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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
saint_n	call_v	church_n	dedicate_v	1,670	5	10.6327	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18104	The originall of popish idolatrie, or The birth of heresies Published under the name of Causabon [sic], and called-in the same yeare, upon misinformation. But now upon better consideration reprinted with alowance. Being a true and exacte description of such sacred signes, sacrifices and sacraments as have bene instituted and ordained of God since Adam. With a newe source and anatomie of the Masse, first gathered out of sundrie Greeke and Latine authors, as also out of diuerse learned fathers. Published by S.O.; Originall of idolatries.	Darcie, Abraham, fl. 1625.; Ofwod, Stephen.; Casaubon, Isaac, 1559-1614.	1630 (1630)	STC 4748; ESTC S107605	102,805	138

house palace when he was banished were cōfiscated to the Colledge pontificall and specially alloted for sacrifices to be celebrated in the Temple consecrated to the goddesse Liberty I was desirous by the way briefly to recite the revennues and supportations of the ancient Romane sacrificers to the end that men might more and more discerne that all abuses and idolatries succeeding in the Church of Iesus Christ are not new but originally derived or revived from the ancient Romane idolaters as the foundation of Masses Obits Anniversaries Dispensations for holding sundry benefices pensions vacancies first-fruits offerings and the Missalian treasure all amercements and confiscations adjudged within the demeans of the Romane Pontife with other ordinances revived by new Romane Popes which have discended from one to another To this purpose wee reade in the Romane Stories that during the reigne of the Emperour Valentinian the second of this name there hapned a dangerous sedition at Rome betweene the Christian idolatrous Priests which strove who should amasse or heape up together most wealth in the Church by grants testamentary legacies oblations and other inventions so as the Heathen and Infidell idolaters who retained yet a Temple to themselves called at this day the Church of Saint Peter ad Vincula fought with the Christians at Rome who would have dedicated it to their devotion After the Offertory Titelmans Alcoran sets downe how the Masse Priest should bee silent for a time to figure the flight of Christ or his disciples feare to confesse him before the Iewes Then this being performed the Priest sings aloud per omnia secula seculorum because after Christ had hidden himselfe he publikely came forth in Lazarus house Then hee sings Sanctus sanctus sanctus to allude to the Iewes song when Christ entred unto Ierusalem When this Musicke ends the Priest must murmur in secret and betweene his teeth counterfeiting sorrow without any turne-abouts but then he must expresse a k nd of mure mummerie by the making of many reiterated croysadoes as shall hereafter be mentioned CHAP. XVII Of the round Host with the Consecration of the same NExt to the Offertory Ninth part of the Masse Round host of flower Plut. in Numa we must come to the ninth part of the Masse the most rich and most pleasing for the Missalians This is the Host or victime which comprehends the end of all this Missall Sacrifice In the dayes of Numa the Magician the Romanes were not yet accustomed to kill and immolate with the blood of beasts Pollux in onom lib 6. Mysterijs peractis qui sacris intererant rotundis panibus quos in honorem De●rum adnibebant stantes vesceb intur nec nisi facri ficio perfectovesci licebat Alex ab Alex li. 4. cap. 17. but men were appointed to eate and communicate within the Temple after the end of the Missall Sacrifice small round loaves consecrated to the honour of the gods in whose name the sacrifice was celebrated These little round hosts of fine meale were earen by the Priest and by the assistants standing upright and not sitting The flower wherof they were made was called Mola and from thence came this word immolare There were divers hosts that is to say little round loaves dedicated to divers gods as there were likewise sundry Missall Sacrifices With the said round hosts they also offered Wine the Altars serving for Tables While the Priests and the assistants in the sacrifice eate communicated together of the said little round loaves consecrated to the honor of their gods hymnes and thanksgivings were sung and some used the sound of the Organs and Cymbals Before the swallowing of this round host printed with imagery the Missalian Doctors ordained the Priest to utter certaine exorcismes and conjurations with many signes of the crosse First hee must make three crosses upon this round host to figure the trinall tradition of Christ that is to say by the Father by himselfe Christ and by the holy Ghost in pronouncing these words Haec dona haec munera haec sancta sacrificia illibata Some other Doctors Alcoranists and Missalians interpret the third crossing for Iudas treason who delivered his Master into the hands of the Iewes Besides the above mentioned three Croisadoes five other follow to intimate the five dayes space from the day of Palmes to the day of the Passion or otherwise to represent the five wounds of Christ two in the hands two in the feet and one in the right side Of which five Croysadoes the three first must be made over the Chalice and the round host to figure the delivery of Christ to the Priests Scribes and Pharisies or to signifie the price of Christs sale that is to say three times ten which import the thirty pence The two other crossings are made distinctly on which is the fourth over the host the other over the Chalice distinctly to manifest unto us the two persons of Christ Iudas when this is done the Masse-Priest continuing in his fooleries monckeries stretcheth out his armes to delineate Christ spred upon the Crosse then he lifts the round host printed with imagery on high that it may be adored Afterwards he returnes to make three crosses one over the host another over the Chalice and third over himselfe to play herein the part of three estates or conditions of those that are in Heaven in Purgatory and in the earth Then he thumps upon his brest to play the penitent theefe that was hanged upon the Crosse This thumping of his stomacke must bee performed with the three last fingers of his hand because the thumbe and the next finger are reserved to consecrate and transubstantiate the round host Moreover he must beat his breast three times to figure a triple offence of the heart of the mouth and of reall act exalting his voice to represent the Theefe or the Centurion which confessed God in the Passion Sixe other Croisadoes are afterwards reiterated three over the covered Chalice to commemorate the three houres that Christ hung alive upon the Crosse and three other crosses are made over the open Chalice and the round host being once more elevated to decypher the three houres that Christ hung dead upon the Crosse Then does he adde two other crosses after the Masse-monger hath kist his Chalice to describe the mystery of blood and water issuing out of Christs sides Besides all the above mentioned mute mummeries the Priest must lift the vaile over the Chalice and release it from Plataine to represent the rent vaile in the midst at Christs death This being done the round host is laid upon the Chalice and couched in the corporall to figure the burial of Christ When the Masse Priest hath plaid the part of the hang'd theefe of the traitor Iudas of Christ of the Publicanes hee afterwards comoediates the Centurion singing the Pater Noster But Durandus Alcoran by the petitions in the Pater Noster expresseth the seven teares of the Virgin Mary the