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A52184	The liturgical-discourse of the holy sacrifice of the masse by omission of controversial questions; abridged and accommodated to the pious use of devout Christians in hearing masse, by A.F. the authour of the same at the instance of some devout friends.	Angelus à Sancto Francisco, 1601-1678.	1675 (1675)	Wing M938; ESTC R217659	145,436	447

and Inferiour parts of the Body The Priest therefore girds his Loyns to dispose his Body in due Obedience to Christ and his Church and his mind with fortitude and diligence thereby preparing his Body and mind to the more worthy performance of the Sacred Action To this end the Priest tyes the girdle first before him with a knot which may represent the fear of God which conserves the foresaid vertues in his heart and affection and to encrease his Devotion thereto he may contemplate the Whips and Scourges which girded our Saviour's Body in the time of his Passion in consideration whereof he desires with great Ardour to be bound to the Cross and Passion Q. What is the Manuple A. V. Bede tells us that word comes from Mappa a Towel or Napkin which was used to wipe hands it seems the Priests did take them to wipe off their Sweat or as Bishop Steven sayes to dry their eyes or wipe away the tears of Devout Priests who in consideration of their own or their Neighbours sins and of the Dolours and Sufferance of our Saviour's Passion could not refrain from plentiful tears which also did sometimes flow from their eyes with excessive joy in contemplation of the Divine bounty which is conformable to the Priest's prayer in putting on this Manuple According to all probability it was Linen proper for the said effects how it was after altered I find no certainty I only find that in the time of Pope Silvester more then 1300 years past it was used in other stuff for he decreed that the Deacon should use Linsy-woolsey Palls on their left arm in process of time it was made of the same stuff with the Stole and Chasule and still retains the same Mystical signification of tears and compunction necessary for those who approach to this dreadful Mystery It is put on the left Arm as a Symbole of pennance St. Bonaventure sayes that the Manuple on the left hand of the Priest represents the Humility of Christ Jesus others commonly say that it represents the Cords which bound our Saviour's hands when he was taken in the Garden The Priest before he puts it on kisseth the Cross which is in the middle of it as offering himself to go along with our Saviour to his Passion and putting it on his Arme he manifests his desire to suffer with him Q. What is the Stole A. The word Stole comes from the Latin word Stola that is a Robe and in the Sacred Text is taken for a mark of Dignity and Power So when Pharaoh would honour Joseph he put on him a Stole or Robe So Mardochaeus was cloathed with a Stole for his greater honour so Antiochus sent to his Son his Crown Stole and Ring and as Plutarch sayes it was used by Magistrates and Priests but principally it was used as a badge of Ecclesiastical Dignity and power yea of glory or honour for it is said that Moises did put on Aaron a Stole of glory and Simeon took the Robe of glory and Jonathas as a sign of his Priesthood did put on a Holy Stole The Church with some alteration of the form has alwayes used the Stole as suitable to the Dignity quality and power of Priests in the new Law St. James as hath been said already did use it at Masse Origen St. Basil and others of the Fathers make mention of it the ancient Councels did call it by the name of Orarium as V. Bede sayes from Oratio because it was frequently used in prayer and Ministry of the Sacraments The Councel of Bracara shews the Priestly use of it saying When the Priest comes to celebrate Masse he may not do it otherwise then Vested with a Stole on both his shoulders so as with one and the same Stole pressing his neck and both shoulders he makes the sign of the Cross on his breast that is having put it first on his neck he lets it fall on the shoulders and taking the Two ends which hang down before he crosses them on his breast and so fastens them with the ends of the Girdle Rabanus sayes that the Priest beginning the publick Service of the Church puts on the Stole about his neck in token of his power and as a Symbole of his Dignity in the Church by which the People beholding the salutary power committed to him are carried to the consideration of the Divine Law Wherefore in the Sacrifice of the Masse Administration of the Sacraments and in all sacerdotal Functions or Offices Priests alwayes use the Stole and in putting it on kisses it as honouring his Function and thereby professing that he willingly submits himself to the will of God in Obedience to the Church in vertue of the Holy Cross and Passion For as Alcuinus sayes the Stole signifies Christ's yoke on both the shoulders and as Amalarius tells us it descends on both sides that the Priest may be armed with the armour of Justice on the right and left side or submit himself to the Evangelical Obedience to the Active life as it is on the left shoulder and to the Contemplative as it is on the right and forming a Cross on his breast it shews him crucified to the World St. Thomas and others will have it to represent the Cords which bound our Saviour to the Pillar St. Basil sayes that Christ had a Cord about his neck and St. Hierome affirms that it was a Chain the Priest therefore as guilty both in regard of himself as in regard of those he prayes for takes on him this Stole as a Chain or Cord about his neck and appearing in this before the Tribunal of God the Father he implores his Mercy by the merits of the Passion of Christ Jesus whose person he represents Q. What means the Chasule A. The Chasule by way of Excellency is called the Priest's Vestment for that all other Vestments are used on other occasions and may be worn by others who are in Holy Orders for the Sub-Deacon wears the Amice Albe and Manuple the Deacon hath also the Stole at least upon the left shoulder to shew that he is for the Ministery but the Priest only wears the Chasule and that only at Masse This Vestment in Latin is called Cafula from whence comes our English word as it were a little House or covering of the Body the Grecians have it full and round hanging on all sides over the Priest's shoulders before and behind but open on each side and accordingly it hath divers names as Planeta for that it hangs loose before and behind other names you may read in Gavantus We may find a figure of this Exod. 28. in the Tunick of the Ephod all of Hyacinth in the midst whereof above was a hole for the Head and a border round about it woven which agrees very fitly to the Chasule which hath been alwayes used in the Church St. Peter's Chasule is yet to be seen in Paris as Hugo of Cluni testifies Our Alcuinus would have it to be a

ye that pass by the way as wayfarers all you that are present at this Sacrifice behold and see what I suffered for your Redemption Behold and consider the love that I bear to you and say Hail O true body born of the Virgin Mary truly suffered and really offered on the Cross for me and from whose side flowed Water and Blood vouchsafe to be received by me at the hour of my death O most merciful Jesu Son of the living God have mercy on me 7. Of the Consecration Adoration and Elevation of the Chalice Q. What mean you by the Chalice A. In as much as Christ took it in his hand it is taken for the Cup containing Wine which could not be otherwise taken but in the form of Consecration it is called the Chalice of Christ's blood this is the Chalice which St. Paul calls the Chalice of Benediction affirming it to be the Communication of the blood of Christ Theophilact with divers others sayes That which is in the Chalice is that which did flow from Christ's side and receiving it we communicate that is we are united to Christ Q. What say you of the Consecration of the Chalice A. The same that I said before of the Consecration of the Bread for the Priest in the Person of Christ imitating his actions and words does consecrate the Chalice calling it as Christ did the New Testament unto Remission of sins Q. What say you of its Adoration A. The same also that I said of the Adoration of the holy Host for it is done in the same manner and for the self-same reasons as being the self-same thing under the variety of species or material forms the like we may say of this Elevation and therefore not necessary to be rehearsed here again Q. Sith it is the same in both why is the Consecration and Elevation made apart A. Although the example of our Saviour with his command thereto and the Churches practise in all ages as it plainly appears in all Liturgies and by the Testimony of Councels and Fathers are sufficient to answer you yet to satisfie your curiosity I will endeavour to give you some reasons for it St. Paul having proved the Translation of the Law and Priesthood tells us that Christ has obtained a better Ministery and a better Testament or better promises and again affirms that the first Law was not dedicated without blood and that all things according to the Law were cleansed with blood and without shedding of blood there is no Remission of sins Christ then being to establish the New Law did Dedicate and Consecrate it with his blood and all things thereof as Sacraments and Sacrifices have their effects from Christ's blood wherefore he calls it the blood of the New Testament as Theophilact says in opposition to the Old Law for the Old Testament had blood wherewith both people and book of the Law were sprinkled and again as the Old Testament had immolation of blood so the New Testament Whereof St. Leo gives this reason That shadows might yeild to the body and figures should cease in the presence of verity the antient observance is taken away by the New Sacrament Host passes into Hosts and Blood excludes Blood Christ therefore to make his Law complete did institute this Sacrifice in both species It was not sufficient to his great love and infinite goodness to give his body but he would also give his blood as a more perfect accomplishment and confirmation of his Law and in a more perfect presentation of his Passion For in the Eucharistical action the body is Consecrated apart and the blood apart in memory of the passion wherein the blood was separated from the body St. Paul sayes as often as ye shall eat this Bread and drink the Chalice ye shall shew the death of our Lord this could not be so well represented in one species as in both so that they both together do more fully represent Christ's Death and Passion Whence St. Alexander Pope and Martyr in the year 106. says In the Oblation of the Sacraments which are offered to our Lord in the Solemn Masses the passion of our Lord is to be mixed that the passion of him whose body and blood is represented may be celebrated and this for a particular representation of the blood and water which flowed from our Saviour's side on the Cross Lastly both species are required to correspond with the nature of Christ's Priesthood which as the Psalmist and St. Paul say was according to the Order of Melchisedeck and St Augustine says that he instituted a Sacrifice of his body and blood according to the Order of Melchisedech And St. Cyprian who is more a Priest of the high God than our Lord Jesus Christ who offered Sacrifice to God the Father and offered the very same which Melchisedech had offered that is Bread and Wine to wit his body and blood With them agrees Eusebius saying As he that is Melchisedech who was a Priest of the Gentiles was never seen to have offered any thing but only Wine and Bread when he blessed Abraham so truly first our Lord and Saviour himself then those who came from him the Priests in all Nations fulfilling the spiritual Office of Priesthood according to Ecclesiastical Ordination in Bread and Wine do represent the Mysteries of his body and Salutary blood Epiphanius tells us that the Priesthood of Melchisedech which was before Levi and Aaron was reassumed and now is in the Church from Christ's time Q. As there are two species are there two Sacrifices A. These two species in regard of their signification or rather in their manner of their proper signification may be said to be two Sacraments but in regard of the thing signified or contained therein they make but one Sacrifice for as the Bread and Wine are different things so in a different manner they signifie Christ's body as our food and Christ's blood as our drink and so make the full reflection of our Souls both making but one perfect Sacrament in as much as they contain the same one Christ God and Man in flesh and blood which in substance are equally contained aswell under the species of Bread as under the species of Wine for the substance body and blood is equally in the one and in the other producing the same effect of Grace and Glory In like manner these two species with their double signification do make but one Sacrifice in as much as they signifie one bloody Sacrifice made by Christ on the Cross in the effusion of his blood and separation of his Soul from his Body which is not so expresly signified by one only species and the two Consecrations do not multiply the Sacrifice no more then the daily Oblations which Priests do make in all places of the World For as St. Ambrose says Do not we offer every day surely we do But this Sacrifice is an extract of that for we offer always the self-same and not now one Lamb and