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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11925	A sermon declaringe hovv vue [sic] are iustified by faith	E. T.	1549 (1549)	STC 22238; ESTC S104732	35,885	122

Christe agayne is contrary to fayeth and good workes For they glorifye the merittes of Christes passion when the offeringe of him agayne is greate derogacion to the same They do as a man that lyghteth a candle in a bright sunnye Daye saynge all thoughe the sunne giueth a light cleare inoughe it of selfe yet it is necessarye and profitable that more lyght be put thereto But a man maye answere sayeing why do you mocke your selfe You haue the bryghte daye in derision as if the sunne were not sufficiente wyth out your lyght So although the merites of Christes passion are sufficient to forgyue synne as the sōne is to make a light daye yet the popishe massmōgers wyll offer him vp againe The sacrifice of the Masse for remission of synnes thoughe there be none such is like a candel lighted in a bright sunny daye and so slander the true sacrifice to be vnperfect But as we se by the brightnes of the daye so by the knowledge of Christes merites we perceyue the goodnes of God towardes vs and fayeth is profitable to vs as a gifte of God and throughe faith we do good workes wyllinglie as obediente childerne but no other good workes ▪ then suche as are cōmaunded by God We haue nowe declared the sacrifice of the Masse to be agaynst godes commaundement the wordes of God and hys glorie And nowe we wyl proue these argumentes and assertions to be dreames of scriptur preposterously vnderstāded playne lyes which not onely cannot proue and affirme the Masse to be a sacrifice but also whollye make againste it It is therfore euidently perceyued that thys popishe Masse is an horrible abominacion before God That they ought to dispute proue and affirme by Christes ordinaunces wyth sure demonstracions and plaine textes of scripture that the Masse is a sacrifice But there is not one worde or example that maketh for them as I haue before declared They woulde wrast and turne thys sayinge Do thys in my remembraunce to mayntayne there lyes as who say God would these wordes shoulde signifie to offre or do sacrifice When they muste be this vnderstanded what so euer you haue seene hearde or done do it in remembraunce of me but they cannot fynde in all the supper That Christe dyd offre vp sacrifice They obiecte that euerie byshop chosen of men and appointed for men touchinge these thinges that belonge to god doeth offer gyftes and sacrifices firste for hymselfe and then for the people Thys assercion is of no vertue or strength for here Saynte Paule speaketh of the priestes of the olde lawe whiche were a figure onely of Christ as ye may easly perceiue by these wordes folowing the same texte saying No man muste take vppon hym the dignitye of priesthode cxcepte he be called of God as Aaron and thei which were of the lymage of Aaron But what is become of these priestes Al thei wer deposed and abolished by Christes death and Christe become a priest in their sted not of the order of Aaron but of Melchisedeche a man therefore maye knowe that thys place of Paule maketh nothynge for their Maskinge sacrifice And if they wyll haue it to agree both to the priestes of the olde lawe and newe Testamente they most proue whether they be priestes or no. As the name of prieste maketh not a prieste but his dedes like as a begger named prince heringe princes to be rulers of people and countreis If he claime a people and countrie which he maye rule and gouerne shal he therfore 〈◊〉 a people and countrie to rule ▪ So the popishe priestes that are priestes in name onlye hearinge that the priestes of the olde lawe did offer sacrifice for synnes after godes cōmaundemēte if they cleime the same authorite shal thei therefore haue it But thys is a harde sayinge to saye there are no priestes nowe in the newe law Let no man be offēded ther wyth for vndoubtedlye there be no priestes nowe appointed of God to offer for synnes but euerie christiā man is ordeined of Christe to be a prieste to praye to gyue thankes and prayse to god and to offre vp them selues in sacrifice Saynte Peter sayeth you are a chosē generacion a royall priesthode and a holly people meaninge therbye al christen people as by al christian men The holy gost teacheth the priestes of the newe testamente that is to saye al christen people are of muche more honoure and dignitye then weare the priestes of the olde lawe but none of these priestes can offre for synnes Yet they obiecte how can the churche continewe if we shall haue no priestes to teach correcte rebuke and exhort the people We answere that God wyll euer raise vp some in the congregacion to do these thinges And Christ hath ordeined in al congregacions a shepherde and preachers but no massmongers whiche haue brought in to the churche manye errous by theyr vaine ceremonies and maskynge Also where Saynt Paule sayeth if we synne wyllinglye after we knowe the trueth there is no sacrifice lefte to purchese vs remission of sinnes these papistes gather of this saing that ther is no sacrifice to helpe them that synne wylfullye but that there is a sacrifice yet remayninge for the fayethful which is their masse They faulsely vnderstande the texte For S. Paule sayeth a litle before the there is nomore sacrifice remayning for them whose synnes are forgyuen al readye and therefore one place expoundeth another and plainly declareth the there is lefte no more sacrifice for them that sinne of set purpose or for the that haue obtayned remission of sinnes alredie for Christ offered him selfe for the syn of those the beleue in him wil not offer him selfe againe for thē the beleue not but wilfully remayne in their sinnes They obiecte that we haue an aultar whereof it is not leaful for thē to eate which minister in the tabrenacle meaninge by thys aulter a heape of stones ioyned together whiche they call an aulter but Christe hym selfe is oure aulter wher on we laye oure prayers whiche are oure spirituall sacrifices for no prayeres are accepted of God the father but by Christ For he sayth if you aske my father any thynge in my name he wyll gyue it you And saynt Paulle expoundeth his owne sainge Let vs offer sayth he at al times by him a sacrifice of prayse whiche is the frutes of our lippes confessing his name We lye therfore when we call the masse our Lords aulter for Christ is our onely aulter and S Paule in all his Epistle to the Hebrues doth knoweledge none other sacrifice for sinnes but Christ once offred on the crosse The papistes haue no place of the newe testament to make wyth thē and therefore they seke helpe of the olde testamente And firste of the boke of Genesis they saye Melchisedech Was the Genes xiiii fygure of Christe for he was the prieste of the hygheste And as Dauid sayeth Christe is an eternall prieste after the order of Melchisedech And

good a countenaunce with as like fauour as Christ him self for there is like state of the hed and other membres For whoe dare eyther accuse or condemne them that God hath chosen them that god hath promysed iust and for whome Christe is medyator and intercessour They are clothed with Christe and all his garmentes wherfore as Iaacob pleased his father in Esau his steade hauīg on Esau his clothes Semblably wyll take vs for no true sonnes clothed with the righteousnesse of Christ and wyl geue vs the enheritaunce of his heauenlye kingdome with Iesu Christ hys sonne to whome be all honor and glory for euer and euer Amen Finis ¶ To the right worshipfull and his singuler good Master Siluester Butler George Bancrafte Wishethe prosperitye and healthe boeth of bodye and soule WHen I considered wyth my selfe the greate daūgerous abuses in the administracion of such sacramentes as our sauiour Iesus Christe left to his misticall bodie the churche of the fayethfull to be externe signes and tokens of suche giftes as God hath and doth dailie worcke in vs to his own glorie and saluacion of oure soules ▪ I can fynde perceiue and proue none to be somuche abused as the holy and sacret supper of our Lord. For wher as he ordined that holy sacramēt of his bodie and bloud to be eaten and dronken in remembraunce of his passion whose frute they taste therin which haue ther stedfaste fayth in hym And thereby shewe furth the Lordes death vntyll he come and as brede is made of many graines wyne of many grapes so the membres of the congregacion of Christes churche Haueinge one God one fayeth and one Baptisme are put in remēbraūce in eateinge and drinkinge that they are one bodie whereof Christe is the hed The beally bishopes of Babilon the Romishe Antichrist haue anullyd extripate cleane abolished the ordinaunce of Christ and vse of thappostelles in the administracion therof And haue of their owne brayne excogitated deuised and brought in to the churche a newe and straynge ordinaunce for the same whiche is as cōtrarie to christes wil and purpose touching that blessed supper as heauē to earth lyght to darknes lyfe to death and they call it the blessyd Masse but it maye be truely callyd a diluesh Masking for menes eies are masked there with that thei cannot se the trueth but through that detestable abominacion haue bene brought to moste miserable perdiciō for they applie it to souldyoures in war for faire weather and rayne for the plage pockes and suche other diseases for beastes sicke of the morren for preseruacion of health and for remissiō of synnes boeth for the quicke and deade I wyl not speake how God is mocked therin and Christe had in derision they pley booe pepe wyth seste me or seste me not My pene abhoreth to write what duckinge knellenge lickinge kissing or Crossing and breathing these diuilles apes haue deuised in thys whorishe Masse ther desguisinge In apparell at Masse hath picked manye a pore mannes purs and hath robbid theire soules of the true frutes of the spirite for al suche somes of monie that men shoulde haue bestowed on theire poure parentes childrē and nedie neighbours was to litle for their vestimētes albes stoles chalices corporaces aulter clothes Massbockes and suche other wherein Christe hath no delite for Christe and the Appostelles vsede none suche disguisynge in the admininistracion of thys blessid Sacrament of Christes bodie and bloud but were contendid with such ramente as they were accustomed daylye to were so these shameles Idolaters shewing them selues of what generacion they are dare so bouldlye face out such manifeste lyes agaynste gods glorye the plaine truth and ordinaunce of christ What shal I speake of these holi mumers I would haue saied holy Masse mongers that whan they here of any rich manes death they flocke together lyke rauennes to a dead Carrē Not to conforte them that mourne for the deade wyth hope of the resurrection of the fleshe not to gyue thankes to God for them that are departed in the fayeth of Christe nor to praye that we departinge in the same fayeth maye wyth them receyue like rewarde but to get money with Requiem eternā and pro quorum memoria corpus Christi sumitur with censing dashing of holy water such other lyke Iuglinges so that the ryght vse of it is cleane altered as thought christ had neuer ordeined it in remembraunce of his death and passion and for as much as in thys treatise folowinge the true vse of the Lordes supper and also the deuelishe patchinge of the popishe Masse is in fewe wordes liuely declared I haue thought it good to trāslate the same into the englishe tonge to the edifinge of my dere bretherne in Christ praiinge God the father of oure sauiour Iesus Christ that these thinges may shortlie be reformed that the pore flocke of Christ be nomore deceyuede wyth suche craftye conueiaunce to kepe them in cōtenual blinded for lucres sake to the great daunger of their soules and pernicious derogaciō of gods glorie to whome be honour and glorye for euer AMEN FOr asmuche as God hath commaunded vs by his Appostle i. Pet. iii. Peter Oh ye fathers of oure countrie in wysdome grauitie and godlines to be readie at all tymes to gyue an answere to euery mā that asketh vs a reson of oure fayth it is mete that we should more gladly answere to a questiō proponed beinge requirede of you oure moste Soueraigne Magistrates to whome we knowe also what is oure dutie in other thinges We haue affirmed and vpon sure grounde and reason proued in oure publike sermons that the popishe Masse is not an offering for the quicke and dead but a moste detestable abominaciō before god And therfore a man wyll not belyue how glad we are which loue the truthe that you oure moste prudent senatours require of vs an answer to thys question for we conceyue greate hope that God whyche moueth you to desire to atteine the knowledge of the light and truth wil of his infinite mercye encrese hys grace in you that after the example of the godlye kinges Ezechias and Iolias when the trueth diligently serched out and truly knowen you wyl take awaye abolishe and vtterlye distroye all such tradicions of man as are repugnante to the worde of God And al suche thynges as are taught and set fourth contrarie to the ordinaūce of god and holsome doctrine of Christe whiche thinges stire vp the anger and griuouse displeasure for God agaynste vs miserable creatures for in so doinge you shall norishe confirme and establishe peace vnitie and concorde in thys noble citie of Basell and bringe your subiectes to a sincere godly fourme of lyuinge that at the daie of Iudgement the bloud and condempnacion of moste detestable sinners shall not be required at your handes being oure Magistrates and gouerners but rather you shal be rewarded of God and receyue in thys worlde prayse and