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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19670	A setting open of the subtyle sophistrie of Thomas VVatson Doctor of Diuinitie which he vsed in hys two sermons made before Queene Mary, in the thirde and fift Fridayes in Lent anno. 1553. to prooue the reall presence of Christs body and bloud in the sacrament, and the Masse to be the sacrifice of the newe Testament, written by Robert Crowley clearke. Seene and allowed according to the Queenes Maiesties iniunctions.	Crowley, Robert, 1518?-1588.; Watson, Thomas, 1513-1584. Twoo notable sermons.	1569 (1569)	STC 6093; ESTC S109120	329,143	416

quasi Sacerdos vt peccata nostra dimittat hic in imagine ibi in veritate vbi apud patrem pro nobis quasi aduocatus interuenit Here in this worlde there is a shadowe here there is an ymage there in heauen is truth the shadowe in the law the ymage in the Gospell the truth in heauen Before a Lambe and Calfe were offered now Christ is offered but he is offered as man and receauing passion and he offereth himselfe as being a priest to take our sinnes awaye here in ymage there in truth where with the father as an aduocate he maketh intercession for vs. The same thing he wryteth also vpon the .38 Psalme So that it is very plaine without al controuersie that Christ doth offer himselfe now most perfitely in heauen for vs being our aduocate to the father face to face as saint Iohn sayth 1. Iohn 2. Ipse est propitiatio pro peccatis nostris he is a sacrifice propitiatorie for our sinnes he sayth not he was but is and after the most perfitest maner that can be in respect whereof the very true and reall oblation for our redemption vpon the crosse is an ymage So that by this we see by the plaine scripture that Christ offered himselfe three wayes besides the oblation of himself in his supper which is the point we he about to declare And euen so is he offered of man three wayes likewise First figuratiuely in the oblation of the olde testament When Abraham being about to offer his owne deare sonne and by Gods prouision offred in his stede a Ramme and when Melchisedech offered bread and wine and the Iewes the pascall lambe and their burnt offerings what did they offer but Christ in figure whose passion those offerings did signifie Which offerings did of themselfe worke nothing inwardly and therefore were called Iustitia carnis the righteousnesse of the fleshe but by them they did protest their sinne and declared their fayth of whome they looked to haue remission Secondly we offer Christ mistically in our daylie sacrifice of the Masse where Christ is by his omnipotent power presented to vs in the sacrament and of vs againe represented to his and our father and his passion renewed not by suffering of death againe but after an vnbloudy maner not for this ende that we should therby deserue remission of our sinnes but that by our fayth deuotion and this representation of his passion we most humbly pray almightie God to applie vnto vs by Christ that remission which was purchased and deserued by his passion before The hoste of these two sacrifices vpon the crosse and vpon the aultar is all one in substaunce but the maner is dyuers and the ende is dyuers that by this meanes as Christ himselfe hath instituted we might celebrate make commemoration of his passion This is onely the sacrifice of the priest by publicke ministration but verily and in affection it is the sacrifice of the whole Church which euerye member of the Church doth vse and frequent no man doth impugne it but he that professeth open warre against the Church Thirdly Christ is offered by man spiritually onely by the meditation of our minde when we thinke and remember his passion and in our deuout prayer beseech God to showe vs mercy for it Thus euery christen man and woman in all places and times vppon the aultar his owne heart ought to offer Christ to the father after which sort of spirituall oblation we be all both men and women priestes and kings being as saint Peter sayth Sacerdotium sanctum 1. Peter 2. offerentes spirituales hostias acceptabiles Deo per Iesum Christum An holy priesthood offering spirituall sacrifices acceptable to God by Iesus Christ Now considering these three wayes shall it be a good argument to inculcate one way and to reiect the rest To alledge one member of a deuision to the reiection of the other This is the peculiar maner of the heretikes the enimies of Christ as they did in the matter of the sacrament by the spirituall eating of Christ to confute and reiect the reall and corporall eating of Christs body in the sacrament Such shiftes and fonde arguments they haue to seduce the vnlearned withall which when they bee espyed and detected they appeare as they be Deuillishe and pernycious Sophistrie CROWLEY Whereas you go about to perswade your hearers that we abuse the wordes of saint Paule to the Hebrues your answere that you make to our obiection doth affirme that we do vse those scriptures aright Hebrues .9 Watson confirmeth our allegation of the scriptures For to what ende hath any of vs alleged them other then to proue that Christ was but once offered for the redemption of mans sinnes and that therfore he is not offered for sinnes in your popishe Masse These be the scriptures say you that they alledge agaynst the Masse as though those scriptures were of no weight in comparison of those that you haue to alledge for the Masse Or else that they were wrested so farre out of square that all the world might sée that they make nothing for the purpose But that the reader may sée that these scriptures so alledged as they be by vs against the Masse be of some force to proue that which we would proue by them I will vpon these scriptures and your answere forme this reason or argument An argumēt for watson to aunswere Whatsoeuer action is but once done is not done often or euery day But Christ is but once offered for sinne Ergo he is not offered often or euerye day for sinne Disproue this argument if you can You would make your hearers beleue that we go about to confute one truth by another But I trust to cause the reader to sée that you confirme one lye by another We graunt that it is true that Christ was offered but once for sinne and that that once must néedes be by shedding of his bloud Rom. 6. Hebr. 9. For as saint Paule fayth Stipendium peccati mors The rewarde of sinne is death He therefore that should take away sinne must die And without the effusion of bloud there is no forgiuenesse of sinnes Therefore Christ that should purchase forgiuenesse of sinnes must néedes haue his bloud shed according to the figures of the olde lawe which did all preach the shedding of the bloud of him that should purge vs and make vs cleane from sinne We do not by the affirming of this truth denie any other truth But if there be any that will say that Christ is offered for sinne any oftner then once or any otherwyse then by death and the shedding of his bloud then doe we alledge this truth grounded vpon the scriptures and confessed by you agaynst that falsehoode affirmed by such as say that Christ is offered for sinne oftner then once or any otherwise then by death and the shedding of his bloud If you can finde any imperfection in Christes one oblation once offered

away Per ipsum igitur offerrimus sacrificium laudis semper Deo hoc est fructum labiorum confitentium nomen eius Through him therefore we doe alwayes offer vnto God a sacrifice of praise that is the fruit of those lips that doe confesse his name This sacrifice hath Antichrist of Rome taken away from the vniuersall Church of Christ in taking vpon himselfe the title of vniuersall head of the same Church which tytle is due to Christ onely and in taking vpon him the authoritie and power to remitte and pardon sinnes which power belongeth to God onely The fruite of those lips that confesse his name is taken away when none may without perill of death confesse that Christ onely is the vniuersall head of his Church and that God onely in his sonne Christ and for his sake doth fréely forgiue and pardon sinnes Thus you haue my iudgement of a sacrifice contynuall that may be taken away by Antichrist and yet is not your Popishe Masse The thrée yeres and halfe also may well be applyed to the times wherin the power of Rome hath taken away this sacrifice by cruell persecution so that very few or none in all the knowne worlde durst offer this sacrifice to God Now let the indifferent reader be iudge betwéene your iudgement mine in this matter of a continuall sacrifice that may be taken away by Antichrist But that Daniell ment there to prophecy that Antichrist shal take away the continuall sacrifice the text will not suffer me to thinke For he sayth thus A tempore oblationis iugis sacrificij The meaning of Daniels prophecie positae abominationis desolationis dies mille ducenti non aginta From the time of the taking away of the contynuall sacrifice and setting vp of the abhomination of desolation are a thousand two hundereth foure score and ten dayes Which is the time two times and halfe a time that he spake of before The continuall sacrifice of the temple was fully ended and taken away by Christes one oblation of hymselfe 2. Thess 2. and the abhomination of desolation is set vp in the Church of Christ the man of sinne boasting himselfe to be God as doth the Antichrist of Rome which setteth vp himselfe aboue all that is called God that is aboue all Princes and earthly Potentates The space therefore betwéene the ending of the ceremoniall sacrifices and Christes comming to iudgement may be a time two times and halfe a time That is a long time twise so long a time to the feruent desire that Gods elect haue to sée the ende and but halfe a tyme that is to say a verie short time in comparison of that euerlasting time wherein they shall raigne with Christ in glorie incomparable Words that remayne sealed This my iudgement I submit to the iudgement of the godly learned til that time be ended during which as the Angell tolde Daniell those wordes of his must remaine sealed Thus much haue I written to let the reader sée what scriptures you haue brought to prooue the oblation of Christes body in the Masse to be the sacrifice of the Church and newe testament Which as you say many haue assaulted and oppugned with such direct scriptures Doctours and good reasons that it is by them expugned and can not be by you propugned Not by tyrannicall power but by simple and plaine preaching of the Gospell these men haue preuayled in many places for a time And Truth the daughter of Time hath neuer suffered hir selfe to be altogither ouercome by Popishe tyranny WATSON Diuision 27 Heb. 9. 10. Some scriptures they abuse what they be ye shal heare They alledge saint Paule to the Hebrues Semel oblatus est ad multorum exhaurienda peccata Christ was once offered to take away the sinnes of many Vnica oblatione cōsumauit inaeternum sanctificatos With one oblation he hath perfited for euermore al that be sanctified These be the scriptures they alledge against the Masse and they say Christes oblation is perfite no man can offer Christ but himselfe which hee did but once and neuer but once as though we should say that Christ was crucified twise or often times To this obiection of theirs wee aunswere that Christ was neuer offred to the death for our redemption but once and yet otherwise was he offered many times both of himselfe and of his creatures Daniell 7. We reade in the prophet Daniell that Aungels offered him in the sight of his father Luc. 3. Bernard Ser. 3. de purificatione And also the blessed Virgin his mother offered him at hir purification of which offering saint Bernard sayth Ista oblatio fratres satis delicata videtur vbi tantum sistitur domino redimitur auibus illico reportatur Thys oblation brethren is very delicate where he is onely presented to our Lorde redeemed with birdes and by and by brought home againe And therefore we aunswere them that their argument is of no strength to confute one truth by another when both may be true as to reason Christ was but once offered vpon the crosse Ergo he was not offered in the sacrament And we tell them that they doe not consider how Christ is offred three wayes of himselfe and also three wayes of man First he offred himselfe vpon the crosse really and corporally as I say as sayth Oblatus est quia voluit Isay 50. This is manifest ynough And here their exclamations of ones ones hath very good place Secondly he offered himselfe figuratiuely in the paschall lambe For the scripture sayth the lambe was slaine from the beginning of the worlde Apo 13. and the fathers in the olde lawe in all their sacrifices did offer Christ not in substaunce but in figure and so Christ offering the paschall lambe at his supper offered him selfe in figure Thirdly Christ offreth himselfe in heauen really and so contynually as the same Chapiter which they bring against the Masse doth testifie Non in manifacta sancta Iesus introiuit exemplaria verorum Heb. 9. sed in ipsum coelum vt appareat nunc vultui Dei pro nobis Iesus entred not into a temple made with mans hand a figure of the truth but into heauen that he might appeare nowe to the countenaunce of God for vs. What is this appearing in the sight of God for vs but an offering of himselfe for vs to pacifie the anger of God with vs to represent his woundes and all that he suffered for vs that we might be reconciled to God by him This is the true and perpetuall oblation of Christ in comparison of this in heauen the bloudy oblation vpon the crosse is but an Image as S. Ambrose sayth Hic vmbra hic imago Ambrose offi lib. 1. Capit. 48. illic veritas vmbra in lege imago in Euangelio veritas in coelestibus antè agnus offerebatur vitulus nunc Christus offertur sed offertur quasi homo quasi recipiens passionem offert se ipse