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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
life_n	believe_v	everlasting_a	jesus_n	6,171	5	6.1350	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06744	The displaying of the Popish masse vvherein thou shalt see, what a wicked idoll the masse is, and what great difference there is between the Lords Supper and the Popes Masse: againe, what Popes brought in every part of the masse, and counted it together in such monstrous sort, as it is now used in the Popes kingdome. Written by Thomas Becon; and published in the dayes of Queene Mary.	Becon, Thomas, 1512-1567.	1637 (1637)	STC 1719; ESTC S115076	56,616	332

you would embrace some she saint After al these things as I may let passe your crossings and blessings your crouchings and noddings with many other apish toyes yee fall againe to your solemne prayers and among all other yee stand nodding and praying in your Memento for the soules departed which was put to the Masse by Pope Pelagius about the yeare of our Lord 560. And here in your minde and thought for now yee play mum-budget and silence glumme yee pray for Philip and Cheny more than a good many for the soules of your great grand Sire of your old Beldame Hurre for the soules of father Princhard and of mother Puddingwright for the soules of goodman Rinsepitcher and goodwife Pi●tepot for the soules of Sir Iohn Husgoose and Sir Simon Sweetlips and for the soules of all your Benefactors Founders Patrones Friends and well-willers which have given you either dirige groates confessionall pence trentals year services dinners suppers or any thing else that may maintaine you our Ladies Knights But I pray you how can you with an assured conscience and true faith pray for such as are departed out of this world If these your prayers bee of faith then doe your faith hang on Gods word If you have the Word of God for you so praying bring it forth of good fellowship and wee will heare you Have ye none Alasse silly soules Then put up your pipes and lay yee downe to sleepe Trudge with your Dirges and pack up your Masses of Requiem Doe yee alleage Pope Pelagius and old Fathers or ancient customes We have nothing to doe with them except they bring the Word of GOD in their mouth Prayer is a matter of faith and faith alwayes leaneth upon the Word of GOD solely and fully If ye have not the Word of God for your prayer then can ye not pray of faith If yee pray not of faith then are your prayers abhominable in the sight of God so farre it is off that they bee heard as the Apostle saith Whatsoever is not of faith is sinne Saint Iohn saith This is the trust that wee have in him that if wee aske any thing according to his will he heareth us But how doe you aske according to the will of God when yee have not one title of the holy Scripture to declare that yee ought to pray for the dead Thinke ye to be heard of God Even as Baals Priests were when they cried O Baal heare us O Baal heare us If yee would leape upon your Altars yea and cut your selves with knives till ye be all on a gore-blo●d as their manner was yet shall yee never be heard of God For yee pray without faith seeing ye have not the Word of God for you Doe yee alleage Charitie And say It is a charitable deed to pray for them that are departed I answer yee are very Antichrists that turne the rootes of trees upward Will yee have Charity before Faith Is not Faith the mother of all vertues Is not Charitie the daughter of Faith How dare the daughter move you to doe that whereof the mother knoweth nothing at all It is not charity that moveth you to pray for the departed but blinde affection corrupt zeale and cankered custome and hope of gaine After the departure from this life all go straight wayes either unto eternall glory or else unto everlasting pain as the history of the rich Glutton and of the poore man Lazarus evidently declareth Our Saviour Christ saith Hee that beleeveth on the Sonne hath everlasting life But hee that beleeveth not on the Sonne shall not see life but the wrath of GOD abid●th on him Here also are rekoned but two kindes of persons faithful and unfaithfull the one sort after their departure goe immediately unto everlasting life the other unto eternal dam●ation And the Preacher saith When the tree falleth whether it be toward the South or North in what place soever it ●all there it heth As we depart so shall we have our place If wee depart in faith heaven is appointed for us but if wee dye in infidelitie unfaithfulnesse or misbeleefe hell is readie at hand Therefore your prayers for the dead are in every condition frustrate and vaine superfluous and unprofitable Heaven needeth no prayer Hell refuseth all prayer Notable is this sentence of Saint Augustine Know ye saith Saint Augustine that so soone as the soule is departed from the body it is straightwaies either for the good merits placed in Paradise or else for the sinnes throwne headlong into the deepe dungeon of hell Againe in another place hee saith Brethren let no man deceive himselfe For there are but two places and there is no third place for any He that hath not deserved to raigne with Christ in this world shall without doubt in the world to come bee damned with the devill And Saint Cyprian saith when wee depart hence there is no place of repentance Life is either lost or gotten But I marvell much of this one thing concerning this matter that ye pray God the Father that hee will mercifully give to all such as rest in Christ a place of refreshing of light and peace As though those that rest in Christ could want any of them all Can any man that rests in Christ bee tormented in paines darkenesse and disquietnes trouble or griefe To rest in Christ after this life is not to be payned in Purgatory if there were such a place as the Papists feigned but to raigne with Christ in glory to possesse everlasting joy and to have the fruition of Gods glorious Majestie with the heavenly Angells and blessed Spirits as it is written Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord. For the Spirit saith that from henceforth they rest from their labors And David calleth the death of the Saints pretious in the sight of the Lord. Doth not the Wise man also say that the soules of the righteous are in the hand of God and that no griefe paine nor torment shall touch them They are in peace saith hee If these things be true as nothing is more true what need ye then to stand nodding in your Memento praying for the dead Ye might as well pray for dead swine For yee have as good authority of the holy Scriptures for the one as for the other But this praying for the dead hath made your Kitchins warme your pots to seeth and your spits to turne merrily It hath fed your idle bellies with the fattest of the flocke and caused you to live in all joy pleasure and quietnesse without any labour paine or travaile Therefore no marevell though such things bee placed in your Masse Take away the praying for the dead and yee Purgatory-rakers may picke your meat upon Newmarket heath For your Dirige groats your Trentalls your Moneth mindes your Anniversaries your Bead-rowls your soul Masse-pence and all such other pelf falls to the

which as some report Pope Gregorius the first put to the Masse about the yeare of our Lord 600. Some ascribe it to Pope Silvester which lived about the yeare of our Lord 330. But it seemeth to bee borrowed of the Greeke Church forasmuch as the words are Greeke and sound in English Lord have mercie on us After these things ye goe unto the midst of the Altar and look up to the pixe where you thinke your God to be and making solemne curtesie like womanly Ioane ye say the Gloria in excelsis a godly both thankesgiving prayer very fruitfull and comfortable if it were spoken in the English tongue The Author hereof some affirme Pope Stephanus to be who lived in the yeare of our Lord seven hundred and seventy Some ascribe it to Pope Telesph●rus which was in the yeare of our Lord one hundred and thirty Some to Pope Symachus who lived in the yeare of our Lord five hundred Some to Saint Hilarie Bishop of Pict●ve about the yeare of our Lord three hundred forty and five These things dispatched out of the way yee have a pleasure to see who is in the Church and how well your Masse is frequented and therfore yee turne yee to the people if any bee there and bid them God speed in Latine with Dominus vobiscum because they understand nothing but English Turning againe to the Altar yee say certaine Collects wherof although some of them bee good yet many of them bee very superstitious and starke staring naught For in them yee set foorth before God the intercessions and merits of Saints and yee desire for the nity and worthinesse of them to be heard to have forgivenesse of sinnes and everlasting life O blasphemous Idolaters what is it to robbe Christ of his Priesthood if this be not What spoileth Christ of his merits if this doe not What treadeth under foot the pretious bloud of our Saviour Christ if the saying of such abominable blasphemous Collects doe it not The Authour of the Collects some make Pope Gelasius which lived in the yeare of our Lord three hundred ninetie Some P. Gregorie of whom ye heard before The Collects once done yee reade the Epistle but in such a tongue as the people understand nothing as yee doe all other things Some say that Pope Telesphorus of whom wee spake before added the Epistle to the Masse Some make Hierome the Authour of it which lived about the yeare of our Lord three hundred eighty seven Then doe ye say the Grayle whereof they make Pope Gelasius the Authour of whom wee spake before Immediately followeth the Allelujah which they say pope Gregorie brought in of whom also wee spake before Some say it was borrowed of the Church of Ierusalem and so brought into the Church of Rome in the time of pope D●masus It soundeth in English O praise the Lord. Here is Latine Greeke and Hebrew in your popish Masse wherof the people understand nothing but as for English which the people understand yee meddle nothing with-all because you will make them your riding fools and keep them still in blindnes Then followeth the Tract or the Sequence one brought in by pope Telesphorus the other by Abbot Nothg●rus who lived in the yeare of our Lord 845. After that yee have mumbled over all these things yee take up your Masse-booke and away ye goe to the other end of the Altar to reade the Gospel But first of all yee uncover the chalice and look whether your drinke bee there or no least you should chance to bee deceived when the time of your repast come If it bee there you make solemn curtesie to your little Idoll that hangeth over the Altar and so goe in hand with the Gospel And all in Latine because it shall doe no man good The Authour of adding the Gospel to the Masse some make pope Telesphorus some Saint Hierome of whom wee spake before Pope Anastasius who lived in the yeare of our Lord 404. ordayned that the people should stand up when the Gospel is read that they might heare and understand the Doctrine of the Gospell and frame their lives according to the same This use is observed at this day in the popish Masses I meane the people st●●d up and make courtesie when they heare the name of Iesus but they understand not one word It were as good in such sort to bee read to Swine and Dogges as to the Christian people seeing they understand it not The Gospel ended with another kisse upon the Booke yee say the Creed which as they write Pope Marcus made about the yeare of our Lord 335 cōmanded that the Clergie the people should sing it together for the confirmation of their faith After the Creed upon solemne Feasts ye use to Cense the Altar which was first brought in by Pope Leo about the yeare of our Lord 876. These things done with all solemnitie ye turne you again into the Church to see whether your customers bee come or no and so bidding them God-speed yee turne again to the Altar and goe forth with your businesse Then doe you say your Offertory which Pope Eutichi●●● brought in who lived about the yeare of our LORD 285. After the Offertory is said yee take the Chalice up in your hands with the little round cake lying upon the p●tine or cover of the Chalice and lifting up your eyes yee pray on this manner Suscipe sancta Trinit●s c. Take O holy Trinitie this oblation which I unworthy sinner offer in the honour of thee of blessed Mary the Virgin and of all thy Salu●s for the salvation of the living and for the rest and quietnesse of all the faithfull that are dead The Authour of this prayer I cannot finde It is so good that I thinke hee was ashamed to tell his Name But what thinke yee of this prayer Bee judges your selves whether any thing may be uttered more unto the dishonour of GOD and the utter defacing of CHRISTS bloud than this your popish and blasphemous orison First of all what offer ye Yee must answer either the little round cake or else the Chalice or the wine and water that is in it To whom doe yee offer it To Mary the Virgin and to all the Saints of heaven because yee will lacke no company but gratifie a multitude with a thing of nought Wherefore doe ye offer that oblation For the salvation of the living and for the rest or quietnesse of all the faithfull that are dead Ah who ever heard of such a sacrifice or oblation A wafer cake which is yet but meere bread and no Sacrament and a Chalice with a spoonefull of wine mingled with two or three drops of water to be offred for the salvation of the living and for the rest or quietnesse of all the faithful that are dead O abomination O intollerable blasphemie If Adams Posteritie might have beene