An exhortation to the carrying of Christs cross with a true and brief confutation…An exhortacion to the carienge of Chrystes crosse wyth a true and brefe confutacion…

In that therefore they offer, as they say, the same sacrifice, which Christ offered: dearly beloved, do they not as much, as in them is, kill, slay, whip and crucify Christ again? Ah wretches and Antichrists.

In that therfore thei offre, as thei sai, the same sacrifice, which Chryst offred: dearely beloued, doe they not asmuch, as in them is, kyl, slaye, whyppe and crucifie Chryst agayne? Ah wretches and Antichristes.

Who would not desire to die for his master Christs cause, against this their heinous and stinking abomination? Where as they call this sacrifice of y• mass ⟨p. 118⟩the principal mean, to apply the benefit of Christs death to the quick and dead: I would gladly have them to show, where and of whom they learned it. Sure I, am they learned it not of Christ. For when he sent his disciples ¹abroad, to apply unto men the benefit of his death, he bad them not mass it, but preach the gospel, as the mean by the which god had appointed believers to be saved. The which thing Peter told ²Cornelius plainly, as Paul also teacheth almost every where in his epistles. But in deed preaching they may not away with, aswell for that it is to painful, as for that it is nothing so gainful, nor in authority or estimation with the world. Nothing so displeaseth y• devil, as preaching y• gospel, as in all ages easily we may ⟨p. 119⟩well see, if we will mark, to our con fort in this age. And therefore by giving his daughter, idolatry, with her dowry of worldly wealth, riches and honour, to the Pope and his shaven shorelings: they have by this means in many years been begetting a daughter, which at length was delivered to destroy preaching: even the minion Missa, mistress Missa, who danceth daintily before the Herodes of the world, and is the cause, even why John Baptist & the preachers be put in to prison and lose their heads. This dancing damosel, the darling of her mother, the fair garland of her fathers (for she hath many fathers) the gaudy gallant of her grandsire, is trimmed and tricked on the best and most holy manner or