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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13141	A Sum or a brief collection of holy signes, sacrifices and sacraments, euen since the beginning of the worlde and the true originall of the sacrifice of the masse / translated out of French into Englishe by N. Lynge.	Ling, Nicholas, fl. 1563.	1563 (1563)	STC 23433; ESTC S123835	72,836	196

to instruction and not superstition to vnitie and not vanitie in suche sorte that the faithfull bee not spoyled of their libertie and that by necessitie they be not compelled vnto those things from the which they be made free by the gospel of iesus Christ I will faithfull reader hold thee no longer beseching thee to geue god hearty thankes for purging the church of England frō so many blinde and dumme ceremonies earnestlye to pray that the rest which at this day do molest the godly and minister occasion to the aduersarie to sclaunder the true professors of gods holy ghospell with discord and discention may be also shortly rooted out So that god may be freely worshipped the godly comforted the enemie confounded and his people trewelye taught N. LYNGE A summe or a briefe collection of holy sygnes Sacrifices and Sacramentes instituted of god euen since the beginning of the vvorlde And of the true originall of the Sacrafice of the Masse IN THE TYME ordayned before of God by his vnsearchable and vncomprehensible wysedome after he had created man to hys owne Image and lyknes to th end that he might stirre him vp to feare and obedience and geue vnto him also some exercise of vertue to acknowledge hys God hys creator there were ordeyned many signes Sacrifices and Sacramentes First to our first father Adam and to hys successours being bodely men were ordayned corporal signes of god the better to approuē and make knowen hys obedience To wit Trees of lyfe Gene. 2.3 Euseb Theodor. Seuer the trees planted in the midst of the herber and earthly paradise These trees althoughe they were of no other qualitie than the other plantes yet they were dedicated and consecrated of God to serue for sacramentes that is to saye for holy signes their qualitie then dedicated and hallowed to serue as a seale for a witnes attestation and approbation of the godly wyll For the infinite goodnes of god willing to make knowen the fellowshippe bond and alliaunce contracted with man his creature created to hys own likenes hath from tyme to time ordayned outwarde and corporal sygnes which man might se and behold with his corporall eyes to serue for assuraunce gage and pledge of the diuyne couenaunt like as to our first common father were ordayned trees and corporal fruits left and geuen vnto him to kepe without wasting eating or consumyng in payne of euerlasting death We must then beleue by faith that the trees and fruites were not signes or sacramentes of vanitie as a symple pycture but more that vpōthem did hange both life death they contayning the signe and the thing signified Prouer. 1.2.3 Wherein did consist the knowledge and wisedome to feare god and obey him This was the cause wherefore they were called the fruites of knowledge of good and euill and the trees of lyfe For in keping these fruites hallowed in obeying god euerlasting life was promised contrariwyse in abusyng these Sacramentes in goyinge against the wyll of god declared by outwarde tokens euerlasting death and dampnation was gotten For other exercises of man toward god Sacrifices before the lawe written to the ende that he myght reuerence honour and worship him mani and diuers sacrifices were celebrated yea before the lawe written by Moyses Psalm 50. And although the almyghtye God creatour of heauen of earth hath no nede of mans workes neyther is nourished with the bloud of beasts or fruites of the earth Yet he hath alwayes desyred to drawe man vnto him in feare outward obedience by Signes Sacrifices and Sacramentes In such sort that the sacrifice of the lambes offered by Abell was pleasyng vnto god Gene. 4. Hebreo 11. Gene. 6.7.9 Noe likewyse after the great flouds passed in signe of knowledge and obedience towarde God did erect an aulter offered and lifted vp sacrifice of shepe without spotte and of byrdes wherewith he did make sacrifices sounde and pleasing vnto god By these examples it is easie to knowe that sacrifices did not beginne in the tyme of Moyses But the innocent and iust lambe represented by the sacrifice of Abell the figure of Iesus Christ was slayne and offered vp from the beginning of the world Apoco 13. After the rigor of the floud comen for the punishement of the offences of the tyrants of the earth in signe of reconciliation and couenaunt renued Raynbowe Gene. 9. our good god did ordeyne the signe of the Bow in heauen for a gage and assuraunce of the diuine mercifulnes This signe and heauenly Bowe although before it did apeare in the thick clouds a token of rain to come Yet before it had neuer bene a marke dedicated to serue man for a sacrament or holy signe vntill it was ordeyned of God a signe of the couenaunt contracted with good father Noe and his ofspring Vnto the faithfull Patriarch Abraham another couenaunt and alliaunce was contracted by the wysedome of God Circumcision in the yere of the world 2048. which he gaue vnto him for a gage and assuraunce of him and of his posteritie the outwarde signe of circumcision to serue for a sacrament and perpetuall marke of the diuine wyll It was ordeyned vnto him to circumcise his children males within eyght dayes after theyr byrthe Gene. 17. in paine of being reiected from the number of those people which God had adopted or chosen To the same people of Israel was ordeyned the sacrifice of the vnspotted Lambe the bloude whereof spilt Pascal lambe should preserue the people from the appoynted death in Egipt Exodo 12. the flesh also was ordeyned to be eaten in celebrating the feast euery yere in the day called Pasque in signe commemoration of their deliuerance from Pharaos bondage Exodo 12. with the signe of the communion of the fleshe of the pascall Lambe it was ordeyned to eate vnleuened bread seuen dayes in payne of death Other holy signes were sent of god to his elect people alwayes to draw them to his feare obedience As the signe of the cloud a token of the way to guide the people by day Cloude Pillor of fyer Exodo 13. the flaming firie piller to conduct them by night out of the hands of Pharao the tyrant Moreouer the signe of the diuision of the red sea of Arabie thorow the middest whereof the elect people of god did passe The diuision of the red sea in the yere 2453. 1. Corin. 10. Tite 3. By the which wonderfull signes god would signifie tholy sacrament of baptisme afterward ordeyned by the signe of water which is the lauer of regeneratiō renuing of the holy gost During the time that the elect people of god were holden in the wildernes of Arabia Manna to them was ministered foode of heauenly bread Exodo 16. wherew t they were nourished .xl. yeres This holy sacramēt instituted by the power of god was in such great admiration that euery of the people sayd Manhu