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A17028	A sermon preached at the assises holden at Winchester the 24. day of Februarie last, before Sir Laurence Tanfeild knight, Lord Chiefe Barron of the Exchequer, and Sir Richard Hutton knight, one of the iustices of the Court of Common-pleas. By Abraham Browne prebend: of the Cathedrall Church of Winton.	Browne, Abraham, d. ca. 1625.	1623 (1623)	STC 3906; ESTC S119312	28,509	46

seate so 1 Kings 6. 22. that by this meanes in their Church God is excluded and if that they will say that he is in heauen why then is not the Mediator in Heauen that their Church order may be according to the truth of things For Christ is in heauen to make Intercession for vs. But this consecrated Cake is affirmatiuely made the god of the Christians who in the mysterie of our Christian religion is the Mediator as Saint Paul saith one God and one Mediator in so much that a Counsell decreed that the Church prayers should Con. Carthag 3. Can. 13. be made vnto God in the name of the Mediator Iesus Christ for albeit any person of the Trinitie may be called vpon yet ordinarily God is to be prayed vnto and Christ the Mediator which in our Church booke is most commonly obserued But here is the scandall to Infidels of all sorts that this is the God we make shew of carrying him by processions in the streets and euery where worshipped yet the Cake hath no prerogatiue as other things haue had as Manna appointed by Gods ordinance to bee reserued Exod. 16. 24. was free from corruption that it may seeme to be a strong argument that this Cake made God is not his ordinance being subiect to mouldinesse and the eating of Myce and I haue read that being carryed in the winde and often blowne out of the Pixe was clipped and made lesse O indignitie that I will say of this last point according to a phrase in the Prouerbs Sixe things I hate but the seuenth in thus abusing of our Sauiour I detest and abhor and so end Scripture reason and passe to the testimony of the Doctors of the Church To repeate the Doctors of the Church in the multitude of their testimonies would be too much for a whole Sermon much more for a piece of a Sermon But to proue that which I haue affirmed that the Masse is but a verball thing in the Doctors and as they sport in Schooles Verum est in vocibus non in rebus true in words but not so in deeds I will set out vnto the Doctors an obiection to answer and a place of Scripture to expound The obiection made against the Christian religion was that they had neither Temples nor Altars nor Images This obiection hath answer from the Doctors the first that answereth shall be Origen who liued 200. yeeres after Tract in Leuit. Christ and he for Altars nameth the heart and our Hom. 9. prayers for the sacrifice Clemens Alexandrinus an other Hom. 7. Doctor of the Church being about Origen his time saith non sacrificamus sed glorificamus wee sacrifice not but glorifie In saying we sacrifice not hee cannot forget spirituall sacrifices therefore meaneth such a reall sacrifice as the Masse is and the Doctor forgetteth not spirituall sacrifices when he saith we glorifie for that answereth to my Text. An other Doctor of the Church Arnobious ●●b 2. liuing 300. yeares after Christ saith to the Heathens Putatis nos occultare quod colimus si delubra aras non habemus You thinke that we hide that wee worship because we haue neither Temples nor Altars If the Christians God was hidden it was no where to be seene neither in the Church nor out of the Church If no Altars no Sacrifice reall no Masse Cirillus an Archbishop much to bee regarded in this matter he liued about 400. yeeres after Christ the obiection he receaueth from Iulian the Apostata who if any reall sacrifice as the Masse had beene but intimated in the Church he would haue discerned it being once a Reader by Office in the Christian Church but the answer is Lata via euntes mentalem cultum perficientes Lib. 9. con Julianus Going the broad way wee make a mentall or minde-worship And now if you expect more testimonies mine answer is the obiection ceased not long after him and Christian religion was better vnderstood with the reasons thereof that Chrisostome Ambrose Augustine Hierome for ought I haue read make not the like mention thereof And as for Iustin the Martyr an inhabitant of the Citie of Rome and a Doctor of the Church most ancient about 160. yeeres after Christ his Church-seruice is so like ours that from him we haue testimony for ours Concerning Dionisius that auncient Doctor as is supposed he maketh a great shew at the first of ceremoniall matter but it endeth with this the Bishop communicateth the rest he exhorteth to communicate and concludeth with thanks-giuing and thus much for the obiection The place of Scripture which is to bee expounded by the Doctors is that in the Prophet Malachie where it is thus written From the rising of the Sunne to the going Ch. 1. 11. downe of the same my name is great among the Gentiles and in euery place Incence shall be offered vnto my name and a pure offering for my name is great among the Heathen saith the Lord of hosts This place saith the Papist so euidenly proueth the Masse that it cannot be denied but then I must make the Doctors of the Church if they so expound it not vnskilfull in the interpretation of the Scripture preferring moderne and new Writers before them The force of their assertion standeth vpon these words pure offering which can agree to none but vnto Christ offering which I easily agree vnto for our offerings if they be pure they are but pure by a fauourable grace being as Saint Peter saith acceptable through Iesus 1. Pet. 2. 5. Christ But to come to the Doctors the first that I will bring in is Irinaeus of whose writing they presume most Lib. 4 cap. 32. his words are that our Sauiour gaue counsell to his Disciples to offer vnto God out of his creatures first fruites not as if he needed them but that they should not bee vnfruitfull or vnthankfull That which is bred of his creatures he tooke it and gaue thankes saying This is my Body and the Cup likewise that which is of that creature and is with vs confessed to be his Blood and taught the new oblation of the new Testament which the Church taking from the Apostles in the whole world offereth vnto God These words to him that is affected to the Masse may seeme to sound some such thing but he is deceaued for albeit the words of the Lords Supper be brought in as that he said of the Bread that it was his Body and confessed the Wine to be his Bl●od yet the body of Christ and his Blood are not the offerings which a Priest must only offer but the Bread only and the Wine are the offerings which not Priest but Disciples offer In the primitiue Church therefore the Disciples offered at the Table new Corne Grapes Oyle and Frankinsence and these decreed by a Bishop of Rome to haue the V●b●●●us name of oblations that now I will conclude against the Masse that so learned a

them doe violence to no man neither accuse any man falsely and be content with your wages And by these we may make a rule for others as no doubt he did Who did the like to Herod rebuking him for keeping his brothers Luke 3. 19. wife And at one word this is the truth of which our Sauiour spake of to the woman of Samaria when he said the true worshippers must worship the Father in spirit and in Iohn 4. 23. Rom. 12. 1. truth in offring vp our bodies in a true rep●ntance and holy sacrifice vnto God If the Apostles had medled with lawes of carnall commandements they had transgressed the rule therefore they meddle not with any thing but with matters of truth in squaring out duties for subiects to their Magistrates and high powers with reciprocall duties betweene husband and wife father childe Master seruant And generally this to be Gods Commandement to beleeue in 1. Iohn 3. ●3 the name of his Sonne Iesus Christ and to loue one another as he hath commanded If this method had heene continued betweene Pastor and Flocke the new Testament had beene alwaies seene in his true colours which afterwards by the Church of Rome was bedawbed with golden but vnkinde and vnnaturall ceremonies Notwithstanding the Primitiue Church kept his matter of ordering of waies a long time And to giue you a view thereof I will bee so bold as to deuide this Auditorie into these particular estates As here are honourable Iudges Iustices of peace Counsellors at law Gentlemen Soldiours Merchants Handycrafts-men and Husbandmen For the Iudges such honourable and wise persons I will say no more then God blesse them and of the rest I cannot in so short a time speake particularly But that generally somewhat may be said of Waies I will take out two which in the primitiue Church were in some question concerning their waies those are the Merchant and the Soldiour The Merchant was called into question as not hauing the right course of a trade because hee is nothing laborious as others are but easie selling whole sale of no action neither in hand or in speech for properly that is a trade which getteth gaine by his labour and after gayning returneth still to his labour as the Handycraftsman maketh his worke gayneth and returneth to his worke againe so the Plowman soweth and reapeth and returneth to the Plow againe so vocations of words haue their gaines and their returnes to labour againe For it was said to Adam in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eate bread till thou returne to the earth for out of it wast thou Gen. 3. 19. taken because thou art dust and to dust thou shalt returne Notwithstanding this question of the Merchant was not alike defined but men of good iudgement dissented and I suppose that Iohn Baptist would not haue made any exception against him who excluded not the Publican neither is the Merchant an idle man but much occupied and looketh vp vnto the heauens to haue successe and blessing from God You may say that rather they might haue made exception against him whom I named a Gentleman vnto that I answer that our kinde of Gentlemen were not extant in their dayes But I will helpe to admonish them to take heed that that which is in the booke of Wisdome be farre from them as to say of the pleasures and Wisdome pastimes of this life this is our portion this is our lott Remember what Abraham said to his sonne being in hell torments Thou in thy life time receiuedst thy good things As for the Soldiour the exception against him was not to be receaued into the ministerie of the Word But there are more kindes of trades and one there is not so easie to be condemned because the Law is to be the ground of his action but he is so often in law that he is lesse in charitie and filleth whole parishes with vncharitablenesse To discribe him I must borrow a tearme from the common Law which may bee comprehendeth not so generally these kinde of trades But the tearme is a Common Barretor With these kinde of men no trespasses must be taken vp by neighbours and bretheren in one faith and one Church but all must be tryed by law that the offender if he refuse that tryall must redeeme his peace with a great price This trade is so violent so hurtfull and such a cunning extortion that our Sauiour both remembreth it and giueth counsell to his Disciples saying If any man will sue thee at the law and take away Math. 5. 40. thy coat let him haue thy cloake also If therefore Christs Disciple must deliuer coate and cloake whose Disciple is he that taketh them There is an other Tradesman if wee may call him a tradesman I meane the Vsurer tollerated in Common-wealths Psal 15. 5. condemned in the word of God None of the Disciples of Christ in whom there must be nothing but that which is perfect that we may be like to our Master who was perfect His Disciples therefore must not lend looking for something againe but lend looking for nothing againe And in the new Testament how can it be that to him shall be shewed the saluation of God when in the old Testament He shall not dwell in the holy hill In this thing they are both a censured euill by the word of God and an euill end will be the encrease of riches in their great abundance to them that vse it The abundance of riches so blindeth his iudgement that he seeth no euill but thinkes that he hath God by the finger when he hath the diuell by the fist In the olde Law one might not lend in Vsurie to his brother according to the flesh and may he now lend to his brother according to the spirit Let the Preachers of the Word and deuiders of the Word take heede least while they teach some vsuries small that they may be done they by so teaching and so doing become least in the Kingdome of heauen Let the Disciple hearken vnto his Master and heare Christ saying If ye loue me keepe my cōmandements A Lawyer being asked concerning Arrests Ioh. 14. 15. vpon the Sabaoth day answered that the Arrests were good in Law but the parties that executed the Arrests punishable shall we so answer for the Vsurer that his vsurie is good in law but the Vsurer culpable so that he shall not dwell in the holy hill And to speake somewhat of Arresting on the Sabaoth day whereby I say our wayes are not ordered aright how can that be good in the law of any Common-weale that breaketh any one of the ten Commandements the ten Commandements are not very subtill hard to be discerned but grosse euen the law of nature Let vs put a God and what Nation doth not put it no lesse can be then to haue one set day to worship in Breake that day so commanded and where then is our Religion To put out

Doctor comming so neere the Lords Supper as bringing out the words of the Institution and handling so curiously withall the place of the Prophet Malachy yet not hit vpon the Masse sacrifice surely it may bee well supposed the Masse was not in his dayes To proceede to the rest for of these Offerings the Bread and Wine are not the Body and Blood of Christ but the materialls of the things as the Doctor saith which God hath no neede of we haue I meane Christ himselfe So the oyle was for Lamps may be as the Frankensence for odours That at the first had so the name of Offerings that the Masse Priest may mistake them in the Canon of his Masse to be the things hee striueth for Tertullian is Aduersus Iudae●s the next Doctor he saith that the pure sacrifice is a spirituall sacrifice and a pure conscience Chrysostome saith it is the mysticall Table and the reuerent sacrifice vpon it In Psalm 95. This is it you will say but the Doctor saith it is done without an Altar then not sacrificed by vs but offered as already sacrificed by Christ for if no Altar then no Masse Hierome that Doctor saith it is the prayers of the Saints Eusebius saith it is religious Hymnes and holy Prayers De d●menstr L. 1. c. 10. Contra Iuli. l. 9. De ciuit l. 20. c. 25. In Heb. ch 8. In Malac. Cyrillus saith it is meant of Christians worshipping God euery where Augustine that Doctor interpreteth it of Saints offering themselues Ambrose saith our heauenly Altar is our faith in which wee offer our daily Prayers Theodoret doth expound the place of spirituall sacrifices These Doctors being the most famous Doctors of the Church and all in their Expositions not hitting vpon the Masse how can it then be true that this place cannot be otherwise expounded then of the Masse But I suppose S. Paul the Doctor of vs Gentiles doth expound the place where he saith I will therefore that men pray exery 1. Tim. 2. 8. where lifting vp holy hands and as it is translated pure hands without wrath or doubting And thus for the Doctors of the Church and to the Papists I say they are rather in this matter Sophisticae verborum quam Discipuli veritatis Sophisters of words not Disciples of the truth As one said to a Iesuite in the Councell of Trent that hee had taught them to vse Sophistrie in the simplicity of Christs Religion But to auoide all Sophistry I make a third triall which is the practise of the Church where I say the Masse is a nullity euen a nothing and here I make vse of the Plea at Common Law where when an auncient Graunt is in question they enquire after the Vsier of it as they terme it how that was continued from the first time of the Graunt The like will I doe in my Plea against the Masse And I will aske the Masse-Priest where his Altar stoode in olde times and I will answer him my selfe for it stood in the middle of the Church What else it had railes about it and those called the Chauncell What was vpon it I answere a great Cake or Loafe What besides a knife called sacra lancea the holy Speare besides also other Chrysost Liturgie dishes What was done there I answere the Bread and Wine was deliuered to them that reached out their hands to receiue it In what garments did he stand I answere the Apostles and their successours as it is confessed by Eus●b lib. 7. 18. Rosar B. Mariae themselues celebrated in quotidianis vestibus in the garments they ware euery day This being the Vsier in auncient times Now I will aske a Masse Priest whether this be his Masse or not and withall I will bid him come downe from his Altar and stand at a Table in the middest of the Church with a great Cake or Loafe vpon it his knife by it and then say if he can say so we are of a new Religion And now I will answer when the olde Religion went out euen when the Table that stoode in the middle of the Church euen a boord Table was turned into a stone Altar placed at the vpper end of the Church the loafe of Bread turned into a little round thinne Wafer-Cake and the knife out of vse and holy vestments deuised for the Priest confessed therefore it must be that the Masse is a latter and a new inuention not the Institution of Christ And if you aske when this was done let the Masse Priest tell it for a man will come by his goods though he cannot tell when and at what time the Thiefe stole it But he may answer it is the Church that hath done it that is I say men deuised it for in Scripture speech when God hath set downe what he will haue done the after doings are called the inuentions of men as when our Sauiour alledgeth out of the Prophet That the feare of God was taught Math. 15. 9. by the precepts of men those men were the Elders of the Church the Gouernours of the Church that is the Church But as Dauid saith I hate inuentions but thy law Psal 119. 113 doe I loue And now I will apply those words of the Prophet Ieremie as stand in the wayes and looke and aske after Ierem. 6. 16. the olde way and walk● therein and you shall finde rest for your soules And if you will haue proofe of these things first for the boord Table St. Augustine telleth of the Donatists Ep. ad Bonifa Durandus that in their anger brake the boords of the Altar And let not the word Altar trouble you for it is but a borrowed word from the olde Testament for it was a boord Table and as for the Loafe a Writer of theirs saith that in olde time it was a great Loafe sufficient for all the Communicants and why is it not that which St. Paul saith as that we are all partakers of one Bread which thing is so 1. Cor. 10. 17. obserued that Chrysostom that Doctor of the Church saith vpon that place in this manner Not of another body this man of another body that man but all of one body are fed and nourished S. Augustine also saith Knoweth he not that euen Ep. 86. now he is to eate part of the body of that immaculate Lambe Strange kindes of speaches of two such famous Doctors and contrary to the Councell of Trent That decreeth that De Sacri Euch. can 3. Christ must be taken to be whole in Diuinitie soule and body and in euery parcell of the bread for euery man by himselfe to participate But these Doctors bewray another matter as that the Lords Supper is to be eaten in an vnderstanding so not so indeede In an vnderstanding all the houshold of Gods Elect haue eaten doe and shall eate of that onely Body which was broken at the Crosse And eating it in such an vnderstanding we shall