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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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Of the order which the ancient church held in the reading of the Epistle and Gospel, and of the ordinances which the ancient Councils made thereon. CHAPTER XVI.
Of the order which the anciēt church held in the reading of the Epistle and Gospell, and of the ordinances which the ancient Councelles made thereon. CHAPTER XVI.
There was mention made in the Council of Rheims which we erst alleged,1 of the charge that was given to the Subdeacons for the reading of the Epistle before all men, and to the Deacon, for the reading of the Gospel, for the instruction of the faithful. And in the Council of Valence, holden in Spain, about the days of Symmach or Hormisd,2 it was decreed that the Gospel should be read after the Epistle: that is to say, after Pauls Epistles: Because there was a time, when as the Mass began with the Epistle, as elsewhere hath bin said, and that they read nothing else in it, but the Epistles of the Apostles, and after them, the Gospels. And therefore it was ordained in the same Council, that according to the ancient Canons, & custom of the ancient Church, the Gospel should be read after the rest of the lessons, taken out of th'Epistles of the Apostles, in the Mass of the Catechumeni, before the offertory of the faithful: to th'end that the faithful who tarried long at the divine service, might be instructed as well by reading of the said lessons, as by the sermons which the Bishops & priests made on them, but also the ⟨p. 118⟩catechumeni, penitentiaries, & all the rest likewise, which as yet were enemies unto the religion, or not well instructed, or excommunicated, who were put out, when they went to the Sermon, & nothing left undone but the communion, & offertory of the faithful, for the relieving of the pore. And the cause of this ordinance is there rendered. It is, said they, because that we have found by experience, that many by this mean have bin converted to the faith, after they had once hard the doctrine. Wherein we have again a very evident testimony of that which hath been said, as well of the preaching, as also of the divine service, which in the ancient time of the Church was said in a language that all men understood. For, if it had been delivered in an unknown tong, they which are here spoken of, had not bin converted, neither had it so fallen out with them, as the holy Apostle him self saith it falleth out with the very infidels,