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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

then eate it spiritually in the deede it selfe No feeding to the spirituall feeding so true a feeding and so substantiall that to it only agreeth all that our Sauiour speaketh in the sixt of Iohn of eating of his Flesh and drinking of his Blood As to this thing also we are directed by our Sauiour his own speech saying It is the spirit that quickneth the flesh profiteth nothing the words that I speake are spirit and life And the conclusion of this note is that these two famous Doctors by their speeches haue ouerthrowne both transubstantiation and the Masse But to proceede in the matter in hand that the place for the Table was the middle of the Church one onely proofe will serue which is Constantine the great in his glorious Eusebius li. 10. c. 4. Gerson Church made for Christian Religion so placed it And it is reported by a Writer of theirs that when the Pope commaunded that the Tables should bee made of stone may be for the iogling of it hee would haue for himselfe a Table of boords And now I haue ended my speech concerning Scripture Doctors and the Vsier of the Church none of them testifying the Masse It may be it will be said if the Masse be taken out of the Church a thing so comely and glorious in his ceremonies the Religion of Christ will be but a bare Religion To this I answer that if it be bare it will fit well enough to that worship which must be in spirit and in truth according to our Ioh. 4. 23. Sauiour his owne saying onely decencie and order must not be neglected And when the Religion of Christ shall be thus stripped of this outwardly glorious Priest it will receiue the better iudgement from the wise A graue Philosopher or a seuere censuring Poet will giue a truer iudgement then those Gouernours of the people that to please the vulgar sort of men holding them to some Religion deuise for them such glorious shewes not caring whether the thing be true or false or agreeable to Gods word or not agreeable A wise Philosopher will not except against inhabitation of vertue in a threed bare cloake They were wise men which adored Christ lying in a Manger But such basenesse needeth not as pompe also needeth not in medio virtus vertue may be neither A Philosopher reading of the Gospels and marking our Sauiour his speaches said he was the wisest man that euer spake He looked not for any authority of the world in our Sauiour but considered his speeches And concerning glorious Churches a Poet will say In templis quid fuit aurum What doth gold in the Temples if it be saith hee the Gods will not thanke you if not they will not blame you What saith Cato Si Deus est animus c. If God be a spirit he is to be worshipped with a pure minde Numa had three sayings as that the Gods cared not for bloody Sacrifices Againe better things were not to be presented by worse things such as the Images be made of no not of gold for it is but thick clay The third thing was that the whole life of man was to be spent in Religion If a Papist should bring an Heathen Philosopher into his Church and shew the goodly Imagerie and painting therein he would aske him what else for these Images haue mouthes and cannot speake as when they brought him a childe to behold the beauty of him he said to the childe Loquere my pner vt te videam Speake childe that I may see thee hee respected inward vertue not outward shewes S. Augustine saith In humilitate hnius sacrificij non est tiphus nec cothurnus In the humility of this Sacrifice there is neither pride nor masking like Players The sum is the Religion is not discerned by gewe-gawe foolish men but by them that are graue and sober The Papist when he would gaine a Disciple he obiecteth against vs that our Religion is to easie no austerity of life for want of fasting againe bare of all comely ceremonies Both these obiections are not otherwayes to be answered then by the wisedome that is in Christs Religion As for fasting to answer in wisedome two wayes shewing that wee eate not flesh to pamper our flesh but as S. Paul saith to Timothy Drinke a little wine for thy stomacke 1. Tim. 5. 23. sake and for thy often diseases The like to be in eating of flesh and this being true without dissimulation then it will be seconded that such liberty is in Christs Religion that nothing is to be excepted against which is receiued 1. Tim. 4. 4. with thankes-giuing vnto God A good Disciple that beleeueth it A faithfull deuider of the Word that preacheth it But for comely ceremonies as farre as decencie goeth wee must goe along with them a fault to haue our houses swept and foule Churches faire benches at home and ragged Pewes Our Sauiour being to answere the obiection of fasting made his answere three wayes first that new wine was not to be put in olde bottels Math. 9. 14. Secondly that nothing would gaine them to the truth for Iohn Baptist came fasting and they said he had a diuell he came eating and they said hee was a glutton The third answer which must stand for all is that wisedome is iustified of her owne children These rules obserued they must haue an answer picked out of them But if we fasted with them their fasting a matter of no such hardnesse should wee gaine them that the answere will be the last which is that wisedome is iustified of her children And our Sauiour will say for all iudgements If I say the truth Iohn 8. 46. 47 why doe yee not beleeue me hee that is of God heareth Gods word As the wisdome of Christ in his Religion framed according to spirit and truth seemeth foolishnesse to the wise men of this wo●ld so let the wisedome of the wise men of this world be foolishnes to vs that are Christs Disciples I will deuide our Church actions into three sorts The first is our Confessions and Praises in the house of Prayer The house of Prayer is Gods house and for these Confessions and Praises they haue their approbation out of the Text As God himselfe saying in his owne person He that offereth praises glorifieth me where the word Glorifieth will answere to the obiection of wanting glorious setting forth of Church seruice euen that hee that offereth praises glorifieth him The second sort of things are Baptisme and the Lords Supper of these no question onely the Lords Supper for his name by the Masse Priest somewhat excepted against as bearing the name of Supper rather 1. Cor. 11. 2● then their deuised sacrifice of the Masse yet for this also I answer with that Prophesie Thou doest prepare a Table before me in the sight of mine aduersaries I am the bolder Psal 23. so to say because two Doctors of the Church Origen and Eusebius

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