elles the infidelles could not haue suspected them of doing idolatrie to Bacchus and Ceres One other most euident place touching this honour and adoration we fynde in him rehearsed by Gratian. lib. Sent. Prosperi De consecrat dist 2 can Nos autem we doo honour sayeth he in forme of bread and wyne which we see thinges inuisible that is to faye fleshe and bloud Neither take we likewise these two formes as we tooke them before consecration Sith that we doo faithfully graunt that before cōsecration it is bread and wyne which nature hath shapte but after cōsecration fleshe and bloud of Christ which the blessing of the priest hath consecrated Leauing a number of places that might be alleaged out of the auncient fathers for the confirmation of this matter to auoyde tediousnes I will conclude with that most plaine place of Theodoritus Who speaking of the outward signes of the Sacrament sayeth that notwithstanding they remaine after the mysticall blessing in the proprietie of their former nature as those that may be sene and felte nolesse then before yet they are vnderstanded and beleued to be the thinges which they are made by vertue of cōsecratiō and are worshipped with godly honour His wordes be these Intelligūtur ea esse quae facta sunt Dialogo 2 creduntur adorātur vt quae illa sint quae credūtur These mysticall signes sayeth he are vnderstāded to be those thinges which they are made and so they are beleued and are adored as being the thīges which they are beleued to be With which wordes Theodoritus affirmeth bothe the reall presence and also the adoration The reall presence in that he sayeth these outward signes or tokens after consecration to be made thinges which are not sene but vnderstanded and beleued whereby he signifieth the inuisible thing of this Sacrament the body and bloud of Christ Adoratiō he teacheth with expresse termes and that because through power of the mysticall blessing the signes be in existence and in dede the thinges which they are beleued to be soothly the body and bloud of Christ For otherwise god forbydde that christen people shuld be taught to adore and worship the insensible creatures bread and wyne Of which he sayeth that they are adored not as signes not so in no wise but as being the thinges which they are beleued to be Now I reporte me to the Christen reader whether this Adoratiō of the Sacrament whereby we meane the godly worship of Christes body in the Sacrament be a newe deuise or no brought into the church but lately about three hūdred yeres past Fol. 20. as M. Iuell maketh him selfe sure of it in his sermon And whereas vtterly to abolishe this adoration Fol. 26. he alleageth great danger of idolatrie in case the priest do not truly cōsecrate thereto may be answered Gen. 29. that Iacob stoode in no danger of conscience for that by the procurement of Laban he laye with Lya in stede of Rachel neither for the same was he to be charged with aduowtrie because he meāt good faith and thought him selfe to haue had the companie of his wyfe Rachel So idolatrie is not to be imputed vnto him that worshippeth Christ with godly honour in the bread not cōsecrate which of good faith he thinketh to be consecrate Touching this case S. Augustine hath this notable saying Inchi 60 We haue nede sayeth he to put a difference in oure iudgemēt and to knowe good from euyll for as much as Sathan chaunging his shape sheweth him selfe as an angell of light least through deceite he leade vs a syde to some perniciouse thinges For when he deceiueth the senses of the bodye and remoueth not the mynde from true and right meaning wherein ech man leadeth a faithfull lyfe there is no perill in religion Or if whē he fayneth him selfe good and doth or sayeth those thinges that of congruence perteine to good angels although he be thought to be good this is not a perilouse or sickely errour of Christian faith But when as by these thinges he begynneth to bring vs to thinges quite contrarie then to knowe him from the good Spirite and not to go after him it standeth vs much vpon diligently to watche and take heede Thus S. Augustine This much for th'adoration of the Sacrament or rather of Christ in the Sacrament maye suffise Or that the Sacrament was then or now ought Iuell to be hanged vp vnder a Canopie Of the reuerent hanging vp of the Sacrament vnder a Canopie ARTICLE IX IF M. Iuell would in plaine termes denye the reseruatiō and keping of the blessed Sacrament for which purpose the Pyxe and Canopie serued in the Churches of England as of the professours of this newe gospell it is bothe in word and also in dede denyed it were easy to proue the same by no small number of auctorities such as him selfe can not but allowe for good and sufficient But he knowing that right well guilefully refrayneth from mētion of that principall matter and the better to make vp his heape of Articles for some shewe against the Sacrament by denyall reproueth the hanging vp of it vnder the Canopie thereby shewing him selfe like to Momus who espying nothing reproueable in fayer Venus fownde faulte with her slypper Whereto we saye that if he with the rest of the Sacramentaries would agree to the keping of the Sacramēt thē would we demaunde why that maner of keping were not to be liked And here vpon proufes made of defaulte in this behalfe and a better waye shewed in so small a matter conformitie to the better would sone be persuaded Diuerse maners of keping the blessed Sacrament In other christen countries we graunt it is kepte otherwise vnder locke and keye in some places at the one ende or syde of the aulter in some places in a chappell buylded for that purpose in some places in the vestrie or in some inward