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A13142	A summe or a briefe collection of holy signes, sacrifices, and sacraments instituted of God euen since the beginning of the world, and of the true originall of the sacrifice of the Masse; Sum or a brief collection of holy signes, sacrifices and sacraments.	Ling, Nicholas, fl. 1563.; Brett, John, Sir, attributed name.; Devonshire, William Cavendish, Earl of, 1590-1628, attributed name.	1609 (1609)	STC 23434; ESTC S113014	129,473	362

Iohn Bishop of that place Who seing the occidentall Empire of Rome ouerthrowne and the other of Constantinople highly exalted Greg. lib. 4. of his epistles cap. 26. hee would also follow the tyrannie of the world and styrre vp a spirituall rule in the Church of Iesus Christ Hee caused himselfe to be declared by a councell holden at his pleasure Bishop Ecumenique The yeere of Christ 604. that is to say generall and head of the whole Church Platin. Sabellic But soone after the great Bishops of Rome gaue such order that by treason the Emperour Maurice in Constantinople was cruely slaine hee his wife and familie by wicked Phocas who to recompence this detestable murder committed by the aduise of the Church of Rome alwaies contrary to Iesus Christ The yeare of Christ 612. hee declared Boniface the third of that name the generall head of the church of God taking vpon him the authoritie of Iesus Christ the great and euerlasting high Priest the onely spouse and head of his church Who can better describe an Antichrist than hee that doth enterprise a tyrannie in the church of God Marke 26 a poligamie in the church the spouse of Iesus Christ attributing to himselfe that power which Iesus Christ hath reserued to himselfe to bee perpetuall with his church by the vertue of his holy spirite to conduct and gouerne the same May not hee rightly be called Antichrist which doth enforce himselfe directly to goe against the holy gospell of Iesus Christ who commanded his Apostles when he sent them to preach his word that they should not institute a Monarchie in the church as the Princes Kings Math. 23. Luke 11. Marke 2. and tyrants of the earth That none amongst them should enterprise to call himselfe the head or greater then other but all as brethren were humble being assured to haue one head and one heauenly father which will tarrie with them and assist them for euer to inspire and conduct them in his holy will Is not hee of good right Antichrist which will haue himselfe called the successour of Iesus Christ in the great Bishoprick in the high priesthood by him exercised The which dignitie he hath reserued to himselfe abiding a high soueraigne Priest for euermore who hath left no successour in his dignitie as Aaron did and his successours in the dignities of the high Priests of the Iewes But is after the order of Melchisedech a king high priest without any successour in his dignitie Wherfore then O Antichrists of Rome haue you taken vpon you the dignity of the highest Bishops as the heads of the church of God and vsurped also the authority of Iesus Christ causing your selues to be called most blessed most reuerend fathers and Popes hauing instituted a colledge of little purple Bishoppes to choose the great Bishop but onely to the end to renew the auncient Romaine religion of Numa Pompilius the first authour of your Pontificall dignities About the same time that Phocas the cruell murtherer did erect an Antichrist in the Romane Church Mahomet was risen in the Church of Arabia instructed by the Monke Sergius about the yeare 620. for this Apostate Heretike seeing the lawe of God altogether corrupted by the traditions of men and the holy Gospell contemned sectes and diuerse heresies sowed as well by the Iewes Pharisees Esseens Saduces Masbutheans Galileans Hemerobaptists and Samaritans as also by the Christians Simoniaques Nicolaits Cerinthiēs Menandriēs Ebionites Valētinians Cerdonians Marcionistes Montanistes Seeke the Church histories Cataphriges Tatians Eueratits Seuerians Artemonistes Porpherians Helchesaites Nouatiens Sabellians Chiliastes Paulianistes Manicheans Automousiastes Arrians Eunonians Macedonians Euuomiotheophroniens Eunomioentichiens Aetians Donatistes Luciferiens Patripassians or Theophatites Photiniens Marcellians Paulosamosetans Apolinaristes Iouinianistes Pelagians Acariens Olimpiens Quaternitaries Monothelites And other Heretikes hauing corrupted the true vsage of the holy Sacraments ordeyned of God Seeing also specially the Messalien secte to prosper in their ceremonies taken partly out of the Iudaicall lawe and partly out of the heathen Idolatrie he inuented the great Alcoran decree wherein he set many chapters articles called Azoares which are as lawes and rules of the Mahomet Religion This preface briefe discourse of the Romane history me thought necessarie to recite before I would begin to discribe the originall of the sacrifice of the Masse Alwaies to bring the Reader to vnderstand the veritie of the fact How the Emperour of Rome hath bin gouerned vntill the decay thereof about the yeare of Christ 410. And how the barbarous Idolators did vsurpe the same for the space of 300. yeares how also the Antichristes did rise and in the end the Emperour of Rome was transferred to the Almaines which keepe it to this day 500. yeares being passed Of the Masse TO begin this our little treatise of the Masse first of all it is conuenient to interprete this tearme Masse The originall of the tearme of the Masse of the ancient Romaines called Missa Some haue honoured this Missal sacrifice to haue taken his beginning of the Hebrewes bringing in the place of Daniel Daniel 11. speaking of Maozin as if they would signifie the Masse by Maozin But this tearme is very strange frō Missa or Masse And there are other Hebrew words which are more nearer to wit Messa which is as much to say as conculcation or treading downe whereof mention is made in the history of the kinges of Israel 4. Kings 11. Missa Another tearme also is found very comfortable vnto this common tearme Masse namely Messall Iosua 19. Messall that is to say hell or graue But I am well assured that the high Priestes of Rome will not take the originall of their sacrifice of the Masse from the Hebrues acknowledging their Masse and Messall to be a conculcation graue or hell Further to speake the truth the Author of the Romane Religion Numa Pompilius neuer thought of the Hebrues when he first instituted the Masse much lesse this tearme Missa or Masse can haue his originall of the Greekes Messal Hell seeing they haue no sacrifice of that name notwithstanding that some haue made some reason to bring in this terme of Greeke Miz●in that is to say in English to whisper or hide in secret As if the Messalian sacrificers had receiued of the Greekes Idolatours to keepe secret the chiefe and principall words of their Masses to the end they should not bee vnderstood of the assistance but haue obserued to murmure and blow betweene their teeth the Canons and other speciall words which neither they vnderstoode themselues nor other which beheld them Neuerthelesse neither the Hebrue termes nor Greeke vocables in no wise can be appropriated to the missall sacrifice Wherefore it behoueth to haue recourse to the true original of the terme Missa or Masse Masse taken of the ancient Latins Romans taken of the auncient Latines the Romanes which were accustomed to vse these termes Missus

circumcised Moreouer if it pleased him to accomplish the ceremoniall lawe to vse in the dayes of sweete bread vnleuened bread It is therefore necessarie to turne againe vnto the rigor of this ceremonie abrogated by the sacrifice perfectly ended by Iesus Christ In what place of the holy Gospell could Alexander euer finde to mixe water with the wine Cel. lib. 39. cap. 21. And for to binde Christians to vnleuened bread Is it of any more value then his inuention to chase away Diuels with water salted and coniured And as touching his coniured water ordeyned by him we will shew hereafter that the originall thereof came from Numa Pompilius the great Coniurer and Romane Idolater But as for the mingling of the water with wine that should seeme to bee taught by the religion of the ancient Idolaters which were wont in celebrating their sacrifices in one chalice to cōsecrate the water with the bread specially in the feast dedicated to the Sunne which the Persians did worship called of them Mythros And in the feast also of Nephalies Iust in his apologie water was vsed for the sacrifice According to this comparison Iustin Martyr maketh relation of the custome obserued among the Idolators and Christians for the bread wine and water consecrated By the one that is to say by the Idolators in the name of their Idolles and by the Christians in the name of their true God Alwayes this first corruption in the vsage of the holy sacrament by the mingling of water with wine beyonde the commandement ordinance of God did not continue without controuersie Inno. lib. 4. cap. 5. For the Greekes were of a contrarie opinion that it was not necessary to mixe water with wine and that they would not followe the corruption of Alexander Amarcanus was of the same aduice that Alexander was saying that it was necessarie to mingle it with water The subtill Sophist Scot doth affirme absolutly that it is not necessarie the water to be mingled with the wine because saith he it cannot be changed and transubstantiated into bloud if first it be not changed into wine Other more ingenious would rather interpretate the institution of Alexander saying the wine to be conuerted into bloud but as for the water it was transubstantiated into the water which came out of the side of Iesus Christ This first corruption of Alexander did giue occasion of many other to succeed For some inuented greater bruings to mingle it with bloud drawn out of yong Infants to mixt with the bread of the holy supper of Iesus Christ S. Augustine in his book of the relikes cap. 26. 64. as the Cataphriges which began a kind of transubstantiation of wine into bloud really corporally Epipha lib. 2. Tom. 1. heres 49. Some other adioyned therevnto cheese called Artotirites that is to say cheese bread Others also abusing this sacrament in steede of wine tooke water vnder pretence of more greater abstinence Other ordained to temper the bread with wine which the Massalians do yet holde in their missall sacrificers For another more detestable corruption of the holy sacramēt some bishops of Rome haue forbiddē their Massalian sacrificers to minister vnto the Christen people which they call lay the body of Iesus Christ vnder both kinds but only vnder the holy signe of bread and not of wine the which they kept for the Priestes Massalians sacrificers Is not this corruption directly against the holy gospell and instition of the supper of Iesus Christ Matth. 29. Mark 14. Luke 22. 1. Cor. 11. which hath ordained and commanded all faithfull to eate his bodie and drinke his bloud When hee tooke the cup vsed hee not these proper tearmes Drinke all of this wine in memorie and remembrance of my bloud shed Hath hee vsed any other tearmes for eating of his bodie by the figure of bread then he hath done for the drinking of his bloud by the signe of wine If one should compare herewith the holy signe ordained of God in the Church of the Israelites a figure of the communion of the body of Iesus Christ which was the pascall lambe the fleshe whereof was cōmanded to be eaten of all persons without exception for as much as they were circumcised Was there euer any difference in the eating of the pascall Lambe and celebrating of the Passeouer of the Iewes among the Leuites of the stocke of the Priestes and the other cōmon people For another detestable corruption the Massalians haue instituted by their missall Idolatries to sacrifice and offer the body and bloud of Iesus Christ in reiterating by meanes the sacrifice of Iesus Christ perfectly ended cānot be done againe for that it was not after the order of Aaron 1. Cor. 11. but after the order of Melchisedech an euerlasting sacrificer who hath left no successor Also the holy apostle whē he admonished the Corinthians reuerently to celebrate the supper of Iesus Christ did he command them to sacrifice No but to communicate and eate togeather the body and bloud of Iesus Christ The beginning of the holy supper was not to kill offer and ordaine a sacrifice to offer to God But onely to eate and drinke at the holy feast prepared for vs by Iesus Christ the euerlasting sacrifice euerlasting sacrificer which hath reserued vnto himselfe only this eternal priesthood And yet neuertheles hath left his holy institution a banquet ordained for vs of bread and wine representing his body and bloud After the corruptions aboue-sayde Sathan the diligent Babilonicall builder imploied all his forces strengthes to build an inuincible sortresse of Idolatrie to the end to fight against and vtterly to throw downe the kingdome of Iesus Christ when he did enterprise the building of the Masle to be brought in in the place of the holy sacrament of the supper as we wil briefly and so clearely declare that the most hard hearted Pharisies made olde in their ancient Idolatries shall acknowledge by the veritie of histories their errours and abhominable heresies Before the painting out of this Maze of error whereinto the Messalians are plundged I thought it necessarie briefly to discouer the ancient religion of the Romaines the raigne of the occidentall empire and of the Emperours which haue exercised both the temporal office and the dignitie of the great bishops superintendents of the religion Church of Rome Tit. Liu. lib. 1. Decad. 1. All other as well as I shall confesse that the Romaine religion altogether for the most part to haue beene instituted by Numa Pompilius the second King of the Romaines Funestella his booke of magistrats of Rome about 700. yeares before the incarnation of Iesus Christ Then were instituted the Bishops which afterward were brought to a certaine number vnto foure then the number was augmēted to eight and by Syl●a to 15. In the colledge of Bishops there was one chiefe Bishoppe which was chosen by the other lesse bishops of the same order and dignitie like

your assemblies and your feasts all is but vanitie I hate your feastes of new moones O Israelites and your solemne feasts I am wearie in suffering so much You haue goodly directed your prayers vnto mee I will not heare you any more for the abuses which you haue committed with your handes embrued with bloud Psalm 51. Esay 66. Ierem. 7. Moreouer I will not receiue of the house of Israel any Bull because your sacrifices are not pleasing vnto me Eccle. 7. I am as well pleased with the offering of a beast as with the murthering of a man and with the offering of Incense as with the worshiping of an Idoll Wherefore then saith God doe ye take so much paines to seeke Incense vnto Sabba and odours from far countreyes to offer and make sacrifices vnto me wherein I delight not Who hath moued you O Israelites to erect images vnto the Gods Moloch and the star Rompham during the time that you were in the Wildernesse where I did nourish you with my heauenly Manna Your feasts be odious vnto me your offerings oblations Amos. 5. and sacrifices for the health I will reiect your offerings do displease me Mich. 6. After what manner should one prepare himselfe to God Shall it bee by sacrifices of Bullocks of one yeare Doth God take pleasure in a great number of sheepe offered vnto him Or in a great quantitie of holy oyles To him saith the Prophet shall I offer of the first borne for the remission of sinnes Our good God hath very cleerely declared that seruice which he commādeth Psalm 51. follow equity loue mercie and of an humble and contrite heart fal downe before him for obedience is more worthy then sacrifice or the fatte of offered Rammes 1. Samuel 15. What gaue an occasion to God to put away those sacrifices and sacramēt which hee himselfe had ordained bu● the abuse and corruption which the Israelites had cōmitted taking ouer grossly the signes and ceremonies ordained to draw them to feare and obedience For in place of conceiuing that which was figured by the signes and corporall sacrifices they did rest in the fleshe of the beastes offered And in stead of cutting away the foreskinne of their hearts they rested in the carnall circumcision and in the meane time turned away from the true worshiping of God addressing themselues to creatures As to starres to the queene of h●auen and other strange Gods offering to them incense building for them temples preparing for them priests chaplaines and sacrificers to offer vnto them oblations and sacrifices Moreouer to accōplish this corruption they did sacrifice with the bloude of innocents offering of them and causing them to passe through the fire of Purgatorie in the valley of Tophet Wherefore for the abuse committed by the children of Israell against the holy sacraments 4 Esdr 1. sacred signes and sacr fices ordeyned of God it was saide vnto them by the Prophets 4 Esdr 1. that God would no more of their feastes of their newe Moones of their circumcision nor of their sacrifices celebrated by people idolatrous and full of bloud When the vnsercheable wisedome of God did perceiue the hardnes and infidelity of the people of Israel which did euer continue to commit idolatry by corrupting the holy signes sacraments and sacrifices in place of acknowledgeing the infinite goodnes of God which had deliuered them from the Pharaonicall tyranny which had nourished them in the Wildernesse which had brought them into the fruitfull lande promised vnto them and which so many times had succoured them in the warres against their neighbours the Cananites Moabites Madianites Philistines Ammonites Syrians Sidonians Sicyonians and other enuious people Neuertheles this rude people did continue in their idolatries taught them by their Priestes Sacrificers Kinges and Princes without turning to the true worshipping of one onely God Wherefore after the great mercy and long tarying of the iust Iudge which by all manner corrections woulde haue brought againe his people by diuine vengeance particularly as by raising vp of warres by captiuity bondage by diuiding of the kingdome parted betweene Roboam and Ieroboam the successors of Salomon plunged in the depth of idolatry in inward warres among the people diuided and by other scourges accustomed to correct those whom God doth fauour to the end to bring them to his feare and obediēce In the end these people 4 King 15.24 to much hardened and waxen old in their Idolatries were taken into miserable bondage vnder thy tyranny of Infidels Assirians idolatrous Babylonians their Realmes quite ouerthrowen But within a little while after that this selfe same people by the great mercy of God was deliuered from the hands of vnfaithfull tyrants was set againe at liberty and was restored to their land of promise Ioseph 13. cap. the Iewish antiquitie they fell againe to their Idolatries more then euer before vnder the gouernement of their Sacrificers and high Priestes which ioyned the temporalty and spiritualty so together that they were clad with Scepter Iosephus in the booke of the antiquities of the Iewes Roial and Crowne Then succeeded the heresies of the Pharisees of the Saduces Esseens Galileans Masbutheens Hemerobaptistes and Samaritans corrupted by the diuersity of strange nations which had inhabited and subdued the country of Samaria neere vnto Iudea For the Babylonians did worship for their God Soccobenoth the Cutheens Persiās hauing for their God Mergal or Mergel the Hematēses called vpō their God Asima the Annoys did worship their God Nebahaze and Thartace the Sepharuainenses did hold vpon their Gods Aaramelech Anamelech Vnto the which Gods they sacrificed their children causing them to passe through the fier Thus then when all kinde of Idolatrie was spread among the Isralites the sacrifices were altogether corrupted the Priestes became byers and sellers couetous tyrants and Idolaters the people paied tribute to the tyrants of Rome their country of Iudea made one with the Prouince ioyning vnto Syria vnder the power of the Romains Iosephus lib. 15. cap. 3. Io ephus lib. 18. cap. 3 Eu●rop lib. 1. cap. 2. The order also the lawe election of the high Priests was corrupted their dignitie abastarded altogeather insomuch that without regard of the Leuiticall race the high ptiestes were appointed by Consuls or Lieutenants of Rome as pleased them And whereas before they continued during their liues now they changed ye●ely And when as the Scepter was taken from the stocke of Iuda Genes 49. and her kingdome quite ouerthrowne as before it was prophecied The incōprehensible greatnes of God did manifest it selfe by his sonne begotten before all worlds which did so humble himselfe that he tooke humane flesh of the virgins wombe to redeeme his people and restore them to grace before God For as in Adam by his breaking and abusing of the holy signe giuen vnto him to keepe A conferring of Adam with Iesus Christ all the lumpe of mankind was

as the little bishops purple Cardinals haue practised the election of the great Romaine Bishop of their estate order and dignitie This Pompilian religion hath beene so well obserued by the Romanes from the father to the son that it hath beene impossible to destroy and plucke vp the same but hath continued to this day as euery one may easily perceiue by this little collection To confirme this point there is none that can bee ignorant which lusteth to read the Romaine histories that before the incarnatiō of Iesus Christ there was not one King Consul Dictator or Romaine Emperour instructed in the lawe of God But all were Idolaters and Infidels following the religion of Numa Pompilius the coniurer And that more is after the incarnation of Iesus Christ for the space of 300. yeares or thereabouts there was no Emperour Euseb in his booke of the Church historie the yeares of Christ 34. 68. 94. 112. 113. 167. 202. 238. 254. 257. 276. 292. nor Romane Councel which would change his religion to embrace the lawe of Iesus Christ But contrariwise they haue labored with tooth and naile to exercise all kind of cruelltie against the church of Iesus Christ as the Ecclesiasticall histories doe largely declare painting out great persecutions vnder the great Romaine Bishops to wit Claud. Tiber. Nero Claud Domitian Nero Fla. Domitian Traian Elie Hadrian Antonian Philosopher Septime Seuere Iul. Maximus Mar. Quin. Traian Dece Licime Valerian Valere Aurelian and Diocletian All which were Emperours and gouerned the Empire and Romaine religion for 300. yeares after the incarnation of Iesus Christ and in their moneyes sepultures monuments tytles and autentique letters did hold the name of great Bishops and high Priestes as diligently is gathered in a booke of the antiquities of Rome wherein bee described the Images In the booke intituled the discourse of the religion of the ancient Romaines by Wiliam de Choa●bayly of Daulphine moneies and monuments of the anancient Emperours of Rome which were all called great Bishops by these titles s●l Ces Pontif. max. Tiber. Nero Pon if m●x Claud. Nero. Pontif. max. Vaspasianus Ces pontif max Traianus Impera Pontif. max. Marc. Aurel. Anton. August Pontif. Holiogahalus summas sacerdos Aug. Adrianus Imper. Pontif. max. Galerius Maximini●ans Pontif. max. Tit. Ces Pontif. max. Com●●od Impe pontif max. Flauius Constantius Aug. Pontif. max. Which being then Emperours and great Bishoppes would suffer none other head in the religion and Romaine Church then themselues being alwaies enemies of Iesus Christ For when the Apostles did preach Christ to be the Soueraine Priest great and euerlasting sacrificer without any successour after the order of Melchisedech the tyrants of Rome and their Lieutenants did take an occasion to condemne Iesus Christ fearing that the authoritie of the Emperours and great Romaine Bishops should bee diminished In the Catalog of Emperours in the end of the historie of Nicephore the yeare of Christ 410. With what furie were they inraged for the space of 300. yeares against the christians and Christs religion to defend their auncient religion of Pompilius what answere was giuen to Theodose the Emperour by the senate and senatours of Rome when it was put forth vnto them to change their religion and to receiue the religion of Iesus Christ They shewed that they had possessed their Pompilian religion more then 1000. yeares that all changing of religions were the destructions of common wealthes Wherefore consisting in their olde Romane religion they remained without receiuing of the law of Iesus Christ By these histories it is easie to bee resolued that for the space of 400. yeares and more the bishops of Rome which called themselues Christians could neuer obtaine of the Senate and Romane Senators to receiue the holy Gospell much lesse could they conuert the Romane Idolater causing them to forsake their inueterate Idolatry For the Bishops of Rome were too much occupied in restoring the Iudaical and Pagans ceremonies for the distinctiō of meates ordinance not to fast Sunday and Thursday In the cannon reuealed by Clement Bishop of Rome 21. 22 62. 95. to set an order for table cloathes veales vessels of gold and siluer sensors and tapesterie other ornaments of the alters which consumed with age were ordeyned to be burned and the ashes to be put in the fount Other were meruailously occupied to restore the Iudaicall ceremonies of sweete breade and trauailed their spirits greatly to corrupt the true vsage of the holy sacraments instituted of God Alexander the first of that name Bishop of Rome in the yeare of Christ 110. by mingling of water with wine bruing of salt with the water to make it purged and coniured to driue away Diuels Sixtus Bishop of Rome in the yeare of Christ 121. Other also did trauell to institute Corporasses of fine linnen to lay vppe the consecrated hostes and to ordeine also albes and other vestiments of the Priests for their sacrifices of white collour without spot Siluester Bishop of Rome Some did torment their braines to inuent the feastes of dedication and consecration Higinus Bishop of Rome in the yeare of Christ 140. with coniuring with salt to driue away Diuels And some other to inuent oyles and creames to corrupt the holy sacrament of Baptisme ●abian Bishop of Rome in the yeare of Christ 240. Moreouer during the raigne of these Tirants Emperours and great Bishops the Bishops of Rome desiring to make their names to continue for euer did dreame in their spirits to builde Temples Pius Bishop of Rome in the yeare of Christ 144. not vnto the honour of God but in the name of their hee and shee Saints canonized by them at their pleasure Other did occupie themselues to ordaine that the consecrated breade and wine falling vpon the ground should be left to the sacrificer the rest remaining should be burned with fire and the ashes should be layed vp among the reliques Zepherin Bishop of Rome in the yeare of Christ 200 Other did trauell to set an order among chalises whether they should be of glasse or of wood And by other were instituted solemne ceremonies foure times a yeare to bring Christians to the bondage of distinction of daies Calixtus Bishop of Rome in the yeare of Christ 220 E●tich Bishop of Rome in the yeare of Christ 282 Some were occupied meruailously to ordaine the offering and consecration of fables to celebrate funerals in purple garmentes after the maner of the vestiment called Trabea the which the Idolaters did vse in triumphes celebrated in the honour of their Gods The red robes of Cardinalles Siluester bishop of Rome in the yeare of Christ 314. And the like purple garment is vsed of the Cardinals to this day Others were occupied to inuent a confirmation for yong children and that the Bishops only should consecrate the creame To honour also the Bishop of Hostiense by whose hāds the bishop of Rome must be consecrated with