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A04484	An apologie of priuate masse spred abroade in writing without name of the authour: as it seemeth, against the offer and protestacion made in certayne sermons by the reuerent father Bisshop of Salsburie: with an answer to the same Apologie, set foorth for the maintenance and defence of the trueth. Perused and allowed, by the reuerent father in God Edmonde Bisshop of London, accordynge to the order appoincted in the Que'enes maiestes iniunctions.	Cooper, Thomas, 1517?-1594.	1562 (1562)	STC 14615; ESTC S103938	96,225	290

it be knowen What the churche is and whether it may erre Forsooth the scripture speaketh of the churche of Christe twoo waies Sometime as it is indéede before God not knowen alway to mans iudgemente Into this church none be receiued but onely the children of grace and adoption and the very members of Christe by sanctifiyng of the holy ghost This church doth not comprehend only holy men and sainctes liuyng on the earth but all the electe from the beginnynge of the worlde This churche is the piller of truth that neuer continueth in errour This churche is neuer forsaken of the spirite of God This is the holy communion of sainctꝭ that in our Créede wée professe and acknowledge But this church as after shall appere doth not alwaies flowrish in sight of the worlde Sometime the churche is taken for the vniuersal multitude of al those whiche beyng dispersed through the worlde acknowledge one Christe and beyng through baptisme admitted into the same by the vse of the Lordes supper openly professe the vnitie therof in doctrine and charitie Sometime the churche is taken for the multitude of those that beare rule in the churche This churche is resembled to a nette whiche caste into the sea bringeth vp both good and badde It is resembled to a feilde that hath not only pure corne but also Cockle Darnell and other wéedes And as wée often se that good corne in some groundꝭ is so choked vp and ouer runne with wédes as the good graine may hardly be deserned for that the wéedꝭ beare the chief rule Euen so in this churche the euill and corrupted doth sometime beare downe the better sorte that a man can hardly iudge whiche be the true members of the churche whiche are not This churche therfore for the most number may be misled and in many thinges stray out of the way This church may erre and not continually abide in pure and vncorrupte worshippyng of God as I wil now with good prouse farther declare vnto you God hath had this his externall churche from the beginnyng of the worlde instructed by his holy worde instructed by his Patriar●es and Prophetes instructed by hi● apoincted law and ceremonies and so continued till the commyng of his d●●● forme Iesus Christe This churche he called his spouse his tabernacle his priuie garden his loued citie his electe and chosen vineyard But did it alway continue in florishyng estate Did it alway in like maner retaine the truth of Gods morde that it was taught in the beginnyng Did it alway cherish and mainteine suche ministers as God sent from time to time into it to redresse and reforme his law accordyng to his holy will In what state was this churche in Nous time when .viii. onely were saued In what state was it when the .x. Tribes forsooke the right worshippyng of God and leste onely the Tribe of Iuda In what state was it afterwarde when the same one Tribe of Iuda vnder diuers kinges sell to Idolatrie In what state was it when Elias pitifully complained that he onely was lefte and all other were departed from God Where was the enternall face of the church at that times In what state was it when Esaias Ieremie Ezechiel and al the Prophetes of God were persecuted put to death I pray you was not Iurie then called the people of God Had they not at that time the lawe of God Did not they vse his ceremonies Did not they bragge and make their auaunte that they coulde not erre that the trueth coulde not departe from the mouthe of their priestes and doctours that they had the temple of God the temple of God Yes certainely they had euen then the law of God They had euen then the sacramentes and ceremonies by God appointed or els the Prophet would neuer haue vsed their temple or compante of their praiers and ceremonies Yet how miserably the law of God and his sacramentꝭ were corrupted among them it appereth by that Esay sayeth The siluer of the people of God is iourned into drosse How they interteined the messengers that God sente to reforme his law it is euidente in this that all the Prophetes were slayne amonge them This externall churche then did erre this externall churche refused the trueth of Gods law This externall churche did persecute the Prophetes And yet did not the Prophetes thinke that they coulde caste them out of his true churche or make them not true members of his people to whiche the promisses were made Neither did the Prophetes for that cause cease to call for a redresse of the pure law and ceremonies of God and worshipyng him accordyng to his holy worde They did not refraine to tel euen those that faib they were the chosen people of god the electe vineyarde of God the citie and habitacion of God that they had fortaken the law of God that they folowed their owne deuises that they worshipped God in vayne with their owist tradicions And therfore that he would not acknowledge them any more for his people that he woulde sette his vineyarde open to spoile that he would bringe his owne citie into thraldome and captiuitie After the captiuitie of Babilon when the same churche was restored and his people taught by adversitie to reforme the law and receiue againe the right worshippinge of god apointed in his worde it continued of many yeares but that it was agayné corrupted horribly and led farre out of the way to lowinge againe their owne phantasies For when Christ him selfe came for whose cause God had so preserued that people they sayd that they had Moyses lawe that they were the séede of Abraham that they were the chosen people and true churche of God that he wente aboute to take away the lawe and destroy the temple and for that cause did they put him to death In like maner did they vse the Apostles ▪ They reproued their doctrine as vaine and phantasticall they caste them out of their Synagoges as Schismatikes and Heretikes Yea and when they did this they had in face of the worlde those thynges wherin the churche is compted to consiste They had doctrine out of the law of God They has the ministerie of the same by their Priestꝭ and Doctours They had the sacrament of circumsicion as the couenant wherby they were admitted as the people of God They had the other ceremonies ▪ wherin they were practised to the confirmation of the same They had the counsels wherby the condēpned Christ wherin they condempned the Apostles and refused their doctrine They bl●med their predicessours for that they had ●illed the Prophetes and yet they persecuted Christe and his Apostels Shal we thinke therfore that the Apostles were not of the church or rather shal we indge that them which haue the gouernemente of the law and sarr●mentes and to the world haue the fac● and name of the churche may so fowly er●e as they may refuse the true doctrine of gods lawe and persecute the ministors and

Christ by his vnfallible promisse vnfeinedly geueth to the faith of his people the very fruition of his body and bloud with the hole benefite of his precious death and passion and by the workinge of the holy ghost merueilously ioyneth vs in one body together with him Is not this thinke you a merueilous change and to mans estimation a miraculous worke when by the power of the holy ghost worde of god of commen breade and wine such as we daily féede our bodies with is made the dredful and reuerent sacramentes and mysteries of Iesus Christ wherby as I saide he doth not by a bare signe only but verely and in déede endow is faithfull people and make them partakers of his body and bloud Yea and that in such sorte that euen as truly as the bread doth norishe our body and euen as truly as the wine doeth comforte our spiritꝭ so truly and vnfeinedly doeth the heauenly foode of his body and bloud toren and shed for vs by fait h in time of that holy supper no ryshe strengthen and comforte our soule and by the wonderfull workinge of his spirite make our bodies also apte to resurrection Truly when I earnestly consider the effecte of this sacrament as it must néedes be by the trueth of Christes promises I confesse I am not able with wordes to vtter so muche as in my minde I doo conceiue and together withal eschew the absurditie of your reall presence and transsubstantion Wherfore I merueile not if those holy fathers fearinge no suche inconueniences but lokinge rather pithely to expresse the thinge dyd vse those earnest wordes and manners of speakinge and yet mente not as you now of their wordes doo gather All though no similitude can sufficiently declare the thinge I wyll for the simplar forte so muche as I can indeuour by a comparison to set for the that I do conceiue If a temporal prince for certaine causes mouinge him would geue you a thousand pound land by the yere and for that purpose had caused the wrytinges to be made The same wrytinge vntill it bee confirmed by the prince is nothinge but common parchment and inke framed into letters by some inferiour mans hand neither doth it bring any effect but when the prince hath once added to his seale confirmed the graunt it is no more called parchement or common writing but the kinges letters patents And now hath that reuerence that all to whom they be shewed doo veile there bonetes as bringinge with it some parte of the princes maiesty Such a change is now made in those trifelinge thinges that before no man estemed You also to whom this lande should bee geuen would not thinke this writinge common parchement blotted with inke but the perfite déede of your prince wherby you were assuredly possessed of the foresaid lands Moreouer when the prince at the deliuery of the same should say sir here is a thousand pound land that I geue fréely to you and to your heires I thinke you would not be so fonde to thinke either that the Prince doeth mocke you because you sée not the lāds presently or els to conceiue with your selfe that you haue the landes really inclosed within the compasse of your writing For the kinges aucthoritie in the writyng geueth you as ful possession of the landes as though you helde thē if it were possible in your hande And you in this case might iustly saye to your friende shewing your letters patents Lo here is a thousande pounde lande that my prince hath geuen me If then there bee so greate a change made in framyng the couenant déede of an earthly prince If his seale doo bryng such force effecte to his gifte and letters patentes How much more merueilous change alteraciō or transmutacion muste wée thinke it to bee when the base creatures of breade and wine be consecrated into the sacrament of the euerlastyng couenante and testament of Iesu Christ wherin he geueth vs not earthly vanities but the precious foode of his body and bloude remission of sinnes and the heritage of his heauenly kingdome how muche more of effecte must this sacrament be that is sealed with the promisse and wordes of our sauiour Christ who is truth it selfe and cannot deceiue any that trusteth in him Wherefore to expresse this change of the externall elementes into so heauenly misteries to shewe the effecte of this sacrament to withdrawe the ignorant mindes of the people from the prophane cogitacion of a bare signe in this mattier the auncient fathers had good cause to vse suche wordes And yet therein doo they nothyng at all defende your miraculous workes that you deuise to be made in the Lordes supper As for the similitude wherewith you woulde declare the necessitie of your Labels depending vpon the first founded absurditie it is both of as smal force as other that you before vsed and you handle it with more sluttish eloquence then is méete for suche a mattier as this is For the drawyng of the Capons the scumming of the potte the stinkyng water the hewyng of wodde the puttyng on the broche with guttes garbage and al. c. Be phrases and termes more méete for the kitchinne then for the Diuinitee schoole and such as your self I thinke woulde not haue vsed if your mockyng spirite had not so rauisshed you as you wist not what you did If wée had resembled your Labels whiche you cutte out by drift of reason vnto so base mattiers you woulde haue sayd that wée had rayled and done otherwise then it became vs. But sens your selfe doth so take them wée must thinke that God oftentimes moueth his aduersaries to vtter trueth against them selues But if the same maister that you imagine to commaunde his seruaunte to make readie that hee may dine did meane onely that he should set vpon the table suche colde meate as was in the house because he saw no cause or necessitie of greater prouision And the seruaunte vpon his owne foolish head would mistake his maisters commaundement conceyuing that he woulde haue great straungers did kill his Capons Chickens and other prouision aboute his house and busied himselfe with more labour then thanke to make them readie Doo you not thinke I pray you that he might iustly be compted an vnprofitable seruaunt and worthy by correction to bee taught more witte for that he putteth his maister to greater chargies and himselfe to more paines then the mattier required if he had rightly vnderstanded his maisters will and commaundemente Euen so sir those thynges that you say foloweth by force of reason and argument vpon the first sentence do folow indéede only vpon that sence that your selfe doth imagine mistakyng your maisters wil and pleasure and not vpon that meanyng that Christe himselfe would haue his wordes to be taken in For all that he woulde haue done may be sufficiently done without the working of so manie miracles as you in this case would driue his omnipotencie vnto Wherefore wée are not