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
he was in the right way to Hell when he forsook Christ and followed such strange and Devilish Paths c. his Posture denotes that he neglects Heaven for he looks Downwards very demurely The Roman Poet the Heathen could tell him that God formed man with an Erected face on purpose that he might behold and adore Heaven Os homini Sublime Deâ— it Caelumque tueri Jussit Erectos ad Sydera tollere Vultus Ovid Metam lib. 1. 2 The Blasphemy of the Priests Confession is abominable t is not only to God No no that would not do t is to all the hee and shee Saints sure these Masculine and Feminine Saints have large Ears and must be Omniscient if they hear every Priests Confession Now the Vassals of the infalloblo Pope Resolve this Dialemma thus Eieher your hee and shee Saints hear your Confessions Prayers and Applications or they do not If they do hear them then they are certainly Omniscient that is they know all things for it would bâ— impossible for them or any of them at one and thâ— same time to hear the Prayers of many Thousandâ— if not Millions in several Nations and several Languages and of many hundreds if not thousandâ— of several kinds of Suits and answer them all at so vast a Distance unlesse they were Omniscient and if so by unavoidable Consequence that being onâ— of the Divine Majesties Incommunicable Attributes you make them Absolute Gods which is Superlative Blasphemy to assert But if they do not nor cannot hear as aforesaid then all your Prayers Confessions c. to them are not only idle and ridiculous but most horrid Blasphemy in the very Abstract Avoid this ye Saint-Worshippers if ye can and Vindicate your Mass-Priest who makes no mention of Christ to be his Advocate but the Virgin Mary and the other Saints of both Sexes c. O horrible 2 Here 's another Trick for you when the Priest Confesses the Clerk as the Representative of the People absolves him mark that Ay and the Priest to quit scores absolves them kaw me kaw thee like scabby Colts they nab one another Reader pray bear with me t is difficult to be serious at so ridia past-time this is the only difference of these Absolutions the Clerk says in the Singular Misereatur tui and the Priest in the Plural Misereatur vestri c CHAP. IV. ANd after the standers by have confessed let the Priest say Amen Brethren and Sisters that by the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ by the Aid and sign of the holy Cross ✚ THROUGH THE INTERCESSION OF THE ALWAYS BLESSED AND GLORIOUS VIRGIN MARY and by the MERITS of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul and of St. Michael the Arch Angel and of the most Holy Saint Julian and of all the Holy men and Women the God Almighty have mercy upon you and forgive you all your Sins And I do further beseech the Lord Jesus Christ the Son of God to bring you to everlasting Life Amen I do also beseech our Good Father and Merciful Lord to pardon and forgive you all your Sins Amen And the Grace of the Holy Ghost the Comforter enlighten our Minds Hearts and Bodies and cleanse us from all our Sins and Iniquities Amen Our help is in the Name of the Lord who hath made both Heaven and Earth Blessed be the Name of the Lord from this time forth and for evermore Most Holy Mother of God pray for us that we may be made worthy the Promises of Christ Lord hear my Prayer and let my cry come unto thee The Lord be with you Answer and with your Spirit Let us pray Let the Priest in bowing himself before the Altar say whisperingly Lord take from us all our Iniquities that our Spirits being Purifyed we may deserve to enter into the Holy of Holy ones through Christ Jesus our Lord. Then stooping let him secretly say We beseech thee O Lord through the Merits of the Saints whose Reliques we have here and through the Merits of the rest of the Saints to forgive me all my Sins Amen Which done let him lift up himself and laying his hands on the Altar kiss it and if it be a Solemn Mass by reason of the Double Feast let him take the Censor viz. the Frankincense Box out of the Deacons hand and perfume the Altar therewith and Returning the Censor to the Deaâ—on let him kiss the Paten and say We adore thee O Christ and bless thee because through thy Holy Cross thou hast Redeemed the World Thou O Lord which hast suffered for us have mercy upon us The Prayer We beseech thee O Lord to look upon this Family for the which our Lord Jesus Christ Refused not to be betrayed into the hands of the Wicked and abide the Torment of the Cross who liveth and Reigneth with thee c. Notes Here are almost as many Blasphemies as Prayers all the men and Women Saints yea the Cross being joyned with Jesus the Blessed Redeemer and made joint Saviours with him In which no certain Number nor Order is observed only the Priests invoke such as they have a particular kindness for viz. their Choice Patrons The Priest must whisper or buzz two Prayers here which is against the Decree of the Counsel of Basil which damns those secret Prayers of Massing Priests This Mumbling looks like Conjuring for all the World This Sancta Sanctorum Holy of Holies is not that which God Ordained by Moses Exod. 30. for that 's Abolished Heb. 8. by the coming of the Messiah prefigured by it nor can it be that which Christ went into at his Ascension which is in Heaven Now there being no more but these two the Sancta Sanctorum must be of their own or the Devils making and may be well called SATANS SANCTUARY As for the Reliques so often mentioned the plain Case is this when Superstition began to creep into the Church where good men and Martyrs were buryed they built Sepulchres and Feigned that Remission of Sin and many other Heavenly Blessings might be had by visiting them and making offerings there so gulling the simple people of their Money But these growing too numerous the Priests judged it profitable to make a kind of Monopoly of them and therefore procured a Decree at the first Councel of Carthage about the time of Pope Anastasius that the Bishops should pull down those scattered Monuments resorted to and build them in more profitable Market-places with a Prohihition that no Christians should haunt the forsaken places And in the time of Pope Gelasius the First it was Decreed that no Altar should be Consecrated unless it were of Stone and had some Reliques of Saints in it which they counterfeited as they pleased The unmber of these is infinite as Saint Popes Saint Cardinals Saint Bishops Saint Abbots Saint Priests Monks Fryars with a world of hee s and shee s besides Saint Bell Saint Image Saint Vessel Saint Garment Saint Temple Saint Altar c. Of Bells Stocks
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