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A52184	The liturgical-discourse of the holy sacrifice of the masse by omission of controversial questions; abridged and accommodated to the pious use of devout Christians in hearing masse, by A.F. the authour of the same at the instance of some devout friends.	Angelus à Sancto Francisco, 1601-1678.	1675 (1675)	Wing M938; ESTC R217659	145,436	447

Other times we may go in Spirit with the Maries to find him in the Sepulcher that is to imitate their Devotions in seeking their Master and rejoyce that we may find him on the Altar Lastly we may call to mind the saying of St. Paul He that eats and drinks unworthily eats and drinks judgement to himself For Christ sits on the Altar as in a Judgement Seat for as the Psalmist sayes he loves Mercy and Judgement they both go as Companions together No where hath God shewn greater Mercy than in this Sacrament yet so that if we do abuse his Mercy we can expect no other thing but Judgement Q May we adore the Altar A. I hope none will be so Impertinent as to think that Christians Adore the Altar as having any Diety in it we Adore and Reverence the Altar as David did Adore towards the Holy Temple and why not for its material Substance nor for its Ornaments but for that our Lord is pleased there to make his abode or as he adored God's foot-Stool by which the Hebrews understood the Ark or as Daniel kneeled down Three times a day towards Jerusalem where the Temple stood If this may be done to the Ark and Temple with much more reason may we do it before the Altar which hath Reference to the Eucharist that is the true Body and Blood of Christ so that all the Reverence Worship and Adoration which we make before the Altar is referred to God in whose respect alone it is due 3. Of the Crucifix Q. What do you mean by the Crucifix A. Nothing but the Figure or Image of Christ Crucified which the Church has used to put on the Altar to put us in mind of Christ's Death and Passion whereof the Masse is a Commemoration for which Christ hath left this Sacrifice as St. Paul testifies amongst other means that the Church hath to engraft this remembrance of Christ's Passion in the hearts of the faithful she maketh use of the Crucifix or figure of Christ on the Cross that our eyes receiving the species may carry it to the heart our sense is so powerful in that effect none will say but that it is good to Preach it often that we may have it in our hearts but the sight of it even in figure makes a deeper impression in the mind and that it has been the custome of the Church to have Crucifixes on the Altar is manifest by continual Tradition Q. What reason have you for it A. Many in correspondence to the Altar whereon it is placed which as I said before may fitly represent the Mount Calvary and the Crucifix the Cross of our Saviour Secondly also in Conformity to the Altar in as much as it hath a Representation of the Judgement Seat we may consider the Crucifix as representing the Cross which will appear in that day of Judgement which Cross Christ calls the Sign of the Son of Man Thirdly as the Banner among Souldiers is put in an eminent place or at the head of the Army So the Church puts the Cross in the most eminent place to wit on the Altar as the Banner and Trophy of Christian Religion and of our King Christ Jesus St. Augustine sayes we do all rejoyce in the confession of Christ who glories in the Sign of the Cross for he cannot be esteemed to be of the Christian Militia unless with a faithful hand he erect the Standard of him Crucified Leontius above a Thousand years ago sayes The Cross is to be drawn in the Holy place of the most Sacred Church towards the East that is the Altar which is for the most part towards the East for by the Salutiferous Cross Man-kind is freed and by this hope is declared to those who despair Q. May the Crucifix be Adored A. Yes as hereafter I shall more fully declare in the mean time for this we have a known example of St. Andrew who seeing the Cross prepared for him cryed out Hail O Cross which art dedicated in Christ's Body c. O good Cross which hast received honour and beauty from the members of Christ long desired sedulously loved sought without intermission and at last prepared to a desirous mind take me from Men and restore me to my Master who by thee redeemed me Loe how the blessed Apostle adores the Cross which was a figure or Image of Christ's Cross And Leontius before cited The Sons of Christians adoring the Type of the Cross do not adore the nature of the Wood but beholding Christ himself for by this we salute and adore him who was crucified thereon And St. John Damascene truly the pretious and venerable Wood whereon Christ has once offered himself for us as Sanctified by the touch of his Body and Blood is decently to be adored the Nails Sphear and Cloth also we adore also the figure or Image of the pretious and life giving Cross although it be made of another material not Worshiping the matter far be it from us but the figure as the sign of Christ From whence we may gather that no Catholick adores the material substance of Crosses or the painting of them but as the Holy Fathers say what is represented by them in which sense they have nothing but a representative being and as it is said before terminates only on the prototype Yet I cannot say but that the true Cross of Christ Dignified by Christ's Body and Blood may have a Religious respect and adoration which is not found in others but only in as much as they represent Christ Crucified and in him and for him as to him to be adored Q. What use do Christians make by the Crucifix on the Altar A. First we have Copious matter of Devotion the Type of our Redemption Secondly We have matter of compassion on our Saviour's suffering for our sake Thirdly Of compunction in considering knowing that our sins have been the occasion thereof Fourthly Of Thanksgiving for so inestimable a benefit of our Redemption on the Cross Fifthly Of Imitation by having a willing mind to suffer for him who hath suffered so much for us Sixthly Of Hope which nothing confirms so much as that Christ dyed for us on the Cross Seventhly Of Admiration for there never was a greater nor yet so great a subject of Admiration as that God should dye an ignominious Death on the Cross for our Sins Eighthly Of Love and Charity for God could not shew greater love to us than to debase himself for our sakes Lastly To omit what each ones Devotion may suggest we are thereby excited to the exercise of Patience in all our Afflictions Tribulations and Persecutions with these and such like Considerations all Catholicks entering into the Church and beholding the Crucifix do sign themselves with the sign of the Cross as conforming their will to suffer for Christ Jesus and to arme themselves from the Temptations of the Enemy 4. Of Images Q. Is it lawful to have Images in the Church A. Our Controvertists have so

and as such implores the mercy of God putting their whole hope and trust in the multitude of his mercies whence Alcuinus and others say Although we ought at all times to acknowledg before God by confession and contrition that we are sinners yet especially in the time of Masse by which Sacrifice and Oblation the grace of indulgence and remission of sins are mercifully granted imitating herein the holy Thief who being present at our Saviours passion cryed out We indeed are justly condemned for we receive things worthy of our doings O Lord remember me Q. Why does the Priest then raise his voice A. That all present may attend to that which so much concerns them for as Bishop Steven and others teach The raising of the voice is an oral confessing breaking his former silence as a Testimony of Repentance by the voice of the Priest from all those who are partakers of the Sacrifice of the Masse the Priest therefore interrupts his secret prayer expressing in words what is in his heart thereby also to move the hearers to consider that we are all sinners although we are here Gods servants that is doing now Gods service and that although we are sinners yet with a lively faith and firm hope in the merits of Christ's passion we presume to ask mercy and pardon and as in voice he expresses the interiour affection of his mind so by knocking his breast he declares it in action after the example of the Publican who knocked his breast saying Lord be merciful to me a sinner So the Priest here knocks his breast and vertually cryes out Lord be merciful and propitious to us sinners Q. What more doth the Priest pray for here A. In hope of Remission of our sins he here prayes for the greatest effect of this Sacrifice viz. the participation of and Society with the Apostles and Martyrs and all the Saints praying that God out of his infinite mercy would pardon our sins and admit us into their holy company And this in correspondence to the mystery here represented for Christ's death is our Redemption and the way to Heaven is laid open unto us whereof we have a Testimony of the good Thief who deserved to hear This day thou shalt be with me in Paradise which is the same in effect with that which the Church here desires for to be in consort and company of the Saints is all one as to be in Paradise or Heaven Here we may raise acts of Contrition and sorrow for our sins and after the example of the Priest knock our breasts saying in heart or word I have sinned Lord and I detest my sin as the unhappy cause of all thy dolours and most grievous sufferances but thou O Jesu the Son of David have mercy on me and out of charity we may pray for all sinners and after this we may adjoyn our selves to the Priest praying and begging that we may be associated to the holy court of Heaven Q. Why does the Priest make here so many Crosses A. None ought to wonder at what the Church in all ages has practised but piously consider the mysteries represented thereby for the Priest makes three Crosses on the Host and Chalice to represent unto us the three Hours wherein Christ hanged on the Cross we may also contemplate that Christ was contemned and reviled by three sorts of persons by the Priests Scribes and Elders who together with the people wagging their heads said Vah which is an interjection or voice of derision insultation reproach and detestation those who were crucified with him railed at him the Souldiers also mocked and derided him Now a little after this the Priest takes the holy Host and with it over the Chalice makes the sign of the Cross three times to signifie that the Sacrifice is available for three sorts of persons 1. For those in Heaven to the increase of their glory 2. For the Souls in Purgatory to the relief of their sufferances 3. For those on Earth to remission of their sins and increase of grace Durand contemplates in these three crosses the threefold sufferance of Christ on the Cross which he calls compassion propassion and Passion Compassion in heart taking pity of our miseries and thirsting after our Redemption with a most vehement and ardent desire which he expressed on the Cross when he said I Thirst to wit the Salvation of Souls devout St. Bernardine speaketh of this Thirst crys out O love overcoming all things how have you exceeded in good Jesus all Torment of mind and Body and having respect to the fruit of his passion it only grieved him that he could not be tormented perpetually which the Saint thus declares Christ offered himself for all Eternity whence by desire he would have dilated his life for a certain infinity fully offering it to sustain infinite deaths Propassion in excess of charity for as the Prophet Isay says He surely hath born all our infirmities and carryed all our sorrows he made all our sorrows troubles afflictions and pains as his own and in them suffered for us yea it more grieved him to see our ingratitude and neglect of his passion then all his torments with this Propassion he began his passion when he said My Soul is sorrowful even to death Christ as St. Thomas says did not so much grieve for the loss of his temporal life as for our sins and in this he continued even to his Corporal death we may well say that as death was the end of his life so his sorrow came to that excess that it could not be greater Lastly his Passion wherein we may consider his innumerable pains and torments the great Abiss of his Humility and the infinite utility thereof Cardinal Drogo contemplates Christ hanging on the Cross wounded in his whole Body from top to toe and bathed all in blood crying out O all ye that pass by the way attend and see if their sorrow be like to my sorrow if their labour be like to my labour and if their love be like to my love Now for the other two Crosses which Durand observes joyning these to the other three we may contemplate the true substance in Christ his Divinity Soul and Body and in the two last the Soul and Body separated in his death but more properly these two last Crosses which are made at the side of the Chalice signifie the two Sacraments which did slow from our Saviours side to wit the water of Regeneration the blood of our Redemption according to the testimony of St. John one of the Souldiers with a Spear opened his side incontinently there came forth blood and water Q. Why does the Priest lift up the Chalice and Host A. To represent the taking down of Christ from the Cross for to this end he elevates them together and then setting them down on the Corporal represents the deposition of his body in the Syndon to the Sepulcher for Joseph taking his body wrapped it in a clean Syndon