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A57615	The Romish mass-book with notes and observations thereupon, plainly demonstrating the idolatry and blaspheymy thereof with unanswerable arguments proving it no service of God : published at this juncture to inform mens judgments and put a stop to the designs of those that endeavor to introduce popery amongst us / faithfully translated into English.	R. V.; T. D., 17th cent.	1683 (1683)	Wing R1907; ESTC R27564	73,245	148

For Christs Body is not they confess white round and thin nor his Blood grateful and pleasant And Bread and Wine there is none at all you hear and must believe there 's an end on 't this is Bedlam Doctrine with a Witness 'T is a strange Parodox to me that Christ should eat his own body and drink his own blood yet they affirm it why so why then say I the Body and Blood of Christ was in his own mouth and stomach and yet sitting at the table with his Disciples at the same time It was broken and whole eaten and uneaten and all at once Nay his blood was shed and in the Cup and thence drank by himself yet not one Drop missing out of any Vain of his Body Ay and to confound us the Eater was the thing Eaten and the thing Eaten was the Eater to For with his Body did he Eat and this his Body that he Eat so his Disciples did Eat him as Crucified and dead his Body broken and blood ●●●d but he was still alive untouched and before their faces these are monstrous Goblins The Scripture assures us t is true BREAD and WINE that we receive in the Sacrament Matth. 26. 26. Mark 14. 22. Luke 22. 19. And the Apostle calls it bread no less then three times after the Consecration 1 Cor. 11. 26 28. And calls the Cup the Communion of Christs Blood and Bread the Communion of his Body Chap. 18. V. 16. c. Certainly the most Idolatrous among the Heathens may learn Idolatry from these Nicknamed Christians the Ancient Romans us'd to make their Gods of wise or at least Valient Men the Greeks chose reasonable Creatures for the object of their adoration The Egyptians more brutish then the 〈◊〉 would yet have a living Creature for their chief Diety But papists take a senseless lifeless thing O more then Heathen Idolatry O fulsom Nicknam'd Eucharist away with thee Reader if thou dost but impartially consider these Arguments and brief Reasonings I am satisfied you will judg this Mass to be no Institution of Christs but rather a most abominable rabble of Blashphemys patcht together by the Antichristian synagogue of Rome in opposition to the worship of the Everliving Jesus and a thing quite different from the sacred supper of the Lord. By this Mass ariseth false hope and a false remedy is promised to wicked lives for such if they hear Mass in the Morning think all 's well and bolster themselves up in security giving the reins to all kind of sensuality and the Debaucheryes that are Alamode For who would deny himself of his beloved pleasure though never so contrary to true piety that believes alittle Mercenary Priest A mass or some Holy water can expiate his sin O says one I am now purged from all iniquity and am a good Catholick Innocent as the Child unborn Ay Crys another I thank God I saw my Maker to day I am well enough so takes his Evening wallow in wickedness and next Morning a Mass makes him a Saint again Certainly that can be none of Gods way that incourages men to vice as this 〈…〉 which besides its Numberless abominati● 〈…〉 d in a language unknown to the People and therefore had it been never so good no way edyfying as the Apostle says in one of his Epistles to the Corinthians mentioned before Objection me thinks these words at every plain This is my body what will you make Christ a Lyer the Catholick Church of Rome take them litterally and you ought to believe it Answer the Scripture is not always to be taken a● the lerter foundeth but the intent and purpose of the holy Spirit the Dictator of it is to be minded For ●● you will always follow the bare words you will quickly shake down the greatest part of Christianity What 's plainer then thi my Father is greater then I John 14. 28. whence sprung the Arrian Heresie yet Christ says John 10. 30. I and my Father are one whence some deny'd the distinction of Persons in the Trinity It is said Acts 4 32. that the multitude of believers had one heart and one soul yet every one of them had a heart and soul peculiar to himself He said that the Man and Wife are one Flesh yet each has a distinct Body Judah said of his Brother Joseph he is our Flesh Gen 37. 27. yet he has not their real Flesh 't is said of Melchise●●●h that he had neither Father nor Mother yet he had both Christ is called a Rock a Door a Lamb a Vine c. yet he was not really and materially such the Cup is called the New Testament yet call it a Metonimy so that you may see by these and many other Instances of 〈◊〉 like Nature how frequently such figurative and ●●opical Speeches are used in Scripture as may be seen 〈◊〉 large in a late Book intituled Tropologia and 〈◊〉 sacra c. And why must this only Text be so 〈◊〉 confined to a meer literal interpretation 〈◊〉 the sense and reason in the World 〈…〉 culous to say that a thing is done in 〈…〉 it self this Sacrament is used in 〈…〉 therefore not Christ himself 〈…〉 both Visible and Invisible but the Sacrament is visible and the Body of Christ invisible therefore they are not one the Body of Christ is food not for the Body but for the Soul and therefore it must be received by faith only which is the Souls mouth Hence Augustine says in Johan tract 15. Quid paras ventrem dentem Crede manducasti Why makest thou ready thy Tooth thy Belly Believe thou hast eaten Here 's a Sylogism for you in Datisi Of whatsoever sort the Mouth is of such is its food But the Mouth of the Spirit is spiritual not bodily Ergo it receiveth Christs Body spiritually not bodily Spiritual hunger must be spiritually satisfied the most delicate and pallate pleasing dishes cannot content the longings of the fasting Soul 't is only spiritual Food lie feeds on In my Judgment the very Mice are wiser then these Dating Priests for if the wafer were not real bread for all the Priests conjuring they wou'd never steal it away and eat it But if it be a God then the Church Rats are well fed when they are banqueted with Gods Flesh Under the Law No man was to eat or drink Blood yea the prohibition is repeated in the Acts of the Apostles but these blood thirstly Priests gulge of their Gods Blood unmercifully yea in the very time of their lent even on Good-Friday they eat Flesh and drink blood when the poor Lay-men must not eat an Egg or a Mess of Milk under pain of Church curses if not Damnation If this Bread could be metamorphos'd into Christ real Christ St. Paul needed not to have wish'd to be dissolved and to be with Christ when he might be every day with him at the Altar But alas that Blessed man knew better things The Scripture and all the antient Fathers tells us that Christ is ascended into Heaven and is there to remain at the Right hand of the Father how can it be true then that every Mass Priest can conjure him down to be eaten at pleasure Ay ●●d make a horrible Multiplication of him I could 〈◊〉 〈…〉 though from Antiquity if it were need● 〈◊〉 how can the Sacrament be called a break 〈…〉 〈◊〉 if there be no Bread remaining unriddle 〈◊〉 God makers I have read that Henry the 〈◊〉 Emperor was poyson'd in the Host and victor 〈◊〉 in the Chalice what a poyson'd God! 〈…〉 〈◊〉 Sacrament could speak and doubtless 〈…〉 it were alive it would cry out O! I am bitter 〈◊〉 swallow'd I perish I mould I am kept in a Box f 〈…〉 of Rats if you leave me out all Night I shall be d 〈…〉 before Morning If the Mouse gets me I am gon●● Bread I am no God don't believe the wretches mu● murder murder c. I will conclude my Argument 〈…〉 st this Upstart transubstantiation which wi 〈…〉 up from the bottomless Pit in the time of Pop● 〈◊〉 at the ● at the Latarant Councel in Rome abou● 〈…〉 rs agoe with these pithy Sentences of a few 〈◊〉 Fathers 〈◊〉 in his homily on Levit. says si secundum litera● naris c. that is if ye follow that which is written after 〈…〉 ener unless ye shall eat the Flesh of the Son of Man 〈◊〉 shall be no life in you that letter kills So Chrysosto● 〈◊〉 Hom 46. Caro non prodest c. The flesh profite● that is to say my words must be taken and expounde● 〈◊〉 by Spirit for he that heareth after the flesh gainet● 〈◊〉 Now what is it to understand Carnally to take 〈◊〉 simply as they be spoken and not to consider any fur● 〈◊〉 meaning therein for things must not be judged 〈…〉 seen but all Mysteries must be seen with inwar 〈…〉 that is to say spiritually Teitullian Contra Marc 〈…〉 says Christus accepit panem Corpus suum fe 〈…〉 est Corpus meum dicendo id est figura Corpor 〈…〉 that is Christ took Bread and made it his Body say 〈…〉 Body that is to say the figure of my Body 〈…〉 Augustine Irenaus c. say with one voic●

be received again as carefully and as speedily as may be And if there can be found none that hath so good a Stomach as to receive that which the sick body hath cast up then let it be burnt and the Ashes kept in a Shrine Note 1 The Cover of the Chalice is called Paten and the Corporas Cloath is so called because the Body of their God rests upon it 2 I find a Story Recorded that in the year 526. In the Jacobin Convent in Auserre an old Fryar of that place having been almost rotten with the Pox and had not said Mass a long time resolves to Feast himself with his God on Corpus Christi Day but not able to digest it thinking to return to his Chamber he disgorges that with other filthy stuffe just before the Chapter Door This sets all the Convent in an uproar and the Prior being absent they consult a while and at last set up a Tabernacle over it as they do when they sing for the Dead with four wax Tapers one at each corner then the Novices sung all day this versicle Tantum ergo Sacramentum veneremur cern●i c. they sang also the Antiphone of the same day viz O sacrum Convivium c. that is O Sacred Banquet yet none of them had the Stomach to taste it so that they could never have more truly said Domine non sum Dignus ut intres sub Tectum meum Lord I am not worthy that thou shouldst enter under my Roof viz. to be swallowed by me At last they agree to shovel the holy vomit together and reverently gather it up and that the ground should be carefully pared and all carried into the Church then comes the Superior in his holy Vestments who with the whole Convent went into the Church in solemn Procession two Novices marching before the Shrine with Candlesticks Tapers Well the ground is pared and the holy vomit gathered up with anointed Fingers some set up their howling Notes and some shed their Crocodile Tears at so doleful a Spectacle to the great confusion of their Solemn Feast Now they consult what was best to be done with it some of the oldest Doctors advised it should be burnt and the Ashes kept in a Shrine which was immediately done And now Gentlemen there 's your blessed Relique The two Novices mentioned were amaz●d at this abominable Passage and upon deep scrutiny resolved God in mercy so ordering it to forsake that filthy Profession and therefore left the Convent and became worthy Professors of the Gospel From whom this Passage was received and Published by Mr. Stocker in English near one hundred years ago CHAP. XXI THE like also of the * Invetered Eucharist that is rotten with Age set down by the Councel of Orleans chap. 5. Every Sacrifice that 's spoiled by sordid oldness is to be burnt and the Ashes thereof to be di●posed of near the Altar Note * Here 's a rotten God still surely this is not that living Bread that came down from Heaven CHAP. XXII ITem if the Body of Christ being 1 consumed either by Mice or Spiders cometh to nothing or be overmuch bitten if the Worm lie whole and ●●und in it then let it be burnt but if the remnant that is s● bitten may be taken without loathing it i● a great deal better that it be received Likewise if any man incontinently after the receiving there●f cast it up again al●eit this Food of the Soul passeth away into the mind and not into the Belly yet for the Reverence that 's to be had to the Sacrament if there be found never so little a piece ●f the Eucharist let it be reverently received 2 again and the vomiting burnt and the Powder thereof put amongst the Reliques Note 1 O detestable O horrible Blasphemy Now it belches f●rth without a blush O you villanous Wretches what Lords Body do you mean Now your own Mouths confound you and 't is your own Mass Book will bear Record that your God is a corrupt ro●ten filthy Idol Nor shall you escape that divine Nemesis that flaming vengeance reserved for you by that Jesus you thus Mock and Blaspheme for your more then Barbarous Murther of his Dear Members because they would not worship your rotten Worm-Eaten Wafer 2 Like the Dog that turns to his vomit 't is pitty they should ever eat better meat CHAP. XXIII ITem as concerning the matter of the Blood take heeed it be not sharp or else so small Wine as that it hath no colour of Wine neither let it be redish water stained with a Cloath that hath been Dyed in red wine let it not be vinegar nor wine utterly corrupt Let it not be Claret Wine Claretum nor Wine made of Mulberies nor Pomegranates because they keep not the true colour of Wine Whosoever Consecrateth knowingly and not compelled with wine that is in the way of corruption in via corruptionis or tending that way grievously sinneth although he Consecrated Because it keepeth not the colour of Wine Item there must be great care taken that but a little water be put into it for if there should be so much put in as to cause the Wine to loo●e its colour the Consecration were of NONE * effect Note * They say that there are many kinds of Peares wherewith a man may make Wine to say Mass withal for want of better stuff and why not as well Mullerries Pomegranates c. Now if these blookheaded Priests had contented themselves with Christs ●ay they had not needed to keep such a sputter and puzzle about the mixture of water with the wine for there 's no such thing in Christs Institution Besides a man had need be a Prophet to know when there is but just water enough else he commits Idolatry because say they if there be too much the whole Consecration is ineffectual CHAP. XXIV IF any part of the 1 Wine be spilt before the Transubstantiation let him change the 3 veile palla without any words and Celebrating Prosecute his Office If all be spilt let the Cloaths be changed and let him minister it again and begin from this oblation therefore yet always premising a Confession If any part of the 2 Blood be spilt after Transubstantiation yet let not the Priest cease to do his Office But if it be all spilt so that there remain no jot thereof which is very hard to do let him lay it up on the Altar and minister the Bread again and the Wine and VVater also and begin again from this oblation therefore c. Always provided that his Confiteor that is Confession be first said And let the Minister or sick Body receive the first host or some other that i● ready for that purpose If the Blood 4 freez in the Chalice in frosty ●eather the Priest must breathe over it a good vvhile till it be thavved or with great reverence thavv it with quick Charcoal or if it cannot so be thawed let him swallow it down whole