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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12494	A godly and faythfull retractation made and published at Paules crosse in London, the yeare of oure lorde God 1547. the 15. daye of May, by mayster Richard Smyth Doctor of diuinitye, and reader of the Kynges maiestyes lecture in Oxford. Reuokyng therin certeyn errors and faultes by hym committyd in some of hys bookes.	Smith, Richard, 1500-1563.	1547 (1547)	STC 22822; ESTC S105010	8,142	34

is the Epistles of Clemens Anacletus Euaristus and Fabianus other which arr set furth by the bysshop of Rome and his complices which be forged feyned and of none auctoritie nor to be beleued but coūterfeyted by theym who with the color of antiquitie wolde magnify that vsurped power of the bysshop of Rome Traditions of the churche whether they be in deed or haue ben coūted so aunciēt that they haue ben vsed frō the begynnyng of the church the tyme of thapostles or els haue ben appoynted and prescribed of later dayes by Decrees of the bysshop of Rome or other bysshops or by generall counsels concernyng superioritie of one bysshop ouer another Watching Fasting Kneeling Sensynges Enoyntyng Blessings and all other suche Rites Ceremonyes and comen Orders to be vsed in the church of God doth not bynd but where they be receyued and by disuse maye be abrogate or by contrary law made in any countrey by thauctority of the superior powers many be clene taken away other Rites Canons Traditions Ceremonyes brought in for them with out any daūger of synne or grudge of conscience And with any suche last afore rehersed the Kynges maiestie for the tyme beyng may either of laufull and iust cause or of his mere goodnesse without any cause dispence or absolue any man frō beyng bound to theym And the sayd persone with whom the superior powers haue dispensed with all and so made free from them may vse his said lybertie with out any daunger of synne or scruple of conscience either to the Kynges maiestie which gaue lybertie or to him whiche hath obteyned the lybertie or Dispensacion None otherwyse than in any other acte statute or proclamation made by humane polycie the Kynges maiestye and the hygh powers may Whan contrary wyse that that is Goddes law and commaunded by scripture alwaies to be obserued no man can dispence with it nor gyue any man libertie to breake it vnder daunger of synne corruption of conscience This is my full firme and stable belefe as touchynge the scripture written Traditions vnwritten what thyng soeuer I or any other heretofore haue preached taught written or endyted to the contrary of these my assertions belefe now declared vnto you or if any man hereafter which God forbyd shuld preach teach or set furth any thing which is not consonaunt agreyng to these aforesayd articles and assercions beleue good hearers and know you surely that it is a false vntrew deuellysh doctrine and vngodlye vsurpation vpon the holly Scripture contrary too the trew pure and Catholicall doctrine of Christes churche In the which faythe and beleef conteyned in the sayd vi Assertions I doo entende good hearers with the grace of almighty God to lyue by Christ and all my hope is also too dye therin if need shal be And whensoeuer God shall call me therunto his grace assistyng I shal be redy AND now concernyng another booke whiche I made of the Sacrifice of the Masse where the moast chief and principall article of our fayth and moast directly perteynyng too the redemption of our synnes and to our saluation is That our sauyor Christ Iesu by his moast precious death and effusion of his moast precious blood vpon the crosse dyd redeme man kynde taking away our synnes pacifying the indignation of his father and cancellyng thobligation that was agaynst vs In which Sacrifice makyng vnto his father our sayde Sauyoure Ihesus Christ as saynt Paule sayth playnly to the Hebrewes was not a preest after the order of Aaron forasmuch as he was of another Trybe and also that preesthod was imperfite and vnprofitable bringyng nothyng too perfection But our Sauyour Christ made his sacrifice vpon the Crosse parfectly absolutely and with the most hyghest perfection that could be somuch that after that one oblation and sacrifice for syn made by hym but once only nother he nor any other creature shuld at any tyme after make any mo oblacions for the same And for as that saynt Paule sayth he was called an eternall preest of the order of Melchysedeth and not of Aaron This fayth ought euery man and woman vndoubtedly to beleue and openly to professe vpon payne of euerlastyng dampnation and also too dye in this professyon if case shall so requyre The which moast holsome moast necessary doctrine of our fayth I not dilygently consideryng as many tymes too right great clerkes lerned men in much writynge in lyke mattiers it hath chaunced to say too far The infirmite and weakenesse of men beyng suche that seldome in many words error hath escaped So in my boke of the Sacrifice of the masse I dyd incircumspectly rashly write and set furth too the people that Christ was not a preest after the order of Melchisedech whan he offred him selfe vpon the Crosse too his father for our synnes but was a preest after the order of Aaron And that when Christ dyd offer his owne body too his father after thorder of Melchisedech tappease his wrath it may not be vnderstand of the sacrifice of the crosse but of the sacrifise that Christ made at his Maundy in forme of bread and wyne To the which in dede saynt Paules doctrine is contrary both in other places and in thepistle and Hebreos very manifestly agaynst whom who without doubt had the very spirite of God Neither it becometh nor I wyl not willingly teach or defend any thyng Wherfore you shal impute that good Audience too the frailty of mans nature and too my negligent marking hauing at that tyme rather a respecte too a fantasy that then I had in my mynde than too the trew and infallyble doctrine of scripture And moreouer in the same my booke I sayd not onely that the Sacrifice of the masse is the selfe same substaunce of Christ but also the selfe same oblacion or offeryng of our sauyoure Christes very flesh and blood which him self once offrid to his father on the crosse to appeale his wrath And that the preestes do continually and daily in the masse offre not onely the selfe same body of Christ but also to the same effecte that Christ dyd offre himselfe to his father at his Maundy Of the which wordes and doctrine if they be not very warely circumspectly reade and more fauorably taken then the wordes as they lye may well bere it might be gatherd that preestes herein be egall with Christ Preestes of thorder of Melchisedech appeasing the wrath indignation of the father of heauen crucifying or offeryng Christ to the same effecte that Christ in his owne persone dyd vpon the crosse which is a blasphemy intolerable to be herd of christen eares For Christ as saynt Paule sayth was but once offered once gaue vp himselfe for the redemption of our synnes on good friday on the crosse nor neuer before nor after was offered for vs but in a sacrament and as a commemoration of the same And so of the Maundy or Supper of our Lorde Christ himself sayth Hec quotiescūque feceritis in meam commemorationem facietis Ones he dyed for our synnes and once agayne he rose for our iustification He dyeth no more his sacrifice was so good so ful so plesant so precious to god that there needed no more oblatiōs to appease god nor only for the synnes past but also for all the synnes to the day of Doome There neede no more sacrifices no more offerers but as hauyng a respect and a remembraunce of that most holy most perfyte and most entier Lambe then for euer offred vp for vs. But these before sayd I can not deny but spoken of me and written And as I do not now lyke theym so at thexample of saint Austen and other good doctors I am not ashamed to retracte theym call theim agayne condempne theim For when I folowed myne own inuention not directed by Scripture I began as the nature of man is to wander and at the last went cleane contrary too Gods woord Wherfore I hertely exhort euery man as touchyng matiers of faith to founde the same vpon Gods certeyn trew and infallyble woorde lest by doyng the contrary they fall into superstition idolatry other manyfold errers as I my self sometyme and many other although I doo not come hyther too accuse any man yet I perceyue of late tyme haue doone Wherfore these my two bookes the one of the Sacrifice of the masse and thother of the Traditiōs vnwritten in those poyntes before rehersed all other wherin they be not full cōsonant to scripture I forsake renounce as false erroneous and agaynst the trew woord of God Requiring the good christen reder whosoeuer shall rede theym to geue no further credence vnto theym then I wold my selfe That is not to take as vndoubted truth all that is therin written but as written of a man that sometyme falleth to be so farre trew as they be consonaunt to scripture wher they be not agaynst scripture to be humane persuasion which may either be so or not so as the great resone shall leade where they be not consonaunt to scripture to be erroneouse and false and that I muche lament am sory that I wrote them in those poyntes And I desyre euery man that hath any of the sayd bokes to beware of theym and to gyue no credence to theym in all suche thynges in theim written as be not consonant to the scripture as they auoyde occasion of error and tendre the truth of Gods word and his glory To whom be laude prayse and honor Amen Imprented at London in Paules churchyarde at the sygne of the brasen serpent by Reynolde Wolfe