THE DISPLAYING of the Popish Masse wherein thou shalt see what a wicked Idoll the Masse is and what great difference there is between the Lords Supper and the Popes Masse Againe what Popes brought in every part of the Masse and counted it together in such monstrous sort as it is now used in the Popes Kingdome Written by THOMAS BECON and published in the dayes of Queene MARY Psalme 73. They that forsake thee O Lord shall perish and all them that commit whoredome against thee thou shalt utterly destroy Ier. 15. Fly away from Babylon let every man save his life that yee be not rooted out with her wickednesse For the time of the Lords vengeance is come Apocalyps 18. I heard a voice from heaven saying Come away c. Matth. 15. Every plant that my heavenly Father hath not planted shall be plucked up by the roots LONDON Printed by A. G. for the Company of Stationers 1637. Cum privilegio R. P. D. D. IOANNES PARKHURSTUS Episcopus Noruvicensis ad Thomam Baeconum Vidi perlegi doctos Baecone libellos Quo tua nonpridem sancta Minerva dedito Dispercam siquid legi unquam sanctius aut si Quid potuit populo tradier ut liu◠Auspice perge Deo tales vulgare libellos Variloquax sed nec lingua timenda tibi est Sic Christum possis avido iaculare popello Sic possis nomen condecorare tuum The displaying of the Popish Masse IF I were not led O yee MASSING Priests with a naturall and fervent affection toward this our common country which as a most tender mother hath tenderly brought me forth and as a most loving nurse hath hitherto sweetly embraced kindly fostered and carefully kept me up whose destruction and utter desolation if provision betimes be not made I see unfainedly to be at hand againe if I were not moved with very pitie and tender compassion towards you my country-men greatly lamenting and even from the very heart bewailing the miserable and wretched state wherein at this present yee stand perceiving also your dreadfull damnation besides the corporall plagues which with other ye shall suffer not to be farre off except yee shortly repent turne unto the Lord our God and leave your abominable Idoll service I would chuse rather quietly to goe forth in giving my minde to the studie of the holy Scriptures according to my profession and in calling on the Name of God by fervent prayer for the redresse of the great abominations which now of late dayes as most fierce outragious flouds have violently burst in overflowed and utterly deformed the Christian Common-weale of this our Realme of England than breaking off my present studies to take upon me at this time to write unto you and especially of such a matter as some brainsicke persons straightwayes will condemne as hereticall but all wil judge it superfluous seeing the matter whereof I entend to write doth but a little agree with the common opinion of religion yea rather superstition that is now received among us against the which to strive who will not count it a thing of great folly being so defenced not onely with Lawes and Statutes but also with the power of the head rulers with the wily subtilties of the fleshly hypocrites and with the consent of the grosse multitude as I may speake nothing of the untowardnesse yea rather frowardnesse and malicious madnesse of a number of you Masse-mongers to whom these my Letters bee directed which have been so rooted from the beginning of your greasie Priest-hood in this wicked kinde of massing taking it for most perfect pure true sound godly and Christian Religion and have found so great ease quietnesse lucre gaine and advantage in it that it shall be more easie except God setteth to his helping hand to make a man of Inde white than to plucke many of you from your old accustomed and cankered trade so hard a thing is it to use an old dogge to the reine or to cure that disease that is bred in the bone But notwithstanding having a good opinion although not of all yet of some of you which sinne not of obstinate malice against the truth but of simplicitie ignorance and blindnesse offend for lacke of better knowledge whom also peradventure God hitherto hath suffered to remaine in errour that he now at the last thorow the riches of his mercy might bring you into the glorious light of his blessed Gospell and make you of Sauls Pauls of ravening wolves faithfull Shepheards of cruell persecutors Christian Preachers of abominable Idolaters true worshippers of God that by this meanes ye may beleeve and be saved I will attempt even for your sakes even to the uttermost of my power as time shall serve to declare unto you my minde concerning the great abuse yea the abominable Idolatry which ye commit in the most wicked and Divellish Masse while yee take upon you contrary to the Word of God to defile the blessed Sacrament of Christs body and bloud to minister it in your Masses unto your selfe alone contrary to Christs institution to offer it for a sacrifice unto God for the sinnes of the quicke and dead to avouch it to bee of no lesse excellencie price dignitie efficacie might vertue and power than the sacrifice which our Saviour Christ offered on the altar of the Crosse and to make a shew of it to the people that they may fall downe and worshippe it as a god yea God himselfe Creator and maker of all things that yee having the knowledge of these your errors may from henceforth cease to offend the Lord our God give over your Idolatrous massing repent you of your former life and become godly Ministers in the Church of Christ unto the glory of God and the profit of his holy Congregation And that wee may the better discerne the truth from the falsehood and the prophanation of the Sacrament from the true ministration thereof I will compare Christs doing in this behalfe and yours together that when ye shall perceive how farre ye dissent and swarve from the truth ye may forsake your errour and follow no more the trifling traditions of Antichrist the Bishop of Rome and of his adherents but rather embrace that Godly and faithfull order which our Saviour Christ hath set and appointed in his holy Word for the due Ministration of his blessed Communion It is not unknowne to you that the Lord Iesus after he had eatē the Paschall Lambe with his Disciples according to the Law of Moses that same night wherein hee was betrayed knowing that the time appointed of his heavenly Father frō everlasting wherein he should offer himselfe a sweet smelling sacrifice to God for the sinnes of the world was at hand and willing to leave behinde him a memoriall of his glorious Passion and precious death to his holy Congregation that the fruits commodities and benefits which the faithfull penitent sinners have by the offering up of his blessed bodie should not be forgotten
but had in an everlasting remembrance first of all preached a most fruitfull and comfortable Sermon to his Disciples and afterward as he sate at the table with them hee tooke bread into his hands and after he had given thankes to his heavenly Father as his manner was for his corporall gifts but specially for the deare love that hee of his owne meere mercie and free heartie good will bare toward mankind he brake bread and gave bread unto his disciples saying Take yee eat yee this is my body which is betrayed for you Doe this in remembrance of me And as hee tooke the bread and made it a Sacrament that is to say an holy signe figure token and Memoriall of his Body breaking so likewise he took the wine and made that a Sacrament holy signe figure token and Memoriall of his bloud shedding and after thankesgiving to his heavenly Father for the benefits aforesaid he delivered the Cup unto his Disciples saying Drinke of this all ye This Cup is a new Testament in my bloud which is shed for many for the remission of sins Doe this so oft as yee shall drinke it in the remembrance of me And this heavenly banket once done they said grace that is to say they praised God by saying either certaine Psalmes of David or some other thankesgivings and so departed Here is the whole institution of the Lords Supper Now let us compare Christs Supper with your Popish and Idolatrous Masse and see how well Christs doings and yours agree together If ye be the Ministers of Christ and not of Antichtist the servants of God and not of the Divell then will you follow your Master Christ which saith I have given you an example that as I have done so likewise yee should doe Let us now then goe in hand with the matter First we reade that Christ before hee fed his Disciples with the mysticall food of his body and bloud made a Sermon unto them wherewith as with a certaine most wholesome preparative hee made meet the minds of his Disciples unto so worthy a banket giving all faithfull Ministers an example that whensoever they with the congregation doe come together to celebrate the Lords Supper there should be some Sermon or exhortation made unto the people that they might the better examine themselves and the more deepely consider the thing that they goe about And according to the example of Christ not only the Apostle but all the holy Fathers also of the Primitive church used the trade and so did it continue in the Church of Christ till Antichrist the Bishop of Rome had driven Christ out of place and set up himselfe as God Againe till hee had expulsed the Supper of the Lord and set up his owne peevish yea theevish Idolatrous Masse as wee may see in the monuments of the ancient Writers They continued saith blessed Luke in the Apostles doctrine and fellowshippe and in breaking of bread and in prayers And Saint Paul saith As often as ye shall eat this bread and drinke of the cup shew set forth declare and preach the Lords death till he come A practise hereof have we in the Acts of the Apostles where wee reade That upon one of the Sabbath dayes when the Disciples came together for to breake bread so termeth S. Luke the receiving of the Sacrament of Christs body and blood blessed Paul preached unto them and continued the preaching unto midnight And the Sermon ended they brake bread ate thanked God and departed For if the Sacrament of Christ be never so comfortable yet if they bee not known what they are to what use they were instituted what joyfull promises are annexed unto them what they signifie and preach unto the faithfull receivers c. What other things are they to us thaÌ„ the pretious stone was to Aesops Cock A SacrameÌ„t ministred without preaching of the word is but a dumb ceremony a glasse offered to a blind man and a tale told to one that is deafe The Apostles before the ministration of any Sacrament preached and so did the holy Fathers of the primitive Church Saint Iohn Baptist the sonne of the Priest Zachary preached unto the people before hee baptized them Our Saviour Christ a little before his ascension said to his Apostles â—oe and teach all nations baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Sonne and of the holy Ghost Here is Baptism the preaching of the word joyned together And as concerning the blessed Sacrament of Christs body and blood did not our Saviour Christ preach at the institution and ministration of it Are we not also commanded by the holy Apostle that whensoever wee come to receive the blessed Communion the death of the Lord should be preached declared and set forth Did not the Apostles of Christ and all the godly Bishops of the primitive Church observe the same order They considered right well how little the ministration of the Sacraments availeth without the preaching of the Word For as S. Paul saith how shall they believe without a Preacher Faith commeth by hearing and hearing commeth by the Word of God None therefore of the Lords Sacraments ought publickely to be administred without preaching of the word yea that not in a strange tongue but in such a speech as the people understand or else it were as good to speake the words unto a sâ—rt of sheepe or geese as unto them that are gathered together at the ministration of any Sacrament And this meant Saint Augustine when hee said Take away the Word and what is Water but water But let the word bee added to the ElemeÌ„t it is made a SacrameÌ„t Whence hath the water such a power that it should touch body and wash the heart but by the vertue of working of the word not because it is spoken but because it is beleeved The word signifyeth here not only the speaking of Ego baptizote c. or Hoc est corpus meum c. pronounced by the Priest in a strange tongue but the preaching of the word of God uttered by the mouth of the Ministers in such a language as the people understand or else how shall they beleeve It is not the utterance of Gods word in an unknowne speech that bringeth faith but when it is so spoken that it is understood of them that heare it and that faith through the operation of the holy Ghost ensueth which otherwise is cold lyeth idle and worketh nothing in the heart of the hearer for as S. Augustine saith Take away the Word and what is Water but water that is to say take away the preaching of Gods word from the SacrameÌ„t of Baptism which declareth what Baptisme is who instituted it to what use it was ordained what fruits and commodities wee receive by it c. And what doth the water of Baptisme profit I speake concerning such as are come to the use of reason
abominable and by no meanes to be suffered where God is truely honoured and his holy Name faithfully called upon And what other thing doe yee by maintaining your Altars than shew your selves very Antichrists and adversaries to GODS holy ordinance and as much as in you is declare that CHRIST is not yet come or at the least have not offered himselfe a sacrifice to God the Father for the sins of the people All bloudie sacrifice for sinne cease now in the New Testament for the which Altars served therefore Christ ministred unto his Disciples the Sacrament of his body and bloud not at an Altar but at a Table But you as though all bloudie sacrifices for sinne were not yet gone have still your Altars and offer sacrifice upon them as the Heathenish and Iewish Priests did They killed and sacrificed bruit beasts upon their Altars and you take upon you to sacrifice the Sonne of God and to make him meâ—t when it pleaseth you If yee bee perswaded that whatsoever Christ did at the ministration of the holy Communion is best and most perfect why then doe yee not follow him and minister at a Table as hee did are yee wiser than Christ Are yee better learned than the Wisedome of God Have ye gone so long to Schoole with that Romish Antichrist that you dare take upon you to teach Christ the Master of all perfection And to find fault in his worke as the Cobler played with Apelles picture I would have you to remember Apelles answer Ne sutor ultra crepidam Againe if ye beleeve that all bloudy sacrifices be ceased and that the LORD CHRIST by the once offering up of his bodie hath paid a full sufficâ—ent and perfect ransome for the sinnes of all them that repent and beleeve why then doe ye stand at the Altars like Baals Priests and take upon you to offer sacrifice for the sinnes of the people as though all such things were not perfectly ended in the passion and death of Christ If your Altars be of God shew it by the holy Scriptures But this can you not doe therfore are your Altars not of God but of the Divell not of Christ but of Antichrist Is this to walke as Christ hath walked Is this to doe as Christ hath given example Is this to bee Christs Minister or rather Christs controller God amend you and once againe destroy those your Idolatrous and bominable altars When Christ came to the Table to minister the holy Communion he came in such comely apparell as he used daily to weare But how come yee in the name of God that we may see how well yee follow Christ in this behalfe also Yee come unto your altars as a game-player unto his stage And as though your own apparell or else a faire white Surplesse were not seemely enough for the due administration of the Sacrament ye first put upon your head an head-peece called an Amice to keepe your braines in temper as I thinke then put yee on also a linnen Albe in stead of a smocke to declare how well ye love women specially other mens wives and that Albe you gird unto you for catching of cold though it bee in the middest of Summer After this you cast a Stoale about your necke in stead of an halter which signifieth that ye wil persecute and strangle with an halter or else burne with fire so many as speake against your abhominable apish Masse and such other wicked traditions Againe upon your left arme ye put on a Fannell much like to a manacle or a fetter And this hath also a solemne mysterie For it preacheth that so many as yee can come by that unfainedly favour the truth of Christs Gospell yee will manâ—cle fetter locke stock imprison chaine and doe them all the mischiefe you can Last of all come on your fooles coat which is called a Vestment lacking nothing but a coxcombe this is diversly daubed Some have Angels some the blasphemous Image of the Trinity some flowers some Pecockes some Owls some cats some dogs some hares some one thing some another and some nothing at allâ— but a crosse upon the backe to 〈◊〉 away spirits This your fooles coat gayly gawded signifyeth your pleasant finenesse and womanly nicenesse and your delectation in the varietie or change of Venus pastimes because ye will not be cumbred with one lawfull wife Thus as men well harnessed for an Interlude yee come forth to play Hickescâ—rners part with your shamelesse smooth smiâ—ling faces and with your lustie broad bald shaven crownes Antichrists brood of Rome to signifie unto such nice Nymphs as know your secret subtilties and jolly juglings that yee are beasts of that marke that will never faile Lady Venus nor none of her kind kitlings but above all other both for your idlenesse and belly-cheere are most meet at all times like stout sturdie stowre strong stalents to play Priapuâ— part and to furnish the place Per alium when Perse is out of the way such is your unchast chastitie O yee filthy haters of godly matrâ—monie But whence have ye your game-players garments Of the heathen and idolatrous Priests But with such have the Christians nothing to doe Of the Iewish Ministers But that law is abrogated by Christs comming of whose vertues the garments of the Priests were figures signes whereof ye have none at all Had yee them of the Divell and of Antichrist of Rome Send them thither againe betimes lest ye goe to the Divell with them for company Wheresoever yee had them certaine am I that yee have them not of the authoritie of the holy Scripture Christ and his Apostles used no such â—ond Coats at the administration of the Sacrament Christ alloweth no pompe nor pride but all simplicitie and plainenesse Therefore plainly and simply without any such Hickescorners apparell did Christ deliver the Sacramentall bread and wine to his Disciples The more simply so that it bee comely the Sacrament is ministred the neerer is it unto Christs institution But I know not whether your gay gawdie gallant gorgious game-players garments w ch ye weare at the Masse are more to bee disallowed thaÌ„ your blind and corrupt judgemeÌ„t is to bee lamented in the wearing of them For the most part of you have such spiced nice coÌ„sciences in the use of them that if ye lacke but the least of these fooles bables ye dare not presume to say Masse for a thousand pound The laudable order of our mother holy Church is broken Yee cannot consecrate aright Yee have not al your tools Therefore can ye not play Cole under candlesticke cleanely nor whip Master Winchard above the boord as ye should doe And gratiously considered For what is a worke-man without his tooles God have mercie on you and give you grace to bee better minded and to lay aside such apish toyes and to put on the Lord Iesus Christ that yee may know him to be your alone
taken away from thee and the stinking dung of the Pope most miserable cast upon thee Lament thy sinnes O England lament lament Returne to the Lord thy God and most humbly beseech him once againe to looke upon thee with his mercifull countenance to take away these popish dregs to restore unto thee his lively Word and to blesse thee again with the true ministration of his holy Sacraments that thou maist serve the L O R D thy God in holinesse and righteousnesse all the dayes of thy life This doctrine that the Sacrament of the Altar as you terme it is the true naturall reall carnall corporal and substantiall bodie of Christ is the dream of Antichrist the Bishop of Rome and was never received in the Church till Pope Leo Pope Nicholas Pope Innocent Pope Honorius and Pope Vrban through their tyranny brought it in and compelled the Christians with fire and fagot as the manner of the tyrannicall Papists is to receive their abomihable doctrine and yet in all ages God stored up some to confesse the true doctrine of the Sacrament against Antichrist even unto the death Neither is this popish doctrine so ancient as the Papists bragge For it is not much more than five hundred yeares since their gâ—osse opinion of the Saâ—rament began first to be attempted And although Pope Nicholas the second diâ— much in the matter yet was it not thorowly received nor agreed upon untill Pope Innocent the third came which about the yeare of our Lord 1215. kept a Councell at Rome called Latronense I would say Lateranense concilium where were gathered together a swarme of Papists about the number of thirteen hundred pild pates of the which number eight hundred and odde were Monkes Canons and Fryers chickens of the Popes owne brood Last of all came Pope Vrban the Monke in the yeare of our Lord 1264. and he made up all the market For he ordained a Feast called Corpus Christi in the honour of the Sacrament so that ever after that time the Sacrament was no more taken for a signe figure and token of Christs bodie but for Christ himselfe God and man and therefore was it reverenced worshipped censed and kneeled unto as yee teach the people to doe at your unsacred Sakerings and so are yee their schoolmasters to learn them to commit Idolatrie against their Lord God but let us goe foorth with our matter After our Saviour CHRIST had delivered the Sacramentall bread to his Disciples for to eat hee tooke the Cuppe and thanked and gave it them saying Drinke yee all of this For this is my bloud which is of the new Testament that is shed for many for the remission of sinnes This doe as oft as yee drinke it in the remembrance of mee Here CHRIST delivered to his Disciples holy wine I call it holy because it was dedicated and appointed to an holy use which hee made the Sacrament of his bloud And they all dranke of it And here is to bee marked by the way that our Saviour CHRIST afore seeing that there should arise false annointed that would take away from the people the Sacrament of his bloud bade them all drinke of it All all without exception even so many as beleeve on him spirituall or temporall as they call them Are not yee Popish shavelings these false annointed Have you not taken away the Cup of the LORDS bloud from the Lay people and reserved it to your selves alone Doe not ye minister the Sacrament of Christs bodie and bloud to the Lay people under one kinde onely cleane contrary to Christs institution O GOD-robbers O spoilers of Christian mens soules Neither can ye abide that the people should touch your Pope-holy Chalice when they drinke the wine but ye your selves holding the chalice in your own hands give them drinke as though they were babes of three dayes old and could not put the Cuppe to their mouth O tender and jealous nurses In the primative Church and many hundred yeares after as we may see in the monuments of learned men the Sacrament according to Christs institution was received of the people under both kindes untill Antichrist the Biship of Rome by his divellish decree determined the contrary at the Councell of Constance not much more than an hundred years past Pope Gelasius made a godly Decree that those people that would not receive the Sacrament under both kindes should receive none at all but be put away from the Lords Table The Greekes and Bohemes with all that be not under the tyranny of the Pope of Rome and of his wicked Lawes receive the Sacrament under both kinds at this day according to Christs institution Where the contrary is used there reigneth the Devill and the Pope and not Christ and his holy Word But now let us behold your doings After that yee have committed Idolatrie with the sacramentall bread if it be worthy of that name ye fall in hand to consecrate I use still your owne termes the wine with these words In like manner after Supper was done hee tooke this noble chalice that is a lye for Christ never handled that chalice into his holy and worshipful hands and after hee had given thankes to the Father he blessed here fall ye to crossing againe and gave it to his Disciples saying Take yee and drinke yee all of this For this is the cup of my bloud a new and everlasting Testament a mystery of faith w ch shall be shed for you and for many for the remission of sinnes So oft as yee shall doe these things yee shall doe them in the remembrance of me How many words have ye put in here of your owne braine ye shall easily perceive if yee compare them with the words which our Saviour CHRIST spake But for as much as they do not greatly disagree froÌ„ the truth of Gods word I will not strive with you in this behalfe though I would wish you once to deale faithfully and truely in all your doings but specially wheÌ„ you have to doe with God seeing it is written Put nothing to the words of God lest hee reprove thee and thou bee found a lyar After the aforesaid words spoken in hocker mocker yee breathe and blow and shake your head over the Chalice and then yee kneele downe lift up your hands and honour it like most abhominable Idolaters After that yee stand up againe like pretty fellowes and well appointed and taking the Chalice in your hands yee hold it up with heave howe above your heathenish heads that the people also may worship it and bee fellow Idolaters with you and fall into the like danger of everlasting damnation This done yee set the Chalice downe againe upon the Altar and yee cover it with your Corporasse cloath for catching of cold Then once againe kneele ye downe and up againe like dive doppers and kisse the Altar and spread your armes abroad as though
ground straightwayes And then welcome again hard fare greasy cap threadbare gowne broken shooe torne hose empty purse and all that beggerly is Make much therefore of praying for the dead and wish that your Masse which of late yee have to your great joy recovered againe may long continue in her great prosperty or els your cake is dough and all your fat lye in the fire What shall I speake of dancing of your little great God about the Chalice with Per Ip cum Ip In Ip Sum which followeth the praying for the dead That is so holy a thing that it is called the second Sakering and may by no meanes bee left undone Your Childe must needs bee dandled and playd withall a little while least hee chance to sleepe too long After that yee have layd your young God to rest againe you say your Pater noster like good devout men That done yee take up the patine of the chalice and afterward yee crosse your selves withall both upon your brests and upon your bald crownes and lay it downe againe I thinke yee doe this either to fray away spirits or else to enarme your selves with the signe of the croose that they may bee the more able to bring to passe your butchery that is now at hand For straightwayes yee strike up your sleves yee uncover the chalice yee lay downe the Corporasse cloth ye take up your little God yee hold him up over the chalice and ye cruelly teare plucke and breake him in three pieces according to Pope Sergiâ—s commandement about the yeare of our Lord 700. When yee have so done ye keepe two parts of your Christs body which yee your selves made and have now destroyed again in your hands holding them over the chalice and the third part yee let downe into the wine that it may bee the tenderer when yee eat it The myâ—ticall mysteries hereof I declared a little before Then doe ye say the Agnus which Pope Sergius also commanded that it should bee said at Masse a little before the receiving of the host And here againe yee play the abominable Idolaters For looking upon the bread yee looke your selves and worship it saying in Latine Agnus Dei qui tollis c. O Lambe of God that takest away the sinnes of the world have mercie upon us Thrice doe yee call that Bread which yee hold in your hands the Lamb of God which taketh away the sinnes of the world O intollerable blasphemy Was there ever Idolater that worshipped a piece of broken bread for God What marvell is it though the Iewes the Turkes and all other Infidels bee so loth to come to the Christian religion when they see so manifest Idolatrie committed when they behold a piece of a thinne wafer Cake honoured for God Certainly this abominable Idolatry which yee Masse-mongers maintaine and commit at your Masse hath beene and is the occasion that innumerable thousands have beene and are daily damned Yea these your wicked doings are the cause why so many doe abhorre the Christian religion defie the Name of Christ as wee reade of a certaine Emperour of Turky which when hee was demanded why hee and his people did so greatly abhorre the Religion of Christ answered that hee coead by no mulnes approove or allow the religion service and honour of that God whom men at their pleasure doe make and straightwayes eat him when they have done Better were it for you O ye Masse-mongers to have a Mil-stone tied about your neckes and to be cast into the sea than thus with your abominable massing and God-making to drive so many from Christ and provoke so great multitudes unto Idolatry and finally unto everlasting damnation and with what a conscience can yee say to the bread which is a dumbe and insensible creature without all life or spirit O Lambe of God which takest away the sinnes of the world have â—â—ercie â—pon us Is that bread which a little before was corn in the Plough-mans barne meale in the Millers trough flower in the Bakers boulting tubbe and afterwards tempered with a little water and baked of the waferman betweene a paire of hot printing irons come now suddainely through your charming unto such dignity that it is the Lambe of God that taketh away the sinnes of the world that men must pray unto that to have mercie forgivenes of sins O Lord thou living God have mercie upon us and destroy this abominable Idoll of the masse In the worshipping of Baal Astaroth Moloch Bel-Peor Melchom Dagon Chames the Queene of heaven Saturnus Iupiter Priapus Iuno Venus and such other Idolls was never so great a blasphemy and dishonour to God as is the setting up of this broken bread to bee worshipped for God And the matter is so much the more to bee abhorred because yee colour your abominable Idolatrie with Gods word Faigned holines saith Saint Gregorie is double iniquity Ah is that polluted and defiled bread the Lambe of God that taketh away the sinnes of the world Then was that your bread also borne of Mary the Virgine and nourished with the milke of her breasts Then did that bread live upon the earth speake eate drinke sleepe preach woâ—ke miracles c. Then was that bread betrayed accused beaten buffeted spitted on crowned with a crowne of thornes clad wtâ—h a garment of purple crucifyed and nailed to the Crosse. Yea then did that bread offer himselfe on the Altar of the Crosse a Sacrifice to God the Father for the sinnes of the world dyed and rose again for our Iustification Hath your broken bread done all these things Christ the Lambe of God which taketh away the sinnes of the world hath done all these things alone alone Bee ashamed once Oye wicked Papists thus to blaspheme God and to deceive the people through your abominable Massing Again is grace mercie favor and remission of sins to bee craved of these fragments of bread which ye hold in your hands So is it that true living immortal and everlasting God which hath bin without beginning which made heaven earth and all things contained in them For none can forgive us our sins but God alone Hath your broken bread bin without beginning hath it made al things Yea it is a creature it selfe vile and devillish as yee use or rather abuse it Be ashamed O ye shamelesse hypocrites thus to deface the glory of God and to leade the people in damnable blindenesse Shortly after the Agnus yee kisse the Pax whch was the ordinance of Pope Innocentius in the yeare of our Lord 310. And while the boy or Parish Clerke carryeth the Pax about yee your selves alone eat up all and drinke up all Ah what riding fools and very dolts make yee the people yee send them a piece of wood or of glasse or of some metal to kisse and in the meane season yee eat and drinke up all together Is not this a pageant