is sanctyfyed and dedycate vnto god And that he which doth sell it / hath receyued it of god for no thynge And so both he that doth sell it that dothe bye it do coÌ„myt deedly synne For it is agaynst al lawes / as agaynst the lawe of god / the lawe of man / the lawe of nature Wherfore whan the intent of the preest is pryncypally vpoÌ„ money / and maketh marchaundyse of the masse And that those whiche cause the masse to be sayde / do take it that they do bye it for so moche money / they do both coÌ„mytte Symonye and is deedly synÌ„e Therfore whan a man wyl haue a masse sayd for hym or for his freÌ„des / he shall say to the preest Syr we maye not make marchaundyse of the masse / but I praye you say so many masses for me or for my frendes / and I wyll prouyde for you and recompence your payne And than ye shall prouyde hym of an honest lyuynge accordynge to his estate and degre For as the apostell saynt Paule sayth / he that serueth at the aultre / he must lyue by the aultre / for the preest hath none other occupacyon ¶ The .xx. Chapytre / In what thynge wherby a man may consydre the greatnesse and dygnyte of the masse THe dygnyte holynes of the blyssed masse maye be consydered by fyue reasons ¶ Fyrste for in the masse is 〈…〉 the same blyssed flesshe / that Mary the mother of god dyd conceyue and the precyous blode shed vpoÌ„ the crosse on good frydaye And therfore sayth Crysostome / that touchynge the holy sacrament of the aulter the masse is not of lesse dygnyte and value / than the deth of our lord god vpon the crosse for the helth of the man For as the deth of our lorde hath delyuered man from euerlastynge deth / so is euerlastynge lyfe gyuen to them / whiche be delyuered by the masse ¶ Secondaryly / a man maye consydre the dygnyte of the masse / for there is alwayes present all the holy coÌ„pany of heuen That is to say / the holy trynyte / Mary the mother of god / with all the holy auÌ„gelles sayntê beholdynge and worshyppynge the holy blyssed sacrament For as saynt Gregorye sayth / who is he that wolde doubte that whaÌ„ heuen doth open / at the tyme that the preest doth consecrate the sacrament / and that the sone of god as the kynge of glory / doth descende vpon the aulter / that there doth not come a great multytude company of holy aungelles with hym For a myghty kynge or prynce whan he wyl showe his mageste he doth take with hym / his nobles / his knyghtes and other his seruauntes Shuld thaÌ„ the kynge of glory descende hym self alone and without company / I do not byleue it ¶ Thyrdly / ye shall consydre that without lyght the preest maye not say masse / whan there shulde be bothe Sonne / Moone / and sterres shynyng vpon the aulter And that doth sygnyfye / that there shall be in vs a hote and feruent loue of god / and a ferme stedfast fayth byleue Also the ornameÌ„tê of the masse ought to be dedycate and halowed And also the chalyce / the corporas / the aulter clothes and towelles / and other preparementes / ought also to be halowed / or elles a man maye not saye masse Also he that shall say the masse / ought to be a preest consecrate and otherwyse he maye not / were he as holy as our lady the mother of god For all the sayntes and auÌ„gelles in heuen can not saye nor do one masse ¶ Fourthly / ye shall consydre that all that is done and sayd in the masse hath a synguler mystery and deuocyon in it / so that the preest doth not say one worde / nor doth not moue ones his hande iÌ„ the masse but it doth sygnyfye some thynge of the lyfe of our lorde For as Aureolus sayth in CoÌ„peÌ„dio theologie / in the syxt boke in the .xviii. Chapytre / that the masse in a maner of spekynge is as full of dyuyne mysteryes / as the see of droppes of water / the sonne full of lyght the skye full of sterres And also all chrysten people beynge here in erthe and in purgatorye / and all the sayntes in heuen / haue a synguler ioye and gladnesse of the masse And some doctours do saye / that there is neuer a masse sayd here iÌ„ erth / but there is one soule delyuered out of purgatorye / or a synner conuerted / or a good and iuste man preserued and kept from fallynge in to temptacyon ¶ Fyfthly / ye maye also consydre the hygh dygnyte of the masse / for it is aorned with many dyuerse languages prayses Fyrste Hebreu / as Amen / alleluya / sabaoth / osanna also Greke / as kyry eleyson / chryste eleyson / also Laten / as dominus vobiscuÌ„ / pax tecum Also ye here the voyce of oure lorde in the gospell the whiche euery person ought to here with great deuocyon / not syttynge nor knelynge / but standynge vpryght / redy to fyght vnto deth for to defende it and the holy fayth And as ye do here god speke in the gospell / so ye here also the voyce of aungelles / as in Gloria in excelsis deo Also the voyce of the apostelles / as in the epystelles Also the voyce of the synner / in the CoÌ„fiteor Also ye here the voyce of the iuste man / as in the graduall or grayle / alleluya offetorye coÌ„munyon or coÌ„mon And therfore euery good chrysten person shall dyspose hym selfe deuoutly to here masse / with a feruent herte and with great reuerence / as yf he were vpon the mount of Caluerye / there dyd se our lorde god hangynge vpon the crosse O with what and howe great deuocyon shulde we be at the masse / and shuld remembre the blyssed passyon of our lorde god the whiche is represented showed in the masse ¶ The .xxi. Chapytre / what the persone shall rede in the mornynge whan he doth ryse from bedde O Lorde god Ihesu chryste / I thanke the most humbly that thou haste preserued kepte me this nyght from sodeyn deth / and also from euerlastynge daÌ„pnacyon / by the whiche neuertheles moche people must be seperate from the the whiche haue not done so many greuous offencê synnes as I haue done But thou hast preserued me to the entent that I may amende myne euyll lyuynge Wherfore I praye the good lorde / by thy incomparable mercy / and by the merytes of thy most blyssed mother of all sayntes / that thou wylt kepe and preserue me this daye from all maner of deedly synne and euyll thoughtes wordes / and from all vnlawfull workes to the entent that I maye so with a pure coÌ„scyence / entre in to thy temple / and there to fynde thy great mercy / wherby I shall be worthy to be the temple and
nere that he shuld resuscytate hym selfe from dethe / wherfore resuscytate hym nowe at this tyme. O my dere sone I haue seen the all redy wounded longe ago O yf I myght se the now resuscytate from deth gloryfied ī body O my dere son thou hast ofte tymes tolde that on the thyrde day thou wold ryse frō deth / now it draweth nere Mary thus prayenge / as the sondaye at mydnyghte her dere sone dyde ryse from deth / and dyde reioyse make glad his mother afore all other / wherfore ye shall saye in the honour of her this prayer folowynge ¶ Who that sayth this prayer with repentaunce of his synnes / shall meryte .lxxx. M. yeres of pardon O Lorde Ihesu chryste / I praye the forthe loue of that ioye whiche thy mother had / whan thou dyddest appere to her in the holy nyghte of Ester / And for that ioye that she had / whan she dyde se the gloryfyed with the dyuyne clerenesse / that thou wylt illumynate me with the .vii. gyftes of the holy ghost / to the entēt that all the dayes of my lyfe I maye accomplysshe thy dyuyne wyll whiche doth lyue and reygne euerlastyngly Amen ¶ The .xxix. Artycle of the masse HOwe the preest dothe take all that is within the chalyce and dothe emptye it leue it open This doth sygnyfye how our lorde on the thyrde daye / dyd ryse from deth and left the sepulchre emptye and open / and dyd fyrste appere to his heuy mother than afterwarde to his other frendes ¶ Orayson Pater nr̄ Aue maria O Blyssed lorde I thāke the that thou haste broken the bondes of deth / and areysynge thy holy body from deth / hast gloryfyed the same by the .iiii. vertues of the claryte or clerenes / I praye the good lorde graūt me to ryse in my soule from the deth of synne / to the entent that from hensforth I maye walke in the waye of reason that I do not serche ne taste any other thynge / but that which shall dure euerlastyngly in heuen Amen ¶ The .xxx. Artycle of the masse HOw the preest cōmeth with the chalyce towardes the ende of the aulter takynge wyne for the percepcyon This doth sygnyfye howe our lorde after that he was rysen from deth / dyd appere to his dyscyples eatynge with them fysshes rosted the which they had taken by the cōmaūdement of god ¶ Orayson Pater nr̄ Aue maria O Blyssed lorde Ihesu chryste / I do thanke the that after thy resurreccyon / thou hast appered to thy dyscyples in eatynge with them naturall meate I praye the good lorde norysshe me here in erthe with the breade of the holy scrypture / to the entent that after this tyme I may be parte taker of the heuenly and pardurable refeccyon Amen ¶ The .xxxi. Artycle of the masse HOwe the preest in the myddes of the aulter doth tourne hym ī dysioynynge and takynge his handes a sondre sayth / Dominus vobiscum This doth sygnyfye howe our lorde after that he was rysen from deth / dyd appere showe hym selfe amonges his dyscyples sayenge / Pax vobis / that is to saye / peace be with you / showynge his hādes fete persed through ¶ Orayson Pater nr̄ Aue maria O Blyssed lord I thanke the that thou hast appered to thy dyscyples / there where they were with the gates fast shytte to them / and hast showed amonges them thy fyue woundes / I praye the good lorde shytte and close faste the locke of my fyue wyttes interyoure exteryoure from all tēptacyons / that I maye be within illumynate with the lyght of thy dyuyne grace euerlastyngly Amen ¶ The .xxxii. Artycle of the masse HOwe the preest doth tourne hym sayeng / Ite missa est / that is to saye in a maner / go ye the mysterye of the masse is done This sygnyfyeth howe god afore that he dyd ascende in to heuen / he cōmaunded to his dyscyples / to go preche sayenge / Go through all the worlde and preche the holy gospell to all creatures And he that doth byleue and is baptysed / he shall be saued ¶ Orayson Pater nr̄ Aue maria O Blyssed lorde I do thanke the that by the prechynge of thyne apostelles hast called vs beynge infydelles / to the holy catholyke fayth / to the ende that al those that shuld byleue in the on erth shuld haue the fruycyon of the afterwarde in heuen / I pray the good lorde graunt me to byleue in herte faythfully / with my mouthe truely / and by my workes fruytfully / that so I maye dye salutaryly / and lyue pardurably Amen ¶ The .xxxiii. Artycle of the masse HOwe the preest / whan he hath sayd and red all he gyueth the benedyccion vpon all those that be there presēt than he dothe tourne hym from the people retournynge thyther from whens he came This doth sygnyfie that after that the sone of god had accomplysshed all thynge after the wyll of god his father / he gaue his benedyccyon to all those that were vpō the mount of Olyuete / dyd ascende ī to heuen where he doth syt on the ryght hande of god his father ¶ Orayson Pater nr̄ Aue maria O Blyssed lorde I thanke the that after that thou had accomplysshed all thynge in erth / after the wyll of the father celestyall for the helth and profyte of vs / thou dyddest ascēde in to heuen / I pray the good lorde drawe my herte to the in heuen / to the entent that onely I maye loue serche the ī erth / and that here beynge in erth I maye be alwayes with the by desyre in heuen / where I maye se the syttynge on the ryght hande of thy father Amen HEre endeth the seconde boke of the masse / treatynge of the lyfe / passyon / and resurreccyon of our lord Ihesu chryste / in the which euery good catholyke person maye be in his deuocyon occupyed / and specyally in the masse tyme. For as doctours do wryte there be .xii. vertues in remembrynge the lyfe and passyon of our lorde ¶ The fyrste vertue is / that the synner ofte tymes is conuerted therby / from his euyll peruerse lyuynge to good and holy lyuyng so that god graunt hym repentaunce of his synnes / true confessyon and penaunce afore his deth ¶ The seconde vertue is / that the remembraunce of the passyon of our lorde is a medycyne agaynst the tēptacyon of the deuyll For howe great soeuer the temptacyon be / yf the man remembre cordyally the passyon of oure lorde / tournynge his iyes deuoutly vpon the crosse of god / he shal be delyuered from the temptacyon ¶ The thyrde vertue is / that our lord wyl make a sure and a stedfaste peace betwene the synner and his father celestyall ¶ The fourth vertue is / that all trybulacyons aduersytes / syckenes / dyseases / displeasures / and temptacyons / shall be easye and lyght for that man
sygnyfye howe Pylate hath gyuen and myxte the bytter sentence of deth / with the humanyte of oure lorde Ihesu chryste ¶ The .xviii. the breade thus myxte made / it is couered with a cloth This doth sygnyfye howe after the sentence gyuen by Pylate / the Iewes dyd cloth our lorde agayne with his owne clothes ¶ The .xix. the breade begynneth to ascende ryse This doth sygnyfye howe swete Ihesus charged with the heuye crosse / dyd ascende vp to the mount of Caluerye ¶ The .xx. the ouen is prepared for to bake the breade This doth sygnyfye that the Iewes dyd prepare the crosse / for to crucyfye our lorde vpon the same ¶ The .xxi. the fyre is put in to the ouen / wherwith it is made hotte This dothe sygnyfye the brennynge feruent loue / wherwith the herte of our lorde was kyndled set on fyre for to saue mankynde ¶ The .xxii. the cooles asshes be drawen out of the ouen the ouen made clene This doth sygnyfye howe our lorde ones agayne was spoyled of his robes by the Iewes / was lefte all naked ¶ The .xxiii. the breade is put in to the ouen to be baked This doth sygnyfie that the Iewes dyd cast our lorde vpon the crosse and there dyd fasten and nayle hym with great nayles ¶ The .xxiiii. than the ouen is iust stopped that there go none ayre forthe of it This dothe sygnyfye that the sonne was darke stopped from his lyghte at the deth of oure lorde Ihesu chryste ¶ Fynally whan the breade is well baked it is drawen out of the ouen This doth sygnyfye howe after that our lorde was wel dryed and baked with the hete of the sonne / he was taken downe from the crosse And as a man doth shytte locke vp the breades so was the body of our lorde buryed / shytte fast and kepte / and the thyrde daye dyd ryse from deth All this done / the breade is perfyte / wherof our lorde Ihesu chryste doth speke sayenge I am the lyuynge breade descended from heuen all those that do eate of this breade shall lyue euerlastyngly O what it is swete to here in the ere 's of synners Our lorde doth moue exorte vs poore synners spoyled and voyde of all vertues / to receyue his blyssed body for the meate and reseccyon of our soule But O good lorde man maye say / what am I that wolde presume to receyue the for neyther heuen nor erth can not coÌ„prehende the / and shall I receyue the. O good lorde / howe shall I be so bolde as to receyue the / whiche hath done no maner of good afore thy face / but ofte tymes haue greued and offended thy dyuynyte The holy aungelles tremble for fere in thy presence and the iust men fere and doubt thy power and yet exhorteth and moueth me to receyue the. O most benygne lord Ihesu yf thou haddest not spoken this / who wold byleue it Yf thou haddest not coÌ„mauÌ„ded this / who wolde haue ben so bolde as to do it Noe the iust and good man was an hondreth yeres in preparynge a shyppe to saue eyght persones And howe myght I prepare my selfe in so lytell space to receyue the / whiche hast made heuen / erth and all creatures Moyses thy faythfull seruaunt and frende / made a tabernacle of precyous wode couered with golde / for to put in the tables of thy .x. coÌ„maundemeÌ„tes / and Ian vnclene creature shuld I presume to receyue the whiche hath made all lawes all creatures Salomon the prudent kynge was .vii. yeres iÌ„ makynge a precyous temple for to honoure worshyp the there / there dyd offre thousandes of offrynges / and I a poore synner howe shall I be so bolde as to receyue the in my soule / whiche hath not occupyed my selfe deuoutly one houre of this daye O good lord what great dylygence haue they gyuen in the olde testament for to please the / howe lytell haue I trauayled and busyed me to receyue the worthely There is great dyffereÌ„ce betwene the tabernacle of Moyses with the relyques / and thy blyssed body Yf they haue showed suche deuocyon afore the arche or tabernacle of the testament / moche more shulde I prepare my selfe to receyue the blyssed body of our lorde Ihesu chryste in the holy sacrament O father of heuen albeit that I shulde be a thousande yeres in preparynge my selfe / and that I shuld haue the holynes of all sayntê the charyte of all auÌ„gelles and archauÌ„gelles / the desyre of all iust pernes / yet neuertheles I knowlege my selfe vnworthy to receyue thy onely sone Ihesu chryste in the holy sacrament O man this thou shall vnderstaÌ„de after the dygnyte of the holy sacrament / for there is no person ne creature in heuen so holy / nor in erth so iust that myght worthely receyue it But thou shall vnderstaÌ„de and knowe for to coÌ„forte the / that whan the man dothe prepare hym selfe to it by true coÌ„trycyon and confessyon that god doth not regarde what he is or hath ben / but onely doth se regarde yf he wold be better thaÌ„ he is / for god doth than forget all his synnes / and doth molyfye hym selfe by the holy sacrament And therfore the maÌ„ shall proue and serche his coÌ„scyence in these thre poyntes ¶ Fyrste / yf his conscyence doth moue and prycke hym in any of the deedly synnes ¶ Secondaryly / yf his wyl be vnyed and ioyned to the wyll of god / so that all thynge do please hym whiche doth please god / that all thynge do dysplease hym / whiche doth dysplease god ¶ Thyrdly / yf the man do fynde in hym selfe that charyte the loue of god is augmented by the holy sacrament / and that the fere of god is not dymynysshed In these poyntes the man shall examyne hym selfe And yf he fynde that by oft tymes goynge to the holy sacrament / the loue of god is not feruent and quycke in hym and the fere of god is dymynysshed / than by humylyte he shall refrayne and shall not go so ofte For the lyfe of one man is the deth of another / but yf he fynde that the loue of god is more ferueÌ„t and quycke in hym by reason of the same / and that the fere of god doth encrease rather than dymynysshe / he shall ofte tymes go to the holy sacrament after the counceyll of a good coÌ„fessoure and ghostly father For the desyre of god is / that he maye dwell in the herte of man and by the same habytacyon or presence of the holy sacrament / the man doth drawe hym selfe from transytory thynges / doth delyte in heuenly thynges Also by his holy body / ours is renewed / with it is vnyed and ioyned so that all thynge is oure whiche belongeth vnto hym / so that his herte and ours is all one our body is his our wyttes be his / our power / and all our membres be vnyed
maye consydre in two maners and sortes ¶ Fyrste / it semeth that god is lesser than the man / for he doth applye gyue his wyll to the wyll of the man so that he doth descēde from heuen to the erth vpon the aulter / whan it pleaseth the man / that is to say the preest And doth suffre hym selfe to be vsed as well of his enemyes as of his frendes / doth showe no maner of euyll nor aduersytye And so it semeth outwardely that the man is greater than god / for god is obedyent to the man ¶ Secōdaryly / we may consydre the smalnes or lytelnes of god in the holy sacrament For he dothe gyue hym selfe so frely to the man / that he maye do with hym what he wyll He doth suffre the man to vse and receyue hym as he wyll / to the entent that euery man whiche is lytell poore of vertues shulde receyue great rychesse in his soule ¶ The seconde reason the man is feble and redy to synne Therfore oure lorde Ihesu chryste hath gyuen hym self in the sacramēt to the entēt that the man therby shuld vaynquysshe all tēptacyons and inclynacyons to synne / For the multytude of our synnes towardes the power of the holy sacrament is not / but as a droppe of water towardes the hole see So we may alwayes by the holy sacrament / make satysfaccyon for oure synnes Therfore saynt Ambrose sayth / so ofte as the man receyueth the holy sacramēt so oft receyueth he remyssyon of his synnes And for so moche as man is alwayes redy to synne / therfore he shall haue alwayes with hym the medycyne of his soule / for the man can not better reconcyle hym selfe to god / than by the holy sacrament Therfore those that do not go to the holy sacrament / do showe that they do not desyre grace ne mercy of god thynkynge to come to heuen with out god Notwithstandyng the nerest way to come to heuen / is by the holy sacrament Therfore the prophete Dauid sayth assaye and proue howe swete our lorde god is ¶ Thyrdly / the man is enuyroned amonges his enemyes / as the deuyll / the flesshe / and the worlde Wherfore the man lyueth alwayes with fere and drede / and is neuer in suretie And to the entent that the man do not fere beynge in this great myserie and peryll / and that his enemyes do not vaynquysshe hym nor wounde hym to deth / therfore god hath gyuen hym selfe in the holy sacramēt as a faythfull felowe cōpaygnon whiche styfly wyll tary with hym and not departe / vnto he haue vaynquysshed all his enemyes / the which thynge god dyd promyse to his dyscyples in the last supper and to all men that do receyue hym sayenge / I wyll be with you / vnto the ende and consummacyon of the worlde This good compaygnon defendeth / techeth / and doth solycyts the man in all thyng that he hath to do and that is necessary for hym / and doth kepe and take hede of the man / in all payne / tēptacyon / trybulacyon / in pouertie of spyryte / and in all busynes that maye chaunce vnto hym Therfore the man shall call demaunde the cōmynge of this cōpaygnon / for he doth make the slouthfull person quycke / and that thyng that is heuy lyght / eygre and bytter swete And he doth make ryche those that be poore and those that be desolate and in heuynes / he doth reioyse and conforte them For saynt Paule sayth / I may in hym whiche dothe coroborate me / do all thynge / that is to saye in the holy sacramēt the mā may fynde in cōpanye many swete ioyes / ye yf the man wolde serche he shulde fynde all that he wolde / as vyctorye in tēptacyon / ioye in trybulacyon / in syckenes pacyence / in persecucyon pleasure Therfore Dauid sayth / I wyll not fere what soeuer man shall do to me for god is with me ¶ Fourthly / a good man fereth god for his tyme loste / the whiche he hath consumed in syn̄e without doynge any vertuous dedes fewe or none In this may be cōsydered the great displeasure of the mā which is moche to be complayned / that for two reasons ¶ The fyrste / that so longe as the man is in deedly synne / so longe is he in the maledyccyon of god / and is eueryday more than a hondreth tymes cursed of the good persones sayenge theyr houres / by the prophete Dauid in the psalter / where it is wryten O good lorde cursed be those whiche do not obserue and kepe thy cōmaundementes ¶ Secondaryly / so longe as the man is in deedly synne / he doth lease all his good workes that he doth hath done And yf he dye in any deedly synne / all is lost O good lorde / howe fewe people do remembre that O man remēbre that yf temporall goodes and rychesse be lost / there is no thynge lost / but yf the soule be lost / all is lost yf honour be lost / moche is lost but yf the soule be lost all is lost And to the entent that the man do not contynewe in this myserye and that he do not fall in dyspayre the most benygne Ihesus hath gyuen hym selfe in the sacrament / to the entent that all those whiche afore were cursed / by hym agayne maye be blyssed / and whose workes were deed / by hym shulde reuyue That is to say the good workes whiche ones were in lyfe / whiche nowe reuyue And so the man doth repare and recouer by the holy sacrament / all his tyme loste And in receyuynge the holy sacramēt the man doth a great worke / so that he can do no thynge better / in case that he receyue it as it aperteyneth after the ordynaūce of the holy churche / for therby the myserye of the man is amended ¶ Fyfthly / the man is very poore of vertues / so that he can do no good thynge of hym selfe Therfore god hath gyuen hym selfe in the sacrament for consolacyon and cōforte / as a marchaunt with all the treasoure and rychesse of his grace and mercy / so that the man maye surely of hym demaunde aske what soeuer he wyll / and god wyll gyue it hym by and in the holy sacrament / to the entent that the man may so satysfye his pouertie Wherof Salomon speketh sayenge / He is come as a shyppe of a marchaunt / the which brought his breade frō a farre coūtre This marchaunt is the dyuynyte the shyp is the humanyte / the whiche hath brought the dyuynyte from a farre countre / as from heuen in to the see of this worlde The breade whiche he hath brought in this shyppe is the holy sacrament / as he sayth of hym self I am the lyuynge breade descended come from heuen This breade is so abundaunt and so fertyll in it selfe / that it is suffycyēt for all those that demaundeth it and loueth it Therfore god
wyll of god / and the greatnes of synne ¶ Fyfthly / deedly synne maketh place for the deuyll / by his temptacyons in the soule of man / but the holy sacrament doth arme the soule of man agaynst the deuyll and his dartes or temptacyons For where he seeth the blode of our lorde / he flyeth from thens and the auÌ„gelles do helpe the man to fyght agaynst the deuyll and enemye of hell ¶ Syxtly / deedly synne inclyneth the man and doth plucke hym to many other deedly synnes / yf it be not incontynent wasshed taken awaye by true penaunce / but by the blyssed sacrament man becoÌ„meth stedfaste and stronge in grace and redy to all vertue so longe as he doth not fall to synÌ„e agayne ¶ Seuenthly / by deedly synne man is beseged of the deuyll / but by the blyssed sacrament he is vnyed with god / so that he loue god wherby he doth pourchase and obteyne taste and sauoure of euerlastynge lyfe ¶ Eyghtly / the soule of man dyeth of euerlastynge deth by deedly synÌ„e / so that it knoweth not what to do that maye be acceptable to god / and to hym selfe profytable / but the holy sacrament doth preserue and kepe the soule of man from the deth of synne / so that he doth abyde in the lyfe of grace / And his workê be acceptable to god / and to hym selfe profytable ¶ Nynthlye / deedly synne maketh a man sorowfull pensyfe heuy of herte / and harde and euyll wyllynge to all vertue / but the blyssed sacrameÌ„t maketh the man worthy mete redy to all vertue / and tourneth all his inwarde myght towardes god / and spyrytuall ioye and gladnes ¶ Tenthly / man doth depryuate hym selfe by deedly synne of the passyon / payne / and tourment of our lorde Ihesu chryste / of mary the mother of god / and of all the sayntes Also of all the good workes and coÌ„munyon of the holy churche / and of all the goodnes in heuen and in erth / but by the holy sacrament man maketh hym selfe parte taker of all the goodnes that the sone of god hath done vpon the erth / and of all other good dedes ¶ Eleuenthly / man is dayly cursed of god of the holy churche for deedly synne / wherby man hath alwayes an inconstaunt and troubled conscyence / but by the holy sacrament he pourchaseth in his soule / a swete spyrytuall ioye and gladnes / and great peace and rest in his conscyence / the which doth passe all gladnes pleasure that man may haue in all his lyfe in this worlde ¶ Twelfthly / man is for deedly synne put out of the gate of Paradyse and of euerlastynge lyfe dysinheryte of the soueraygne rychesse / but by well and worthely receyuynge the holy sacrament it is forgyuen as to a chylde heyre of the precyous treasure of the glory of heuen / the whiche they onely shall possede and euerlastyngly vse and enioye / whiche worthely / bodely / and ghostly receyue here in erth the holy sacrament / As chryste hym self sayth as it is wryten in the begynnynge of the thyrde boke Hic est panis c. This is the breade descended from heuen / and all those whiche eateth of this breade shall lyue euerlastyngly / to the whiche brynge vs Ihesu chryste very god and man / inclosed and conteyned in the holy sacrament Amen ¶ This prayer shall a man saye whan he goth to the holy sacrament / or for to here masse deuoutly I Do salute the moste holy body of oure lorde Ihesu chryste / conteyned in this sacrament / I do confesse knowlege the with my lyppes / and with my hert I desyre coueyte the / I pray the that thou wylte this daye come to conforte my poore soule gracyously / the whiche desyreth and coueyteth to receyue the holy oblacyon and fountayne of all grace / to the ende that I may be with the in ioye and consolacyon of thy presence / in body in soule O benygne lorde Ihesu chryste / haue not regarde to my many folde synnes / but haue regarde to thy great mercy / for thou arte he by whom all the worlde is made delyuered Thou arte the innocent lambe which is offred vp this daye to the father of heuen / for all the worlde O most swetest heueÌ„ly breade O most ioyfull buurayge or drynke / Gyue to my mouth a swete sauoure of thy holsome presence / illumynate me with thy loue / take awaye my malyce and synne and put in me vertue and grace to the helthe of my soule O most worthy sacrament / I praye the that by thy presence all myne enemyes maye be chased awaye / all my synÌ„es forgyuen / and all euyll temptacyon withstande and put awaye / graunt me a good and holy lyfe / correcte my maners and condycyons / and all my workes and dedes / tourne them to thy wyll O good lorde open heuen come to me for to illumynate my vnderstandynge by this newe lyght / illumynate my desyres / and corroborate strengthen my truste and hope / to the entent that from hensforth my lyfe maye so amende / that fynally I maye come to good ende Amen ¶ Another deuoute prayer that a man shal saye in goynge to the holy sacrament O Lorde Ihesu chryste I desyre and coueyte this day to receyue thy blyssed body / as perfytely as mary thy most honourable mother receyued it in her vyrgynall wombe so good lorde descende and come in to my soule / not accordynge and after my deseruynges / but after thy great mercy O lorde Ihesu chryste I desyre and coueyte this daye to receyue thy blyssed blode / in wasshynge awaye all my synnes O lorde Ihesu chryste / this daye I coueyte to receyue thy blyssed spyryte / in recouerynge all my tyme loste and mysspent O benygne lorde Ihesu chryste / I desyre this daye to receyue thy blyssed soule / in infusyon of thy dyuyne charyte loue O lorde Ihesu chryste / this day I coueyte and desyre to receyue thy blyssed dyuynyte / in assuraunce and securytye / of the euerlastynge lyfe Amen ¶ Saye thre tymes this verse afore that ye go to the holy sacrameÌ„t O lorde god I am not worthy that thou entre in to my howse but speke onely and my poore soule shall be hole Than go forthe and receyue the sone of god with all mekenes and feruent desyre And whan thou shalt haue receyued hym / rede this prayer whiche our lady dyd speke / after that she had receyued the sone of god / the whiche was this psalme Magnificat anima mea dominum ¶ The Magnificat in englysshe MY soule dothe magnyfye our lorde And my spyryte hath reioysed iÌ„ god my sauyoure For he hathe beholden the humylyte of his mayde seruaunt / therfore all generacions shall blysse me For he whiche is myghtye / hathe done great thynges to me / and his name is holy And his mercy is from generacyon to
endeth the regystre or table of the fyrst boke of the masse And hereafter foloweth the table of the seconde boke ¶ Here begynneth the table of the seconde boke of the masse FYrste a prayer of our blyssed Lady in the Sonne / in the whiche you shall meryte .xi. M. yeres of 〈◊〉 The fyrste Artycle ¶ A prayer in the honoure of the natyuyte / of our sauyour Ihesu chryste / for to bere the crosse of penaunce The .ii. Artycle ¶ A prayer in the honour of the circuÌ„cysion of our sauyour Ihesu chryste / for to be circuÌ„cysed The .iii. Artycle ¶ A prayer in the honour of the thre Kyngê for pure conscyence The .iiii. Artycle ¶ A prayer in the honoure of the presentacion of our sauyour Ihesu chryste / bycause that the humanyte of Ihesu chryste / shall not in vs be loste The .v. Artycle ¶ A prayer that the swete chylde Ihesu fled in to Egypte / for pacyently to bere / suffre all persecucyons The .vi. Artycle ¶ A prayer that the swete Ihesus was thre dayes lost / for to be sought The .vii. Arty. ¶ A prayer that the swete Ihesus was fouÌ„de in the temple / for to be alwayes obedyeÌ„t vnto god The .viii. Artycle ¶ A prayer that he was baptysed in iordan for to be puryfyed of all synnes The .ix. Artycle ¶ A prayer that our lorde Ihesu chryste fasted the .xl. dayes / for alwayes to abstayne from all synne The .x. Artycle ¶ A prayer that Lazarus was resuscyte / for to be resuscyte c. The .xi. Artycle ¶ A prayer that our lorde Ihesu ryd vpon an asse the palme soÌ„day c. The .xii. Arty. ¶ A prayer secondly of the vysyon and apparycyon of saynt Gregorye the which one shall meryte .xlvi. M. yeres of pardon ¶ A prayer that our lorde Ihesu chryste in holdynge his last supper The .xiii. Artycle ¶ A prayer that our sauyoure chryste swet water and blode The .xiiii. Artycle ¶ A prayer that our lord Ihesu chryst was taken and bounde of the cursed Iewes The .xv. Artycle ¶ A prayer / that oure Lorde Ihesu was brought afore the Iuges / where they mocked reputed hiÌ„ as a fole The .xvi. Arty. ¶ A prayer that o r lorde Ihesu chryst was brought before Pylate / for to iuge hym self The .xvii. Artycle ¶ A prayer that our sauyoure chryste was condeÌ„pned to the deth c. The .xviii. Arty. ¶ A prayer that our sauyour Ihesu chryste was crucyfyed and lyft vp in the eyre vpoÌ„ the crosse The .xix. Artycle ¶ A prayer that our sauyour Ihesu chryste was drawen and hanged vpon the crosse The .xx. Artycle ¶ A prayer that our lord Ihesu chryst was mocked and scorned hangyng on the crosse The .xxi. Artycle ¶ A prayer that our lorde Ihesu spoke the .vii. wordes vpon the crosse / for to obteyne pardon of the .vii. deedly synÌ„es The .xxii. Artycle ¶ A prayer that in the deth of our lord Ihesu chryste / the sonne loste his clerenes / for to haue compassyon of the passyon martyre of Ihesu chryste The .xxiii. artycle ¶ A prayer that our lord Ihesu chryst prayed on the crosse / for to haue a good houre / in the houre of his deth The .xxiiii. artycle ¶ A prayer that our lorde Ihesu chryste coÌ„uerted in the crosse / thre estates of persones / for to haue and knowlege of the synnes for goten The .xxv. artycle ¶ A prayer that oure lorde Ihesu chryste is dyscended in to hell / for the delyuerynge of the soules of purgatorye The .xxvi. arty ¶ A prayer that our lorde Ihesu was takeÌ„ of the crosse / for alwayes preserue and procede in vertues The .xxvii. Artycle ¶ A prayer that our lord Ihesu chryst was put in sepulchre of Ioseph for to obteyne of god a good holy lyfe The .xxviii. artycle ¶ Thyrdly a prayer of the gloryous resurreccyon of Ihesu chryste / in the whiche one shall meryte .lxxx. M. yeres of 〈◊〉 ¶ A prayer that our sauyour Ihesu chryste dyd resuscyte and ryse of the deth / for c. The .xxix. Artycle ¶ A prayer that our lorde Ihesu chryst made redy after his resurreccyon / for to be fortyfied at the holy sacrameÌ„t The .xxx. arty ¶ A prayer that our lorde Ihesu chryst dyd showe his fyue woundes / for conseruacion of the fyue wyttes The .xxxi. Artycle ¶ A prayer that our lorde Ihesu chryst sent his apostles to preche / for to obteyne of god a stronge fayth The .xxxii. Artycle ¶ A prayer that our sauyour Ihesu chyrste ascended in to heuen / for to be alwayes occupyed of the thynges celestyalles The .xxxiii. Artycle ¶ The .xii. fruytes that the man may obteyne in deuoutly remembryng the passyon of our sauyoure Ihesu chryste ¶ Here endeth the table of the seconde boke ¶ And here begynneth the table of the thyrde Boke of the masse THe fyrste Chapytre / what thynge is necessary for the man that wyl receyue worthely the holy sacrament ¶ The seconde Chapytre / howe the man goth in thre maners of wayes to the holy sacrament in deedly synne ¶ The thyrde Chapytre / yf the man maye go vnworthely to the holy sacrament / or be dampned for certayne deedly synnes which he hath forgoten / and that he knoweth not ¶ The fourth Chapytre / wherby the man maye trust that he receyueth the holy sacrament worthely / and who is in the state of grace ¶ The fyfth Chapytre / yf the man be bouÌ„de in and for any cause / to confesse hym more than ones in the yere ¶ The .vi. Chapytre / howe and in what the man shall serche and examyne hym self that worthely wyl go to the holy sacrameÌ„t ¶ The .vii. Chapytre / howe the man shall confesse hym selfe / fyrste of the .xii. artycles of the holy catholyke fayth ¶ The .viii. Chapyter / of the .xii. vertues of the holy ghost / wherof thou shal coÌ„fesse the. ¶ The .ix. Chapytre / of the .xi. Capytall synnes / whiche be called crymynall ¶ The .x. Chapytre / of the .x. coÌ„mauÌ„dementes / the whiche euery persone is bounde to knowe ¶ The .xi. Chapytre / of the ix strauÌ„ge synnes / howe a man shall confesse hym of the same ¶ The .xii. Chapytre / howe a man shall coÌ„fesse hym self brefly of the .viii. beatytudes ¶ The .xiii. Chapytre / of the .vii. gyftes of the holy ghost / and howe a man shall confesse hym of the same ¶ The .xiiii. Chapytre / howe a man shall confesse hym selfe of the .vii. sacramentes / of the holy churche ¶ The .xv. Chapytre / howe a man shall confesse hym of the .vii. deedly synnes ¶ The .xvi. Chapytre / howe a man shall confesse hym self of the .vii. workes of mercy bodely ¶ The .xvii. Chapytre / of the .vii. workes of mercy spyrytually ¶ The .xviii. Chapytre / how the maÌ„ may confesse hym of the syxe synnes / whiche be agaynst the holy ghost ¶ The .xix. Chapytre / howe a man shall confesse hym of the fyue
coÌ„maundement and that he myght here masse yf he wolde in rysynge a lytell erlyer in the mornynge / than the mayster is excused / and the seruaunt onely shall make acoÌ„pte therof afore god ¶ The .xi. Chapytre Yf it be suffycyeÌ„t that a man here one masse the Sondaye / in leuynge the sermon and euensonge the same daye AFter the coÌ„maundement of god man is bounde to kepe sanctyfye the holy daye by good workê not onely by one good worke as to here masse / but rather by many good workes / for as Doctours do saye / that man whiche wyll accoÌ„plysshe the thyrde coÌ„mauÌ„dement of god / as to sanctyfye the sondaye he shall do that same daye after his power / syxe thynges ¶ Fyrste he shal here masse as is aforesayd ¶ SecoÌ„daryly he shal also here the sermon yf it be possyble / for yf the man dyde leue or lease it by contempte or custome / he shulde synÌ„e greatly And yf he can not here the sermon / he shall rede in the stede of the sermon some other good thynge ¶ Thyrdly / the man also shal gyue that same daye an almous for the loue of god / yf he be of power And in case that he be not of substaunce to gyue almous it is suffycyent / yf he haue a good wyll so to do ¶ Fourthly / the man shall praye that same daye for his greatest helth ¶ Fyfthly / he shall remembre that daye the goodnesse and benefytes that he hath receyued of god / princypally that god hath creat hym of nothynge / and hath called hym vnto the holy catholyke fayth And delyuered hym by his precyous blode / and this doyng the man shall loue god with all his herte ¶ Syxtly / the man is also bounde the same daye / to make a generall confessyon of all his mortall synnes / the whiche he hathe done sens his last confessyon / and therof to haue contrycion and repentaunce bytwene god and his conscyence For this coÌ„maundement of god / to sanctyfye the Sondaye / no man maye accomplysshe beynge in the state of deedly synne Yet neuertheles the man is not bounde to confesse hym but at the tyme ordeyned and instytute by the churche but in certayne causes hereafter in the fyfth Chapytre of this boke wryten Yet he is bounde that same daye to make a generall confessyon and to haue contrycyon / and to purpose neuer after to synne ¶ The .xii. Chapytre / howe the man shall behaue hym selfe in the masse tyme / after the ordynaunce of the holy churche and the lawe Canon WE fynde wrytten in Canon lawe in dyuerse places / that oure mother the holy churche hath ordeyned nyne ordinauÌ„ces or maners of the masse / the which all chrysten people ought to kepe ¶ Fyrste / the man albeit that he haue herde one masse / yet he shall here the hygh masse / yf it be not that he be lawfully excused for certayne necessyties / as is aforesayde ¶ SecoÌ„daryly / the maÌ„ shal also here masse in his parysshe churche / and he shall not go by contempte to any other ¶ Thyrdly / those that wyll deuoutly here masse / they shall leue theyr hawkes theyr dogges at the churche dore / or elles at home in theyr howses ¶ Fourthly / the laye people shall not sytte or stande by the hyghe aulter / pryncypally whyles that the masse is sayd And aboue all the women shall absent them from the aulter ¶ Fyfthly / the man shal kepe scylence / and shall make no trouble nor noyse iÌ„ the masse tyme / but shall praye with a feruent herte ¶ Syxtly / euery man whan he heryth the gospell red shal stande vpryght redy with his body to defeÌ„de the holy catholyke fayth / whiche god hath spoken in the holy gospell ¶ Seuenthly / euery person herynge the name of Ihesus shall knele or bowe with his knees / or he shall inclyne with his heed in sygne and token of reuerence / for so ofte as the person doth it / he doth meryte threscore dayes of pardon / gyuen by two popes ¶ Eyghtly / all good catholyke people shal knele downe of both theyr knees whan the preest doth lyft our lord Ihesu in the masse and shal worshyp the holy sacrament with great reuerence ¶ The .ix. euery good chrysten maÌ„ and woman shall offre some thynge at the masse / for god spekyng in the olde testament sayth Ye shall not come in my presence voyde or Idle / that is to saye / that at the leste ye shal offre vnto god a feruent prayer and orayson And there where it is the custome / the man shall gyue iÌ„ the masse tyme temporall goodes and offrynges But to this no man is bounde except in great hygh feestes after the custome of the countre or place ¶ The .xiii. Chapytre / Yf the man be bounde to here masse of his Curate / and in his owne parysshe IT is wryten iÌ„ the Canon lawe / that he whiche contempneth his owne curate churche / and goth to here masse iÌ„ another place shal be chased out of that churche where he goth vnto This coÌ„maundement hath our mother holy churche gyuen / for to coÌ„strayne them that do rebell agaynst theyr curates / in contempnynge them and also theyr mother the holy churche / and to brynge them to subieccyon and humylytye Yet neuerthelesse yf any man do go to here dyuyne seruyce in any other churche / without any contempte / but rather that he hath greater deuocyon there or better place / or that he doth here the sermon there and other seruyces / whiche he can not here in his parysshe churche or for any other iuste cause / he dothe not offende / in case that his bysshop or curate haue not forbyd hym the same ¶ The .xiiii. Chapytre / Yf masse maye be sayde in places not halowed / as within the howse WE haue it wryten iÌ„ the Canon lawe / that in as moche as is possyble / a man shall not say masse withoute places dedycate and halowed / and pryncypally in the shyppes beynge vpon the see / for the dauÌ„ger that maye come therof It is better to be sayd in the feldes vpon a stone halowed or dedycate sette in a case of wood with two fayre to welles spred vpon the same / or one to well doubled c. There can no masse be sayde in a howse or a chambre / without lyceÌ„ce of the bysshop but the freers whiche be called freers prechers / myneurs haue pryuylege and lycence to say masse in the howse / in tyme of necessytye / howe be it they maye not mynyste the sacrament to no person vnder the payne of excomynycacyon / withoute lycence of the Curate ¶ The .xv. Chapytre / yf a man the sondaye in the masse tyme may saye that thynge / whiche is coÌ„maunde hym in penaunce SOme doctours do saye / that the soÌ„dayes whaÌ„ a maÌ„ hereth but one masse that he ought not to say or
rede any thynge ioyned to hym in penaunce The reason is / for with one peny a man can not paye two credytours or dettours / so also a man can not at one tyme accomplysshe two cōmaundementes / for ye be bounde to here masse and to saye your iniūccyon Agaynst this there be certayne other doctours whiche do saye / that there is none apparēce nor reason therin / for man maye obserue and kepe all the cōmaūdementes of god at one tyme / wherfore a man maye at one tyme here masse also say his iniūccyon for otherwyse amonges an hondreth persones / there shulde not one here masse well / nor shuld not also say well his iniūccyon / whiche be so symple that they knowe none otherwyse to do Wherfore he that knoweth howe to do / he shall say his iniūccyon eyther afore or after the masse for the suretie therof And that sayd he shal cōmende it vnto god / in remembrynge in the masse tyme the passyon of our lorde / as hereafter is wryten ¶ The .xvi. Chapytre / Yf the man whiche cōmeth after that the masse is begon / be yet bounde on the sondayes / to here another masse BYcause that al the workes of god be parfyte / So he wyll also that ours in lykewyse be parfyte not dyuyded nor broken / for an hondreth peaces do not make one hole peace It is cōmaunded in the spyrytuall lawe / that euery man shall here one hole masse to the ende on the sondayes and holydayes He that heryth than but a peace of the masse doth not accomplysshe the cōmaundement of the holy churche But he that cōmeth a lytell to late / after cōfiteor / or kyryeleyson / or there aboutes and no further / he is not bounde to here another masse For a lytell is in maner as nothyng pryncypally whan it is not done by cōtempte / yf he com after that the halfe or the thyrde parte of the masse be done / than he is boūde to here another hole masse Those that do helpe and serue at the masse / whiche ofte tymes be letted in the masse tyme / rēnynge for insence / wyne / or any other thynge touchynge the masse / be excused / they be not bounde to here another hole masse ¶ The .xvii. Chapytre / yf it be requysyte that the man here and vnderstande the wordes of the masse AFter Canon lawe / it is cōmaunded to all chrysten people to here masse / howe be it the preest doth somtyme rede so lowe that those whiche be but a lytell from hym can not here nor vnderstande the wordes of the masse Wherfore the doctours do saye / that it is suffycyent yf the man be present at the masse whyther he here and vnderstande the wordes or no. And whyther he be farre of or nere / so that he be present and it is suffycyent yf he do se the preest But yf there be any that vnderstande Latyn / he maye go nere to the aulter whan the preest dothe rede the holy gospell to here it Therfore many symple folkes do euyll / whiche do make noyse and rumoure in rennynge here and there whan the preest doth lyft our lorde / and do trouble both the preest and other persones of theyr deuocyon He that can not se our lorde without rēnynge here and there and troublynge other folkes / he shall tourne his face to the preest / in castynge his iyes deuoutely towardes the grounde thynkynge with the Publycane / whiche beynge farre of in the temple / dyde esteme hym selfe that he was not worthy / to lyft vp his iyes in to heuen but knockynge on his brest sayd O good lorde haue mercy of me poore synner / for the synner shall oft tymes cast his iyes towardes the grounde by humylyte / whan the preest doth lyft our lorde in the masse / estemynge hym selfe not to be worthy to beholde the holy blyssed sacrament with his iyes ¶ The .xviii. Chapytre / what profyte cōmeth by the masse / and what persones maye haue and vse it OF the masse do come honour glory / and helth Honoure to god / glory to the aungelles / and sayntes / And helthe to the men and women ¶ Fyrste of the masse / the holy blyssed trynyte receyueth glory / honour / prayse / ī the honour glory wherof the masse is sayd done and the holy trynyte is there present ¶ Secondaryly / the aungelles and all the sayntes in heuen do reioyse of the masse / for they be glad of all thyng that is done in the erthe to the honoure and laude of god / and pryncypally whan god is honoured by thē and in them ¶ Thyrdly / of the masse doth come profyte and conforte to the soules lyenge in purgatorye For there is no vertue nor prayer so profytable vnto them as the masse done or sayd for them / for by the same / theyr deedly synnes be forgyuen also venyall synnes And that is by the holy sacrament / whiche the preest doth offre in remembraunce of the passyon of our lorde Ihesu chryste ¶ Fourthly / the masse also gyueth conforte and socoure to the lyuynge persones / for by the same the man is oft tymes delyuered frō many perylles of the body as is declared in the .xxiii. Chapytre in the last condycyon or degre in the .xxiiii. Chapytre folowynge ¶ Fyfthly / the man also ī his lyfe doth get and obtayne pardon of many venyall synnes whiche he doth cōmyt dayly / wherof he is contryte and sory ¶ And this is in the masse tyme in seuen maners ¶ Fyrste all those that do saye Confiteor with the preest ¶ Secondaryly / he that doth inclyne in bowynge his knees / doynge reuerence whā he hereth the swete name of Ihesus ¶ Thyrdly / he that kneleth downe to the grounde / whan the preest dothe rede in the Credo Et homo factus est ¶ Fourthly / he that with great deuocyon / beholdeth the holy sacramēt whan the prest doth lyfte it ¶ Fyfthly / he that with contrycyon and repentaūce of his synnes / doth knocke vpon his brest whan the preest sayth in the Pater noster / Et dimitte nobis debita nostra / or the man maye saye the Pater noster with the preest / And whan he shall saye / Et demitte nobis debita nostra / he maye knocke on his brest ¶ Syxtly / he that doth with humylyte receyue the benedyccyon of the preest / at the ende of the masse ¶ Seuenthly / he that after the masse dothe receyue of the preest or by hym selfe / the holy water with repentaunce of his venyall synnes And accordynge to the quantyte or greatnes of the deuocyon the venyal syn̄es be pardoned and forgyuen to the man ¶ The .xix. Chapytre / yf a man maye without synne saye or cause a masse to be sayde for moneye WE haue it wryten in the holy scrypture / that it is Symonye to sell that thynge / whiche
the meanes to content and pacyfye hym And that done / desyre what ye wyll reasonably ye shall obteyne For otherwyse as saynt Gregory sayth / ye shulde prouoke hym to be more angry and dyspleased with you Therfore as Iohan Gerson chaunceller of Parys doth wryte / euery man oughte one tyme of the daye saye this orayson prayer folowynge with all deuoute premedytacyon For yf it do chaunce that the man dye sodaynly that same daye or nyght he shal not be dampned nor pryuate of the syght of the gloryous face of god / in case that he do saye this prayer with all his herte / and with coÌ„trycyon and repentaunce of his synnes ¶ The prayer O Most benygne and mercyful god / I knowlege confesse that I haue greuously synned agaynst thy wyl and coÌ„mauÌ„dement / aboue the nombre of sterres Wherof I am very sory and contryte iÌ„ my herte / and am sory that I can not repent me a hondreth tymes more than I do Wherfore good lorde / I vndertake from hensforth / that yf I do lyue a hoÌ„dreth yeres more / I wyll kepe me with thy grace from all deedly synne And also I haue a good and a ferme wyll to confesse all my synnes at the tyme ordeyned by the churche / wyll also do penaunce for all my synnes after the counceyll of my confessoure ¶ The fourth degre or condycyon is / to consydre that the man beynge iÌ„ the churche shal cast all temporall worldly busynes from his herte / in as moche as he can possyble / onely shal occupye hym selfe with god and that thynge that he doth rede or saye / to the entent that he maye saye with Dauyd O good lorde I haue cryed vnto the with all my herte And that is that thynge / to the whiche the preest dothe monysshe exhorte vs in the masse sayenge / Sursum corda / that is to saye / lyft vp your hertes to almyghty god And than the clerke doth answere in the name of all them that do here the masse / Habemus ad dominum / whiche is to saye / we haue our hertê towardes god O wold to god that it myghte be alwayes so for yf we dyd praye as we ought to do / we shuld obteyne all thynge that we wolde desyre And therfore god doth not regarde the wordes that we do speke in prayenge / but he desyre the herte of the maÌ„ Wherfore Isodorus sayth that a prayer made and sayd onely of the mouthe withoute any premedytacyon / doth as moche preuayle as the kackelynge of a henne Wherfore whaÌ„ ye wyll rede any thynge in prayenge to god for grace ye shal say thus O good lord gyue me thy dyuyne grace to rede saye my prayer deuoutly / to the enteÌ„t that it may be exalted of the. And yf any other thynge come in my mynde / I do reuoke now as for thaÌ„ this prayer sayd God as saynt Thomas doth wryte shall receyue it all for the beste And therfore the man shall not coueyte to rede moche / as some do whiche haue sackes full of bokes / great longe bedes / as they wolde tarye all the daye in the churche Yet neuertheles they wyll rede all in one masse tyme / not regardynge what they do rede But the maÌ„ must praye with a very pure herte / for the prayer ought to be ferueÌ„t deuout / shorte of wordê as our lorde doth showe vs in the gospell Therfore saynt Ierome saith that one Pater nrÌ„ / sayd with deuocion / is better more profytable thaÌ„ an hondreth without deuocion ¶ The fyfth degre or condycyon is scylence so that the man ought to kepe hym from moch talkynge in the churche / as many folkes do not / as well men as women / yonge olde great and small / but there do talke and iangle as they were iÌ„ the hygh strete And other some do walke vp and downe in the churche showyng them selfe as they were in the market / wherby they do let trouble other of theyr deuocyon / the whiche they haue not in them selfe And other some there be / whiche do speke vnhonest vycyous wordes / no more regardyng the temple of god than a tauerne / wherof the deuyll doth reioyse is glad Nowe is accoÌ„plysshed that Dauid doth speke of the Infydels and Sarazyns sayenge Deus venetuÌ„t gentes / hoc est gentiliter viuentes c. that is to saye the Sarazyns and Infydels / that is to saye / the crysten people lyuynge lyke vnto Infydels / become in to your herytage that is io saye / in the catholyke fayth / and haue maculate the holy temple And without doubte / the Iewes haue greater reuerence in theyr synagoge / than many chrysten people haue iÌ„ the teÌ„ple of god where god is alwayes pÌ„sent in the holy sacrament of the aulter / coÌ„syderynge / seynge / and herynge all your wordes thoughtes Wherfore whan ye do entre in to the churche which is the temple of god / tourne your iyes from the people and remembre your synnes / and the passyon of our lorde / and rede some good thynge ¶ The syxte degre or condycyon that man shall haue to here masse deuoutly / is perseuerauÌ„ce / so that ye shall here the hole masse from the begynnynge to the endynge / and shall not out of the churche vnto it be fynysshed / and that the preest haue gyuen the blyssynge / excepte great necessyte requyre it / specyally on sondayes and other holy dayes for it is so coÌ„mauÌ„ded by the lawe Agaynst this some do offende which do walke in the churcheyarde there talkynge and iangelynge / and whan the preest doth lyft oure lorde in the blyssed sacrament / they do renne and entre in to the churche / as the dogge in to the kechynge / and incontynent they do go out agayne All those that so do by custome doth not regarde the coÌ„maundement of the holy churche / they do coÌ„myt a deedly synne at euery tyme. O good lorde what small deuocyon / loue / fere haue the people of god they be lothe to bestowe one houre to here masse / serue god / and norysshe the soule but they be not lothe to myspende thre or foure houres at the table in eatynge and drynkynge / for to norysshe the body the whiche shall rote and be eten with wormes O man remembre of what vertue the blyssynge whiche the preest dothe gyue after the masse is / for his haÌ„des haue mynystred at the aulter the blyssed body of our lorde Ihesu chryste So god in the olde Testament dyde blysse the chyldren / whiche were blyssed of theyr fathers / as AbrahaÌ„ blyssed his sone Isaac Isaac blyssed his sone Iacob / and Iacob all his chyldren of the .xii. generacyons of Israell / by the whiche blyssynge god oft tymes dyd saue and delyuer them from many perylles and euylles Moche more god wyl be mercyful vnto vs and kepe vs from so
dayne deth yf we do receyue with all humylyte the blyssynge of the preest / at the ende of his masse / for his handes be moche more holy / thaÌ„ were the haÌ„des of the olde fathers And by the blyssynge of the preest / we be made worthy of the blyssynge of our lorde god in heuen Therfore whan the preest gyueth the blyssynge after masse / ye shall knele downe vpon your knees with your heed bare and inclyned towardes the grounde / in receyuynge the same Wherof we haue many fayre examples / the whiche shuld be to prolyxe and longe to descrybe Yet neuer theles ye shall haue twayne in shorte wordes here declared ¶ Example WE rede that there was a couereur of howses whiche beynge vpon the toppe or hyghte of a howse there workynge / sodaynly fell downe to the grounde / without hurtyng hym selfe or hauynge any maner of harme The people seynge this dyd renne vnto hym / thynkynge that he was dede / and they dyd fynde hym hole sounde and they dyd say vnto hym Thou haste ben well blyssed this daye / He answered and sayd it is true for I had this daye the blyssynge / whiche the preest gaue after the masse / whose handes had touched the body of our lord Ihesu chryste And my fayth byleue was / that after the blyssynge which I receyued huÌ„bly after the masse I shulde not dye sodaynly without confessyon / as nowe ye maye se ¶ Example WE rede moreouer of two men whiche were coÌ„paygnons felowes in marchaundyse / of the whiche the one receyued alwayes the blyssynge of the preest / and the other neuer dyd regarde nor care for it And one day as they were goynge in theyr iourney / there came a great tempest of thondre and lyghtnynge / of the whiche tempest he that was neuer wont to receyue the blyssynge of the preest nor to regarde it / was stryken to deth / and the other whiche was alwayes wonte to receyue the blyssynge / was saued and not hurte ¶ The .xxiiii. Chapytre / what thynge a man shall rede whan he coÌ„meth fyrste before the holy sacrament ¶ Orayson O Blissed and mercyfull lord Ihesu chryste / I coÌ„mende this daye in the presence of thy holy body and at all tymes my soule and my body by the vertue of thy holy natyuyte thy blyssed crosse / and sharpe and bytter passyon / thy gloryous resurreccyon O father euerlastynge god almyghty / thou arte the begynnynge and the ende of all creatures / thou art the waye and the trueth and the helth of al men O father euerlastynge / I crye and call pryncypally vnto the for my helpe ayde / by the vertue of the holy sacrament / to the entent that thou wylt defende me froÌ„ all thynge that may be hurtfull to the helth of my soule Albeit that I am a poore synner / Yet neuerthelesse I am thy vnworthy creature / redemed and delyuered by the precyous blode of thy sone And I byleue stedfastly in the wherfore good lorde defende me alwayes from all perylles and dauÌ„gers of myne enemyes vysyble and inuysyble / and from all venom and poyson in metes and drynkes / from shame and sodayne deth / by the vertue of the holy sacrament / in the whiche I put all my hope and byleue O holy and most worthy sacrameÌ„t in the which be vnyed iÌ„ godhed / the father / the sone / and the holy ghost / thou dost exalt all that do crye and call vnto the and that do byleue in the. Therfore exalte me nowe specyally in all that is necessary helthful for my soule / that from hensforth I maye accomplysshe and fulfyll thy wyll ¶ The .xxv. Chapytre / what thynge the man shall rede / whan he coÌ„meth before the holy crosse of our lorde Ihesu chryste O Lorde Ihesu chryste / I pray the by the vertue of the same orayson prayer / that thou dyddest make in great anguysshe and payne of herte / vnder the mount of Olyuete where for fere drede of deth / thou dyddest swete droppes of blode rennynge downe to the grounde Offre and show that same blode to thy father celestyall / agaynst the multytude of my synnes / and delyuer me at the houre of deth / from all fere and drede whiche I haue deserued for my synnes ¶ Pater noster Aue maria O Lorde Ihesu chryste whiche hath dyed vpon the crosse for me poore synner / I pray the that thou wylt showe offre to thy father celestyall / all the payne and bytternes of thy passyon / and specyally whan thy blyssed soule departed out of thy blyssed body / agaynst the multytude of my synnes And delyuer me at the houre of deth from all payne / whiche I haue deserued for the multytude of my synÌ„es Amen ¶ Pater noster Aue maria O Lorde Ihesu chryste / I praye the by the inestymable loue that caused the to descende from heuen vnto erthe / there to suffre deth vpon the crosse most cruelly for me poore synÌ„er / to showe and offre the same vnto thy father celestyal agaynst the multytude of my synnes And after this lyfe to open me the gate of heuen Amen ¶ Pater noster Aue maria ¶ The .xxvi. Chapytre / what thynge the man shall rede / whan he doth come before the Image of our Lady O Moste benygne Mary doughter of the father of heuen mother of the sone of god / espouse of the holy ghost I praye the that as the father celestyall of his great myght power hath exalted the in the hyghest trone of heuen / so I pray the most benygne vyrgyne and mother mary / to socoure and helpe me and all my frendes And to defende vs from the teÌ„ptacyons of our enemye Amen ¶ Aue maria O Most humble mother of Ihesu chryste Mary thou art a paradyse of ioye the hyd treaso r of the secrete of god I pray the that as the son of god of the myght power of his incoÌ„prehensyble wysdome hath aorned the / that ouer and aboue al the sayntê thou shulde vse haue the fruycyon most perfytly / of the face preseÌ„ce of the holy trynyte so I pray the most pure virgyn mary / that thou stande by me assyste me and all my frendes at the houre of deth / in remplysshynge and in puttynge in our soules / the lyght of the holy catholyke fayth / to the entent that oure fayth / be not occupyed with erroure ¶ Aue maria O Most swete mary / beaute of the aungelles / flower of the patryarkê / maystres of the apostelles / courage of the martyres / swete fouÌ„tayne of the coÌ„fessours honoure and ioye of vyrgynes / consolacyon solace of all synners / I praye the that as the holy ghoost hathe remplysshed and fylled the of his swetnes and dyuyne grace to the entent that thou be the most benygne and mercyfull next after god / so I beseche the most holy
ben conceyued in malyce and synne / may be puryfyed of all my synnes Amen ¶ The seconde artycle of the masse HOwe the preest doth go out of the vestry towardes the aulter with the deacon and subdeacon where he doth tary a lytel space betwene theÌ„ with scylence / the whiche doth sygnyfye / howe Ihesus was borne betwene Ioseph and our lady / and layde betwene an Oxe and an Asse ¶ Orayson Pater nrÌ„ Aue maria O Blyssed lorde Ihesu chryste / I do thaÌ„ke the bycause thou hast wylled to be borne after the nature of man / of the vyrgyne mary in this worlde for our synnes / for the whiche synnes thou hast afterwarde suffred deth vpon the crosse I beseche the good lorde gyue me grace so to bere the crosse of penaunce herein erthe for my synnes / that I maye come to thy glory in heuen Amen ¶ The thyrde artycle of the masse HOwe the preest beynge betwene theÌ„ sayth with great deuocyon Confiteor / and doth confesse hym selfe as a synÌ„er / albeit that he hath confessed hym selfe afore of all his deedly synÌ„es whiche doth sygnyfye that the innocent chylde Ihesus / dyd suffre hym selfe to be cyrcumcysed as a pure a clene myrrour without any spotte ¶ Orayson Pater nrÌ„ Aue maria O Blyssed lorde Ihesu chryste / I do humbly thanke the for thou hast suffred thy selfe to be cyrcuÌ„cysed on the .viii. daye / after thy natyuyte with a knyfe of stone / for to take awaye the vengeauÌ„ce of our synnes / and hast coÌ„mauÌ„ded that thy holy name shuld be Ihesus / I praye the dere lorde graunt me thy dyuyne grace / that I maye cyrcumcyse me with the knyfe of thy dyuyne fere and drede from all euyll teÌ„ptacions / that I may laude and prayse thy holy name Ihesus euerlastyngly Amen ¶ The fourth artycle of the masse HOwe the preest after CoÌ„fiteor gothe to the aulter with great reuerence / lowly inclynyng hym selfe doth worshyppe god almyghty / whiche doth sygnyfye vnto vs / howe the thre Kynges with great reuerence deuocyon / haue worshypped the swete chylde Ihesu / and haue humbly gyuen hym theyr offrynges ¶ Orayson Pater nrÌ„ Aue maria O Blyssed lorde Ihesu chryste / I do thanke the that thou haste wytsauâ—e to showe manyfest thy selfe to the thre kynges / by the tokenynge of a shynynge sterre hath brought them home agayne in to theyr owne countre by another waye / I beseche the good lorde to illumyne the obscuryte and darkenes of my conscyence / by the lyght of thy grace / that I maye gyue offre myrre of feruent deuocyon / insence of busye and dylygent prayer / and golde of dyuyne dyleccyon / that I maye come to the waye of helth Amen ¶ The fyfth artycle of the masse HOw the preest after that with great reuerence doth begynne the masse / betwene deacon and subdeacon at the one syde of the aulter whiche doth sygnyfie that Ihesus was presented in the temple / vpon the aulter of the soueraygne preest / with great deuocyon and reuerence betwene Ioseph Mary / and his other frendes ¶ Orayson Pater nrÌ„ Aue maria O Blyssed lorde Ihesu chryste / I thanke the that thou hast suffred deuoutly and obedyently thy selfe to be presented iÌ„ the temple by the soueraygne preest to the entent that we maye be present in heuen with the father celestyall Wherfore father celestyall / I do offre accordynge as I am worthy this daye in the masse / Ihesu chryste thy onely sone for all my synÌ„es and praye the that this oblacyon be not loste in me Amen ¶ The .vi. Artycle of the masse HOwe the preest / the deacon and subdeacon do go from the aulter / the preest and the deacon do sytte them downe / and the subdeacon doth synge the epystell This doth sygnyfie vnto vs how Ihesus Mary and Ioseph fled out of theyr countre from the face of Herode where they dyd dwell in to Egypte / where Ioseph laboured for them ¶ Orayson Pater nrÌ„ Aue maria O Blyssed lorde Ihesu chryste / I do thanke the for thou beyng yonge of age / was constrayned to flye from Herode out of thy countre iÌ„ to Egypte amoÌ„ges the paynyms / I beseche the good lorde that thou wylt gyue me grace / that I may pacyently contempne all persecucyons / trybulacyons / and false tales and lyes surmysed vpon me / to the entent that hereafter I may be founde a true pylgryme of Ierusalem Amen ¶ The .vii. Artycle of the masse HOwe the preest dothe come agayne to the aulter / where dylygently he doth rede the gospell This sygnyfyeth howe Ihesus Mary and Ioseph / haue retourned from Egypte in to theyr countre from whens they fled / by the coÌ„mauÌ„demeÌ„t of the holy aungell ¶ Orayson Pater nrÌ„ Aue maria O Blyssed lorde Ihesu chryste I thanke the for after that thou had ben vii yeres iÌ„ Egypte / thou retourned in to thy cytie of Nazareth / I praye the good lorde graunt me poore synÌ„er to retourne from my synnes / and so to serche / fynde / and holde the here in erth / that we be not separate from hensforth / the one from the other for euermore Amen ¶ The .viii. Artycle of the masse HOwe the preest after that he hath red and herde the gospel he goth to the myddes of the aulter and doth synge with a hygh voyce Credo in vnum deum This doth sygnyfye that mary with great ioye and gladnesse hath fouÌ„de her dere sone Ihesus in the temple amoÌ„ges the doctours / and dyd go with her in to Nazareth ¶ Orayson Pater nrÌ„ Aue maria Credo O Blyssed lorde Ihesu chryste / I thanke the that thou hast reioysed and coÌ„forted thy heuye mother / in goynge with her in to Nazareth / and hast alwayes ben obedyent vnto her / I praye the good lorde gouerne me alwayes that I may lyue after thy coÌ„maundementes and those of the holy churche / to the entent that so lyuynge I maye byleue as a good catholyke person ought to byleue / in the whiche I desyre to lyue and dye euerlastyngly Amen ¶ The .ix. Artycle of the masse HOwe the preest with scyleÌ„ce doth make redy / prepare and offre the sacryfyce and afterwarde goth to the ende of the aulter doth wasshe his haÌ„des This sygnyfyeth vnto vs that chryste from the .xii. yeres of his age vnto .xxx. yeres / dyd nothynge openly that a man can fynde in wrytynge Yet neuertheles he was not Idle / but at the .xxx. yeres of his age he went towardes Iordan / for to be baptysed of saynt IohnÌ„ Baptyste ¶ Orayson Pater nrÌ„ Aue maria O Blyssed lorde Ihesu chryste / I thanke laude the that thou beynge god almyghty / hast gone in the humanyte towardes Iordan to be baptysed / to the entent that our baptysme myght be ordeyned / confyrmed / sanctyfyed by the same / I beseche the good lord grauÌ„t me poore synner that I
may so puryfye me iÌ„ the baptysme of my coÌ„fessyon declaryng of my faultes and synnes / by thyne humble baptysme all my synnes maye be pardoned euerlastyngely Amen ¶ The .x. Artycle of the masse HOwe the preest doth go to the myddes of the aulter prayeng al those that be iÌ„ heuen to pray for hym and than he doth tourne hym towardes the people desyryng them also to praye for hym This doth sygnyfye that chryste dyd pray for vs in the deserte or wyldernes / whaÌ„ he dyd fast .xl dayes and .xl. nyghtes / and after was tempted of the euyll spyryte and enemy of hell ¶ Orayson Pater nrÌ„ Aue maria O Blyssed lorde Ihesu chryste / I do thanke the that thou beyng ledde by the inspyracyon of the holy ghost in to the wyldernes / there dyddest fast .xl. dayes and .xl. nyghtes / and afterwarde hauynge hungre dyde ouercome thyne enemye / I praye the good lorde graunt me the vertue of abstynence to fast alwayes from synne / and to haue thryste or desyre / of the vertue of equyte iustyce / that I maye ouercome the temptacyon of myne enemyes Amen ¶ The .xi. Artycle of the masse HOwe the preest beynge in the myddes of the aulter begynneth to synge with a hygh voyce the preface / Per omnia secula seculorum This doth sygnyfye that oure lorde hath preched at his .xxx. yeres to the people the holy catholyke fayth confyrmynge the same by meruaylous myracles to the honour of his father celestyall ¶ Orayson Pater nrÌ„ Aue maria O Blyssed lorde Ihesu chryste / I do thaÌ„ke the of the great loue that thou hast had for our helth / and for the holy catholyke fayth / which thou thy self hath taught and confyrmed by myracles / I beseche the good lorde graunt me to accomplyssâ—e that that thou hast taught / and to byleue stedfastly in that / whiche thou hast done to the entent that so I maye lyue in thy coÌ„maundementes / and dye in thy holy fayth Amen ¶ The .xii. Artycle of the masse HOwe after that the preest hath songe the preface they do synge SaÌ„ctus Sanctus Sanctus / benedictus qui venit in noiÌ„e domini This doth sygnyfye howe the huÌ„ble Ihesus on Palme sonday dyd humbly come iÌ„ to Ierusalem syttynge vpoÌ„ an Asse where the Iewes dyd receyue hym with great reuereÌ„ce the chyldren dyd synge bnÌ„dictus qui venit osanna in excelsis ¶ Orayson Pater nrÌ„ Aue maria O Blyssed lorde Ihesu chryste / I do thanke the that thou haste come voluÌ„taryly in to Ierusalem to thy passyon / syttyng vpon an Asse / I beseche the humbly good lorde that thou wylt so come to me poore synner / and vysyte me by thy dyuyne grace / to the entent that iÌ„ body / soule / and in all thynge / I maye be obedyent vnto the / that thou maye gouerne me for to go / to be conuersaunt / to kepe scylence / and to speke that thynge / that maye be acceptable to thy dyuyne wyll Amen ¶ The secoÌ„de parte of the masse in the whiche is declared the passyon of oure lorde IhuÌ„ christe ye shal rede these prayers shall haue .xlvi. yeres of pardon O Lorde Ihesu chryste I do worshyppe the hangynge vpon the crosse and beryng vpon thy heed a crowne of thornes / I praye the that thy crosse maye delyuer me from the euyll aungell Amen ¶ Pater noster Aue maria O Lorde Ihesu chryste / I do worshyp the hangynge on the crosse all wouÌ„ded / to whom gall vynegre was gyuen to drynke / I praye the that thy wordes maye be remedy to my soule Amen ¶ Pater noster Aue maria O Lorde Ihesu chryste I do worshyppe the beynge in the sepulchre oynted with myrre and other good odours / I pray the that thy deth maye be my lyfe Amen ¶ Pater noster Aue maria O Lorde Ihesu chryste / I do worshyp the descendynge in to hell / and delyuerynge the prysoners / I pray the do not suffre me to come there Amen ¶ Pater noster Aue maria O Lorde Ihesu chryste / I do worshyp the rysynge from dethe / ascendynge in to heuen / syttynge on the ryght hande of god the father almyghty / I praye the that thou haue pytie of me Amen ¶ Pater noster Aue maria O Lorde Ihesu chryste / good pastoure and gouernoure / kepe and preserue the good iuste men / and make synners ryghtfull and iuste Haue mercy of all faythfull soules departed / and of me poore synner Amen ¶ Pater noster Aue maria O Lorde Ihesu chryste / I do worshyp the for the bytternes of thy passyon / which thou hast suffred on the crosse specyally at the houre that thy holy soule departed from thy blyssed body haue mercy on my soule / whan it shal departe from my body Amen ¶ Pater noster Aue maria ¶ The .xiii. Artycle of the masse HOwe after Sanctus / the preest begynneth with scylence secretly the Canon hauynge the curteynes drawen to the enteÌ„t that he be not troubled / and dothe inclyne hym selfe very lowe This doth sygnyfye howe our lorde Ihesus with the dore closed / hath eaten the pascall lambe with his dyscyples and afterwarde he hath inclyned hym selfe downe to the grounde / wasshynge the fete of his apostelles ¶ Orayson Pater nrÌ„ Aue maria O Blyssed lorde Ihesu chryste / I do thanke the for that thou haste in thy last supper ordeyned thy holy body to be meate for vs / and thy precyous blode to be drynke / to the entent that we maye haue alwayes remembraunce of the / I praye the good lorde illumynate my herte by thy dyuyne dyleccyon / to the entent that I desyre no thynge that may drawe me to synne / but that all thynge be bytter vnto me / excepte onely the remeÌ„braunce of thy blyssed passyon Amen ¶ The .xiiii. Artycle of the masse HOwe the preest after the fyrste Memento / maketh thre crosses vpon the chalyce / sayenge secrete wordes This doth sygnyfied showe vnto vs that our lorde hath prayed to his father almyghty in the garthen / thre tymes secretly in the nyght ¶ Orayson Pater nrÌ„ Aue maria O Blyssed lorde Ihesu chryste / I do thanke the that thou hast wylled to swete for vs poore synners / water and blode for drede and fere of deth / I pray the good lorde for the great payne and anguysshe that thy herte dyde suffre / delyuer me from al payne anguysshe of the herte and he le vs bothe in body soule / and graunte vs helpe in trybulacyon / consolacyon and conforte in persecucyon / pytie of our synnes passed / ameÌ„dement of those that be present proteccion and defence from those that be to come / to the entent that thy precyous blode be not lost in vs. Amen ¶ The .xv. Artycle of the masse HOwe the preest is in his fyrste Memento / and thaÌ„ he prayeth for all his frendes lyuynge / that god
forsakē me The .v. I am a thrust The .vi. all is accomplysshed and ended The .vii. father I betake or cōmende my soule in to thy handes ¶ Orayson Pater nr̄ Aue maria O Blyssed lorde Ihesu chryste / I do thanke the for the .vii. wordes that thou hast for me on the crosse ī great payne sorowe spoken for the helth of my soule / I beseche the good lord by the vertue of the same wordes that thou wylt pardon me of all the offences that I haue done in my lyfe / and ī any of the .vii. deedly syn̄es as pryde / coueytous / enuye / wrath / glotonye / slouth / and lechery / wherof I do aske mercy for euermore Amen ¶ The .xxiii. Artycle of the masse HOwe the preest beynge in his seconde Memento / prayeth for the soules that be departed beynge in purgatorye This doth sygnyfie the great darkenes and scylence that was throughout the worlde / whyles that god dyd speke on the crosse afore that he dyed for our synnes ¶ Orayson Pater nr̄ Aue maria O Blyssed lorde Ihesu chryste / I thanke the for from the houre of syxe vnto the houre of noone the Sonne lost his clerenes or lyght / and the worlde was darke I beseche the good lorde shed and put in to my herte cōpassyon of thy payne and passyon / to the entent that all dygnyties ioyes of this worlde and of all creatures / maye be darke / bytter dyspleasaunt vnto me euerlastyngly Amen ¶ The .xxiiii. Artycle of the masse HOwe the Preest after the Memēto with a hygh voyce dothe synge to the father celestyall Pater noster quies ī celis This doth sygnyfye that our lorde preparynge hym selfe on the crosse to dye / hath cryed with a hygh voyce / the heed inclyned / the iyes closed / the vysage pale / the voyce sorowynge agaynst nature / O father celestyal in to thy handes I do yelde my soule ¶ Orayson Pater nr̄ Aue maria O Blyssed lorde Ihesu chryste / I do thanke the that thou hast suffred for me poore synner / bytter deth vpon the crosse / to the entent to delyuer me from euerlastynge deth / I praye the good lorde for the bytter passyon that thou hast suffred on the crosse and specyally at the houre that thy holy soule departed from thy blyssed body / graūt me that in all trybulacyons and paynes / I may onely conuerte and tourne me vnto the / and haue mercy of my soule at the houre of deth Amen ¶ The .xxv. Artycle of the masse HOwe the preest doth breke the holy sacramēt in thre partyes and sayth thre tymes Agnus dei qui tollis peccata mūdi miserere nobis This doth sygnyfye howe god hangynge on the crosse / hath cōuerted and hath had mercy of thre maner of folkes That is to say / of the thefe at his ryght hande of Longius whiche dyde perce the herte of oure lorde with a spere / and of many other of the cōmon people which were there present ¶ Orayson Pater nr̄ Aue maria O Blyssed lorde Ihesu chryste / I do thāke the that thou hangynge on the crosse / haste suffred thy selfe to be taken downe of synners by great loue / wherwith thy dyuyne hert was inflamed of thy great mercy / I praye the good lorde suffre thy great mercy to dyscende vpon the multytude and ygnoraūce of my synnes / to the entent that my soule may be a conuenyent place of the dyuyne grace here in erth / and after in the glory Amen ¶ The .xxvi. Artycle of the masse HOwe the preest brekynge the sacrament doth let one peace fall in to the chalyce This dothe sygnyfye that whan the herte of oure lorde was braste on the crosse / he descended in to hell brekynge the same / and delyuered from thens the patryarches / prophetes / and the auncyent fathers there beynge prysoners ¶ Orayson Pater nr̄ Aue maria O Blyssed lorde Ihesu chryste / I thanke the that incontynent after that thy holy soule was departed from thy body / thou dyddest descende in to hell / there delyuerynge the auncyent fathers whiche were there present / I praye the good lorde descende by thy great mercy delyuer from purgatorye the soules of my father and mother of all my frendes / where I am bounde to pray for them / to the entent that we they maye laude and prayse the euerlastyngely Amen ¶ The .xxvii. Artycle of the masse HOwe the preest dothe take the paxe holdynge the sacramēt a lytell space in his handes / and after doth lay it downe vpō the aulter This doth sygnyfye how chryste a lytel whyle after his deth was taken downe from the crosse / layed before the lappe of our lady his blyssed mother there present very pensyfe dolent ¶ Orayson Pater nr̄ Aue maria O Blyssed lorde Ihesu chryste / I thanke the that at the houre of vespres or Euensonge thou was in the armes of Ioseph deposed and taken downe from the crosse / in the presence of thy dere mother and layed before her / I pray the good lorde graunt me to ascende euery day the steppes of vertues and to do no more synne / for the whiche thou hast ben crucyfyed to the entēt that I maye receyue the in myne armes of loue and dyleccyon / that it maye please the to dwell with me I with the euerlastyngly Amen ¶ The .xxviii. Artycle of the masse HOwe the preest doth take the blyssed sacrament with both his handes / reuerently receyuynge it This dothe sygnyfye howe god was reuerently put in the sepulchre / betwene the hādes of Ioseph and Nycodemus after moche heuynes and sorowe whiche our lady other his frendes there had showed and made afore that they dyde let hym departe from them ¶ Orayson Pater nr̄ Aue maria O Blyssed lorde god / I do thanke the for at the houre of cōplyne / thou hast suffred thy self to be buryed wonne or wrapped in a whyte and clene cloth and to be oynted with precyous aromatyke / I pray the good lorde graunt me to oynte the with clene lyfe deuoute prayers / to wrap the in a whyte cloth by pure and clene thoughtes / to bere the in myne armes by good workes and humylyte / and to burye the in my herte by stedfast remembraunce of thy bytter passyon / to the ende that in glory I maye be resuscytate Amen HEre begynneth the thyrde parte of the masse / of the gloryous resurreccyon of our lorde Ihesu chryste / in the whiche the blyssed soule of oure lorde was templysshed with great ioy / and also mary the mother of god For as the doctoures do wryte / she was so sore trauayled on good frydaye for the intollerable passyon of her dare sone / that she was borne home halfe deed wherfore she dyd loke and tary for the resurreccyon of her blyssed sone / prayenge thus O father celestyall I knowe well that the tyme is nowe
/ those that haue coÌ„myt suche synnes that coÌ„mon confessours can not assoyle them / or he that maye assoyle them / doth come thyther where they be or they may lyghtly go vnto hym where he is as to pardons and suche other / that they be bounde to confesse them ¶ Thyrdly / whan the conscyence is very vnquyet and doth moue a man feruently to confesse incoÌ„tynently his synnes / for the conscyence bereth wytnes howe the man is dysposed within ¶ Fourthly / whan the man wyll receyue the holy sacrament or any of the .vii. sacramentê In these foure causes is the maÌ„ bouÌ„de more than ones in the yere to confesse his synnes Yet all this notwithstandynge euery good catholyke person shal confesse hym selfe at the leste foure tymes in the yere albeit that he be not redy to go to the holy sacrament so oft For a vessell that is vsed and occupyed euery day and not made clene but ones in the yere / it wyll be so foule and fylthy at the last that he can not be made clene so it is also of the conscyence of man ¶ The .vi. Chapytre / howe and in what the man shall serche and examyne hym selfe / that worthely wyll go to the holy sacrament A Man that worthely wyll go to the holy sacrament he shal examyne dylygently his coÌ„scyeÌ„ce / in lyke case as he wol decyue and make a compte to a great lorde of many dettes And to the entent that euery man whiche can not well confesse hym selfe maye knowe the maner howe to confesse hym / I wyll wryte a coÌ„mon and a shorte maner / wherin al coÌ„mon synnes be inclosed / in leuynge that whiche apperteyneth not to be wryten / to the enteÌ„t that some do not lerne that which they knowe not And by this the man may lerne to coÌ„fesse hym / in addynge takynge awaye as his state and occupacyon doth requyre / or also after as his conscyence doth testyfye and moue hym for it shulde not profyte nor be possyble to wryte all maner of synnes Therfore the man shall prouyde hym of a good confessoure in coÌ„tynuynge with hym without rennynge from one to another / the whiche shall knowe his state and lyfe / to the entent that he may the better helpe hym in that that he shall haue forgoten and be ygnoraunt And thou shall come in tyme to confessyon / so that thou be not last / and that thou maye haue space ynough to confesse the / And whan thou doest confesse the a daye before / and thou doest remembre in the meane tyme any venyall synÌ„es / it shal not nede to go agayne to confessyon / but to knocke vpon thy brest with coÌ„trycyon sayenge O good lorde haue mercy of me poore synner And kepe the in as moche as thou can from vayne wordes / and carnall thoughtes and frequeÌ„tacyons / and from brekyng thy pacyence one day after thou hast receyued the sacrament / and one daye before / for the dygnyte of the same ¶ The .vii. Chapytre / howe the man shall confesse hym selfe / fyrste of the .xii. Artycles of the holy catholyke fayth WHan thou shall come to thy confessyon / knele downe of both thy knees afore thy confessoure / makynge a crosse afore the and saye / In the name of the father / of the sone / and of the holy ghost Amen or In nomine patris c. And than saye Confiteor yf thou can saye it vnto Ideo precor And yf thou can not say it / saye Benedicite and than saye / Syr I confesse me afore god and you of all my synÌ„es that I haue done / syth the fyrste tyme that I could synne vnto this houre Fyrste that I haue synned agaynst the .xii. artycles of the holy fayth that I haue not so stedfastly byleued in herte / mouthe / and workes as I am bouÌ„de I haue somtymes also doubted in the holy sacrament or otherwyse as thou shall knowe thy selfe gyltye Yf thou haste kepte companye with Iewes / Sarazyns / Heretykes / or yf thou know any other thynge / thou shall tell it ¶ The .viii. Chapytre / of the .xii. vertues of the holy ghoste / wherof thou shall confesse the / as here foloweth I Confesse accuse me / that I haue ben neclygent and haue transgressed iÌ„ the .xii. vertues of the holy ghost / I haue not had ioye / gladnes / and loue in the seruyce of god / nor peace with my chrysten brother nor pacyence in aduersyte / nor longanymyte or contynuauÌ„ce in the seruyce of god / nor holynes in my lyfe / nor pytie in beynge coÌ„uersaunt with other folkes / nor also measure and sobrenes in my maners / myne apparell / and in my workes / nor mekenes Ientylnes with them that I haue hauÌ„ted and dayly kepte companye / nor humylyte in my thoughtes and dedes / nor trueth in my wordes nor purenes in my desyres and concupyscence ¶ The .ix. Chapytre of the .xi. capytall synnes / whiche be called crymynall I Do confesse and accuse me that I haue synned in many of the crymynall or capytall synnes Yf thou fynde thy selfe culpable any wyse in any of the same thou maye tell it ¶ As to syn agaynst the fayth of the trinite ¶ To synne agaynst nature ¶ To synne in manslaughter ¶ To synne agaynst the equyte and iustyce of the mageste of any prynce or prelate ¶ To synne iÌ„ robbynge the churchê by force ¶ To synne in carnall medlyng with any of his lynage ¶ To synne in adultery in the state of maryage ¶ To synne in conspyracye or in makynge tumoure by force amonges the coÌ„monaltie ¶ To synne in berynge false wytnes and that he doth knowe it false ¶ To synne in Symonye ¶ To synne by hauntynge vserye ¶ The .x. Chapytre / of the .x. coÌ„maundementes / the whiche euery persone is bounde to knowe YEt I confesse and accuse me of the .x. coÌ„mauÌ„dementes of our lorde Ihesu chryste ¶ Of the fyrste coÌ„maundemeÌ„t that I haue not loued our lord god with al my herte aboue all thyngê I haue not also worshypped hym as I oughte to do / nor I haue not had so stedfaste fayth in hym as I am bouÌ„de / but soÌ„tymes I haue byleued those which haue vsed Nygromancye / or wytche crafte / or Herytykes which haue spokeÌ„ agaynst the holy churche ¶ Of the seconde coÌ„maundement / that I haue taken the name of god in vayne with out any necessytie / for I haue sworne ofte tymes for a lytell cause / which I haue knowen to be contrary / wherwith I haue ofte tymes deceyued myne euen chrysten I haâ— also caused other to swere and curse / bycause that I wolde not byleue them of theyr worde I haue also sworn not onely by god and hy his blyssed membres and passyon / but also by his sayntes / as by the mother of god / by saynt Iohan / in other maners ¶ Of the thyrde coÌ„mauÌ„dement / that I haue not sanctyfyed
enuye I haue done the best that hath ben iÌ„ me / to let hym therof Also for enuye I haue be ryght sory of his good fortune / prosperyte / auauncement / and haue ben very glad of his mysfortune / trybulacyon / and aduersytie / troublynge and oppressynge hym to my power where soeuer I coulde I haue also dyffamed hym behynde his backe and haue gladly herkened and herde other which haue spoken euyll of hym And I haue also made dysceÌ„cyon where there was peace coÌ„corde ¶ Fyfthly / I haue synned in glotonye / for I haue not fasted and kepte abstynence on fastynge dayes / vygyles / other coÌ„maunded by the holy churche I haue also eaten afore the tyme and houre of the repase / and somtyme without appetyte / more for carnall voluptuousnes than for the necessytie and mayntenaunce of nature I haue also taken meate and drynke so abundauntly excessyuely / that I haue ben sycke euyll dysposed therby / hauynge loste reason / memorye / and vnderstaÌ„dynge I haue caused ouer delycate and precyous meates to be ordeyned for me / wherin I haue had great pleasure I haue also eaten meatê not lawfull to be eaten on suche a daye / after the coÌ„maundementes of the holy churche ¶ Syxtly I haue synned in yre and wrath for I haue ben ofte tymes vexed angry with my husbande / or my wyfe / with my chyldren or my menye seruauÌ„tes I haue wylled through wrath to be venged / and haue desyred vengeaunce And I haue borne in my herte the iniurye and wronge whiche hath ben done vnto me / and for yre and wrath / I haue not ben wyllynge to forgyue hym that dyd it / nor to speke vnto hym / but rather I haue eschewed his companye I haue also for angre and wrath / cursed sworne abhomynably / and haue done all the hurte and doÌ„mage that I coulde to my neyghboure / both in his body and goodes Also I haue not ben wyllynge to here reason nor to be content therwith / but haue cryed out agaynst trueth I haue made dyscorde varyaunce / and without ryght or reason haue holden more with one than with another ¶ Seuenthly / I confesse me to haue synned in slouth / where as I haue consumed and loste moche goodes wherwith I was bounde to do good dedes / and by my conscyence exorted therto I haue ben slouthfull in godes seruyce / and to go to confessyon / to do my penauÌ„ce I haue not fulfylled my penaunce inioyned to me by my coÌ„fessoure for my synnes / nor promyses and vowes by me made / or els slouthfully I haue fulfylled them I haue ben Ydle / haue spent my tyme iÌ„ vayne And I haue somtymes done good dedes with lytell deuocyon / by heuynes shame or vayne glory I haue ben also neclygent in lernynge that thyng that I was bounde to knowe / in all these .vii. deedly synnes or in some of them wherin I haue offended my lorde god / I knowlege my selfe gylty / and crye god mercy ¶ The .xvi. Chapytre / howe a man shall confesse hym selfe / of the .vii. workes of mercy bodely I Knowlege me yet to haue synned in the .vii. bodely workes of mercy ¶ Fyrste I haue not fedde those that were hungrye and indygent persones ¶ Secondaryly / I haue not gyuen drynke to those that were thrustye ¶ Thyrdly / I haue not herboured ne lodged pylgrymes other lackynge lodgynge And I haue not showed the ryght waye to those that went wronge ¶ Fourthlye / I haue not vysyted / with myne almesse the poore and sycke folkes ¶ Fyfthly / I haue not gyuen clothynge to them that were naked ¶ Syxtly / I haue not delyuered those that haue ben prysoned vniustly and withoute reason ¶ SeueÌ„thly / I haue not buryed nor caused to burye the deed bodyes ¶ The .xvii. Chapytre / of the .vii. workes of mercy spyrytually I knowlege me to haue synned in the .vii. spyrytuall workes of mercy ¶ Fyrste / I haue not taughte and instructe those that were ignorauÌ„t / that thynge whiche was necessarye for the helthe of theyr soules / and to whom I was bounde to showe and teche ¶ Secondarylye / I haue not gyuen them good counceyll whiche demauÌ„ded it of me / wherby they haue ben in great peryll and daunger both in body and soule ¶ Thyrdly / I haue not reproued and correcte them whiche haue erred synned / wherin I myght haue done great profyte ¶ Fourthly / I haue not corroborate comforte them / whiche haue ben in dyspayre ¶ Fyfthly / I haue not ben wyllyng to forgyue theÌ„ / which haue troubled vexed me ¶ Syxtly / I haue not pacyeÌ„tly borne nor suffred iniuryes / wronges / dyspysynges / teÌ„ptacyons / syckenes / oppressyons or other aduersyties ¶ Seuenthly / I haue not hertely / affectuously / and faythfull prayed for my frendes and for myne enemyes / and for them that I am bounde to praye ¶ The .xviii. Chapytre / howe the man maye confesse hym of the syx synnes whiche be agaynst the holy ghost I Confesse me yf I haue any maner or wyse synned in the syxe synÌ„es agaynst the holy ghost ¶ Fyrste in dyspayre / that I haue not byleued throughe dyspayre that god is mercyfull / wyll pardon and forgyue all synnes after repentaunce / contrycyon / and confessyon ¶ Secondaryly / that I haue wyllyngly spoken agaynst the catholyke fayth and haue spoken agaynst that whiche was for the helth of my soule ¶ Thyrdly / I haue ben so harde of herte so roted in synne / that I wolde not be broughte out of it ¶ Fourthly / that by presumpcyon I haue not dred god nor deth / nor the iugement of god / but I haue thought that I shall be saued without penaunce and good workes ¶ Fyfthly that I haue ben enuyous for the grace of god in another / whiche dyde withdrawe hym selfe from synne / to good vertuous lyuynge ¶ Syxtly / that I haue dyspysed to do penaunce for my synnes ¶ The .xix. Chapytre / howe a man shall confesse hym of the fyue senses or wyttes and of the other membres of the body MOreouer / I confesse me to haue synned / to haue offeÌ„ded god in my .v. wyttes by all my membres ¶ Fyrste / that I haue trymmed and aorned the heer of my heed and browes with great pryde I haue not honoured nor showed reuerence to god / and my superyours with my heed / nor haue not ben obedyent therwith I haue also gyuen myne eares to here vnhonest wordes and coÌ„munycacyon / and to detraccyon I haue not ruled and kepte myne iyes from the beholdynge of vnlawfull dyshonest syghtê I haue delyted to smell with my nose suche thynges as haue prouoked me to synne I haue also opened my mouthe / to curse / to swere / to lye / and to deceyue I haue also abused my tongue for to eate and drynke delycyously and my throte in
conscyence afore / nor remembre not theyr euyll and peruers lyuynge / nor also haue not contrycyon in theyr hertes / nor do not make theyr confessyon And suche folkes albeit that they haue not knowlege of any deedly synne by them cōmytte / yet neuertheles they goynge to the holy sacrament cōmytte a deedly synne / for they do put them selfe ī peryll Saynt Paule sayth / that the man shall examyne his cōscyence afore that he go therunto O what nombre of people there is which bere many and great synnes vpon them / and careth no thynge at all therfore They do chose a confessoure whiche is very symple whiche doth lede both the synner hym selfe to hell ¶ The .xxviii. Chapytre / howe greatly he synneth / whiche receyueth the sacrament vnworthely THe greatnesse of the synnes of those / whiche receyue the holy sacrament vnworthely and in deedly syn̄e to theyr euerlastynge dampnacyon / maye be consydered by foure reasons ¶ Fyrste / for suche folkes be reputed afore god for murderers of Ihesu chryste the sone of god And as saynt Gregorye sayth they do cōmyt greater synne whiche do dyspyse god reygnynge in heuen / than those whiche dyd crucyfye hym in erth O what penaunce wolde a good catholyke man do / whiche shulde haue crucyfyed our lorde / what penaunce is he than bounde to do / which hath vnworthely receyued the body of oure lorde god ¶ Secondaryly / suche folkes be oft tymes punysshed in theyr bodyes by syckenes / or by sodayne deth And therfore cōmonly after easter cōmeth syckenes / pestylence / and other inconuenyence / And that is bycause the man so vnworthely and in deedly syn̄e receyueth the holy sacrament ¶ Thyrdly / for they synne more enormely than the Iewes / for the Iewes dyd synne by ygnoraunce And as saynt Paule sayth yf they had knowen it / they wold not haue crucyfyed the lorde of glorye But the synners chrysten men knowlege god / knowe well that they be in great synne The Iewes haue crucyfyed our lorde but ones / but the chrysten men do crucyfye hym very ofte / in so moche that wyttyngly they do go to the holy sacrament in deedly synne ¶ Fourthly / suche folkes receyue vpō them the iugement of god / whiche he shall gyue vpon the dampned soules at the daye of iugement / where he shall say go ye cursed people to euerlastynge fyre ¶ Fyfthly / those that vnworthely receyue the holy sacrament / be lyke to Iudas the traytoure / whiche dyd betraye and delyuer our lorde Ihesu to the Iewes And it shall chaunce vnto them in hell / as it dyd to Iudas for after that he had vnworthely receyued the holy sacrament the deuyll dyd entre in to hym / so that he dyde betraye our lorde Ihesu chryste / wherfore afterwarde he fell in dyspayre and dyde hange hym selfe So they become more obstynate in synne / those whiche receyue the holy sacrament dayly in deedly syn̄e / they dare boldly do that thynge whiche other dare not thynke / ye and moreouer do that thynge whiche the deuyll dare not do And as Iudas delyuered our lorde to the Iewes so in lyke case men delyuer our lorde Ihesu chryste / in as moche as they can / to the deuylles of hell For they receyue our lorde Ihesu chryste in the place / whiche the deuyll doth possesse / and apperteyneth vnto hym ¶ Syxtly / this is an vnkynde man / for he dyspyseth god his creatoure / which for hym hathe suffred bytter dethe vpon the crosse This is yet a greater vnkyndnes ī the mā that the diuynyte power of god is redy for to come to vysyte hym with his dyuyne grace inclosed in the holy sacrament / the man maketh him self vnworthy to receyue hym ¶ Seuenthly / suche persones be more vnhappy than other / for the soueraygne goodnes whiche is god is hurtfull and dampnable vnto them / the medycyne of the soule is infyrmytie and deth vnto them For as the holy sacrament is an euerlastynge lyfe vnto them whiche do receyue vse it well so it is deth vnto those / whiche euyll vnworthely receyue it ¶ The .xxix. Chapytre / of those whiche receyue the holy Sacrament spyrytually and not bodely THere be yet foure maner of folkes / whiche receyue the holy sacrament spyrytually or ghostly and not bodely / that is to saye / they receyue the grace of the holy sacrament secretly ī theyr soules / albeit that they receyue it not vysybly in theyr bodyes / and shall be rewarded afore god / as yf they had receyued it bodely ¶ The fyrste sorte whiche receyue it spyrytually / be those whiche by feblenes of infyrmytie and syckenes can not holde meate in theyr bodyes / or whiche do coughe moche / or do cast and voyde fleume very sore suche other These persones shall coueyte and desyre hertely to receyue it / in beholdynge it with great deuocyon sayenge O good lorde I do thanke the that I maye paye / satysfye / and content the by a good wyll mynde O good lorde I thanke the / that in all places I maye fynde the. O good lorde I thanke the / that no persone maye hurte or hynder me towardes the. And I do thanke the good lord that whan I haue the / no persone maye take me ¶ The seconde sorte whiche receyue the holy sacrament spyrytually / be those whiche sodaynely be taken with sodayne deth / as maryners on the see / men of warre ī the felde / women trauaylyng of chylde and other lyke / whiche can not haue a confessoure to confesse them / and to receyue the holy sacrament Suche persones hauyng contrycyon and repentaunce for theyr synnes and desyre to receyue the holy sacrament / haue afore god receyued the holy sacrament ī theyr soules Yet neuertheles they shall confesse them selfe afore yf it be possyble / shall not trust to moche in that / to the entent that god do not withdrawe his grace ¶ The thyrde sorte be those / whiche serue god in purenes of cōscyence / yet neuertheles they refrayne somtyme through humylyte / to go to the holy sacrament / but they here masse with deuocyon reuerently beholdynge the holy sacrament / and by desyre to receyue it Suche persones yf so and in suche maner they here masse / they shall be rewarded afore god as yf they had receyued the holy sacrament ¶ The fourth sorte whiche spyrytually receyueth the holy sacrament / be those whiche be prepayred therto and humbly desyreth to receyue it / but theyr confessours wyll not agre therto Also relygeous persones whiche after the rule of theyr ordre / maye not go to the holy sacrament / but on dayes ordeyned by theyr heedes Yet notwithstandyng they desyre to receyue it somtymes / the whiche must be content for afore god they haue receyued it spyrytually And it is somtymes more acceptable to god that the man do absteyne deuoutly with Centurio / than to
receyue our lorde worthely with Zachee Suche persones shal thynke that god hath seen some thynge in them / wherfore they maye not be admyt to receyue the holy sacrament bodely And so they maye go afore the blyssed sacrament / and shall rede deuoutly these prayers folowynge / the which saynt FrauÌ„cys was wont to saye and rede with great deuocyon / or a man maye saye them in his chambre afore the crucyfyxe or crosse of our lorde god / thynkynge that the very sone of god doth hange there ¶ The .xxx. Chapytre / what thynge a man shall rede whiche desyreth spyrytually to receyue the holy sacrament with his dyuyne grace THat man whiche spyrytually desyreth to receyue the body of our lorde Ihesu chryste with his dyuyne grace / vertue / and fruytes he shall huÌ„ble hym selfe perfoundely afore god And shall rede these fyue prayers deuoutly vpoÌ„ his knees or in his chambre iÌ„ the maner here showed ¶ Here thou shalt knele on thy knees and shall saye O Lorde Ihesu chryste here I am vpoÌ„ my knees afore thy blyssed iyes and presence / as a synner and an euyll doer afore a iuge And I knowe that after thy iustyce / I haue lost and forfayte my body soule Wherfore I praye the good lorde Ihesu chryste / by the senteÌ„ce of deth wrongfully gyuen of the / that thou wylt be a mercyfull iuge to me / whan my soule shall departe from my body Amen ¶ Pater noster Aue maria ¶ Nowe thou shalt ryse vp and saye O Good lorde Ihesu chryst here I am afore thyne iyes and in thy presence as a bonde man afore his lorde and mayster / whom I and all other creatures be bounde to serue euerlastyngly I praye the good lorde Ihesu chryste that thou wylt lette me knowe thy dere wyll in all thyngê to be done / and to let it be acceptable to the / and lette me not do that thynge / wherby I maye lease thy loue euerlastyngly Amen ¶ Pater noster Aue maria ¶ Here thou shalt knele agayne / and shall saye hertely O Lorde Ihesu chryst here I am on my knees afore thy blyssed face / as a pore begger afore a ryche kynge I praye the O kynge of glory that thou wylt cloth my soule with the vestment of thy dyuyne loue / and to enryche the same with thy grace in all vertue / to aorne the same with the perles of pacyence / to the entent that so aorned I may com to the soueraygne maryage wherunto thou hast called me Amen ¶ Pater noster Aue maria ¶ Here thou shalt ryse with fere / and shall saye O Lorde god Ihesu chryste here I am afore thy reuereÌ„de presence as a man afore his derest frende / whom I al other creatures be bounde to loue / for thou haste made delyuered vs by thy precyous blode O benygne Ihesu chryste I pray the kepe and defende me alwayes / and graunt me to perceyue howe good and swete thou art / to the entent that therby all payne and ioye / and also all creatures maye be bytter vnto me Amen ¶ Pater noster Aue maria ¶ Nowe thou shalt knele agayne / and shall saye O Lorde Ihesu chryste here I am humbly on knees afore thy dyuyne iyes / as a chylde afore his father of whom I haue receyued body and soule / albeit that I haue not ben at all tymes obedyent / as a true and faythfull chylde ought to be to his father I pray the O my father euerlastynge by thy paternall loue / that thou wylt norysshe me here in erth with the heuenly breade / and in chastysynge me for my faultes / haue mercy of me / to the entent that so I puryfyed of my synnes / we maye reioyse / thou in me and I in the / with all the sayntê in heuen euerlastyngly Amen ¶ Pater noster Aue maria ¶ The .xxxi. Chapytre / of those whiche neyther spyrytually nor bodely receyue the holy sacrament THyrdly / there be some ê‘sones whiche neyther spyrytually nor bodely / receyue the holy sacrament / and that do withdrawe them selfe from the lyfly fountayne of grace wherby they become drye in theyr soules / as a braunche cut from a tree ¶ Fyrste / they be those whiche be harde herted / obstynate / and roted in theyr euyll and peruers lyuynge / and wyll not leue it / As those which be in adultery / those whiche do lede theyr lyues in a lyght and coÌ„mon maner / those whiche do haunt olde fylthy / and vnhonest tauernes or lodgyngê / or whiche do possesse goodes vnryghtfully / or also whiche be in enuye or suche lyke deedly synnes These persones / albeit that they synne lease bycause they do not go to the holy sacrament in suche an euyll and peruers lyfe yet neuertheles they synne deedly / bycause that one iÌ„ the yere they do not prepare them selfe to the holy sacrament For they myght leue theyr synne and confesse them therof / and so go to the holy sacrament / where as nowe they tarye in deedly synne and in the state of euerlastynge daÌ„pnacyon in the whiche they maye at all houres dye ¶ Secondaryly / all Infydelles / as Turkes / Sarazyns / Iewes / and paynyms / other whiche do not byleue in Ihesu chryste the sone of god in the holy catholyke churche All persones blynded in theyr malyce synne / wherby they dyspyse the holy sacrament / mocke them that do receyue it And bycause that they byleue not in the sone of god / and do not receyue hym in the holy sacrament / whiche is the lyfe of the soule / therfore they abyde and dwell in dethe / and be deed in theyr soules ¶ Thyrdly / there be yet some which do not receyue the holy sacrament / as Herytykes / that is to saye chrysten people / whiche vnderstaÌ„de the holy scrypture otherwyse than the holy ghost doth speke it by the prophetes and that that is ordeyned by the holy churche / as to go to confessyon / to faste / to go to the holy sacrament / to repute as no thynge excoÌ„munycacyon / and not to sanctyfye the holy dayes / and to honoure our lady other sayntes / or to gyue any almous in theyr honoure to the poore folkes / to dyspyse and set at nought pardons indulgences / and of suche other artycles they haue many And these persones go not to the holy sacrament whan and where they may / for they byleue not in the holy sacrament And yf they go to confessyon or to the holy sacrament / they do it without fayth / and bycause that they shall not be knowen from other / and in lyke case they com to the churche to here masse ¶ Fourthlye / they be those whiche take so great payne in worldly busynes / as to go in to the countre for marchauÌ„dyse and other transytory thynges / that they forgette to receyue the holy sacrament For there be some