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A07609	A treatise of the holy sacrifice of the masse, and excellencies therof. Written in Spanish by the R. F. Ant. de Molina, a Carthusian monke, & translated into English by I.R. of the Society of Iesus. VVith order, hovv to be present at the said Holy Mystery, vvith deuotion & profit	Molina, Antonio de, d. 1619?; Floyd, John, 1572-1649, attributed name.; Wilson, John, ca. 1575-ca. 1645?	1623 (1623)	STC 18001; ESTC S112780	50,509	307

reason that we who thinke ourselues happy in that we are Catholicke Christians and by Gods singular mercy true children of the sayd Catholicke Church it is good reason I say that we should think it part of our honour to be opposite vnto the foolish fancies of Hereretikes as much as may be by how much they more reprehend and despise the sayd ceremonies by so much we ought to be more careful and religious to performe them with the greatest reuerence exactnes that may be And to vnderstand the ground of these externall Ceremonies and Rites we are to note that man being compounded of two substances to wit soule and body and God being Creatour and Authour aswell of the one as of the other is boūd to acknowledg worship to God and adore him not only with soule but also with body for with the hart one belieues vnto Iustice with the mouth he confesseth his fayth vnto saluation So that it is not inough to belieue with our hartes but also we must make professiō thereof with our mouth and so religion bindes vs not only to worship God internally with our soule but also to yield vnto him externall reuerence and honour with our bodyes Thus we see that from the very first beginning of the world iust godly mē began to honour God with externall ceremonyes bending their knees lifting vp their hādes casting vp their eyes vnto Heauen building Aultars and offering Sacrifices as did the Iust and Innocent Abel which practise went still continuing and increasing in all iust men Religious towardes God as doth appeare by diuers Hystories of holy Writ Prophane Hystory lykewise shewes that the Gentills in their impious worship of Idols vsed sundry and diuerse crremonies For the Diuel who was adored by thē in those Idols as he still perseuered in his first pride and sottish enuy seeking to vsurpe to himselfe the honour and adoration due vnto God knowing that externall Reuerence is a signe and a character of the interiour and in this respect most due vnto the true God required of his deceaued adorants and ordayned that they should adore him and sacrifice vnto him with great variety of externall Reuerences Rites and Ceremonyes And in the holy Scripture we reade that those most vnfortunate Priests of Baal did inuocate him with Sacrifices with clamors bending their knees prostrating themselues on the ground and being barbarous inhumane lyke to the Diuell they serued with knifes did lance themselues till they were all embrued in blood The difference which in this poynt hath been according to the variety of liues and states is that in the first state called The Law of Nature as God had not giuen them any written forme of Religion or Law there was no set order of these kind of Ceremonies but euery one followed the internall instinct and inspiration of God who taught them in what manner he would be honored worshipped by them But afterward when God gaue vnto his people a written Law a most principall part therof pertayned vnto the ceremonyes and diuerse sorts and fashions of Worship to be by them vsed in their offering Sacrifices praying and other duetyes belonging to the Diuine seruice Also there were appointed diuers kindes of Ministers for the more full accomplishment of these thinges some being Priests some Leuits some Singers some Porters some Exorcists and diuerse other kindes euery one hauing his office and Ministery assigned him with most strict and seuere commandments that each of them should be most punctuall exact in his owne office without medling with the office of others enacting most grieuous punishment vnto any that should fayle though but in small matters all which appeares by the Books of the Law specially by that of Leuiticus and Deuteronomy It is true that all these Precepts and ceremoniall Lawes are now ceased and abrogated by the Law of the Ghospell that now is not necessary yea now it were a sinne to obserue them but in their place other ceremonies doe succeede better and perfecter more proportionable and conueniēt with the perfection of the Law of Grace which the Church gouerned by the ho. Ghost hath established as receaued and deriued by tradition from Christ and his Apostles For though some particular ceremonyes haue been altered and changed according to the state and conueniency of tymes yet most certaine it is that some of them were vsed by Christ himselfe in tyme and place and as they were conuenient to his person Thus we reade that sometymes he prayed on his knees positis genibus orabat sometymes standing as in the prayer he made after his last supper sometymes prostrate on his face Procidit in faciem suam sometymes lifting vp his eyes vnto Heauen Subleuatis Iesus oculis dixit And whē he instituted the most venerable Sacrament hauing ended the ceremonies of the old Testament he washed the feete of his Disciples sat downe at the Table tooke bread into his hands cast vp his eyes vnto Heauē gaue thankes vnto his Father blessed the bread consecrated it deuided it gaue it to his Disciples which were the ceremonyes for that tyme place and season After our Sauiour was ascended vnto Heauen the Blessed Apostles hauing receaued the holy Ghost begā presently to vse ceremonyes in the Masse and ordayned such as were to be obserued as appeares by most auncient formes of Masse by thē composed and by S. Clement their Disciple and successour of S. Peeter and by the decrees of other Popes and Councels very aunciēt which to auoyde prolixity I omit The Apostle S. Paul in his Epistle to those of Corinth appoints that Womē be in the Church with their heades couered and Men with their heades bare as also many thinges concerning the order that they were to keepe when they did meete togeather to receaue the most Blessed Sacrament saying in the end Cetera cùm venero disponam I will giue order by word of mouth about the rest of these thinges when I come my selfe Certayne it it that the Apostle was not to appoynt the thinges essentiall vnto the Sacraments for these our Sauiour ordayned and he only could and had power to ordayne them but only certayne ceremonies concerning the vse of the Sacraments And so it is a most certayne truth that the ceremonies of the Church speaking of them in generall be very auncient many particular ceremonies come by traditiō from Christ and his Apostles others frō the chiefe Bishops and Councells For it was not conuenient that the vse of ceremonies and exteriour Religious Rites in the holy Sacrifice of Masse should be left to the liberty of euery one because such liberty might be occasiō of many errours ignorances and superstitions but that the Church should haue the appointment of them The ground of which exteriour obseruances is found in the holy Scripture set downe by S. Paul in the first Epistle to those of Corynth the 14. Chapter Omnia secundum ordinem

for this end is the Aultar built Aultar and Sacrifice being correlatiues Wherefore the errour of vnfortunate Heretickes is in this particular so strange and so contrary to the light of reason that it could haue entred but into minds afore through malice obstinate and through infidelity blinded who from errours run into errour still greater and more foule But heerin they are Ministers of the Diuell who by their mediation endeauoureth to doe the holy Church all the mischiefe he is able and the cursed Caytiffe knowes the greatest mischiefe he can doe is to driue away or hinder the most holy sacrifice of the Altar as de facto he hath driuen away and exiled the same out of townes and countries wherin preuayle these errours and pestilentiall doctrines Wherin also they declare themselues Percursors of the most wicked Antichrist cōcerning whome the Saints of God commonly affirme that the first and principall thing he shall attempt to the detrimēt of the Church is with most extreme rigour to inhibite the exercise of the most holy sacrifice of the Aultar Thus many Fathers and graue Authours vnderstand that which Daniel sayth in his prophecy That in the thousand two hundred and ninety dayes that is in the three yeares and halfe that Antichrists raigne shal continew the continuall sacrifice shall be taken away frō the Church he shall cause his image to be placed in the Temple that himself alone may be adored as God the text sayth He shall take away the continuall Sacrifice and destroy the place of sanctification strength against the cōtinuall sacrifice is giuen him in regard of sinnes This drift which the Diuel shall then prosecute by the meanes of Antichrist he now endeauours to settle by the help of these Hereticks who by procuring to take frō the Catholicke Church the most holy Sacrifice bringe therwith innumerable and inestimable mischiefes and would haue the Christian people which hath receaued more of God and greater benefits to be more vngratefull vnto their God then any other Nation in the world This the holy and venerable Abbot Petrus Cluniacensis liuing in the same age with S. Bernard well noted and signified in these wordes They that attempt to take from the Church of Christ the sacrifice by the Diuells suggestions doe their best that that nation which hath byn graced of God with more singular benefits and fauours should be lesse thankefull to him and yield him lesse worship and honour But I will leaue these Heretickes as men without discretion and common sense to thēselues my purpose not being to dispute this controuersie with them but only to giue a warning vnto the faythfull of their errours impertinēcies Al Catholike Christians are to belieue as a most sure and infallible principle that in the Catholicke Church there is a proper true and most excellent sacrifice which is offered vnto the eternall Father by the handes of Priests as being Minister of Christ Iesus the high Priest and soueraigne Bishop For this hath euer byn the beliefe of the holy Church since the tyme of the Apostles this the doctrine perpetually deliuered by the holy Fathers this the fayth determined established in the sacred Councels and last of all in the holy Councell of Trent in these words Whosoeuer shal say that in the masse is not offered a true and proper sacrifice vnto God or that the sacrifice is no other then the giuing of Christ to be eaten let him be accursed The holy Masse then is the only and most holy Sacrifice of the new Testamēt instituted by Christ our Lord not when he did offer himselfe on the crosse though then he offered a Sacrifice but that was a bloudy sacrifice consumed with payne and wounds the conuulsions of death in which manner only he would offer it that tyme but in his last supper when he consecrated his pretious body bloud vnder the formes and accidents of bread and wine For then he not only gaue it vnto his Disciples as a sacramentall food for the sustenance of their soules but also offered the same vnto his eternal Father as an vnbloudy sacrifice made them Priests with faculty to offer in the like manner granted vnto them vnto their successors vnto the worldes end saying Do this in remembrance of me that is the same thing that I doe you likewise doe in my name memory Wherfore two doctrines as most firme and Catholicke truth are settled by the premisses the one that in the Christiā Church there is a true and proper Sacrifice the other that this sacrifice is offered only in the Masse of the excellencies whereof we now are to treate That the Masse was giuen vnto this Sacrifice by the Apostles euer vsed in the Church And the signification thereof CHAP. II. HERETICKES not only deny and would take from the Church the most holy Sacrifice of the Masse but also cannot endure the very word name of Masse and soe they haue declared to affirme with sacrilegious mouth that the Masse is the inuention of the Pope and his followers The most impious Martin Luther Captayne of these wicked sectaries hath written a booke with this title De abroganda Missa The title is lyke the booke and the booke lyke the Authour and the whole lyke the matter hādled therin wherin he doth acknowledge that by conferēce had with the Diuell appearing to him he was perswaded to abrogate the best thing the most sacred and venerable that is in the Church And though neyther my drift nor the ayme of this Treatise be to dispute with Heretickes which thinge graue writers of this age haue fitly performed yet for the confirmation of Catholickes as also for confusion of Hereticks who sticke not to vtter whatsoeuer they can imagine to be disgracefull to the Church without care whether they speake true or false I thinke it reason briefly to set downe the truth of this matter It is therfore to be known that not only the Sacrifice of the Masse was instituted by our Sauiour in his last supper but also the name of Masse was giuen vnto it by the Apostles themselues frō that tyme hath euer been vsed by the holy Church The first that sayd Masse after our Sauiours Ascension is thought to haue byn S. Iames the yoūger termed Brother of our Lord. For though S. Peter were superiour and head of all as being the soueraigne Bishop yet he would yield that honour vnto this glorious S. Iames because he was Bishop of Hierusalem which was the first Church in the world it is thought this Church to haue byn the sacred Cenacle where Christ kept his last supper and where afterward the holy Ghost came downe vpon the Disciples In this Masse did the holy Apostles and Disciples communicate and the most sacred Virgin then first receaued in the most holy Sacrament her glorious and immortall Sonne whome before she had receaued and apparelled with flesh in her immaculate wombe This Blessed Apostle

this strange thing he found by conferring togeather the dayes and houres that it was the very time that Masse was sayd for him Hence the holy Doctour inferres what greate force and efficacy is in this most Diuine Sacrifice to release men from the spirituall fetters of sin wherin was so great strength to vndoe and breake the chaynes of the body The auncient formes of Masse deliuer the same truth that of S. Iames speaking with GOD thus prayeth that the sinnes we haue committed may be abolished that thou o Lord be propitious and mercifull vnto thy people that by the Oblation of this gratious Diuine Sacrifice we may be held worthy of eternall life The Masse of S. Basil sayth Let this Sacrifice be acceptable for our sinnes for the ignorances of the people S. Chrysostomes Make vs worthy to offer the gifts and this speciall Sacrifice for our sinnes grant that we may find fauour in thy sight And now in the Canon of the Masse we say that we offer this Sacrifice for the Redemption of our Soules That the Masse is a most efficacious Sacrifice to obtayne whatsoeuer we demand CHAP. X. AS cōcerning the fourth title and reason of offering Sacrifices to the end to obtayne of God that which we demaund it is cleere that our Sacrifice doth farre excell all other For if the offering vnto God of a lambe or kidd or some other bruite creature was so efficacious a meanes to obtayne the thing desired and therefore such kind of Sacrifices were ordinarily offered how much greater efficacy is there in the offering vnto him his very Son with the whole treasure of his merits Without doubt this is greater beyond cōparisō If God made such promises vnto Abrahā cōfirmed by Oath to do fauours vnto him and to all his posterity only in regard of the will he had to sacrifice his Sonne what benefits and graces will he bestow on thē that offer and sacrifice vnto him really truly his only begottē Sonne what fauours will he not grant what can one aske with such a present that he will not giue with reason we may heere vse the wordes of the Apostle Saint Paul He that spared not his only Sonne but gaue him for vs all how can it be that he hath not giuen vs all togeather with him Or how can he deny vs any thing that we can aske If the Lawes both human and Diuine so strictly prohibite vnto Iudges and Princes whose office is to gouerne the affayres of the Commō-wealth to pronounce sentence in cases of difference to receaue gifts or presents because receauing them they remaine euen in nature obliged to requite them and to gratify such as gaue them so that it seemes impossible that they should not fauour them why may we not presume that God is in a certaine māner bound to do vs fauours hauing receaued of vs a gift so great and precious as we offer him in the Masse And if the Prouerbe that Gifts breake rocks be true as experiēce shewes it is there being no hart so hard which presents do not make relent yield vnto the giuer how can we thinke that God hauing an hart not of stone nor hard but most sweet louing mercifull inclined to do vs fauours will forbeare to do vs any thing we shall request hauing taken of vs such a rich gift as we present him in our sacrifice Certayne it is that the holy Sacrifice of the Masse is a most efficacious meanes to obtayne of God all that we desire so that the Church did euer vse to say Masses to aske of God Health Peace prosperity other benefits generall and particular as well corporall as spirituall neither need I stay lōger in prouing so cleere and receaued a truth Wherefore I will only here set downe a most prudent and pious consideratiō of a graue and learned Diuine of our age most true conformable both vnto Theology holy scripture This is that Christ our Lord now in Heauen though he be not in the state to merit or satisfy for vs a new yet he is in a state where he may pray and make intercession for mē as in verity he doth according as the Apostle doth witnesse that he doth pleade for vs and at the iudgment seate of God is our sollicitour and as S. Iohn sayth We haue an Aduocate vnto God the Father Christ Iesus the Iust. Hereupon this learned Authour sayth that it is a thing very credible likely that Christ our Lord as often as the Sacrifice of the Masse is offered doth intercede and pray for them that offer it and also for thē for whome it is offered A consideration most true For seing it is most certayne that Christ our Lord doth actually and in truth exercise the office of our Priest and Aduocate seing also that the proper office of Priest is to pray intercede for the people we may rest in this persuasion without any doubt that our Lord being in all his actiōs most perfect will completly performe this office not only by offering the Sacrifice particularly for them for whome it is offered whereof there is no questiō but also by praying interceding actually for thē that they may obtaine what they request and desire if the same agree with their Saluation and Gods glory And it may seeme that the Apostle S. Paul in his Epistle to the Hebrews doth signify or insinuate this truth where treating of the Eternall Priest-hood of Christ he sayth That he can saue for euer them that by him haue accesse vnto God who liues euer to intercede and pleade for vs and thereupon he straight addeth It was conuenient that we should haue such an High-Priest Where he seemes to conioyne praying and interceding for vs with the office of Priesthood signifying that to discharge that duty perfectly it is necessary that he pray and intercede for them that are vnder his charge and more particularly for them for whome he offers his Sacrifice which thing is no wayes inconuenient in Christ but very agreeing with reason as the Venerable Father Dionysius Carthusianus notes in his declaration of this speech of the Apostle Qui etiam interpellat pro nobis Which also is the Doctrine of that great Saint Laurēce Patriarch who wrytes thus in a certayne Sermon When Christ is sacrificed vpon the Aultar our sayd Redeemer cryeth for vs vnto his Father shewing the sacred marks of his Woundes to saue men from eternall punishments by his intercession This being so as I do firmely belieue it is what a soueraigne and excellent thing and full of reuerence and veneration is the holy Sacrifice of the Masse If we do highly esteeme that some Saints in Heauen pray particularly actually for vs or some person liuing vpon earth whome we know to be vertuous in singular fauour with God how much more ought we to prize the only Son of God his praying and intercession for vs vnto his eternall Father Out

his Disciples finding some that had lost all respect and reuerence towardes the holynes of the Temple buying and selling and negotiating in the same though these negotiations were about thinges belonging vnto the Sacrifices that were therein dayly and howerly offered yet he tooke such indignation and displeasure against thē that he made a whippe of certayne cordes he there found and therewith set vpon them and droue them out of the Temple threw downe their tables cast their siluer and moneys on the ground rebuked them sharply with hard tearmes in a manner calling them theeues saying Make not of the house of my Father a denne of theeues This happened not only once in the beginning of his holy Predication but also the second tyme he did the very same towardes the end of his life the very last time or the last sauing one that euer he entred into the Temple By this fact giuing vs to vnderstād what great account he maketh that all decency religious respect should be vsed towardes his house and holy Temple because only against the breach hereof he shewed such extraordinary displeasure and with demonstratiō of anger against the prophaners of his house he would beginne and conclude the course of his preaching Wherupon the holy Euangelist noteth that his Disciples reflecting vpon this his fact called to mind and vnderstood that to him agreed that which is writtē in the Psalme sixty eight The zeale of the house of God eateth vp my very bowells and the disorders of them that beare not respect vnto it fall vpon me and are an heauy and burdensome load vnto me Now we are to note that our Churches are tearmed the house of God not only for the reason in regard of which the Temple of Ierusalē was so entitled which many times and absolutly is tearmed in holy Scripture the house of God because there lodged the Ark of Couenāt there God was worshipped and adored there Sacrifice offered vnto him there he gaue audience vnto men and heard the petitions they made vnto him Not only for these respects Christians Churches be tearmed the House of God but also vpon greater reasons in regard of which this honorable stile doth belonge vnto them much more properly then it did vnto the auncient Temple to wit because God himselfe dwelleth in them really personally in the most Blessed Sacramēt in which the person of the Worde and only begotten Sonne of God abides in more particular manner then in any other parte or creature in the world For not only there he is according to his Diuinity in regard of which he is euery where by Essence Presence Power but also the most sacred Humanity of our Lord Iesus Christ the which is seated in Heauen at the right hand of the eternall Father this selfe-some Humanity with the selfe same Glory Maiesty and Greatnes is really and personally in the most holy Sacrament though couered with the sacramentall formes of Bread so that his presence is inuisible but only vnto eyes enlightned with fayth who see his wordes verified This is my body and his promise accōplished Behold I am with you all dayes vnto the consummatiō of the world This is the glory and most singular priuiledge of the Christiā people to haue Iesus Christ the true GOD for their Neighbour a soiourner in all the Churches of Christianity in such sort that there is not any Catholike Towne or Villadge how small and contemptible soeuer wherein our Lord hath not his proper and peculiar house so that if in a Village there be but twelue Neighbours he maketh the thirteenth Thus God would honour and fauour the Christian people a thing most worthy to be esteemed and honoured in farre more excellent manmer then we doe honour and esteeme the same For this cause I sayd in the beginning of this Chapter that there is no need to say much of this poynt but only that we open the eyes of fayth and consider attentiuely that Temples be the house of God and that in euery one of them IESVS Christ our Lord is really and personally present with all his Glory and Maiesty a truth most sure certayne yea that also many thousāds of Angels accompany him making the Church his Court therein yielding him perpetuall prayses and continuall honour And so in the prayer of the holy Diuine Office wherewith the last Houre and Compline is concluded sayth in this manner Visit we beseech thee o Lord this habitation and let thyne Angels who dwell therin keepe vs. The glorious Apostle S. Paul in Epistle to the Hebrews seemes to affirm no lesse where he sayth You are not come to a materiall mountayne nor vnto a fire that may be seene but you are come to the mountayne of Syon the Citty of the liuing God the Heauenly Ierusalem the resort of many thousandes of Angels the Church of the Primitiues If this be so as without question it is to the end that we beare due respect reuerence and veneration vnto holy places no more is needfull but that we open our eyes and consider the great reuerence and veneration that is due vnto the Holy places which are the true houses of God where he is present hath his aboade togeather with his Celestiall Courtyers And if we looke into holy Scripture we shall find it a very auncient custome of holy Men to beare great respect vnto such places where God was present or did manifest himselfe in particular manner In Genesis is written of the Patriarch Iacob that flying from the house of his Father to auoyde the wrath of his Brother Esau the first dayes iourney he was benighted in a forlorne place There falling a sleep he saw a great Ladder which did reach from Heauen vnto earth vpon the which Angels went vp downe and God stood on the toppe thereof The holy Iacob awaking out of his sleepe conceaued so great reuerēce vnto that place because he had seene the former vision therein that full of feare and astonishment he sayd How dreadfull is this place verily here is nothing else but the court of God gate of Heauen In testimony wherof he cōsecrated the sayd place as far as he could raysing vp the stone that he had laid that night vnder his head anointing it with oyle which was still taken for the signe of consecration and leauing the same there as a tokē that the place was sacred and honour and veneration due vnto it because God had therin shewed himself and vnto the Citty that was neere vnto that place called Luza he gaue the name of Bethel which signifyes House of God In Exodus it is recorded that holy Moyses leading the flocke of his Father-in-law through the most solitary woodiest part of the Mount Horeb God appeared vnto him in a very strāg and meruaylous manner to wit in a Bush which did burn with a great fire but did not consume And when Moyses did approach to see the sayd Miracle more

distinctly nigh at hande the Angell that represented the person of God cryed vnto him Stand still approach no nearer for the place wher thou art is holy land Moyses hearing the voyce declaring God to be there present fell prostrate on his face not dearing to lift vp his eyes nor to cast them towardes the place where God did abide And from that tyme euer after the Mountayne was held in great veneratiō and called the holy Mountayne the Mountayne of God as appeares by the third Booke of Kinges the ninteenth Chapter In this respect the Apostle S. Peter calleth the Mount Thabor the holy Mountayne where our Sauiour was transfigured because there he once shewed his Maiesty and glory Now if these places because God once appeared in them became so specially venerable and reuerenced how much more ought our Temples to be honoured where our Lord himselfe makes his mansion and his aboade as in his ordinary residence and pallace where he worketh dayly so many wonders and bestoweth on men so many fauours If those holy Patriarchs worshipped with such humble respect the place where once or twice they saw God or an Angel that spake to thē in his name what honour would they beare what respect would they shew to our Churchs had they liued in so happy an age as we liue in but through rudenes and ingratitude doe not esteeme nor acknowledge our happines If the holy Patriarch Iacob conceaued such dread and reuerence to the place where in his sleep he saw a lader on which the Angels went vp and down what reuerence and dread would he conceyue should he see as we dayly see with the eyes of fayth the very Son of God to come down and place himselfe in the handes of Priests And this not seene in sleepe or in a dreame but by sight more certayne more infallible then any thing can be that we see with eyes and feele with handes with how far greater reason would he exclayme Verily dreadfull is this place verily God is in this place And with much more truth haue sayd verily this is the house of God and entrance of Heauen If holy Moyses cōceaued such feare and reuerence not daring to looke on the Bush out of which an Angell spake vnto him in the name person of God what reuerence would he conceaue what deuotion would he declare if he should enter into our Churches and see the most venerable Sacrament knowing as certaynly as we do that there God is in person being made Man for our sake and so sweet and courteous towardes men that he is receaued and eaten of them Oh holy Patriarches me thinkes that frō your seates of Heauenly glory you behold vs on earth and are ashamed to see our stupidity and rudenes who know not how to esteeme and honour such sacred and venerable places as are our Churches nor how to enter into them and stay in them with the dread and reuerence as reason requireth of vs. One day you shal be our Iudges and condemne vs as rude vnmannerly seing we do not imitate your example in worshipping holy places our Temples being with great excesse more venerable and glorious then those which you did so highly esteeme and honour Of being present and hearing the Holy Office of Masse which hath alwayes byn in most high esteeme publickly celebrated euery where both among the Syrians the Grecians and the Latines euer since the tyme of the Apostles CHAP. XVI A Prayer before Masse LORD Iesu-Christ the pure light of harts and the Eternall truth stay I beseech thee and collect mine euer-wandring distracted mind that I may be attentiue with reuerence present in the sight of thy infinite Maiesty whiles this holy office of Masse is celebrated and reape thence true fruit healthfull to my soule and others and especially that I may with thankes-giuing call to mind thine vnspeakeable charity wherwith thou offered'st thy self to a most cruell death for my Redemption To thee be al praise thans-giuing thou being the Priest the Host and our Bishop according to the Order of Melchisedech who hast taught Priests to offer a cleane oblation and euery where to sacrifice vnto the Eternall God vnder the likenes of bread and wine Then blessing thy selfe begin with the Priest thus IN the name of the Father and of the Sonne and of the holy Ghost Amen I will enter vnto the Altare of God to God who maketh my youth ioyfull The 42. Psalme IVdge me O God discerne my cause from the nation not holy from the wicked and deceitfull man deliuer me Because thou art God my strength why hast thou repelled me and why goe I sorrowfull whiles the ennemy afflicteth me Send forth thy light thy truth they haue conducted me and brought me into thy holy hill into thy tabernacles And I will enter vnto the Altar of God to God who maketh my youth ioyfull I will confesse to thee on the harpe O God my God why art thou sorrowfull O my soule And why doest thou trouble me Hope in God because yet will I confesse to him the saluation of my countenance and my God Glory be to the Father and to the Sonne c. Euen as it was in the beginning and now and euer and world without end Amen I will enter vnto the Altare of God to God who maketh my youth ioyfull Our help is in the name of our Lord who hath made Heauen and Earth· The Generall Confession I Confesse vnto Almighty God vnto the B. Virgin Mary to B. Michael the Archangell to B. Iohn Baptist to the holy Apostles Peter and Paul to all the Saintes and to you O Father because I haue grieuously sinned in thought word and deed through my fault my fault my most grieuous fault Therefore I beseech the B. Virgin Mary the B. Michael the Archangell the B. Iohn Baptist the holy Apostles Peter Paul all the Saints you O Father to pray to our Lord God for me Amē Almighty God haue mercy vpon vs forgiue vs all our sinnes and bring vs to life euerlasting Amen Thou O God conuerted wilt giue life vnto vs and thy people shall reioyce in thee Lord shew vnto vs thy mercy and giue vs thy saluation Lord heare my prayer and let my crye come vnto thee The Prayer TAke from vs O Lord we beseech thee all our iniquities that hauing hart and mind pure and vndefiled we may deserue to enter into the Holies of Holies Though Christ our Lord. Amen Lord haue mercy vpō vs. Lord haue mercy vpon vs. Lord haue mercy vpon vs. Christ haue mercy vpon vs. Christ haue mercy vpon vs. Christ haue mercy vpon vs. Lord haue mercy vpon vs. Lord haue mercy vpon vs. Lord haue mercy vpon vs. Adde heere three tymes Pater Noster c. for thy sinnes committed in thought word deed that the holy Trinity in whose Name thou art baptized may pardon thee thy offences that being dead to sinne thou