conforte Heretofore we were taughte / that the Lordes soupper / or breaking of the bread / as The Lordes supper is a memorial of Christes deathe the Apostles terme it / is a memorial of the body breaking bloud sheading of our sauiouâ— Christ / that as we outwardly fede of the breade wyne / so we inwardly thorow fayth fede of the blessed bodye precious bloude of Iesus Christ our Lord / vnto the greate and vnspeakable conforte bothe of soule and bodye But nowe the disciples of Antichrist knowing that the whole glory of their kyngdome lygheth in the sals opinion abuse of this SacrameÌ„t / in all their sermons priuate talke / labour / swyncke / sweate and seke all meanes possible with tothe and nayle / with hande foote / wyth tunge and peÌ„ne / with fyre and faggot / with swerde and halter to perswade the people / that after they haue whyspered a fewe Latin wordes / with one breath ouer the bread and wyne / and haue blessed / crossed / coniured and handled them after their ghostely manner / there remayneth nomore breadde and wyne / althoughe we bothese / fele / and taste veâ—y bread and very wyne / yea / although the holy scripture / after the wordes of consecracioÌ„ / called the SacrameÌ„t / bread and wyne / but saye they / the bread thorowe the vertue of the wordes / whiche we holye annoynted reherse / is turned into the naturall substaunce of Christes bodye / and the wyne is chaunged into the naturall bloude O â—uglers of Christe / onely the accidentâ—s of breadde and wyne remayninge / whan notwithstaÌ„ding the holy scriptures teach vs in diuers places / that thy Christ is ascended into heauen / and sytteth on thy right hande / there shall remayne / concerâ—ing hys humanite / tyll he come too iudge the quicke and the dead Marc. 16. Luc. 24 Act. 1. Rom. 8. Ephe. 4. Colos 3. Philip. 3. Heb. 10. And after these Capernaites haue â—â—bored to perswade the people / that the Sacramentall breade is the very true / naturall / corporall / substanciall / reall / and sensible bodye of Christe / euen the selfsame that was borne of Mary the virgine / lyued vpoÌ„ the earthe / was hanged vppon the crosse / dyed for vs / than exhorte they the people with all reuerence and humilite to knowledge and beleue it too be their Lorde God / theyr maker and redemer / their Sauiour and defender / and so too falle doune before it to honoure and worshippe it / to prayse call vpon it / to fle vnto it for soccoure / and to looke for all good thinges of it / as of the very true and euerlastinge God O abhomâ— nacion By these means o heauenly father they bring away thy people thorow theyâ— vayne / fleshly and sophisticall reasons / from the honoringe of the thalone true / Imortal / muisible euerlasting God / vnto the worshippig of a pece of bâ—cad / yea / of a very idol / where as thou alone oughtest to haue al the honor glory 1. Timo. 1 Psal 98. O Lorde aryse / and lette thyne enemies be scattered / let theÌ„ also that hate the / flee before the / like aâ— the smok vanisheth / so driuâ— thou them awaye / lyke as waxe melteth at the fyre / so let the vugodly papisâ—es perish and be confouÌ„ded that thy people be no leâ—ger seduced / ledde froÌ„ the way of trueth / by their subtile and carnall imaginacions / but that thei beynge truely taughte / may know the too be the alone true God / and whome thou hast sent Iesus Christ Ioan. 17. Heretofore we had in the temples whan we came together to praye and to geue thaÌ„kes vnto the / all our prayers thankee geuing in the tuÌ„ge that we vâ—derstode / wherby we receaued great coÌ„forte / were much edified Common â—raier ought to be in that â—â—ge that all the people vnderstande But now the papistes which with thy people to be more rude thaÌ„ asses / more biynde than beâ—les / more ignorant than dastardes / that they mighte make them there ryding fooles and lauggyng stockes coÌ„trary too the vsage and practise of the primatiue Churche / yea / contrary to thy commaundemeÌ„t geuen by thyne Apostle / which willeth all thinges in the congregacion too be vttered in suche a speache as all might vnderstande and be edified / or els silence to be kept / haue brought the matter to this poâ—t / that all English seruice dryuen oute of the Churches / thei haue stablished their popish 1. Cor. 4. latin seruice / which the moste parte of thy people vnderstand nothinge at all O 〈◊〉 Aâ—d yet so cruell malicious are the papistes / that they enforce and with violence compel thy people to come vnto their Romish / superâ—â—icious / blasphemous / and idolatrous Latin seruice / to heare it / to reuerence honoure it with their presence / and too call it Gods seruice / whan they vnderstaÌ„d noâ— / whither Baals priestes that there bleate muÌ„ble / do blesse or curse / prayse or blaspheme Moste certeyn is this / that thy people are altogether without edifienge / spende theyr time in vayn / return hom agaiÌ„ / as vnlearned ignoraunte / as they came thyther Heretofore we had redde in oure temples euery sonday / and at diuers other tymes a godly and learned homely or sermoÌ„ / and certayn chapters oute of the holy Bible in the Englishe tunge / that all the people mighte vnderstande what was done or sayde / whiche gaue them occasioÌ„ to forsake â—ice / and to embrace vertue / to lyue in thy fayre / and diligently to call vpoÌ„ thy blessed name Homilies in Englishe chapterâ— of the Bible But now bothe those godly homiles and confortable chapters haue thyne enemies the papistes baÌ„nished out of the teÌ„ples vnto the great discomfort of al such as vnfaynedly â—oue the / and thy blessed worde / in the stead of theÌ„ / they haue set vp blasphe mous collacioÌ„s / synging / rynging / pyping / sensynge / holy water castinge / holy breade â—ealing / palmes and candles bearing / crosse kneling / bread worshipping / asâ—hes â—odding fyre and rapers halowing / with an infinite number of such lyke Heathen ceremonies / that the people beyng occupied with suche chyldishe trifles / lousye tradicious and beggarly Popisâ— bagâ—agâ— ceremonies / myghte forget the wholsome foode of theyr soules / whiche is thy holy and blessed worde Math. 4. Heretofore / vpon the Sondayes certayne other dayes in the weke / we had the Letanye rehersed amonge vs in oure Englyâ—hetuÌ„g / euery one of vs kneling deuoutly and 〈◊〉 callynge on the for mercy and grace The Letanâ—â—â—n Englisshâ— O heaueÌ„ly father / this was setforth in the tyme of thy seruaunte kynge Henry the eyghâ—e / and continued among vs / vntyl the
death of that most godly and verteous prynce â—ynge Edwarde the syxte / and a littel after vnto the syngulare â—oâ—e and great conforte of all godly and Christen harted people But now the subtile and fleshely papâ—stes haue soo bewyiched the Quenes eyes / that whatsoeuer her father and her brother / moste godly broughte too passe for the aâ—auncement of thy glory / for the edifyeng of thy people / that is vtterly subuerted taken for heresye / yea / and spitefullye preached agaynste in open sermons / so that this godly mooste wholsome Letanye is not onely taken awaye from vs / but in the stead thereof we are compelled to go on precession / following an Idoll / with synginge Ora pro nobis Salue festa dies or some other â—laspâ—emous songe vnto the greate sorowe and inwarde harte / breakinge of all thy faythfull Heretofore / thy Sacramentes were so ministred vnto vs / that we receaued greate conforte by them Sacramentâ— trulystred But nowe they are so ministred of thys swynyâ—he spirituall forcerers / that they are become dumme and idle ceremonies altogether withoute edyfyeng or profyt For besydes that they are ministred in an vnknowentunge / howe be they defyled with mens tradicioâ—â— / beggarly ceremonies vnto the Sacrament of Baptisme / they putte Heatenish rites and wicked coniuracions The Sacrament of Baptisme For Baals prieste / before the chylde canne be baptised / bewytcheth the water / shutteth the church doore / coniureth the deuel out of the poore youÌ„ge Infaunt / bespueth the chylde with his vile spitle and stincking slaueringe / putteth salt in theÌ„ chyldes mouth / smereth it with greasye â—â—sauer oyle / c. And withoute these apyâ—h toyes / they make the people beleue / that the baptisme is nothiÌ„g worth Ah good is this any other thing than a playâ—e laughing to scorne of thy dere soÌ„nes institutioÌ„ Do these papistes / by adding their beggarly ceremonies anye other thinge / than set thy sonne Christe to schole / and auaunce theyr owne fleâ—hly imaginacioÌ„s aboue the wysedome of the Lorde Christ The Sacrament also of thy dere sonnes body bloude / howe haue the aduersaries prophanated and defyled The SacrameÌ„t of Christes bodij bâ—â—â—de thy sonne bothe before and after the ministracion of the Sacrament preached vnto his disciples The papistes preache nothing at all Thy sonne spake the wordes of the institucion openly in that tunge / that all the disciples vnderstoode The papistes vtter all thinges in a straunge language / yea / and that so softely that they scace heare theÌ„ selfes A comparisoÌ„ betvven Christ the papistes in the ministracion of the Sacrament Thy sonne ministred the Sacramentes without putting on of any disguysed apparel The papistes decke them selfes lyke hycke scorner in game players garmentes Thy sonne ministred the Sacrament / sitting at the table with hys disciples The papistes stande at the aultare / and geue the bread and wyne to the people kneling Thy sonne gaue the SacrameÌ„tal bread to the disciples in their handes / sayeng Take / eate The papistes thrust the bread into the people mouthes / as â—hough they had not so muche witte as to fede them selfes Thy sonne ministred the Sacrament of hys body and bloude vnder bothe kyndes to hys disciples The papistes do minister it to the laye people onely vnder one kynde / and like theues steale the other awayâ— from them / and reserue it to themselfes alone Thy sonne brake the Sacramentall bread The papistes vse no breakinge of the bread / as Christe and his Apostles and all the primatiue churche did for to declare the misâ—erie of Christes bodye / breakinge on the aultare of the crosse for oure redempcion / but they putte into the peoples mouthes a littell lighte whyghte waffer cake / speaking to them a fewe wordes in Latin / whiche they vnderstande not Thy sonne did appointe the SacrameÌ„tall bread to be broken and eaten The papistes kepe it whole / and hange it vp in the pyxe / yea / and carrye it about for a pageaunte in their idolatrous / popish / pompous processions Thy sonne instituted the SacrameÌ„t to be a memortall of hys bodye breakinge and bloude shedding The papistes teache / that the bread and wyne is turned into the naturall bodye and bloude of Christe God and manne / euen the selfesame bodye that was borne of Marye the vyrgine / fleshe / bloude / and bone / so that there remayueth neither bread nor wyne / although the holy scripture affyrmeth playnely / that this is bothe bread Bread and vvyne remain in the Sacraments after the vvordes off consecracioÌ„ wyne remaining / the doctors of the Christen primatiue churche testefyed the same in their writtinges / the Greke church / eueÌ„ froÌ„ the Apostles tyme vnto this daye haue so receaued beleued / vtterly deuieng the popish artâ—kle of traÌ„ssubstaÌ„tiaciâ— / reason also all the senses of man testefye that there remayne both bread and wyne / after the woordes of consecracion / as they vse to terme them / yea / and experience teacheth / that if the Sacramentall breadde be longe reserued / it will corrupte / putrifie moulde / styncke / and bredefull of wormes / and the wyne lykewise / will chaunge the colloure and waxe soure Traâ—ssubstantiacion O heauenly father / suche corrupcion can not chaunce too thy dâ—â—e sonnes body bloud / which is vncorruptible â—mortal / sitteth on thy right-hand / raygneth with the in glory for euer euer This Antichristian doctrine / o blessed Lorde / was not knowen in thy holye Churche / vâ—tyll pope Nicholas / pope Innocent / pope Vrbane / Fryer Thomas / and suche other ministers of Sathan / partely with their tyrannye / and partelye with their sophistrye / as their apysshe adherentes doo nowe agayne in thys oure dayes / broughte it in / and compelled the Christians with fyre and swearde / to beleue thys theyr monstruous opinion / for the mayntenauÌ„ce of their bellye kyngdom / although it be neuer so muche contrarie too the artikles of oure fayth / and too the doctrine of the holy scripture / and of all the aunciente writters Thy sonne at hys supper / willed the Sacramentall bread and wyne too be eaten and droncken for a remembrauÌ„ce off that one / and alone sacrifice / whiche he offered on the altare of the crosse / for the synnes of the people The papistes in their ido latrous and abhominable masses make of the Sacrament a propiciatorie / expiatory and satisfactory sacrifice for the synnes off the people / necessary Ad saluteÌ„ affirming that their acte in the masse is of equal price / dignitie / vertue / myghte / efficacie and power before the eyes of thy diuine maiestie with the moste healthfull and swete smellyng sacrifice / that thy sonne offered on the altare of the crosse / whaÌ„ he gaue hiÌ„ self vnto the death for the synnes of
name of the Lorde / we will in no wise heare theme / but what so euer goethe out of oure awne mowihe / that will we do Iere. 44 Wewill do sacrifice and offer oblacions to the / quene of heauen / lyk as we our forfathers / owre kinges and owre heades haue done inthe cities of Iuda and in the stretes and feldes of Ierusalem For theâ—r had we plentiusnesof vitailes Then weare we in prossperite / no misfortune came vpon vs. But sence we least to offer to do sacrifice vnto the Quen of heauen we haue hade scaccenes of all thinges pery he with swerd and honger It is but loste laboure to serue God O Lorde kep / preserue vs frome this generacion for euer Malach. 3 Psal 11. For they are a sinfull people / which are ouerladen withe blaspehmies / a froward generacion and wicked childern They haueforsaken the their Lorde God / they haue / prouoked the holy one of Israel vnto anger are gone backwarde Esa 1. There is no truthe intheir mouthes Their throte is an open sepulckere / with their tonges thei disceaue / the Psal 5. poysone of adders is vnder their lippes / ther fete are swift to hâ—de iÌ„nocent bloode They eate vp and dewoure thy people as it weare breade Distruccion and vnhappynes is in al theire doynges / but the waye of peace theyknowe Psal 14. not / for ther is no feare of God befor ther eies O Lord God our moste mercyful fath ere looke downe frome thy holy hill and coâ—sydere oure miseries Saue thy people o Lorde / and blesse thine heritage â—sal 28. Gouernetheme withe thy holy spiâ—ite / and lifte them vpe aboue theire enimies for euere Ryse vpe o Lorde / and haue pitie on Sion / for it is tyme / yea it is hye tyme for the tohaue pitie on hire psal 102. O Lord lete it be thy plea sure to deale fawarably with Sion / that the walles of Ierusalem may be duylte Psal 51. Builde vpe o Lorde / that spirituall howse with lyuynge stones / wherof thy Sonne Christ is the foundaycion heade cornere stone 1. Pete 2. Be that same good Lorde and mercifull God to thycongregacion / that thowe haiste euere promised to be Esa 66. Comforte hire / as the louyng mothere cheriâ—hethe hire tender babes As a naturall mother can not forgett hire yonge one / but that she muste nedeâ—e haue pitie on the-childe of hire wombe Esa 49. Euen so / o Lord / petie thowe the congregacion of England / and by no meanes sâ—ffer the godly people therof to fall out of thy remâ—brancs And although oure liffe be suche / that it rather deseruethe punishment than reconcilement / anger than fawour / destruckcioâ—â—h an preseruacion / yet o Lorde God / we moste humbly beseche theto forgyue vs dwâ—â—sâ—â—es / and for thy names sak yea for thy dere Christis saâ— haâ—e mercy on vs and deale with vs accordynge to tâ—yâ— olde accustomed goodnes We haue nothing to offer vnto thâ— fatherly gentelâ—es / but oÌ„ly owre RepentanÌ„s / oure broken heartes andtrowbled The Christâ— Sacrifice sprites / oure â—eares / oure â—igh 〈◊〉 / oure most sorowfull supplycacionâ— Thes Psal 51. we poure out before the mercifull throne of thy deuine maiestie / in the name of Iesus-Christe oure alone mediature and aduocate / moste humbly besechyng the for his sake / for his dignite and innocencie to haue mercie on the Godly Inhabitauntes of England / and on so many as vnfaynedly reuereÌ„ce thy holy name / and withe true hearte loue the coming of oure Lorde Iesus Let it suffice / o Lordethat sence the deathe of owre most ChristenKinge Edwarde the sixte / thy faythfull seru ante vnto thys daye / thow haiste for oure vn thankfulnes and wicked lyffe taken awayefrome vs the holy and glorius gosspel of thy dere sonne Christe / and suffered hypocritesto fede vs / yea rather to choke strangle vs / withe the pestilent doctryne of menes tradicions Looke vpon thyn holy annoyted / and for his sake haue mercye on vs / blesse vs / and lighten thy cherful counteÌ„ance vpon vs / that we Englythe men here on the earthe mayeones againe knowe thy blessed wayes thy / sauyng healthe among all nacions Psal 67. Let therealm of EnglaÌ„d be ful of the knowleg of the Lord Iesus / euen as though the water of the sea ouerflowed the earth Esa 11. Let thy word rune swyftly thorowe out all the borders of England Psa 148 Iere. 3. Esa 12. Let the people therof drinke nomore of / the dirtie and myrie puddels of the swynyshe Papistes filthye Hypocrites / but let theme withe ioye drawe water out of the wellesof that alone Sauioure / whiche saithe Iona. 7. Apoc. 21 Ioan. 4. Iff any man thirst / let hyme come vnto me and drinke I will gyue to hyme that is athirst of the well of water of lyffe frely And whoso euer shall drinke of the water that I shal giue hyme / shall neuer be more a thirst / but thewater that I shall gyue / shall be in hyme a / well of water / springyng vp vnto euerlasting lyffe And that thy blessed worde maye haue the more fre passag / take away from vs those Idolatrus Massmongers / those idle latyne Preachars Humblers / those shauen Madianites / those Lordly loyterers / those Wolues / those Theues / Robbers / and Murtherars / whiche do nothyng elles than poyson thy flocke / whome thy moste dere Sonne purchased withe hys moste Precious dere hearte bloode / and mak hawocke of thy sely simple shepe by leadyngthem awaye frome the thorowe their vayne sophistrie vnto the Dewill the pope / from thy holy worde and blessed ordenances vntothe trifeling tradicions croked yea cankred constitucious of Hipocrites And in the steadof them place thow godly Byshopes / learned Preachers / ChristeÌ„ ministers / Faithful teachers / True spirituall Fathers / Louyng pastors / euen suche as will diligently seke vpe the Ezech. 3. Ioan. 10. Act. 20. loste shepe / whom the woulyshe Papistes in the tyme of their tiraÌ„ny haue most wrechedli scattered abrode louyngly laye theme on his shoulders / and faithfully brynge them home Luc. 15. Math. 24 Tiâ—us 1. agayne vnto the â—â—epe foulde / gyue thy howshoulde meate in due season / be able to erhorte withe wholsome doctryne / also to coÌ„uince and ouercome them that speake ageâ—nste it / breÌ„n with aferueÌ„t uÌ„faied zele toward the settyng forthe thy glorye and the healthe ofthy people SacrameÌ„tes Send vs ageyn to the true ministracion off thy blessed SacrameÌ„ts / that we maye know what they are what they signifi preach vnto vs / yea that without the corupcioÌ„ of meÌ„es tradicioÌ„s / wherwith at this present they are most uÌ„wortheli defiled of thes suinish filthi â—atin seruic papistes