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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19675	The three conformities. Or The harmony and agreement of the Romish Church with gentilisme, Iudaisme and auncient heresies. VVritten in French by Francis de Croy G. Arth. and newly translated into English. Seene, perused and allowed; Trois conformités. English	Cro, François de.; Hart, William, fl. 1620.	1620 (1620)	STC 6098; ESTC S121926	188,823	318

Some haue drawne the etymologie from the sending of presents or table seruices which we call Messes and it seemeth that Lampridius hath iested a little thereat And those dry Masses that are sung at womens churching that are risen out of child-bed are they not like vnto the Nephalia domesticke sacrifices wherein the vse of wine was forbidden The Gentils had their The smophoria Demeteria of Ceres the Panathenea of Minerua the Aphrodisia of Venus the Pammylia of Osiris so likewise haue you as many Masses as there are Saints registred in your Kalender You terme your Masses vnbloudie sacrifices and without bloud but how can they be such sith they haue bereft so many millions of their liues Concerning your priuate Masses whereinto you haue changed the generall communion the Epigrammatist mocketh them CHAP. LII Of the Confiteor IN vaine doe you attribute the inuention of the Confiteor of the Masse vnto Pontian and Damase Bishops of Rome and in this we challenge you of falshood seeing this ceremonie was inuented a thousand yeares before them It is theft to depriue any authors of their inuentions by attributing the same vnto others which are onely their imitators Numa was the first that aduanced both the theorie and practicke thereof for as we read in good authors he thought that the consciences of the sacrificers were well purged through the confession which they made vnto the Gods and Goddesses and that without the Confiteor the sacrifice could not be lawfully celebrated We will not enter into the deepenesse of Confession which we approue it being grounded vpon the word of God I will onely demand of you with what face darre you be so bold in the Confiteor of your Masse as to ioyne the creatures with the creator CHAP. LIII Of the nine Kyrie Eleysons TO pray to the Lord that he would haue mercy on vs should be an ordinary thing amongst vs but let it be in a language that we vnderstand And why may we not vse this forme at infinite times rather then nine times And this number of nine hath it not bin drawne out of the Pythagoricall Cabale The imitation and not the inuention therof ought to be imputed to Gregorie the first of that name seeing many ages before that Tullus Hostilius successor to Numa did establish a certaine law touching this number and ordained a nouendiall sacrifice for a remedie against monsters and prodigious sights And this nouendiall ceremonie is not without some mysterie the vse thereof was frequent among the Idolaters whether it had beene in the Lemurall sacrifices or magicall enchantments thinking that the vertue of this number was such that ghosts and fearefull visions of the night were chased away thereby Sathan required of his followers an abstinence from that which is lawfull in marriage and a respite from their marriage bed for nine dayes space and namely of such as were dedicated to the seruice of Ceres This is it which we intend to proue to wit the agreement that is betweene you and the Gentils CHAP. LIIII Of the odde number of the Collects of the Masse SVch as haue sung Masse know that the vnity and number of three fiue and seuen are duly obserued and that very seldomly it is extended so far as nine in the orations that are said after the Kyrie eleyson or gloria in excelsis which you terme Collects to the end that the memorie of the Masse-monger may not wauer in such along reckoning And of whom haue you learned these manner of doings but of the Gentils who were of the opinion that God delighted in this od number This law was diligently obserued in their sacrifices and it was knowne by the number vnto what Gods they were offered vnto the infernall or vnto the celestiall for to these last the number was equall and to the first inequall And we will remarke by the way that according to the beleefe of those silly people the number of three was the Prince of all the inequall numbers as indeed it is most frequent in your Masses and chiefly when you go about to signe your Masse bread whether it be before or after the consecration The Poets likewise haue remarked that the sorcerers had the same in great account aboue all other numbers which was obserued also in the sacrifices that were made to the Goddesse Muta where this number of three was obserued The number of seauen also was not forgotten and such as were of a most strict conscience reputed themselues to be very cleane if they had washed them seauen times in the sea or salt water such as your holy water is at this day and they did reuerence this number so much that it was worshipped and inserted in the Catalogue of the Goddesses vnder the name of Tritonia virgo It was vsed also in magicall sacrifices but was not so frequent as the number of three CHAP. LV. Of washing of the Hands in the Masse CLeanlinesse is commendable if it be voyd of all superstition And it is knowne vnto all men how bitter the reproofes of Iesus Christ were against the washing and purification of the Pharisies wherein they thought that the chiefe part of godlines consisted a custome which was thought by the Idolaters to be so religious that they held it a great offence to appeare before their Gods either to doe sacrifice or to pray vnlesse they had first beene clensed and washed both in their bodies and garments I will submit my selfe to that which the Poets say and in euery corner of the fields I heare some tidings thereof and in the meane season you ought not to be ignorant that God hath no regard to our bodies if they bee well purged prouided that our consciences be cleane in faith hope and charitie a cleanlinesse that ought not to be sought and cannot be found else where saue onely in the bloud of the sonne of God our mediator And to returne to our Massing purifications of whom haue you learned to wash your hands three times during the action of the Masse but of the auncient Romanes Your first purging preceedeth the Masse The second is vsed to the end that you may the more worthily touch your God after the consecration the last is after the communion of the bodie and bloud wherein notwithstanding you wash onely the thumbe and the finger next thereunto of both the hands by which fingers you are chiefly serued in handling of your mysteries CHAP. LVI Of Silence at the Canon THe Goddesse Muta was worshipped in old times The promise of silence sayth Tertullian was duely obserued in all their mysteries and chiefly in the Samothracian and Eleusinian sacrifices named Orgia so termed because prophane persons and such as were thought to be polluted were forbidden to come vnto them The Bookes of the Sibyls were not perused and that by expresse commandement but by the tenne