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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02359	Three rare monuments of antiquitie, or Bertram, priest, a French-man, of the body and blood of Christ, (written 800 yeares agoe) with the late Romish purging thereof: Ælfricus, Arch-bishop of Canterburie, an English-man, his sermon of the sacrament, (preached 627 yeares agoe:) and Maurus, abbot, a Scots-man, his discourse of the same (820 yeares agoe:) all stronglie convincing that grosse errour of transubstantiation. Translated and compacted by M. VVilliam Guild, minister at King-Edward; De corpore et sanguine Domini. English. Abridgments	Ratramnus, monk of Corbie, d. ca. 868.; Guild, William, 1586-1657.; Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham. Sermo de sacrificio in die Pascae. aut; Rabanus Maurus, Archbishop of Mainz, 784?-856. De sacramento Eucharistiae. aut	1624 (1624)	STC 12492; ESTC S103528	49,280	152

THREE Rare Monuments of Antiquitie OR BERTRAM PRIEST A FRENCH-MAN Of the Bodie and Blood of CHRIST written 800 yeares agoe with the late Romish purging thereof AELFRICVS Arch-bishop of Canterburie an ENGLISH-MAN His Sermon of the Sacrament preached 627 years agoe AND MAVRVS Abbot A SCOTS-MAN His discourse of the same 820 years agoe All stronglie convincing that grosse Errour of TRANSVBSTANTIATION Translated and compacted By M. VVilliam Guild Master at King-Edward Printed at ABERDENE by Edward Raban For David Melvill 1624. To the truelie Noble and right honourable VVILLIAM EARLE Marshall of Scotland Lord Keyth and Altrie c. My singular good Lord and Patron AND TO The Right Honourable His most Worthie Religious Ladie the Gracious Daughter of a most Godlie Mother I Doubt not but your Honoures knowe that when the most ancient treuth of the ancient of dayes registrate in his holie word and left vnto vs to be the onlie rule of our fayth doeth fayle our Adversaries of the Romish Church that then their next refuge is after that they haue loaded sacred Scripture with odious imputations of obscuritie imperfection and sweying everie way in their severall conflictes to fill the eares of each one with their clamorous vp-brayding of Antiquitie and humane authoritie when divine hath forsaken them like Saul who when God would not aunswere him had his recourse to Samuel Which notwithstanding how little it maketh for them how as smallie it avayleth them as Balaam did Balak when hee sent for him to curse where in the contrarie hee blessed or as Baal ayded his owne priests when hee was so earnestlie in-called vpon by them to answere while in the meane time there was no voyce heard any one who with a single eye ever perused the same may easilie perceiue and manifolde experience hath oftentimes proven And yet we see that this is their great Diana of Ephesus wherein they glorie more than the Iewes when they cryed The Temple of the Lord the Temple of the Lord and as Rahel hid her fathers Idoles with the Camels furniture and sate on the same and would not aryse So with the furniture of venerable but wrested and wronged Antiquitie they would hyde their Errours and cover the Idolatrie of their whorish mother from whom they can not bee mooved to depart nor goe out of Babel or put away their strange gods and bee purged with Iaakobs godlie familie So that their doing is like the craftie dealing of the Gibeonite Ambassadoures who to make a League with the Lordes People pretended that they had journeyed from a verie farre countrey and were come for the Name of the Lord and this their impudent lie which yet they would haue to bee believed as an vndoubted trueth they soothe vp forsooth by demonstration of Antiquitie that therefore all which they had was olde and this was their onlie proofe whereby Ioshua and both Princes and People were deceived the reason whereof is given in Scripture Because they asked not counsell at the mouth of the Lord. Even so that which our Adversaries bring when they haue quitted Scripture to make their blasphemous lies to bee believed as sure sacred trueth is that which as they pretende is from a verie farre even the Apostles tymes and ancient holie Fathers of the primitiue Church glorious in sufferings and from their immediate successours And all this they doe forsooth but for the Name of the Lord having a religious pretence as Simeon and Levi did of clearing trueth convincing errour thereby and so to make vnitie of fayth in the Church of God And to performe all this all which they would seeme to showe or say is all olde drawne from Antiquitie But beeing aware by Ioshua's example will wee trye the men and their speaches their furniture and pretences and all this by the right rule with the men of Berea and as Israel should haue done the Gibeonites asking counsell at the mouth of the Lord which hee hath opened in holie Scripture and which wee are bidden search not believing rashlie everie doctrine to bee carried about there-with but trying the spirits whether they bee of God or no and then wee shall easilie discerne and discover their guyle and knowe the Beast by his Dragon mouth to bee but a craftie counterfet of the Lambe And tho for a seducing ende as was that of the olde Prophets of Bethel pretending the word of the Lord that these ancient Fathers are adduced by them to proue yet they are found rather to improue their erroures and beeing violentlie drawne contrarie to their minde to pleade for lies they either stand as Christ before Pilate not vttering a word or as Daniel for Susanna opening their mouthes to withstand conspyring falshood and defende injured innocencie whereby bragging Goliah so hath oftentimes his head cut off with his own sword and what they most repose in is found truelie to depose against them And moreover howe they vse Antiquitie let the single eye judiciouslie heere-by remarke First by making themselues Iudges of the Fathers whome yet they pretende to admit as Iudges over them by admitting the Interpretations of such as they list and seeme to make for them and roundlie rejecting the Expositions of others as Bellarmine doeth clearlie lib. 1 de Pu●g cap. 5 of such as make against them And as for the Pope by giving him vncontrollable power to over-top them assigning to their wordes his fittest meaning yea and to make to bee the mea●●ng which is not by his celestiall judgement Next as is set downe in the ●xpurgatorie Index of this same ●ERTRAM they avowedlie professe That in the ancient Catholick Writers they tolerate manie Er●ours and must extenuate and ex●use them and oftentimes must de●ye them by devysing a fit shi●t ●nd some handsome meaning vnto them when in Disputations they are opposed against them Besides howe shameleslie they raze out of Auncientes whatsoever maketh against them their avowed practise of the same in the last Edition of Sainct Augustine printed at Paris by Nivel in Sainct Iacques Streete at the Storks 1571 in these wordes doeth testifie Ex sanctiss Tridentini Concilii decreto veterum patrum codices sunt expurgandi To whome I must say as Amb●ose sayde of olde to the Arrians That they may well blot out the letters but the fayth they shall never abolish Moreover how disdainfullie● times they reject all the Father● and bring in some handsome expo●sition of their owne to fit their pur●pose let that practise of Bellarmine● lib. 1. de purg cap. 6 giue proof● and in particular of some as o● Tertullian saying That little cred● is to bee given him and of others as Origen That hee was accursed on earth and was seene in Hell a●ter death with Arrius and Nestorius Yea of them all in common h●● spareth not to say when they mak● against him Scripta Patrum non sun● regulae nec habent authoritatem obligandi And againe