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The cautels, canon, and ceremonies, of the most blasphemous, abominable, and monstrous popish Mass…The cauteles, canon, and ceremonies, of the most blasphemous, abhominable, and monstrous popish Masse…
The cautels, canon, and ceremonies, of the most blasphemous, abominable, and monstrous popish Mass Together, the Mass entitled of the body of Jesus Christ. Fully and wholly set down, both in Latin, and English, the Latin faithfully taken out of the Mass book after the romish use. Imprinted at Lyons by John Cambray, in the year a thousand five hu[n]dread and twenty, the title whereof hereafter ensueth on the next page. With certain annotations for the understanding of the text, set forth by that godly and learned minister in the Church of God Peter Viret, and translated out of French into English by Tho. Sto. Gent.The cauteles, canon, and ceremonies, of the most blasphemous, abhominable, and monstrous popish Masse Togither, the Masse intituled of the body of Iesus Christ. Fully and wholy set downe, both in Latine, and Englishe, the Latine faithfully taken out of the Masse booke after the romishe vse. Imprinted at Lyons by Iohn Cambray, in the yeare a thowsand fiue hu[n]dred and twenty, the title whereof hereafter ensueth on the next page. With certaine annotations for the vnderstanding of the text, set forth by that godly and learned minister in the Church of God Peter Viret, and translated out of French into English by Tho. Sto. Gent.
London: printed by Thomas Vautrollier for Andrew Maunsell, 1584London: printed by Thomas Vautrollier for Andrewe Maunsell, 1584
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c Why hath the priest here a commandment to buzz the two prayers ensuing softly & secretly? For this is manifestly against the Statutes and decrees of the council of Basil, by which is ordained that the priests are to be reproved and corrected which say Mass with secret prayers, & so low vowed, as that they which are present and about them, cannot hear what they say: By which also all they are condemned, who either mumble up or curtal their words either in their Mass or canonical Hours, and do not so distinctly pronounce them, as that every one may well understand what they say. For if these prayers whereof we now speak be such as in deed they ought to be, why then pronounce they them not rather a loud that every man may hear them, than mumble them ⟨p. 101⟩up in their teeth as they do? Especially seeing they pronounce them not particularly to them selves, but generally to all those which are at Mass, to the end that all they might be also comprehended and wrapped, within the horrible blasphemies in them contained? Wherefore it is no marvel though he mumble them up secretly, as if it were a charm, and stoop down with his head & back, still looking to the ground: for he is not worthy to lift up his head to heaven stained it with such blasphemies. For, as for the first point, that which is called Sancta Sanctorū, that is to say, the holy of holy ones, whereof he speaketh, to go into, is not the same which God ordained by Moses,1 amongest the Israelites: for, that is clearly abolished •y the coming of Jesus Christ, who hath perfected that,2 whereof it was a figure. Neither is it that, whereinto Christ Jesus went, which is heaven. And God ordained none other but these two. Whereupon must needs follow, that that place whereof the priest, here maketh men tiō, is invented & devised by men & the devil together, & an hellish Sancta Sanctorū. And therefore looketh he down to the ground, whereby he declareth that he seeketh not after Jesus Christ,3 who sitteth in the heavens at the right hand of God his father, & requireth likewise that he may go into it with his merits, with all those that are at Mass with him. For there is never a man that hath deserved more to go into hell, & into the infernal sanctuary of Satan, than he: