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A04924	The copie of a letter, sent to the ladye Mary dowagire, Regent of Scotland, by Iohn Knox in the yeare. 1556. Here is also a notable sermon, made by the sayde Iohn Knox, wherin is euydentlye proued that the masse is and alwayes hath ben abhominable before God and idolatrye	Knox, John, ca. 1514-1572.	1556 (1556)	STC 15066; ESTC S106838	35,093	130

●he masse to be in goddes presece that onles ye decline frō the same to lyfe can ye neuer atteyn And therfore brethren flye frō that Idolatry rather then frome the present death Here wolde I haue spoken of the diuersitie of sacrifice but neyther doeth tyme nor the wickednesse of myne owne flesh permit that so I do I will ye obserue y ● where I saye there resteth no sacrifice nor yet is there anye priestes that I meane that there resteth no sacrifice too be offred for synne nor yet is there any priests hauynge power to offre such oblations Otherwise I do knowe that all true Christiās are kynges and priestes and doe dayly offre vnto God a sacrifice moste acceptable the mortification of their affections as Paule commaunded the Romayns But here of may not I remayne too speake presently Suche doctrine as was taught in youre audience vpon Sonday before noon I wil proue as oportunitie shall permitte by goddes scriptures not only vnprofitable but also erroneous and deceyuable But firste accordinge too my promes I will seude vnto the teacher the extracte therof to adde or diminishe as by hys wysedome shalbe thought moste expediente ▪ For God knoweth my mynde is not capt●oush too tryppe men in wordes But my onely desyre beynge that ye my audience bee instructe in the veritie where frō dissenteth some doctrine taughte you if truelye I haue collected moueth me to speake againste al that maye haue appearaunce of lyes and superstition And praye with me brethren that the spirite maye be ministred vnto me in aboundance to speake at all times as becommeth a trew messenger And I will lykewyse praye that ye might heare vnderstande and obeye with all reuerēce the good wil of God declared vntoo the worlde by Iesus Christ whose omnipotente spirite remayn with you for euer ▪ Amen ¶ Here is briefly declared in a sumine accordynge to the holy scriptures what opinion we Christians haue of the Lordes supper called the Sacramente of the bodye and bloudde of oure sauyoure Iesus Christ FIrste we confesse that it is an holy action ordeyned of God in the whiche the Lorde Iesus by earthely and visible thinges sette before vs lifteth vs vp vnto heauenly and inuisible thinges And that whan he hadde prepared hys spirituall ban●●et he witnessed y e he hym self was the lyuely bread wherewith oure soules bee fedde vnto euerlastinge lyfe And therefore in settinge forthe breade and wyne to eate drynk he confirmeth and sealeth vp too vs hys promisse and communion that is that we shalbe partakers with hym in hys kyngedome and representeth vnto vs and maketh playne to oure senses his heauēly giftes and alsoo geueth vnto vs himself to be receiued with faith and not with mouthe nor yet by transfusion of substaunce but so throw the vertue of y e holy Ghost that we beynge fedde with hys fleshe refreshed with his bloud maye be renewed both vnto trew godlines and to immortalitie And also that here with the Lord Iesus gathereth vs into one visible body so that we be mēbres one of an other and make altogether one bodye where of Iesus Chrste is head And finally that by the same Sacrament the Lord calleth vs to remēbraunce of hys deathe and passion too styrre vp oure hartes to prayse his moste holy name Sarthermore we acknowledge that this Sacramēt oughte to become vnto reuerētly considering there is exhibited and geuen a te 〈…〉 of the wonderfull soc●●tie and ●uyttinge together of the lord Iesus and of the receyuers and also that there is included and conteyned in this sacrament that he will preserue his churche for herein we be commāded to shew the Lordes death vntill he come Also we beleue that it is a confession wherein we sheroe what kynd of doctrine we professe and what congregation we toyne our selfes vnto And lykewise that it is a bōde of mutuall loue amōgst vs. And finally we beleue that al the commers vnto thys holy supper muste bringe with them their conuersion vnto the LORD by vnfayned repentaunce in faythe and in thys Sacramente receyue thee seales and confirmation of their faythe and yet muste in nowise think that for this works sake their syns be forgeuen And as concerning these wordes Hoc est corpus meū this is my body on whiche the papistes depend so much sayeng that we must nedes beleue that the breade wyne bee transubstanciated intoo Christes body bloud We acknowledge y e it is no artikel of our fayth which cāsaue vs nor which we are boūd to beleue vpō payn of eternal dānation For if we should beleue y ● hys very naturall body both flesh and bloude were naturally in the bred wyne that should not saue vs seinge many beleue that yet receyue it to their damnation For it is not his presence in the bread that can saue vs but his presence in our hartes through fayth in his bloud which hath washed out our synnes and pacified the fathers wrath towardes vs. And agayne if we doe not beleue hys bodielye presence in the bread wyne that shall not damne vs but the absēce out of our hart thorow vnbelefe Now if they wolde here obiecte that though it be trueth that y e absence out of the breade coulde not damne vs yet are we bounde to beleue it because of gods worde saying thys is my bodye whiche who beleueth not as muche as in him lieth maketh God a lyar and therfore of an obstinat mynd not to beleue hys worde maye be our damnation To this we aunswere that we beleue gods worde confesse that it is trew būt not so too be vnderstande as the papistes grossely affirme form the Sacramēt we receiue Christ spiritually as dyd the fathers of the olde testament accordinge to S. Paules sayeng And if men wolde well wey how that Christ ordeyning this holy sacrament of hys bodye and bloud spoke these wordes sacramentally doubtles they wolde neuer so grossely foolishely vnderstand them contrary to all the scriptures and to the exposition of saynct Augustyn sayncte Hierome Fulgentius Digilius Origenes and many other godly writers Gene. ● Math. 10 ▪ Actes 1● ▪ 〈…〉 〈…〉 1● 〈…〉 ▪ 40. ●l 51. ●●90 ● ● Reg. 25. Iere. 52. Daniel 1. Esai ● Ephe. 2. Iosua 2. Math. 5. Math. 10. ●●● 20. Rom ▪ 1. ● Pet. 2. The state Apo. 14. 1● Psalm ● Acto 4. Luc. 16. O se 4 ▪ ● ▪ Math. 20. Math. ● ● Thes ● Deu. 4. 12. Math. 15. ●e 13. 1● Leut. 10. Math. 7 Ac. 1. 13. 14. 1. Cor. 11. Apoca. ● Nota. ● Re. 15. a. Pa. 17. 4. Re. 22 2. Pa. 29 ●9 ●● No parte of religion remaineth vncorrupt ▪ A peticion An obiection of the fleshe An answer Matth. 6. ●●● 6. ● ●●● 1● Iohn 17. Iohn 4. ●a●● 2. Iere. 〈◊〉 ● 〈◊〉 2. Coūsaill 3 Par. ●4 Matth. 24 O●● 10. ●●●● 9 ▪ 1. Reg. 1●● ● 〈…〉 1● Nota. Dem. 4. Leui. 10. Obiection Apoca. ● Obiection Preceptes were geuē The cause of the counsail at Ierusalem Cornelius Conclusiō of the con̄sayll Question Obiection Nota. Pape qu● missam instituerunt Euasion Impro●●tion of the Canon Nota. Esay 66. Amos. 5. Esai 66. Iere. 7. Esay 55. Esai 18. Ose 7. Iere. 2. Nota. Opinion holden of the masse Nota. Hebre. 10. Aunswere of papists Contra. Nota. Hebre. 7. Papistes Aunswere ▪ Heb. 9. Hebr. 10. Nota. Question Papistes aduerte Euasion Papistes Esai 27. Iere. 14. Esai 9. Iere. 31. Collos 1. Nota. Ioan. 6. ☞ ▪ Question ☞ ☜ Obiection Aunswer 1. Cor. 11.

I cōsidet y t your gr power is not so fre as a publik reformation perchance woulde requyre But if your grace shal consider the daunger and damnation perpetuall which ineurtably hāgeth vpon all mainteyners of a fals religion Then shall the greatest daunger easely deuoure swallow vp the smaller If your grace shall consiver that either ye must serue God to lyfe euerlasting or els serue the worlde to death and 〈…〉 Then albeit man and a●●gel 〈◊〉 diss●ade you ye will 〈◊〉 lyfe and refuse death And 〈◊〉 further ye shall consider th● the very lyfe cōsiste●h in the knowledge of the onelye trewe God and of his sonne Christ Iesus And that trewe knowledge hath ●●●●red with it goddes trew 〈…〉 and honor whiche requireth a testimony of his own will expressed by his worde that ●● he honor doeth please him If youre grace I say shall earnestly meditate these thigs afore sayde Then albeit sodenlye ye may not do all thinges y ● ye wold yet shall ye not cease to do what ye maye Your grace can not hasetely abolishe all superstition neither yet remoue from offices vnprofitable pastors whiche onely fede them selfs the which to publique reformation are requisite and necessary But yet if the zele of goddes glory be feruēt in your graces hart ▪ by wicked lawes ye will not mainteyn manifest Idolatrye neither yet will ye suffer y ● fury of bisshoppes to murther deuoure the poore membres of Christes body But withall cares full diligence ye will study how that the trewe worshippinge of God maye be promoted and the tyranny of vngodly men repressed within the boundes of youre dominiō to the vttermost of your power And if the contrary hereof either by ignorance or for pleasure of others ye do or permit to be dō then except your spedy repētāce shall ye your 〈◊〉 sodenly f●●ll the depressing hande of him who hath exalted you Ye shalbe compelled ▪ 〈…〉 wil ye to know that he is eternal against whome ye add●●sse your battel And that he is alone ▪ that ●●de●a●eth y e tymes and 〈…〉 kingdomes 〈◊〉 ●● is he that glorifieth them that glorifie him And y t he by his owne power poureth forth cōtēpt vpon all 〈◊〉 y t ●●bell against his graces ●●●er And therefore how dangerous soeuer it shal appeare to the fleshe and natural mā●o obey God in promoting his religion and to make warre against the deuill in ●emeuinge darknes pryde superstition Yet if youre grace loke to haue your self or yet youre sede after you to continue in a worldely honor and after to possesse the lyfe euerlasting submit youre self by time vnder the hande of hym that is omnipotēt embrace his will despise not hys testament refuse not hys graces offerre Nowe when he calleth you withdrawe not youre care be not led awaye with that vayn opiniō that youre churche and prelates can not e●re but laye the ●ooke of God before youre eyes and lette it bee iudge to their lyues doctrine and māners as also to that doctryne whyche by fyre and swearde moste cruelly they persecute I confesse that I desyre your grace to entre into a straunge greuous battel neuertheles yet assured I am by the promes of him by whome kynges do raygn that if with reuerence and feare ye obey his preceptes as did Iosias the admonitsons of the prophetes that then with doble benediction shall your bauell be rewarded that is wisedom ryches glory he ●or and longe lyfe shall accompany you in this your regiment temporal and unmortalitie w●●h ●oy inestimable shalbe your portion when the king of all kinges ▪ the Lord Iesus shal appere to iudgemente before whome ye shall make accompt of this youre regyment ▪ when the proude and disobedient shall cry mountaynes ●●ll vpon vs and hyde vs frome the face of the Lorde But then it shalbe too late because they desp●sed the voyce of him that lo●●ngly calleth GOd the father of oure Lorde Iesus Christe by the power of his holy spirite so illumi●ate youre senses and vnderstanding that the things that rudely be here spoken by youre grace so may be accepted that they be not a testimony of youre iuste damnation in that greate daye of the Lorde Iesus to whose mighty protection I vnfaynedlye committe youre grace nowe and euer Amen ¶ The fourth of Aprill In the yeare 1550. was appointed to Ihon Knor to geue his confessiō why he affirmed the masse idolatrye which daye in presence of the counsell and congregation amōgest whome was also present the bisshop of Dureham hys doctors on this māner he begynneth THis day I doe appeare in your pres●ce honorable audience ●o geue a reason why so constantly I do affirme the masse to be and all tymes to haue ben Idolatry abominatiō before God And because men of greate erudition in youre audience affirmed the contrarye moste gladly wolde I that here th●● were present either in proper person or els by their learned mē to pōder and ●ey the causes mouing me therto For oneles I euydently proue myne entent by goddes scriptures I wil recant it as 〈◊〉 doctrine and confesse myself moste worthy of greuous punishment Howe difficillitis to pul forth of the haries of the people y ● thing wherein opinion of holynes stādeth declareth the greate tumult and ●pro●● moued against Paul by 〈◊〉 and his fellowes who by Idolatry ●●t great aduāta●●e ●● 〈◊〉 priestes haue done by the masse in times past The people I say hearing that the honor of their great goddes Diana stoode in i●o●ardy with furious ●●yces cried great is Diana of y ● ●phesians as they wolde saye ●e will not haue the magnificēce ●● our great goddes Diana whō not onely Asia but the hole world worshippeth called in doubt cūin question or cōtrauersy Away with all menne intendinge that impietie And hereunto were the● moued by longe custome and fals opinion I knowe that in the masse hath not onely ben estemed great holynes and honoringe of God but also the grounde and foundation of oure religion so that in opiniō of many the masse taken awaye there resteth no trew worshippīg nor honoring of God in y e earthe The deper hath it persed the hartes of men that it occupieth the place of the last and mistical supper of our Lorde Iesus But if I ●●all by play● and euident scriptures proue the masse in her most honest garment to haue ben Idolatrye before God and blasphemous to the death and passion of Christ cōtrary to the supper of Iesus Christ thē good hope haue I ▪ honorable audience beloued brethren that the feare loue and obediēce of God who in his scriptures hath spoken all veritie necessary for our saluatō shal moue you to 〈…〉 place vnto the same ¶ O Lorde eternall moue gouerne my tung to speake y e 〈◊〉 and the hartes of the people to vnderstande and to obey the same That ye maye the better perceyue and

God vnable any waye to make satisfactiō for his infinite benifits which we haue receiued But in the masse alledge we God too be a debtour vnto vs for oblation of that sacrifice whiche we there presently offre and dare affirme y ● we there make satisfaction by doyng thereof for the sinnes of our self and of others If these precedentes be not cōtrary let men iudge with indifferency They differre in vse for in the Lordes soupper the minister and the congregation sat bothe at one table no difference betwixte them in pre●minence nor habyte as witnesseth Iesus Christe wyth hys disciples and the practyse of the apostles after hys death But in the papisticall masse y ● priestes so wil thei be styled are placed by them selfe at an aultar and I wolde aske of the authoritie thereof and what scripture cōmaunderh so to be done They must be cladde in a seueral habyt whereof no mention is made in the newe testament It will not exeuse them to say Paule commādeth all too be done with order decently Dare they be so bolde as to affyrme that the soupper of Iesus Christ was done withoute order and vndecently wherein were seene no suche disaguysed vestimentes Or will they sette vp too vs agayne the Leuiticall priesthode Shoulde not all be taught by the playn worde Prelates or Priestes I aske one question ye wolde bee lyke too the vestymentes of Aaron in all thinges Aharon had affixed vnto hys garmentes certeyn belles which were commaunded too rynge and to make sounde as ofte as he was cladde therewith But priestes youre belles lacke ●unges they rynge not they soād of nothinge but of the earth ▪ Nothinge vnderstandeth the people of all your ceremonies Feare ye not the wrathe of God it was cōmaunded Aharon that the sound of hys belles shoulde bee hearde that he dyed not ¶ Aduyse herewith for thys matter apperteyneth vnto you IN the supper of the Lorde all were equally participante the bread beynge broken the cup beynge distributed amongest all accordinge to hys commandemēt In the papisticall masse the congregation ●etteth nothing except the beholdinge of your duckings noddinges crossinges turninge rplistinge which all are nothing but a diabolicall prophanatiō of Christes supper Now ducke crosse and nodde ●s ye lyste they are but your own inuentiōs And finally brether ye got nothinge but gased behelde while that one did eate drynke all It shall not excuse you to saye the congregation is participante spiritually O wicked antichristes sayeth not Iesus Christ Eat of this and drynke of this all do this in remembrāce of me Christ commaūdeth not that one should gase vpon it bowe ducke becke thereto but that we shoulde eate and dryncke therof oure selfs and not that we should behold others do thesame Oneles we wold confesse the death of Iesus Christ to apperteyn nothing to vs. For when I eate drynke at that table I openlye confesse the frute and vertue of Christs body of hys bloude and passion too apperteyn to my selfe and that I am a membre of his misticall body that God the father is appeased with me not withstandinge my first corruptiō presēt infirmitie Iudge brethren what comfort hath this taken frō vs which wil that the sight thereof shalbe sufficient I wold aske first if y ● sight of corporal meat or drynke doeth fede norish the bodye I thinke they wil say nay And I affirme y ● no more profit receiueth the soule in beholding an other eat drinke the Lordes very soupper as for their Idolatry it is alway dānable thā y e body doeth in beholdig an other eate dryncke thou receyuinge no part therof But now briefly let this cōtra●●tie be collected In the Lordes soupper are offerred thankes for the benefites whiche we haue receyued of God In the masse wil the papist compell God to graūt ▪ all that he asketh of hym by vertue of that sacrifice And so alledgeth that God should referre thākes vnto him that doeth masse In the soupper of the Lorde y e actors humbly dyd confesse thē self redemed only by Christes bloud whiche once was shedde In the masse the prieste vanted hym selfe to make a sacrifice for y e synnes of the quicke the dead In the Lordes soupper all y e partakers of that table graunted and cōfessed them selfs debtours vnto God vnable to referre thankes for the benefites whiche wee had receyued of hys liberalitie In y e papistical masse alledgeth the priest y e God is a debtour too hym vnto all thē for whome he maketh y e sacrifice For he doth affirme remissiō of synnes to be obteyned therby in that y e masse is blasphemous to Christes death ▪ In the Lordes supper all sat at one table no differēce in habyt nor vestiment betwene the minister and the congregation In the papistical masse the priestes are placed bi them selfs at an aultare as they call it are clad in disaguysed garmentes In the Lordes supper fynally all did eate of one bread drincke of one cuppe But in the mischeuous masse one 〈◊〉 did eate and dryncke all Consider now beloued brethrē what hath the fruytes of y e masse ben euen in her greatest puritie the masse is nothinge but the inuētion of man set vp without al authoritie of goddes worde for honoringe of God and therfore it is Idolatry Vnto it is added a vain false deceyuable and moste wicked opiniō that is that by it is obteyned remission of synnes and therfore it is abomination before God It is contrarious vnto the supper of Iesus Christ and hath taken awaye bothe the righte vse and remembraunce therof therfore it is blasphemous to Christes death Maynteyn or defend the papisticall masse who so lifte this honor and seruice vnto God did all whiche vsed the same And here I speake no● of the moste abominable abuses as of byeng sellinge vsed nowe of late by the mischeuous priestes but of the masse in her moste hye degre and most ho●est 〈◊〉 ▪ yea euen of y e great Gaudeamus songe or sayde by Gregory the greate as papistes do call hym Let no man thinke that because I am in the realme of Englande that therfore so boldely I speake agaynst this abomination naye God hath taken that suspiciō frō me For the body lyenge in moste pa●●full bond●● amongest y ● middes of cruell tyran●es hys mercy and good●es prouided that y ● hād should wryte and beare witnes to the confession of the hart more abound antly than euer yet the tūg spoke And here I call my God to recorde that neither profitte too my self haued of any person or persons nor affection or fauour that I beare towardes anye pryuate man causeth me this dai to speake as ye haue hearde but onely the obedience which I owe vnto god in ministration shewinge of hys worde the common loue which I beare to your saluation For so odious and abominable I knowe