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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

reason that we who thinke ourselues happy in that we are Catholicke Christians and by Gods singular mercy true children of the sayd Catholicke Church it is good reason I say that we should think it part of our honour to be opposite vnto the foolish fancies of Hereretikes as much as may be by how much they more reprehend and despise the sayd ceremonies by so much we ought to be more careful and religious to performe them with the greatest reuerence exactnes that may be And to vnderstand the ground of these externall Ceremonies and Rites we are to note that man being compounded of two substances to wit soule and body and God being Creatour and Authour aswell of the one as of the other is boūd to acknowledg worship to God and adore him not only with soule but also with body for with the hart one belieues vnto Iustice with the mouth he confesseth his fayth vnto saluation So that it is not inough to belieue with our hartes but also we must make professiō thereof with our mouth and so religion bindes vs not only to worship God internally with our soule but also to yield vnto him externall reuerence and honour with our bodyes Thus we see that from the very first beginning of the world iust godly mē began to honour God with externall ceremonyes bending their knees lifting vp their hādes casting vp their eyes vnto Heauen building Aultars and offering Sacrifices as did the Iust and Innocent Abel which practise went still continuing and increasing in all iust men Religious towardes God as doth appeare by diuers Hystories of holy Writ Prophane Hystory lykewise shewes that the Gentills in their impious worship of Idols vsed sundry and diuerse crremonies For the Diuel who was adored by thē in those Idols as he still perseuered in his first pride and sottish enuy seeking to vsurpe to himselfe the honour and adoration due vnto God knowing that externall Reuerence is a signe and a character of the interiour and in this respect most due vnto the true God required of his deceaued adorants and ordayned that they should adore him and sacrifice vnto him with great variety of externall Reuerences Rites and Ceremonyes And in the holy Scripture we reade that those most vnfortunate Priests of Baal did inuocate him with Sacrifices with clamors bending their knees prostrating themselues on the ground and being barbarous inhumane lyke to the Diuell they serued with knifes did lance themselues till they were all embrued in blood The difference which in this poynt hath been according to the variety of liues and states is that in the first state called The Law of Nature as God had not giuen them any written forme of Religion or Law there was no set order of these kind of Ceremonies but euery one followed the internall instinct and inspiration of God who taught them in what manner he would be honored worshipped by them But afterward when God gaue vnto his people a written Law a most principall part therof pertayned vnto the ceremonyes and diuerse sorts and fashions of Worship to be by them vsed in their offering Sacrifices praying and other duetyes belonging to the Diuine seruice Also there were appointed diuers kindes of Ministers for the more full accomplishment of these thinges some being Priests some Leuits some Singers some Porters some Exorcists and diuerse other kindes euery one hauing his office and Ministery assigned him with most strict and seuere commandments that each of them should be most punctuall exact in his owne office without medling with the office of others enacting most grieuous punishment vnto any that should fayle though but in small matters all which appeares by the Books of the Law specially by that of Leuiticus and Deuteronomy It is true that all these Precepts and ceremoniall Lawes are now ceased and abrogated by the Law of the Ghospell that now is not necessary yea now it were a sinne to obserue them but in their place other ceremonies doe succeede better and perfecter more proportionable and conueniēt with the perfection of the Law of Grace which the Church gouerned by the ho. Ghost hath established as receaued and deriued by tradition from Christ and his Apostles For though some particular ceremonyes haue been altered and changed according to the state and conueniency of tymes yet most certaine it is that some of them were vsed by Christ himselfe in tyme and place and as they were conuenient to his person Thus we reade that sometymes he prayed on his knees positis genibus orabat sometymes standing as in the prayer he made after his last supper sometymes prostrate on his face Procidit in faciem suam sometymes lifting vp his eyes vnto Heauen Subleuatis Iesus oculis dixit And whē he instituted the most venerable Sacrament hauing ended the ceremonies of the old Testament he washed the feete of his Disciples sat downe at the Table tooke bread into his hands cast vp his eyes vnto Heauē gaue thankes vnto his Father blessed the bread consecrated it deuided it gaue it to his Disciples which were the ceremonyes for that tyme place and season After our Sauiour was ascended vnto Heauen the Blessed Apostles hauing receaued the holy Ghost begā presently to vse ceremonyes in the Masse and ordayned such as were to be obserued as appeares by most auncient formes of Masse by thē composed and by S. Clement their Disciple and successour of S. Peeter and by the decrees of other Popes and Councels very aunciēt which to auoyde prolixity I omit The Apostle S. Paul in his Epistle to those of Corinth appoints that Womē be in the Church with their heades couered and Men with their heades bare as also many thinges concerning the order that they were to keepe when they did meete togeather to receaue the most Blessed Sacrament saying in the end Cetera cùm venero disponam I will giue order by word of mouth about the rest of these thinges when I come my selfe Certayne it it that the Apostle was not to appoynt the thinges essentiall vnto the Sacraments for these our Sauiour ordayned and he only could and had power to ordayne them but only certayne ceremonies concerning the vse of the Sacraments And so it is a most certayne truth that the ceremonies of the Church speaking of them in generall be very auncient many particular ceremonies come by traditiō from Christ and his Apostles others frō the chiefe Bishops and Councells For it was not conuenient that the vse of ceremonies and exteriour Religious Rites in the holy Sacrifice of Masse should be left to the liberty of euery one because such liberty might be occasiō of many errours ignorances and superstitions but that the Church should haue the appointment of them The ground of which exteriour obseruances is found in the holy Scripture set downe by S. Paul in the first Epistle to those of Corynth the 14. Chapter Omnia secundum ordinem