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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

this Reall sacrifice of the Masse is not only of those things which are not named in the Scripture of which it is also said Negat Scriptura quod tacet The Scripture denieth that it speaketh not of but it is in the Scripture by strong reasons arguments contradicted And as for the Doctors of the Church there are the names of Priest Sacrifice Altar but the thing not so Thirdly the practice of the Apostolike and Catholike Church will not beare such a thing as the Masse is that is by the Scripture it is contradicted in the Doctors a verball matter a thing of words in the practice of the Church a nullitie a thing of nothing To make these things appeare I must first set out the Scriptures contradicting it euen in his Masse priest and in his sacrifice In this respect I will set out seuen faults in the Masse two against Christ his Priesthood according to the order of Melchisedech and fiue against his Sacrifice on the Crosse The two faults against the Priesthood are these First that the Masse-Priest will presumptuously thrust himselfe into such a priesthood as is proper to an euerlasting Person and the Priesthood therefore continued in him not passing it ouer to any other for so is the Prophesie Thou art a Priest for euer according to the order of Melchisedech And accordingly the Prophesie is so applyed as this man because he endureth for euer hath an vnchangeable Priesthood This word vnchangable is otherwise translated a continuall Priesthood or a Priesthood that passeth not from one to another but Athanasius a Doctor Serm. cont Arianos of the Church saith it is Sine transitione sine successore without passing it ouer to any other without a successor The second fault is that the Masse-Priest will be so bold as to be of that order that was made with an oath after this manner I haue sworne and will not repent for this will not repent will not agree with a sinner that needeth repentance therefore said That the Law maketh Priests that haue Heb. 7. 28. infirmities but the word of the Oath which is since the Law maketh the Sonne who was perfected for euermore such a sonne as of whom the Father will say this is my welbeloued Math. 3. 17. Sonne in whom I am well pleased To discourse of these two points would require longer time then is allotted I will passe therefore to the second kinde of faults against his sacrifice in number fiue The first thing is that in sacrificing he will imitate Christ sacrificing himselfe vpon the Crosse which thing must not be imitated in any wise This thing may be obserued that our Sauiour Instituting his Supper as a remembrance of him vntill he come againe gaue himselfe as already sacrificed that is his body broken and his blood shed for the Sonne of God may doe as God his Father doth which calleth things that are not as if they Rom. 4. 17. Heb. 10. 14. were for concerning sacrificing it is as it is said with one oblation he hath for euer perfected those that are to bee s●nctified As Ambrose a Doctor of the Church saith vpon that place Si. Medicamentum forte c. if the Medicine bee strong once applied it will cure all together if with one oblation he hath perfected those that are to be sanctified he that will bee sanctified by the repetition of the Sacrifice saith the medicine is not strong The second fault is that the Masse-Priest not marking the order of the attonement in the old Testament taketh in hand a worke which he cannot possibly finish for the attonement was not finished when the Priest in the lower part of the Temple had offered his Sacrifice but for to make vp the attonement Hee must goe vp into the holy place and sprinckle the blood Leuit. 16. 14. vpon the mercie seat So did our Sauiour the Priest according to the order of Melchisedech when hee had offered himselfe vpon the Crosse he entred into heauen it selfe now to appeare before the presence of God for vs and standeth Heb. 9. 24. Reuel 5. 6. in the middest of the throne as a Lambe staine This second point of entring into the Holy place is farre from a Masse-priest that if hee should boast that he beganne say hee cannot that according to the Leuiticalls hee hath finished an attonement The third fault is that to make Christ a Sacrifice he consecrateth an Altar by which meanes he will make the better the worse and the greater the lesser For in the mysterie of Sacrificing the Altar is greater then the Sacrifice as our Sauiour calleth the Scribes and Pharises fooles and blinde saying whether is greater the gift or the Math. 23. 19. Altar that sanctifieth the gift True it is the Doctors of the Church haue vsed this word Altar without weighing of it it was not seauen times purified in the fire it may be found in them that Christ offered himselfe vpon the altar of the Crosse but if things must be tryed by the touchstone of the Scripture the Crosse brought nothing but curse and shame to Christ crucified But for sanctifying our Sauiour Gal. 3. 13. Heb. 12. 2. Iohn 17. 9. Heb 9. 14. faith plainely I sanctifie my selfe and offered himselfe through an eternall or some reade it holy Spirit without spot and purgeth our conscience from dead workes to serue the liuing God The fourth fault is against the laytie only vnto whom he deliuereth Christ sacrificed when hee hath not sacrificed him at all for without blood-shedding no sacrifice and which is more no forgiuenesse of sinnes It is but a mockerie to say a body cannot be without blood for a sacrifice cannot be without blood-shedding where death ensueth Christ shed his blood when he was circumcised and some otherwise but the Sacrifice was not finished before death was testified euen when out of his blessed s●de issued water and blood the vitalls of rhe heart In the Iohn 19. 34. primitiue Church therefore the knife that cut the bread was called Sacra Lancea the holy speare as making a supposed issue of blood for the Chalice If God therefore should deale with the popish Laytie according to the mysterie of Sacrificing none of them haue forgiuenesse of their sinnes And by this meanes all Pardons from the Pope are frustrated because they neuer are partakers of the remitting blood of Christ for out of the sacrifice Blood not any capablenesse of pardon The fift fault is that when he hath made an end of his owne sacrificing and eating of the Body and drinking of the Blood of Christ he putteth a consecrated Cake into a Pixe at the vppermost end of the Church close to the wall which is not agreeable to the mystery of the old Temple for our Sauiour in the mystery of our Redemption bearing the person of the Mediator represented in the incence Altar for intercessions and prayers that Altar stood belowe and right before the Mercie