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The true copies of the letters between the reverend father in God John Bishop…The true copies of the letters betwene the reuerend father in God Iohn Bisshop…
The true copies of the letters between the reverend father in God John Bishop of Sarum and D. Cole upon occasion of a sermon that the said Bishop preached before the Queens Majesty, and her most honourable Counsel. 1560. Set forth and allowed, according to the order appointed in the Queens Maiesties iniunctions. Cum gratia & privilegio Regiæ Maiestatis per septennium.The true copies of the letters betwene the reuerend father in God Iohn Bisshop of Sarum and D. Cole vpon occasion of a sermon that the said Bishop preached before the Quenes Maiestie, and hir most honorable Counsel. 1560. Set forthe and allowed, according to the order appointed in the Quenes Maiesties iniunctions. Cum gratia & priuilegio Regiæ Maiestatis per septennium.
London: printed by John Day, 1560
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
First by the way, before I enter near into the matter, y• prayers that be used in the Mass be common, aswell to the people, as to the priest. The priest saith. Oremus, let us pray. And so goeth forth in his ⟨p. 156⟩collect. And at the end thereof, the whole people by the mass book, are taught to say, Amen. The priest saith, the Lord be with you, the people, by the mass book: is taught to answer, And with thy spirit. The priest saith, lift up your harts the people, by the Mass book should answer, we lift them up to the Lord? The priest turneth him to the people, & saith: Orate prome fratres & sorores. Pray for me brothers, & sisters. And, by the very order of y• mass book, the people should know what he saith, and at his request should pray for him. Hereby we see, that what soever praters be used about the ministration of the sacrament, ought to be the common requests of all y• people. Therefore saith Justinus, an old godly father, & a holy martyr: Ubi gratias ⟨image 159⟩egit praepositus, universus populus acclamat. Amen. That is, when the priest hath given thanks, y• whole people say, Amen. And Chrysostom likewise saith. Ne mireris, si populus in mysteriis nostris, cum sacerdote colloquatur. Marvel not saith Chrysostom, though the people and the priest, in our mysteries, talk together. For in the common prayers, that be used about the ministration, the priest and the people both in voice & hart should join together. And when the priest hath once done the consecration, & the people should, at his hand receive the communion, the Mass book it self, biddeth him to break the bread in three parts. And thereof have idle heads, of late lym, fancied out many mystical follies: as though one part thereof were offered ⟨p. 157⟩for them that be in heaven, the other for them, that they say, be in purgatory: The third for them that be alive. These be fantasies, and very follies, without any ground, ether of the holy scriptures, or of the doctors, or of the old catholic church. But in very deed, the breaking and dividing of the bread is a remanent of the true, and the old communion, that was in use in the time of the doctors of the church, and of the holy catholic fathers. For to that end, the bread is broken, that it may be divided among the people. And therefore, the supper of the Lord is called, Fractio panis, that is the breaking of bread.