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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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But if we shall diligently peruse over the books of the Greek father, we shall never find this word Missa which is Mass, used of them. Wherefore I think that this word of Missa is not derived from the Hebrews.
But if we shal diligently peruse ouer the bookes of the Greeke father, we shal neuer find this woord Missa which is Masse, vsed of thē. Wherfore I thynk that this woord of Missa is not deriued from the Hebrues.
1The Greek church called the holy supper [Greek or Hebrew], which work signifieth a common & public work. Neither is that word proper to holy things: yea it is also applied unto profane actions which are public. And who knoweth not that the administration of the supper of the Lord is a thing pertaining to Christian people? For as many as be present, ought to be partakers thereof, and to communicate together.2 And least I should overskip this, the etymology of this word bringeth no small argument against private Masses. Besides this that word pertaineth not only, to the Lords supper, but also it is attributed to other holy functions, wherefore it is written in the acts of the Apostles the .13. chap. [Greek or Hebrew], which some have turned, whilst they did sacrifice, when as rather they should have said, whilst they served or wrought publicly, namely in a holy thing which they did without doubt in preaching of the Gospel.3 This holy function namely the Lords supper had other names among the Latins. For it was sometimes called the Communion, sometimes the supper of the Lord, other sometimes the Sacrament of the body of Christ, or the breaking of bread. And our fathers have often times called it as the Greek fathers did, dreadful mysteries and [Greek or Hebrew].4 I will not speak of, how they used to call it often times by the name of a sacrifice, not therefore (as our adversaries do foolishly imagine) because that there the body & blood of Christ is offered unto God for a sacrifice for the quick & the dead. Although the fathers abhorred not from that kind of speech, whereby they said that the body and blood of Christ was offered unto God. But what they understood by those words, if they be diligently red, they do manifestly expound, namely that then were thanks given unto