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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01148	The conuersion of a most noble lady of Fraunce In Iune last past, 1608. Madame Gratiana, wife to the high and mightie lord; Claudius, Lord of Tremoille; Duke of Thouars; peere of Fraunce, and Prince of Talmonde. A most Christian epistle, written by her, to the ladyes of Fraunce, to resolue them in the cause of her conuersion from popery, to the the profession of Gods Gospell: and aduising them to imitate her religious example. Truely translated out of French.	Tremoille, Charlotte Brabantina, Duchess of, 1580-1631.; Munday, Anthony, 1553-1633.	1608 (1608)	STC 11262; ESTC S102563	29,611	56

and bee barde wholy from them both For diuision or separation in so sanctified a misterie cannot be committed without very great Sacriledge Another Canon speaketh thus You are with vs in the Challice Wee take this altogether wee doe drink together for we live together And another The priesls which serue at the Eucharist shall distribute the bloud of our Lord to the people there for so he calleth the Sacrament of the bloud Whether can they now betake themselues to seeke for purgation of sacriledge being thus therein condemned by their owne Popes Now honourable and renowned Ladyes by these grosse and most absurde abuses which I haue beene so bold as to lay open to you in this Popish kinde of seruice called the Masse filled full with notorious blasphemies Idolatries and sacriledges as I haue in some weake measure shewen vnto you and in the order as they are rancked you may guesse what a many more there are beside which would aske a larger repetition then this poore Epistle of mine at this time can permit mee Let me put the case to your owne iudgement whether the Masse may be thought to be any lawfull Communion in your Church or no Surely were it but in regard of these alleaged abuses wher of there wants not store besides me thinkes you should abstaine from partaking with such abhominations Considering that in shaking hands with such foule deformed sinnes you pollute your soules with all impieties and by your publike profession of them you consent and adhere to all their blasphemies albeit you are vtterly ignorant of them For heere they meete in a full crowde together and to all of them you cry your selues guilty when you seeke no way to escape out of sinfull Sodome though the flames flye daily and flashe into your faces And I am well assured that some of you are of my minde in many of these recited abuses concerning the Masse though as I haue done you will not yet openly expresse it yea and haue in priuate confessed to mee that your Priests of Romaine pollution doe grosely sinne in infinite superstitions which they colour vnder cloudes of deuotion and sanctitie vsing such Apish carriage and gesticulations both in the celebration of the Masse and their friuolous preachings as are no way conuenable with their profession that are to entreate on the misteries of God And yet in whatsoeuer they doe or say both you and the people doe solemnely assist them as spectatours onely but no vnderstanders and such are the greater part of the assemblie at Masse And because they shall not see into their iugling collusions they can find both their eares eyes and other sences busied with musicke singing and ensensing with diuers other gestures which deliuer some appearance of religious deuotion onely thereby to beguile and retaine simple people And where is all this done but euen in the Church where God is to bee worshipped in spirit and truth and where hee hath ordained the holie assemblie of his Seruants to edifie nourish all faithfull soules in common and publike praying together according as euerie one may well vnderstand by faithfull expounding and interpreting the word of god concerning those misteries which he hath established in his Church To the end that euerie faithfull man and woman maye there receiue effectuall fruit both for the guyding of their liues in christian conuersation and consolation of their soules here and in heauen Into which Church of God swept cleane and purged from all corrupt pollutions and reformed by the rules of his heauenly prescriptions Honorarable Ladyes I haue at length found the happy entrance where euery dilligent Pastour Preacher doe there paynefull and laborious endeuours to expound deliuer Gods word purely to the people And that they may easily vnderstand what is sayde vnto them both for the edification of their faith and further instruction in all piety and wherof I myselfe to my no little comfort haue found a most plentifull encrease among Gods seruaunts into whose fellowshippe I hartilie wish that you were all combined Moreouer among vs there is not so much as one sillable profered either in publike praier or explaining gods word but it is heard vnderstood and most affectuously embraced For nothing is here vttered which hath not his firme fundation on the expresse text of sacred Scripture or what is thence truelie and vnpartiallie deriued necessarilie cohering and agreeing therewith without any repugnancie to the Articles of the Apostles Creede or the direct meaning of the Scriptures For if any of our Pastours shall presume to doe otherwise hee is grieuously censured and reprooued according to good orders established for preseruation of sound doctrine and preuention of intruding mens vaine imaginations As concerning the Sacraments of Baptisme and the Lords Supper for Gods institution allowing no more wee leaue your other fiue viz. Confirmation Penance Extreame vnction Orders and Matrimonie to your Romaine Sinagogue where they were first deuised And these other before named I say are administred in the same kinde and nature as they were wholie receiued from our Lord and Maister without addition of any thing to their wordes or cutting off any part of their ordinance And intelligence is publikely deliuered to the people of the end efficacie and vtilitie of them farre from those vngodly courses practised among you Nor is there any other consecration here vsed but holy and deuout pravers in the presence of God and his heanenly assembly The Pastor declaring openly and not in any muttering or coniuring manner what is then done and how it stands with the wordes and ordinaunce of our Lord Iesus Christ proposing and deliuering the same so audibly that it may bee heard of the whole Congregation and so conueniently in all poyntes applyed that much godly benefite commeth thereby to the assembled soules at the Sacraments Where Iesus Christ doubtlesse doth sanctifie the Table and the Bread and Wine there decently present to make them the Sacraments of his body and bloud when the forme is thus obserued after his owne institution To this Communion of the Lords holie Supper all the people present after exhortation to prepare their comming thither in true repentance and firme faith in Gods promises are freely and verie louingly admitted And none are excluded from this heauenly Banquet but such as are notoriously knowne for prophane people of wicked and vild life or rebellious to all good orders and Discipline established by authoritie and the Reuerend Fathers of the Church whose care and diligence for the good thereof at all times and seasons is very great and painefull And Noble Ladyes the Bread and Wine in all reuerend manner as our Lord appoynted it is round about distributed to euery assistant without impayring the least iote of the institution There is no request made that those things may bee carryed thence by an Angell and presented vpon the high Altar Our soules doe assure vs by a