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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05808	The manuall of prayers, or the prymer in Englyshe set out at lengthe, whose contentes the reader by the prologe next after the kalendar, shal sone perceaue and there in shal se brefly the order of the whole boke. Set forth by Ihon late bysshope of Rochester at the co[m]aundement the ryght honorable Lorde Thomas Cro[m]wel, Lorde Priuie seale Uicegerent to the Kynges hyghnes.; Book of hours (Salisbury). English	Church of England.; Hilsey, John, d. 1539. aut	1539 (1539)	STC 16010; ESTC S105269	116,690	240

the supper of the LORDE in the which amonge many goodly sentences of the Sacrament as indede there is plentye he hathe thys sentence Christe thys sacrament sometyme doth call hys body sometyme hys fleshe bloude somtyme bread Thys commen bread the chaunged into flesh and bloude doth procure lyfe c. Although thys is very manifestly spoken yet more playnlyer he speketh in another sentence Thys bread sayeth he that the Lorde gaue vnto his disciples throughe the omnipotency of the worde chaunged not in figure or in outwarde forme but in nature is made flesh and as in the person of Christ the manhode was seue and the Godhed hyd so in the visible Sacramente the deuyne nature inuisible infundeth hymselfe to the intente that vnto the Christian religion about the Sacramentes shulde be deuotion Is not thys as playnly spoken as any man can speake To thys man beynge so auncient an holy martyr we shuld and ought to gyue credence before v C. Swynglins or any such other Yet that we maye se the argument of many good men which yet were in dyuers tymes some other shal be recyted S. Ambrose differreth not in sentence from these he sayde Because that by the death of the LORDE we are delyuered of it we declare oure selues to be myndefull in that we eate his bodye and drynke hys bloude whych were offred for vs. In the .vi. boke of the sacramentes he doth treate of the same also He also sayeth yf the worde of Helyas was of such power that he causeth the fyre to come downe from heauen Shall not the worde of Christ be of such power that it shal chaūge the substaunce of thynges that is the substaunce of breade wyne into the substaunce of hys bodye and bloude It is rede of all the workes of the worlde that he sayde the word they were made Therfore the worde of God that is the sonne of God whyche coulde of nothynge make all thynges that were can not he chasige the thynges that be into it that they were not Thou seest gentle reader the sentence of S. Ambrose thou mayest perceaue that he agreeth wyth thother S. Hierome also a man both of great learnynge and holynes dissenteth not from thys doctryne he sayeth After that the figuratyue Easter was fulfylled and Chryste wyth hys Apostles hadde eaten the Easterlambe he toke the breade whych conforteth the herte of man and went to the true Sacrament of Easter that euen as in the prefiguracion of hym Melchysedech the preste of the hygh God dyd offrynge bread and wyne he also wolde set forth the truthe of his body and bloud Saynt Austen also a famouse man bothe of lyfe and of lernyng varyeth not from those men but saythe thys in the forme of breade wyne whych we se we do honour thynges that we do not se that is the body and bloude of Christ Beholde the sentences both faythfull and godly And for as muche as the wrytters of them were men to be reputed and not disdayned esteme them of authorite S. Gregory also a man of good authoritye followed the same trade sayenge As the diuinitie of the worde doth fyll all the worlde so in many places is the body of Christe consecrated and yet be there not many bodyes of Christe but one body and one bloude Eusebius Emisenus also a mā not to be despysed sayth thys The inuisible prest with his worde by a secret power doth chaūge the visible creatures into the substaūce of hys body and bloude pondre nowe gentle readers the vnyforme consent of these doctours which as for a certayne of them althoughe they were in dyuers tymes and contryes yet the holy goost theyr scole mayster and the mayster of truth taught them all as concernynge the poyntes of our fayth one lesson of truth So that they all do agre in thys truth that in the Sacrament of the aulter is the very body of Christe Many mo mayebe rehersed that do agre in thys poynte whyche playnly were ynough to fyll a hole boke Therfore shall they be omytted trustynge that these fewe yf theyr auncient holynes and learnynge be pondered with the places of scripture aboue rehersed are sufficiente to staye a Christians herte yf he be not already drowned in heresye Seyng then that the scriptures which can not be but one and these famouse doctours agreyng to the same do teache that in the sacrament of the aulter is the body of Christe Let euery true Christian not with a dissemblyng mouth for feare of payne but with an vnfayned herte for the loue of the trouthe not onely professe but also beleue that in that sacramente is the very bodye of Christe Thys sacramente consecrated not by the power of the minister the preste but by the power of God workyng in hys word spokē of the prest people shuld frequēt for the purpose for them whych Christ dyd institue it Christ when he hab●● consecrated hys body delyuered it to hys Apostles sayde Thys do you in the remembraunce of me Then shulde all Christians frequent this sacrament for the remābraunce of Christ To what remēbraunce of Christ Verely to the remēbraunce of hys death That euery Christiā seynge or receyuyng his body shuld remēbre alwayes haue before theyr eyes that Christes body for they sake whych of themselues were vnable and vnsufficient to make amendes was delyuered to his enemyes and for theyr offence whyche they by none of theyr merites coulde put awaye was he whypped and scourged beaten and deluded nayled on the crosse and wyth a spere thorowe the herte perced and thys frely oute of that swete vessell to wass he awaye the offence he shed water and bloude Thys to them by hys passion redemed and by the same to the father reconcyled he hathe gyuen the meryte of his passion which vnfaynedly hath is and shal be sufficient for the synnes of all the worlde for he sayde Thys is my body whych for you shal be delyuered And thys is my bloude which for you shal be shed After this sorte al ye Christians when you se or receyue the Sacrament haue of Christ such a remembraunce and forget not to be thankefull For to this purpose you shuldese or receyue it and not to make a gasyng stocke of it when you haue sene you haue all done So that you thynke you haue no more to do but to se it or to receyue it And this that thankeful remembraunce of that blessed death or passion with the acknowlegyng of the frutes and benefytes of the same is forgotten and though as no parte of our duetye which of trouth is the chefe parte of our duetie as often as we by fayth do se the body of our sauyour Christ in that Sacrament And further when the death of Christ is thus remembred then shulde men also remembre that as Saynt Peter sayth i. Pet. iii. Christ hath suffred leauing an ensample vnto you that you shuld folowe his steppes which is as he dyd beare the Crosse

so you must beare your Crosse As he mortifyed our synne in his flessh beyng crucifyed on the crosse So ought you to mortyfy and slaye synne in your bodyees crucifyeng your flessh with the lustes and desyres For as Saynt Paule sayth Gala. v. they that are Christes hath so crucifyed theyr flessh Wherfore deare reader commynge to the presence of the blessed bodye of Christe of these thynges be not forgetfull but aboue all be not vnfaythful let fayth in thys matter be thy guyde And when by faythe thou beholdest Christes body by a thankfull remembraunce Remembre also the death and passion of the same bodye remembrynge the death of the bodye in the whyche thy synne was slayne beynge Crucyfyed on the crosse Remembre also to mortifye synne in thyne owne body by crucyfyenge it wyth the Iustes and desyres To thys purpose deare reader thou shuldest heare masse therfore note well and marke thys lytie rude thynge that by it thou mayest be stablyshed in thy fayth and learne by the hearynge of masse so to remembre Christes death and passō that lyke a true Christen thou mayest beare Christes crosse in thys lyfe that by the meryte of Christes death suffred on his crosse thou mayeste come to the eternall lyfe ¶ Vale. ¶ A prayer to be fayde before masse O Lorde Iesu Christe which art our very byshoppe and dyddest offer thy selfe vnto God the father a pure and immaculate hoost on the aulter of the crosse for vs myserable synners whiche also gauest thy flesh vnto vs to eate and thy bloude to drynke and madest thys mysterye of thy body and bloude in the power of thy holy sprete for a remembraunce of thy moost holy passion sayeng As of ten tymes as ye do these thynges ye shall do them in the remembraunce of me I therfore o lorde vn worthy synner of a deuoute mynde haue repared hyther vnto thy tēple although a synner to heare se that blessed sacrifice of praysynge whych thou thou thyselfe commaundest to be done for a memoryall of thy holy passion to the intente the I mygh● sture vp in me a fresh remembraunce of thy moost blessed death and to geue the thankes for that mooste mercyfull charyte that moued the to bye and redeme my soule wyth so great pryce Graunte me moost mercyfull Lorde not onlye to se thys mysterye wyth my bodely eyes but specyally to se it wyth my inwarde eyes of fayth and therby to haue holly a louely and a thankefull remembraunce of that blessed passion and death and there in to continue vntyll the houre of my death So be it ¶ A prayer to be sayde at the eleuacion tyme. HAyle very body incarnate of a vyrgyne Nayled on a crosse offred for mans synnes Whose syde beynge perced bloude ranne out plenteously At the houre of death let vs receaue the bodely O swete O holy O Iesu sonne of Mary ¶ A prayer to be sayde after the masse O Lorde God omnipotent whiche not of oure desertes but thorow the inestimable merite the blessed passion of thy sonne Iesu Christe hast redemed man and reconcyled hym to thy fauoure graunt vnto me moost myserable synner whyche haue here vnder the forme of breade and wyne by faythe sene the body and bloude of my saueoure in the remembraunce of hym so to remember his death and his sayenge that I maye take his Crosse and folow him all the dayes of my lyfe that I maye all flesshly Iustes and synfull lyuyng vtterly forsake that I maye al aduersite afflyccion and persecution paciently suffre And so folowynge thy sonne Christe here with my crosse may also continue in thy fauour vnto the which I am reconcyled by partakynge of the merites of his blessed passion and finally that I maye come vnto thy glorye whiche thou haste promised vnto thy elect thorow our Lorde Iesu Christ thy sōne Which lyueth and reyghneth with the in vnite of the holy ghost worlde without ende So be it ¶ The Prologe to the Dirige ¶ We reade in sondrye places of the Byble most deare reader that the antique people the Hebrewes had a certayne maner of lamentation for the dead as we read how Iacob was lamented and of Aaron and of Moyses in the last chapter of Exodus how they were lamēted of the people certayn dayes in lyke maner we haue of the funerall that was among the Iewes as in the last of Genesis we haue howe Ioseph was inbawmed and in the gospel howe the holy wemē prepared swete spyces to the funeral of christ of those olde Iewyssh customes hath there exepte into the church a custome to haue a certayne suffragies for the dead called dirige of Dirige the firste antheme hereof but by whom or whan these suffrages were made we haue no sure euidence of wrytyng but dyuers auctors do ascrybe it to diuers as some to S. Isodore some to Saynt Gregory some to Pelagius but whether he or the other made it or this tyme or that it forceth not muche for thys we are suere of that Saynt Paule taught vs that we shulde no vse suche lamentacion or mortnynge for the deabe as thoughe we were without hope but we shuld rather reioyce as in them that cest in the stepe of peace And as for such suffrages as are set forth in the Dirige the collettes excepted they are no more to be applyed for the dead thā for the quycke But whether these were ordeyned at the fyrste to be sayde for the soules departed or no I wyl make no doctryne oftt but this I know well that the reader of these maye haue a great learnynge and knowledge of the miseries and shortnesse of the lyfe of man and maye learne hereby to dye well and to haue a hope and truste of the laste resurrection And for this onely cause haue I also set forthe in thys primer a dirige of the whiche the thre fyrste lessons are of the miseries of mans lyfe the myddell of the funerall of the deade corpus and the last thre are of the last resurrection For the office of the funerall althoughe it profyte not the soule yet here in we not onely do testifye oure fayth that we haue in the last cysynge but also do accomplysshe the worke of charite in buryenge of the deade ¶ The Euensonge of the dirige ¶ The antheme I shall please The C.xiiii Psalme Dilexi quoniam That he hath enclyned his eare vnto me therfore wyll I call vpon hym as longe t s I lyue The snares of death compassed me rounde aboute the paynes of hel gate holde vpon me I founde trouble and heuynesse Then called I vpon the name of the lorde o lorde delyuer my soule Gracyous is the lorde and ryghteous yee oure God is mercifull The lorde preserueth the simple I was broughte downe and he helped me Turne agayne then vnto thy reste O my soule for the lorde hath gyuen the thy desyre And why thou haste delyuered my soule from death myne eyes from teares and my fete from