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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01148	The conuersion of a most noble lady of Fraunce In Iune last past, 1608. Madame Gratiana, wife to the high and mightie lord; Claudius, Lord of Tremoille; Duke of Thouars; peere of Fraunce, and Prince of Talmonde. A most Christian epistle, written by her, to the ladyes of Fraunce, to resolue them in the cause of her conuersion from popery, to the the profession of Gods Gospell: and aduising them to imitate her religious example. Truely translated out of French.	Tremoille, Charlotte Brabantina, Duchess of, 1580-1631.; Munday, Anthony, 1553-1633.	1608 (1608)	STC 11262; ESTC S102563	29,611	56

Masse Now we say that this is a very great outrage and wronge done to our Lord Iesus Christ and to his true sacrifice First of all in transferring to mortall men or communicating to them the dignitie of his supreme Priesthood we woonder by what authoritie or allowance this should be done For the whole bodie of the Scripture declareth plainly to vs That he is the eternall sacrificer according to the order of Melchizedeck yea and that in such sort As he is the only Priest of that order and permitteth not the receipt of successors or Vicars For as concerning the sacrificers of the Law there were made many to succeede one after another Because they were not suffered to endure by the reason of death But this man saith the Apostle to the Hebrewes because he endureth for euer hath an euerlasting Priesthood Which needed not daily as those high Priests under the Law to enter the holy places yearely with other bloud first for his owne sinnes and then for the peoples Otherwise it had bin needfull for him to haue suffered many times since the foundation of the world But now in the consummation of the world hath he appeared once to put away sinne by the sacrifice of himselfe Being both the offering sacrificer the sacrifice offered for sinne according to the nature of this holy sacrifice of the new Testament that the Sacrifice and Sacrificer should be both one To Iesus Christ then only appertaineth the honor to be the Sacrificer of the new couenant and they doe him intollerable outrage to appoint him any Successors or Suffragans in regard the Apostle saith There is one euerlasting Sacrificer which neuer ceaseth and passeth not from one to another Nor can this honor be attributed to any other but only he that is called of God as Aaron was So likewise Christ tooke not to himselfe this honor to be made the high Priest but he glorified him that saide vnto him Thou art my Sonne this day begate I thee And as in the former place Thou art an euerlasting sacrificer after the order of Melchisedeck It is not I Ladies that haue spoken all this but Gods infallibe word the sacred Scripture And now if the Priests of the Papacie would haue vs to acknowledge them for sacrificers let them shew vs how the charge to sacrifice Iesus Christ is giuen them by God in the holy Scriptures and then we will lend a better eare to them But this is not the proposition only that Christ Iesus is the sole sacrificer of the new couenant but there remaines a far greater matter For his sacrifice neither can or ought to be iterated or performed againe nor can it be by any other because he offered himselfe once for all and it appertaineth to no man whatsoeuer to make the like offering as he hath done Neither could he as of himselfe offer himselfe againe for then he must haue suffered and died againe as I haue prooued before by the Apostle And the offering which he made of himselfe was once only and that sacrifice is of perpetuall efficacie for the clearing and wiping away of our sinnes Whereupon the same Apostle saith We are sanctified euen by the offering of the bodie of Iesus Christ once made And by one sole oblation which he once only offered hath he consecrated for euer them that are to be sanctified And since he hath purchased for vs the remission of our sinnes there remaineth no more oblations to be made for sinne but his blood only is sufficient whereby he is entred into the holy places hauing obtained euerlasting redemption for vs And we haue daily libertie likewise by the blood of Iesus to enter into the holy places in regard that he is the eternall sacrificer to saue all such as he shall present to God liuing there as their continuall intercessor In all which alleadged places the Apostle makes no mention at all of any new oblation or continual offering the bodie of Christ by the hands of men Who will not say then that this is blasphemie not only in transferring to mortall men the dignitie of the eternall Priesthood of Iesus Christ who neuer resigned his office to any other but likewise to reiterate and renew his sacrifice daily as if the efficacie of the sacrifice which himselfe once offered vpon the Crosse were not sufficient to endure and for our reconciliation to God What shall we also thinke of this saying of the Apostle If when we were enemies we were reconcilea to God by the death of his Sonne much more being reconciled we shall be saued by his life That is to say because he is daily aliue to intercede in our behalfe and procure vs grace and fauour as hath bin before declared Or as he elsewhere saith In regard he appeareth now for vs before the face of God to wit in the powerfull vertue of his sacrifice to communicate the same to all beleeuers There is therefore no neede of any new sacrifice or reiteration thereof Vnderstand good Ladies that I doe not tie my selfe to note euery particular which is condemned thorow the whole passage of the Masle which is very thicke sowen with blasphemies from the beginning to the end therein I should tier both my selfe and you As for example should I speake of the Priests entraunce to the Altar wherein you knowe I vtter no lye First the Priest confesseth himselfe not only to God but likewise both to he Saints and she Saints not so much as naming Iesus Christ Then afterward in the beginning of their Canon and before he goes to any consecration he saith That he offers that Sacrifice to God to wit the bread and wine which are vpon the Altar and as yet not consecrated first of all for the Catholique Church next for the redemption of all their souls that are assistant at the Masse O deare Ladies what a blasphemie is this O that it should euer be receiued among Christians Or that a sinfull man should presume to say That he offers an oblation of bread wine to God and for there demption of soules Nay admit that it were the bodie blood of Iesus Christ yet deare soules you see it manifestly prooued vnto you alreadie that it is not now at this day to be offred againe neither can it by the Apostles testimonie alreadie rehearsed I passe ouer also manyp rayers ful of iniquitie as well before as after the consecration As in the Memento when the Priest requireth the fauour of God by the merits and intercession of Saints As if the sacrisice of Iesus Christ which they say they preferre in the formost place were not sufficient to impetrate such grace of God Then after consecration they commit a sinne whereof by no meanes I thinke they can excuse themselues For the Priest prayeth to God that the oblation which he offereth to wit the bodie and the bloud of Iesus Christ