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[The principal points which are at this day in controversy, concerning the holly supper…[The principal points which are at this daye in controuersie, concerning the holly supper…
[The principal points which are at this day in controversy, concerning the holly supper and of the mass.][The principal points which are at this daye in controuersie, concerning the holly supper and of the masse.]
London: printed by C. Barker, 1579
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Chapter. vii.
Of the adoration of the bread and of the wine, as well in the Mass as in their pyxes and boxes, and of the idolatry that therein is.
Of the adoration of the bread and of the wine, as well in the Masse as in their pixtes and boxes, and of the idolatric that therein is.
SO much touching the error of transubstantiation, from whence there followeth yet an other very great & very unsufferable, the which I set down for the second, concerning the matter of transubstantiation, and for the seventh of the twelve, into which number I bring all the points. This same is,1 concerning the worshipping of the bread and of the wine, ⟨image 41⟩in stead of Jesus Christ the very son of God, This is an error which yet draweth after it many other.2 The first is, that where the bread & the wine should be distributed in the mass, to those which be there present, as the Lord hath commanded that it should be done in the supper, they do only set them out to show, lifting them up on high, and causing them to be worshipped of every one, as idols, through great superstition and idolatry: whose like never was since the beginning of the world, how great soever the blindness have been.3 For as Cicero himself witnesseth, there were never men that did believe or think, that that which they did eat was God. And there was never any people so beastly, which did think that the idols & the visible things which they did honour and worship, were really and essentially gods, but only that they were remembrances and representations. But the idolatry whereof I now speak, passeth on much further. For it contenteth not it self to cause the bread and the wine to be worshipped and honoured as holy & sacred signs, ordained to be remembrances and representations of the very body & blood of Jesus Christ, but as Jesus Christ him self in flesh and bone, and man and God together.