Form must be used 5 These secrets are so called because the Priest mumbles them to himself In many of them are horrible Blasphemies this inserted here is not much amiss if it had been applyed to a better end the term signified used in this secret is wholly inconsistent with their Mass in which they affirm the thing not the thing signifyed to be exhibited CHAP. X. The Preface and Sanctus Here lifting â—p his hands asundâ—r he saith For ever and ever Answer So be it The Priest The Lord be with you Answer And with thy Spirit The Priest Lift up your hearts Answer We lift them up to the Lord. The Priest Let us give Thanks unto the Lord our God Answer It is just and meet so to do The Priest Verily it is meet and right equal and healthful that we should give Thanks unto thee Holy Lord Father Almighty everlasting God Because the New light of thy brightness hath enlightned the understanding of our eyes through the Mystical Incarnation of thy word That whilst we know God visibly we might by it be ravished by the love of invisible things Wherefore with Angels and with Archaâ—gels Thrones and Dominions and with the whole Troops of the Heavenly Militia we sing the Hymn of thy Glory Here he must join his hands together Saying incessantly and somewhat bowing himself over the Altar say Holy Holy Holy Lord God of Hosts Heaven and Earth are full of the Majesty of thy Glory Hosanna in the Highest Here he signeth himself with the sign of the Cross saying Blessed is he that cometh in the Name of the Lord Hosanna in Excelsis Notes You are to understand that the Priest mumbles many Secrets to himself for fear he should be heard and then bauls out to no purpose per omnia Secula Seculorum for ever and ever that the People who knew not a word of his Secret Prayers may say Amen This Word is Hebrew and declares the Consent of the Hearers and their concurrent Wish with him that prays therefore is it a strange and most gross Absurdity for them to say Amen to they know not what as if a man should sign and Seal such Writings as he never read nor ever heard read If this be not folly I know not what is see 1. Cor. 14. 16. c. 2 Here the Priest Salutes the People with his Backside to 'em the rest of this which they call the Sanctus was used though not in this manner nor to this end in some Ancient Churches and had it not been misapply'd might pass without Controul but when attributed to the Idol of the Mass t is horrible Blasphemy Note that besides the Barbarous Latine they intermix many strange words in their Mass Here they have Sabaoth and Osanna from the Hebrews which very few of the Mass-Priests can pronounce or understand Are not these Hodge-podge Prayers Now we are â—ome to it Afterwards Bowing himself profoundly before the Altar with hands Joined together he saith CHAP. XI The Canon of the Mass VVE therefore humbly beseech thee most merciful Father through Jesus Christ thy Son our Lord. Here the Priest standing upright must kisse the Altar on the 1 Right hand of the Sacrifice saying That thou accept and bless Here let the Priest make three Crosses upon the Chalice and the Bread saying 1 These ✚ Gifts these ✚ Presents these ✚ Holy and Unspotted Sacrifices When the Signes are made upon the Chalice let him lift up his hands saying thus Which first of all we offer unto thee for thy holy Catholick Church that thou vouchsafe to pacify keep unite and govern it throughout the whole World with thy Servant our Pope N. and our Bishop N. that is his own Bishop only Charity would have prayed for others also and our King 2 N. And they are Expressed by name then let there follow And all true Believers and such as have the Catholick and Apostolick Faith in due Estimation Here let him pray for the living Remember Lord thy Servants and Handmaids N. and N. In the which Prayer a Rule must be observed for the Order of Charity five times let the Priest pray First for himself Secondly for Father and Mother carnal and Spiritual and for other Parents Thirdly for special Friends Parishioners and others Fourthly for all that stand by Fifthly for all Christian People And here may the Priest commend all his Friends 3 to God But my Councel is That none make overlong tarrying there partly for Distraction of mind partly because of Immissions which may chance through Evil Angels And all that stand thereby round about whose Faith and Devotion unto thee is known and manifest for whom we offer unto thee or which themselves offer unto thee their Sacrifice of Praise for them and theirs 4 for the Redemption of their Souls for the hope of their Salvation and health and render their Vows unto thee the Eternal Living and true God Communicating and Worshipping the Memorial first of the Glorious and ever Virgin Bowing down a little let him say 5 Mary the Mother of our God and Lord Jesus Christ and also of his Blessed Apostles and Martyrs Peter Paul Andrew James John Thomas Phillip Bartholomew Mathew Simon and Thaddâ—us Timis Cletus Clemens Sextus Cornelius Cyprianus Laurence Chrysogomus John and Paul Cosme and Daman and of all thy Saints by whose merits and Prayers grant thou that in all things we may be defended with the help of thy Protection through the same Christ our Lord Amen Here let the Priest behold the Host with great Veneration saying Therefore Lord we beseech thee that thou being pacified wilt receive this Oblation of our bounden Service and of all thy houshold and order our days in thy peace and command us to be delivered from Eternal Damnation and to be numbred in the Flock of thine Elect through Christ our Lord Amen Here again let him behold the Host saying Which Oblation we beseech thee O Almighty God in all things to make Here let him make three Crosses upon both when he saith 8 ✚ Blessed ✚ Appointed ✚ Ratifyed Reasonable and acceptable that unto us it may be Here let him make a Cross upon the Bread saying ✚ The Body Here upon the Chalice And ✚ Blood Note that the Rubrick here says thus The three former Crosses are commonly made over the Host and Chalice the fourth only over the Host and the fifth over the Chalice Here with hands joined together let him say Of thy most dearly beloved Son our Lord Jesus Christ Here let the Priest lift up his hands and join them together and afterward wipe his Fingers and lift up the Host saying 7 Who the next day afore he suffered took bread in his Holy and Reverend Hands and his Eyes being lift up unto Heaven Here let him lift up his Eyes unto the God Almighty his Father Here let him bow down and afterward Erect himself up a little saying Rendring thanks unto thee he ✚ blessed he brake Here let him
the habitual and vertual Intent remaineth still in him For the Chief Priest Christ Jesus supplyeth his defect But if through over great distraction he lose both the habitual and actual Intent which seldom or never come to pass it seems he ought to reassume the words of Consecration with the Actual Intent And yet in such sort as that he would not Consecrate if he had already Consecrated Note Mark still what weight is put upon the Priests intent the whole validity of the figment of Transubstantiation depends upon it Therefore as we noted already there is no avoiding the Idolatry which the people must commit if they worship a Cake for a God their own Doctrine being this that without a right Intent the Consecration's of no effect Now I would seriously appeal to any moderate Papist if there be any such what Devotion or Pious Intent can that Priest have that goes from a VVhore or a Drunken Debauch to make his God as many do if not most of them O! that the VVorld should be so besotted as to believe that such pittiful sinful VVretches shall do more than the Almighty God himself does He made the Creatures out of nothing by his word but these Nonsensical most horrid and most monstrous Blasphemers make their Creator of a Creature by their words yea many thousands in one day and many Millions in one Age. Oh! the amazing patience of Heaven that will endure such affronts of Hell which the very Earth hath greatest Reason to tremble at the hearing of CHAP. XVI ITem if the Consecrated Host fall from the Priests hands into the 1 Chalice either by reason of Cold or some other Cause before he hath divided the Host or after he shall in no wise take it out nor begin again any of the Consecration nor yet alter any thing about the Celebration of the Sacrament But proceed with his Crossings and the rest of his business as if he had had it between his hands But if the Eucharist falls to the Ground then let the Earth whereon it fell be scraped up and burnt to Ashes and the Ashes be bestowed or kept near the Altar Notes 1 Here you have the poor Bran-Idol in danger of Drowning in his own Blood yet the Priest must not once dare to give him a lift till he has said all his Tricks over him and then soups off Flesh Blood and Bones at one go-down This God iâ— in as unlucky a PlungeÌ„ as the Flies and Spiderâ— lately mentioned and if he been't drown'd he 's aâ— least well sous'd and sok't yet 't is pretty sport to see how the Priests Fingers frisk and Caper without their God whilst he poor thing stirs not a bit but looks to be swallowed Dead or alive every Minute 2 Mark that the Earth is not fit to bear this Idol and therefore because it had the honour to touch it 't is scraped into Reliques O horrible Blasphemy CHAP. XVII ITem If through neglect any of the Blood drop down upon the Table that sticketh fast to the ground let the Priest lick up the Blood with his Tongue and let the place where it fell be scraped and the scraping burnt and the Ashes kept about the Altar with the Reliques And according to the Canons let the Priest do Pennance forty days or otherwise let him make due satisfaction at the discretion of a wise Confessor But if the Chalice drop down upon the Altar let him suck up the drop and do Pennance three days but if the drop fall upon the Table cloth and run through unto the second Cloth let him do Pennance four days If unto the third Cloth let him do Pennance nine days if unto the fourth Cloth let him do Pennance twenty days and let the Priest or the Deacons wash the Cloaths which the Drop touched in three several waters over the Chalice and let the washings be laid * up and kept with the rest of the Reliques Note * Here again we have new Reliques but in my epinion if the Priest had been made to Drink these washings it had been a more cleanly Draught then the washings of the Flies Spiders and other Vermine whereof a dranght was before made if the Patient would have soupt it off CHAP. XVIII ITem if any man through chance or surfeit vomit up the * Eucharist the same vomit shall be burnt to Ashes and the Ashes thereof to be bestowed and kept about the Altar And if any Clark Monk Fryer Priest or Deacon do it let him do Pennance forty days a Bishop seventy days and a Lay-man thirty But if any man cast it up by reason of sickness let him do Pennance five days or else let him as aforesaid make due satisfaction at the discretion of his Confessor Note * The Eucharist is taken for the Priests God But the word Eucharistia signifies giving of Thanks Gratiarum Actio or bona gratia good grace Eph. 5. 4. And since it would be too gross to say to vomit up God or Gods Body or the Host they say the Eâ—charist that is in plain English they vomit up Thanksgiving and inshrine the stinking vomit as a dâ—â—estable Relique CHAP. IX ANd whatsoever Priest shall not safely keep the Sacrament from being EATEN up either by Mice or any other Vermine shall do Pennance forty days But if any lose it or if any one piece thereof fall to the ground and the same not possibly to be found again let him do Pennance thirty days And it is also thought good that that Priest through whose negligence the Consecrated Hosts shall putrifie is worthy the like Pennance and such a Penitent ought to fast and abstain from the Communion and saying of Mass during all those days Nevertheless in weighing the Circumstances of the offence and person the aforesaid Pennance ought according to the will of the Discreet Confessor to be either augmented or diminished Nevertheless this is to be holden for a sure Rule that wheresoever all the whole Species of the Sacrament are to be found they are reverently to be reverenced but if it cannot be done without Peril then they are to be reserved for Reliques Note Here they take the name Sacrament as they did before the name Eucharist for it would be too gross to say that the Body of God should be eaten with Mice c. Surely it cannot be said of this God as it is said of Jesus Psal 16. 10. Thou wilt not suffer thine Holy One to see Corruption Act. 2. 31. 13. 35. CHAP. XX. ITem If the Host or but a piece thereof be found under the 1 Patten or Corporas Cloath and be doubted whether the same be Consecrated or not he ought reverently to receive it after he hath taken the Blood as thou shalt find more at large set out in the Title of the Celebration of the Mass Item if the Lords Body given to 2 a sick man or woman be by him or her cast up through Infirmity or by reason of any other Cause Yet let it
Stones Rome maketh her best Saints And with fine Varnish her foul Idols paints Fit Saints indeed for such a Church as she Mock-Saints and Mock-Religion well agree In thirty four Churches at Rome onely and what 's that to the total there near 200 years ago were Reckon'd up by name 200 Reliques but yet in 13 of those Churches specified the Author concludes with besides others or and divers others or many others or others innumerable or an infinite Number Ex Libro a Stephano Planco de Patavia Romae Excúso Anno 1489. Now by Proportion what a numbeâ—rless Armado of these Reliques may be found in the other Churches at Rome and the rest of the Popifyed World The Monk of Charrovium Saint Laterane at Rome and Hildshein pretend to have the fore-skin of Christ cut off at his Circumcision This is a modest-Multiplication into three in comparison of the whiskers following yet Christ had but one ascended with his whole Body into Heaven The Chalice which Christ used when he said Mass forsooth the Platter in which the Paschal Lamb was eaten are to be seen in several places with these Papists sure they had good luck to scape the plunder of Jerusalem by Vespasian and the Priests must have notable skill to know them from other Plate for I never heard that Christ employed any Herald at Arms to Blazen his Coat or ingrave it on his Plate Besides it must be very durable to last so long as 1600 years Well suppose all these Doubts could be answered how comes it to pass that this Chalice is seen at Saint Mary's in the Isle of Lyons and in the Monastery of Austin-Fryars with the Helvians And the Platter to be at Rome Genoa and Orleance at the same time Here 's an increase of Multiplications In like manner they Multiply the Towel wherewith Christ washed his Disciples Feet the Pots in which he turned water into Wine to be seen at five places in three several Nations The Cross is multiplied to a whole Ship load no Town being so little but hath a piece of it The number of the Nails is also increased wonderfully at Millain Carpentras Rome Saint Helens Saint Crosses Churches at Sienna and Venice One at Colen in Germany one at Tryers at Paris in France with the Carmelites there another another at Saint Denis's and another at Bâ—urges another at the Abbey called the Sheeres and another aâ— Dragminian more than a Bakers Dozen Tâ—â—y pretend to have the Garments of the Virgin Marâ— as her Hair Kerchief Combs even heâ— very Shift Girdle Shoes Slippers and I know not what her very Milk beyond the quantity of what aâ—y Dayry-House can shew in a year And all these multiply'd as far as Popish Arithmetick will go It would be over tedious to number the rest respecting Saint John Baptists Head his Face Brains the tip of his Ear his Hair his Arm c. to be had at several places Yet the whole Head is at Saint Silvester's at Rome all the while VVhat a Cerberus do they make of the holy man yea more than a Cerberus for three times three heads won't do if this Romish Fantastical Figment were true At Rome they have Paul and Peters Bodies both their heads at Saint Lateranes and one of Saint Peters Teeth Yet Poictiers hath got Peters Jawbone and his Beard to boot Argenton in Berry has got Pauls Shoulder and in a word all Churches Dedicated to them have one p'ece or other of them Amongst them if you have Faith enough to believe them you may find Saint Peters Chair his Massing Garments his Altar the Sword with which he cut off Malchus his Ear his Crosier and sheep Crook and his Cudgel that he walkt with About which several places quarrel most fiercely each challenging his to be the right and makes all the rest Impostors Fine Catholick Doings It would require a Volume to particularize all and what a havock they make of the Saints Bodies who were to be single hearted in their lives yet these Wretches won't let 'm be single-Bodyed in their Deaths but multiply 'em and snarl about 'em as hungry Dogs do about a parcel of Bones c. If thou hast a Curiosity to peruse more se eeâ—â—ook before mentioned viz. The Man of Sin Printâ—d for Mr. Boulter in Cornhill 1677. A very ingeniâ—ous and Excellent Book p. 1â—2 c. CHAP. V. In the Entrance to the Mass let the Priest say OUr help is in the Name of the Lord who hath made both Heaven and Earth Blessed be the Name of the Lord from henceforth for evermore In the Name of the Father ✚ of the Son ✚ and of the Holy Ghost ✚ Amen Afterwards let him read the Introit of the Mass with his hands asunder and lifted up a little Here followeth the Mass of Corpus Christi Feast The Introit or Entrance 1 He fed them with the finest of the wheat Alleluja that is praised be God and filled them with the Hony of the Rock Alleluja Alleluja Alleluja Praise God Praise God Praise God The Psalm Rejoyce in God our Aid be glad in the God of Jacob. The Versicle Glory be to the Father c. Then let him begin and say again He fed them c. Then he must say Lord have mercy three times Christ have mercy three times and Lord have mercy three times Then let him go to the midst of the Altar and bowing himself a little and if it be to be said let him say Gloria in Excelsis Deo c. Glory be to God on High c. And here is to be be noted that at every to Morrow-Mass or Morrow-Mass he must always say Te Deum Laudamus Te Dominum c. We Praise thee O God we Confess thee O God c. Vnless it be said upon the Vigil or even of a Saints day or else in Lent or the Ember-days yeâ— upon Easter and Whitson-eve there must be said always what is set down in the Black Letter Glory be to God on high and in the Earth Peace to men of good will Et in terra pax hominibus bona voluntas We praise thee we bless thee we adore thee We give thee thanks for thy great glory Lord God Heavenly King God the Father Almighty Lord Jesus Christ the onely Son The Holy Ghost the Comforter of the Fatherless Lord God Lamb of God Son of the Father The First Begotten of Mary the Virgin Mother Thou which takest away the Sins of the World have mercy upon us Thou which takest away the Sins of the World receive our Prayers To the Glory of Mary Thou which sittest at the Right Hand of the Father have mercy upon us for thou onely art holy Sanctifying Mary Thou onely art the Lord. Which governest Mary Thou only art the most high Which Crownest Mary Jesus Christ with the Holy Ghost in the Glory of the Father Amen Notes Now comes the Priest in his Massing-Garb out of the Vestry to Act his part which you