but had in an everlasting remembrance first of all preached a most fruitfull and comfortable Sermon to his Disciples and afterward as he sate at the table with them hee tooke bread into his hands and after he had given thankes to his heavenly Father as his manner was for his corporall gifts but specially for the deare love that hee of his owne meere mercie and free heartie good will bare toward mankind he brake bread and gave bread unto his disciples saying Take yee eat yee this is my body which is betrayed for you Doe this in remembrance of me And as hee tooke the bread and made it a Sacrament that is to say an holy signe figure token and Memoriall of his Body breaking so likewise he took the wine and made that a Sacrament holy signe figure token and Memoriall of his bloud shedding and after thankesgiving to his heavenly Father for the benefits aforesaid he delivered the Cup unto his Disciples saying Drinke of this all ye This Cup is a new Testament in my bloud which is shed for many for the remission of sins Doe this so oft as yee shall drinke it in the remembrance of me And this heavenly banket once done they said grace that is to say they praised God by saying either certaine Psalmes of David or some other thankesgivings and so departed Here is the whole institution of the Lords Supper Now let us compare Christs Supper with your Popish and Idolatrous Masse and see how well Christs doings and yours agree together If ye be the Ministers of Christ and not of Antichtist the servants of God and not of the Divell then will you follow your Master Christ which saith I have given you an example that as I have done so likewise yee should doe Let us now then goe in hand with the matter First we reade that Christ before hee fed his Disciples with the mysticall food of his body and bloud made a Sermon unto them wherewith as with a certaine most wholesome preparative hee made meet the minds of his Disciples unto so worthy a banket giving all faithfull Ministers an example that whensoever they with the congregation doe come together to celebrate the Lords Supper there should be some Sermon or exhortation made unto the people that they might the better examine themselves and the more deepely consider the thing that they goe about And according to the example of Christ not only the Apostle but all the holy Fathers also of the Primitive church used the trade and so did it continue in the Church of Christ till Antichrist the Bishop of Rome had driven Christ out of place and set up himselfe as God Againe till hee had expulsed the Supper of the Lord and set up his owne peevish yea theevish Idolatrous Masse as wee may see in the monuments of the ancient Writers They continued saith blessed Luke in the Apostles doctrine and fellowshippe and in breaking of bread and in prayers And Saint Paul saith As often as ye shall eat this bread and drinke of the cup shew set forth declare and preach the Lords death till he come A practise hereof have we in the Acts of the Apostles where wee reade That upon one of the Sabbath dayes when the Disciples came together for to breake bread so termeth S. Luke the receiving of the Sacrament of Christs body and blood blessed Paul preached unto them and continued the preaching unto midnight And the Sermon ended they brake bread ate thanked God and departed For if the Sacrament of Christ be never so comfortable yet if they bee not known what they are to what use they were instituted what joyfull promises are annexed unto them what they signifie and preach unto the faithfull receivers c. What other things are they to us thaÌ„ the pretious stone was to Aesops Cock A SacrameÌ„t ministred without preaching of the word is but a dumb ceremony a glasse offered to a blind man and a tale told to one that is deafe The Apostles before the ministration of any Sacrament preached and so did the holy Fathers of the primitive Church Saint Iohn Baptist the sonne of the Priest Zachary preached unto the people before hee baptized them Our Saviour Christ a little before his ascension said to his Apostles â—oe and teach all nations baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Sonne and of the holy Ghost Here is Baptism the preaching of the word joyned together And as concerning the blessed Sacrament of Christs body and blood did not our Saviour Christ preach at the institution and ministration of it Are we not also commanded by the holy Apostle that whensoever wee come to receive the blessed Communion the death of the Lord should be preached declared and set forth Did not the Apostles of Christ and all the godly Bishops of the primitive Church observe the same order They considered right well how little the ministration of the Sacraments availeth without the preaching of the Word For as S. Paul saith how shall they believe without a Preacher Faith commeth by hearing and hearing commeth by the Word of God None therefore of the Lords Sacraments ought publickely to be administred without preaching of the word yea that not in a strange tongue but in such a speech as the people understand or else it were as good to speake the words unto a sâ—rt of sheepe or geese as unto them that are gathered together at the ministration of any Sacrament And this meant Saint Augustine when hee said Take away the Word and what is Water but water But let the word bee added to the ElemeÌ„t it is made a SacrameÌ„t Whence hath the water such a power that it should touch body and wash the heart but by the vertue of working of the word not because it is spoken but because it is beleeved The word signifyeth here not only the speaking of Ego baptizote c. or Hoc est corpus meum c. pronounced by the Priest in a strange tongue but the preaching of the word of God uttered by the mouth of the Ministers in such a language as the people understand or else how shall they beleeve It is not the utterance of Gods word in an unknowne speech that bringeth faith but when it is so spoken that it is understood of them that heare it and that faith through the operation of the holy Ghost ensueth which otherwise is cold lyeth idle and worketh nothing in the heart of the hearer for as S. Augustine saith Take away the Word and what is Water but water that is to say take away the preaching of Gods word from the SacrameÌ„t of Baptism which declareth what Baptisme is who instituted it to what use it was ordained what fruits and commodities wee receive by it c. And what doth the water of Baptisme profit I speake concerning such as are come to the use of reason
or such as are present at the ministration of Baptisme And so likewise may wee say of the Sacrament of Christs body and bloud Take away the word and what is Bread but Bread What is wine but wine that is to say Take away the preaching of the Lords death from the holy Cōmunion and what doth it profit to eat drinke the Sacramentall bread and wine seeing the mystery is not knowne nor understood But put the preaching of the word to the Elements water bread and wine and so are they made holy and honourable Sacraments full of singular joy and great comfort as Saint Augustine saith Let the word be added to the Element and it is made a Sacrament Therefore where the Lords Supper is rightly ministred there is declared the death and passion of Christ there is shewed forth the misery of man from the which hee could have beene no otherwise released but only by the death of Christ there is taught what the Sacrament is what it signifyeth and to what use Christ our Saviour did institute it there are the people exhorted not rashly nor with unwashed feet as they use to say to come unto the Lords Table but to prove trie and examin themselves whether they come with such faith and love unto that most worthy mystery as they ought least they eat and drinke their own damnation there are they stored up unto the workes of mercie toward the poore and unto hearty thankesgiving to God the Father for the death of his Son Christ there also are they put in remembrance that after they have tasted those heavenly mysteries have spiritually fed upon the body bloud of Christ which through faith are present and truly received in spirit of faithful Cōmunicants and are become one body with Christ they ought no more to returne unto their old sinfull wicked conversation but from henceforth to serve their Lord God in holines righteousnes all the daies of their life Is there any such thing done in the popish Masse Who preacheth Who maketh the exhortation Who moveth the people to repentance faith love and amendment of life mutuall recōciliation workes of mercie or unto thankesgiving to God the Father for the death of his Sonne Christ Who playeth the Schoolmaster and giveth the people such exhortations that they goe home from your Masses better learned than they came thither What theese ever lest his theft What false lawyer gave over his bribing what whore forsooke her whordome what wicked man at any time repented him of his wickednesse by comming unto your Masse Yea rather they goe from your Masse so well instructed that they thinke that now they have heard a Masse they may doe all the day after what they will Amends is made beforehand If they bribe poll pill steale lye slander blaspheme kill murder runne on whoring play the harlot fall to drunkennesse to dicing to carding and doe all other unlawfull things it maketh no matter for they have heard Masse They have satisfyed for the sinne before it be committed The hearing of masse hath dispatcht al the matter aforehand And what marvaile is it though such abomination followeth of your massing seeing the people heareth no goodnesse at it but rather are confirmed in all kind of ungodlinesse The chiefest jewell of all I meane the preaching of Gods word is utterly exiled from your Masse as all goodnesse is besides There is none of you all that stand up in the pulpit that lift up your voice to declare unto the people either their wickednesse or preach unto them the most joyfull pleasant and comfortable Gospel of our Saviour Christ. If there bee any preaching at all the Bells make it when the popish Clark ringeth to Masse The Bells being hanged up tell the people somewhat which they understand namely that there is a popish masse ready at hand come heare it who list and be never the better when yee have done But ye speake nothing at all that the people understand and so are yee worse than the Bells Oh how often have I seene here in England at the ministration of the holy Communion people sitting at the Lords table after they have heard the sermon or the godly exhortation set forth in the Booke of Common prayer read unto them by the minister bitterly weep heartily repent and sorrowfully lament their too much unkindnesse and unthankfulnesse toward the Lord God for the death of his Sonne Christ and for his other benefits againe their negligence in doing their duty toward their poore neighbours what free and large gifts also have I seene given to the poore mens boxe what laying aside of al enmity and renewing of unfained mutuall reconciliation what loving embracing and holy kissing of one another What assurance of heartytty friendship for ever to continue where immortall hatred was before what godlinesse also of life have I seen afterward practised by them that were the Communicants what alteration of manners What newnesse of conversation The covetous man to abhorre his covetousnesse the Adulterer to leave his adultery the Whore to defie her whoredom the Proud man to detest his pride the Vsurer to give over his usury and so forth by hearing the word of God preached and by the worthy receiving of the holy Communion hath full oft bin seen in England when the doctrine of the Gospell flourished among us Never saw I one point of like godlinesse practised of any man by hearing your popish Masses but as they have come thither wicked and ungodly so have they departed againe with the same ungodlines and wickednes rather being the worse than the better by hearing that your Idolatrous masse and yet Oh God be mercifull unto us and forgive us our sinnes the glorious and blessed Cōmunion is now through the craft and subtilty of the devil and through the wilinesse of his sturdy stout champions that filthy Synagogue of Sathan utterly banished out of this Realme unto the great dishonour of God and unspeakable sorrow of all true Christians and that most vile most stinking most pestiferous most abominable most wicked most devillish most idolatrous popish private Masse received again set up and magnifyed above the starres yea and above God and his holy ordinance when indeed of all Idols the Masse is most to be abhorred of such as feare and love God But though your Masse were never so good as indeed it is starke naught without comparison yet forasmuch as it is done without the preaching of the word and in a strange it is altogether unprofitable yea and abominable Notwithstanding behold the hypocrisie and counterfeit holinesse yea rather your double dissimulation and devillish deceiving of the simple people when yee have stood awhile pattering like a sort of asses yee know not what at the lower end of the Altar saying the Introite or office of the Masse as they call it the Kyrrys the Gloria in Excelsis the Collects
of Hick-scorner Is not this a toy to mocke an ape withall Is this Christs Accipite and Edite Take yee and eat yee speaking to many and not to one alone Is this Christs Bibite ex eo omnes Drinke of this all yee Did Christ eat the Sacrament alone Did he not rather give it to his Disciples and commanded all faithfull Ministers so to doe Why then doe ye O ye Antichrists eat drinke up all alone contrary to Christs institution and commandement And yet behold how yee shunne not to lie even to Gods face Yee say at your Postâ—Communion these words Quod ore sumpsimus Domine c. That which wee have taken with our mouth grant that we may receive it with a pure minde and that it may be made unto us of a temporall gift an everlasting remedie Againe Hâ—c nos summo purget à crimine c. This Communion might purge us from Sinne and make us partakers of the Heavenly Remedie And in another place yee desire God that so many as shall receive the body and bloud of Christ may bee filled with all heavenly blessing and grace Yee tell God that you with the rest of the congregation have received even with your owne mouthes the Sacrament of Christs body and bloud and ye lye most abominably For yee your selves have eaten and drunken up altogether alone and like churlish carles ye have given no man part with you Againe ye call it a Communion which is a partaking of many together but yee might right well call it an Union For no man eateth and drinketh of the bread and wine but you alone Item ye desire God that so many as shall be communicants may be filled with the heavenly blessings and grace and no man do receive but you alone What a mocking is this of God and a deceiving of the people God have mercy on us and once againe deliver us from this most lying wicked abominable and divellish Idoll the Masse and restore unto us the holy and blessed Communion Christs ordinance is not that one standing at an Altar should eat devoure and mouch up altogether alone but that a multitude should receive the Sacramentall bread and wine together Take yee saith our Saviour Christ eat ye and drinke yee all of this He saith not Take thou Sir Iohn eate thou and drinke thou alone In the Acts of the Apostles wee see that a multitude of the Christians came together to breake the bread and not that one alone did eate all alone turning his arse to the people as yee Massemongers doe Saint Paul saith The bread which ye breake is it not the partaking of the body of Christ Hee saith not the bread which I breake but which we breake speaking of many and not of one Againe we all be partakers of one bread and of one Cup. Indeed wee bee or wee ought to be But wee be not therefore yee Masse-mongers doe us the more wrong Where the blessed Apostle entreateth of the Lords Supper he saith My brethren when yee come together to eate he meaneth the holy Communion or the Lords Supper tarry one for another Hee saith not when yee come together to see the Priest say Masse and to eate and drinke up altogether alone standing at an Altar and turning his backe towards you as one full of little good manners Hee saith also Tarry one for another But yee tarry for no man but having a Boy to helpe you to say Masse ye goe to your mingle mangle and never call purre to you For yee eate and drinke up altogether alone being much worse than the swine-heards Wee reade in the ancient Canons that such as would not communicate should bee excommunicate and driven out of Christs congregation and not to be reputed or taken as members of CHRISTS bodie Whereof wee may easily and truely gather that this private Massing which yee Masse-mongers use at this present is not of God but of the Devil and was not practised of the holy ancient Fathers in their Churches but of late yeares brought in by Antichrist and his shamelesse shavelings which in their private Masses doe nothing else than prophanate defile and corrupt the LORDS Supper and make merchandize of it While they take upon them to receive the Sacrament for other and to make it a Sacrifice for the sinnes of such as hire them for their money that they of the labour of other mens hands and the sweate of other mens browes may live an idle voluptuous life as Epicures and belly beasts borne onely to consume the good fruits of the earth But as yee Masse-mongers cannot bee baptised nor beleeve for other no more can yee receive the Sacrament for other As every man is baptised for himselfe so must hee eat and drinâ—e the mysterie of the LORDS bodie and bloud for himselfe Can my eating slake your hunger No more can your eating of the Sacrament doe mee good The righteous man saith the Prophet shall live by his owne faith The Priests eating therefore of the Sacramentall bread for other is abominable and in all points contrary to Christs holy institution which ordained his blessed Supper not to be received of one alone for all the congregation but that every one should receive it for himselfe that by the worthy receiving thereof his troubled conscience might be quieted and his faith confirmed We reade that when Saint Anthony which lived about the yeare of our Lord 350. was in the wildernesse he saw a vision which was this He beheld a number of Altars suddenly built up and covered with white Linnen cloths with bread and wine set upon them and a great sort of uncleane and filthy swine standing at them and slovenly devouring all that ever was set upon the Altars Saint Anthony being wonderfully amazâ—d at this strange sight cried unto God and said O Lord God what mean these foule ill favoured sights God said unto him These filthy swine which thou seest standing at the Altars are the leacherous Priests which after thy dayes shall arise and driving away the holy CoÌ„munion out of Churches which I instituted to be received of many shall eat and drinke all the Sacramental bread and wine alone giving no part thereof to the residue of my people whom I redeemed with my precious bloud and for whose sake I ordained my holy Supper to be received of them also Are not ye leacherous Priests these filthie swine Have yee not cast away the LORDS Table and set up Idolatrous Altars Doe not yee at your Masse eat and drinke up all alone like hungrie hogges and give no part to Gods faithfull people Ye may right well bee compared to filthy swine For as these brutish beastes cannot abide any other to eat with them but would â—aine eat up all alone themselves even so play yee At your Idolatrous Masses like a sort of beastly hogges yee eat and drinke up all alone giving no man part with
that there must bee prepared for him every day twelve cakes forty sheepe and sixe great pots of wine to eate and drinke so doe yee make the Queene her Counsell the Nobility and commons of this Realme for the most part beleeve that the little thin round white cake which ye hold up above your head at your abominable Masse after yee once said these five words over it Hoc est corpus meum and have blowed blasted and breathed over it is straightwayes both a living God and a very living man even Christ God and man as he was borne of Marie the Virgine But full falsely doe ye lie and dissemble with the Queene with her Couunsell and with the commons of this Realme even as those Idolatrous priests of Babylon did with the King and with hiâ— subjects For as that Idol Bel was not a living god but an Image made of clay within and of metall without so likewise for all your consecrating blowing blasting and breathing your little Cake is neither a living God nor a living man but as it was bread before yee brought it to your Idolatrous Altar so is it when yee both hold it up and eat it But as the Idolatrous priests of Babylon taught the people plainely that Bel was a living God that they by that meanes might live in wealth and idlenesse so do ye likewise stoutly both at Pauls Crosse and else where preach unto the people that the Sacrament of the Altar is the true naturall reall corporall carnall and substantiall body of Christ God and man even he was borne of Virgin Marie hung on the Altar of the crosse flesh bloud and bone that ye by this meanes may maintaine your popish kingdome and live idly and pleasantly of the labours of other mens hands But if a Daniel might sit at the Queens Table talke with the Nobility and preach to the Commons of England the jugling of the Papists should soone be espyed God for his mercies sake for the deare heart-bloud of his most deare Son send us a Daniel and open the eyes of the Queene of her Councell and of all the Inhabitants of this Realme that they perceiving your subtle iugling and crafty daubing may know you to be as yee are even very Antichrists hisse you out of all honest company and for ever after beware of your pestilent damnable doctrine Amen Amen After that our Saviour Christ was set downe at the Table with his Disciples and had eaten the Paschall Lambe willing to institute an holy memoriall of his passion and death he tooke bread and gave thanks saith the Scripture Now let us see what yee doe First ye come solemnly forth in your gay galant and game players garments which as Isidore and Polidore write was the invention of pope Stephâ—nus about the yeare of our Lord two hundred fifty and six borrowed as it may seeme of the Iewish Priests Ye come to the Altar with your Masse-book Corporasse Chalice Bread with such other trinkets Your altars brought into the Church first of all Pope Sixtus the secoÌ„d about the yeare of our Lord two hundred threescore and five And Pope Felix the first adioyned the hallowing of altars commanding that no masse should bee sung upon any altar except it were first hallowed In the yeare of our Lord two hundred seventy and sixe And P. Boniface appointed white linnen clothes to be laid upon the altars about the yeare of our Lord 610. The Corporasse was the devise of Pope Sixtus as Platina and Sabellicus write about the yeare of our Lord an hundred and twenty and five The Cup wherein the Sacrament of Christs bloud was ministred which wee now commonly call the Chalice was in the time of the Apostles and the primitive Church made of wood but Pope Zepheriâ—us commanded chalices of glasse to be used in the yeare of our Lord 202. And afterward Pope Vrbanus enjoyned that the chalices should be made either of silver or of gold in the yeare of our Lord 227. The bread appointed for the Communion was indifferent whether it were leavened or unlea vened till Pope Alexander came which aâ— they write in the yeare of our Lord III. commanded that onely unleavened bread should bee used at the Lords Supper Notwithstanding the Greekes from the Apostles time unto this day have ever used leavened bread in the ministration of the holy Communion as they use also wine onely in their cup whereas the Latine Church customably mingle water with the wine which was also Pope Alexanders device Now standing before the Altar after yee have crossed your selves upon your forheads and breasts for feare of wicked spirits ye say the Confiteor and make your confession which was the ordinance of Pope Damâ—sus about the yeare of our Lord 370. But to whom do you make your confession To God alone none of that But to blessed Mary and all the Saints of heaven and vâ—bis ye might say bobus well enough For many times besides the boy and Parish clerke that wait upon you there bee in the Church as many white bulls and fat oxen as there bee men and women But where have yee learned to confesse your sinnes to the blessed Mary and to all the company of heaven which heare not one word that yee speake Ye have sinned against God and you confesse your faults to Mary Peter 〈◊〉 Thâ—mas Aâ—an Abel Niâ—â— Abrahâ—m Iohâ— Baptist And I know not to whom not to how many This is new Catholike Divinity found in Portasse and Mâ—ssâ—ll but in no part of Gods blessed Booâ—e Divinity meete for such Divines Again whom doe you desire to pray for you Our Sâ—viour Christ which alone is our Intercessour Mediatouâ— and Advocate Nothing lesse Yee make no mention of him He is utterly forgotten Yee desire holy Mary and all the Saints of God to pray for you But where learned â—ou this tyrologie For Theologie it is not Even of your father Antichrist of Rome But as Mary and the other heavenly citizens heare your confession so pray they for you But they heare not your confession neither do they pray for you O vaine bablers and talkers of trifles your Masse having so good a beginning must have a glorious ending It beginngth with lies wee shall find it also to proceed with lies yea and to end with lies that it may bee prooved a monster of lies After that you have made your confession to God and to our Lady and to all the holy company of heaven and have given your selfe absolution for lacke of a ghostly father yee approach to the Altar and making a crosse upon it yee kisse it in stead of some other whom you love better Then fall yee in hand with your Massing and ye beginne the Introite or office of the Masse which Pope Celestinus brought in about the yeare of our Lord 430 That done ye say the Kyry
saved by such trifling oblations what needed the Son of God to have died for us If a morsell of bread and a full of wine offered up of an idolatrous Priest bee of such vertue that it may obtaine salvation for the quicke and the dead was not Christ greatly overseene to suffer so great paines for the redemption of man If thousands of great oxen bulls kine calves goats sheepe lambes doves c. in the old Law could not take away the sinnes of the people although they were offered at the commandement of God is it to be thought that a wafer cake and a spoonefull of wine mingled with water and appointed to bee offered by Antichrist is a sufficient oblation to purchase salvation for the living and rest and quietnesse for the dead O Damnable Idolatrie There is no Sacrifice that can save us but the glorious Passion and precious Death of our Lord and Saviour Christ Iesus alone as Saint Paul saith God forbid that I should rejoyce in anything but in the Crosse that is to say in the passion and death of our Lord Iesus Christ. And to whom doe yee offer your new solemne Sacrifice To God alone Nay but to blessed Mary also and to all the company of heaven In this also if your oblation and sacrifice were good doe ye grievously offend For yee may offer Sacrifice to none but to God alone Therefore you making your oblation to Mary to Peter to Paul to Magdalen to Iohn to Iames to Erkeâ—â—ald to Grymbald and I cannot tell to how many thousands more are abominable Idolaters seeing that as much as lyeth in you ye make of the Saints gods and so doe ye rob God of his glorie God saith by the Prophet I am the Lord this is my Name I will give my glory to none other And the Saints themselves crie in this manner Not to us O Lord not to us but to thy Name give the glory After that your prayer yee set your Chalice downe againe saying these words Acceptuâ—s sit omnipotenti Deo hoc sacrificium novuns That is to say O that this new Sacrifice might be thankfully taken of almighty God! Why d ee yee doubt of the matter Is your prayer so good and your faith so strong that yee doubt whether God will heare you and receive your sacrifice or no Indeed you may right well call it a new Sacrifice for it was never heard of afore that a wafer cake and a spoonefull of wine mingled with water should be an oblation and Sacrifice for the salvation of the living and for the rest and quietnesse of all the faithfull that are dead But notable is your doing afterward When ye have thus sacrificed and offered yee trudge straight-wayes to the Altars end and wash your hands To what end I know not except it bee that you have defiled your selves with your new stinking Sacrifice W ch you even now offered unto God to blessed Mary and to all the company of heaven for the salvation of the quicke and for the rest and quietnesse of all the faithfull that are dead and thinke by the washing of your hands to be cleansed from the abominable spirituall whoredome which yee have committed against God I suppose yee learned this washing of your hands of Pilate which when for favour of the Iewes and for feare of Caesar he had unjustly condemned CHRIST unto death called for a bason of water to wash his hands and said I am cleane from the bloud of this righteous man But as he for all his washing escaped not the vengeance of God but dyed a most miserable death even so may yee bee sure though yee wash your hands never so oft not to escape the heavie hand of God for speaking such blasphemies against the Lord and his annointed except yee out of hand cease from your abominable Massing which is nothing else but very Idolatry meere blasphemy great dishonour to God and extreme injury to the precious bloud of Christ while yee ascribe that unto bread wine and water which only appertaineth unto the passon and death of our Saviour Christ. After ye have washed your hands ye returne again to the Altar holding your hands before you like maidenly Priests and manerly bowing your selves to your little great god that shal be ye make a crosse upon the Altar and kisse it in stead of your pretty Petronilla and then having peradveÌ„ture a good mind to behold some shee Saint in the Church yee turne your selves looking downe to the people and saying Orate pro me Fratres Sorores O pray for mee ye Brethren and Sisters when many times there is no bodie in the Church but the Boy that helpeth you to say Masse and so making solemn courtesie like womanly Ioue ye returne unto your accustomed pattering What ye say no man can tell For now comes in your subtill secrets And they may right well bee called Secrets for they are so Secret and so secretly spoken that no man is the wiser for them But whatsoever they are good stuffe I warrant you they are And for as much as they bee certaine Collects they father them upon Pope Gelasius and Pope Gregory of whom we spake before When ye have once done with your subtill solemne sleepy secrets ye burst out into open words and exhort the people to lift up their hearts unto God and to consider the mysteries that are now in hand and to be thankefull to God for the benefits of their redemption Ah would God yee so spake the words that the people might bee edified by them But ye speake in such sort that it were much better for you to hold your peace and the people to be at home asleepe For yee doe nothing else than beat the ayre with your breath The people understand nothing at all neither doe they consider any thing but only are there present as vaine gasers These admonitions to the people of lifting up their hearts unto God and to be thankfull to him for his benefits set forth in the death of his Son Christ were used in the Primative Church as we may see in Saint Cyprian and Saint Augustine The Authour of these godly exhortations is not knowne Immediately followeth the Preface and because there bee divers they father them upon Pope Gelasius and Pope Gregory as they doe all other things whereof they can finde no certaine Authour But this is most certaine that the ancient Church used but one Preface which is called the quotidian or daily Preface These things passed over yee fall in hand with the Sanctus W ch lifting up your hands ye speake with a loud voice that ended ye kisse the Masse-booke because some other is not at hand The Sâ—â—ctus as they say was brought in by Pope Sixtus which was about the yeare of our Lord 125. and commanded to be sung in the Church Now commeth in your holy Masse Canon whereof be diverse
taken away from thee and the stinking dung of the Pope most miserable cast upon thee Lament thy sinnes O England lament lament Returne to the Lord thy God and most humbly beseech him once againe to looke upon thee with his mercifull countenance to take away these popish dregs to restore unto thee his lively Word and to blesse thee again with the true ministration of his holy Sacraments that thou maist serve the L O R D thy God in holinesse and righteousnesse all the dayes of thy life This doctrine that the Sacrament of the Altar as you terme it is the true naturall reall carnall corporal and substantiall bodie of Christ is the dream of Antichrist the Bishop of Rome and was never received in the Church till Pope Leo Pope Nicholas Pope Innocent Pope Honorius and Pope Vrban through their tyranny brought it in and compelled the Christians with fire and fagot as the manner of the tyrannicall Papists is to receive their abomihable doctrine and yet in all ages God stored up some to confesse the true doctrine of the Sacrament against Antichrist even unto the death Neither is this popish doctrine so ancient as the Papists bragge For it is not much more than five hundred yeares since their gâ—osse opinion of the Saâ—rament began first to be attempted And although Pope Nicholas the second diâ— much in the matter yet was it not thorowly received nor agreed upon untill Pope Innocent the third came which about the yeare of our Lord 1215. kept a Councell at Rome called Latronense I would say Lateranense concilium where were gathered together a swarme of Papists about the number of thirteen hundred pild pates of the which number eight hundred and odde were Monkes Canons and Fryers chickens of the Popes owne brood Last of all came Pope Vrban the Monke in the yeare of our Lord 1264. and he made up all the market For he ordained a Feast called Corpus Christi in the honour of the Sacrament so that ever after that time the Sacrament was no more taken for a signe figure and token of Christs bodie but for Christ himselfe God and man and therefore was it reverenced worshipped censed and kneeled unto as yee teach the people to doe at your unsacred Sakerings and so are yee their schoolmasters to learn them to commit Idolatrie against their Lord God but let us goe foorth with our matter After our Saviour CHRIST had delivered the Sacramentall bread to his Disciples for to eat hee tooke the Cuppe and thanked and gave it them saying Drinke yee all of this For this is my bloud which is of the new Testament that is shed for many for the remission of sinnes This doe as oft as yee drinke it in the remembrance of mee Here CHRIST delivered to his Disciples holy wine I call it holy because it was dedicated and appointed to an holy use which hee made the Sacrament of his bloud And they all dranke of it And here is to bee marked by the way that our Saviour CHRIST afore seeing that there should arise false annointed that would take away from the people the Sacrament of his bloud bade them all drinke of it All all without exception even so many as beleeve on him spirituall or temporall as they call them Are not yee Popish shavelings these false annointed Have you not taken away the Cup of the LORDS bloud from the Lay people and reserved it to your selves alone Doe not ye minister the Sacrament of Christs bodie and bloud to the Lay people under one kinde onely cleane contrary to Christs institution O GOD-robbers O spoilers of Christian mens soules Neither can ye abide that the people should touch your Pope-holy Chalice when they drinke the wine but ye your selves holding the chalice in your own hands give them drinke as though they were babes of three dayes old and could not put the Cuppe to their mouth O tender and jealous nurses In the primative Church and many hundred yeares after as we may see in the monuments of learned men the Sacrament according to Christs institution was received of the people under both kindes untill Antichrist the Biship of Rome by his divellish decree determined the contrary at the Councell of Constance not much more than an hundred years past Pope Gelasius made a godly Decree that those people that would not receive the Sacrament under both kindes should receive none at all but be put away from the Lords Table The Greekes and Bohemes with all that be not under the tyranny of the Pope of Rome and of his wicked Lawes receive the Sacrament under both kinds at this day according to Christs institution Where the contrary is used there reigneth the Devill and the Pope and not Christ and his holy Word But now let us behold your doings After that yee have committed Idolatrie with the sacramentall bread if it be worthy of that name ye fall in hand to consecrate I use still your owne termes the wine with these words In like manner after Supper was done hee tooke this noble chalice that is a lye for Christ never handled that chalice into his holy and worshipful hands and after hee had given thankes to the Father he blessed here fall ye to crossing againe and gave it to his Disciples saying Take yee and drinke yee all of this For this is the cup of my bloud a new and everlasting Testament a mystery of faith w ch shall be shed for you and for many for the remission of sinnes So oft as yee shall doe these things yee shall doe them in the remembrance of me How many words have ye put in here of your owne braine ye shall easily perceive if yee compare them with the words which our Saviour CHRIST spake But for as much as they do not greatly disagree froÌ„ the truth of Gods word I will not strive with you in this behalfe though I would wish you once to deale faithfully and truely in all your doings but specially wheÌ„ you have to doe with God seeing it is written Put nothing to the words of God lest hee reprove thee and thou bee found a lyar After the aforesaid words spoken in hocker mocker yee breathe and blow and shake your head over the Chalice and then yee kneele downe lift up your hands and honour it like most abhominable Idolaters After that yee stand up againe like pretty fellowes and well appointed and taking the Chalice in your hands yee hold it up with heave howe above your heathenish heads that the people also may worship it and bee fellow Idolaters with you and fall into the like danger of everlasting damnation This done yee set the Chalice downe againe upon the Altar and yee cover it with your Corporasse cloath for catching of cold Then once againe kneele ye downe and up againe like dive doppers and kisse the Altar and spread your armes abroad as though
and placing them in everlasting Glorie What thing is either in heaven earth or hell for the which the Masse is not profitable and serves for the purpose if it please you to apply it It is a sawce for all meats a salve for all sores a remedy for all diseases a maintenance of all prosperity and a defence against all adversity Protens never turned himselfe into so many formes shapes and fashions as your Masse hath vertues O blessed Masse O holy Masse O vertuous Masse yea O most vile stinking and abominable Idol Now judge ye O ye Masse-mongers what is to bee thought of the peevish popish pratling private Masse which the Papists and the most part of you that are massemongers doe so highly praise commend advance extoll magnifie and set forth not as God onely but in a manner above God For what thing is it that wee desire to have for which wee doe not rather resort unto the Masse than unto God And is this any other thing than meere Idolatrie and stealing away of his Glorie Which thing whosoever doth is he not Gods enemie Is hee not an adversarie to the true Christian religion Doth hee not defile the precious bloud of our Saviour Christ under his foot Doth hee not defile the holy mysteries of God and blaspheme the Name of the Lord Doth hee not give himselfe from God to the devill and become the childe of wrath a vessel of vengeance a firebrand of hell and heire of everlasting damnation God have mercie upon us Behold now the miserable state wherein yee stand and so many as cleave to your abominable Massing Cease therfore cease betimes to bee haters of God hlasphemers of his holy Name Enemies of Christs bloud polluters of the Christian religion defilers of Godâ— most holy Sacraments corrupters of his blessed mysteries seducers of the people destroyers of mens soules pestilences of the Christian common-weale and ministers of Satan Forsake your abominable kinde of Massing forsake it forsake it and defile your selves no more with Idoll service lest yee provoke the fierce wrath and hot vengeance of God to fall both upon you the Masse-mongers and upon all them also that are the Masse-hunters and finally for your wickednesse upon the whole Realme For God cannot alwayes abide his holy Sacraments thus to be abused and defiled If If they escaped not unpunished that did eat leavened bread while the Feast of the Lords Passeover did endure if Vziah went not away unplagued but was strooke with suddaine death because hee touched the Arke of the LORD if hee that came to the Marriage because hee had not the wedding garment was taken from the table bound hand and foot and cast into utter darkenesse where weeping and ghasting of teeâ—h shall be 〈…〉 the devil entred into Iâ—das after that hee had received the Lords bread unworthily if the Corinthians were grievously pâ—agued yea and that many unto the death because they did abuse the Lords Supper and unreverently behave themselves at the Ministration of it if those with many other escaped not unplagu'd for abusing the Lords mysteries thinke not ye which daily defile the honourable SacrameÌ„t of Christs body bloud in your most wicked damnable devillish idolatrous heathenish vile stinking blasphemous detestable and abominable Massing shall escape free from punishment neither yee your selves nor the consenters to your Idolatry Therefore if there bee any love in you toward God any hearty good will toward CHRIST our Saviour any fervent affections towards Gods most holy word any godly zeale toward the Christian commonweale any desire of goodnesse towards this our native Countrey any sparke of well-willing toward the salvation either of your owne soules or of others I exhort you all by the tender mercies of God and by the precious bloud of our Saviour Christ Iesu that yee without tariance give over your abominable Massing which without doubt is not the acceptable service of God as the blind sort of people judge but the very vile blasphemous bondage of Satan invented by the devill brought in by Antichrist confirmed established by such as have received the Beasts marke whose inheritance shall be in that Lake that burneth with fire brimstone Neither lot any thing move you that the Idolatrous Masse w ch before was worthily banished out of the Realme is now againe restored by act of Parliament but rather heare what the Apostles say we must obey God more than men In all matters of religion the will of God is to be considered before the commandement or act of any mortall Prince Pharaoh was a King yet the godly Midwives obeyed not his ungodly commandement in killing the male childâ—en of the Israelites Nebuâ—hadonezer was a King yet the three young men would not obey his wicked proclamation in worshipping his golden Idoll Antiochus was a King yet the faithfull Iewes would not observe his abominable lawes in sacrificing to Idols and in eating unclean flesh Maacha was a Queene and made an abominable Idoll of Priapus and offered sacrifice unto it and exhorted others without doubt to doe so likewise but so many as feared God abhorred her doings and defyed her Idolatry insomuch that King Asa her sonne put her downe because shee had made images in Groves and brake down her Idols and stamped them and burnt them to ashes at the brooke Cedron Iesabel was a Queene and an abominable Idolatresse promoting and making much of Baals Priests and feeding them even at her own table but imprisoning and murdering the Prophets of God she worshipped Baal and caused many other so to doe But those that loved God abhorred her idolatry and by no meanes would follow her wicked steps but chused rather to worship God according to his word The Prophet Elias slew all her Prophets that did service to Baal and Queene Iesabel her selfe came to a most miserable end Shee was throwne downe to the ground from an high window inso that the wall was sprinckled with her bloud and the horses trod her under their feete and the dogs came and eat up her flesh so that there was nothing left of her but her skull her feet and the palmes of her hands Athalia was a Queene and a great Idolatresse shee worshipped Baal and enticed her sonne Ahazia to doe so likewise NotwithstaÌ„ding such as feared God obeyed in this behalfe neither the King nor his Mother but walked after the Commandements of God Both the mother and the sonne were slaine miserably The Bishops the Priests the Lawyers the Scribes the Pharisees the Sadduces and such others were great Rulers in Iewrie and they commanded the Apostles that they should no more preach in the name of Iesu but they obeyed them not but stoutly answered Whether it bee right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God Iudge yee For we cannot but speake that which wee have seene and heard Rulers are so
which as some report Pope Gregorius the first put to the Masse about the yeare of our Lord 600. Some ascribe it to Pope Silvester which lived about the yeare of our Lord 330. But it seemeth to bee borrowed of the Greeke Church forasmuch as the words are Greeke and sound in English Lord have mercie on us After these things ye goe unto the midst of the Altar and look up to the pixe where you thinke your God to be and making solemne curtesie like womanly Ioane ye say the Gloria in excelsis a godly both thankesgiving prayer very fruitfull and comfortable if it were spoken in the English tongue The Author hereof some affirme Pope Stephanus to be who lived in the yeare of our Lord seven hundred and seventy Some ascribe it to Pope Telesphâ—rus which was in the yeare of our Lord one hundred and thirty Some to Pope Symachus who lived in the yeare of our Lord five hundred Some to Saint Hilarie Bishop of Pictâ—ve about the yeare of our Lord three hundred forty and five These things dispatched out of the way yee have a pleasure to see who is in the Church and how well your Masse is frequented and therfore yee turne yee to the people if any bee there and bid them God speed in Latine with Dominus vobiscum because they understand nothing but English Turning againe to the Altar yee say certaine Collects wherof although some of them bee good yet many of them bee very superstitious and starke staring naught For in them yee set foorth before God the intercessions and merits of Saints and yee desire for the nity and worthinesse of them to be heard to have forgivenesse of sinnes and everlasting life O blasphemous Idolaters what is it to robbe Christ of his Priesthood if this be not What spoileth Christ of his merits if this doe not What treadeth under foot the pretious bloud of our Saviour Christ if the saying of such abominable blasphemous Collects doe it not The Authour of the Collects some make Pope Gelasius which lived in the yeare of our Lord three hundred ninetie Some P. Gregorie of whom ye heard before The Collects once done yee reade the Epistle but in such a tongue as the people understand nothing as yee doe all other things Some say that Pope Telesphorus of whom wee spake before added the Epistle to the Masse Some make Hierome the Authour of it which lived about the yeare of our Lord three hundred eighty seven Then doe ye say the Grayle whereof they make Pope Gelasius the Authour of whom wee spake before Immediately followeth the Allelujah which they say pope Gregorie brought in of whom also wee spake before Some say it was borrowed of the Church of Ierusalem and so brought into the Church of Rome in the time of pope Dâ—masus It soundeth in English O praise the Lord. Here is Latine Greeke and Hebrew in your popish Masse wherof the people understand nothing but as for English which the people understand yee meddle nothing with-all because you will make them your riding fools and keep them still in blindnes Then followeth the Tract or the Sequence one brought in by pope Telesphorus the other by Abbot Nothgâ—rus who lived in the yeare of our Lord 845. After that yee have mumbled over all these things yee take up your Masse-booke and away ye goe to the other end of the Altar to reade the Gospel But first of all yee uncover the chalice and look whether your drinke bee there or no least you should chance to bee deceived when the time of your repast come If it bee there you make solemn curtesie to your little Idoll that hangeth over the Altar and so goe in hand with the Gospel And all in Latine because it shall doe no man good The Authour of adding the Gospel to the Masse some make pope Telesphorus some Saint Hierome of whom wee spake before Pope Anastasius who lived in the yeare of our Lord 404. ordayned that the people should stand up when the Gospel is read that they might heare and understand the Doctrine of the Gospell and frame their lives according to the same This use is observed at this day in the popish Masses I meane the people stâ—â—d up and make courtesie when they heare the name of Iesus but they understand not one word It were as good in such sort to bee read to Swine and Dogges as to the Christian people seeing they understand it not The Gospel ended with another kisse upon the Booke yee say the Creed which as they write Pope Marcus made about the yeare of our Lord 335 coÌ„manded that the Clergie the people should sing it together for the confirmation of their faith After the Creed upon solemne Feasts ye use to Cense the Altar which was first brought in by Pope Leo about the yeare of our Lord 876. These things done with all solemnitie ye turne you again into the Church to see whether your customers bee come or no and so bidding them God-speed yee turne again to the Altar and goe forth with your businesse Then doe you say your Offertory which Pope Eutichiâ—â—â— brought in who lived about the yeare of our LORD 285. After the Offertory is said yee take the Chalice up in your hands with the little round cake lying upon the pâ—tine or cover of the Chalice and lifting up your eyes yee pray on this manner Suscipe sancta Trinitâ—s c. Take O holy Trinitie this oblation which I unworthy sinner offer in the honour of thee of blessed Mary the Virgin and of all thy Saluâ—s for the salvation of the living and for the rest and quietnesse of all the faithfull that are dead The Authour of this prayer I cannot finde It is so good that I thinke hee was ashamed to tell his Name But what thinke yee of this prayer Bee judges your selves whether any thing may be uttered more unto the dishonour of GOD and the utter defacing of CHRISTS bloud than this your popish and blasphemous orison First of all what offer ye Yee must answer either the little round cake or else the Chalice or the wine and water that is in it To whom doe yee offer it To Mary the Virgin and to all the Saints of heaven because yee will lacke no company but gratifie a multitude with a thing of nought Wherefore doe ye offer that oblation For the salvation of the living and for the rest or quietnesse of all the faithfull that are dead Ah who ever heard of such a sacrifice or oblation A wafer cake which is yet but meere bread and no Sacrament and a Chalice with a spoonefull of wine mingled with two or three drops of water to be offred for the salvation of the living and for the rest or quietnesse of all the faithful that are dead O abomination O intollerable blasphemie If Adams Posteritie might have beene
Authors For it is an hotch-potch devised made by a number of Popes and by others also It is a very beggers cloke cobled clouted and patched with a multitude of popish ragges And yet the Papists affirme it to bee the holiest part of your Masse And it may soone be For there is not one part of the Masse that can worthily be called good as it is used at this present All things are so far out of order without edifying and contrary to Gods holy ordinance The authors of this their goodly and godly Canon they make Pope Aleâ—ander Pope Gelasius Pope Gregory Pope Sixtus Pope Leo and a certaine man called Scholasticus with other And here beginne yee wonderfully to crosse and to pray for the Universall Church first for our LORD Pope secondly for the Bishop of the Diocesse wherein yee dwell thirdly for your King and Queen last of all for all those that be of the Catholike faith And now come yee to your first Memento which serveth for the living where yee stand nodding like a sort of drunkards and praying yee say for all your good friends and benefactors for all that uphold and maintaine the kingdome of the Clergie and defend our mother holy Church against the assaults of the Gospellers and here ye alledge a sort of Saints and ye desire that for their merits and prayers sake yee may bee saved and preserved from all evill O abhominable blasphemers This done yee fall to crouching and beholding the little cake and chalice speaking a few little good words in Latine yee blesse and crosse wonderfully the cake and Chalice as though they were haunted with some ill spirits While yee are thus blessing the boy or Parish Clerke rings the little Sacry bell which biddeth the people lay all things aside now and lift up their heads behold their maker kneele down and worship their Lord God which Sir Iohn shall straight-wayes make with as much speed as may be and shew him unto them above his head Before it was Sursum corda Lift up your hearts unto the Lord but now is sursum capita come in lift up your heads and looke upon your maker betweene the priests hands with his arse turned towards you because no woman at that present shal be inamored with his sweete and loving face Come off kneele downe looke up knocke your brest behold the apple-maker of Kent and marke well him that killed thy father This is the Lord thy God Let us fall downe and worship him O unsufferable Idolatrie Notable is the doctrin of the Nicene Counsell which commandeth that wee shall not direct our mindes downeward to the bread and cup but lift them up to Christ by faith whith is ascended up into heaven really and corporally and not present carnally in the Sacramental bread as the papists teach Christ while we live in this world is not to be seen with the eyes of this body but of the spirit by faith If we wil see and worship Christ aright we must see and worship him in spirit sitting in his glory and majestie above in heaven at the right hand of God his father and not behold him in the Sacramentall bread with the corporall eyes where nothing is to be seene felt tasted or received with the mouth but bread onely But before wee come to your consecration to your Sacring and to the lifting up of your litle great young old God we will first see what Christ did afterward compare your doings with his Christ sitting at the table tooke bread and after hee had given thankes he brake the bread and gave it to his Disciples for to eat Christ sate at the table yee stand at an Altar Christ tooke bread to make it a Sacrament of his body yee take a little thinne round Cake or rather a thinne piece of starch to make it the naturall body of Christ God and man and to offer it for a Sacrifice for the sinnes of the quicke and the dead Christ delivered the bread to his Disciples to eate it in the remembrance of his death ye take the bread and hold it up above your head and make a shew of it to the people and when yee have once so done ye alone devoure and eate it up Christ brake the bread signifying thereby the breaking of his body on the Altar of the Crosse for the Salvation of the world according to this his promise in the Gospell of Saint Iohn I am that living bread which came downe from heaven If any man eateth of this bread hee shall live for ever And the bread that I will give is my flesh which I will give for the life of the world Ye breake the bread also which yee say is the naturall body of Christ flesh bloud and bone But very fondly ye breake it For yee breake your Host I use your own tearmes in three parts holding it over the chalice while you breake it I thinke because yee would lose none of the bloud that should issue out of the body which ye newly have made and now suddainely yee breake and destroy againe When ye have broken your new formed God in three parts two pieces you keepe still in your hands for flying away and the third yee let fall downe into the chalice to lie there awhile a sleeping or to put you in remembrance of your nappy Ale and Tost which your pretty Parnell hath full lovingly prepared for you against your Masse bee done lest you should chance to faint for taking so great paines at your butcherly altar Many significations have the Papists invented for those 3. broken pieces of the cake which all here to rehearse were too long I will rehearse one and if yee desire to know more enquire of your brethren the Papists and they shall easily teach you The first part say they which is both the longest and the greatest doth not onely signifie but also is a Sacrifice of thanksgiving to God the Father for his benefits declared to mankinde in the death of Christ his sonne The second is a Sacrifice propitiatory for the sinnes of the people that â—ee living in this world but specially for the sinnes of such as have bought the Masse for their money that they may bee delivered a poena culpa toties quoties The third piece which is let downe into the chalice is a satisfactory Sacrifice for the soules that lie miserably puling in the hot fire of Purgatorie to deliver them from the grievous paines and bitter torments that they there suffer and through the vertue and merits of that Sacrifice to bring them unto everlasting glory O intollerable abomination Here is the breaking of your Host with the goodly mysteries thereof Christ say the Evangelists took bread brake it and gave it to his Disciples saying Take eat this is my body which is broken for you Doe this in remembrance of me Yee also take bread and breake it
but ye give it to your selves But as Christ gave the bread to his Disciples willing them to eat it in remembrance of his passion and death so ought yee to doe to the faithfull congregation that are present and not like swinish beasts to eate and drinke up all alone your selves and afterward to blesse the people wiâ—h an empty cup as ye doe at your high and solemne feasts But this doe yee not therefore are ye plaine Antichrists Take this bread saith our Saviour Christ. Take it in your hands Hand off say yee Papists Gape and wee will put it in your mouths and feed yee as children use to feed their Iack-dawes Handle so pretious a relique Marry Sir God forbidde The woman peradventure hath lien with her husband all night or the husband with the wife and shall such touch the pretious body of our Lord with their handes Marry Sir God forbid That were a piteous case But yee abominable Whoremasters ye filthy fornicators yee stinking Sodomites ye deceitfull Deflowrers of mayds yee devillish defilers of mens wives yee cankred corrupters of widowes and yee lecherous locusts may lie with your whores and harlots all night and the next day after goe to Masse consecrate make touch handle breake and devoure your God and yet ye defile the Sacrament nothing at all O abominable Whorehunters O monstrous Massmongers Honest Matrimonie after your corrupt judgements defileth the Sacrament of Christs body and bloud but filthy fornication abominable adultery wicked whoredome and stinking Sodomitrie advanceth the dignity thereof O right Chaplins of that filthy Idoll Priapus But come off I pray you what hath the hand more offended than the mouth that it may not touch the Sacrament Are they not both the good creatures of God are they not made both of one substance and to say the truth there commeth not so much evil from the hand as there doth out of the mouth For out of the mouth come Blasphemies cursed speakings evil reportes bannings slanders lies malicious words filthy tales idle talke singing of bawdy ballads c. But from the hand commeth vertuous occupation honest labour painefull travaile getting of thy living helping of our neighbors and almes-giving to the poore But yee are alwayes like your selves that is to say very Antichrists For yee are evermore contrary to Christ. Christ delivered the Sacrament into his Disciples hands and you put it into the Communicants mouths as though the people were not so wise as to put a morsel of bread in their owne mouthes The people are much bound to you that have so good opinion of them Ye make them momes indeed asses louts and your very riding fools God once open their eyes that they may perceive your jugling Ye are well worthy to have your tithes and offerings truely payd yee doe your duty so well Verily they that give ought to find you Masse-mongers withall and to maintaine you in your abominable massing doe nothing else but offend God dishonor Christ tread under foote the pretious bloud of Christ make Christs death of no price maintaine Idolatrie defie the holy Communion destroy the Christian common-weale uphold Antichrists brood cherish Satans Chaplains pamper Priapus pildepates make fat Venus stout stallions enrich Bacchus Sacrificers and nourish such monsters as doe nothing else than murther kill and slay the soules of so many as follow your damnable Doctrine and hant your Idolatrous Masses Let the Christians therefore beware how and upon whom they bestow their goods lest by giving to Massing priests they get to themselves everlasting damnation The doer and maintainer shall receive like punishment He that readeth the practises of the ancient Church shall evidently see that the manner of the godly Ministers at that time was not to put the Sacramentall bread into the peoples mouths as yee doe at this present but to give it them into their hands For it was not then taken and honored for a God as it is now but it was reverently used and taken as an holy and worthy Sacrament of Christ. But what marvaile is it though yee will not suffer the people to handle the Sacramentall bread seeing yee will not suffer the coÌ„municants to touch your Popes holy chalice wherein notwithstanding is not the Sacrament of Christs bloud but only meere wine dedicated and appointed to no godly use Ye are contrary to Christ in all things God amend you Take eat saith our Saviour Christ. Nay say ye Masse-mongers neither take yee nor eat but come heare Masse devoutly see us take and eat up altogether and it is enough for you Fall down kneele worship your Maker that wee shew unto you Honor your God that is hanged up in the pixe over the Altar and so shall yee be good Catholickes and deare children of our mother holy Church If yee come at Easter according to P. Zepherinus commandemeÌ„t and then receive your maker devoutly it is enough for you At all other times we wil receive the Sacrament for you and it shall do you as much good as though you had eaten it your selfe O false and subtile hypocrits O wicked corrupters of the Lords blessed Testament If other men shold eat up your dinners and suppers in your stead as ye eat up the SacrameÌ„t from the people ye should not have so fat panches as yee have nor yet so frie in your grease as you doe Christ delivered the Sacramental bread to his Disciples and bade them eate but yee eat up all your selves and will give no man part with you O cankred carles O churlish chuffes And here may we note by the way to what end the Sacramental bread is ordained not that it should be kneeled to nor honored as a God nor gazed on nor carried about in popish pompous processions nor offered up for a sacrifice for the sins of the quick the dead nor yet to reserve it to hang it up in the pixe over the Altar as yee Papists doe but that it should be received and eaten of the faithfull Communicants at the Lords Supper in remembrance of CHRISTS death Take eat saith our Saviour Christ. Hitherto have wee heard that your peevish popish private pedlary pelting masse agreeth with the Lords blessed Supper and holy Communion nothing at all Let us now see how well ye behave your selves in the words of Consecration as yee call them wherein after your opinion hangeth all the matter Christ said This is my bodie which is betrayed for you Doe this in the remembrance of me Now let us behold your consecration Taking the little Cake in your hands yee say these words The day before hee suffered hee tooke bread into his holy and worshipfull hands and lifting up his eyes unto heaven to the God his Father Almightie and giving the thanks he blessed brake and gave to his Disciples saying Take and eat of this all ye For this is my body The Author of these words as
they bee here recited was Pope Alexander about the yeare of our Lord 112. Here doe yee not rehearse the words truely as our Saviour CHRIST spake them Some words yee added and some yee have taken away But I much marvell at your grosse ignorance in this one thing Yee put a difference betweene Blessing and Thankesgiving For when yee rehearse this word Beâ—edixit he blessed you crosse and blesse the bread with your greasie fingers as though Christs blessing in that place were the wagging of his fingers and not rather thankesgiving For where Saint Marke hath Cum Benedixisset When he had blessed Saint Matthew Luke and Paul hath Cum Gratias egisset When he had given thankes So that to blesse after Markes phrase is nothing else than to give thankes to praise and to magnifie And so is it taken in divers places of the holy Scriptures both in the old and new Testament Again ye put to these foure words of Christ Hoc est corpus meum this word Enim and ye say Hoc est enim carpus 〈◊〉 one word more than ever Christ put in because ye may be found still as ye are even abominable liars But for putting in this one word Enim which is of so great vertue say ye that without it there can bee no perfect Consecration and then what is to bee thought I pray you of Christ and of his Apostles of the Primative Church and of the Greekes at this day which never used that word being your owne superfluous addition yee most wickedly leave out these most necessary words that CHRIST spake which is betrayed for you Doe this in the remembrance of mee This joyfull promise that Christs body was betrayed given and broken for us with the residue ye leave out as a thing pertaining nothing to the purpose And yet are they so necessary that without the knowledge of them the Sacrament profiteth nothing at all If I receive the Sacrament a thousand times yet if I know not to what use it was instituted of Christ what profits and benefits I have by the worthy receiving of it If I doe not set before the eyes of my minde the death of Christ and faithfully beleeve to have remission forgivenesse of al my sins by the breaking of Christs body by the sheadding of his most pretious bloud c. it profiteth me no more thaÌ„ the pretious stone did profit Aesops Cock Again those words which Christ spake openly to his Disciples unto their great joy and comfort you partly leave out and partly whisper in hocker mocker to your selves that no man may bee the better for your doings and that the people may bee kept still in blindnesse Our Saviour CHRIST saith What I tell you in darkenesse that speake yee in light And what ye heare in the eare that preachye on the house tops But ye doe cleane contrary For that which Christ spake openly to his Disciples ye mutter it softly to your selves O cruell soule-slayers and bloudie murtherers But is this your dexterity uprightnes and true dealing with the Word of God So to corrupt and mangle the words of the glorious Testament of the Sonne of God It is not lawfull to alter a mortall mans Testament and dare ye presume O yee Antichrists to alter and change the blessed Testament and heavenly will of the King of Glory Are ye faithfull Ministers which deale so unfaithfully with your Lord and Master Ye that deale so wickedly with God how wil ye deale with man God keepe all faithfull people out of your clawes After ye have once spoken these five words Hoc est enim corpus meum over the bread and have blasted breathed and blowed upon it yee kneele down to it and worship it like abominable Idolaters and afterward ye hold it up above your pestilent pilde shaven shamelesse heads that the people by looking upon it and worshipping it may be partakers also of your abominable Idolatry not being contented with your own damnable estate except ye bring other also into the same danger The Author of your levation lifting the bread above your head was Pope Honori the third about the yeare of our LORD 1 10. which commanded that the Host should bee lifted up above the Priests head at Masse and that all the people should fall downe and worship it O Antichrist Here may all men see how ancient a thing your holy sakering is which is counted the best and chiefest part of your Masse when notwithstanding it is the most wicked and most abhominable part of your idolatrous Masse Verily it is not much more than three hundred yeares old Let the lying Papists therfore bee ashamed to brag that their divellish Masse came from the Apostles seeing it is proved to be a new and late invention of Antichrist And although the whole Masse of the Papists be utterly wicked and abhominable yet this part which they call the Sakering is most wicked and abominable for as much as it provoketh the people that are present to commit most detestable Idolatries For the people take it to be their god They beleeve that bread w ch the Priest heaveth above his head to bee Christ perfect God perfect man Therfore kneel they down unto it knocke their breasts lift up their heads worshippe and honour it When the Bel once rings if they cannot conveniently see they forsake their seats and runne from Altar to Altar from Sakering to Sakering peeping here and tooting there and gazing at that thing which the pilde-pate Priest holdeth up in his hands And if the Priest bee weake in the armes and heave not up high enough the rude people of the Countrey in divers parts of England will crie out to the Priest hold up Sir Iohn hold up Heave it a little higher And one will say to another Stoupe downe thou fellow afore that I may see my Maker For I cannot be merry except I see my LORD GOD once in a day O abomination Ah Woe worth you yee Masse-mongers that are the authors of this abominable Idolatrie and through your wicked massing send thousands to the Devill except the mercy of God bee the greater Better were â—e Masse-mongers to leave your fat Benefices your rich Prebeuds your wealthy Deanries your honourable Chaplainships your long Gownes your Sarseneâ— Tiopets and your shaven crownes and become watertankard-bearers in London or to cobble a shoo or goe to plough and cart yea to have a milstone tyed about your neck and be cast into the bottome of the sea than your most stinking wicked and vile massing to provoke so many people unto Idolatry and to bring the wrath of God and everlasting damnation upoÌ„ them except they repent and amend Verily I say unto you it shall bee easier for the Land of So dome at the day of Iudgement than for you But I know what yee will say That we hold up is the very
Christ as concerning his corporall presence is no more in the earth but in heaven only Christ hath in him two natures the nature of God and the nature of man As concerning his divine nature hee is in heaven in earth and in every place But as touching his humane nature hee is in heaven onely and there shall remaine untill the Day of Iudgement as Saint Augustine saith as concerning the presence of his Majestie wee have Christ alwayes but as touching the presence of his flesh it was truely sayd to his Disciples Mee shall yee not alwayes have with you For the Church had him a few dayes after thâ— presence of his flesh but now it holdeth him by faith and seeth him not with the eyes Againe he saith God and man is one person and both is one Christ Iesus in every place in that he is God but in heaven in that he is man Also in another place Where and in what manner Christ is in heaven it is a vaine and superfluous thing to aske or demand but wee must surely beleeve that hee is onely in heaven If hee be onely in heaven as concerning his corporall presence as both the Scriptures and Saint Augustine affirme how then is hee either in your round cake at Masse or else hanging up in your popish Pixe over the Altar with an halter But let us heare what the ancient Doctour Virgilius writeth concerning this matter The Sonne of God saith he as concerning his Humanitie is gone away from us but as touching his Divinity hee saith unto us Behold I am with you alwayes unto the end of the world Againe forasmuch as the word is every where and his flesh is not every where it appeareth that one and the same CHRIST is of both natures and that hee is in every place as concerning the nature of his Godhead Againe that hee is contayned in a place as touching the nature of his manhood Of these Authorities doth it manifestly appeare that Christ inasmuch as he is God is in every place but having respect to that hee is a man he is only in one place that is to say in heaven If he bee only in heaven inasmuch as he is man then consider yee what is to be thought of the doctrine of the Papists which teach that Christs naturall body is in every place wheresoever his Godhead is O Antichrists If this be not to play the Hereticke Marcions part and utterly to destroy the verity of Christs humane nature or of his naturall body what is it But Saint Augustine saith very well in this behalfe wee must take heed saith hee that we doe not so set forth maintaine or affirme the Godhead of the Man Christ that wee take away or destroy the truth of his body For it doth not follow that that which is in God should be every where as God Christ inasmuch as he is God is every where but being man hee is onely in heaven But yee will object according to your old wont the omnipotencie or almighty power of God and say that forasmuch as he is omnipotent and almighty he may both make the bread his body and also bee in as many places concerning the corporall presence as he list that is to say in infinite places at once I answer God is not called Almighty because he can doe all things but because he is able to doe whatsoever his Godly pleasure is to doe For there are certaine things which God cannot doe as for example hee cannot denie himselfe hee cannot lye hee cannot save such as die in infidelity hee cannot make another of like power with himselfe hee cannot save the reprobate nor condemne the Elect which have their names written in the Booke of life c. Whatsoever is contrary to his Word that cannot God doe But it is contrary to the Word of God for Christs body to bee in more places at once than in one yea to bee both in heaven sitting at the right hand of God the Father and heere also in earth at your popish Masses in a thousand places at once therefore is not God able to make his body to bee in so many places at once as ye faine forasmuch as the nature of God onely is infinite and the nature of all creatures is contained in some certaine one place at once But here againe yee will bring forth these promises of CHRIST Wheresoever two or three be gathered together in my Name there am I in the middest of them Againe I am with you alwayes unto the end of the world These promises and such like are to bee understood not of the corporall presence here on earth but of his Grace as the Doctors themselves doe declare It is to bee noted marked and considered saith Cyril that although Christ hath taken away the presence of his body from hence yet by the Majesty of his God-head hee is alwayes present as hee at his departure promised his Disciples Behold saith he I am with you alwayes unto the very end of the world The like saying of Saint Augustine heard wee before Of all these things heretofore spoken it is evident that the naturall body of Christ is not here in earth as yee Masse-mongers would gladly make us beleeve but in heaven onely and there shall remaine untill the day of Iudgement Christ in the mean season being here present with us by his Spirit and Grace Seeing then that the Sacramentall bread is not the naturall body of Christ God and man but a figure Sacrament and holy signe of his body with what forehead dare you either affirme that your little thinne round cake after five words pronounced over it and you breathing blasting and blowing upon it to be the true naturall reall corporeall and substantiall body of Christ God and Man as hee was borne of the Virgine Marie and suffered for us on the Altar of the crosse or worship it your selves or yet provoke others so to doe according to Pope Honorius decree and not after Christs institution What is Idolatrie if this bee not Idolatrie To worship a piece of bread for God what heathen Idolater ever so doted If good king Ezekias lived in these our dayes hee would rather play with the Sacrament of Christs body and bloud as he did with the Brasen Serpent than hee would suffer such abomiable Idolatry to be committed at the ministration of it to the great dishonour of God the utter defacing of Christs passion and bloud and death and to the dreadfull damnation of innumerable souls O England England teares yea teares of bloud mayest thou well weepe which in the prosperous time of that most godly King Edward the Sixt wert blessedly purged of all superstition Idolatry and popish doctrine and hadst restored unto thee the true Gospel of thy salvation and the right ministration of the Lords Sacraments But now for thine unthankfulnesse toward the Lord thy God all these heavenly treasures are
you cleane contrary to Christs institution And yee may justly be cal'd lecherous priests For ye abhorre godly and lawfull matrimonie and ye defile your selves with all kiâ—d of stinking whoredome and abominable Sodomitry Maids ye deflowre mens wives ye defile and widowes doe yee corrupt besides much other abomination which chast eares abhorre to heare Men meete to consecrate such a God and fit champions to say such divellish Masses GOD give you grace once to leave this most detestable wickednesse Moreover was not the Sacrament of CHRISTS body and bloud ordained to move and stir all men to friendship love and concord and to put away all hatred variaÌ„ce and discord and to testifie a brotherly and unfained love betweene them that be the meÌ„bers of Christ. But what friendship or love can bee maintain'd at that ministration of the Sacrament where one eateth and drinketh all alone as ye do at your Masses If it bee a Sacrament of Charitie and Love then ought the members of Christ charitably and lovingly to eat and drinke the Lords Supper together as the Apostle saith Wee are all partakers of one bread and of one cuppe and not one to devoure all alone For charitie consisteth not in one alone but in many And the Lords Supper is called a Communion and not an Union Therefore yee Masse-mongers grievously offend which contrary both to the commandement of CHRIST and the order of Charitie at your Masses eat and drinke up all alone and by this meanes yee make the the Lords Supper a Sacrament rather of hate and dissention than of love and unitie And heere commeth into my remembrance an History of a Christian of a Iew. The Christian perceiving the Iew to bee an honest civill man faithfull in his promise and upright in his dealing toward all men sorrowed greatly in his heart that hee was not also of the Christian beleefe The christian thinking that the most ready way to bring the Iew unto Christ was to leade him to church that he might there heare and see how well God was served among them desired the Iew upon a certaine Sabboth day to goe with him unto the temple of the Christians nothing doubting but if hee would so doe hee should bee allured to give over his Iewish opinions and to become a christian man The Iew consented and went with him to church where he quietly saw and beheld all things He heard iolly ringing pleasant singing and merry organs playing Hee beheld a sort of gay gawdy mawmets and a number of merry fellowes in the quire singing sometime high sometime low sometime in a meane and sometime nothing at all Hee saw also a fellow with a shaven crowne going up and downe in the church and casting water in the peoples teeth and afterward having a iolly coat upon his backe he saw him goe about the church-yard after an Image all the people following him After all these things hee saw that shaveling cast off the gay-coat againe and put on other game plaiers garments so to addres himselfe unto an altar covered with white linnen cloathes wherupon was set as hee thought meate and drinke for he saw the cup there After much singing and piping he saw the sacrificer that stood at the altar lift up a little thin round cake a cup of drinke above his head Here will bee good cheere thought the Iew anon for here are iolly signes proffers But when he saw the people fall downe worship the bread and cup hee marvailed greatly at their madnes Masse ended hee looked alwayes when the people should have beene called to eat and drink with Hicke-scorner that heaved the bread and cup over his head but no man had part with him He devourd all alone like Sim slap sauce when they were departed out of the church going home ward the christian willing to prove how the Iew was affected toward the christian religioÌ„ said unto him Sir how like you our religion and serving of God To whom the Iew answered ye have in the temple many things that would make a sad man glad and one that is sorrowfull cheerefull I meane your thundring of bells your playing on the organs your merry singing the casting of water in the peoples teeth and your running one after another about the church-yard like the Prior of Pricklingham and his covent All these things seeme to be matters of mirth used among you as I thinke onely to make you merry But the having of Idols in your temples I do not allow I see you also fall downe and worship a peece of bread and a silver cup which I iudge high abomination and damnable Idolatry And another thing there is used in your temples which I also do nothing like What is that quoth the christian I will tell you said the Iew. Yee talke cracke and boast much of charity but I say right well that there is little used among you For there was an Altar spred with fine white cloths and meat and drinke as I suppose set upon it I alwaies looked when ye should have beene called to eate and drinke together according to the order of charity but that shaveling that stood at the altar in the gay coat did both eat and drink all alone giving you no part with him which is a token of small charity friendship among you Certs you shal redresse these great vices and have more charity among you before I become one of your order And so the Iew refused to be made a christian God have mercy on us Among many other notable faults which the Iew perceived in our Temples this was not the least that one standing with his backe toward the people at an altar did eat and drink al alone giving no man part with him which is a token of small charity and friendship as the Iew said Verily the private masse wherin the sacrament of Christs body and bloud is too much abused hath beene and is the cause that many at this day doe abhorre the name of Christ and utterly condemne the christian religion God for his mercy drive this Idolatrous masse out of this realme once againe and restore unto us the true use of his holy Supper Amen Amen But let us see what followeth in your Popish masse and make an end When the Boy or Parish Clarke commeth againe with the Pax yee hold forth your chalice like Sir Ralph Rinspitcher for a little more drinke And when yee have once drunken up that yee hold forth your Goddard yet once againe to have a little more swill No marvell For peradventure ye fell the night before into a great heate while you kept company with your toying Thais and therfore no marvell silly soules though you drinke solemnly But O good Lord what wiping of the mouth and licking of the fingers is there then It would doe a woman good to see how cleanly Sir Iohn Sweet-lips is And yet not so contented yee goe to the Altars
farre to be obeyed as the limits of Gods Word doe suffer Iâ— their Lawes and Acts agree with the Word of God they are to be obeyed if they be contrary to the commandement of God it is to bee answered with the Apostles We must â—bey God more than men Furthermore if â—ee be afraid of losing your livings anâ— by that meanes of falliâ—g into beggery remember that he for whose sake yee forsake your Idolatrous Massing that ye may serve him with a pure conscience according to his word will never forsake you nor leave you succourlesse and unprovided for Sooner shall God deale with you as he did with the Children of Israel iâ— the wildernes with Eli as with the Widow of of Sarepta with Daniel with the people whom CHRIST fed in the desert as wee reade in the Historie of the Gospell and with such other as unfainedly feared God than ye shall want any good thing Hear what David saith They which seeke after the Lord shall want no manner of thing that is good Againe I have beene young and now I am old and yet saw I the righteous never forsaken nor their seed begging their bread on the earth Our Saviour Christ also saith There is no man that hath forsaken house or brethren or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands for my sake and the Gospels but he shall receive an hundred fold Now in this life houses and brethren and sisters and mothers and children and lands with persecution and in the world to come everlasting life And God himselfe saith I will not leave thee nor forsake thee Having these loving promises of God feare yee not the losse of your livings nor the hatred of the wicked worldlings If God provideth for you as undoubtedly hee doth what can ye want If God bee your friend your buckler shield who can hurt you As Saint Paul saith If God be on our side who can be against us Now have yee heard how far the Masse dissenteth from the Lords Supper Ye have heard what manifest blasphemies and intollerable untruthes bee contained in the Masse Ye have heard that the Masse is the invention of the Devill the Nurse-childe of Antichrist and the welbeloved darling of all them that have received the Beasts marke Ye have heard that no Christian man can either say Masse or heare Masse with a good conscience To end yee have heard that the Masse is the fountaine well head-spring and originall of all Idolatry superstition wickednes sin abomination and that it is not Gods worship but Idoll service Considering therfore these things if ye tender the glory of God your owne salvation and the peace quietnesse and safegard of our country flee Idolatry forsake your abominable Massing and serve the LORD our God according to his holy Word So shal God blesse you with all good things both in this world and in the world to come Fare yee well The Grace of our Lord Iesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Ghost be with you all Amen Man How long O Lord. Christ I come quickly Man O come Lord Iesu. Give the glory to God alone The Abomination of the Popish Masse What Christ did when hee ordained his holy Supper Matth 26. Matth. 14. Luke 22. 1 Cor. 11. Iohn 13. Christ preached before his Supper Acts 2. 1 Cor. 11. Acts 20. Note Maâ—â— 3. Mat. 28. Iohn 13. 14. 15. 16. 1 Cor. 11. Ministration of the Sacraments without preaching profiteth little In Ioan tract 80. What things ought to be preached at the ministration of the Lords Supper Luke 1. The popish Masse hath no preaching No goodnes is learned at the popish Masse The Masse is the nurse of all vice Esay 58. Marke 16. The Bells are better preachers than the Massers What goodnesse followed the ministration of the holy Communion No man better for hearing Masse The Masse is to be abhorred of all good men The Masse-mongers are double dissemblers The people are mocked at the popish Masse Christ ministred his Supper at a Table The Primative Church used no Altars but Tables at the Lords Supper Why Christ ministred at a Table rather than at an Altar 1 Cor. 10. Christ alone is our Altar Heb. 13. Rom. 8. 1 Tâ—m 2. 1 Iohn 2. Abomination The communion of the bodie and bloud of Christ ought to be ministred at a Table Christ ministred without Copt or Vestment A Surplesse tollerable without the rest of massing apparel Fannell Fools coat otherwise called a vestment Shaven crowne Never none evill of that marke for Lady Venus pastime What the garments of the Priests in the old Law signified Spiced consciences Rom. 13. Christ sate at his Supper Gestures Why the Iewes stood at the eating of the Paschal Lamb. Psal. 39. Heb. 13. 1 Pet. 3. Why Christ with his Disciples sate at his Supper Apoc. 13. The doctrine of Christ is perfect and sufficient for our salvation Matth 23. Christ is no lesse present at Baptisme than at the Supper An error of the Papists A comparison between the old Idolatrous Priests and ours The God of the Papists Dan. 14. What the Papists doe at their Masse Priests massing vestments Altars Hallowing of altars Altar clothes Corporasse Cups of wood Chalices of glasse chalices of Silver and gold Bread Confiâ—eor An errour of the Papists concerning confession An error of the Papists concerning the intercession of Saintsâ— The Masse is a monster of lies The Iâ—troite or office of the Masse The Kyry Gloria in excelsis The Papists cannot agree Collects The Epistle The Grayle The Allelujah The Tract or Sequence The Gospel Why the people stand up at the Gospel The Creed Censing of the Altars The Offertory A blasphemous prayer at the offertory Idolatry The death of Christ is the alone sacrifice for sinne Sacrifice ought to bee offered to God alone Esay 42. Psal. 114. A new Sacrifice Washing of hands Matth. 27. Crossing Kissing Turne and Returne The Secrets The Preface Kissing the Canon of the Masâ— The Sanctu The Authors of the Canon Crossing The first Memento Why the Priest at Masse turneth his backe to the people Idolatrie The Councell of Nice An errour of the Papists What Christ did Comparison betweene Christ and the Massemongers Iohn 6. Breaking of the Host in three parts What the breaking of the Host signifyeth and is Note Matth. 25. 〈◊〉 14. Luke 22. I Cor. 11. A point of little good-fellowship Handling of the Sacramentall bread Of the hand and mouth Beware yee that maâ—ntaine Massemongers Note Touching of the chalice Idolatrie â—â—â—iding at Easter A point of little good fellowship Antichrists Why the Lords Supper was instituted Consecration Iugâ—â—ng Ignorance Blessing signiâ—ieth thankesgiving Enim Corrupters of Christs Testament Note well Antichrists Matth. 10. Corrupters â—dolatry Sakering or Levation The Sakering is the most abominable part of the Masse Matth. 18. Matth. 10. The objections of the Papists concerning Christs corporall presence in the Sacrament An absâ—rditie Iohn 15. 10. Mat. 11. 17 3 King 13. Iohn 19. Libr 4. Cont. Marc. Coâ—tra Adiâ—ant 〈◊〉 Mat. 26. Titus 3. Serm. de Chrism Contr. Adimanâ—um Christs naturall body cannot be but in one place at once Iohn 14. 16. Mark 16. Luke 24. Acts 1. Act. 2. Rom. 8. Eph. 4. Cel. 3. 1 Thes. 14. 1 Tim. 3. Heb. 10. 1 Pet. 3. 1 Iohn 2. Tract 50. in Iohan. Hd. Dardâ—n De fide Syn. â— 6 Lib. 1. cont Eâ—tich Ad Dardan Note well the omnipotencie or almighty power of God Why God is called Almighty The promises of Christ concerning concerning his presence Mar. 18. Matth. 28. In Ioh. l. c. 16. Idolatry 2 King 1â— The Doctrine of the Papists concerning the presence of Christ in the Sacrament is new The Feast of Corpus Christi Matth. 26. The Sacrament ought to be received of the people in both kinds Sacrilege The Councell of Constance Gelâ—sius Decree The Greeks and Bohems Idolatry A Lye Crossing Prov. 30. Idolatry Kissing The second Memento Praying for the soules departed The holy Scripture teacheth not prayer for the dead Prayer Rom. 14. 1 Iohn 5. 1 King 18. Luke 16. Iohn 3. Eâ—cces 11. Adfratres iâ— Eremo Serm. 57. Ser. dâ—temp Diâ— 17. Coâ—tr Demes What it is to rest with Christ after this life Apoc. 14 Psalm 116. Sapiâ—nt 3. The second Sakerinâ— otherwise called Gods hopping about the chalice The Pater noster c. 1. The breaking of the Host in three parts Agnus Idolatry Idolatry An history of a certain Emperour of Turkie The petty degree of the Papists God Noâ—â— Rom. 4. The Pax. The Pax. A Lie three for failing Christs ordinance is that the congregatioÌ„ should receive the Sacrament together Act. 2. 20. 1 Cor. 10. 1 Cor. 11. The Papists at their Masse in receiving the Sacrament tarry for the people as the Abbot tarrieth for his Covent The private Masse is of the Devill and not of God Every man ought to receive the Sacrament for himselfe Abacâ—k 2. Rom. 1. The Vision of Saint Anthony Note well The Lords Supper is a Sacrament oâ— love and concord 1 Cor. 10. An history of a Christian and a Iew. Drinke and still drinke Rinsing of the Chalice Washing of the hands Licking of the Chalice What the comming againe to the Altars end signifyeth An Orison for our Lady Saint Iohns Gospell God give you good night at Algate How the Priests spend the day after they have said Masse Good stuffe worke for the Tinker A comparison between the Lords supper and the popish Masse The vertues of the Masse The Masse serveth for all purposes Note in how damnable a state the Masse-monger is Exod. 12. â— King 6. Mat. 22. Ioh. 13. 1 Cor. 11 Rev. 20. Note well Act. 5. Exod. 1. Dan. 3. 1 Mac. 1. 2 Cron. 15. 1 King 18. â— King 9. 2 King 11. 〈…〉 How farre Civil Mastistrates are to be obeyed Act. 5. Poverty Exod. 16. 3 King 17. Dan 14. Marke 14. Psal. 34. Psal. 37. Mark 10. Ios. 1. Rom. 8. 2 Cor 13. Psal. 13. Apoc. 12. Apoc. 22.