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A19326	Doctrinall and morall observations concerning religion vvherein the author declareth the reasons of his late vn-enforced departure from the Church of Rome, and of his incorporation to the present Church of England : teaching, maintaining and defending the true Christian Catholike and apostolike faith, professed by the ancient primitiue church, most conspicuous in the outward vertues and constant sufferings of many holy bishops and other good Christians, glorious in the crowne of martyrdome / by Iohn Copley ...	Copley, John, 1577-1662.	1612 (1612)	STC 5742; ESTC S299	195,885	256

amongst many which I haue read and noted out of diuers authors of good credit and well approued in the Church of Rome The first is taken out of Pope Gregorie the Great S. Greg. Mag. hom 37. in Euang lib. 4. dialog cap. 57. who writeth That a certaine man being taken prisoner by his enemies was carried into a farre Countrey where hee was kept prisoner a long time whose wife not hearing any thing of him thought him to bee dead and therefore caused a Masse to be said for him euery weeke Whereupon it happened that so often as the Masse was offered for the deliuerance of his soule so often were his irons and shackles loosened in the prison where he was which afterward when being released he returned againe to his wife he told her as much with great admiration whereupon the wife enquiring the time and the houre when hee found him so freed from his fetters she found it happened at he same houre that Masse was said for him Whereupon Pope Gregorie saith Hence my best beloued brethren and good friends learne ye how much the sacred hoast being offred by our selues is of force to vntie the bands of our hearts since being offered by one it had such power as to breake the bands of anothers bodie Certainly if this sacrifice be of such force I maruaile why the Priests in prison offering it with the deuotion of worthie Confessors heere in England should not be able often to loosen their chaines yea and to open the verie prison gates for their deliuerance but this cannot be because such fictions neuer prooue true and these are but fables inuented to delude poore simple soules that Priests by saying of Masses for them may emptie their purses and bee partakers of their coine Againe as it is written that heere in England A certaine Prince which had beene sicke of the Palsie a long time and carried into Saint Stephens Church Edinerus Angelus in vit S. Anselm to heare Masse sung by Anselme Bishop of Canterburie and to receiue his blessing whereupon he recouered present health Either this storie is inuented to honour Anselme with or else to approue the Masse by it or if the Masse be of such power how hapneth it in all this time of persecution as the Papists terme their small suffrings here in England that they haue no sicke persons cured by so many Masses as are offered by Priests and Iesuites But all is but mans inuention and as babes are deceiued with shewes so are simple Papists with false lies and such like fabulous wonders inuented either by ambitious and foolish Priests or hypocriticall and pharisaicall Monkes and Friers It is an vsuall thing in the Church of Rome by such inuentions to confirme one false doctrine by another so confirmed so I haue noted the doctrine of Purgatorie by the doctrine of the Masse for diuers Romish Authours haue left it recorded that Benedictus Octauus Pope was deliuered out of Purgatorie by the sacrifice of the Masse Petr. Dam. Card. Al. l●y in fest S. Od●li 〈◊〉 Ian. Laur. Sur. to 1. lib. 2. cap. 2. An. Ebor. cap. de orat Cath hist cap 5. tit 19. part 2. Tho. Cant. lib. 2. A●un cap. 53. part 14. Cath. hist cap. 5. tit 19. part 5. and the prayers of Saint Odilus Abbot and his Monkes Heere is a miracle framed not onely for the Masse but also for Purgatorie and praying for the dead So likewise I haue read of a Priest in France who being verie poore yet verie deuoutly affected to the soules in Purgatorie in so much that euerie day without failing he ●ffered the sacrifice of the Masse for them for the which he was cited and accused before his Prelate and being brought before his Bishoppe hee simplie confessed the truth wherefore hee was taxed to payment of a certaine summe and forced to giue suretie for the same which hauing sworne to performe the poore man was in great trouble finding out none to answer for him but instantly the eyes of the Bishoppe were opened and hee beheld more than a thousand hands stretched foorth readie to giue suretie for the Priest Whereupon the Bishopped said vnto the Priest thou hast sureties enough goe and according to thine owne pleasure and mine say Masse as thou hast done heretofore Many other straunge wonders could I alleage in this kind not to bee beleeued but rather to bee wondered at that any man dares haue so much presumption as by such wicked deuises to wrong Gods truth and to maintaine false-hood for if it bee a true marke of false teachers which Christ prescribed when he spake of those that should do such wonders that the elect might be seduced by them then it followeth that the Romish teachers are those euen in this verie doctrine of the Masse who onely pretend to haue miracles and wonders to approue it 10 For in truth they haue no one place of Scripture for this sacrifice which they so highly esteeme of The storie of M●lch●sedech wrested to prooue the Masse they pretend many figures and types of the old Law many predictions out of the Prophets and also other testimonies out of the Gospell but they are all insufficient weake and impertinent nothing seruing their purpose So most impertinently doth Cardinall Bellarmine alleage the example of Melchisedech Desacrif mis lib 5. cap. 5. 6. Genes 14. Psal 109. vers 5. who brought foorth bread and wine for hee was the Priest of the Highest but Christ is a Priest after the order of Melchisedech and not according to Aaron as Paul teacheth Hebrewes the seuenth therefore hee was to institute an vnbloodie sacrifice vnder the forme of bread and wine This reason of Bellarmines is of no force for were it true that Melchisedech offered bread and wine which is not yet nothing else would follow but that Christ offered bread and wine which our Aduersaries will neuer graunt for they teach that bread and wine doth not continue after consecration but that they are annihilated and so transubstantiated that nothing remaineth of the substance besides the bodie and blood of Christ Besides Melchisedech did not offer but onely brought foorth as the Hebrew word signifieth bread and wine for the refreshing of Abrahams souldiers as the Text it selfe clearely teacheth Neither is Melchised●ch a Type of Christ either in offering or bringing foorth bread and wine but first in respect of the name Melchisedech the King of righteousnesse secondly because hee was King of Salem Jsai 9.6 and Christ is King or Prince of peace Thirdly because Melchisedech was together both a King and a Priest and so is Ch●●st Fourthly because the Progenie of Melchisedech is not related so is Christ a Priest for euer after the order of Melchisedech Psal 110.4 Therefore this figure of Melchisedech hath no ref●re●●ce to the sa●rifice of the M●sse at all Controuers 5. Confess Petricomensi cap. 41. And howsoeuer Pighius and Hosius say that this is the