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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68347	A confutation of the Popish transubstantiation Together with a narration, how that the masse was at sundrie times patched and peeced by sundrie Popes. Wherein is contained a briefe summe of the reasons and arguments which those render, that will not receiue the masse. Translated out of French into English by Peter Allibond minister of the word of God.	L'Espine, Jean de, ca. 1506-1597. Sommaire des raisons que rendent ceux qui ne veulent pas participer à la messe.; Sommaire des raisons que rendent ceux qui ne veulent pas participer à la messe. aut; Allibond, Peter, 1559 or 60-1628.	1592 (1592)	STC 15511; ESTC S112323	15,671	54

thus Gentle Reader I request thee to take in good part this my poor labour hartely wishing that God might be glorified and that thou mightst receiue instruction and profit by it which is the thing I aymed at so I craue it for my labour and paynes taking Farewell Thine in the Lord P. A. A SHORT SVMME of the Reasons and Arguments that those render which will not receiue the Masse THere is verie good reason that we should aunswer those that demand of vs why wee will not ioyne with them in the Masse For as S. Peter saith in his first Epistle third chapter We ought alwaies to be readie with meeknesse and reuerence 1. Pet. 3.15 to aunswere euerie one that shall demaund of vs a reason of the hope that is in vs. And howsoeuer wee may easilie alledge propound manie things both out of the holie Scripture and also out of Councells to prooue that the Masse which is now sung vsed was not ordained of God nor of the holie Apostles yet for the auoyding of prolixitie tediusnes we wil for this time produce cyte some such easie and plain arguments as we shall be able trusting in God that men of vpright indifferent iudgement wil neither despise nor condemne them before that they haue diligently weighed and considered them Wee in the meane space offering to aunswere more largely if in case anie bee not content with this our answere First there is not anie man that feareth God but will heerein willingly accorde and agree with vs namely that it appertaineth vnto God onely to establish lawes ordinances for to gouern his Church by It belongeth vnto GOD only to establish laws in his Church and that neither angels nor men ought to intrude or thrust in themselues to deuise or prescribe in the Church anie seruice for Religion but that that GOD himselfe hath cōmanded And that he in Deuteronomie straightly forbiddeth vs that we shall not anie of vs doo that that seemeth good in our eyes Chap. 12.8 but to take heede to his Commaundements to doo them wherevnto we are not in anie sort either to add or to diminish Deut. 4.4 Prou. 30.6 God hath sent his sonne into the world and hath said of him This is my welbeloued Sonne in whō I am well pleased heare him Mat. 17.9 Hee hath in his Church fully taught thee the wil of God his Father concerning things necessarie vnto saluation as he himself testifieth in S. Iohn saying Hereafter call I not you my seruants Iohn 15.15 for the seruaunt knoweth not what his master dooth but I call you my frends because that I haue made you know all that that I haue heard of my father He himselfe hath preached the gospel afterward he gaue commādement to his apostles to preach the gospel throghout the whole world Mar. 16.15 he commanded not any thing concerning the Masse the Apostles haue not spoken one word thereof Nay further a man shall not finde this word Masse thoroughout the whole new or old Testament Now then if the Masse were of such great waight and importance as some account it to bee saying that without it we cannot be saued that he is condemned which beleeueth not in the Masse and that all they must needs die which will not goe vnto it the Apostles shoulde greatly haue failed in forgetting omitting such a poynt forasmuch as they haue spoken of many things which seeme not to bee of so great importance 2. Cor. 11.5 1. Tim. 2.9 2. Pet. 3.3 as of the couering of women of their haire of the trimming of their heads other attires To alleadge that that some doe to proue the Masse namely that our Lorde Iesus in going about to celebrate his last supper said Hoc est corpus meum it is not sufficient The differēce betwixt these words Hoc est corpus meū and the Masse For there is a great difference betweene these words Hoc est corpus meum and the masse yea though they speake of their masse when it is at the best as they vse to sing it at this day Neither is it requisite that the poore force that is in these foure words Hoc est corpus meum beeing shuffeld and thrust into the midst of their masse which is nothing els but a massie or confused heape of patches and peeces brought and gathered together by diuers men and that at sundrie times should make vs beleeue that the Masse is therefore good and that it was ordeyned of God because it hath these foure words in it For if one should so argue he might easilie so sette open a dore vnto all heretikes and deceiuers who at all times haue wel knowen in such sort to take some sentence out of the holy Scripture to iumble and to mingle it amongest their false doctrine that so they may thereby seem to giue it some colour of trueth We will not deny but that our Lord said these words Hoc est corpus meum but we deny that euer he said Masse nor S. Peter neither yet the Apostles as it is easie to be proued First the Priestes I meane those which are in some sort learned cannot denie but that the Masse euen from the beginning to the end of it The Masse was grounded by diuers Popes and that at diuers times hath been made by sundry Popes and that at sundrie times They wel know that Damascen the fift which was made Bishop in the yere of our Lord Iesus Christ 368. did put into the Masse the Confiteor c. Gelasius of Affrick who as Nauclerus saith was made Bishoppe of Rome in the yere 415. made the hymnes collects responses the graduals and prefaces of the masse and set all in order and added vnto the Masse Verèdignum iustumest c. Symachus also who was bishop of Rome in the yere of our Lord 502. was loth to forget but likewise added his patch for he ordeyned that euerie sunday and solemn feast day of the Martyres they shoulde sing Gloria in excelsis deo c. Pelagius also being Bishoppe of Rome in the yeare 158. hee added thereunto his peece for hee added the commemoration or remembrance for the dead * This Pope added many peeces to the Masse in his time it tooke the name of the Masse Gregorie the first made the singing in the quire and the tuning or setting of the Masse Also he ordeined that the Kyrielieson and the Alleluia should be song nine times and that the Pater noster should be song with alowd voyce ouer the consecrated Host and he added vnto the canon of the masse Dies nostros in tua pace disponas Sergius who was in theyere 588. he ordeyned that these words Agnus Dei should be song three times in the Masse before the breaking of the bread Gregorie the third he secretly added vnto the masse Quorum solennitas hodié in conspectu tuae maiestatis celebratur Domine

descend vnto vs here below on the earth for to giue nourishment vnto our soules no more than it is needfull that the Sunne should come downe which without anie passing out of his set place ceaseth not therefore to make vs partakers of his heate light so is it with Christ otherwise it would bee to small purpose to lay hold on the incomprehensible vertue and power of Iesus Christ Of which power our aduersaries falsly speak so much against vs as if that we shuld go about to denie it although it appeare euidently that we think and iudge better and more reuerentlie of it than they doo For they cannot beleeue that we may be nourished with the bodie and blood of Iesus vnlesse that he bodily come downe from heauen in and vnder a morfell of bread to be subiect vnto mustines and to bee eaten of beasts and vermine as oftentimes it commeth to passe a thing which they cannot denie that such consecrated bread which they call Corpus Domini that is the bodie of the Lord hath been found rotten and mustie in a cubbard and part of it hath been eaten of rats and mice Moreouer if the bread and wine in the holy Supper should be really changed into the flesh and blood as some say then would it follow that Iesus Christ should bee meate for the infidels and vnbeleeuers aswell as he is for the faithfull which would be another great absurditie contrarie vnto the thinges that are taught by Iesus Christ in S. Iohn Ioh. 6.51.53.54.55.56 Iohn 6. To this may bee added that that Saint Paule saith to wit that he calleth it not flesh blood 1. Cor. 11.27 but bread and wine saying Whosoeuer shall eate of this bread and drinke of this cuppe vnworthely eateth and drinketh his owne damnation Also the holy scripture saieth not that Christ ought to come to put himself into the bread and wine vsed in the Supper after that the wordes are spoken but it saith When you shall eate this bread 1. Cor. 11.26 and drinke this cup you shall shew forth the Lords death till his comming that is to say vntill his bodely comming at that his last iudgement Nay further if the bread and wine of the holy Supper should be changed into flesh and blood then should there be no sacrament in the supper For as Sacrament as they themselues cannot denie is a signe of a holie thing so that the signe is not the thing it selfe There is a very great difference betweene the Truth and the signe of the same Truth The truth of the Sacrament is this Iesus Christ crucified for our sinnes the signe is this Bread and Wine which are called the Bodie and blood in the Supper because they are the true and vndoubted signes of the bodie and bloud of Christ as it is a phrase verie vsuall not onely in the holy Scriptures but also in prophane authors that the name of a thing is put for the signe which representeth the thing it self In like maner whē the priests say that the bread and wine in the Supper doo by vertue of the Sacramentall wordes as they call them loose the true substaunce of Bread and of wine to be changed into the true substaunce of flesh and blood which thing consisteth onely in opinion and not in experience herein wee say that they destroye the Trueth of a Sacrament and wee may iustly call them Sacramentaries because that by theyr peruerse and frowarde opinion they doo ouerthrowe and annihilate the sacrament of the holie Supper by supposing putting in the roome and place thereof that that they haue deuised in their owne heads As indeede they are not able to prooue this word Masse throughout the whole holy Scripture neyther yet that the holy Prophets and Apostles did at anie time vse it so shall they neuer bee able to prooue this word Transubstantiation that is to say the chaunging of one substance into another by no author either Greeke or Latine but that it is a word that the schoolemen haue forged coyned in their own fantasie Now if they hereupō alledge the ancient Doctors we are notignorant God be thanked how they haue spoken and are able for this purpose to alleadge manie sentences euen of those auncient Doctors which make for our purpose but that we purpose and labour to bee briefe And if that they obiect and alleadge vnto vs that there are many good things in the Masse as Pater i. Father the Gospell the Epistle c. Herein doo they not say any more than that that other mockers and deceiuers may say aswell as they For as wee doo see that good and wholsome meates are spoyled and spilt by meanes of a small quantity of poyson beeing mingled among them and as the golde and siluer beeing mingled with yron brasse lead or other base matter or mettalls for to falsifie the coyne thereof are iustly condemned and those likewise which make such counterfaits so in like manner we say that those good thinges whereof wee haue before spoken beeing put and altered from their true and naturall vse whereunto God hath appointed them for to bee iumbled and mingled amongst such a huge Chaos and heape of vnsauerie thinges cannot bee indeede acknowledged for good vntill they bee drawen from amongest those vnsauerie things no more than can a ring or signet of golde in the middest of a dunghill And if that God the Father and his sonne Iesus Christ had knowen that such good thinges should haue beene so applied for the saluation of this poore world they no doubt had been sufficiently wise to haue giuen notice and commandement of them and not to haue left them to the discretion of these men and manie other things which we haue omitted for breuities sake who thinking to doo better than GOD haue in so dooing by their owne inuentions abused this holy mysterie vnto the great dishonor of God and also to the pernicious hurte of the bodies soules goods of manie men To be briefe if after the wordes of consecration as they call them the bread and the wine in the holie Supper should be changed into the flesh and bloud of Christ as many do affirme this should yet no whit make for their Masse as wee shall easily knowe by a briefe conferring and comparing of the Supper and the Masse together which we will heere decypher and descrie setting the holie Supper by it selfe and the Masse by it selfe THE HOLY SVPPER of Iesus Christ 1 Iesus Christ he himselfe ordained the holie Supper THE MASSE 1 The Masse was compyled made by manie Popes as we haue before shewed THE HOLY SVPPER of Iesus Christ 2 Christ did not change his habits or garments to celebrate the Supper THE MASSE 2 The Priest disguiseth himselfe he knoweth not how to sing his Masse THE HOLY SVPPER of Iesus Christ 3 Christ tooke common bread vsed at the Table at his Supper THE MASSE 3 The Priest must haue a whole cake baked