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A10745	Holy pictures of the mysticall figures of the most holy sacrifice and sacrament of the Eucharist: set forth in French by Lewis Richome, prouinciall of the Societie of Iesus; and translated into English for the benefit of those of that nation, aswell protestants as Catholikes. By C.A.; Tableaux sacrez des figures mystiques du très auguste sacrifice et sacrement de l'Eucharistie. English	Richeome, Louis, 1544-1625.; C. A., fl. 1619.; Anderton, Christopher, attributed name.; Apsley, Charles, attributed name.	1619 (1619)	STC 21022; ESTC S115932	200,986	330

an healthfull Hoast And Saint BASIL also in his Masse S. Basil in Ly●●rg initio Make vs worthy saith he praying to God to present our selues before thee with a cleane heart and to serue thee and offer this venerable Sacrifice for the blotting out of our sinnes and the malice of the people Saint IAMES in his S. Iam. in Ly●●rg Wee offer this vnbloudy Sacrifice to thee for our sinnes and the ignorances of the people Saint IVSTIN MARTYR S. Iustin ●ial Cont. T●●pho writes That the Sacrifice of the Doue which men did offer for the Leaprous in the Law of Moyses was the Figure of the Eucharist offered for the purgation of sinnes Saint CYRIL of Hierusalem S. Cyril Hier os ●atech Mi●l●● 5. Wee offer Iesus Christ slaine for our sinnes to the end to make him mercifull to vs and to others who is most benigne and grations In conclusion all the Catholike Doctors Latine and Greeke are of the same faith and speake the same Language and call the Sacrifice of the Masse the true and only Sacrifice of Christians instituted by Iesus Christ for the obtaining from God remission of sinnes the Sacrifice of the Crosse is not the Sacrifice of Christians though it be the foundation of Christian Religion for the Christians neither can offer it our Sauiour being now immortall nor desire to offer it for so much as they should be like to the Iewes which crucified him It is the Eucharist which is the sole and proper sacrifice of Christians ordained for a memoriall of that of the Crosse and to apply the merite thereof And as Baptisme Confirmation and the other Sacraments as Sacraments remit sinne in the vertue of the Sacrifice of the Crosse so the Eucharist as a Sacrifice applieth to vs remission of sinnes gained vpon the Crosse and after this manner is a propitiatory Sacrifice This Doctrine is according to God and according to reason For since Iesus Christ is Priest eternally Psal 109. according to the order of ●●●lchisedech the Sacrifice instituted by him according to that order which is that of the Masse and no other must needs be Propitiatory because it is the essentiall office of a Priest to offer for sinne as Saint Paul writes 〈…〉 For euery High Priest taken from among men is appointed for men in those things that pertaine to God that hee may offer gifts and sacrifice for sinnes Iesus Christ then as Priest offereth h●nselfe in this Sacrifice for our sinnes and hee doth it by the ministry of Priests his Vicars euen as by them he teacheth baptiseth confirmeth and exerciseth the other offices and holy functions of our Doctor and Redeemer I● standeth with reason also seeing that Prayer Almes Fasting Penance and other actions of Piety bee honorable and pleasing to God appease his wrath and obtaine of him remission of faults committed that this Sacrifice which is the greatest honor that the Church can present to God and the most diuine of all other holy actions should haue force to appease him and gaine his Grace Moyses Exod. 3● 3● Dan. 4 2● Moyses obtained pardon for many thousand of sinners Daniel did counsell the King of Babylon to redeeme his sinnes by Alms. These works then were Propitiatory how should not then the Sacrifice of the body of the Sonne of God offered by the same his Sonne and by his members in supreme worship of his Maiesty be so The enemy of mankinde hath he not been extreamely enuious and malitious that would take away this beleese from the soules of the children of God and such as haue beleeued his deceits against the honor of God and against the Doctrine of his Church Are they not miserably bewitched and altogether vnworthy to haue remission of their faults 6. AFTER WHAT MANNER THE SACRIfice of the Masse and the Sacraments remit sinne since that of the Crosse is our whole redemption BVT if the Sacrifice of the Crosse bee our whole redemption and the infinite price paid for all our sins and of a thousand sinfull worlds if there had been so many how say we that the Sacrifice of the Masse the Sacraments and good workes are propitiatory I answere that the Sacrifice of the Crosse is the Fountaine head of our saluation the Sacrifice of the Masse and Sacraments are the Riuers by which the merits of the Crosse flow into our soules and without which this merit should be vnfruitfull to vs. Baptisme is one of these Riuers so is Consirmation and the other Sacraments The Sacrifice of the Masse is one of them also and by them the Crosse imparteth saluation but to no other sauing only to Christians For Turkes and Pagans doe not receiue any fruit because they haue not any Sacrament nor Sacrifice by which they may open the doore to come to this Merit and make flow into them the waters of Redemption and of health The Crosse to them is a Fountaine stopped an Orchard inclosed a Treasure locked vp because they neither haue the Conduit-pipe nor the entry nor the Key by which they may be partakers thereof The Masse therefore is no more a new redemption then the Sacraments as that of the Crosse was but an excellent meanes to apply the redemption which was made on the Crosse The Sacraments are meanes in their kinde The Eucharist hath the Pr●uiledge to doe it both as a Sacrifice and as a Sacrament Good workes are good and Propitiatory not of themselues but because they are founded vpon the Crosse and without this stay they are vnprofitable to eternall life Wherefore the Sacraments the Sacrifice of the Masse good workes godly actions and all Christian Religion take life force and vertue from the Crosse The Sacraments are the Conduit-pipes the good workes the fruites the Eucharist is the great Key The Sacraments profit and are Propitiatory onely to those which receiue them in good disposition Baptisme remits sinne onely to him that is baptized Penance to him which doth it and so of the rest The Eucharist as a Sacrament giueth grace onely to him which communicates but as a Sacrifice it profits all those for whom it is offered as well for that it is a most noble action made with a generall and most effectuall Prayer as also by reason of the present it makes to God and is therefore a generall meanes to appease him by offering him the body of his Sonne who hath paid all and for all and therefore is able to obtaine all Wherefore if Masse bee said for the Iust it procures them encrease of grace and vertue to perseuer therein if for repentant sinners it obtaines them pardon if for the impenitent it obtaines them repentance if for Infidels it obtaineth their conuersion and so it profits all the liuing If it be applied to the Saints departed it honors them if for those which are in Purgatory it diminisheth their paines But what if you obiect Masse is offred for many which notwithstanding remaine obstinate in their wickednesse I

the humility of our sense and iudgement which in this Mystery is altogether blinde so often we purchase new strength and new grace to beleeue the omnipotencie of our God And herehence it is that the holy Fathers S. Iustin S. Ireneus S. Chrysostoms S. Iustin Apol. 2. S. Iren. l. 4. c. 34. S. Chrysost bom 16. ad Pap. Ann● bom 83. in Ma●●h S. Ambros lib. 4 ●●it mist c ●9 9 S. Cyprian lib. 〈◊〉 Corn. Dom. S. August in Psal 33. S. Ambrose S. Cyprian S. Agustine and other Doctors so often as they either speake or write of the Eucharist alwayes inculcate with vs the Almightie power of God and obiect it to Heretikes as a certaine Marke of his powerfulnesse And as the Patriarkes and Prophets when they would shew that God is Almighty call him Creator of heauen and of earth Euen so the holy Doctors when they will extoll the almightinesse of our Sauiour alledge euer this his chiefe worke and as the Diuell of old perswaded certaine misinformed Philosophers to write that the world was not created but that it was eternall without beginning to weaken so much our faith in the omnipotencie of the Creator So in our age hath he raised certaine hereticall spirits which deny the presence of the body of our Sauiour in this Sacrament by their heresie to take away and to deface this most noble marke or signe of his omnipotency and to ouerthrow a most strong pillar of our Faith and the most beautifull ornament of Christian Religion 21. OF THE GOODNES OF OVR SAuiour in this Sacrament THe contemplation of the omnipotency and goodnes of God makes vs admire and loue him We haue giuen some documents of his omnipotency in this Sacrament let vs say one word of his goodnesse in the fame It is an argument of our loue to giue our goods to his behoofe and profit vpon whom we bestow them So God hath shewed himselfe to loue man by giuing him a being and creating the world for him It is an argument of greater loue to giue his owne substance for he that giueth of his proper bloud out of his body shewes himselfe more louing then he which makes neuer so great a present out of his purse Almighty God hath giuen his onely Sonne Ioan. 3.16 substance of his substance and the Sonne also hath giuen himselfe vnto vs ioyning in alliance his Diuinity to the Family of our Father Adam and making himselfe our brother so to worke our Saluation could he haue tyed himselfe to vs by any more straite bond and giuen himselfe more amorously then in giuing himselfe wholly to vs and making himselfe one with vs to deifie vs with himselfe and make vs heires of his glory Well then as in the Incarnation he hath made a gift of his Diuinity to man so in this Sacrament he hath bestowed vpon vs his Humanitie 〈◊〉 hath giuen it once to death in a bloudy Sacrifice and from time to time he ceaseth not to giue it for meat to apply vnto vs the fruit of his redemption he maried his Di●●nity to our Humanity when he made himselfe man he ●●arieth his humanity to ours when he giueth it to vs in this Sacrament For the flesh of our Sauiour heere is holily vnited to ours to make it both chast and fruitfull in bringing forth good workes and the same flesh is also a most diuine dish of his nuptiall feast to feed and fat our soules with celestiall vertues and to giue immortality to our bodies O sweet Iesus what goodnesse is this and what an effect of inflamed loue that thou vouchsafest to ioyne thy selfe by two so straite knots of Mariage and of Meate to so base and so miserable persons as we are the Lord to his scruants the King to his vassals the Creator to his creatures God to wretched poore sinners O what loue is this of thine in this diuine Mariage and Food What King would euer take for his Spouse a poore vassall of his And what father would feede his children with his owne body We see that mothers nourish their children with their milke which is a white bloud but what mother euer nourished her children with her proper flesh O diuine mariage O diuine banquet O wicked abuser and immortall enemie of Man which hast troubled this marriage and this banquet substituting in the place of this true Bridegroome 1. Reg. 19.13 and this true Dauid and this deified flesh an Idoll of Bakers bread But this thou hast done in the Church which thou hast falsly intituled Resormed and not in the Church of God Thou hast done it I say in a Synagogue of such misbeleeuers as haue chosen rather to lend their eares to the lyes of thy vanity then to beleeue the sacred and holy words of verity not in that Church 1. Tim. 3.15 pillar of truth Spouse which cannot erre assisted with the true Spirit Shee knoweth full well her Spouses voice and manner of proceedings she knoweth the goodnesse of his Table and will beware how shee forgoe it shee knoweth the Son omnipotent made for vs Emanuell Esay ● 14 that is to say God with vs when he was made Man liuing with vs and speaking with vs in his proper person but especially when he giueth himselfe vnto vs in this nuptiall banquet heere wherein more then euer or any where else he is indeed Emanuell For when he conuersed with vs mortall and visible it was but for a littla time the vnion was lesse with fewer people and that in Iury onely but by this Sacrament he is euer most straitely vnited as Spouse and Food with all them that will marrie themselues with him and feed vpon him and this not in one onely Land but in so many places as this Catholike and Vniuersall Church adores her Spouse euen from the East to the West from the South to the North and through all the earth An husband when he departs from his wife a father from his children a friend from his friends signifies his loue more then euer makes a feast leaues a pretious remembrance and shewes that departing hee would leaue himselfe still present if he could possibly be in many places at once Iesus Christ hath accomplished all this after a diuine manner for vpon the end of his passion and of his departure from this world hee shewed his feruent loue to his children Hauing loued his owne which were in the world Ioan. 13.1 saith Saint IOHN he loued them to the end that is to say he shewed them his loue more then euer before He likewise made his banquet with singuler signification of loue saying I haue greatly desired to eate this Pasque with you not the Moysaicall but the truth of the Moysaicall wherein he himselfe was the Lambe Finally for a Ring of remembrance he hath left his proper body and his owne selfe to be alwayes present with his friends in the manner aforesaid and to be for euer their Emanuell 22. CHARITIE