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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20934	The antibarbarian: or, A treatise concerning an unknowne tongue As well in the prayers of particulars in private as in the publique liturgie. Wherein also are exhibited the principall clauses of the Masse, which would offend the people, if they understood them. By Peter Du Moulin, minister of the Word of God in the church of Sedan and professor of divinitie.; Antibarbare. English	Du Moulin, Pierre, 1568-1658.; Baylie, Richard.	1630 (1630)	STC 7311; ESTC S111063	73,776	306

the merits of the Saints and saith precibus meritisque Not contenting himselfe that the prayers of the Saints bestead us hee willeth that they merit for us the grace of God XXI About the end of the Masse the Priest having taken the Hoast and the Cup maketh his prayer for himselfe k Corpus tuum Domine quod sumpsi sanguis que potavi adhaereat visceribus meis Thy body Lord which I have taken and thy blood which I have drunke cleaveth close to my entralles Hee should rather have prayed with the Apostle that Iesus Christ would dwell in his heart by faith Ephes 3.19 and that his body might be the temple of the holy Ghost 1 Cor. 6.16 for as Saint Iohn saith in his first Epistle Chap. 4. verse 13. By this we know that we abide in him and he in us because he hath given us of his spirit But to imagine that the body of Iesus Christ sitting at the right hand of God sticketh fast to the guts and entrailes of a Priest it is in dishonouring Iesus Christ to defile ones selfe with carnall thoughts And the rather for that our Adversaries hold that the wicked yea beasts doe also eate the bodie of our Lord into whose entrailes also wee must beleeve that the glorious bodie of the Sonne of God is clapt up And that hee was annexed to Iudas his entrailes after he had participated in the Sacrament Pope Innocent III. in 4. booke of the Mysteries of the Masse Chap. 16. propoundeth an important question l Si fortè secessus vel fluxus aut vomitus post solam Eucharistiae perceptionem evenerit ex accidentibus humoribus generatur If saith he any one having nothing else in his belly but the consecrated Hoast and the bloud of the Cup be seased on by a scowring or flux of the belly of what manner and of what nature are those excrements The solution is that they are accidents and humours but he cleares not that difficultie namely if Iesus Christ sticke fast to his entrailes XXII It would bee a thing too infinite to set forth all that may be met withall in the Masses of the whole yeare and in the whole publique service of the Church of Rome which might offend the people were it but propounded in the vulgar tongue As that which is said on Good-fryday m Ecce lignum crucis in quo salus mundi pependit venite adoremus Deus misereatur nostri Evovac Loe here the wood of the Crosse whereon the salvation of the world hung come let us worship God have mercy vpon us Evovac The which word Evovac is a word of triumph which the furious and drunken Priests of Bacchus used as they did sing in the honour of their God Bacchus Then puts the Priest off his shooes to worship barefoot the wood of the Crosse Then is said this Antheme n Crucem tuam adoramus Domine sanctam tuam resurrectionem laudamus Crux fidelis inter omnes arbor vna nobilis nulla sylva tantùm profert fronde flore germine Dulce lignum dulces clavos dulce pondus sustinet Wee adore thy Crosse O Lord and praise thy resurrection And in speaking of the Crosse Faithfull Crosse onely noble amongst the trees there is no forrest brings forth so much in l●afe flower or budd This sweet wood sustaines sweet nailes sweet waight Whilst these words are spoken everie one worships the Crosse and when they lift up the Crosse they say Ave lignum triumphale c. I salute thee or haile triumphant Crosse which is manifestly spoken to the wood And hereupon most of the Doctors maintaine that the Crosse ought to be adored with the worship of Latria which is the highest kinde of adoration XXIII The Saturday before Easter Masse is said in violet wherein they hallow Incens and there is virtue given it to drive away divels and they put out all the candles in the Church and then they light them againe with hallowed fire and the Deacon brings three great wax candles at the end of a staffe then he sticks five graines of incens in a great wax Candle in forme of a Crosse upon which wax candle this blessing is said in singing it in a stile whereof the impietie is absurd and the termes ridiculous Loe here the very words o In huius igitur noctis gratia suscipe sancte Pater incensi huius sacrificium vespertinum quod tibi in hac cerei oblatione solenni per ministorum manus de operibus apum sacrosancta reddit Ecclesia Sed iam columnae huius praeconia novimus quam in honorem Dei rutillans ignis accendit Qui licet sit divisus in partes mutuati tamen luminis detrimenta non novit Aliter enim liquantibus ceris quas in substantiam pretiosae huius lampadis apis mater eduxit O verè beata nox quae spoliauit Aegyptios c. In the grace of this night receive holy father the evening Sacrifice of this incense which the holy Church offereth up unto thee in this solemne oblation of waxen Candles by the hands of Ministers of the worke of Bees But already wee acknowledge the praises of this columne which the glistering fire kindles in the honour of God which although it bee divided into parts acknowledgeth no losse of borowed light for it is fedd by the liquid wax which the mother Bee hath produced into the substance of this precious lampe O truely happie night which dispoiled the Egyptians and enricht the Hebrewes Night wherein earthly things are blended with celestiall and divine with humane Wee pray thee then Lord that this waxen candle consecrated to the honour of thy name may hold out without failing to destroy the darknesse of this night and being acceptable in the odour of a good sent may be blended and ranked amongst the heavenly lights above Let the morning bringer Lucifer meet with it flames that Lucifer I say that cannot set or goe downe All this gallimaufrey and medley of absurde termes which give to a waxen taper that which belongs to the doctrine of the Gospell and placeth a waxen taper composed of the worke of Bees amongst the starres of heaven is farre from the language of the spirit of God XXIIII On the same Saturday they hallow their fonts in which is the water for baptisme in these words Make this water by thy Majesties Empire Note The God head blending it selfe with water gives it virtue to regenerate soules and maketh the water to become a new creature and a celestiall race by the immaculate wombe of the fountaine take the grace of thy onely Sonne by the holy Ghost which by the secret admixtion of his God-head make fruitfull this water prepared for the regeneration of men to the end that having conceived sanctification thorow the immaculate wombe of the divine fountaine borne againe as a new creature may become a celestiall race and let the mother grace bring forth in the