Four sermons of Master John Calvin entreating of matters very profitable for our time,…Foure sermons of Maister Iohn Caluin entreating of matters very profitable for our time,…

But what a blundering and stir keep they here? Imagine they too restrain God by the opinion or saying of a mortal man? We know that there is nothing but the only trueth that shall reign in his judgement, without acception of persons. Now the fact is this, that the parish mass is instituted for to sacrifice Jesus Christ, and to make an atonement with God, aswell for the quick as the dead and that a piece of bread is worshipped there, as if it were the so••e of God. I do not scan every thing by piecemeal: there are a thousand other infections: but I only take the grossest. Let them which seem to agree h••••••, wa•• their hands, as much as they will, in the end they shall be no more just then Pilate was. But this is marvellous that these good parishioners, when Easter comes they go to seek some Chapel in a corner, or some Fryer neither hot nor cold, that he may deliver unto them a counterfeit and bastard supper. If the parish Mass, as they say, be so like the supper of Jesus Christ, why do they not observe it and keep them selves to it? But now after they shall have been at high Mass every Sunday throughout the year, that they may seem to communicate aright in the sacrament of the Supper, they suddenly re•••nce it: although we must not greatly wonder at such inconstancy: For it is the […] payment and just punishment of all those ⟨image 16⟩which are not grounded upon the trueth of God: and God revengeth him self upon them, making them always to be shaken, and to contrary themselves in that which they take in hand. Touching such a painted Supper, I know that in their fantasy, a man shall do them great wrong to reprove it. But how can we do otherwise, seeing it agreeth not to the rule of our master? I do not condemn them, because they do it in secret. For I know that the holy Supper was never better Ministered, nor more holily, then when the disciples were withdrawn to do it in secrete, because of the tyranny of their enemies. But herein there are two intolerable faults: one is that they which patch up such a Pageant of the Supper, feign that they have their mass there, & would that it should be so thought: the second, is, that their goodly father of whom they receive it, giveth it them not as a Christian pastor, but in the condition of a popish priest.

But what a blundering and stirre keepe they heere? Imagine they too restraine God by the opinion or saying of a mortall man? We know that there is nothing but the onely trueth that shall raigne in his iudgement, without acception of persons. Now the fact is this, that the parish masse is instituted for to sacrifice Iesus Christ, and to make an attonement with God, aswel for the quicke as the deade and that a peece of bread is woorshipped there, as if it were the soe of God. I doe not scanne euery thing by peecemeale: there are a thousande other infections: but I onely take the groffest. Let them which seeme to agree h, wa theyr handes, as much as they wyll, in the ende they shal bee no more iust then Pilate was. But this is marueilous that these good parishioners, when Easter comes they goe to seeke some Chappell in a corner, or some Fryer neyther hot nor colde, that he may deliuer vnto them a counterfaite and bastarde supper. If the parish Masse, as they say, be so like the supper of Iesus Christ, why doo they not obserue it and keepe them selues to it? But nowe after they shal haue beene at high Masse euery Sunday throughout the yeere, that they may seeme to communicate aright in the sacrament of the Supper, they sodenly rence it: although we must not greatly woonder at suche inconstancie: For it is the payment and iuste punishmente of all those