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A06764	An anatomi, that is to say a parting in peeces of the mass Which discouereth the horrible errors, and the infinit abuses vnknowen to the people, aswel of the mass as of the mass book, very profitable, yea most necessary for al Christian people. VVith a sermon of the sacrament of thankesgyuyng in the end, whiche declareth whether Christ be bodyly in the sacrament or not. By Chrystes humble seruant Anthoni de Adamo.; Annotomia della messa. English	Mainardi, Agostino, 1487-1563.	1556 (1556)	STC 17200; ESTC S111869	206,001	464

and liue for euer to whom be all rule honor and glory for euer and euer So be it THE END A SERMON OF THE SACRAMENT OF THANckes geuing the which declareth whether Christ be really and bodily in the same or no. I CAN NOT SAY HOW moch mirth and yoie is in my hart whan I see in this our age that there is kindeled in the mindes of many the holy desire to vnderstand gods things that is to say the inestimable and the incomprehensible treasures hidden in Christ Iesus whose knowlege passeth euery other knowlege and wisdō and doth so farr excell Philip. 3. that Paul thapostel thought euery other thing losse and worthy the throwing awai in comparison of that Neuertheles the lord doth not geue this desire to know Christ to all men but to his own that is to say to the elect only the which he hath before the beginning of the world forepointed that thei shuld be to his praise and glory Ephes 1. Of the other side not with standing I can not but be sory seing in thes same times whan the gospell that hath bene hidden so many worlds past is by the goodnes of god lately come furth to light that there shuld be so mani and so diuers opinions of thes things that god hath Instituted to kepe agrement and peace among the faithful that is to say of the sacraments of the church in such sort as Sathan the enemy goth abowt with the self same instruments of peace and vnitie to make warr against Christ setting dissension making schismes and sowing debates amongst Christians not only among the people and comon sort but among thos that shuld be lightes glasses and examples of agrement to whom belongeth to teach other that is to say among the ministers and preachers of the holy gospell But this dere brethern ought not to offend yow nor to remoue yow from your holy purpos that yow haue in Christ but rather to confirm yow in faith and to kindle yow to make a gretter entry in to the religion and way of God for so moch as that god doth suffer such striffes and diuersities of opiniōs for the benifite of his church and of the trewe bileuers First to th entent that his 1. Corinh 11 who abide constant and stowt may be manifest whan thother that haue not a trewe growndwork but a fained and vaine faith doo falle and faile Furthermore also to th entent that whan we see such disorders we shuld not put our trust in men the which may all err but we shuld come to gods word the which onlie can not deceiue and that we shuld indeuor our selues with all diligens and care to vnderstand it and that we our selues shuld looke in the scripture whether it be so or 〈◊〉 as we may reade of thos that hard Paul preac●●●…n the citie of Berrhoe in Macedony as it is writtē in in thactis of thapostels Act. 17. the which whan thei hard Paules sermon thei looked in the scripture itself whether it was so as he said 〈◊〉 ●…o And to be short to th entēt that we shuld prai vnto god that he wold geue vs the trewe vnderstanding of the same because the matters of gods spirite be not vnderstand by any mans way but by gods disclosing 2. Pet. 1. 1. Cho. 2. Now to return to the purpose of the striffe that is of the sacraments Some say that in the sacramēt of the body and blood of Christ that is to say in the breade and wyne consecrated in remembrans of his death is conteined his very body and his very blood and that there we haue really and bodily all and hole Christ as great and as thick as he was on the crosse Other some say that he is not there but there is only the breade and the wine as signes of Christes body and blood geuen for our redempcion And this controuersy and striffe is in such sort gone forward that it hath with many hindered the course of the holy gospel And it hath made that Christes enemies haue taken occasion and boldnes to blaspheme the holy lerning and gods truth But be it as it will allthough some haue cōmitted a great fawt in this thing striuing euer bitterly against the contrary opinion wherby thei haue shewed them selues to be men and haue in som part spotted their own glory lessening the credite and auctoritie that the world had of them We not withstanding will comfort our seluis with Paules saing which he speaketh to the romās Rom. 8. that to gods elect euery thing groweth to good And although that presently thorow such dissensyon we see among many nothing but disorder offence and euel yea hatred toward the gospell yet god for all that who knoweth how to get order owt of disorder and good owt of euell will caus whan it shall please him some great profite to growe owt of it in his church for the present vnknowen but in the end open thus we schuld beleue And becaus I know that many desire to vnderstand what shuld be the trewe opinion of this sacrament I for the loue of the truth for the glory of god and to doo them a pleasure and also a benifite will simply and with as moch easines as is possible sett furth the opinion which I thinck and hold for certē hath bene and is the opinion of the Apostles all the awncienty of the holy scripture and of Christ him selff And let no man meruell though I setting the suttletyes a syde shall rather procede with simplenes and familiaritie and also though I shall reherse one thing often for so moch as that my mind is to be plainely vnderstand of all men and chefely of the simple ād vnlerned And because the thing is of so great waight that it deserueth to be handled with all diligens to th entent that all men may the more easily vnderstand it we by order and by parts will consider it And First we wil see how that there hath bene ād yet be diuers opinions of this sacramēt of the supper of the lord ād the cause why ād we will bring furth the contrary talkes and reasons to the truth Secondarily whan we haue shewed the trewe and catholike opiniō we will proue it with sure grownd workes and plaine reasons In the third place we will make it certenly appeare that this is the opinion of the holy fathers and of the old church In the fourth we will answer to the contrary saings and reasons shewing them to be vaine and of no waight In the fift and last we will serch owt from whens the error of the fals Imaginacions in the matter of that sacrament is proceded let vs than in the name of our lord begin We must vnderstand that the cause of the differens in this matter that is to say that some say that Christ is really and bodyly in the sacrament of the bread and the wyne and some other say the contrary that is to

which was entred among many ought not to make that the trueth should not preuayle and ouercome for Custome without trueth is an oldnes of errours Wherfore leauinge the errour let vs follow the trueth I will let passe a nombre of the auncient fathers as Austē Hierom Ambrose ād other who wold we should stick to the onely worde of god ād not to custome nor to ani other authoritie of mā It hath bene alwaies that the more parte of men haue bene in errour yea and euē of thē that were called the people of god Let the prophets be red and it shall apere that I say the trueth for whye were the prophets persecuted euel handeled and in the en●… put to death yf not for because they reproued the errours and abuses of there tyme which were amōg the people whye hath Christe and his Apostles suffered persecution and in the end death y●… not for that they reproued the false faith the vntrew worshippings and the counterfet religion of there tyme And for what cause thē shall we now maruell that the Christian people should be myred and drowned in so many abuses corruptions Idolatries and other infinit errours 2. Pet. 2. et 3. hath not Pete●… fore tolde vs in his secōd epistle that there should come false teachers that wold bringe in deadly sects ād that in the latter dayes there sholud come begylers and deceauers 2. Thess 2. And Paule in his second to the Thessalonians doth not he declare that there should come a forsaking as I vnderstand it o●… the faith that is to say that men should goo from the faith and that god wold send forth a mightines of gyle and deceyte so that men should beleue lyes and that because they haue not loued the trueth And to Timothi in his first Epistle doth not he say that in the latter tymes som should departe from the faith 1. Tim. 4. geuing heed to the spirits of errour and doctrines of deuels 2. Timo. 3. And in the second also he saith that in the latter dayes should be perilous tymes and men full of vyces and among other things ●…he saith that they should haue shewes of religion but in dede they should denye the might therof What hath bene preached to the people of a long tyme hetherto but onely the teachings of men some preached the Poets some Aristotle Auerroes Plato and other heathen philosophers some preached the lawes some vnproffitable questions of Scotus Alexander of Hales of Bonauentura of Thomas of Aquine the whiche as it is manifest in there doctrine and opinions the one of then gaynsayd the other in open pulpit the black against the graie the grey against the black the Augustine fryer against them both and so we may say of the rest some held one opinion some an other and and what assurednes of trew doctrine could the poore people haue in so great a diuersitie and confusion who was he that preached the holy scripture and the gospell purely And shall we then maruel that errours are entred in among the Christiā people shall we then say how can it be possible that god wold haue left his churche so long tyme in erroure Naye yf we had but a spark of witt and reason we should say quyte contrary that is how is it possible to be otherwyse but that the more parte of mē haue bene ād yet are in most grosse blindnes couered with the dark mist of innumerable errours and it could not be otherwyse There is amōg the rest one very great disorder a cause of innumerable euels that none of them to whome it belonged to teache and preach to the people hath done his office It is well knowen that the office of preaching the worde of god belongeth to the busshoppes and who was he yea we may now say who is that bisshop that doth preach and feed the flock of Christ with the word of god yea who is he that disdaineth not to preache and doo that office which the Prophets the Apostles ye and the sonne of god himself Christ Iesu god and man hath done and the godliest dewtie of all that is to say the greatest and highest which is to teach the word of god to the people these oure great lordes doo not vouchafe it but haue left it and yet do leaue it for other to do It suffiseth them to haue the title the rents and the honoure of a busshop as in effect they wold declare that they be no busshoppes as in dede they be not except onely in name and in dede yf they were trew busshoppes they wold not be ashamed to doo theire office as Austine Ambrose Ciprian Chrisostom Basile Gregory and other holy fathers were not ashamed the which taught and preached the word of god This is the trew fedinge which Christ commaunded Peter in S. Ihon the last chapter Ioan. 15.21 1. Pet. 5. and the same Peter also in his first Epistle the 5. chapter saith feede so muche as in you is that is to say so much as you can and according to youre habilitie the flock of Christ or els as the other text saith feed the flock of Christ which is in you that is to say which is committed ād geuē to you in charge Of this disorder it commeth to passe that the cleane pure and trew doctrine of the gospel and of the word of god doth want among the people and as thorow a wide and large gate be entred abuses superstitions and errours among the Christiā flock There is none thē that hath witt or reason that will say any more how is it possible that oure elders or let it be the church and so many teachers haue erred God hath suffered by his iust iudgement this horrible decay in his chyrche and it is a most singular grace of god that yet in a few albeit euell handeled of the world who be in dede the true church the faith doth remaine Yea I say that if the world in temporall gouernements had not had better rule and order then the estate called Ecclesiasticall it should haue run̄ into an vtter confusion and decaye Sew●…rly it is trew that there be many disorders in worldly princes doings but yet they doo in some parte there dewtye they minister iustice after a certein maner they chastice the fauters they punisch theft murder blaspemie and other faults they cause by there officer euery mans awne to be restored hym they geue themselues to doo right as there calling is But in the Ecclesiasticall state who hath done or yet doth his office beginning at the highest degre which is a busshopship and see how that is handeled and therebie lett the rest be iudged The bissoppes attend to euery other thing except preaching yea they hinder by all meanes they can whom so euer wold doo this office trewly that is wold declare the gospell and the word of god purely And they will not suffer it to be done but raginglye persecute the teachers

whose name is the repentaunce done of the which you wold that the spoken confession should be a parte In whose name I say is it made Is it made in the name of thother saincts or ●…n Christs name he himself suerly hath said Luc. 24. that repentaūce and remissiō of sin̄es ought to be done ●…n his name as we haue in sainct Luke And why ●…hen haue you not put him in this youre confíteor If at all you beleue in him what will they ●…ay here paraduenture they will say that there is mention made of Christe in these words Confíteor deo Christ being god And also in that ●…ther place where there is made mencion of all the the saincts Christ being also a sainct A goodly answer And why is there not made mēcion of Christ ●…s man seing that there is mencioned the rest that ●…re onely creatures Christ is not onely god but Rom. 3. Timo. 2. Hebr. 7. ●…so man and oure aduocate in that he is man Why ●…oo not we confesse oure self to him and pray to ●…im seing he onely is apointed by god to be our ●…ediatoure and intercessour and not the other ●…aincts as muche as we vnderstand by the holly scriptures And so much the rather also that we be ●…ot certeine that the other saints here vs And if we should make particular mencion of the others who although they be by gods fauour saincts yet they were not without sinn Wherfore should we not muche rather make mention of Ihesus Christ the sonne of god the saincte of sanictes and the hallower of al the rest Collos 2. And in whome dwelleth the fulnes of the god head bodely as S. Paule saith It is plaine therfore that this Confiteor deo o●… the Masse is not Christian for that it burieth Christe After the Confiteor is said the miserea tur tui and the indulgentiam and absolutionē and the deus tu conuersus and the Ostende nobis domine misericordiam tuam c. Where neither is made any mention of Christe This ended they say two prayers the first is this Take from vs o lord we pray the al oure iniquities that we mai with pure mindes come to the holy of holies through Christ oure lord Amen This prayer were godly if there were not these words holye of holies or at the leasts if there were that had the true meaninge of them But because it semeth to shewe that that materiall aultar vpon which the Masse is sayd should be the holye of the hollies therfore it is superstitious and telleth not the trueth for the holly of the hollis was according to the scriptures a place in the tabernacle deuided from the rest by a certein veele or Corthein whether you will call it as it is written in Exodus Exod. 20. into which place none did entre except the high priest once in the yere And it signifieth the heauen whither Christ is now entered after he had ended his euerlasting raunsomming ●…s sainct Paule saith to the Hebrues Hebr. ●… So that seing this aulter wherupon the priest sayth Masse is not the hollie of the hollies but an inuention of men and not apointed by god It is called vnproperly ye falsely the holly of the hollies for that place the holly of the holiyes is ended as also the aultars be and is no more sence that Christe is come who hath ended that materiall tabernacle the leuiticall sacrifices and all that outward and ceremoniall worshipping Matth. 27. Marc. 15. And in token of that as the Euangelists wryte when Christ dyed on the Crosse that veele which parted the holly of the hollies from the rest of the temple was deuyded and torne in two from the topp to the grounde geuinge vs to vnderstand that the ceremoniall law in euery parte ended by Christ. It belongeth not then to vs to make moe new holly of hollies hauing no word of god for ●…t Where as neuertheles if the prayer had vnderstode by the holly of hollyes the heauen where Christ is entered ād wherin also we shall by his me ●…rits ād the grace of god enter the praier had bene ●…trew ād godly but this is not the intēt as it semeth for it entēdeth to speake of the misteri of the Masse ād of that aultar to the which things mē ought to goo as they say with a pure minde and a cle●● conscience Ther followeth next another praier which 〈◊〉 priest saieth in euery Masse softly and bowing h●…self to the aulter that is We beseche the o lord 〈◊〉 the deseruings of thy sainctes whose reliques 〈◊〉 here and of all the saincts that thou woldest vo●●safe to forgeue me all my sinnes Amen A folish ●…cked and blasphemous prayer first he saieth t●… by the deseruings of the sainctes that haue the reliques in that aultar or in the hallowed stone they say And who knoweth that they be reliq●… of saincts What fuerty hath the priest therof P●… aduenture they be the reliques I will not say whome And yf haplye there shal be there no reliques of sainctes as I thinck and beleue in a gr●… parte yea in the more parte of the aultars that ●…re are no reliques of sainctes in dede what sh●… auaile this there praier in that parte making me●…tion of the sainctes that be not Then what wick●…nes and blasphemie is this to geue the remission●… sinnes to the deseruings of mere men who thoug●● they be saintes yet they all haue had nede of the s●…me forgeuenes of sinnes 3. Reg. 8. 2. Petr. 6. Psal 142. and no one of thē was 〈◊〉 any time without sinne as the scripture saieth 〈◊〉 many places And Christ in the prayer that 〈◊〉 taught the holy Apostles declareth the same Eccles 18. Matth. 6. who ●●●eth that they should say when they pray forgeu●●● oure debts that is to say oure sinnes as we for 〈◊〉 oure dettours And S. Ihon̄ saith 1. Ioan. 1. If we shall 〈◊〉 we haue no sinne we deceaue oure selues and tru●…th is not in vs. What blasphemy I say is this to g●●● such remission to mere men thesame being 〈◊〉 office onely of Christe The holy scripture ●●●n it speaketh of the forgeuenes of sinnes it mak●●● no mētion of any but of Christe and teacheth vs that by his onely merits sin̄es are forgeuen And this praiers doth geue it Ioan. 1. Acto 4. to the deseruings of other saincts Ihon̄ Baptist pointing to Christ saieth be●●●d the lamm of god behold him that taketh away 〈◊〉 sinnes of the world and meaneth him onely ●●d S. Peter in the Actes of the Apostles saith the●●s none other name vnder heauen geuen to men 〈◊〉 which we must be saued If there be none other ●●me by which we are saued but that of Christe nor by other deseruings then his whye then do we ●●ing in in that case any other but him what mea●…th this to be saued if not to be freed from sinn 〈◊〉 Aungell also saieth to Ioseph as S. Mathew