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A12492	A defence of the blessed masse, and the sacrifice therof prouynge that it is auayleable both for the quycke and the dead and that by Christes owne and his apostles ordynaunce, made [and] set forth by Rycharde Smyth doctour in diuinitie, and reader of ye kynges highnes lesson of diuinitie, in his maiesties vniuersitie of Oxforde. Wherin are dyuers doubtes opened, as it were by the waye, ouer and aboue the principall, and cheyfe matter.	Smith, Richard, 1500-1563.	1546 (1546)	STC 22820; ESTC S107328	113,500	390

some vnderstande this prophecy of the sacrifice fulfylled by christe on the crosse but as vntruly as the other for that sacrifice was offered of christ only in one place which was the mounte of caluarie but the prophet entreateth there of a sacrifice that shuld be offered to god in all places and therfore he spake not of christes sacrifice ones doone on the crosse Agayne the prophete wrote of that sacrifice which shuld be offered to god when his name shuld be great and famous amōge the gentylles whiche was not renoumed among them before christ Mat .vi. Mar. 16 dyd suffre death but after his resurection whē he sent his apostles to preache the gospell through all the worlde to euery man Thyrdly As bucer bulliger other of that sortt they are lykewyse deceyued that vnderstand by this sacrifice here mentioned laudyng of god thankes gyuynge to him confessynge of his name contritiō of mannes harte preachyng of the gospel mortifyenge of the bodye and carnall lustes or desyres of the flesh or any lyke first bycause none of these succeded or came in to the place of the Iewes sacrifices done away anulled and vndone for euer for they all were in the tyme of the lawe of nature before Moses lawe was put forth and vnder Moses lawe and after it was abolysshed as no man can say nay and therfore this prophecy can not be taken of them or any one of them Agayne the prophet spake of one sacrifice in the synguler nomber and the●e are many wherfore he may not be vnderstande of these Moreouer the prophet dyd speake of a pure and a clene sacrifice but our workes are not pure and clene because we offend sayeth saynt Iames in many Iacobi 3. 1. Ioh. 1. thynges And Iohn saith yf we saye we haue no synne we deceyue our selfes and the trouth is not in vs Therfore this prophecye must be vnderstande of Christes very bodye and blotidde a lambe without spotte of all fylthe and synne as Peter saith and sainte Paule 1 Peter 2. 2. Cor. 5. also which he offered vnder forme of bread wyne at his last supper and gaue autorite to his apostles and theyr successours prestes and byshoppes to do the same for his Luke 22. 1 Cor. 1● remembraunce tyll his commynge agayne at the last day But I wyl brynge forthe Eusebius an olde Eusebius lib. Primo de euangelica demonstra greke writer to conferme this my purpose which thus writeth Mosaicis sacrificiis reiectis quod futurum erat nostrum ipsarum institutum propheta diuinitus nūciat dicens Quoniam ab ortusolis c. That y● prophet sheweth of god or by the inspiratiō of the holy goost that which shuld be our own ordinaūce or institutiō the sacrifices of Moses reiected sayng bycause from the rysyng of the son̄e to the goyng down sacrifice is made a clene oblation is offered to my name in euery place Therfore we do sacrifice saith Eusebius to god the highest a sacrifice of laude we do sacrifice to god a full sacrifice and bryngyng feare Et sacrosāctum sacrificium A cōsecrated sacrifice halowed and that whiche ought not to be touched but reuerentlye We do offre in sacrifice to god with a new maner after the new testament an hoost clene This can not be vnderstande of any other sacrifice than of the sacrifice of the masse for none other is offered to god nowe after a newe maner accordynge to the newe testament as euery learned man may easely perceyue and therfore it must neades be taken of that sacrifice only Agayne he saith thus after very many wordes spoken of this matter as concludyng I●aque Christus quasi mirabilem quādam victimam sacrificiū quod eximium deo patri operatus pro nostra omniū salute obtulit eiusquè rei memoriam vt nosipsi ipsi deo pro sacrificio offerremus instituit That is to witte Therfore Christe after he had wrought offered to god the father for all our helth or saluation as who saith a certen wonderful and an excellent sacrifice and hath ordeyned that we our selfes shulde offre to the same god for a sacrifice the remembraunce of the same thynge If Marten Luther or his scolers had sene this holy fathers sainges and not ly●●ed to lyke and esteme theyr owne iudgemnet more than his they wolde not haue so rashely The sacrifice of the masse was ordined by Christe and not by man as some mē saye vngodly denyed the masse to be instituted ordeyned a sacrifice of our sauiour Christe him selfe as they do ascribynge it and the settyng vp of it vnto prestes auarice and couetousnes Whose fonde Ireneus lib. 4 Ca. 32 33 ●4 leude and vngodly opinyon Ireneus an other greke wryter which was withī .clxxx. yeres of Christes byrth and sawe sainte Polycarpe saint Iohn the euangelystes disciple yea whose scholer he was as some men say doth thus euydently wryte in this matter but Christe also geuyng counsayll to his disciples to offre vnto god of his creatures the first frutes not as who saith nedynge but that they shuld be neyther vnfruitful nor vnkynde toke that breade whiche is of his creation or his creature and gaue thankes sayng Hoc est corpus Christ at his laste supper taught his apostles a newe sacrifice whiche is the holye masse meum This is my bodye And he toke lykewyse the cuppe and confessed it his bloude and he taught a newe sacrifice of the newe testamente whiche the churche receyuynge of or from the apostles offereth to god throw al the hole world What can any wyse christen man desyre to be more playnly spoken of any man than this in defence of the sacrifice of the masse Maye not I beseche the good reader men be greatly ashamed either to deny the masse to be a sacrifice or els to saye that it is nothyng but an ydoll set vp by prestes couetousnes for lucre and gaynes Ought not we rather to beleue this aunciēt father whiche was instructed by them that learned the trouth of Christes religion of the apostles scholars then Marten Luther or any of his Luther teachyng and schole which now after xv hundred yeres do laboure to brynge vp a new religion and faith amonge christen people Came not the holye goost to teache men the truth which Christ promysed Note reader Io. 14. 16 ▪ to sende to the apostles tyll Marten Luther came the fountayne almost of all heresie Hath Christe suffered his deare spouse the churche for whiche h● shed his most precious bloud to erre in his religion and the faith ▪ thus longe the space of xv hundred yeres Dyd not he promyse his apostles Matt vlt Ioh. 14. to be with them the holy churche tyll the worldes ende that he leadyng them whiche is the truth as he him selfe saith they could not be disceyued so foule in theyr belefe to thynke the masse a sacrifice ordeyned by Chrtste in the gospell it

opinions agaynst the faythe as they nowe are but they shoulde shortely ceasse and the true doctryne of CHRIST and his churche florisheth agayne whiche is knowen as Vyncentius Lyrmensis wrytte a thousand yeares synce by aunciente generalytie and agreynge of the fathers in it I was moued gentyll reader to wryte thys catholyque and godlye sentence of Saynte Basyll partely because there lacked matter to fyll the shete of paper in printynge and partely for that it was verye notable and worthy to be obserued of all learned men ¶ Hereafter foloweth the preface ¶ The preface vnto the reader THE holy prophet Dauyd good christen reader saithe that the truth of our lorde abideth for euer and therfore Psal ●● albeit many and diuers men haue from tyme to tyme euen frō the begynnynge of the churche both spoken wrytten also bokes againste it yet they coulde neuer preuayle but lost their laboures got their confusion and endlesse damnation Wherfore though the ꝓphet Daniel doth say Prosternetur Danie●is ● veritas in terra The truth shal be troden vnder the feete on the earth yet the is not ment that al the people of god shulde treede it vnder their fete dispise it but that in the tyme of Antichriste fygured by Antiochus of whome the prophet sawe a vy●●on as in the eyght chapiter of Daniel it apereth the continuall sacrifice that is the sacrifice of the masse as I wyll by gods grace hereafter proue shold be abolished and put away for the space of thre yeres and the halfe how longe Antichrist shal reigne Daniell in the twelfte chaptre testifienge the same Of the whiche place and other mo lyke written Luther is antichristes messanger to make all redye agaynste his cōminge which firste of all men spake agenst the sacrifice of the holye masse except one Peter debruis by Daniel we maye well gather that Antichristes tyme approcheth and draweth very nie for as much as Marten Luther and his folowers do trauaile so earnestly but yet all in vayne to take awaye the holye sacrifice of the blessed masse whiche all chrysten nations from the fyrst institution thereof made by chryste oure sauioure at hys laste supper euen tyl our tyme the space of a thousand and fiue hundred yeres was euer beleued accepted and receaued for a sacrifice auayleable and profitable bothe for the quicke and the dead which thinge shall be openly and plenteousely declared god wyllyng here after in this booke not only by the scripture but also by general coūcelles and the expositions of the eldest and best learned doctours declarynge the said scripture so that no man which listeth not to winke at the lyght of the truth nor is not maried to his o●ne opinion shall haue any excuse to laye for his errour throughe want and lacke of knowlage of the truth Therefore reade this booke without al affection diligētly not regardyng who made it nor againste whome it is made but what matter it doth cōteyne be it neuer so rudely grosly set fourth for the easyer vnderstandynge of it Folowe the wyse mans counsaile sayeng Non contradicas Eccle. 4. verbo veritatis Say not against the worde of truth for yf thou do thou shalt laboure all in vaine and gaine therby the wrath of god and his indignation with payne euer to endure in hell with the deuyll which stode not in the truthe as Christe dothe affirme Ioā 8. This saith Paule writyng to the Romaynes after this sort Iis autē Rom. 2. qui sunt ex cōtentione qui non acquiescunt veritati credunt autem iniquitati ira indignatio To them the wrath and indignation of god shall come whiche are geuen to contention or strife and do not quietly obeye the truth but beleue the wronge or falsitie Remember this our sauiour christes Math. 16 sayeng What shal it auaile man if he wynne the whole worlde and thereby lose his soule What eschaunge Mat. 16. shall a man make for his soule If thou hast therfore erred with Peter receauynge false doctrine defēding it and persecuting the teachers and mayntainers of the truth be not ashamed to forsake thyne errour and againe to embrace the truth Paule persecuted the truth but he forsoke his errour when god called him Saint Austen erred but he retourned agayne to the truth and vnfainedly recanted his errour Thus many other haue done whiche hadde gone from the truth whan it pleased god of his greate mercy to call them to gyue them the spirite of truth for the exilyng the spirite of errour I maye well saye to them that folow Martyn Luthers wicked Luther errours and damnable heresies and namely that which is againste the sacrifice of the holye masse neuer improued before his daies as saynt Paule saide to the Galathians greatly wonderinge Gala. 3. at their blyndnes Quis vos fascinauit non obedire veritati Who hathe bewytched you not to obeye the truth As though he had sayd ye haue had the truth so plainlye and perfectly taught you that excepte ye were witched ye could not so erre as ye now do forsaking the same If saynt Paule dyd iustlye iudge the Galathians witched because they had forsakē the truth of the gospell which they learned not longe before throughe the inticement prouocation and persuasion of false teachers that then did preache to them howe moche more iustlye maye a man saye to them whiche are shamefullye deceaued and blynded by Martyn Luthers fond folyshe and deuellysshe doctryne Quis vos fascinauit veritati non obedire Who hath witched yow not to obeye the truth hath-Marten luther deceaued and witched you Hath he blynded you that ye can not se the truth which heretofore sence Christes byrth no man attēpted to do in this matter of the masse Hath he deceaued you Excepte one Peter de br●●s which was in saynt Berna●des time whiche is the autoure maintenar and defender of many and sondry plaine heresies Hath he witched you not to obeye the truth concernynge the sacrifice of the blessed masse whiche so setteth forth and auaunceth only fayth that he sticketh Only f●yth not to saye and defende that only through faith god forgeueth mannes synnes nothing helpyng therunto his penaunce feare charite praier forgiuinge his neighbors George Ioyes opinion trespaces nor any like thing yea that only fayth shuld saue mā though he lyued neuer so yll And because saint Iames in his epistle doth playnly condemne reproue that his deuyllysh opinion and saynt Ihons Apocalypsis also disproueth the same erroure he was not ashamed to denye them both affirmynge that these bookes are not scripture nor wrytten by Iames and Ihon the apostle Is not this a blynde doctour Is not he worthye to haue credence geuen to hym in matters of our faithe whiche doth not feare to deny the holye scripture for the mayntenaunce of a fonde and a wicked heresye against the scripture the hole churche of christendome and all wryters

passion Hitherto this blessed martyr saint Cyprian a man nere the apostles tyme and of a very deape knowelage in goddes holye worde we ought therfore to geue credence rather vnto him in this presente controuersy of our religion than to Martyn Luther or els any other of that sort whiche vpon no grounde as it shall hereafter appeare manifestlye deny the masse to be a sacrifice propitiatory that is appeasynge or pacifieng gods displeasure and wrath whiche all mē sēce christe dyd firste institute it at his last supper til now Martyn Luthers comynge euer beleued vndoutedly stedfastly but I wil procede vpon this purpose make yet a further probation to leaue no doubte in the matter yf it may be by my small learninge The twelue loues of bread spokē of in Leuitico were a fygure of this blessed sacrifice made in the Leui. 24. masse vnder fourme of breade as saint Dainascene dothe affirme sayeng Hunc panē panes figurabant Damas lib. 4. Cap. 14. propositionis The loues of shewe dyd figure this bread And therfore where our texte in Latin hath panes propositionis offert He offereth breade of shewe the Hebrewe hath as Galatinus testifieth Galatinus lib. 10. cap. 7. Quia carnem dei tui ipse est vel erit sacrificans that is because he is or shall be sacrifisynge the flesshe of thy god S. Origen Origines in Leui. 24. doth playnlye confirme the same saieng If a man loke on the bread which descended downe from heauen and on that cōmemoration or remembraūce of the which the lorde saith Hoc facite in meam commemorationem Luc. 22. Do ye this for remembraunce of me and do remember also the misteries of the churche more dylygently lokyng on them In his quae scribit lex futurae veritatis inuenies imaginem praeformatam He shall fynde in those thynges whiche the lawe writeth an Image or a symylytude of the trouthe afore fourmed Thys sacryfyce also was fygured by the continual sacrifice of the olde lawe mentioned in the boke of Moses called Exodus the xxix chap. For lyke as the twelue Exodi 29. loues were set out to shewe daily and this sacrifice cōtinually done by the preistes of the olde lawe euen so in the masse the preist doth shewe daylye to the people our sauiours blessed bodye vnder the fourme of bread and continually offereth it in sacrifice to god for to appease his displeasure and to make him mercyfull and fauourable vnto vs that yet lyue and to the deade also Nowe the prophet Malachias shall come forthe to saye his mynde in this matter whych this writeth Non est mihi Mala. 1. ● 3 voluntas in vobis dicit dominus exercituum munus non suscipiā de manu vestra Ab ortu enim solis vsque ad occasum magnū est nomen meum in gentibus in omni loco facrificatur offertur nomini meo oblatio munda quia magnum est nomen meum in gentibus I haue no wyll or mynde to you saith the lorde of hostes I wyll not receaue of your hand a gyft or a sacrifice For from the risinge of the sonne vnto the goynge downe my name is great amonge the people and sacrifice is made and a cleane oblation is offred to my name bicause my name is great amonge the people Lo good christen reader here we se that god said by this his prophet that he had no mind to the Iewes mening that he wold forsake thē by reason of their infidelite lacke of fayth refusing his sonne christ at his commynge and synne and that he wolde no more receaue of them sacrifices made with beastes as he had done afore christ came in the tyme of the old testamente but that all suche sacrifices shuld be vtterlye abolysshed and lefte cleane as shadowes and fygures of christes sacrifice the very thing shadowed and figured by them whiche shuld and doth in dede as moch excede amoūt excel them as the bodye dothe the shadowe and the thynge fygured the fygure or pycture representynge it That this is mente and spoken by the sacryfyce of the masse dyuerse olde wryters men so wel lerned as none are nowe these daies do playnely testyfye of the which I wyll brynge a fewe Damascene Dam●s lib. 4. Ca. 14. aboue a thousand yeres sence thus wrote on this texte of the prophete Malachias Haec est pura scilicet hostia incruenta quam ab ortu vsque ad occasum ipsi offer riper prophetam dominus loquitur Christi videlicet corpus sāguis in stabilimentum animae nostrae corporis inconsūptū incorruptū non in secessū iens absit enim sed in nostrā substantiā conseruationem omnimodi nocumenti reparatio sordis omnis purgatio This is the englysshe therof This is the pure hooste or sacrifice offered to atteyne victorie of our enemies and vnblouddy or offered without bloud sheding the whiche our lord sayeth by his prophet shuld be offered to him frō the risinge of the sonne to the goyng downe surely the bodye and bloud of christ to kepe stedfaste or stable our soule and bodye or to be that thing which doth stablish our soule and body not cōsumed ▪ incorrupted not going into the draught for god forbyd that but into our substaūce and conseruation a repayringe of all maner of The masse is a sacryfice propiriatory● for one sinnes hurt a purgation or purgynge of al vncleannes Marke here good reader that this olde wryter Damascene affirmeth that oure lorde sayde by the prophet that a cleane hoost shoulde be offered to hym without bloude sheddyng verely the body and bloud of Christ and none other sacrifice than the sacrifice of the masse though Luter Bucer Bullyger and lyke other do neuer so much say the cōtrary without al good ground Secondly note that the same hoost or sacrifice shuld be a stay or a stablishment bothe of our bodye and the soule also Thyrdlye that it goeth not into the draught as other bodily meates do but it is turned in to the spiritual sustinaunce of the soule cōseruatiō of it Fourthly note well that he calleth this holy sacrifice a reparation of all harine whiche came to the soule through synne and a purgynge or clensynge of all fylth of synne agaynst them which denye that the masse is a sacrifice propitiatorye that is makyng god mercyfull to vs and appeasynge his wrath towarde vs for our synnes Some Dyuers obiections are here soyled men saye that this prophetment of a sacrifice whiche the Iewes dyd make to god but they are farre deceyued Fyrste bycause he prophecyed of a sacrifice which shuld succede the iewes sacrifices abolyshed Secondly bycause he spake of a sacrifice whiche all people in euery place shuld offre to goddes name therfore it can not be vnderstande of any sacrifice of the iewes which they only in the temple of hierusalem dyd offre as it apereth by the law playnly Moreouer

inde me hominem esse proinde nihil humani ut comicus ait à me alienum falli posse decipi errare nolle tamen in errore pertinaciter edurare sed erratorum à quoque commonefactum incūctanter ac perque libenter consilium in melius commutaturū gratiam vel multo maximam admonitori ex animo habiturum tantum abest ut cum eo sim quicque expostulaturus seu illi succensurus Consultū est illud Di. Gregorij Nazianzeni Optabile est nāque mihi praeclarum usque ad ultimam discere se nectutem quoniam nulla aetas ad perdiscendum sufficere potest oratione .vii. Postremo hoc tibi optime lector in mentem subeat quoties tibi quippiam in hac elucubratione displicet me occupatissimiī esse ac tantum non negociorū vndis adobrutum ut non iam integer uti par fuit sed aut prelegēdo aut de rebus arduis disserendo delas satus propemodum a studendo abhorrēs nō integros dies sed vix horas aliquot succisiuas seu furtiuas ut Hieroni. loquitur vnius tantum mensishoc libello contexendo insumpserim Nec sum omnia hic complexus cādide lector quae hac de re à uiris doctis prodita legerim sed multa de industria ueluti destinato transmisi silentio ne uolumen iusto maius esset ipsius prolixitas lectori aut paulo occupatiori aut nause abundo cieret nauseam fastidium pare●et Porro non sum nescius lector pie esse inter nostrates nō paucos ●uic proninciae obeundae longe magis idoneos quam me esse citra frō●is iacturā ipse queam agnoscere si id oneris aut subire non recusarent aut per negotia subire illis liceret Quod tamen cum a nemine vel leuiter attactum neque attentatum hactenus viderim malui equidem meam qualem cunque in caelelestium literarum cognitione estimationem nonnihil perielitari dū nō ita dextre feliciter instituto tam sancto coronis aut manus suprema accesserit quam pati meaegentis fidē iā nōnihil cōcussam labefactatam ullius imposturis praestigijs pessum iri ac interire modo per me staret ne id fieret effectū dare ita quorūdā impij● conatibus obu●āire ne illis quātū libeat liceat neue uirus suum pro sua libidine improbo studio mortalibus afflent eos in suarū haereseon nassā unde illis nunquā nisi apprime aegrè se postea extricare liceat pro suo arbitratu pertrahant Hoc si contigisse videro abūde cōpensatū hūc meū laborē satque feliciter eum mihi cefsisse ex istimauero tametsi multorū interim dentes plusque theoninos me subinde morsicātes senserim quorū uituperium mauelim qui laudem ut a quibus laudibus tolli est planè uituperari pios sane eruditos admodum moror quos nihil addubito hūc meū conatū ut sedulū quidē a pio profectū aīo candide Seimus deo de ●eptum esse quicquid sit ꝑ●iribus D. G. N●●i orat 7. probaturos quippe quos nōp̄terit illud flacci Est quodam prodire tenus si nō datur vltra Nec quod uidua euangelica quae exile planè le●●t leuidensae ut est in ꝓuerbio mu●us contulerit in corbonam à chri●●o cordis expensore adeo non au●ierit male ut illo nomine praecla●o fuerit ornata encomio Age ●taque lector boni cōsulè quod nūc ●uulgo Si enim id feceris facturū●utem non diffido calcar mihi ad des haud mediocre ad plura hoc genus aggrediendum concinnandum inuulgandum ut hinc pij lectores nonnihil referant compendij commodi cum ad alio●ū tū ad suā ipsorū constabiliē dā fidem atque ad eos christianae religioni denuo asciscendos qui illi ualefecerint absque ea desciuerint non tam inconsulte quam impie Vale lector pie aut his fruere mecum ut habet ille aut meliora Horatiu● quod hominis fuerit christiani imparti Oxoniae Anno ab orbe asserto 1546. Mense Septembri ¶ Note good reader this godly sayenge of saynt Basyll the greate WHen saint Basyll as the tripertite ●riper Histo li. 7 Cap. 36. story telleth was aduertised moued by a certen officer of the emperoure Valens to followe the tyme and not to suffre so many churches to be piteouslye vexed through a small subtiltie o● doctrine as then it was and the sayde officer had promised to him the emperours fauour and amitie yf he wolde ceasse speakynge agaynst heresye then being ꝯpronge vp and spred among the people he made this godly catholyke aunswere Adolescentibus haec conueniunt uerba illi illorum similes talia respiciunt Nā qui diuinis inutriti sunt eloquijs corrūpi de diuinis doginatibus ne unam quidem syllabam patiuntur sed pro his s● contingat etiā omnes mortis species amplectuntur Amicitiam autem imparatoris magnā quidē cū pietate iudico sine qua pernitiem potius hanc appello That is to saye in englysh These wordes are mete for spryngoldes or yonkers they and lyke to them do regarde suche For they whiche are nourisshed vp with or in scripture do suffer no not one syllable of goddes doctrines to be corrupted but if it happē they embrace yea al kindes of deathe But I do iudge the emperours amitie or frendshyppe verely great beinge coupled or ioyned with godlynes withoute the whiche I do call it rather destruction then amitee This was vndoubtedly a very godly aunswer and wonderous semely for a good and a holy bysshop worthy not to be redde onely of all learned men and especially of bysshoppes but to be also diligently noted printed in memory folowed of them that they beynge thereby instructed do not let for any mans frendshyppe or for any benefites offred to them to stande stoutely and manly in defense of the true doctryne of Christe and his churche the foundation and pyller of the truth not sufferinge one ●ote or sillable thereof to be taken awaye and abolyshed by the craftie and deuellisshe persuasions of ill wryters or teachers but continuallye by scriptures the autoritie of christes churche and stronge reasons defendyng it For s Austen saith Cōtra rationē nemo sobriꝰ cōtra scripturā nemo christianus contra De ●rini 4. ca. 6. ecclesiā nemo pacificus senserit That is to saye No sobre or well aduysed man wyll iudge againste reasō no christē man against scripture no quyet man againste the churche Wolde god that all men and women readyng or hearynge this notable and catholique sentence pronounced by the auncient great clerke saint Austen wolde receyue it and in al pointes of our religion folowe it For then there shold not be among vs christē people so many schysmes and yll