desired may be handled publickly and in the Congregation those Meetings only excepted which are kept by the People in order to their proposing of Matters to be consulted about according to ancient Custom and the Order of the said Metropolitan ACTION II. ON the second Day after the singing of the Antiphony Psalm Prayers and Hymn as they are in the Roman Pontifical the most Reverend Metropolitan being seated in his Chair said Venerable and Beloved Brethren the Priests and you my dearest Sons in Christ the Procurators and Representatives of the People We having done little more Yesterday than celebrate the Divine Offices and Preach to the People it is fit we should begin to Day to Treat of Matters appertaining to the Synod In the first place of those that belong to the Integrity and Truth of our Holy Catholick Faith and the Profession of the same which before we go about I do again admonish you in our Lord Jesus Christ that all such things as you shall judge to stand in need of Reformation in this Bishoprick or any part thereof may be signified to us or to the Congregation that so with the Divine favour and assistance all things by your Diligence and Charity may be brought into so good Estate as is desired for the praise of the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ Decree II. THat this Synod may in all things Govern it self according to the Directions of the Holy Canons and tread in the Footsteps of the Holy General Councils and particularly of the Holy Council of Trent upon the knowledge it has of the Necessities of this Church and of the diversity of Opinions that have been hitherto therein concerning Matters of our Holy Catholick Faith and of the Errors contrary thereunto which have been sowed in this Diocess by Hereticks and Schismaticks it doth command all Persons Ecclesiasticks and Seculars called hither either in their own Name or in the Name of others Ecclesiasticks or Laicks of this Bishoprick to make Profession and Oath of the following Faith in the hands of the most Illustrious Metropolitan President of this Synod And for the more effectual execution of this Decree and to provoke others by his own Example the most Illustrious Metropolitan having robed himself in his Pontificals but without his Mitre kneeling down before the Altar and having laid his hands upon a Cross that was upon a Book of the Gospels did in his own Name as the present Prelate and Metropolitan of the Diocess and in the Name of all the Christians belonging to the same and every Person thereof Secular and Ecclesiastick make Profession and Oath of the Faith following which was immediately declared to all that were present The Profession and Oath of the Faith IN the Name of the most Holy and undivided Trinity the Father Son and Holy Ghost one only true God in the Year of our Lord 1599 in the Seventh Year of the Pontificate of our most Holy Lord Clement VIII Bishop of Rome in the Town of Diamper in the Kingdom of Malabar in the East-Indies in the Church of All Saints on the 21st of June in a Diocesan Synod of the Bishoprick of Serra Assembled by the most Illustrious and Reverend Lord Dom Frey Aleixo de Menezes Arch-Bishop Metropolitan of Goa and the Oriental Parts and the See being vacant of the said Bishoprick I N. do of my own free Will without any manner of force and constraint for the Salvation of my Soul believing it in my heart protest that with a firm Faith I do believe and confess all and every one of the Articles contained in the Symbol of Faith which is used in Holy Mother Roman Church I believe in one God the Father Almighty Maker of Heaven and Earth and of all things visible and invisible And in one Lord Jesus Christ the only begotten Son of God begotten of his Father before all Worlds God of God Light of Light very God of very God begotten not made being of one substance with the Father by whom all things were made Who for us Men and for our Salvation came down from Heaven and was Incarnate by the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary and was made Man and was Crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate He suffered and was buried and the third day he rose again according to the Scriptures and ascended into Heaven and sitteth on the right hand of the Father and he shall come again with Glory to Judge both the Quick and the Dead whose Kingdom shall have no end And I believe in the Holy Ghost the Lord and giver of Life who proceedeth from the Father and the Son who with the Father and the Son together is worshipped and glorified who spake by the Prophets And I believe one Catholick and Apostolick Church I acknowledge one Baptism for the remission of Sins and I look for the Resurrection of the Dead and the Life of the World to come I do firmly receive and embrace all Apostolical and Ecclesiastical Traditions and all the Observances and Constitutions of the said Church I admit the Holy Scriptures in that sence wherein it has ever been and is still held by Mother Church to whom it belongeth to judge of the true Sence and Interpretation of the Holy Scriptures neither will I either receive or interpret it but according to the unanimous consent of the Fathers I do confess likewise that there are Seven true and proper Sacraments of the New Testament instituted by Christ our Lord which are all necessary to the health of Mankind tho' not to every particular Person they are Baptism Confirmation the Eucharist Order Penance Matrimony and Extream Unction which do all conferr Grace on those that receive them worthily and of these seven Sacraments that Baptism Confirmation and Orders are to be received but once neither can they be repeated without great Sacrilege I admit and receive all the Customs Rites and Ceremonies received and approved of in the Roman Church in the solemn Administration of the said seven Sacraments and do also receive and embrace all in general and every thing in particular that has been defined and declared concerning Original Sin and Justification in the Holy Council of Trent I do likewise confess that in the Mass there is offer'd to God a true and proper Sacrifice of Pardon both for the Quick and the Dead and that in the most Holy Sacrament of the Eucharist there is the true real and substantial Body and Blood together with the Soul and Divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ and that the whole substance of the Bread is by Consecration turned into the Body of Christ and the whole substance of the Wine into his Blood which Conversion the Catholick Church calls Transubstantiation Moreover I do confess that under each Species Christ is entire and the true Sacrament is received I do constantly hold and confess that there is a * Purgatory John Fisher Bishop of Rochester in his 18th Article against Luther does acknowledge the Doctrine
makes many Prayers and Petitions to God yet when he comes to Consecrate he useth only the words of Christ none others belonging to the substance of Consecration so the Priest speaking in the Person of Christ makes this Divine Sacrament because by virtue of those words he turneth the substance of Bread into the substance of the Body of Christ and the whole substance of the Wine into his Blood there remaining nothing of Bread and Wine after that but only the Accidents or Species of them and that after such a manner that the whole of Christ's Body and Soul and Divinity are contained under every Particle of both tho' never so small when separated so that in every crumb of the Host tho' never so small there is Christ intire and in every drop of the Species of Wine that is separated there is Christ entire so that in each of the Species whole Christ God and Man is received as also the true Sacrament for which reason Holy Mother Church does not use to Communicate the Faithful but †Vnder one Species What makes the Sacrilege of denying the Cup to the People in the Sacrament to be something the greater is that most of the Roman Doctors do hold that there is more Grace convey'd to People by communicating under both the Species of Bread and Wine than under that of Bread only Vasquez Cap. 2. Quaest 80. Art 12. Disp 215. Nay Pope Clement the VIth in his Bull to the King of England in the Year 1341 acknowledgeth as much wherein he tells that King that he granted him the privilege of communicating under both kinds that he might receive the more Grace by receiving the Sacrament so under one Species because in that they receive Christ entire To this Divine Sacrament the Worship Veneration and ‖ Adoration The Primitive Christians must have been People of a strange confidence in triumphing as they did over the stupidity of the Heathen Worship for being directed to Objects that were subject to all the Accidents and Casualties that any other Bodies are subject to had they themselves at the same time Worshiped the Host which is subject to more Accidents than the Stone Wood or Brass of the Heathen Images for they that do Worship it cannot deny but that the Host may be Stole Burnt eat by Mice or other Vermine and if kepâ— too long will of it self Mould and Corrupt They must certainly have the privilege of believing what they have a mind to that can believe That if the Primitive Christians had had any such Doctrine as this of Transubstantiation among them considering how many especially in times of Persecution apostatized from the Faith that it was possible for them to have concealed it from Celsus Lucian Porphyry and above all from Julian the Apostate or that those Heathens if they had but had the least inkling thereof would not have made the World to have rung with the noise of it wherefore their having never mentioned any such thing considering the Wit and Spite of the Men is a demonstration that there could be no such Doctrine among Christians in their days neither can Schelstrat's Doctrina Arcani considering the great numbers quality and temper of Renegado's do any service in this case Adoration of Latria is due or the same that is due to God who is contained therein and is really present there The Effect that this Sacrament worketh on the Souls of those that receive it worthily is the Vnion of the Man with Christ and by it through Grace the Man is incorporated into Christ and joyned to his Members Moreover by this Sacrament Grace is increased in all such as receive it worthily so that whatever effects Carnal eating and drinking works upon a Man as to his Corporal Life the same are wrought upon Man by this Divine Sacrament as to a Spiritual Life Decree I. THere being nothing so necessary for the Faithful as the acknowledgement of and thankfulness for so profound a Blessing and so excellent a Mercy as that which our Lord Christ did for us in leaving himself under the Sacramental Species to be the true Food of our Souls and for the consolation support and remedy of the Spiritual Life of Believers we ought therefore wholly to occupy our selves in the Veneration of that Divine Mystery In order whereunto Holy Mother Church besides the continual Thanks and Veneration which she always gives and shews hath ordained a particular Day in the Year for the celebration of the Memory of so great a Blessing which not being * Observed in this This Feast is of later standing by at least 100 Years than the Doctrine of Transubstantiation It was Instituted in the Year 1240 by Pope Vrban as is commonly said upon a Vision a Nun had of the Church's being Imperfect for want of it but the Spaniards will have a Miracle that was wrought in Spain at thâ—â— time which is both too long and too ridiculous to relate to have given occasion to the Pope's instituting it The Indulgences granted to it by Pope Vrban Martin and Eugenius are 500 days Pardon to all that shall be present at its first Vespers 500 to all that shall be present at the Mass of the day 500 to all that shall be at its second Vespers and 500 to every day of its Octaves as also 500 to every hour of them and wheresoever it finds any place interdicted it takes off the Interdict for eight days observed in this Diocess the Synod desiring that in all things this Church may conform her self to the Customs of the Holy Mother the Universal Church of Rome doth command the Festivity of the most Holy Sacrament to be Celebrated in all the Churches of this Diocess on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday according to the Stile of these Parts and the said Day to be kept by all sorts of People and that thereon either before or after Mass they make a Procession through the Town or in some convenient place with all possible Solemnity in the same manner as they do upon Easter-day Decree II. THe Synod doth declare That every faithful Christian so soon as he attains to the Years of perfect Discretion that is to say Men at the Age of fourteen more or less according as their Confessors shall think fit and Women having a Capacity to know what they do at the Age of twelve are obliged to receive the most Holy Sacrament of the Eucharist once a Year in Lent or at Easter from the hands of their own Vicar or Curate of their Church and that whosoever does not receive it being capable betwixt the beginning of Lent and the second Sunday after Easter shall be declared Excommunicate on the third Sunday and be held as such untill they have confessed themselves and Communicated Nevertheless the Synod gives Licence to such Vicars as know their Parishes to be of that Nature that it is not possible for the People to comply with this Obligation in so short a time
is said Qui comedit corpus meum bibit ex sanguine meo sanctificante liberabitur ab inferno per me the words of Christ Habet vitam aeternam shall be used instead of Liberabitur ab inferno and in the end of the third Blessing where it is said Gloria illi ex omni ore Jesu Domino it shall be said Jesu Domino Deo because the Nestorians do impiously affirm That the name of Jesus is the name of a humane Person and does not agree to God All the above-mentioned particular the Synod doth command to be Corrected as is here ordered with such caution as is necessary in these Matters wherein the cursed Nestorian Hereticks have sown so many Errors Decree II. WHereas in the Missals of this Diocess there are some Masses that were made by Nestorius others by Theodorus and others by Diodorus their Master which are appointed to be said on some certain days and which carrying those Names in their Titles are full of Errors and Heresies the Synod doth command all such Masses entire as they are to be taken out and burnt and in virtue of Obedience and upon pain of Excommunication Latae Sententiae doth prohibit all Priests from henceforward to presume to use them ordering them to be forthwith cut out of their Books and at the next Visitation to be delivered by them to the most Illustrious Metropolitan or to such as he shall appoint to correct their Books that so these Masses may be burnt Decree III. WHereas in the Masses of this Bishoprick there is an impious sacrilegious Ceremony which is the Priests after having dipt that part of the Host after his having divided it which he holds in his right hand and has made the sign of the Cross upon the other part that is upon the Patin opening this latter part that was upon the Patin with the Nail of his right Thumb to the end according to their Opinion that the Blood may penetrate the Body that so the Blood and Body may be joyned together which is ignorantly done in allusion to the Heresie of Nestorius or of his Followers who do impiously affirm That under the Element of Bread is only the Body of Christ without Blood and under the Element of Wine the Blood without the Body Wherefore the Synod doth command in virtue of Holy Obedience and upon pain of Excommunication to be Ipso facto incurred that no Priest presume to use any such Ceremony and that they throw it out of their Masses for that besides it alludes to the forementioned Heresie it contains a great ignorance in supposing that the Species can penetrate the Body and Blood of Christ Decree IV. FOrasmuch as the Syrian Mass is too long for Priests that have a mind to celebrate daily the Synod doth grant License for the translating of the Roman Mass into Syrian desiring the Reverend Father Francisco Roz of the Society of Jesus to undertake the Work which Mass together with all the Roman Ceremonies the Priest may say on particular Occasions but the solemn and sung Masses of the day shall be always the Syrian as they shall be emended by the most Reverend Metropolitan and such Priests as are able to say Masses both in Latin and Syrian in the Churches of other Diocesses may say it in Latin but not in this Bishoprick in which to avoid confusion it shall be said only in Syrian Wherefore the Synod desires the Bishops of those parts to give License that the Priests of this Diocess having Letters dimissory from their Prelate that do not know how to say Mass in Latin may be permitted to say the Syrian Mass in their Churches or at least the Roman translated with all its Ceremonies into Syrian the Schism which this Church has been in being now thorow the goodness of God removed entreating the most Illustrious Metropolitan the President of this Synod that he would be pleased to present this Petition in behalf of the Priests of this Diocesâ— to the first Provincial Council that shall be celebrated in the Province that so if the Fathers shall think fit it may pass into a Decree Decree V. WHereas the Power of handling the Holy Vessels is given particularly to the order of the Subdeacon this Synod doth command that from henceforward if the Minister that assists at the Mass be not a Subdeacon that the Priest shall not put the Patin into his hand when he is ordered by the Syrian Mass to do it such a one having no Authority to touch it but he may lay his hand only on the stone or wood of the Altar so as not to touch the Patin which is according to the Rubrick of the Missal which supposes the Person that assists at the Mass to be a Deacon ordering expresly that the Priest shall put the Patin into the hand of the Deacon Decree VI. WHereas the Stole that is thrown over the Shoulders is the particular Badge of the Order of Deacon it is not lawful therefore for any Person that has not taken the said Order to use the Stole in the Church with any publick Ceremony and whereas hitherto all of the Clergy that have assisted at Mass tho' but in inferior Orders or without them have wore the said Stole over their shoulders no less than the Deacons contrary to the Ceremoniale which supposeth him that assists at the Mass to be a Deacon the Synod doth therefore ordain and command that from henceforward the Chamazes who do assist at the Mass and are not Deacons be not permitted to wear the Stole it would also be decent for the Deacons when they wear the Stole to be in a Surplice and to have a Towel and not to have it over their ordinary wearing Cloths as has been hitherto the Custom Decree VII THe Synod doth command That in all Churches there be Stamps of Hosts or Instruments wherewith to print the Wafers that are to be Consecrated which shall be bought forthwith out of the Fabrick-money or the Alms of the Church and that the Vicars take care to be always provided of the flour of Wheat for the making of them which they must be sure not to mix with any thing else as is done commonly in other Bread for fear there should be no Consecration therein wherefore they must either make them themselves or employ such as are of known Skill and Fidelity to do it and the same care shall be taken of the Wine that it be no other than that of Portugal and that it be not mixed with the Juice of Raisins or with any other Wines of the Countrey for the same danger Decree VIII THe Synod doth earnestly recommend it to the Priests of this Diocess to take heed in what Wine they celebrate having been informed That as some Churches by reason of their Poverty are without Portugal Wine so where it is that the Priest keeps it in Glass Bottles where being in a small quantity and kept a long time it must necessarily decay and
the whole Offices of the Advent and Nativity are little else than pure Blasphemy In the Book of Prayers for the great Fast it is frequently said that there were two Persons a Divine and Humane in Christ It contains also several Commemorations of Nestorius and other Hereticks his Followers affirming Marndeay Theodorus and Diodorus and other Nestorian Hereticks to have been the Followers of St. Ephrem In the Greater Breviary which they call Hudre and Gaza or The Treasure of Prayers it is every where said that there are two Persons in Christ and one representation of the Son of God that he is the Image of the Word and the Temple of the same that the Divine Person did enlighten the Humane and that Christ advanced in Grace and Knowledge by degrees that our Lady never carried God in her Womb as Hereticks affirm Christ being a Man like to others and that she ought not to be called the Mother of God but only the Mother of the second Adam that the whole Trinity assumed Humanity and that St. Matthew taught the Hebrews so that God did not make himself Flesh which he only took as a Dwelling to cover his Glory that God accompanyed Christ on the Cross but had not taken the Humanity neither was it God that suffered that the Word of the Father changed it self into Humanity and by the Son of Mary redeemed Mankind that the Father Eternal took Flesh in the same manner as the Son that the Angel delivered his Message to the Virgin in the Temple and not at Nazareth that the pains of travail opened the Womb of the Virgin who brought forth with labour after the manner of other Women that * In the most holy Sacrament The Christians who live scattered about Mesopotamia and Assyria and whose Patriarch resides at the Monastery of St. Raban Hurnez the Persian in the Gordyaean Mountains 40 miles above Niniveh tho' Eutychians and for that reason Enemies to the Chaldean Christians do agree with them in denying Transubstantiation as appears from the following Prayer taken out of their Missal and communicated to me by my Learned Friend Dr. Hide Angeli homines laudabunt te O Christe Sacrificere pro nobis qui per Sacramenta quae sunt in Ecclesia tua docuisti nos secundum magnificentiam tuam quod sicut in Pane Vino Natura sunt à te distincta in Virtute potentia idem sunt tecum Sic etiam Corpus quod à nobis distinctum est à verbo in substantia cum illo tamen qui accipit illud adunitum est in magnificentia potentia Sic credimus non metuimus ab iniquitate quod in uno sc una Hypostasi sit filius fatemur non est duo sicut improbi id est sicut dicunt Nestoriani non enim in completionibus Sacrificii Corpus Corpus frangimus sed unum per fidem sicut docuisti nos in Evangelio tuo laus tibi qui per Sacramenta tua instruxisti nos ut lauâ—emus nomen tuum Now I take this Testimony against Transubstantiation to be much the stronger for it 's being given by the Eutychians to whose Heresie Transubstantiation had it been believed would have given great Countenance as indeed I cannot but reckon those Hereticks having no where made use of that Doctrine to support their Heresie to be a considerable Argument of its not having been believed either by themselves or by the Orthodox for had the latter believed it tho' they had not done it themselves they could not have failed to have used it as Argumentum ad hominem which is what they have no where done It is true this is only a Negative Argument but it is as true that it is so circumstantiated as to be of equal force with one that is positive So again I do not see how we could have had a clearer proof of Transubstantiation not having been believed either by the Manichees or the Orthodox than we have from the Manichees abstaining from the Cup in the Sacrament for no other reason but because they did not think it lawful to drink Wine and from the Orthodoxes proving against them from that very Institution that it was lawful and endeavouring to convince them by several Arguments that it was their Duty to receive the Cup in the Sacrament and all this without ever so much as once intimating that the Liquor in the Cup when it came to be received was Blood and not Wine in the most Holy Sacrament of the Eucharist there is not the true Body of Christ with a thousand more Blasphemies about it that Nestorius was a Preacher of Truth and in several places God is praised for having declared the Truth to Theodorus and Diodorus who was Master to Nestorius and in several Prayers they beseech God to chastise those that believe otherwise than Nestorius and his Followers whose Faith they say is founded on St. Peter's and the rest of the Apostles Moreover it is said that the Holy Virgin and her Spouse Joseph appeared before the Priests who could not tell how she had conceived and that Images are Idols and ought not to be adored nor so much as kept in Churches or in Houses of Christians there are likewise Offices of Nestorius and his Followers and Commemorations of several Hereticks In the Office for Priests departed it is sung That in the most holy Sacrament of the Altar there is only the Virtue of Christ but not his true Body and Blood all which Books and Breviaries tho' they do well deserve to be burnt for these and other Errors that they contain yet there being no other at present in this Diocess for the keeping up of Divine Service and the celebration of Religious Offices until such time as they shall be furnished with new Breviaries which the Synod desires they may speedily and that some may be Printed for them at St. Peter's in Rome the Synod doth order them to be corrected and purged from all their Errors and Commemorations of Hereticks and the entire Offices for all such and the Offices of Advent and the Nativity to be entirely tore out of their Breviaries and burnt entreating the most Illustrious Metropolitan to see it done at his next Visitation in all the Churches of the Diocess commanding all Curates in virtue of Obedience and upon pain of Excommunication to be ipso facto incurred to produce the said Books and all the other Books that they have as well of publick as of private Use and of Prayers as well as of the Mass before the said Lord Metropolitan at his Visitation in order to their being corrected by Persons appointed for that work in conformity to what is here ordained Decree XVI FOR the preservation of the Purity of the Faith the Synod does command all Priests Curates and all other Persons of whatsoever Condition or Quality within this Bishoprick in virtue of Obedience and upon pain of Excommunication within two Months after the
to be made speedily by the most Illustrious Metropolitan in the Churches of this Bishoprick all Men and Women that are above seven years old do come to be Christen'd or Confirmed those only excepted who were confirmed by the said Lord in his former Visitation or at some other or on some other occasion by some other Bishop this Sacrament as well as that of Baptism being never to be repeated in so much that all that receive it a second time wittingly are guilty of a great piece of Sacrilege besides that they receive no Sacrament thereby But in case any are doubtful whether they have ever been confirmed or not or should not remember that they were ever they shall declare so much to the said Lord or to the Bishop that is to confirm them that they may order the matter according to the merit of their doubts But if any which God forbid should sacrilegiously and obstinately despise the said Sacrament it being proved upon them they shall be declared Excommunicate until such time as they have done condign Penance and shall be punished at the pleasure of the Prelate Decree II. THe Synod to its great sorrow having been informed that some ignorant Persons in Sacred Matters and the Doctrine of the Holy Sacraments of the Church being instigated by the Devil to persist in their cursed Schism did in several places resist the most Illustrious Metropolitan in his former Visitation of these Churches so far as not only to refuse to receive the Holy Sacrament of Confirmation from him but did also oppose him publickly in the Churches and that many did absent themselves some whereof excused themselves by pretending that it was an unnecessary thing and that they had never seen nor heard of it before and others that they should be affronted by the Holy Ceremony of the Prelates touching their Cheek scurrilously upbraiding those that had received it with base provoking words telling them that they had suffer'd themselves to be affronted and buffeted with other such Sacrilegious Expressions full of Infidelity and Heresy arising from the Schism wherein they have been brought up Whole Towns conspiring together so far in this Mutiny that the despising or receiving this Holy Sacrament became the Test of their obedience or disobedience to the said Metropolitan doth therefore notwithstanding it knows they have all in common and every one in particular repented of this and being sensible of the greatness of the error they committed therein have beg'd pardon for it and upon their having confess'd their Ignorance have been graciously received by the said Lord Metropolitan and having submitted themselves to the obedience of the Holy Roman Church are ready to do all that shall be enjoyned them to prevent the life however that none for the time coming may commit the like faults or Sacrileges command That if any which God forbid shall dare to do or say any such thing against this Sacrament or the Holy Ceremonies and Rites wherewith it is administred to the Faithful that they be declared Excommunicate and be separated from the Church and the Communion of the Faithful until such time as they have undergone condign Penance at the pleasure of the Prelate and shall demonstrate their due subjection to the obedience of the Holy Church and have taken the Oath of the Faith contained in this Synod and declared that all that reject and despise the Rites and Ceremonies approved of and received in the Church in the solemn administration of this and the other Sacraments are Hereticks and Apostates from our Holy Catholick Faith as was determin'd in the Holy Council of Trent and ought to be proceeded against and punished as such according to the Sacred Canons Decree III. THe Synod doth declare That in the Sacrament of Confirmation or Chrism there must be a Godfather and Godmother as well as in Baptism to present such as are to be Confirmed according to the ancient Custom of Holy Mother Church but there shall be but only one Godfather and Godmother who must themselves have been Confirmed it being very indecent that any Person should present one to have that done to him which they have not had done to themselves and that the Man shall be above 14 and the Woman above 12 Years Old or one of them at least shall be of that Age and in this Case the Godfathers and Godmothers do contract the same Spiritual Affinities and the same Impediments that the others do in Baptism the said Spiritual Affinity being equally contracted in both these Sacraments ACTION V. Of the Holy Sacrament of the Eucharist and of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass The Doctrine of the Holy Sacrament of the Eucharist THe third Sacrament in the Order of the Spiritual Life is the Holy Eucharist tho' in Veneration Sanctity and Dignity it is the first and most excellent for containing in it the true real and substantial Body and Blood together with the Soul and Divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ the Son of God true God and true Man our Saviour and Redeemer which was instituted by him the day before he suffer'd for us as the most sweet Remate or Conclusion of all his Works and a Memorial of his Passion the fulfilling of all the ancient Figures the greatest of all the Miracles that ever he wrought and for the singular Consolation of the Faithful in his absence The Matter of this Sacrament is Bread of Wheat and Wine of the Grape only so that all that Consecrate in Bread made of Rice or of any thing else but the Flower of Wheat or of Wine that was not pressed out of the ripe Grape of the Vine do not make the Sacrament there must also be Water mixed with the Wine before it is Consecrated but in a much smaller quantity than the Wine that so it may easily * Turn For Water to turn it self into Wine is as great a Miracle as for the Priest to turn Wine into Blood turn it self into Wine before the Consecration which mixture is therefore made because from the Testimony of Holy Fathers Holy Mother Church believes that our Lord Christ himself did so whose having mixed Water with the Wine that he Consecrated makes it a great Sin to omit to do it It is also agreeable to the representation of the Mystery of what passed on the Cross and of our Lord Christ out of whose precious Side flowed Water and Blood as also to signifie the Effect of this Sacrament which is the Vnion of the Faithful with Christ the Water signifying the Faithful and the Wine our Lord Christ and the conversion of the Water into the Wine the Union of our Souls with Christ by means of this Divine Sacrament according to what our Lord said He that eateth my Flesh and drinketh my Blood dwelleth in me and I in him The Form of this Sacrament is the words of our Saviour by which the Sacrament is made for tho' the Priest pronounceth many and divers words in the Mass and
Patriarchae totius Ecclesiae Catholicae pastoris naming the Patriarch of Babylon by Name instead thereof he shall say Praecipuè oportet nos orare pro incolumitate patrum nostrorum Domini Papae naming him also Episcopi hujus Metropolis naming him also Furthermore when the Deacon a little before saith Commemoramus autem beatissimam Mariam virginem Matrem Christi salvatoris it shall be said Sanctam Matrem Dei vivi salvatoris Redemptoris nostri c. because the perverse Nestorians do impiously deny the Blessed Virgin to be the Mother of God as has been observed Furthermore when the Deacon a little lower saith Commemoramus quoque Patres nostros sanctos veritatis Doctores Dominum Sanctum Nestorium c. all which is Heretical it being an impious thing sacrilegiously to pray to God to preserve the Doctrine of Nestorius and of other Hereticks his followers in the Church all the forementioned having been such except St. Ephraim wherefore instead of them he shall say Commemoramus quoque Patres nostros sanctos veritatis Doctores S. Cyrillum c. And tho' in some Missals the Names of Nestorius Theodorus and Diodorus are already left out yet they do still remain in some and the Names of Abraham and Narcissus two of the Ringleaders of that cursed Sect are in all of them Wherefore there must be care taken to have them also left out Furthermore in the beginning of the Prayer wherein the Deacon saith Oportet nos orare exaltare unum Deum Patrem Dominum omnium adoratione dignissimum qui per Christum fecit nobis bonam spem it shall be said Qui per Jesum Christum filium suum Dominum nostrum fecit nobis bonam spem Furthermore where the Priest pouring the Wine into the Cup saith Misceatur pretiosus Sanguis in Calice Domini nostri Jesu Christi it shall be said Misceatur Vinum in Calice Domini nostri that no occasion may be given to the Error of calling the Wine before it is consecrated The Precious Blood of Christ alluding to the condemned Custom of the Greeks who as they offer the Bread and Wine before they are consecrated so they adore them too saying they do it for what they are to be and presently after where the Priest saith Expectans expectavi Dominum Corpus Christi sanguinem ejus pretiosum super sanctum altare offeramus it shall be said for the same reason Panem Sanctum Calicem pretiosum offeramus and immediately after where the Deacon saith Edent pauperes saturabuntur Corpus Christi Sanguinem ejus pretiosum super sanctum altare offeramus He shall say for the same reason Ede◠pauperes saturabuntur Panem sanctum Calicem pretiosum c. Furthermore where the Priest with a low Voice in the Prayer which begins Offeratur gloriae immoletur saith Christus qui oblatus est pro salute nostrâ he shall say Jesus Christus Dominus noster Dei filius qui oblatus est c. And where the Priest raising his Voice saith Gloria Patri c. Fiat Commemoratio Virginis Mariae Matris Christi he shall say Fiat commemoratio Virginis Marie Matris ipsius Dei Domini nostri Jesu Christi And a little lower where the Deacon saith In saecula usque in saecula Amen Amen Apostoli ipsius filii amici unigenti he shall say Apostoli ipsius filii Dei amici And where the Priest begins Pusilli cum majoribus and saith Resurrectione tuâ supergloriosâ resuscitabis eos ad gloriam tuam he shall say Per Resurrectionem tuam supergloriosam suscitabis eos Furthermore where the Deacon saith Effundite coram illo corda vestra jejunio oratione poenitentia placaverunt Christum Patrem quoque Spiritum ejus sanctum where in saying Spiritum sanctum ejus they seem to allude to the Error of the Greeks that the Holy Spirit proceedeth only from the Father and not from the Father and the Son as from one principal as the Catholick Faith confesseth and because the Nestorians by reason of the great Communication they have had with the Greeks have imbibed some of their Errors that there may be therefore no countenance given to such an Error it shall be reformed thus Placaverunt Patrem Filium Spiritum Sanctum Furthermore In the Prayer where the Priest saith Dominus Deus fortis tua est Ecclesia sancta Catholica quae admirabili Christi tui passione empta est it shall be said Quae admirabili Christi filii tui c. Furthermore near the end of the Gospel taken out of that Chapter of St. John which as has been observed is corrupted in the Syrian Translation where it is read quoniam venit hora in quâ omnes qui in monumentis sunt audient vocem ipsius it shall be read audient vocem filii Dei as it is in the Gospel Furthermore in the Creed that is sung in the Mass there are wanting several substantial words where speaking of our Lord Christ and saying that he was born of the Father before all Worlds there is wanting God of God light of light very God of very God all which shall be added to it as also the word consubstantial to the Father leaving out the words that are in its place in the Syrian filius essentiae Patris and the whole shall be reformed and translated into the same words as it is sung in the Catholick Church in the Roman Missal Furthermore presently after the Creed where the Deacon praying for and making a Commemoration of the Holy Apostles Martyrs and Confessors desires of God that he would raise them up that they may be Crowned with Glory at the Resurrection of the Dead saying Oremus in quam ut resurrectione quae est ex mortuis à Deo coronâ donentur which besides that it is not the Custom of the Church to pray for the Holy Apostles Martyrs and Confessors nor to desire any good thing for them whom we believe to be in possession of Bliss but much rather to * Pray to them The Malabar Custom in this is much the ancienter as appears from all the ancient Liturgies in all which Petitions Christians prayed for the Dead no otherwise than as we pray for them in the Lord's Prayer in the Petition Thy Kingdom come and in the Office for the Burial of the Dead where we beseech God of his gracious goodness shortly to accomplish the number of his Elect and to hasten his Kingdom Pray to them to intercede for us and to obtain for us of God whose familiar Friends they are all that we stand in need of and is of importance both as to all our Spiritual and just Temporal Concerns it seems to allude to the Nestorian Opinion That the Souls of the Saints are not to see God until after their Bodies are raised at the day of Judgment and that till then they are in a Terrestrial Paradise which is Impious