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A13142	A summe or a briefe collection of holy signes, sacrifices, and sacraments instituted of God euen since the beginning of the world, and of the true originall of the sacrifice of the Masse; Sum or a brief collection of holy signes, sacrifices and sacraments.	Ling, Nicholas, fl. 1563.; Brett, John, Sir, attributed name.; Devonshire, William Cavendish, Earl of, 1590-1628, attributed name.	1609 (1609)	STC 23434; ESTC S113014	129,473	362

in his bookes of Leuiticus and Numbers The Arke of witnes Ex. 25.27.28 Another signe sacrament instituted of God by the Arke of the couenant described in Exodus being a holy signe dedicated to receiue the holy and heauenly answers to the end to bring the people to the remembrance feare and obedience of God to honour accompany the Arke of the couenant Many other exterior signes were ordeyned of God as the ornaments and consecration of Priestes Ephod specially the ornament called the Ephod the which and the sacrifices the Israelites did abuse by their Idolatries Another holy signe there was of the purging and sprinkling water ordeined by God to Moyses and Aaron the high Priest Purging water consecrated Numb 19. This sprinkled water was consecrated with ashes gathered by a clean person of the sacrifice offered in Holocausta To witte of a Cowe all redde without any spot and which had neuer bin laboured The Wood ordeyned to make the fier for the burnt offering was Cedar Hisope Purple with Crimsin With this water were sprinkled polluted persons for the purging and cleansing of their corporall defilings Exod. 38. At the entring of the Temple or Tabernacle was a Lauer made of Brasse forged first with the images of the women of Israell in this Lauer was put the sprinkling water wherewith the sacrificers are sprinkled before the celebrating of their sacrifices to the end they might be purified and obtaine grace remission of their sinnes After the death of the great Priest Aaron the people of Israell vnthankfull to God for the goodnes sent them of him murmuring as annoyed with the heauenly Manna freely giuē vnto them for their noriture were punished by the biting of venemous serpēts But the merciful God gaue vnto them an holy signe whereby they should be saued and restored to health to wit the brasen serpent lifted vp in the aire a figure of Iesus Christ crucified Brasen serpent Iohn 3.7 These were in summe the most part of the signes sacrifices and sacraments ordeyned of God in the first Church of the Israelites figures of the true and perfect sacrifice performed by Iesus Christ the true Messias and euerlasting Priest sitting at the right hand of God the Father Sacraments brokē by Adam Gene. ● Now resteth the summe to bring forth how man by his owne proper fault did fall in obliuiō and disobedience of God his creator abusing Gods fauour and corrupting the holy signes sacrifices sacraments ordeyned to him What perswaded our first father and his companiō to bide themselues at the hearing of Gods voice but because they had abused the holy signe and broken the lawe of the fruits to them forbiddē This holy signe which our first and vniuersall father had abused was the originall of other vices and corruptions hereafter described into the which all men are fallen sauouring of the corrupted lumpe of Adam Leauing the particuler corruptions of the signes Corruption of the sacrifice by Aaron Exo. 32 Deut. 9. sacrifices and sacraments before the law written by Moyses we will begin to bring forth briefly the most notable error committed by the most great sacrificers as Kings Priests and others hauing the chiefe gouernement of the people When Moyses was abiding in the mount Synay to receiue the commandements of God his brother Aaron the high Priest forged a calfe of gold of the golden earings giuen vnto him by the people of Israell he builded an aulter offered incense and celebrated sacrifice causing the common people to worship the molten Image Was not this an abusing of the Sacrifices ordeined of God and a corrupting of the true vsage of the same in causing the calfe to be worshipped in place of the slaine and offered sacrifice as it was appointed in the law Corruption of the sacrifice by Nadab Abihu Leui. 10 Numb 11. His sonnes also Nadab Abihu were not they cōsumed with fire for abusing the vse of sacrifices in taking vnhallowed wood and corrupting the law The people of Israel vnthankfull for the goodnes done vnto them in being deliuered from the Pharaōical captiuity did they not murmure against the holy sacrament of heauenly Manna when they did disdaine and contemne this bread of life Iosua and demanded flesh to eate Achan the sonne of Charmes did not he violate the lawe of the holy signes when he committed sacriledge and kept backe the spoyles of Ierico vowed consecrated to God for sacrifices If any more curiously desire to see the continuall abuses and corruptions of the people themselues Iudg. 2.3.6.8.9 let him reade the histories of the Iudges of Israel and in all times he shall find man neuer to be content with the true worshipping ordeined of God But in steed of outwarde signes ordeined of God to draw the people to feare and obediēce they haue forged inuentions And in place of reuerencing the alters and arke couenant in the name of the only God being outward sacred signes The Israelites infected with the Idolatries of their neighbours the Syrians Iudges 10 Sidonians Moabites Ammonites and Philistines did erect alters vnto their strange Gods The vngentle sacrifice of Iephtha Iudg. 11. Baal and Astaroth Ieptha Iudge and Captain of the Israelites did not he corrupt the lawe of Sacrifices when he sacrificed his owne proper daughter excusing himselfe by a vow which hee made Iudg. 8.9 Idolatry by the Ephod Iudg. 17.18 which was not appointed to him of God The holy signe ordayned of God for the high Priest to celebrate sacrifices in called Ephod the vppermost garment was not it abused by Gedeon captaine of the Israelites when as of the spoiles of the Madianits and of their earings he made an Ephod of gold whereby the people fell into great idolatrie How long time was this holy outward signe Ephod abused an Image being erected by the mother of Michas in Silo Priests sacrificers appointed expresly to sacrifice thereunto an Altar builded and the true vse of sacrifices corrupted So long as the temple continued in Silo into what wicked manners did the Priestes and sacrificers fall which were ordeined of God for the ministrie of sacrifices and holy sacraments when they vsurped by long possession to haue this priuiledge of the people 1 Sam. 2. that when they did sacrifice the flesh of the offered sacrifice was seething their boy or seruant hauing a three grained flesh-hooke of yron in his hand had liberty to catch out of the potte or caldron all that he could cary with his hooke Further the leuiticall tiranny was such that this seruant of the Priest had libertie to demand of the sacrifice giuer flesh to roste for the sacrificer otherwise to take it by force euen as he would Was not this a great abuse and detestable corruption practised by the Pristes and chiefe sacrificers vnder the pretēce of sacrifices What greater corruption can be declared then that of the sonnes of the chiefe Priest

Ely called Ophni Phinees Ophni Phinies corrupters of the sacrifices 1 Samuel 4 Who vnder the pretēce of deuotion comitted shameful whoredome with the couered women behinde the holy Tabernacle instituted of God for the which wickednes they were miserably slaine and the Arke of couenāt taken away by the Philistines Which they set in the Temple of their God Dagon 1 Samuel 7.6 The arke of the holy couenant but God not suffering this holy signe thus to bee prophaned threw downe the Image Dagon sent grieuous punishments to the Philistines in such sort that they were cōstrained to restore the Arke of the couenant of God Against corruption of holy signes This holy signe was so precious that forasmuch as the Bethsamits which were not of the order of the Leuits had abused it 50000 of the common people and 70. of the chiefe rulers were rooted out and slaine by the vengeance of God This example might make all those to tremble which enterprise to abuse the holy signes and sacraments ordeyned of God 2. Samuel 6. Vzzah Vzzah also for that he abused the same sacred signe notwithstanding that hee did it of a good intention for to lift vp the Arke of witnes hanging to much on the one side was hee not punished with death Of others abuses committed by the Israelits there is many examples Osias 2 Chron. 26. Osias was punished with leprosie for abusing the sacrifices in taking vpon him the ministery of encensing appointed to the priests onely Saul he first elected King of the Israelites was slaine and his kingdome giuen vnto another as was declared before of Samuel for abusing the sacrifices Saul 1 Sam. 13. Ioseph lib. 7 cap. 4. of the Iewes antiquities and suffering his people to commit the like abuses His successours in the kingdomes of Iuda and Israel haue not they alwaies continued in abusing and corrupting the sacrifices and sacraments ordeined of God when they did offer sacrifices to the Gods Astaroth of the Sidonians 1 Kigs 8.11 to Chantos of the Moabites and to Melcom or Moloch of the Ammonites in so much that they builded temples and oratories euen to offer incense and to doe sacrifices vnto them Ieroboam king of the Israelites Hieroboam 1 Kings 12. did not only cause a golden calfe to be erected as the high Priest Aaron had abused before but also did ordaine two golden Kine in the two Temples of Bethlel and Dan and ordained strange Priests corrupting the law of God and causing them to doe sacrifice after the fashion of Aaron 1. Kings 14. This Idolatrie and corruption of sacrifices did continue among the Israelites more than 400. yeares during the raigne of their kinges who had taught them to corrupt the true vse of the sacrifices in chapels and particuler oratories builded on the tops of hils and thicke forrests consecrated in violating the law of sacrifices ordained by God in the holy temple within the holy cittie 1. Kings 15. For particuler examples of the abuses committed against the true vse of sacrifices the historie of Ma●cha mother of king Asa is manifest who erected an Image of the God Pan and did consecrate and dedicate vnto him a thicke forrest offering sacrifices vnto it Achab another king of the Israelites did erect an Altar Achab. 1. Kings 16. and made sacrifices to the God Mars otherwise called Baal vnto whom he dedicated a grone to satisfie his wicked wife Iesabel Hee caused also another Altar and Temple to be erected to the God of the Tyriās he ordained Priests Sacrificers Ioseph lib. 8. chap. 10. and instituted foure hundred false Prophets Ochosias His sonne and successour Ochosias taught of his father to corrupt the vse of the sacrifices 2. Kings 1. did not onely offer to Baal otherwise called Mars but went forward in greater abuse he builded a Temple vnto the God of Accoronites called by Iosephus Myos Ioseph lib. chap. 1. and by the Greekes Priapus vnto the which God he did sacrifice To be short what more abhominable corruption can bee described Purgatorie 2. kings 16. 2. Kings 16.23 In the booke Alcoran Asoar 29.46 Asoar 5. ignem gehēna non nisi numero dierum preterminato animas sentire docet Alcor liber ad diem vetitatri omnes accedere operum ●orum mercedem accepturas Asoar then the inuention of the fire Purgatorie wherewith the Israelites did transgres causing their children to passe through the fire in Tophet a valley of the sonnes of Ennon sacrifizing vnto the God Moloch This corruption of sacrifices notwithstāding that it was in the time of Moises yet the Idol Moloch in the valley of Ennon was not cast downe till the raigne of King Iosias more then nine hundred yeares after Moyses Neuertheles this abuse doth continue among the Arabians and Affricans to this present so that the Alcoramists and Mahometists haue this beliefe that the soules of the departed must paste through the fire to bee purged and purified from their offences By this briefe gathering a man may clearely perceiue that from the begining of the world man by his owne fault hath fallen into the bottome of errour and corruption of holy signes sacrifices and sacramēts ordained to him of God But the principall abuse Cause of the corruption of sacraments whereof is sprung the originall of all Idolatrie entred by this meanes that fleshly carnall men did sticke more to the visible signes and outward ceremonies then to the things signified by the Sacraments Apo 13. for in place of circumcisiing their hearts Deut. 10.30 and cuting away of the old skin of sinne to be regenerated and purified by the bloud of the heauenly sacrifice offered before all worlds they haue taken circumcisiō carnally for the cutting of the carnall skinne Wherefore did they not follow the interpretation of God by Moyses to circumcise the foreskin of their heartes Wherefore did not the children of Israel giue credit to the good prophet Ieremie Ierem. 4. which admonished them of the spiritual circumcision and to circumcise the forekinne of their hearts in putting away the foreskinne of their naturall corruption The like is come to passe of the sacrifices and holy signes ordained of God for figures of the sacrifice fulfilled by Iesus Christ For the carnall man resteth in the corporall bloud of earthly beasts where he ought to lift vp his spirit to heauen to comprehend and conceiue that which is figured and signified by the sacrifices of beastes offered vp For this therefore the iustice of God is declared by the Prophets What neede haue I saith the Lorde God of your sacrifices Esry 1. I am weary of your offerings of sheepe Moreouer I take no pleasure in the bloud of beasts lambes and goates offered Wherefore trauell you to addresse Altars vnto me I will none of your offerings and vaine sacrifices I abhorre your incense I can not suffer your new moones your Sabbaoths

Iohn Bishop of that place Who seing the occidentall Empire of Rome ouerthrowne and the other of Constantinople highly exalted Greg. lib. 4. of his epistles cap. 26. hee would also follow the tyrannie of the world and styrre vp a spirituall rule in the Church of Iesus Christ Hee caused himselfe to be declared by a councell holden at his pleasure Bishop Ecumenique The yeere of Christ 604. that is to say generall and head of the whole Church Platin. Sabellic But soone after the great Bishops of Rome gaue such order that by treason the Emperour Maurice in Constantinople was cruely slaine hee his wife and familie by wicked Phocas who to recompence this detestable murder committed by the aduise of the Church of Rome alwaies contrary to Iesus Christ The yeare of Christ 612. hee declared Boniface the third of that name the generall head of the church of God taking vpon him the authoritie of Iesus Christ the great and euerlasting high Priest the onely spouse and head of his church Who can better describe an Antichrist than hee that doth enterprise a tyrannie in the church of God Marke 26 a poligamie in the church the spouse of Iesus Christ attributing to himselfe that power which Iesus Christ hath reserued to himselfe to bee perpetuall with his church by the vertue of his holy spirite to conduct and gouerne the same May not hee rightly be called Antichrist which doth enforce himselfe directly to goe against the holy gospell of Iesus Christ who commanded his Apostles when he sent them to preach his word that they should not institute a Monarchie in the church as the Princes Kings Math. 23. Luke 11. Marke 2. and tyrants of the earth That none amongst them should enterprise to call himselfe the head or greater then other but all as brethren were humble being assured to haue one head and one heauenly father which will tarrie with them and assist them for euer to inspire and conduct them in his holy will Is not hee of good right Antichrist which will haue himselfe called the successour of Iesus Christ in the great Bishoprick in the high priesthood by him exercised The which dignitie he hath reserued to himselfe abiding a high soueraigne Priest for euermore who hath left no successour in his dignitie as Aaron did and his successours in the dignities of the high Priests of the Iewes But is after the order of Melchisedech a king high priest without any successour in his dignitie Wherfore then O Antichrists of Rome haue you taken vpon you the dignity of the highest Bishops as the heads of the church of God and vsurped also the authority of Iesus Christ causing your selues to be called most blessed most reuerend fathers and Popes hauing instituted a colledge of little purple Bishoppes to choose the great Bishop but onely to the end to renew the auncient Romaine religion of Numa Pompilius the first authour of your Pontificall dignities About the same time that Phocas the cruell murtherer did erect an Antichrist in the Romane Church Mahomet was risen in the Church of Arabia instructed by the Monke Sergius about the yeare 620. for this Apostate Heretike seeing the lawe of God altogether corrupted by the traditions of men and the holy Gospell contemned sectes and diuerse heresies sowed as well by the Iewes Pharisees Esseens Saduces Masbutheans Galileans Hemerobaptists and Samaritans as also by the Christians Simoniaques Nicolaits Cerinthiēs Menandriēs Ebionites Valētinians Cerdonians Marcionistes Montanistes Seeke the Church histories Cataphriges Tatians Eueratits Seuerians Artemonistes Porpherians Helchesaites Nouatiens Sabellians Chiliastes Paulianistes Manicheans Automousiastes Arrians Eunonians Macedonians Euuomiotheophroniens Eunomioentichiens Aetians Donatistes Luciferiens Patripassians or Theophatites Photiniens Marcellians Paulosamosetans Apolinaristes Iouinianistes Pelagians Acariens Olimpiens Quaternitaries Monothelites And other Heretikes hauing corrupted the true vsage of the holy Sacraments ordeyned of God Seeing also specially the Messalien secte to prosper in their ceremonies taken partly out of the Iudaicall lawe and partly out of the heathen Idolatrie he inuented the great Alcoran decree wherein he set many chapters articles called Azoares which are as lawes and rules of the Mahomet Religion This preface briefe discourse of the Romane history me thought necessarie to recite before I would begin to discribe the originall of the sacrifice of the Masse Alwaies to bring the Reader to vnderstand the veritie of the fact How the Emperour of Rome hath bin gouerned vntill the decay thereof about the yeare of Christ 410. And how the barbarous Idolators did vsurpe the same for the space of 300. yeares how also the Antichristes did rise and in the end the Emperour of Rome was transferred to the Almaines which keepe it to this day 500. yeares being passed Of the Masse TO begin this our little treatise of the Masse first of all it is conuenient to interprete this tearme Masse The originall of the tearme of the Masse of the ancient Romaines called Missa Some haue honoured this Missal sacrifice to haue taken his beginning of the Hebrewes bringing in the place of Daniel Daniel 11. speaking of Maozin as if they would signifie the Masse by Maozin But this tearme is very strange frō Missa or Masse And there are other Hebrew words which are more nearer to wit Messa which is as much to say as conculcation or treading downe whereof mention is made in the history of the kinges of Israel 4. Kings 11. Missa Another tearme also is found very comfortable vnto this common tearme Masse namely Messall Iosua 19. Messall that is to say hell or graue But I am well assured that the high Priestes of Rome will not take the originall of their sacrifice of the Masse from the Hebrues acknowledging their Masse and Messall to be a conculcation graue or hell Further to speake the truth the Author of the Romane Religion Numa Pompilius neuer thought of the Hebrues when he first instituted the Masse much lesse this tearme Missa or Masse can haue his originall of the Greekes Messal Hell seeing they haue no sacrifice of that name notwithstanding that some haue made some reason to bring in this terme of Greeke Miz●in that is to say in English to whisper or hide in secret As if the Messalian sacrificers had receiued of the Greekes Idolatours to keepe secret the chiefe and principall words of their Masses to the end they should not bee vnderstood of the assistance but haue obserued to murmure and blow betweene their teeth the Canons and other speciall words which neither they vnderstoode themselues nor other which beheld them Neuerthelesse neither the Hebrue termes nor Greeke vocables in no wise can be appropriated to the missall sacrifice Wherefore it behoueth to haue recourse to the true original of the terme Missa or Masse Masse taken of the ancient Latins Romans taken of the auncient Latines the Romanes which were accustomed to vse these termes Missus

Pompilius the coniurer If Alexander had not bin so much giuen to the vse of salt instituted by the ancient Idolators for their clensing water Num. 19. hee would rather haue followed the Iudaicall ceremony and haue ordeyned ashes to consecrate the purging water And where hee would thinke to vyser his doing by the miracle of Elizeus which did purifie the water with salt 4. King 2. Moyses also did the like with the wood showed vnto him when the people of Israell were in such necessitie of sweet water to drinke Exod. 15. But by these miracles it is not recited that Elizeus nor Moyses had instituted a purging water to purifie the people of the Iewes Num. 19. And it shall not bee founde that there was at any time amongs the Iudaicall ceremonies any other purging water but with the ashes of the beast offered vp for burnt sacrifice Num. 19. Wherefore Alexander and his like must freely acknowledge the inuention of their Salte and coniured water for the purging of sinnes to haue taken his originall of Numa Pompilius more then seuen hundred yeares before the incarnation of Iesus Christ Histo tripart lib. 6. cap. 35. This purging water was so well obserued of the Romaine Idolatours that more than 360. yeares after the incarnation of Iesus Christ it is recited how the Emperour Valentinian entring into the Temple of the g●ddesse Fortune Valentinian the Emperour against holy water sprinkled a sacrificer watching the said Temple did sprinkle him with this blessed purging salted water which hee had taken out of the holy water stocke being at the entrance of the said Temple wherewith the Emperour being chafed smote the Priest holding the holywater-sticke saying hee was rather defiled then purified By these true Histories the Massalians may vaunt themselues the first part of their Masse sacrifice to be very ancient Holy water very ancient And that their holy-water stockes and salted cleansing and purging water are of the ancient doctrine of Numa Pompilius and not of the Euangelicall doctrine of Iesus Christ which they call new doctrine and newe Testament as differing from the ancient Ceremonies of the Iewes Painyms Idolatours Against salt holy water of Alexander Pope of Rome But againe I cannot maruell inough wherefore Alexander did enterprise the restoring of the Pompilian Idolatrie seing he had a meane to reinstitute the ceremonial water after the fashiō of the Iewes And this doing to follow rather the law of God then Numa Pompilius for hee had easie meanes to recouer ashes to make a purging water after the manner of the Iewes namely of holy and precious ashes to say of the ashes kept in their shrines and coming of courtaines Ca. Omnes de consecrat distinct 4. ca. Altaria ca. Vestimenta distinct 1. towels and vessels consecrated which the Bishop Clement predecessour of Alexander had forbidden to be applied to any prophane vse But being worn with oldnes to be burnt in the fire And the ashes to bee put into the Fount Were not these holy ashes to haue moued Alexander to restore the ashie and purging water after the manner of the Iewes if he had not beene so dainty of salt and found a better taste to continue the ancient Romaine religion Other ashes might haue beene found by the successours of Alexander Ca. Al●aris de consecrat distinct To wit of the round hostes vnleuened and consecrated which the great Bishop Higinus ordained to bee burned which falling vpon the earth might not be left for the massing sacrificer and the ashes of the same hosts to be put into the shrines Other ashes also might haue beene gotten of the rattes mvce and other beasts deuouring the said consecrated hostes and ordained to be burned and the ashes to be put into the shrines In lib. cautel Miss Seing then that Alexander would not follow the ceremoniall law of God to ordaine a water blessed salted consecrated and coniured Why did hee not at the least put his salt into the hoste of the Massalian Sacrificer which they say is offered to God as a health sacrifice Leuit. 2.5.6 In doing whereof he should haue followed the ceremonie of Moyses by the which he commanded the salt shoulde be offered in all sacrifices therewith to sprinkle the sacrifice offered for health But if Alexander and his successours would haue followed the lawe of God they would haue inuēted nothing of their owne braines they would neuer haue made themselues so renowned to haue left the memory of their institutions The occasion of inuenting new idolatries For this occasion they would in nothing follow the lawe of God but cont●ariwise haue forbidden to put salt into the rounde hostes consecrated to celebrate the Missall Sacrifices They haue forbidden also to put ashes into their holy water to the end that in all their institutions men should knowe they borrow nothing of the law of God nor of the lawe of Moyses much lesse of the Euangellicall lawe of Iesus Christ but onely to haue taken thought to bring in inuentions notwithstanding that they were inuented by the ancien Painims and Romane Idolators 700 yeares before the incarnation of Iesus Christ To finish this first part of the Masse It had beene more expedient ô Massalians that in place of your sacrifices and coniured salt water wherewith you sprinkle the people The true holy water of all Christians to haue clearely declared the holy Gospell causing the people to vnderstand that the purifying and washing of their sinnes did hang onely on the bloud of Iesus Christ who is strong inough to driue away Diuels to bring vs from hell to preserue vs from death euerlasting Hebr. 9. and to def●ce in vs all spots of sinne without vsing of adiuration and coniuring with salt to driue away Diuels according to the witch-craft of Pompilius and the heresie of the Samaritans Epi●● a lib. 1. tom 1 ●ec 9. 17. conte hec which did beleeue to be purified by washing thēselues euery day with holy water ● part of the Masse After the Asperges song and the holy coniured water sprinkled vpon all the Aulters Images and assistance at the missall sacrifice followed the Procession which some would attribut to Agapet Bishop of Rome Procession Platina Tit. Liuius in his decades But it was instituted more then a thousād yeares before him which the ancient Romane Idolators did call Supplication But in place of painting there the name of Iesus Christ they haue painted the ●mages likenesses of diuerse Gods and Goddesses he Saints and she Saints patron● of euery parish This in some is the beginning of the Mistall Processiō for the second part of the Masse Was there euer so great Idolatry amongst the Israelites when they would celebrate their feastes of sweet bread to eate the Pascall Lambe a figure of the holy sacrament of the supper which the Massalians haue disguised by their sacrifices of the Masse Did

patience did suffer the Iewes in their vnfaithfulnesse the Turkes in their Alcoran lawe and the Christians in their Masse Idolatries It is not for vs to dispute of the incomprehensible secrets of God but with all humility to take againe the way of truth when it shall please him to giue it vs after long and deepe darknes whereunto the people in all ages haue fallen turned from the true worshipping and ordinance of God euen so as briefly before we haue declared of the Israelits the chosen people of God the which notwithstanding that they had Moyses and the Prophets which did admonish them by many miracles and th●e●●nings how they should honor God and keepe the lawe neuerthelesse they neuer ceased by mens inuentions to commit Idolatries So that during the raigne of the Princes Iudges of Israell when the people were gouerned as in Aristocratia then after submitted vnder the yoake of Kings as in a Monarchie last of all brought vnder the gouernement of the Pristes hauing gotten both the temporaltie and spiritualtie the law of God hath beene corrupted the sacrifices and sacraments defaced and defiled and Idolatry continued more then 1600. yeares from the law written by Moyses vnto the incarnation of Iesus Christ What may one hope for then of the people of Rome instructed in all Idolatrie as a dry tree a Heathenish and bastard people But these Massalian heretikes cannot vaunt themselues of very long possession of their Masse sacrifices except of the 9. peeces before described restored and borrowed of Numa Pompilius for the other parts of the Masse were inuented at diuerse times by diuerse antichrists corruptors of the holy sacraments ordeyned of God And to vnderstand the times and yeares of the chiefe builders Agapet Pope of Rome raigned in the yeare of Christ 533. and brought in the procession after the order prescribed by Numa The Confiteor was restored by Damase raigning the yeare 577. The Kyrie eleyson the Letanies by Gregory raigning in the y. 593. The Graduell the Collects the Traict by Gelase raigning in the yeare 493. The Sequences by Gothere Abbot of Sandale The Gloria in excelsis by Symachus raigning in the yeare 508. The Incens and the Offertorie restored from the ancient doctrine Pompilian by Leo the third of that name in the yeare 800. The kissing of the Paxe by Innocent the first of that name in the yeare 408. Agnus Dei instituted by Sergius in the yeare 697. The Commemoration of the deade inuented by Pelagius in the yeare 558. The Cannon forged by Gelase Siricie Leo and Pelagi raigning in the yeare 800. The transubstantiation instituted by the bishops of Rome about the yeare of Christ 162. Wherefore of what impudencie are these Alcoranists Masse Doctours to be condemned the which falsly do affirme that the holy Apostles of Iesus Christ did celebrate their missall sacrifice Seeing that this sacrifice was not restored to his integrity after Numa Pompilius but after Christ 800. yeares In what approued histories is there mention made that such Idolatry was committed by the holy Apostles of God How is it possible to beleeue or thinke it when as this great whore of Babylon hath not been restored with her deceipt and maske of holines till long time after the incarnation of Iesus Christ But it behoueth to returne to our historie of Rome Continuing Histories more and more to discouer the true originall of the Masse We haue declared in discouering the parts and chiefe members of the Masse sacrifice how the ancient Romanes before they were accustomed to sacrifice with the bloud of beastes did vse little round cakes consecrated in the honour of their Gods the which standing they did eate within the Temple about the end of the sacrifice These litle rounde hostes of wheat flowre were taken vp of the Massalian Sacrificers but they haue enriched the witchcraft and Idolatry of Numa Pompilius insomuch as they haue decked the litle round hosts with Images and pictures Abhominable idolatry printed within the round circle of the said hosts to the end to make them more holy Against the idolatry of the round Hosts euen to be worshipped by the inuention of Honorius Antichrist of Rome in the yeare 1226. the which Numa the Coniurer neuer practised nor yet came to this abhominable idolatry What more detestable heresie can be discouered then to paint the maiesty of God in forme and likenes of a man as the Antropomorphits imagine Who taught you ô Massalians to corrupt the holy Sacrament of our Lord Iesus Christs Supper in makeing litle round hostes if not Numa the Coniurer When Iesus Christ celebrated his holy supper with his Apostles did he ordeine to haue litle round hosts and to print them full of pictures and the likenesses of men to adiure and coniure with crossings and blessings odde or euen and to make them to be worshipped Acknowledge then O Massalians your principall part of the Masse to wit your litle round hostes to haue taken their begining of Numa more then 700 yeares before the incarnation of Iesus Christ who neuer commanded you this roundnes of hosts nor that they should be rather round then square three cornered or eight cornered But so farre was he frō chusing the figure of roundnes after the fashion of Numa that contrariwise when he instituted the holy sacrament of the communion of his body he vsed breaking of the breade in morsels which he distributed to his Disciples for a simbol signe and fihure signifying really sacramentally his body by the vertue of the holy Ghost and the Massalians haue not only chosen the fashion round in their little consecrated hostes printed full of pictures to cause them to be worshipped after the maner of the ancient Romanes but further they haue exceeded all Idolators For in the the time of Numa Pompilius those that assisted at the sacrifice of the Masse did eate together standing in the litle round hosts consecrated But since the Massalians haue reserued for themselues the communion of the said litle round hosts consecrated vsing no charitie towarde those that stood by at their missall sacrifice Is this to follow the ordinance of Iesus Christ who brake the breade and gaue it to his Apostles Iesus Christ the euerlasting sacrificer was he alone at the Altar eating one litle round host grauen full of Images when he celebrated the holy cōmunion of his body Can you O Massalians too too abhominable much lesse charitable Idolators then all the ancient Romanes so much play the subtill Sophisters that you will make men to vnderstand that your Masse sacrifice wherein the sacrificer alone deuoureth all the litle round host printed full of pictures without giuing part to any other is a communion by a meruailous wicthcraft to cause the assistance at the sacrifice to beleeue that they haue communicated together with the Priest notwithstanding that they neither receiued nor did eate any portion of the round host And beside this