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A42522	A brief explanation of several mysteries of the Holy Mass, and of the actions of the priest celebrating Very necessary for all Roman Catholics for the better understanding thereof. Together with certain reflections upon the Apostles Creed, touching the blessed Sacrament. And also, divers meditations and prayers both before, and after communion. By T. G. heretofore fellow of New-Colledge in Oxon, deceas'd.	Gawen, Thomas, ca. 1610-1684.	1686 (1686)	Wing G395AA; ESTC R220315	43,939	198

THe saying of the Creed is a Protestation of our Faith and Obedience to the Gospel coming to Us from God through the Lips of the Priest DEVOTION BVt let me not Content my Self only with this Inward Preparation of Heart To Believe and Serve Thee so but give me Courage to profess before all the World the Sincerity of an Unfeigned Faith in Thee and Constant Love to Thee by which I pretend to Honour and Observe Thee in all things without ever being asham'd of the Truths and Maximes of Thy Gospel Of every one of which as well the least as the greatest let me still have an equal undispensable esteem and be ready to maintain all in General nay each one in particular though with the certain loss of whatever belongs to me beside even of my Life it Self and Salvation too if That were possible in All the Occasions and Encounters that the Conduct of Thy Providence for Tryal shall engage Me In. In special O my Saviour I Believe that Thou art the Son of the Eternal Father That You both Produce the Holy Spirit from everlasting and that You all Three Reside after a most signal manner in The Church which is so the House of the Faithful as that out of It There is no Faith at all to be found or at most none such as shall any thing avail towards Salvation I am resolv'd to Believe as Truth all that is deliver'd to Me as from You and to confirm and justifie my Belief by my Words and my Words by good Works of all sorts and my Works by all the Variety of Sufferings that You shall think fit to send me The Second Dominus Vobiscum AFter this Profession of Faith or if that be omitted immediately after the Gospel the Priest having first Kiss'd the Altar turns to the people to Bless them in Christ's Name for so Respectful a Reception of the Gospel and publick profession thereof DEVOTION HElp me O Lord to receive with Pious Affections This Blessing which Thy Priest now Dispenseth in turning Himself toward Thy Faithful as from Thee Now that we have Assented to Try Word and thereof made a publick Profession And Bless me thereby more Internally Thy Self that this Thy Grace may cleave to and continue in my Heart enabling It to Persevere in Thriving and Growing up thereby to a Holy Life and constant practice of Obedience to all Thy Commandments The Offering and Offertory HEre was brought in Antienly Immediately after The Benediction the peoples Offerings as an Effect as it were of that Benediction Then before these Offerings laid on the Altar Sung both Priest and People certain Praises to God which were call'd the Offertorium or That with which They presented their Offerings to terstifie the Sincerity and Joy of Heart wherewith they brought their Gifts and appear'd before Him Antiently before Things came to be set in better Order by the Church These Offerings were Numerous and had their good Use and Edification too For every particular Christian presented Bread to the Priest both for Materials to be Consecrated for the Sacrifice and withall for a Token of his Union to the Body of Christ Jesus and Communion with the Church The whole Congregation uniting it self by This means and putting It self as it were between the Hands of the Priest to be Offerred up with the Body of Christ Consecrated and made in that Bread which they Contributed The Priest indeed Consecrated not all that was brought but took only One or Two as occasion was in the lieu of all that so as the many Breads offer'd severally by each of the Faithful Ones represented the divers Members of the Church the Paucity of the Breads chosen out of all for Consecration might likewise Typifie the Unity of those Members amongst themselves and with the One Body of Christ where all by Participation were United together DEVOTION I Here Offer up unto Thee my God All that I have oram in Acknowledgement and Return for That Light of Truth which Thou hast imparted to Me by Thy Gospel at this Time being convinc'd that in respect of It All other things are but as dross or nothing and that Thy Merciful Favour and Love is incomparably more worth than this Life it self Nay than the Lives of all the Persons now in the World put together and Offer'd up to Thee all in one Great Sacrifice I strip my self of all that can any ways be call'd mine before Thee and here put it into Thy Hands that there may be nothing about me to hinder me from entring into that close and perfect Union that ought to be between Thee and me and Me and every Member belonging to the Body of Thy Church being well assur'd that nothing causes a Division between Thee and those Members or amongst Our selves between one anoother nor slackens the Bond of Charity more than an Adhaesion to the Things of this World The Oblation or Suscipe The Priest having receiv'd the Offerings presents them to God by heaving them up towards Heaven upon the Paten For that Bread which He offers up on the Paten is instead of all that was brought to Him by the people either effectually and really or Spiritually and Intentionally only and so represents the whole people to be Incorporated and Offer'd up with the Body of Jesns Christ in that Holy Sacrisice Hence It is that the P●iest declares that He makes this Obiation for and in the Name of All the Faithful Living and Dead and particularly for All Circumstantibus there present For the present brought their Offerings not only for themselves but for the Dead also as Owning their Communion with the Body of Jesus Christ and with His Church and this is still the Intention Comprehensive and secret meaning of the Charity of every Faithful Christian though It be not then Actually in his Mind or Thought And it is to be Noted that the Priest professeth He makes this Oblation for the Numberless Sins not only of Others but of His Own Meis Because the sins committed every day by the best amongst Us are in every deed innumerable and 't is impossible to know their Multitude and variety our Infirmity and Concupiscence vitiating those Actions in some degree which seem to be most Holy to let pass others DEVOTION I Beseech Thee that As the Priest presents to Thee upon the Paten That Offering which He is to Consecrate for all the People so This Oblation that I have Now made of all that I have and am may likewise be received and accepted by our Lord Jesus Christ as tender'd together with It That the same Priest may Offer and Consecrate it also to Thee for Me that so it may please Thy Divine Majesty who hast set such Order to things as not to receive any thing from us but by Him And may this Oblation dispose Me by little and little to Immolate and Sacrifice my self wholly to Thy Glory in what manner It shall best please Thee to require It. That

Seale of her Virginity piercing it only as the Sun-beams do the Christal How should it seem incredible that in the Sacrament it needs as little Locality Suffer'd under Pontius Pilate was Crucify'd Dead and Buried He that Lov'd Thee so dearly O my Soul that when he could have sav'd thee with shedding but one drop of his Blood only nay by the least of his Sufferings yet was so willing to expose all his Body to such Torments and Passion and to a most bitter Death too that thou mightest have Life Ah! He it is the very same He who that This life might be preserv'd and maintain'd in thee gives thee That Body to Nourish it too Or is this only so hard to be believ'd from his Love whilst every Mothers Love contents not it self to have brought forth an Infant partaking of the same substance with themselves unless with the same substance they proceed to Feed and Nourish it too The truth is After so many divers Shadows and Representations of that Passion of His wherewith his Servants were once sustain'd as the Paschal Lamb Manna and many others It had been a very lean and hungry Commemoration a cold Entertainment of it for his Children If to that purpose there had been set before them nothing but meer Bread and Wine He descended into Hell the third day He rose again from the Dead Again if he that would have Visited his Friends Descent lodg'd in the Bosom of Abraham many other ways yet had rather Descend in Person and visit them by the Real Presence of His Soul Why should it seem strange if in like manner tho' he could have found out infinite other means to Nourish Vs by yet he made choice of This as the most endearing most Admirable most Amorous even to give his Own Flesh to Us for Food If by his Raising It from the Dead Resurrection he hath quite freed His Body from those grosser Properties of Passibility or suffering violence of Weight of Thickness of Opacousness and the like so that with It he penetrated the Stone of his Sepulchre pass'd through Doors that were shut which could never be done but by causing two Bodies to be so in one place that the One should take up no room made it invisible Vnpalpable Imperceptible and to take up no place at all why can he not make It so in this Sacrament though never so excluded from Room or Sense since he hath affirm'd It to be there Why should we tie him still to the conditions of a mortal and Corruptible Body He Ascended into Heaven Sitteth on the right Hand of God the Father Almighty Can it seem strange to us that This Body of his should come into Our Bodies Really and substantially though supernaturally when as mounting lighter and swifter than any Bird Ascent beyond all the Laws of a Humane Body It soar'd above all the Spheres and sat It Self down at the right Hand of God his Eather far beyond the highest Heavens out of all Place and Where for what Superficies can environ That Body which is above all Bodies And then what hinders but that It may be present here too after the same manner without filling any Place or Vbi And from thence He shall come to Judge the Quick and the Dead And so no longer confin'd to Place or Vbi His coming nor subject to Weightiness He shall appear at the last day with His Saints in the Air made Visible to all Men where-ever they are though to divers effects as Miraculously as he is now Invisible to them in the Sacrament And then shall He Judge as Guilty of His Body and Blood those that have participated of this precious and adorable Sacrament unworthily because they discern'd not the Body of their Lord. Of what kind of Meat was it ever said but this that He that eat It unworthily became Guilty of the Blood of Jesus Christ because it being Really the Body of Jesus Christ It makes them too really guilty of It who abuse It and discern it not No such severe Sentence is given about Manna or the Paschal Lamb though that in Eating Them Christ was to be Fed on too Spiritually and by Faith I Believe in the Holy Ghost As all that God has done heretofore he hath done it by Holy Ghost the Operation of the Holy Ghost so doth he now by the same Holy Ghost work these Supernatural Things which none but Faith conceives How shall this thing be said the Blessed Virgin since I know not Man The Angel Gabriel reply'd The Holy Ghost shall come upon Thee and the Power of the most High shall overshaddow Thee So now thou demandest the like How shall the Bread be made the Body of Josus Christ and I I answer then just so The Holy Ghost overshadows and works these things inneffably un-conceivably That Holy Ghost that dictated the Sacred Text would he have ever put in these words there so plain and punctual as are This is my Body were it not the true Body of our Lord would He not have added there some declaration of his meaning had it been other than what those words do bear in their principal and proper acception He that was sent to teach the Church all Truth would He have let it follow an Errrour and a Lye in an Article of such importance and so long together The Holy Catholick Church the Communion of Saints And in good earnest how could one call the Church Holy which is never but One H. Cath. Church in all times and places where and when it is if it did not maintain the Truth as well in this point as in others in all times in all places and amongst all Nations which it hath not done if the True Body of our Lord be not in the Sacrament Again Communion of Saints is there any more perfect Communion of Sts. than this whereby we are One Bread and One Body for as much as we are all partakers of the same One Bread that came down from Heaven living in It Self and also giving life And how can it be precisely understood that we should all Eat of One and the same Bread if this Bread were not the Body of Jesus Christ otherwise look how many places nay how many Persons so many Breads in strictness of speech there would be And if you understand it so that we Eat all One and the same Spiritual Food by Faith only what greater Communion hereby Saints Christians hath one Christian now with all other Christians than He hath done with those Jews of Old who Fed on Jesus Christ by Faith and consequently on One and the same Spiritual Food The forgiveness of Sins Lord thou hast said that Thy Body and thy Blood in this Sacrament was Given Broken and Shed for many for the Remission of Sins Ah neverlet it enter into my thoughts to Believe that any Other Blood was spilt any Other Body given for the Remission of my Sins than