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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07609	A treatise of the holy sacrifice of the masse, and excellencies therof. Written in Spanish by the R. F. Ant. de Molina, a Carthusian monke, & translated into English by I.R. of the Society of Iesus. VVith order, hovv to be present at the said Holy Mystery, vvith deuotion & profit	Molina, Antonio de, d. 1619?; Floyd, John, 1572-1649, attributed name.; Wilson, John, ca. 1575-ca. 1645?	1623 (1623)	STC 18001; ESTC S112780	50,509	307

for this end is the Aultar built Aultar and Sacrifice being correlatiues Wherefore the errour of vnfortunate Heretickes is in this particular so strange and so contrary to the light of reason that it could haue entred but into minds afore through malice obstinate and through infidelity blinded who from errours run into errour still greater and more foule But heerin they are Ministers of the Diuell who by their mediation endeauoureth to doe the holy Church all the mischiefe he is able and the cursed Caytiffe knowes the greatest mischiefe he can doe is to driue away or hinder the most holy sacrifice of the Altar as de facto he hath driuen away and exiled the same out of townes and countries wherin preuayle these errours and pestilentiall doctrines Wherin also they declare themselues Percursors of the most wicked Antichrist coÌ„cerning whome the Saints of God commonly affirme that the first and principall thing he shall attempt to the detrimeÌ„t of the Church is with most extreme rigour to inhibite the exercise of the most holy sacrifice of the Aultar Thus many Fathers and graue Authours vnderstand that which Daniel sayth in his prophecy That in the thousand two hundred and ninety dayes that is in the three yeares and halfe that Antichrists raigne shal continew the continuall sacrifice shall be taken away froÌ„ the Church he shall cause his image to be placed in the Temple that himself alone may be adored as God the text sayth He shall take away the continuall Sacrifice and destroy the place of sanctification strength against the coÌ„tinuall sacrifice is giuen him in regard of sinnes This drift which the Diuel shall then prosecute by the meanes of Antichrist he now endeauours to settle by the help of these Hereticks who by procuring to take froÌ„ the Catholicke Church the most holy Sacrifice bringe therwith innumerable and inestimable mischiefes and would haue the Christian people which hath receaued more of God and greater benefits to be more vngratefull vnto their God then any other Nation in the world This the holy and venerable Abbot Petrus Cluniacensis liuing in the same age with S. Bernard well noted and signified in these wordes They that attempt to take from the Church of Christ the sacrifice by the Diuells suggestions doe their best that that nation which hath byn graced of God with more singular benefits and fauours should be lesse thankefull to him and yield him lesse worship and honour But I will leaue these Heretickes as men without discretion and common sense to theÌ„selues my purpose not being to dispute this controuersie with them but only to giue a warning vnto the faythfull of their errours impertineÌ„cies Al Catholike Christians are to belieue as a most sure and infallible principle that in the Catholicke Church there is a proper true and most excellent sacrifice which is offered vnto the eternall Father by the handes of Priests as being Minister of Christ Iesus the high Priest and soueraigne Bishop For this hath euer byn the beliefe of the holy Church since the tyme of the Apostles this the doctrine perpetually deliuered by the holy Fathers this the fayth determined established in the sacred Councels and last of all in the holy Councell of Trent in these words Whosoeuer shal say that in the masse is not offered a true and proper sacrifice vnto God or that the sacrifice is no other then the giuing of Christ to be eaten let him be accursed The holy Masse then is the only and most holy Sacrifice of the new TestameÌ„t instituted by Christ our Lord not when he did offer himselfe on the crosse though then he offered a Sacrifice but that was a bloudy sacrifice consumed with payne and wounds the conuulsions of death in which manner only he would offer it that tyme but in his last supper when he consecrated his pretious body bloud vnder the formes and accidents of bread and wine For then he not only gaue it vnto his Disciples as a sacramentall food for the sustenance of their soules but also offered the same vnto his eternal Father as an vnbloudy sacrifice made them Priests with faculty to offer in the like manner granted vnto them vnto their successors vnto the worldes end saying Do this in remembrance of me that is the same thing that I doe you likewise doe in my name memory Wherfore two doctrines as most firme and Catholicke truth are settled by the premisses the one that in the ChristiaÌ„ Church there is a true and proper Sacrifice the other that this sacrifice is offered only in the Masse of the excellencies whereof we now are to treate That the Masse was giuen vnto this Sacrifice by the Apostles euer vsed in the Church And the signification thereof CHAP. II. HERETICKES not only deny and would take from the Church the most holy Sacrifice of the Masse but also cannot endure the very word name of Masse and soe they haue declared to affirme with sacrilegious mouth that the Masse is the inuention of the Pope and his followers The most impious Martin Luther Captayne of these wicked sectaries hath written a booke with this title De abroganda Missa The title is lyke the booke and the booke lyke the Authour and the whole lyke the matter haÌ„dled therin wherin he doth acknowledge that by confereÌ„ce had with the Diuell appearing to him he was perswaded to abrogate the best thing the most sacred and venerable that is in the Church And though neyther my drift nor the ayme of this Treatise be to dispute with Heretickes which thinge graue writers of this age haue fitly performed yet for the confirmation of Catholickes as also for confusion of Hereticks who sticke not to vtter whatsoeuer they can imagine to be disgracefull to the Church without care whether they speake true or false I thinke it reason briefly to set downe the truth of this matter It is therfore to be known that not only the Sacrifice of the Masse was instituted by our Sauiour in his last supper but also the name of Masse was giuen vnto it by the Apostles themselues froÌ„ that tyme hath euer been vsed by the holy Church The first that sayd Masse after our Sauiours Ascension is thought to haue byn S. Iames the youÌ„ger termed Brother of our Lord. For though S. Peter were superiour and head of all as being the soueraigne Bishop yet he would yield that honour vnto this glorious S. Iames because he was Bishop of Hierusalem which was the first Church in the world it is thought this Church to haue byn the sacred Cenacle where Christ kept his last supper and where afterward the holy Ghost came downe vpon the Disciples In this Masse did the holy Apostles and Disciples communicate and the most sacred Virgin then first receaued in the most holy Sacrament her glorious and immortall Sonne whome before she had receaued and apparelled with flesh in her immaculate wombe This Blessed Apostle

repeated the very same Sacrifice he offered on the Crosse being offered a new vnto the Eternall Father with the same valew merit and powerfulnes as it then had and as able to giue him pleasure content glory and honour This we doe when we celebrate Masse and consequently we yield vnto Christ our Lord the greatest pleasure and coÌ„tent and we doe him the best seruice that can possibly be giuen vnto him and if we may so speake we doe him the greatest charity that may be herein shew ourselues to be his seruants and friends more then in doing for him all other thinges in the world And verily we should esteeme this as a great felicity and treasure and our selues herein most fortunate that we haue some thinges wherein we may do seruice and yield pleasure and content vnto our most louing Lord and Master Christ Iesus specially a thing that we may haue so good cheape a thing so dew vnto him who with so much payne and at the deare rate of his pretious Bloud procured the same for vs not sparing any labour nor stying any difficulty to make the same profitable vnto vs. And what is sayd of the most Sacred Humanity of our Lord Iesus Christ may be extended vnto and with a kind of proportion vnderstood of the most sacred Virgin his Mother and euery other Saynt that we can do them no better seruice we can giue them nothing of greater content nothing can we more shew that we are their most affection at frieÌ„ds then in offering vnto God the holy Sacrifice of the Masse in their name honour For though we may not offer Sacrifice vnto any Saynt no not to the most Glorious Virgin Mother Queene of Heauen for this the sacred Councell of TreÌ„t declareth to be vnlawfull yet we may make commemoration of their merits giue thankes vnto God for the benefits he bestowed on them and for the glory wherwith now they are made Blessed offering also their meritts vnto GOD which they togeather with vs also offer vnto our common Lord and Maister to supply our defects in their name as the aforesayd most deuout and contemplatiue Authour declareth in these wordes If we be as it is reason we should be desirous to giue vnto the most glorious Queene of the Angels as much honour and glory as is due vnto her we must coming from the Masse or holy Communion with the like ardent charity humility and reuerence offer vnto her most pure armes her most sweet louing Sonn whome we haue in our custody For this Oblation she receaueth with more content the same is to her of more honour and glory theÌ„ any whatsoeuer other that eyther all men or all Angels can offer vnto her if it be not likewise the gift and oblation of God and of her Sonne as this is And thus we may at any tyme so longe as we haue our Sauiour within our breast that is vntill the Sacramentall formes of bread and wine be consumed by the naturall heate of the stomacke The like Oblation may be made vnto any Saynt or vnto all the Saynts in the aforesayd manner in their honour and the honour of God Wherefore it being a thing cleere what great glory honour prayse and content Priests all other Christians may giue vnto God vnto the soueraign Virgin Empresse of HeaueÌ„ and the other Saynts of the Celestiall Ierusalem by meanes of the most holy Sacrament of the Aultar Let all that haue notice hereof consider what great cause they haue to spend themselues and to doe the vttermost of their power to be continually so prepared and disposed that no day may passe wherin they do not eyther celebrate the holy Masse or receaue the most holy Mysteries Whereunto besides what hath byn sayd this consideration may likewise encourage them that they may assure themselues that by the meanes of this rich present sooner then by any other they shal obtayne of the Father of Mercyes of the Blessed Virgin Mary our B. Lady all the Saints of the HeaueÌ„ly citty whatsoeuer they shall demande Which confidence may iustly be the greater in this respect that by this Oblation made in the manner aforesayd vnto the Saynts we get theÌ„ to be our Aduocats and Friends obliged to pray and intercede for vs. All these are the words of the afore-mentioned Authour worthy that all consider practise the things counselled therein and benefit themselues by an aduise so important facile and profitable Other innumerable dignityes excellencyes and magnificencies may be sayd of the holy Masse and are gathered of the former definitions declarations and explications giuen thereof which if we should particularly declare this Treatise would grow of too great a bignes For example that the Masse is of greater glory ioy and comfort vnto the Saynts and Angels of Heauen theÌ„ any other thing that is don or can be don in this world That the same is of greater profit and vtility to the MilitaÌ„t Church of greater force to helpe relieue the soules in Purgatory of greater importance and efficacy for our spirituall progresse and increase in perfection and this with so great excesse that if we put in one side of the balance all that we doe in the day and night supposing we spend them wholly in vertuous and holy Exercises all this togeather weigheth not so much as a drame in comparison of one Masse that we say with the due required disposition Wherefore though for no other reason yet at least in respect of our interest and profit and to spare greater paynes and labour and to enrich our pouerty to supply our wants out of treasury of the merits of our Lord Iesus Christ we ought to procure with all diligence to dispose our selues to celebrate and to assist at the most sacred Mysteries of the Masse and to receaue the most Diuine Sacrament with all purity and perfection possible The externall Reuerence and Worship to be vsed in the holy Masse CHAP. XIIII HITHERTO we haue set downe considerations that may stirre vp in vs inward reuerence and deuotion towardes the holy Sacrifice of the Masse aswell in Priests that celebrat as in other Christians that assist thereat And although where inward reuereÌ„ce and worship is found there externall Reuerence Grauity Composition and all other decent gate will not be waÌ„ting yet to make this Treatise more full it will be coÌ„uenient to adde something also concerning this second kind of Reuerence the waÌ„t whereof is scandalous and occasion to many to thinke lesse reuerently of the holy Mysteries Also the time we liue in may seeme to require both of Priests and Laymen that in this externall ReuereÌ„ce they be most punctuall and exact concerning the sacred ceremonies and externall Rites of this Diuine Oblation because the Heretickes of our tyme do oppose specially against these Ceremonies impugne the Externall Rite and Worship vsed by the Catholike Church in the Diuine seruice Wherfore it is good

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