de Rom. trium of the litle round Cakes But the Bishops of Rome Idolators did institute the killing and offering vp of beastes to the end to eate and communicate the fleshe of the offeringes in their Sacrifices specially the sheepe the Sowe the Goate and the Beefe which first were ordeyned by Euander King of Arcadie To the end therefore that the Massalian should not go out of kinde froÌ„ the Idolatries of their predecessors they haue followed this communion of flesh and are not contented with the litle round vnleauened hosts consecrated and printed full of pictures but Hosts of meale are chaunged into flesh and wine into bloud haue in time inuented a new witchcraft to change their litle hosts of floure into flesh and bone the bread being no more bread but an accidence without substance and by this meanes to change their round host of meale into an host of flesh and bloud The wine also offered in their Masse chalices to be changed into bloud the wine being no more wine but an accident without substance Was there euer any witchcraft more abhominable and heresie more detestable then this transubstatiation of the Masse When the children of Israell were wearied with the eating of Manna and the heauenly bread demanding flesh was the Mâ—uno turned into flesh bones and bloud When the Romaines the ancient Idolatours did change their round hosts of meale and demanded to eate of the flesh in their sacrifices did they vse this wichcraft of transubstantiation Wherefore I doe freely affirme that the Massalians haue lately instituted this addition of the Masse yea more then 1000 yeares after the incarnation of Iesus Christ This heresie began to spread In the yeare of Christ 1062. Chronolog Fon. Volater abroad greatly in the tyme of Antichrist Nicolaite crept into the Romane bishopprick by the conspiracie of Hildebrand hauing chased away by force the other chosen Bishop namely Benedict the 12. Lanfranc de sacr of that name in the yeare of Iesus Christ 1062. Afterward it aduanced it selfe by a conspiracie holden in the Lateran at Rome during the ecclesiasticall tyranny of Innocent the third of the name about 200. yeares after the solemne recantation of Berengarius deane of S. Maurice of Against transubstantiation Angiers Against the which abhominable wichcraft heresie we must briefly bring in by the way of recapitulation the institutions of the sacraments ordained of God First the fruites of the knowledge of good and euill forbidden to our first father Trees of life Adam as holy signes and Sacraments of feare and obedience wherupon did hang life and death were they changed conuerted into knowledge or death leauing the nature of trees and fruits and reduced into an accidence without substance the Manna from heauen HeaueÌ„ly Manna and the rocke flowing water and the rocke flowing with water of life sacraments agreeing with the holy sacrament of the supper were they changed into an accident without substance the lambes without spot offered Lambes offered by Abell by Abel in sacrifice well pleasing to God were they changed into another nature The little skinne cutte off for a Circumcision note and marke of the couenant vnto the good patriarch Abraham his posteritie was it changed into an accident without substance The bloud of the Pascal lambe Paschal lambe for the assurance of the health of Israel was it changed into another substance The fleshe of the vnspotted lambe ordained to bee eaten in the day of the Passeouer a true figure of the holy Sacrament of the Supper was it changed into an accideÌ„t without substance The brasen Serpent by the onely Brasen serpent sight whereof health was giuen vnto diseases left it to be a serpent of brasse was it changed in being ordained a sacrament and holy signe vnto the people of Israell The oblations offered in sacrifices The offered sacrifices as well of earthly beastes as vnleauened bread and other holy signes ordained of God for sacraments and holy signes to cleanse the people of Israel Were they changed into an accidence without substance All the holy signes ordained of God in the Church of Israel notwithstanding that they did represent really and sacramentally that which they did figure and not as a simple signe without effect yet so it is that there was neuer none so horrible an heretike that did inuent this wichcraft of transubstantiation Yet must you confesse O Massalians that the good and holie fathers of Israell were adopted grafted and regenerated by faith in Iesus Christ begotten before all worlds and that A conference of the faith of the ancient fathers of Israel with ours they were nourished and got euerlasting life by Iesus Christ and that they and wee haue but one onely God and one onely Iesus Christ our mediatour and redeemour And that they through faith did sacramentally communicate and spiritually partake the bloud of Iesus Christ for their saluation and euerlasting life And there is no difference as touching God betweene them that were before the incarnation of Iesus Christ and we that are after the incarnation But they and wee are the Church of God bought with the bloud of the iust and vnspotted lambe Iesus Christ Furthermore that they had faith in the promise to come and obserued the sacraments and holy signes of the sacrifice which ought to be finished by Iesus Christ And that we by the new law do celebrate the memorie remembrance of the sacrifice alreadie finishede by Iesus Christ hauing the fruition of his 1. Cor. 10. August in Psalm promise accomplished If then the Israelites did eate of the same heaueÌ„ly bread and drinke of the same water of life by faith that wee doe in one onely Iesus Christ if they had holy signes to represent actually and really the death of Iesus Christ to come euen as we haue had holy signes of his death present or past they for the time to come and wee for the time past Wherefore is it then that the Massalians haue inuented this new witchcraft of tourning one holy sacrament ordained of God into a wichcraft of transubstantiation and an accident without a substance If God to make knowne his power and to declare the hardinesse and stiffeneckednesse of Pharao pleased to doe merueilous things by Against the miâ—â—cles alledged by the maslalians Exod. 7. 8 14. Moyses and Aaron in changing a rod into a serpent the water of the riuer into bloud and into frogges the dust of the earth into lice and further to make the saileable sea drie and to doe many other miracles Is this to bring in a transubstantiation of little round hostes vnleauened printed full of pictures into an accideÌ„ce without substance In what place of the holy scripture when there is mention made of holy Signes Sacraments or Sacrifices ordained of God is it said the signe or sacrament is changed Contrariwise God willing to accoÌ„modate himselfe to the infirmities of man hath ordained
that the cup is the new Testament that by these outward signes of bread and wine he might cause vs to vnderstand our life and nourishment of saluation to stay onely vpon Iesus Christ and that by his death and bloudshedding we are so assured of euerlasting life as the bread and wine are nourishment for the body and that it pleased him to ordeine these holy signes to serue vs for sacraments for the triall and confirmation of our faith is this an occasion to play the Capharnaits or the Nicodemianes to doubt of the power of God how is it possible to eate the body and drinke the bloud of Iesus Christ How is it possible to be regenerate and borne againe Then seeing wee haue a promise giuen vnto vs by the word of God wherefore O Massalians haue ye imagined a carnall transubstantiation mistrusting the incomprehensible power of God ought it not to suffice you to beleeue simply that the body bloud of Iesus Christ is offred vnto vs really sacramētally to communicate for our nourishment and to giue vs euerlasting life by the bread and wine consecrated with giuing of thankes the bread being truely his body and the wine his bloud which ought to be receiued worthily by faith and in purenes of conscience as holy signes and markes of the godly badge without enquiring euer subtilly the meanes otherwise then Iesus Christ hath interpreted saying the flesh profiteth nothing it is the spirit that quickneth and that his words were spirit and life Ought we to doubt that God hath not the power to make vs partakers of the body and bloud of Iesus Christ by the holy signes of bread and wine consecrated the bread neuerthelesse remaining bread and the wine wine If it were otherwise this should not be called a sacrament but a myracle as when Iesus Christ turned the water into wine that he vsed a miracle of transubstantiation changing water into wine But he did not then ordeine a sacrament as he did of the communion of his body bloud by the holy figures of bread and wine Was it not as easie for God to make the wine to bee changed into bloud or the bread into flesh as for Moyses Aarō to change the water of the riuer into bloud to approue the hardnes of Pharaoh or when the cloudes were turned into the flesh of Qailes which rained vpon the people of Israell alwaies God did not ordeine these miracles to serue for ordinarie sacraments but would apply himselfe to our infirmitie giuing vnto vs signes holy and not transubstantiated which are neither vaine nor fantasies but are outward signes which wee can see touch eate taste abiding in their substance and neuerthelesse representing sacramentally that which is comprised and signified by them wherein our triall of faith doth stand to declare vs by a sacramentall worke to be of the number of them that are regenerated nourished by the holy sacraments of baptisme and of the supper If it be lawfull tomake comparisons of the 2. holy sacraments of Baptisme and of the Supper notwithstanding that there is difference A comparison of the two holy Sacraments betweene regeneration which doth not reiterate for it sufficeth once to be regenerate and borne againe But the nourishment must be often done againe according to to the order of nature and other differences largely discribed by the holy Apostles and ministers of the word of God Yet the same end the same God the same Iesus Christ is shewed declared as well in baptisme as in the supper By the bloud of Iesus Christ we be regenerate and by the same bloud nourished By the bloud of Iesus Christ we are renued set and graffed and by the same bloud we are kept and preserued from hunger and thirst for euermore By the bloud of Iesus Christ we are spoyled from the olde corrupt skinne and clad with his body of the selfe same also we haue our nourishment and euerlasting life By the bloud of Iesus Christ we haue accesse into the kingdome of heauen And by the same bloud we haue the fruition of the kingdome for vnto the same purpose the holy Apostle witnesseth wee are all baptised by the vertue of one holy spirit and we haue all drunke of one spirituall drinke giuen vnto vs by Iesus Christ Be not these comparisons taken out of the holy scripture to iustifie that Iesus Christ is the onely end vnto the which tendeth as well Baptisme as the holy Supper It followeth then that the signes of the sacramentall water for baptisme and bread and wine for the supper of Iesus Christ are holy signes ernest gages paunes markes seales and sacraments instituted of God for proofe and assurance of our faith Well then O Massalians seeing yee haue inuented a witchcraft of transubstanttiaion for Against the Massalians the sacrament of the Supper why haue yee not also subtelly deuised the same witchcraft in the sacramēt of baptisme why haue yee not ordeyned the sacramental water after that it is by you coniured and bewitched with salt to driue away Diuels to be changed into the bloud of Iesus Christ the water to bee no more water but accidence without substance as yee haue imagined of the bread and wine What difference can you shew but Sophistries Sophismes and Masse subtelties If yee continue your heresie by this word is it is also found in the water of Baptisme which is called renuing and regeneration the same is also named the holy Ghost and the garment with which by which we are clothed renued and borne again in the bloud of Iesus Christ Then seeing O Massalians that you confesse that yee cannot finde a second Berengarie to make a decree of recantation to the end to enlarge your witchcraft of transubstantiation vnto the holy water of Baptisme and by the same meane to change your spettell and salt water your oyle your creames your salt water other drugs wherwith you haue corrupted the holy sacrament of Baptisme Wherefore then are yee so hardened and waxt old in your Pompilian Religion that you would plucke Iesus Christ from the right hand of God to make him to descende in body and bloud by your whispering witchcraft Luk. 1. Malach. 4. A comparison of the Sunne with Iesus Christ as Iupiter Elicius did before the day appointed of his second comming I can bring you in the similitude of the Sunne called by some Apostles the Sun of Righteousnesse Iesus Christ because The which S. Iustine the Martyr vled in his treatise of the exposition of faith cap. 2. that light commeth from heauen by the great and bright starre And euen so the spirituall light is giuen vnto vs by Iesus Christ who hath restored vs to light out of the night and darknesse of sinne Well then O yee Capharnaites carnall and grosse vnderstand now a comparison sufficient inough to shewe you the infinite power of God to bee much more perfect then your abhominable inuention of transubstantiation
for the Priest To witt the fat the two kidneies the kall or the fatte of the flankes Another difference there is also betwixt the sacrifice Sacrifice for health for health and the sacrifice celebrated for sin for in the one was ordeyned to eate all the sacrifice in two daies in the other for sin it was enioyned to eate all in one day onely By reason Sacrifice for sinne whereof some sacrifices were called Holocaustes other for health and other for sinne The sacrifices for sinne were diuerse aswell for because of the persons as for the offerings For he that sinned Sacrifice for the sinne of ignorance by ignorance was clensed by offering an Ewe or a she Goat but the clensing of sinne done wittingly was clensed with a Ramme The sinne of the great Priest was clensed by offering of a calf Sacrifice for the sinne of the high Priest Prince Magistrate particuler person Leuit. 3. 4. 5. 6. Sacrifice for the man poluted of the prince by offering a goat a bul that of the magistrate with a Goat that of any particuler with the offering of a female The sacrifice for clensing of sin done against God was done with a ram The sacrifice for a man polluted was with an Ewe or a she goat for clensing of a woman after her childbirth was a For the woman deliuered Leuit. 12. Sacrifice for the Leprous Leui. 14. lambe of one yeare a young pigion a turtle For the clensing of Lepre were 2 birds aliue pure cleane Cedre wood and Isope 2 whole lambes one Ewe of a yeare with floure and oyle Another sacrifice also was made for the persoÌ„ poluted Sacrifice for the poluted menstruall by seed shed or meÌ„struous with 2. turtles 2. yong pigioÌ„s If the great sacrifices did faile then did they repare to doues pigions and turtles th one for the burnt offering the other for the food of the Priests And in all sacrifices there was pure floure without leuen salt incense Leuen hony forbidden in all sacrifices A sacrifice for the woman suspected of adultery Numb 5 and oile And it was not lawfull to offer any thing with leuen or hony vpoÌ„ the alter Alwaies in the sacrifice ordeined for the purging of women suspected of adulterie there was no incense nor oile as in other sacrifices but for her was offered water mixt with dust or ashes gathered vpon the pauement of the temple Againe there was another Sacrifice of the Nazereus Numb 6. Philo the Iew in the treatise aforesayd sacrifice celebrated for them which had made the great vowe called Naserius when the time of their deuotion was done it was ordeined vnto them to offer three sacrifices a Lambe an Ewe a Ramme One to witte the Lambe for the burnt offering the second being the Ewe for the saluation the third for health Moreouer the heares of him which made the sacrifice should be cast into the fire with the burnt offering to be burned I haue thought good to discourse the diuersitie of sacrifices briefly to the end to make knowen the great goodnesse of our God who by the lawe of Sacrifices published by Moyses would as with a bridle restraine the rude people of Israel which could not forget the idolatries of Egypt wherein they had beene nourished 430. yeares vnder the tyrranny of Pharaoh But what straight lawes what ceremonies sacrifices so euer were ordeined for them euer this people did fall to Idolatry abusing the law of God and corrupting the holy sacraments and sacrifices it shall be declared hereafter If any man be desirous to know more of the multitude diuersitie of sacrifices let him reade the books of Philo the Iewe and Iosephus of the Iudaicall antiquities following that which Moyses hath plainely written in his bookes of Leuiticus and Numbers Another signe sacrament instituted The Arke of witnes Ex 25. 27. 28. of God by the Arke of the couenant described in Exodus being a holy signe dedicated to receiue the holy and heauenly answers to the end to bring the people to the remembrance feare and obedience of God to honour accompany the Arke of the couenant Many other exterior signes were ordeyned of God as the ornaments and consecration of Priestes specially the ornament Ephod called the Ephod the which and the sacrifices the Israelites did abuse by their Idolatries Another holy signe there was of the Purging water consecrated Numb 19. purging and sprinkling water ordeined by God to Moyses and Aaron the high Priest This sprinkled water was consecrated with ashes gathered by a clean person of the sacrifice offered in Holocausâ—â— To witte of a Cowe all redde without any spot and which had neuer bin laboured The Wood ordeyned to make the fier for the burnt offering was Cedar Hisope Purple with Crimsin With this water were sprinkled polluted persons for the purging and cleansing of their corporall defilings At the entring of the Temple or Tabernacle Exod. 38. was a Lauer made of Brasse forged first with the images of the women of Israell in this Lauer was put the sprinkling water wherewith the sacrificers are sprinkled before the celebrating of their sacrifices to the end they might be purified and obtaine grace remission of their sinnes After the death of the great Priest Aaron the people of Israell vnthankfull to God for the goodnes sent them of him murmuring as annoyed with the heauenly Manna freely giueÌ„ vnto them for their noriture were punished by the biting of venemous serpeÌ„ts But the merciful God gaue vnto them an holy signe whereby they should be saued and restored to health to wit the brasen serpent Brasen serpent Iohn 3. 7. lifted vp in the aire a figure of Iesus Christ crucified These were in summe the most part of the signes sacrifices and sacraments ordeyned of God in the first Church of the Israelites figures of the true and perfect sacrifice performed by Iesus Christ the true Messias and euerlasting Priest sitting at the right hand of God the Father Now resteth the summe to bring forth Sacraments brokeÌ„ by Adam Gene. 3. how man by his owne proper fault did fall in obliuioÌ„ and disobedience of God his creator abusing Gods fauour and corrupting the holy signes sacrifices sacraments ordeyned to him What perswaded our first father and his companioÌ„ to bide themselues at the hearing of Gods voice but because they had abused the holy signe and broken the lawe of the fruits to them forbiddeÌ„ This holy signe which our first and vniuersall father had abused was the originall of other vices and corruptions hereafter described into the which all men are fallen sauouring of the corrupted lumpe of Adam Leauing the particuler corruptions of Corruption of the sacrifice by Aaron Exo. 32 Deut. 9. the signes sacrifices and sacraments before the law written by Moyses we will begin to bring forth briefly the most notable error