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A00597	The grand sacrilege of the Church of Rome, in taking away the sacred cup from the laiety at the Lords Table: detected, and conuinced by the euidence of holy Scripture, and testimonies of all ages successiuely from the first propagation of the catholike Christian faith to this present: together with two conferences; the former at Paris with D. Smith, now stiled by the Romanists B of Calcedon; the later at London with M Euerard, priest: by Dan. Featly, Doctor in Diuinity.	Featley, Daniel, 1582-1645.	1630 (1630)	STC 10733; ESTC S120664	185,925	360

THE GRAND SACRILEGE OF THE CHVRCH OF ROME In taking away the sacred Cup from the Laiety at the Lords Table Detected and conuinced by the euidence of holy Scripture and Testimonies of all Ages successiuely from the first propagation of the Catholike Christian Faith to this present Together with two Conferences the former at Paris with D. Smith now stiled by the Romanists B of Calcedon the later at London with M Euerard Priest By DAN FEATLY Doctor in Diuinity Gelasius de consecrat dist 2. cap. comperim●…s Aut integra percipiant aut ab integris arceantur diuisio enim vnius eiusdemque mystery sine grandi sacrilegio non potest prouenire LONDON Printed by Felix Kyngston for Robert Milbourne and are to be sold in Pauls Churchyard at the signe of the Greyhound 1630. TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE WILLIAM EARLE OF Pembroke Lord high Steward of his Maiesties Houshold and of his most Honourable priuy Councell Chancellor of the Vniuersity of Oxford Knight of the Noble Order of the Garter ALthough I can challenge no interest in your Lordships fauour yet your Lordsh may challenge your interest in those fruits of my studies which grew vnder the shade of your Honours protection in the famous Nursery of Religion and Learning the Uniuersity of Oxford which the more it flourisheth by the sweet influence of your Lordships wise and mild gouernment the fairer and fresher Garlands of fame it still presents to your Honour Since the Muses of Sion and Helicon chose you their Patron their Reuenewes haue been so enlarged the Libraries furnisht the number of Professors increased the Buildings raised and beautified that you may rightly vse the Apothegme of Augustus Vrbem lateritiam inveni relinquam marmoream or rather in the sacred phrase of the Scripture we may say of you You found the Uniuersity built with Sycamores you willieaue it built with Cedars you found the foundations laid with Bricks you will leaue them laid with Saphyrs Yet the rearing of these high and stately buildings doth not erect so lasting a monument of your praise as the repairing the collapsed discipline and reuiuing of our ancient Statutes the Characters whereof were more worne out in some mens manners then in our bookes But aboue all the safe custodie of that pretious depositum of sauing Truth no way clipt by schisme nor adulterated by Popish heresie nor embased by any semipelagian alloy is to be accounted the Crowne of your glory and our ioyes This is that Palladium which if wee lose we are all lost but if we keepe it notwithstanding the treacheries of Iesuiticall Sinons and Wodden engines of Antichristian Rome Troia stabit Priamique arx alta manebit Of this our most holy and orthodox ●…aith because your selfe and your Noble House haue been alwaies and are at this day vnder his Maiesty a principall defender and protector I make bold to dedicate to your Honour this polemicall Tractate wherein I charge the Church of Rome deepely with no lesse a crime then Grand Sacrilege and to demonstrate 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I call in for witnesses against her of the best rank and note from the Apostles times down-wara through all centuries euen to this sixtenth now currant That which the Iesuites haue so long clamored for and many in regard of the razing out and defacing and burning ancient records of truth vnder the tyranny of Antichrist haue thought infecible I haue produc'd a catalogue of visible professors and eminent propugners of a maine Article of our reformed Religion in all Ages And if my trauell herein through many difficult and vnbeaten pathes may be thought profitable to the Church of God I will proceed by the same line in other controuersies as God shall inable and your Lordship incourage Your Lordships humbly deuoted D. F. TO THE CHRISTIAN READER THe people of Germany as Illyricus writeth of them aboue an hundred yeeres agoe complained that in old time there were in the Church woodden Chalices but golden Priests but now say they we haue golden Chalices but woodden Priests A iust complaint against the ignorant Cleargie of Rome in the latter Ages especially before the happie Reformacion of late in our time Yet the ignorance of Priests was not so blameable as their sacrilege was damnable For these wooden Priests tooke away from the peoples vse those golden Chalices and robbed them of that which is farre more precious the heauenly liquor contained in them which is sacramentally as wee say but as they beleeue substantially the blood of our Sauiour the inualuable price of mans Redemption The Heathen Strobilus in the Poet vsed not his Goddesse Fides worse then they doe the deuout Laietie If I finde my treasure saith hee I will offer vnto thee a gallon of sweet wine Trust me Faith I will offer it to thee but I will drinke it euery drop my self In like sort the Romish Masse-Priests vpon a thousand Altars offer many flagons of wine as they pretend for the people as well as themselues but they drinke it all themselues And yet I know not whether more impiously or ridiculously in their priuate Masses and publike Communions they rehearse the words Bibite ex hoc omnes Drinke yee all of this that is in their sence and practise Drinke yee none of this but we onely that are Priests Verily of all the abuses in the Masse which is nothing else but a huge heape and masse of idolatrous and superstitious rites there is none more grosse in the doctrine or impious in the practise or absurde in the defence then this of halfing the Communion by with-holding the Cup from the people For it is an open violence offered to our Lords last Will and Testament a violation of the words of the Institution a mutilation of the blessed Sacrament a sacrilegious detention of an holy Legacie from the Sonnes of God In other points of difference our aduersaries lay claime to the Primitiue Church but in this they yeeld it vs. Against other of their errors wee haue frequent testimonies in the former and purer Ages for fiue or sixe hundred yeeres after Christ but few in the later Against this vnsufferable enormity wee abound in passages of good Writers in all Ages In other controuersies the Romanists like Sampsons Foxes are tyed fast by the tailes in this they are loose and parted asunder and they take direct contrary courses They disproue their own proofes and approoue our disproofes of them Penelopes telam texunt retexunt they doe and vndoe There is no argument of ours against them which is not confirmed by some of them no obiection of theirs against vs which is not solued by some of their owne side as thou mayst see through the whole but especially in the last Chapter of this Discourse Into which I Imbarked my studies the rather vpon this occasion About two yeeres since I was desired by a person of qualitie to conferre with a L. a little before that time seduced by