he must be Armed to Duel that Dreadful Enemy Therefore he puts on his Shoes first which signify in their sense the Humility of Christ Then the Bishop attires his head with an Horned Mitre whereas the Priest wears onely a Coiff and Kerchief as they call it this Mitre is a kind of Spiritual Hâ—lmet to keep his Lordships Patesafe and sound from Satans Attaque The Priests Coif denotes the Robe or Veil that Christs Face was covered with when the Souldier smote him Matth. 27. Mark 15. Luk. 23. Crying Who smote thee The Alb is a kind of shirt of Mail in their sense representing the Gown which Herod gave to Christ in mockery The Girdle with which he binds this Smock of the Whore of Babylon signifies the Bow with which these Archers kill Devils in this Holy War The little Cord wherewith the Stole is tyed denotes the Quiver wherein the Arrows are put The Stole is the Breast-plate which goes about the Neck and Crosses the Priests Belly like a Saint Andrew's Cross signifying the Cord with which Christ was bound when they scourged him The Manipule that is the Childs swadling Band is put about his Arms as a Bracelet is instead of a Mace or Courtleax denoting with all the Cord with which Christs Hands were bound The Chasuble is a loose Garment with a hole in the middle through which the Priest like a Monkey puts his head and so one part hangs before the other behind in which undermost part is always a Cross this signifies the Garment without Sean wherewith in mockery they attired Christ. They have abundance of other Fooleries and some mystical signification ridiculous enough to 〈◊〉 sure is attributed to each of them These m 〈…〉 suffice to shew what difference there is between these Sacrament-makers and Christs Institution 〈◊〉 which no such Habiliments were used but Christ without any super addition of Pontifical Robes wash his Disciples Feet O unspeakable Humility But these Fellows array themselves with a mock pageantry of Habit and happy is he that kisses then Tails Besides they have a kind of a Consecratione call it Conjuring if you will for all these Garments to keep all sawcy Devils away that dare to interrupt the sacred Comedy Every piece of the Priests spiritual Armor is attended with a Prayer which he must whisper to himself forsooth denoting the Magical Spell for which it was ordained which take from their own Book as follows Here follow the words which the Priest must say when he Apparelleth himself to say Mass first when he hath Crossed himself and taken his Amict let him say Lord put the Helmet of Salvation upon my head that I may vanquish and overcome all the Deceits of the Devil in the Name of the Father of the Son c. In girding himself with the strings of the Amict Lord make me clean both in Soul and Body to the end I may worthily perform thy holy Work through our Lord Jesus Christ In putting on of his Alb let him say Lord put on me the Vestment of Salvation and the Robe of Righteousness or Environ me evermore with the Robe of Gladness through Jesus Christ our Lord. When he puts on his Girdle let him say Lord Gird the Reins of my Heart and Body with the Girdle of Faith and quench in me all humours of Lechery and let the love of Chastity remain in me through Jesus Christ c. In taking the Manipule let him say O Almighty God I beseech thee that I may so de serve to bear my Manipule both going and weepig with patience and putting it off with Joy that I may with these have part through Jesus Christ c. When he putteth on his Stole let him say Environ my Neck with the Stole which is the Robe of Righteousness When he putteth on his Chasuble let him say Thy Yoke and Burden O Lord are sweet light and therefore make me able to bear them that I may obtain Mercy at thy hands O Saviour ef the World who Livest and Reignest one God in perfect Trinity World without End Notes O the Repeated Blasphemies of these Wretches what the Apostle ascribes to the true Spiritual Armor which defends us in and through Christ from the Assaults of the Devil is by this Mass Priest attributed to his Cursed Head-geer and the other appurtenances of his more Devilish Mass But for the exposition of that passage of Scripture Eph. 6. I refer my Reader to Mr. William Gurnal of Lavenham in Suffolk who upon that Subject Writ Largely and Learnedly CHAP. III. THe Priest being thus prepared let him approach the Altar saying the 43. Psalm Judge me O God c. Vnto the end with Glory be to the Father Then must he repeat the Versicle Introibc c. And I will go in to the 1 Altar of God to that God which makes glad my mouth The Verse Confess your selves unto the Lord because he is good The Answer For his Mercy endureth for ever And I guilty and unworthy Priest confess my self unto Almighty God 2 and to the Blessed Virgin Mary and to all the Saints and to you my Brethren Because that I miserable Sinner have greatly sinned against the Law of my God in Thought Word Deed and by negligence and through my own fault my fault my most grievous fault And therefore I BESEECH MARY the most Blessed Mother of God and all the he-and-she-he-and-she-Saints of God omnes Sanctos Sanstas Dei and you my Brethren to pray for me wretched Sinner unto the Almighty Lord our God to have mercy upon me When he hath thus made his Confession with â— profound bending of his Body let him so stand still till the rest have Answered The Clerks shall answer Amen 2 Misereatur tu 〈…〉 Omnipotens Deus c. The Almighty God have mercy upon thee c. Notes How the places of Scripture here alleaged and misapplyed and God is mocked and Blasphemed any body may see that is not wilfully blind 1 The Table on which the Supper was Celebrated and whereon thanks were given to God which thanks indeed are Sacrifices of Praise by a Metaphorical or Allusive Phrase called an Altar by some of the Antients but Christians have no Material Altar but onely this Spiritual Altar whereon it is not lawful for them to eat that serve the Tabernacle viz. the Jews or Heathens who also had Altars and Sacrifices for their Idols So that the Pedigree of this Popish Altar must needs be derived from the Jews or Pagan Idolaters for it has no Sanction in the Gospel 'T is worth observing how these Mass-Mongers Massacre the Psalms picking on t here and there some Verses that have no coherence together expresly contradicting the second Councel of LAODICEA 'T was a pretty mistake of a Priest who neither understood nor could pronounce this Introibo to say constantly Introibo ad Tartara Dei that is I will go unto the Hell of God I am sure if he spoke not Truth yet
he was in the right way to Hell when he forsook Christ and followed such strange and Devilish Paths c. his Posture denotes that he neglects Heaven for he looks Downwards very demurely The Roman Poet the Heathen could tell him that God formed man with an Erected face on purpose that he might behold and adore Heaven Os homini Sublime Deâ— it Caelumque tueri Jussit Erectos ad Sydera tollere Vultus Ovid Metam lib. 1. 2 The Blasphemy of the Priests Confession is abominable t is not only to God No no that would not do t is to all the hee and shee Saints sure these Masculine and Feminine Saints have large Ears and must be Omniscient if they hear every Priests Confession Now the Vassals of the infalloblo Pope Resolve this Dialemma thus Eieher your hee and shee Saints hear your Confessions Prayers and Applications or they do not If they do hear them then they are certainly Omniscient that is they know all things for it would bâ— impossible for them or any of them at one and thâ— same time to hear the Prayers of many Thousandâ— if not Millions in several Nations and several Languages and of many hundreds if not thousandâ— of several kinds of Suits and answer them all at so vast a Distance unlesse they were Omniscient and if so by unavoidable Consequence that being onâ— of the Divine Majesties Incommunicable Attributes you make them Absolute Gods which is Superlative Blasphemy to assert But if they do not nor cannot hear as aforesaid then all your Prayers Confessions c. to them are not only idle and ridiculous but most horrid Blasphemy in the very Abstract Avoid this ye Saint-Worshippers if ye can and Vindicate your Mass-Priest who makes no mention of Christ to be his Advocate but the Virgin Mary and the other Saints of both Sexes c. O horrible 2 Here 's another Trick for you when the Priest Confesses the Clerk as the Representative of the People absolves him mark that Ay and the Priest to quit scores absolves them kaw me kaw thee like scabby Colts they nab one another Reader pray bear with me t is difficult to be serious at so ridia past-time this is the only difference of these Absolutions the Clerk says in the Singular Misereatur tui and the Priest in the Plural Misereatur vestri c CHAP. IV. ANd after the standers by have confessed let the Priest say Amen Brethren and Sisters that by the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ by the Aid and sign of the holy Cross ✚ THROUGH THE INTERCESSION OF THE ALWAYS BLESSED AND GLORIOUS VIRGIN MARY and by the MERITS of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul and of St. Michael the Arch Angel and of the most Holy Saint Julian and of all the Holy men and Women the God Almighty have mercy upon you and forgive you all your Sins And I do further beseech the Lord Jesus Christ the Son of God to bring you to everlasting Life Amen I do also beseech our Good Father and Merciful Lord to pardon and forgive you all your Sins Amen And the Grace of the Holy Ghost the Comforter enlighten our Minds Hearts and Bodies and cleanse us from all our Sins and Iniquities Amen Our help is in the Name of the Lord who hath made both Heaven and Earth Blessed be the Name of the Lord from this time forth and for evermore Most Holy Mother of God pray for us that we may be made worthy the Promises of Christ Lord hear my Prayer and let my cry come unto thee The Lord be with you Answer and with your Spirit Let us pray Let the Priest in bowing himself before the Altar say whisperingly Lord take from us all our Iniquities that our Spirits being Purifyed we may deserve to enter into the Holy of Holy ones through Christ Jesus our Lord. Then stooping let him secretly say We beseech thee O Lord through the Merits of the Saints whose Reliques we have here and through the Merits of the rest of the Saints to forgive me all my Sins Amen Which done let him lift up himself and laying his hands on the Altar kiss it and if it be a Solemn Mass by reason of the Double Feast let him take the Censor viz. the Frankincense Box out of the Deacons hand and perfume the Altar therewith and Returning the Censor to the Deaâ—on let him kiss the Paten and say We adore thee O Christ and bless thee because through thy Holy Cross thou hast Redeemed the World Thou O Lord which hast suffered for us have mercy upon us The Prayer We beseech thee O Lord to look upon this Family for the which our Lord Jesus Christ Refused not to be betrayed into the hands of the Wicked and abide the Torment of the Cross who liveth and Reigneth with thee c. Notes Here are almost as many Blasphemies as Prayers all the men and Women Saints yea the Cross being joyned with Jesus the Blessed Redeemer and made joint Saviours with him In which no certain Number nor Order is observed only the Priests invoke such as they have a particular kindness for viz. their Choice Patrons The Priest must whisper or buzz two Prayers here which is against the Decree of the Counsel of Basil which damns those secret Prayers of Massing Priests This Mumbling looks like Conjuring for all the World This Sancta Sanctorum Holy of Holies is not that which God Ordained by Moses Exod. 30. for that 's Abolished Heb. 8. by the coming of the Messiah prefigured by it nor can it be that which Christ went into at his Ascension which is in Heaven Now there being no more but these two the Sancta Sanctorum must be of their own or the Devils making and may be well called SATANS SANCTUARY As for the Reliques so often mentioned the plain Case is this when Superstition began to creep into the Church where good men and Martyrs were buryed they built Sepulchres and Feigned that Remission of Sin and many other Heavenly Blessings might be had by visiting them and making offerings there so gulling the simple people of their Money But these growing too numerous the Priests judged it profitable to make a kind of Monopoly of them and therefore procured a Decree at the first Councel of Carthage about the time of Pope Anastasius that the Bishops should pull down those scattered Monuments resorted to and build them in more profitable Market-places with a Prohihition that no Christians should haunt the forsaken places And in the time of Pope Gelasius the First it was Decreed that no Altar should be Consecrated unless it were of Stone and had some Reliques of Saints in it which they counterfeited as they pleased The unmber of these is infinite as Saint Popes Saint Cardinals Saint Bishops Saint Abbots Saint Priests Monks Fryars with a world of hee s and shee s besides Saint Bell Saint Image Saint Vessel Saint Garment Saint Temple Saint Altar c. Of Bells Stocks
Form must be used 5 These secrets are so called because the Priest mumbles them to himself In many of them are horrible Blasphemies this inserted here is not much amiss if it had been applyed to a better end the term signified used in this secret is wholly inconsistent with their Mass in which they affirm the thing not the thing signifyed to be exhibited CHAP. X. The Preface and Sanctus Here lifting â—p his hands asundâ—r he saith For ever and ever Answer So be it The Priest The Lord be with you Answer And with thy Spirit The Priest Lift up your hearts Answer We lift them up to the Lord. The Priest Let us give Thanks unto the Lord our God Answer It is just and meet so to do The Priest Verily it is meet and right equal and healthful that we should give Thanks unto thee Holy Lord Father Almighty everlasting God Because the New light of thy brightness hath enlightned the understanding of our eyes through the Mystical Incarnation of thy word That whilst we know God visibly we might by it be ravished by the love of invisible things Wherefore with Angels and with Archaâ—gels Thrones and Dominions and with the whole Troops of the Heavenly Militia we sing the Hymn of thy Glory Here he must join his hands together Saying incessantly and somewhat bowing himself over the Altar say Holy Holy Holy Lord God of Hosts Heaven and Earth are full of the Majesty of thy Glory Hosanna in the Highest Here he signeth himself with the sign of the Cross saying Blessed is he that cometh in the Name of the Lord Hosanna in Excelsis Notes You are to understand that the Priest mumbles many Secrets to himself for fear he should be heard and then bauls out to no purpose per omnia Secula Seculorum for ever and ever that the People who knew not a word of his Secret Prayers may say Amen This Word is Hebrew and declares the Consent of the Hearers and their concurrent Wish with him that prays therefore is it a strange and most gross Absurdity for them to say Amen to they know not what as if a man should sign and Seal such Writings as he never read nor ever heard read If this be not folly I know not what is see 1. Cor. 14. 16. c. 2 Here the Priest Salutes the People with his Backside to 'em the rest of this which they call the Sanctus was used though not in this manner nor to this end in some Ancient Churches and had it not been misapply'd might pass without Controul but when attributed to the Idol of the Mass t is horrible Blasphemy Note that besides the Barbarous Latine they intermix many strange words in their Mass Here they have Sabaoth and Osanna from the Hebrews which very few of the Mass-Priests can pronounce or understand Are not these Hodge-podge Prayers Now we are â—ome to it Afterwards Bowing himself profoundly before the Altar with hands Joined together he saith CHAP. XI The Canon of the Mass VVE therefore humbly beseech thee most merciful Father through Jesus Christ thy Son our Lord. Here the Priest standing upright must kisse the Altar on the 1 Right hand of the Sacrifice saying That thou accept and bless Here let the Priest make three Crosses upon the Chalice and the Bread saying 1 These ✚ Gifts these ✚ Presents these ✚ Holy and Unspotted Sacrifices When the Signes are made upon the Chalice let him lift up his hands saying thus Which first of all we offer unto thee for thy holy Catholick Church that thou vouchsafe to pacify keep unite and govern it throughout the whole World with thy Servant our Pope N. and our Bishop N. that is his own Bishop only Charity would have prayed for others also and our King 2 N. And they are Expressed by name then let there follow And all true Believers and such as have the Catholick and Apostolick Faith in due Estimation Here let him pray for the living Remember Lord thy Servants and Handmaids N. and N. In the which Prayer a Rule must be observed for the Order of Charity five times let the Priest pray First for himself Secondly for Father and Mother carnal and Spiritual and for other Parents Thirdly for special Friends Parishioners and others Fourthly for all that stand by Fifthly for all Christian People And here may the Priest commend all his Friends 3 to God But my Councel is That none make overlong tarrying there partly for Distraction of mind partly because of Immissions which may chance through Evil Angels And all that stand thereby round about whose Faith and Devotion unto thee is known and manifest for whom we offer unto thee or which themselves offer unto thee their Sacrifice of Praise for them and theirs 4 for the Redemption of their Souls for the hope of their Salvation and health and render their Vows unto thee the Eternal Living and true God Communicating and Worshipping the Memorial first of the Glorious and ever Virgin Bowing down a little let him say 5 Mary the Mother of our God and Lord Jesus Christ and also of his Blessed Apostles and Martyrs Peter Paul Andrew James John Thomas Phillip Bartholomew Mathew Simon and Thaddâ—us Timis Cletus Clemens Sextus Cornelius Cyprianus Laurence Chrysogomus John and Paul Cosme and Daman and of all thy Saints by whose merits and Prayers grant thou that in all things we may be defended with the help of thy Protection through the same Christ our Lord Amen Here let the Priest behold the Host with great Veneration saying Therefore Lord we beseech thee that thou being pacified wilt receive this Oblation of our bounden Service and of all thy houshold and order our days in thy peace and command us to be delivered from Eternal Damnation and to be numbred in the Flock of thine Elect through Christ our Lord Amen Here again let him behold the Host saying Which Oblation we beseech thee O Almighty God in all things to make Here let him make three Crosses upon both when he saith 8 ✚ Blessed ✚ Appointed ✚ Ratifyed Reasonable and acceptable that unto us it may be Here let him make a Cross upon the Bread saying ✚ The Body Here upon the Chalice And ✚ Blood Note that the Rubrick here says thus The three former Crosses are commonly made over the Host and Chalice the fourth only over the Host and the fifth over the Chalice Here with hands joined together let him say Of thy most dearly beloved Son our Lord Jesus Christ Here let the Priest lift up his hands and join them together and afterward wipe his Fingers and lift up the Host saying 7 Who the next day afore he suffered took bread in his Holy and Reverend Hands and his Eyes being lift up unto Heaven Here let him lift up his Eyes unto the God Almighty his Father Here let him bow down and afterward Erect himself up a little saying Rendring thanks unto thee he ✚ blessed he brake Here let him
touch the Host saying And gave unto his Disciples saying Take ye and eat of thiâ— ye all FOR THIS IS MY BODY And these words must be pronounced with one breath and under one Prolation without making of any pawse between After these words let him 8 bow himself to the Host and afterward lift it up above his forehead that it may be seen of the People and let him reverently lay it again before the Chalice in manner of a Crosse made with the same and then let him uncover the Chalice and hold it between his hands not putting his Thumb and Fore-finger asunder save only when he blesseth sâ—ying thus Likewise after they had supped he taking this excellent cup into his holy and reverend hands rendring thanks also unto thee Here let him bow himself saying Bles ✚ sed and gave unto his Disciples saying Take and Drink ye all of this Here let him lift up the Chalice a little saying thus For this is the Cup of my Blood of the New and Everlasting Testament the mystery of Faith which for you and for many shall be shed to the Remission of Sins Here let him lift the Chalice to his breast or further then his head saying As oft as ye do these things ye shall do them in Remembrance of me Here let him set down the Chalice again and rub his Fingers over the Chalice Then let him lift up his Arms and cover the Chalice then let him lift up his Arms Cross-wise his Fingers being joined together until these words de tuis Donis that is to say of thine own Rewards Wherefore O Lord we also thy Servants and thy holy people being mindful as well of the blessed Passion and Resurection as of the Glorious Ascension of the same Christ thy Son our Lord God do offer unto thy Excellent Majesty of thine own Rewards and Gifts Here let there be made five Crosses namely the three first upon the Host and Cup saying ✚ A Pure Host ✚ an Holy Host ✚ an undefiled Host The Fourth upon the Bread onely saying The Holy ✚ Bread of Eternal Life The Fifth upon thâ— Cup saying And ✚ Cup of Eternal Salvation Vouchsafe thou also with a merciful and pleasant Countenance to have respect hereunto and to 9 accept the same as thou didst vouchsafe to accept the Gifts of thy Righteous Servant Abel and the Sacrifice of our Patriarch Abraham And the Holy Sacrifice the Undefiled Host that the High-Prist Melchisideck did offer unto thee Here let the Priest with his Body bowed down and his hands holden a cross say Supplices te Rogamus We humbly beseech thee until these words Ex hac Altaris participatione of this partaking of the Altar And then let him stand up blessing the Altar on the right side of the Sacrifice and let him make a sign of the Cross upon the Host and in his own face when he saith Oâ—ni ✚ Benedictione Caelesti With all Heavenly Benediction We humbly beseech thee O Almighty God command thou these to be carried by the 10 hands of thy Holy Angel unto the High Altar in the Presence of thy Divine Majesty that as many of us as Here Erecting up himself let him kiss the Altar on the right side of the Sacrifice saying Of this Participation of the Altar shall receive thy Sons Holy Here let him make a sign of the Cross upon the Host saying ✚ Body Then upon the Cup saying And ✚ Blood may be replenished Then let him make a sign in his own Face saying With all Heavenly Benediction and Grace through the same Christ our Lord Amen Here let him pray for the Dead Remember Lord also the Souls of thy Servants and Handmaidens N. and N. which are gone before us with the mark of Faith and rest in the sleep of Peace ✚ We beseech thee O Lord that unto them and unto all such as rest in Christ thou wilt grant a place of refreshing of Light and of Peace through the same Christ our Lord Amen Here let him soundly thump his Breast saying Nobis quoque peccatoribus c. Unto us Sinners also thy Servants hoping of the multitude of thy Mercies vouchsafe to give some Portion and Fellowship with thy Holy Apostles and Martyrs with John Stephen Matthias Barnabas Ignatius Alexander Marcellinus Peter Felicitas Perpetua Agatha Lucia Agnes Cecilia Anastasia and with all thy Saints within whose Fellowship we beseech thee admit us not weighing our merit but granting us forgiveness through Christ our Lord. 13 Here is not said Amen By whom O Lord all these good things thou dost ever Create Here let him make a sign over the Chalice three times saying Thou ✚ sanctifiest Thou ✚ quicknest Thou ✚ blessest and givest unto us 14 Here let him uncover the Chalice and make a sign of the Cross with the Host five times first beyond the Chalice on every side Secondly even with the Chalice Thirdly within the Chalâ—câ— Fourthly like as at the first Fifthly before the Chalice Through ✚ him and with ✚ him and in him is unto thee God Father ✚ Almighty in the Unity of the ✚ Holy Ghost all Honour and Gloâ—y Here let the Priest cover the Chalice and hold his hands still upon the Altar till the Pater Noster be spoken saying thus World without end Amen Let us pray Being advertised by wholesome Precepts and taught by Gods Institution we are bold to say Here let the Deacon take up the Patten and hold it uncovered on the right side of the Priest his Arms being stretched out on high until da Propitius Here let the Priest lift up his hands saying Pater Noster c. The Quire must say Sed Libera nos c. Deliver us we beseech thee O Lord from all Evil past present and to come and that by the Intercession of the Blessed Glorious and ever Virgin Mary the Mother of God and thy Blessed Apostles Pâ—ter and Paul and Andrew with all Saints Here let the Deacon commit the Patten to the Priest kissing his hand and let the Priest kiss the Patten afterwards let him it to his 15 left Eye and then to his right after that let him make a Cross with the Patten above upon his head and so lay it down again into his place saying Give peace graciously in our days that we being helped through the succour os thy Mercy may both be alwayes free from Sin and safe from all trouble Here let him uncover the Chalice and take the Body doing 16 Reverence shifting it over in the hollow Room of the Chalice holding it between his Thumbs and Fore-fingers and let him break it into three Parts The first breaking while there is said Through the same our Lord Jesus Christ thy Son The Second breaking Who with thee in the Unity of the Holy Ghost liveth and Râ—â—â—neth God Here let him hold two pieces in his left hand and the third piece in the Right hand upon the brink of the Chalice saying this with open voice World without end