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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
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.
d And as for the relics which are here spoken of, we are to remember what was said heretofore, of the churches which were built in such places as the sepulchres, relics, and commemorations of the Martyrs were. And because that many Altars and chapels were here and there built & set up a broad in the country, there to celebrate the remembrance of the Martyrs: soon after that this custom was received, it was ordained by the first Council of Carthage,1 solemnized about the days of Pope Anastase that the Bishops might pull down, all the Altars and chapels, that should be set up in any places where before time had not been, some sepulchres, relics, houses, places of resort, or some memorial of the Martyrs: or if they could not do it without moving of some commotion, yet that they might at the least, forbid all Christians to haunt any such places. And for this cause was it afterward ordained by the Council of Epanuense which was solemnised in the time of Gelasius the first,2 that no Altar except it were of stone, & had also some relics of the Saints, should be anointed and consecrated with Cresme. And because they could not find places enow wherein to set up so many churches and altars as they would, they were fain to borrow ⟨p. 103⟩them in other places, or else make and counterfeit them as they lusted. Wherefore it is enough for them at this present, to put into the bowels of the Altar when it is consecrated & dedicated, in at an hole which is made in the middest thereof, called by them a Sepulchre, the smallest pieces of relics that may be, locked up in some pretty coffer, with three grains of frankincense. And it is out of all doubt, that they may call this hole, a Sepulchre: because forsooth it is made to represent the Sepulchres of the Martyrs, for, they are not there in deed, but by imagination, as those which the Heathen made, called Cenotaphion, because they were empty, and had no bodies buried in them. And to the end that these sepulchres should not seem to be altogether in vain, they make men believe that they have put certain pieces of relics into them. But the Lord knoweth and seeth what great deceit is in them, and what relics they thrust into them.
d And as for the reliques which are here spoken of, we are to remember what was said heretofore, of the churches which were built in such places as the sepulchres, reliques, and commemorations of the Martyres were. And because that many Aultars and chapelles were here and there built & set vp a broad in the countrey, there to celebrate the remembraunce of the Martyres: soone after that this custome was receaued, it was ordeined by the first Councell of Carthage,