Certain homilies of m. Joan Calvin containing profitable and necessary, admonitio[n] for this time,…Certaine homilies of m. Ioan Calvine conteining profitable and necessarie, admonitio[n] for this time,…

For thes are far unlike and much dissonant / to abolish the mass in any region / and not to be present at it / when as the use thereof and that religion can by no other means be letted. But they repeat and iterate their saying / that is / that they do not deny the death and passion of Jesus Christ / seeing / they have no such purpose / to worship it in their mind. But j do ask of them / what is ye a Christen man doth confess with his mouth, but that same ye he believeth in his hart? This is plain and manifest enough / that this thing which they do / is most disagreeing with the confession of faith. So that / as much as in them lieth / they do not only hide the true & proper testimony of faith but also do utterly deny & ⟨image 31⟩forsake it. I will yet talk with them something more familiarly and plainly. For the papists do say the mass is a sacrifice wherein they will offer Jesus Christ to reconcile them selves to god. But if this be so / it followeth that Jesus Christ hath not obtained unto us by his death righteousness and eternal salvation. Let them seek all the compasses and shifts they will / yet must they come hereunto / that all which go to mass, under the name of devotion and religion / do profess that they consent there with. Therefore as much truly as in them lieth they show ye they have not their redemption perfect enough by the death of Jesus Christ. There be many that speak not so largely / nether suffer their talk to wander throughout all sorts of masses / that is to say sacrileges. They choose out one kind of masses only & that they defend: it is called the parish mass / or the high mass / for in this yea i think there is more likeness & agreeing with the supper of Jesus Christ. And truly it might be said not unaptly / that all masses which are said both of the priests of the lowest degree / & also of the canons / or of those priests that have certain chapels / & all other which are founded by any mans will or that are so saleable ye they be set forth daily to sale / that all thes j say are not unlike to harlots which in the stews setting ⟨image 32⟩them selves to sale without all shame & honesty / do make there bodies common to all men / but the high mass to be very like that same harlot with doth craftily abuse the honest name of an husband / to hide her unshanfastnes / & to retain and defend the estimation of an honest & chaste wife.

For thes arr farr vnlyke and moche dissonaunt / to abolishe ye mass in any region / and not to be presēt at it / when as the vse therof and that religion can by no other means be letted. But they repete and jterate their saing / that is / that they do not denie the death and passion of Iesus Christe / seing / they have no soche purpose / to worship it in their minde. But j do aske of them / what is ye a Christen man doth confess with his mouthe, but that same ye he beleveth in his hart? This is plain and manifest jnough / that this thing whiche they do / is most disagreinge with the confession of faith. So that / as moche as in thē lieth / they do not only hyde the true & propre testimonye of faith but also do vtterly denye &