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Most fruitful [and] learned co[m]mentaries of Doctor Peter Martyr Vermil Florentine, professor of divinity,…Most fruitfull [and] learned co[m]mentaries of Doctor Peter Martir Vermil Florentine, professor of deuinitie,…
Most fruitful [and] learned co[m]mentaries of Doctor Peter Martyr Vermil Florentine, professor of divinity, in the University of Tygure with a very profitable tract of the matter and places. Herein is also added [and] contained two most ample tables, aswell of the matter, as of the words: with an index of the places in the holy scripture. Set forth & allowed, according to the order appointed in the Queens majesties injunctions.Most fruitfull [and] learned co[m]mentaries of Doctor Peter Martir Vermil Florentine, professor of deuinitie, in the Vniuersitye of Tygure with a very profitable tract of the matter and places. Herein is also added [and] contained two most ample tables, aswel of the matter, as of the wordes: wyth an index of the places in the holy scripture. Set forth & allowed, accordyng to thorder appointed in the Quenes maiesties iniunctions.
London: printed by John Day, 1564London: printed by Iohn Day, 1564
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¶Of Mass.
¶Of Masse.
Because in these places there is often mention made of this hebrew word Mass, which signifieth tribute, of which word is derived Mishah, 1which of some is taken for tribute, which was wont to be paid of every person: And some of the Popes hirelings think that their Mass had his name from thence, therefore peradventure it shall not be unprofitable somewhat to write of it. That word is red in Deut. the .16. chap. when God commanded that ⟨image 48⟩seven weeks should be reckoned after Easter, and then should be kept the feast of Pentecost. Thou shalt appear (saith he) before the Lord, and shalt give Missah Nethobath Jedecha, that is, a free oblation of thine own hand. And that oblation was so called as an yearly tribute, which nevertheless was willing and without constraint. Howbeit, other (and peradventure more truly) do interpret that word to signify sufficient, namely that there should be given as much as should be enough and sufficient: for in the .15. chap. of that book, where the Lord commanded the Israelites to open their hands unto the poor, & to lend him that which might be sufficient, that hebrew word Dai the Chaldee Paraphrast interpreteth Misshah. In which place I take it that there is a regard to be had as well of the poverty of the poor, as of the ability of the giver. For that was commanded to be osberued in voluntary oblations, namely that so much should be given, as the ability of the givers could bear, and as much as seemed mete for the worshipping of God. From hence do these our Papists think their Mass to be derived, as though it were a tribute, and a willing oblation, which might be offered every where unto God in the church, for the quick & the dead. But I think not so.2 I know right well, that the church hath borrowed certain words of the hebrews, as Satan, Hosanna, Zebaoth, Hallelujah, Pasah, or Pascha, and such other mo. But we must mark, that those words came not unto the Latin Church, but by the Greek Church: for as much as those words are found in the new Testament, as it is written first in Greek, & also in the translation of the old Testament, as it was turned by the .lxx. Wherefore we have no hebrew words derived to our Church, which the Greek Church had not first.