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A11054	A godlie and short discourse shewing not onely what time the inhabitants of this land first receyued the Christian faith: but also what maner of doctrine was planted in the same. Whereby may appeare, howe the reformation at this day in England is not a bringing in of a newe religion, but a reducing againe of the olde and auncient fayth.	Rosdell, Christopher, b. 1553 or 4.	1589 (1589)	STC 21320; ESTC S101597	36,383	98

ordeined and so doth the holy Church of Rome hold And as the whole congregation did communicate together so also did they participate in both kindes for so Christ commāded the Apostles euery where taught De cōsecra dist 2. cap. cōperimus and the old Catholike fathers bishops followed And if any did otherwise as Gelasius saith hee was counted to commit sacriledge And it was not admitted in a strange language which the congregation vnderstoode not but in a vulgar common speach that it might be vnderstoode of all as is witnessed by S. Paul who cōmanded that al things should bee done in the Church to edifying but what edifying can bee there where the people knowe not what is said Euseb lib. 4. de vita Cōstant And for this cause godly Constantine caused the Scriptures to be placed in a legible hand in Churches And Iustinian in his 127 constitution ordeyned that all Bishops and Ministers should sound out their seruice and celebrate the mysteries not after a secrete maner but with a loud voice so as they might not onely be heard but also vnderstoode of the faithfull people which could not bee if they had spoken in an vnknowen tongue Herevnto might be added the testimonie of Hierome Augustin and others but for breuitie sake wee will rest vpon the testimonie of Innocentius the third Innocent 3. offi iud ord c. quo● niam who saith Because in many partes within one citie and dioces much people of diuerse tongues are mixed togither hauing vnder one faith diuerse rites and maners we straitly cōmand that the Bishops of those cities or dioces prouide sufficient men which according to the diuersitie of rites and tongues may celebrate among them the holy functions minister the ecclesiasticall sacraments instructing them by word and also by example Yea and this they did also without lifting ouer the priests head or worshipping or knéeling or knocking their breasts or any such like thing Only giuing thanks for the benefite of their redemption praying vnto God for his continuall fauour and grace towardes them Platina in vita Sexti As Platina in the life of Sextus witnesseth of the Apostle Peter that he ministred the celebration of the Cōmunion onely with the Lords prayer As for the new found deuise terme of transsubstantiation it was not in the primitiue time nor many yéeres after til the councell of Lateran 1059. as Erasmus testifieth saying The Church hath latelye defined transubstantiation A long time it was sufficient to beléeue the true bodie of Christ to be present Li. annota 1. Cor. cap. 7 either vnder the bread or any other way Lib. senten 4. Likewise Iohn Duns speaking of the words of institution sayth These wordes of Scripture might be expounded more easily and more plainly without transubstantiation But the church did chuse this sense which is harder being thereto moued as séemeth chiefly because men should holde of the Sacraments the same which the Church of Rome doth hold And after in the same place hee expounding himselfe more plainely maketh mention of Pope Innocent the third and of the councell of Lateran For our Sauiour when hee instituted that mysterie meant not by chaunging the elements of bread into his bodie or of wine into his blood to worke a myracle but by ordaining a Sacrament to leaue a perpetuall memorie of his death till his comming againe Ambros in Io. cap. 6. And therefore saith S. Ambrose the bread and wine are both the same things they were before and also changed into another Meaning they are the same they were before in nature and substance and changed in respect of vse and propertie And Gelasius saith De sacra li. 4. cap. 4. the substāce of bread or the nature of wine cease not to be And Theodoret. After sanctification In Dialog 1. 2. the mysticall simboles or pledges loose not their owne proper nature for they remaine in their former substance figure and forme In sermo ad infantis And Augustine That which you sée is bread and the cup which also your eyes shew you but as touching that which your faith requireth to bee instructed in the bread is the body of Christ De consecr dist 2. cap. qui manducat and the cup his blood And Origen That bread which is sanctified by the word of God in respect of the matter or substance entreth into the bellie and is cast into the draught And Christ himselfe not onely after the consecration but also after the communication sayth Luke 22. I will drinke no more of the fruite of the vine Now the fruit of the vine is wine and not blood And in speaking thus we derogate nothing from the Lordes supper neither doe wee make it a bare signe as some falsly slaunder vs. For we affirme and teach that Christ is truly present in his Sacraments in Baptisme that wee might put him on in his Supper that by faith spiritually we might eate him and through his death passion might obteine euerlasting life For although wee rent not Christ in péeces with our téeth yet we possesse him in faith mind and soule and therfore when we come vnto the Lords table we haue not our mindes fixed vpon the creatures but lift vp our mindes thither where Christ our true and onely foode is And so the councell of Nice commandeth saying Haue not your minds basely fastned on the bread and wine And Chrysost writeth saying we call the body of Christ a carkas and we must be Egles that we may know how we must mount a loft if we wil come vnto the body of Christ for this table is for Eagles and not for Iayes And Cyprian this bread is the food of the mind not of the belly And Augu. in another place saith how shall I hold him as absent how shal I thrust vp my hand into heuen that I might hold him sitting there He answereth send vp thy faith and thou hast holden him But for these our new found Romanists affirm and teach Christs body flesh blood and bones as he was borne crucified and buried to be in their little round cake Therfore they worship it they offer it they eate it or else they close it fast in a Pixe Where if it corrupt and putrifie before it be eaten then they burne it to powder and ashes And notwithstāding they know right wel by the scriptures that the body of Christ can neuer corrupt or putrifie yet will they néeds make it the body of Christ burne all them for heretikes which with them wil not beleue that which is against the Christian beliefe The xvj Chapter Of Matrimonie MAtrimonie which is the cōiunction or coupling together of man woman in an holy league inseparably to cleaue one to the other to liue togither in perfect loue and vnitie according to Gods ordināce in old time w not only counted an honorable high estate as may appeare by