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The displaying of the Popish mass wherein thou shalt see, what a wicked idol…The displaying of the Popish masse vvherein thou shalt see, what a wicked idoll…
The displaying of the Popish mass wherein thou shalt see, what a wicked idol the mass is, and what great difference there is between the Lords Supper and the Popes Mass: again, what Popes brought in every part of the mass, and counted it together in such monstrous sort, as it is now used in the Popes kingdom. Written by Thomas Becon; and published in the days of Queen Mary.The displaying of the Popish masse vvherein thou shalt see, what a wicked idoll the masse is, and what great difference there is between the Lords Supper and the Popes Masse: againe, what Popes brought in every part of the masse, and counted it together in such monstrous sort, as it is now used in the Popes kingdome. Written by Thomas Becon; and published in the dayes of Queene Mary.
London: printed by A. Griffin for Company of Stationers, 1637
The displaying of the Popish Mass.The displaying of the Popish Masse.
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.
Here have we an example of Christ to sit at the Lords Table, when we receive the holy Communion, and not to kneel. But this do ye Papists neither observe your selves, nor suffer other so to do. Ye are like those lewd Lawyers, subtle Scribes, boisterous Bishops, saucy Sadducees, fine Pharisees, prattling Priests, and hollow Hypocrites, against whom our Saviour Christ thundereth on this manner. ⟨p. 86⟩Woe unto ye Scribes and Pharisees,1 ye Hypocrites, for ye shut up the Kingdom of heaven before men, ye neither go in your selves, neither suffer ye them that come, to enter in. There may be no sitting at your ministration, though we have Christ for a president never so much. The servant may not follow his Lord, nor the Disciple his Master. Whatsoever Christ practised, we may not do, but what Antichrist deviseth, that must we ⟨p. 87⟩needs do. Therefore do ye Papists, which be always enemies to Christ and to his holy ordinances, bind all your captives to kneel at the receiving of the Sacrament, and so makes them plain Idolaters in worshipping the bread for a god. O wicked soul-slayers! But why bind ye the people rather to kneel at the ministration of the Lords Supper, than at the ministration of Baptism, seeing Christ is no less present at the one,2 than at the other, and by ⟨p. 88⟩his holy Spirit worketh no less effectually in Baptism, than he doth in the Supper? Why do ye not also compel the people to kneel at the preaching of Gods Word seeing it is of no less authority, than the Sacrament of Christs body and blood. But I know your subtleties right well. Ye will say, the Sacrament of the Altar (I use your own terms) is God and man in form of bread,3 and therefore it cannot have too much reverence, worship ⟨p. 89⟩and honour given unto it. I answer: It is sooner said,4