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A13994 Concerning the Holy Eucharist, and the popish breaden-god to the men of Rome, as well laiqves as cleriqves, by Thomas Tuke. Tuke, Thomas, d. 1657. 1625 (1625) STC 24305; ESTC S111514 13,017 28

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CONCERNING THE HOLY EVCHARIST and the Popish BREADEN-GOD TO THE MEN OF ROME as well LAIQVES as CLERIQVES By THOMAS TUKE ANNO M.DC.XXV TO THE COURTEOUS READER WHil'st Sunne doth shine and does not burne Men willingly to it doe turne But if it once wax hot they fly And hide themselues from 't by and by So truth that 's pleasing giuing light Is grieuous if it once doe bite And oftentimes procures a foe Whereas base flattring does not so For man would haue full scope in 's wayes And gladly haue of all men praise He would not be suppos'd to stray Although he be quite out of 's way Truth 's like hony put to a sore Which makes the place to smart the more Of carnall mindes such is the case So faine they would hold on their race To be discover'd fann'd and tried Grieues them as much as to be tied Yet welcome medicine that does heale And welcome they that truly deale Sore eyes indeed the light do shunne And Batts and Owles loue not the sunne The Thief delighteth in the night But honesty does loue the light The honest heart the single ●ye Is very loath to tread awry And therefore deemes the light full deare And him that speaks the truth will heare It studies to be truly wise And would not be abus'd with lyes It therefore giues it self to pray To read heare search both night and day And when the truth it has found out To loue't and own't it does not doubt Glory and greatnesse and feare and shame Gaine that 's so lou'd and worldly fame Carnall pleasure and contentment Friendship of men to errors bent The honest heart the single eye To truth doeth these things vilifie Yea life that is so deare to man To keepe the truth forgo it can And that is trueth to be belieued Which from the Scriptures is derived For that in faith makes but a breach Which holy Scriptures do not teach All Teachers should their teachings square By them for they Gods will declare THEY fully shew the Church and truth lay out To follow other Guides is to stray out They they are Faiths perfit Rule and Measure The Touch-stone of truth and Matchlesse Treasure Thine in the trueth truely THO. TUKE TO THE MEN OF ROME as well LAIQVES AS CLERIQVES PRiests make their Maker Christ yee must not doubt They eat drink box him vp and beare about Substance of things they turne nor is this all For both the Signes must hold in severall Hee 's whole i th' bread whole i th' cuppe They eat him whole whole they suppe Whole i th' Cake and whole i th cuppe This with you all doeth goe for veritie To hold contrary is meer heresie This is pure pure Catholique pure divine And thus feast ye he with his Christ thou with thine Without bread and wine indeed For this is your Roman Creed Whom ye make on him ye feed The bread and wine themselues away are gone Shewes of them tary still but Substance none They make their God and then they eat him vp They swallow downe his flesh and blood vp sup They 'll taste no flesh on frydayes that 's not good But of their new-made God and of his blood And as the Whale did Ionas so they eat Him vp aliue body and soule as meat As men eat Oysters so on him they feed Whole and aliue and raw and yet not bleed This cookerie voyed of humanitie Is held in Rome for sound divinitie And is not this strange to heare That God whom ye say ye feare Ye should eat as belly cheare The Graver Painter Baker euen these three Your Priests haue reason for to magnifie Perhaps the Baker thinks he merits more Yet both advance their honor and their store For they with their gentle feat Help them to mony meat Making Gods to begge and eat And now me thinks I heare old Laban say See they haue stolne and borne my Gods away Me thinks I heare and see that mountineer Michah of Ephraim who did idols feare Chiding with the Danits for that they had Took's Priest and Gods away which made him mad Mee thinks I see the Philistins bereft Of their vaine Gods which they to Dauid left And how that noble Worthy made them bee Destroyed of his souldjers presentlie Both men and beasts a thing to be deplored May bear away the things of you adored The things yee worship with your heart and minde Men like your selues can burne can melt can grinde Baruchs base things a shame it is to think Can marre the things ye worship and make stinck And is not this great folly More then childish vanity To dote on things so silly The foolish Heathens were not all so mad For they devoured not the Gods they had The wiser knew their Vanities were wood Or such like stuffe not Gods nor flesh and blood But yee as if bewitcht do count and call That poore thing God Maker and Lord of all Which is plaine bread in substance very bread Made of wheat-flower ground with mans hand and knead This which is bread which all men so will say Which haue not lost all sense or thrown 't away This ye do say ye do belieue it is Not bread in trueth but the true God of blisse Euen Iesus Christ God-Man flesh blood and bones Wherein y' are stupider then they then stones O God! What is a man euen at his best If not of thee with heauenly wisedome blest Grievous errors doth he swallow And in sin perversly wallow Not regarding what may follow Poore Laique There is one thing more for thee The Cuppe of Blessing thou art forc'd to flee Eat thou mayest by law but thou mayest not suppe The Priest is he that 's worthy of the cuppe Take Christ thou mayst under the breaden signe But not touch him under the shew of wine A Prince perhaps by favour with his lippe Is suffer'd after 's Priest to take a sippe And is this a Priestly feat Thus the people for to cheat Who should drink as well as eat But Lay-men are not Priests who sayes they are And therefore ought not in that Cuppe to share Why Are not Princes lay men yet They may And do drink of the cup as men do say T●'eleuen or twelue for chuse ye whether When they first receiued altogether Their Maister being by then were they all As Sheep the text Disciples does them call And furthermore If lay-men may not drink Because th' are such Why may they not then think It lawfull for them to refuse to eat For the selfe same reason of that sacred meat Or who can justly say and not deluded That Laiques from the Cuppe are quite excluded When Christ sayes Drinke ye All of this as tho He spake to Priests alone and to no moe And yet that when he sayd those Words Take Eate To Priests and people too he meant that meat At Rome no drink 's allow'd but