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justice_n	court_n	lord_n	plea_n	2,563	5	9.6852	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17028	A sermon preached at the assises holden at Winchester the 24. day of Februarie last, before Sir Laurence Tanfeild knight, Lord Chiefe Barron of the Exchequer, and Sir Richard Hutton knight, one of the iustices of the Court of Common-pleas. By Abraham Browne prebend: of the Cathedrall Church of Winton.	Browne, Abraham, d. ca. 1625.	1623 (1623)	STC 3906; ESTC S119312	28,509	46

A SERMON PREACHED AT THE ASSISES HOLDEN AT WINCHESTER the 24. day of Februarie last before Sir LAVRENCE TANFEILD Knight Lord Chiefe Barron of the Exchequer and Sir RICHARD HVTTON Knight one of the Iustices of the Court of common-Common-Pleas By ABRAHAM BROWNE Prebend of the Cathedrall Church of WINTON NOLI ALTVM SAPERE LONDON Printed by Edw. All-de 1623. TO SIR LAVRENCE TANFEILD KNIGHT LORD Chiefe Barron of the Exchequer and Sir RICHARD HVTTON Knight one of the Iustices of the Court of common-Common-Pleas Beloued in the Lord I Was requested very earnestly by a right Worshipfull person that hee might haue a Copie of my Sermon Preached at the Assises at Winchester another put mee in minde of publishing it and a Dedicatorie Epistle required To answere all these if I publish it I shall satisfie in exhibiting the Copie requested And albeit I am not ouer earnest to haue it published yet I may suppose that that part of the Sermon which is against the Masse the thing most of all respected in the speech may serue among other Writings for the confutation of that pretended sacrifice But for Dedicatory Epistle to whom more properly of right doth it appertaine then to your Honours if it may please you to accept of it your selues being the most principall persons in the Auditorie most iudicious to discerne all things then spoken and being acquainted with pleadings in Law may iudge what validity our reasonings haue in matters of Religion The pleadings in Law are ingenious and ought to be very demonstratiue strong in proofe that things may be euidently cleared before they come to sentence yet this difference that in Law-pleadings one pleadeth against another In our matters one speaketh and no man in the place must contradict yet we must not be in that respect more bolde but more circumspect for God heareth and many witnesses What I haue said against the Masse I haue read and resolutely approue to be the truth and if shortnesse haue made obscurity or weakenesse of proofe or insufficiencie in a matter of so great importance when it shall be replied by Gods grace I will strengthen the Arguments and giue more aboundance of testimony accordingly as things are by me alledged In pleading against the Masse aboue all other controuersies in Religion your Honours are very competent and conuenient Iudges For with you are handled cases of restitution if any thing be taken away matters of trust to be performed alienations of things in that respect and alterations not to be admitted voluntas testatoris the testators will especially to be regarded the ends proposed in grants to be obserued that if the Masse Priest were put to his triall at your iudgement seat he should receiue the very same iudgement I haue set vpon him He must restore the Table he hath taken away place it againe in the middest of the Church as our common Prayer booke alloweth that it may be farther from an Altar or if not to haue such a iudgement as to be a Table not an Altar he must restore the great Loafe he hath taken away hauing put in steed of it a thin Wafer Cake the knife must be brought again alienation must be recalled that the Priests onely must not participate alteration forbidden and to minister vnder both kindes the end prescribed by our testator to be kept euen by eating the Bread and drinking the Cup to 1. Cor. 11. 2. shew forth the Lords death vntill he come For the Masse is a new inuented Religion and as it is said in Scholes Vno absurdo dato mille sequuntur Grant one absurdity and a thousand will follow so is it with the Masse Priest one absurdity hath bred many absurdities he hath inuented a mysterie and yet his mysterie keepeth not the rule of such mysteries as are in the olde Testament which should be the patterne for all mysteries And againe as his mysterie agreeth not with the Scriptures so the Masse Priests intention agreeth not with his Masse booke that as it is said he that is out of the way the faster he runneth the farther he is out so is it with the Masse Priest once out neuer in The Masse Priests dealing in respect of God and in respect of the people is like a tenure in England which I haue heard of where the Tenant maketh proffer of a Present to his Landlord but deliuereth it not that the chiefe Lord may say vnto him I thanke you for nothing For concerning God the foolish Masse-Priest vnderstandeth not that that which is the Priests portion and that which the Priest eateth as it is in the Leuiticall Offerings is not the Sacrifice but that which is burnt is Gods offering and the bloud sprinkled at the mercy seat is the attonement but he eateth all his offerings drinketh vp all in his Chalice and rinceth his Chalice that he may be knowne to drink all that God may say to him I thanke you for nothing But as for the people they may all the yeare long excepting once a yeare when he receiueth but halfe say to him we thank you for nothing And for the Masse Priests intention not to agree with his Masse booke it is as euident For his prayers are in the plurall number and he intendeth himselfe only Againe he prayeth to God only that the oblation which the whole family had offered meaning the Bread and Wine which the brethren had offered part whereof was to serue for the Communion might be made the Body and Bloud of his most beloued Son Iesus Christ And vpon it bringeth in the Institution which is for taking eating but he intendeth not but offering of Christ himselfe for a propitiatory sacrifice not marking that a body broken bloodshed is already sacrificed and what is once sacrificed cannot be sacrificed again Therefore our Sauiour sitting in person at the supper deliuered his Body broken as already sacrificed and his Blood shed to preuent a Masse Priest for to offer him For his sacrifice as a Doctor of the Church Gregorius Nazianzenus saith is insacrificabile sacrificium a sacrifice that cannot be sacrificed againe Besides these absurdities this is also not to be ouer-skipped that when he saith Ite missa est Goe your wayes it is dismissing time the speaker meaneth that some should depart and those that remained should communicate for all might haue adored if that only were intended but all could not communicate but he intendeth no such thing as a Communion that they that remaine must adore only and receiue nothing that stil the people may say We thank you for nothing The truth is the old prayers which are in the Mass book are mistaken for in the prayers what is for offering is to be referred to those offerings which the disciples had offered for the maintenance of the Church but the mysteries of the Body and Blood of Christ were to be receiued according to our Sauiours Institution in so much that we liuing now by Tythes those prayers