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Here have I briefly showed, the disorder of the private mass, by y• first institution of the sacrament, and by the commandment, and authority of S. Paul. Now will I, by God's grace, also declare, and open the same, by the examples, and whole practise of the primitive church, and by the ancient Doctors, and other learned fathers, that followed after the Apostles time, for the space of six ⟨image 155⟩hundred years, or more. And I trust, ye shall clearly see, that for so long time, there was no private mass, in the catholic Church of Christ, in any country or cost, through out the world.

Here haue I brefely shewed, the disorder of the priuate masse, by y• fyrste institution of the sacrament, and by the commaundement, and authority of S. Paul. Nowe will I, by Goddes grace, also declare, and open the same, by the examples, and whole practise of the primitiue churche, and by the auncient D•ctours, and other learned fathers, that followed after ye Apostles tyme, for the space of sixe ⟨image 155⟩hundred yeares, or more. And I trust, ye shall clearly se, that for so long tyme, there was no priuate masse, in the catholike Churche of Christ, in anye countrye or cost, through oute the worlde.

For all the writers, that were within the compass of that time, have left behind them witness sufficient of a Communion: but not one of them all could ever tell us, of any private mass. Clemens, who, as they say, was scholar to Saint Peter, writeth thus in an epistle to S. James. Tot in altar holocausta offerantur quot populo sufficere debeant. Let there be so many hosts offered upon y• altar, as may be sufficient, for y• people to receive.