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But alas, what if they that most of all other defend the mass, them selves find faults and abuses in the mass? Mark (I pray you) what I say: what if the very maintainers, and proctors of the mass, confess plainly unto the world in their books openly printed, & set abroad, that there have ben, & be abuses & errors in the Mass?

But alas, what if they that most of all other defend the masse, thē selues fynd faultes and abuses in ye masse? Mark (I pray you) what I say: what if the very mainteyners, and proctours of the masse, confesse plainly vnto the worlde in theyr bokes openly printed, & set abrode, yt there haue ben, & be abuses & errours in the Masse?

Albertus Pigghius, the greatest pillar of that part, in a little treatise that he writeth of the Mass, hath these words: Quod si qui abusus in rem sacratissimam, & saluberrimam irrepserunt, ut irrepsisse plerosque non diffitemur, scimus ad quem, & ad quos pertineat eosdem corrigere. That is to say, if there have certain abuses crept into y• holy and wholesome thing, that is the Mass, as I grant, there have ⟨image 134⟩crept in very many, yet we know, to what man, & men the redress thereof doth appertain. Here Pigg•ius granteth simply without colour, that diverse abuses have at sundry times privily crept into y• Mass. And yet I believe, he was no such enemy to the cause, that he would ever have granted so much, specially against the same self thing that he defended, unless he had known it perfectly, to be true. It any man doubt of this man Albertus Pigghius, and know not his authority, nor what he was, let him understand that when I speak of him, I speak of all, for this is he, that all the rest have chosen to follow as their captain: The greatest learned man, as it is supposed, and as he himself thought, that •uer wrote in y• quarrel. He hath ⟨p. 132⟩