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A06744	The displaying of the Popish masse vvherein thou shalt see, what a wicked idoll the masse is, and what great difference there is between the Lords Supper and the Popes Masse: againe, what Popes brought in every part of the masse, and counted it together in such monstrous sort, as it is now used in the Popes kingdome. Written by Thomas Becon; and published in the dayes of Queene Mary.	Becon, Thomas, 1512-1567.	1637 (1637)	STC 1719; ESTC S115076	56,616	332

taken away from thee and the stinking dung of the Pope most miserable cast upon thee Lament thy sinnes O England lament lament Returne to the Lord thy God and most humbly beseech him once againe to looke upon thee with his mercifull countenance to take away these popish dregs to restore unto thee his lively Word and to blesse thee again with the true ministration of his holy Sacraments that thou maist serve the L O R D thy God in holinesse and righteousnesse all the dayes of thy life This doctrine that the Sacrament of the Altar as you terme it is the true naturall reall carnall corporal and substantiall bodie of Christ is the dream of Antichrist the Bishop of Rome and was never received in the Church till Pope Leo Pope Nicholas Pope Innocent Pope Honorius and Pope Vrban through their tyranny brought it in and compelled the Christians with fire and fagot as the manner of the tyrannicall Papists is to receive their abomihable doctrine and yet in all ages God stored up some to confesse the true doctrine of the Sacrament against Antichrist even unto the death Neither is this popish doctrine so ancient as the Papists bragge For it is not much more than five hundred yeares since their g●osse opinion of the Sa●rament began first to be attempted And although Pope Nicholas the second di● much in the matter yet was it not thorowly received nor agreed upon untill Pope Innocent the third came which about the yeare of our Lord 1215. kept a Councell at Rome called Latronense I would say Lateranense concilium where were gathered together a swarme of Papists about the number of thirteen hundred pild pates of the which number eight hundred and odde were Monkes Canons and Fryers chickens of the Popes owne brood Last of all came Pope Vrban the Monke in the yeare of our Lord 1264. and he made up all the market For he ordained a Feast called Corpus Christi in the honour of the Sacrament so that ever after that time the Sacrament was no more taken for a signe figure and token of Christs bodie but for Christ himselfe God and man and therefore was it reverenced worshipped censed and kneeled unto as yee teach the people to doe at your unsacred Sakerings and so are yee their schoolmasters to learn them to commit Idolatrie against their Lord God but let us goe foorth with our matter After our Saviour CHRIST had delivered the Sacramentall bread to his Disciples for to eat hee tooke the Cuppe and thanked and gave it them saying Drinke yee all of this For this is my bloud which is of the new Testament that is shed for many for the remission of sinnes This doe as oft as yee drinke it in the remembrance of mee Here CHRIST delivered to his Disciples holy wine I call it holy because it was dedicated and appointed to an holy use which hee made the Sacrament of his bloud And they all dranke of it And here is to bee marked by the way that our Saviour CHRIST afore seeing that there should arise false annointed that would take away from the people the Sacrament of his bloud bade them all drinke of it All all without exception even so many as beleeve on him spirituall or temporall as they call them Are not yee Popish shavelings these false annointed Have you not taken away the Cup of the LORDS bloud from the Lay people and reserved it to your selves alone Doe not ye minister the Sacrament of Christs bodie and bloud to the Lay people under one kinde onely cleane contrary to Christs institution O GOD-robbers O spoilers of Christian mens soules Neither can ye abide that the people should touch your Pope-holy Chalice when they drinke the wine but ye your selves holding the chalice in your own hands give them drinke as though they were babes of three dayes old and could not put the Cuppe to their mouth O tender and jealous nurses In the primative Church and many hundred yeares after as we may see in the monuments of learned men the Sacrament according to Christs institution was received of the people under both kindes untill Antichrist the Biship of Rome by his divellish decree determined the contrary at the Councell of Constance not much more than an hundred years past Pope Gelasius made a godly Decree that those people that would not receive the Sacrament under both kindes should receive none at all but be put away from the Lords Table The Greekes and Bohemes with all that be not under the tyranny of the Pope of Rome and of his wicked Lawes receive the Sacrament under both kinds at this day according to Christs institution Where the contrary is used there reigneth the Devill and the Pope and not Christ and his holy Word But now let us behold your doings After that yee have committed Idolatrie with the sacramentall bread if it be worthy of that name ye fall in hand to consecrate I use still your owne termes the wine with these words In like manner after Supper was done hee tooke this noble chalice that is a lye for Christ never handled that chalice into his holy and worshipful hands and after hee had given thankes to the Father he blessed here fall ye to crossing againe and gave it to his Disciples saying Take yee and drinke yee all of this For this is the cup of my bloud a new and everlasting Testament a mystery of faith w ch shall be shed for you and for many for the remission of sinnes So oft as yee shall doe these things yee shall doe them in the remembrance of me How many words have ye put in here of your owne braine ye shall easily perceive if yee compare them with the words which our Saviour CHRIST spake But for as much as they do not greatly disagree frō the truth of Gods word I will not strive with you in this behalfe though I would wish you once to deale faithfully and truely in all your doings but specially whē you have to doe with God seeing it is written Put nothing to the words of God lest hee reprove thee and thou bee found a lyar After the aforesaid words spoken in hocker mocker yee breathe and blow and shake your head over the Chalice and then yee kneele downe lift up your hands and honour it like most abhominable Idolaters After that yee stand up againe like pretty fellowes and well appointed and taking the Chalice in your hands yee hold it up with heave howe above your heathenish heads that the people also may worship it and bee fellow Idolaters with you and fall into the like danger of everlasting damnation This done yee set the Chalice downe againe upon the Altar and yee cover it with your Corporasse cloath for catching of cold Then once againe kneele ye downe and up againe like dive doppers and kisse the Altar and spread your armes abroad as though

they bee here recited was Pope Alexander about the yeare of our Lord 112. Here doe yee not rehearse the words truely as our Saviour CHRIST spake them Some words yee added and some yee have taken away But I much marvell at your grosse ignorance in this one thing Yee put a difference betweene Blessing and Thankesgiving For when yee rehearse this word Be●edixit he blessed you crosse and blesse the bread with your greasie fingers as though Christs blessing in that place were the wagging of his fingers and not rather thankesgiving For where Saint Marke hath Cum Benedixisset When he had blessed Saint Matthew Luke and Paul hath Cum Gratias egisset When he had given thankes So that to blesse after Markes phrase is nothing else than to give thankes to praise and to magnifie And so is it taken in divers places of the holy Scriptures both in the old and new Testament Again ye put to these foure words of Christ Hoc est corpus meum this word Enim and ye say Hoc est enim carpus 〈◊〉 one word more than ever Christ put in because ye may be found still as ye are even abominable liars But for putting in this one word Enim which is of so great vertue say ye that without it there can bee no perfect Consecration and then what is to bee thought I pray you of Christ and of his Apostles of the Primative Church and of the Greekes at this day which never used that word being your owne superfluous addition yee most wickedly leave out these most necessary words that CHRIST spake which is betrayed for you Doe this in the remembrance of mee This joyfull promise that Christs body was betrayed given and broken for us with the residue ye leave out as a thing pertaining nothing to the purpose And yet are they so necessary that without the knowledge of them the Sacrament profiteth nothing at all If I receive the Sacrament a thousand times yet if I know not to what use it was instituted of Christ what profits and benefits I have by the worthy receiving of it If I doe not set before the eyes of my minde the death of Christ and faithfully beleeve to have remission forgivenesse of al my sins by the breaking of Christs body by the sheadding of his most pretious bloud c. it profiteth me no more thā the pretious stone did profit Aesops Cock Again those words which Christ spake openly to his Disciples unto their great joy and comfort you partly leave out and partly whisper in hocker mocker to your selves that no man may bee the better for your doings and that the people may bee kept still in blindnesse Our Saviour CHRIST saith What I tell you in darkenesse that speake yee in light And what ye heare in the eare that preachye on the house tops But ye doe cleane contrary For that which Christ spake openly to his Disciples ye mutter it softly to your selves O cruell soule-slayers and bloudie murtherers But is this your dexterity uprightnes and true dealing with the Word of God So to corrupt and mangle the words of the glorious Testament of the Sonne of God It is not lawfull to alter a mortall mans Testament and dare ye presume O yee Antichrists to alter and change the blessed Testament and heavenly will of the King of Glory Are ye faithfull Ministers which deale so unfaithfully with your Lord and Master Ye that deale so wickedly with God how wil ye deale with man God keepe all faithfull people out of your clawes After ye have once spoken these five words Hoc est enim corpus meum over the bread and have blasted breathed and blowed upon it yee kneele down to it and worship it like abominable Idolaters and afterward ye hold it up above your pestilent pilde shaven shamelesse heads that the people by looking upon it and worshipping it may be partakers also of your abominable Idolatry not being contented with your own damnable estate except ye bring other also into the same danger The Author of your levation lifting the bread above your head was Pope Honori the third about the yeare of our LORD 1 10. which commanded that the Host should bee lifted up above the Priests head at Masse and that all the people should fall downe and worship it O Antichrist Here may all men see how ancient a thing your holy sakering is which is counted the best and chiefest part of your Masse when notwithstanding it is the most wicked and most abhominable part of your idolatrous Masse Verily it is not much more than three hundred yeares old Let the lying Papists therfore bee ashamed to brag that their divellish Masse came from the Apostles seeing it is proved to be a new and late invention of Antichrist And although the whole Masse of the Papists be utterly wicked and abhominable yet this part which they call the Sakering is most wicked and abominable for as much as it provoketh the people that are present to commit most detestable Idolatries For the people take it to be their god They beleeve that bread w ch the Priest heaveth above his head to bee Christ perfect God perfect man Therfore kneel they down unto it knocke their breasts lift up their heads worshippe and honour it When the Bel once rings if they cannot conveniently see they forsake their seats and runne from Altar to Altar from Sakering to Sakering peeping here and tooting there and gazing at that thing which the pilde-pate Priest holdeth up in his hands And if the Priest bee weake in the armes and heave not up high enough the rude people of the Countrey in divers parts of England will crie out to the Priest hold up Sir Iohn hold up Heave it a little higher And one will say to another Stoupe downe thou fellow afore that I may see my Maker For I cannot be merry except I see my LORD GOD once in a day O abomination Ah Woe worth you yee Masse-mongers that are the authors of this abominable Idolatrie and through your wicked massing send thousands to the Devill except the mercy of God bee the greater Better were ●e Masse-mongers to leave your fat Benefices your rich Prebeuds your wealthy Deanries your honourable Chaplainships your long Gownes your Sarsene● Tiopets and your shaven crownes and become watertankard-bearers in London or to cobble a shoo or goe to plough and cart yea to have a milstone tyed about your neck and be cast into the bottome of the sea than your most stinking wicked and vile massing to provoke so many people unto Idolatry and to bring the wrath of God and everlasting damnation upō them except they repent and amend Verily I say unto you it shall bee easier for the Land of So dome at the day of Iudgement than for you But I know what yee will say That we hold up is the very

or such as are present at the ministration of Baptisme And so likewise may wee say of the Sacrament of Christs body and bloud Take away the word and what is Bread but Bread What is wine but wine that is to say Take away the preaching of the Lords death from the holy Cōmunion and what doth it profit to eat drinke the Sacramentall bread and wine seeing the mystery is not knowne nor understood But put the preaching of the word to the Elements water bread and wine and so are they made holy and honourable Sacraments full of singular joy and great comfort as Saint Augustine saith Let the word be added to the Element and it is made a Sacrament Therefore where the Lords Supper is rightly ministred there is declared the death and passion of Christ there is shewed forth the misery of man from the which hee could have beene no otherwise released but only by the death of Christ there is taught what the Sacrament is what it signifyeth and to what use Christ our Saviour did institute it there are the people exhorted not rashly nor with unwashed feet as they use to say to come unto the Lords Table but to prove trie and examin themselves whether they come with such faith and love unto that most worthy mystery as they ought least they eat and drinke their own damnation there are they stored up unto the workes of mercie toward the poore and unto hearty thankesgiving to God the Father for the death of his Son Christ there also are they put in remembrance that after they have tasted those heavenly mysteries have spiritually fed upon the body bloud of Christ which through faith are present and truly received in spirit of faithful Cōmunicants and are become one body with Christ they ought no more to returne unto their old sinfull wicked conversation but from henceforth to serve their Lord God in holines righteousnes all the daies of their life Is there any such thing done in the popish Masse Who preacheth Who maketh the exhortation Who moveth the people to repentance faith love and amendment of life mutuall recōciliation workes of mercie or unto thankesgiving to God the Father for the death of his Sonne Christ Who playeth the Schoolmaster and giveth the people such exhortations that they goe home from your Masses better learned than they came thither What theese ever lest his theft What false lawyer gave over his bribing what whore forsooke her whordome what wicked man at any time repented him of his wickednesse by comming unto your Masse Yea rather they goe from your Masse so well instructed that they thinke that now they have heard a Masse they may doe all the day after what they will Amends is made beforehand If they bribe poll pill steale lye slander blaspheme kill murder runne on whoring play the harlot fall to drunkennesse to dicing to carding and doe all other unlawfull things it maketh no matter for they have heard Masse They have satisfyed for the sinne before it be committed The hearing of masse hath dispatcht al the matter aforehand And what marvaile is it though such abomination followeth of your massing seeing the people heareth no goodnesse at it but rather are confirmed in all kind of ungodlinesse The chiefest jewell of all I meane the preaching of Gods word is utterly exiled from your Masse as all goodnesse is besides There is none of you all that stand up in the pulpit that lift up your voice to declare unto the people either their wickednesse or preach unto them the most joyfull pleasant and comfortable Gospel of our Saviour Christ. If there bee any preaching at all the Bells make it when the popish Clark ringeth to Masse The Bells being hanged up tell the people somewhat which they understand namely that there is a popish masse ready at hand come heare it who list and be never the better when yee have done But ye speake nothing at all that the people understand and so are yee worse than the Bells Oh how often have I seene here in England at the ministration of the holy Communion people sitting at the Lords table after they have heard the sermon or the godly exhortation set forth in the Booke of Common prayer read unto them by the minister bitterly weep heartily repent and sorrowfully lament their too much unkindnesse and unthankfulnesse toward the Lord God for the death of his Sonne Christ and for his other benefits againe their negligence in doing their duty toward their poore neighbours what free and large gifts also have I seene given to the poore mens boxe what laying aside of al enmity and renewing of unfained mutuall reconciliation what loving embracing and holy kissing of one another What assurance of heartytty friendship for ever to continue where immortall hatred was before what godlinesse also of life have I seen afterward practised by them that were the Communicants what alteration of manners What newnesse of conversation The covetous man to abhorre his covetousnesse the Adulterer to leave his adultery the Whore to defie her whoredom the Proud man to detest his pride the Vsurer to give over his usury and so forth by hearing the word of God preached and by the worthy receiving of the holy Communion hath full oft bin seen in England when the doctrine of the Gospell flourished among us Never saw I one point of like godlinesse practised of any man by hearing your popish Masses but as they have come thither wicked and ungodly so have they departed againe with the same ungodlines and wickednes rather being the worse than the better by hearing that your Idolatrous masse and yet Oh God be mercifull unto us and forgive us our sinnes the glorious and blessed Cōmunion is now through the craft and subtilty of the devil and through the wilinesse of his sturdy stout champions that filthy Synagogue of Sathan utterly banished out of this Realme unto the great dishonour of God and unspeakable sorrow of all true Christians and that most vile most stinking most pestiferous most abominable most wicked most devillish most idolatrous popish private Masse received again set up and magnifyed above the starres yea and above God and his holy ordinance when indeed of all Idols the Masse is most to be abhorred of such as feare and love God But though your Masse were never so good as indeed it is starke naught without comparison yet forasmuch as it is done without the preaching of the word and in a strange it is altogether unprofitable yea and abominable Notwithstanding behold the hypocrisie and counterfeit holinesse yea rather your double dissimulation and devillish deceiving of the simple people when yee have stood awhile pattering like a sort of asses yee know not what at the lower end of the Altar saying the Introite or office of the Masse as they call it the Kyrrys the Gloria in Excelsis the Collects