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A06882	A declaration of the masse the fruite thereof, the cause and the meane, wherefore and howe it ought to be maynteyned. Newly perused and augmented by the first author therof. Maister Anthony Marcort at Geneue. Tra[n]slated newly out of French into Englishe. Anno M.D.XLvii.; Petit traicté de la Sainte Eucharistie. English	Marcourt, Antoine de, d. ca. 1560.; Vingle, Pierre de, attributed name. aut; Viret, Pierre, 1511-1571, attributed name. aut; Geranius, Cephas. aut	1547 (1547)	STC 17314; ESTC S103750	36,879	64

they haue done in the Popysh churche which is a great wickednes and extreme sacrilege openly agaynste the institution and ordinaūce of Iesus that so expressely and so euidently had conioyned them But what care vnkinde folke ennemies to the veritie of the ordinaunces thereof for they be wise and not vnwitty Yf saynte Paule were alyue O how he would crie against such a cursed abuse so would saint Austine S. Ciprian and all other induced with the good spirite ☞ But to returue to the purpose it is certayne that of the same breade whiche they had vsed in eating the Lambe of passing called the Pascall lambe Iesus Christe toke and brake sayeng take eate this is my body Where vpon in the sermon afore sayed thys good doctour Ciprian sayd thus Ante verba illa cibus ille cōmunis tantum nutriendo corpori cōmodus erat sed er quo a domino dictum est hoc facite in meam commemorationē c. panis iste solemni benedictione sacratus ad totiꝰ hominis vitam salutemque proficit That is to saye before the wordes of Iesus Christe this meate that was commune auayled to feede the body onely But syth that the lorde had spoken this bread cōsecrate by solempne blissyng profiteth to the life and entier saluation of man Thys breade than by one such and so singuler application so high solempne and excellent blessing is chaunged and altered not in corporall sence but to intellectuall spirite not of kinde or substaunce but of operation of nature of signification dignitie and office yea to the faythful but nothinge to the vnfaythful but perdition ☞ The whyche thynge yll vnderstande hath gyuen occacion to the schole men at thys presente tyme curiously and vaynely to dispute that is to wit if the accidētes may be separate remaine without substaūce substaūce wtout accidentes other diueres allegations which are not to the purpose of Iesus Christe nor of his church but serue to confuse the world and to bringe the christen religion to sclaūder mockery and irrision for of one incōuenience if it be not withstande many other will folowe ☞ Who may than any more susteyne support and endure suche folke the which as presumptuous and arrogaunt without feare or reuerence haue be so bold to cōclude that there is neyther breade nor wyne but haue dreamed and inuented a wanton and a newe terme of speakynge that they haue called as is aboue spoken transsubstātiation The whiche in the holy scripture was neuer reade Nor by the sayntes and good Fathers of the primatyue churche imagined Whereby as enemyes of God his worde by very ryght ought to be expulsed cast awaye or the better and fayrer to speake as piuishe fooles they ought to be contempned and dispised ☞ How be it if any shoulde demaunde them by what veritie suche a thynge is done They wyll answere forthwyth by the doctrines of theyr scholes that it is in the vertue of the sacramentall wordes proferred and pronounced ouer the breade In suche wyse that yf there were no bodye that vnderstode or hearde the sayd wordes that neuertheles the sayed transubstantiation woulde folowe so that the sacrifice had his full strength wyth matter conuenable c. But certainly I greatly wonder haue pitie on them that they be so blynde and haue not so muche vnderstandyng to consider that oure Lorde spake not to the breade whan he sayed Take eate thys is my bodye Nor he spake not to the wyne As. S. Luke reciteth whan he wrote And toke the cup gaue thankes and sayed Take ye it distribute amonge you Also afterwarde likewise he gaue the cup after supper sayinge Thys cuppe is the newe Testamente in my bloude whiche is shed for you In the whiche writynges and all other of the new testament this matter is very euident that he neuer spake to the breade nor wyne Than it maye be well sayed that these poore folke be very vnwitty in secrete hidyng aside not willynge to be hearde and vnderstande of anye blowe and speake thus ouer the breade and wyne Wherof oure Lorde Iesus Christe neuer gaue vnto them neither exāple nor word But it is the custome that alwayes one errour engendreth an other errour ¶ The .iii. declaration is of the assistence or corporal presence of Iesus Christe in the Sacramente of breade and wyne at the Masse IN thys poynt more than in any other they haue fayled erred greatly whā they sayd wrote preached gaue to vnderstande and taught that in the steade of bread and wyne as they saye vnder the shapes or kyndnes visible whyte or blake yelowe or redde it is al one the body of Iesus Christe really and in dede entyerly corporally personally in fleshe and bone as greate and perfite as presently he lyued And in this wise they haue prouoked almooste the vniuersall worlde to manifeste and open ydolatri Agaynst the whiche importable abusion it behoueth to resiste myghtily wyth the holy scriptures And fyrste of all we muste reteyne and note wel the artycle of our faith Rom. vii that Iesus Christ died for oure sinnes and arose for oure Iustification ma● xvii● And after his resurrection ascēded in to heauen and sytteth on the right hāde of his father reigninge in maiestye to whome al power is giuen in heauen in earth in hel Philip. ii That he ascended into heauen visible in the presence of the Apostles and disciples it is certaine ●ciuū i. Of the which wonderful ascēcion they were faith full and true wytnesses Mar. xvi as it appeareth in the Act. of the Apostles by S. Marke in the last Chap. of his Gospell Also S. Paul writinge to the Collossiens sayth in thys maner Cos i●i Yf ye be risen wyth Christe seke heauenly thynges that be aboue where Christe is sytting on the ryght hande of the father If foloweth well than syth that Iesus Christe is aboue in heauen sittynge on the right hande of his father that he is not here in earth betwen the preistes handes nor closed in a boxe or aulmery for his body was neuer but in one place at once Therefore if hys bodie be in heauen for that tyme it is not in earth and if he were in earth it shoulde not be in heauen for of certayne a very perfighte bodye is but in one place at ones as I sayde afore Caue●d● a sabe●●●● and it is no nede to dreame or allege any miracle of God and saie that god is almyghtye to make it be done and to multiplie it at ones in sondri places for that is the rauinge ymaginacion of man wythout foundacion of scripture And that God maketh suche a multiplicacion we haue none assuraunce of scripture nor deuine promise Argumentū a posse ad esse ni●●● cōcludit Wherfore to saye God maye do it ergo he dothe it That saynge is nothynge worth for here is no question of the power of God And it is

operis operati that is to saye not by the vertue of the worke of the worker but by the vertue of the worke wroughte which is all falshode dreames and inuentions of mē as aboue is effectually shewed ¶ The seconde declaration is if in the Sacramente of breade and wyne there is transubstanciation or not FOr thermore to confounde erroure after erroure notwythstandynge that thys fyrste poynte is sufficient to abolishe it euidently I meane not the Sacramente of Iesus Christe for it besemeth me not but thys triumphaunte Papall Masse The sayd selye poore sacrifiers as enchauntours and idle people whiche neuer estemed the holy scriptures and for to encrease publyshe theyr foly she frenasy scantly wyllyng to gyue place to the body of Iesus Christe haue sayed put in wrytynge preached and taught That after that they had blowen or spoken ouer the bread whiche they holde betwene their fingers and also ouer the wyne that they put in the chalice that there remayneth neyther breade nor wyne but by transformation or as they saye transsubstanciation the body of Iesus Christe is ther vnder the accidētes of the bread inuisibly hyd And the bloud also vnder the accidētes of the wyne beinge there no more bread or wine which is a doctrine of deuyls agaynst al veritie agaynst al experience agaynste reason and holy scripture the whiche hath amonge other thinges cast away alienated from the christē law and religion almost al the earth so ful of wretchednes is the papysticall doctrine ☞ That this doctrine and sophistical determination proceading of vanitie of dreames is entierly against the holy scriptures it is euident and manifest by S. Paul S. Mathew S. Marke S. Luke Where as al these witnesses of truth speake of the holy supper of Iesus Christ they haue sayd and put in wryting that oure Lord Iesus Christe toke breade and breake it distributynge it to his Apostles and disciples Fyrste S. Paule sayeth thus i. Cori. xi Oure Lorde Iesus Christe the same nyght in which he was betrayed toke breade and geuyng thākes brake it and sayed Take and eate thys is my body whiche is broken for you S. Mat. lykewyse sayeth in thys maner Ma. xxvi And as they supped Iesus toke bread blessed it and brake it and gaue it to his disciples and sayed Take and eate thys is my bodie Ma. xiiii Saint Marke also and S. Luke haue written it in their Gospels Luk. xvi● where as they name the breade expressely and not the substaunce of breade Item S. Paule in the place before alledged after that he had made ample mention of the institution and ordinaunce of the holy supper of Iesus Christe sayd in this maner Man approueth him selfe and so eateth of this breade drinketh of the chalice where as he saythe not Eate ye the bodie of Iesus Christe whiche is hyd vnder the apparance of breade but openly purely simply he sayed eate ye of this breade Now it is certaine that the scripture hath no dissceyt and that in it is no fainyng And notwithstandyng this the poore blynd folke haue ben presumptuous and bolde that they durst diffine determine agaynst saint Paule and other euangelistes that there is neither bread nor wyne but onely the similitude of bread and wine Also in the Actes of the apostles it is writen thus After x● ▪ And on a Sabboth daye when we were assembled to breake bread where as it is not writen semblaunce or likenes of breade And S. Paule in an other place saith The bread that we dreake is it not the participatiō of the body of Iesus Christe In the which so many euident places the holy scripture pronoūceth sayth expressely to be bread not a shape or kinde apparance or likenes of breade Wherfore on paine to be condemned of god we must simply beleue it to be breade and not lykenes of breade onely for as it is sayed in the holy scripture is no feinynge ☞ True it is that the fayethfull Christians wel vnderstandyng the dignitie of the Sacramente take the breade sacramentall not as comune breade vulgare and vsuall but as bread sanctified apoynted and ordeined to diuine vses bycause that in this mooste holy action the spirite and soule of the faythfull shoulde be nouryshed that is to saye knitte ioyned and vnied by speciall operation to his propre lyfe whiche is his pastoure and onelye sauiour Iesus and that inuisible for the time of this mortall lyfe by intelligence and contemplation of fayth To the whiche in the lyfe to come shall appere without coueringe of sacramente opēly actually really as our redemer high bishop kynge and sacrifier ordeined of god his father ▪ vnto the consummation of all thinges ☞ Saynt Cipryan martyr one of the aūciēt doctours the fathers of the church in a sermō that he made of the supper of the Lorde that beginneth Suscitati Lazari Hierosolimis increpuerat rumor By highe and longe sentences that whiche I haue toutched shortly amonge the whiche he sayed thus Panem angelorum subsacramento manducamus in terris eundem sine sacramento manifestius edemus in celis That is to say we Christians eate the bread of angels which is Christ the liuinge God vnder the Sacrament in earth but we shall eate it in heauē manifestly without colour of sacramēt And what he vnderstandeth by eatynge hym selfe declareth it in the same sermon sayinge Quod est esca carni hoc anime est fides quod cibus corpori hoc verbum spiritui That is to saye That whiche the meate doth to the fleshe the fayth doth it to the soule and that whiche the meate doeth to the body the worde of God doth it to the spirit As touching the proprietie of bread it is wel to be noted The nature and condition of breade and wine as to theyr fyrst constitution is to nourysh and feede the body But it hath pleased the Lorde to ordeyne them in his holy Sacramēt to another and more excellent operation which is that to the well vnderstandynge and faythfull person it bringeth and representeth not to the sence of the body but to the soule spirite actual takinge quicke knowledging and mynde of the body of the sauiour of our soules delyuered to death for vs and of his precious bloud shed for our redemption whiche be two sundry thinges For the bodye mighte well haue died without effusion of bloud as we se daily many dye But by his greate mercie it pleased him for to do bothe for vs. That is that he hath tasted death as to the body and not only that but also woulde shed and offre his precious bloud in price of our redētion And therfore bicause that in his church shoulde alwaye be had minde of these two admirable workes he hath ordeined this same holy sacrament which is the consummation and ende of all other in two visible thinges that is to witte in bread and wyne the which thinges should neuer be separate as