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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. 1.
Of the Communion, which may be in the Romaine Mass and Supper, and how there is not at all any true Communion, and how that it may in no wise be the true Supper of Jesus Christ.
Of the Communiō, which may be in the Romaine Masse and Supper, and how there is not at all any true Communion, and how that it may in no wise be the true Supper of Iesus Christ.
1I Have already here before declared, how that the Supper may not be the Supper without the Communion of the things which do belong thereunto, and which ought to be therein communicated, according to the ordinance of Jesus Christ. Now there is no such communion ⟨image 62⟩in the Romaine Mass. From whence it followeth that it is not the supper of the Lord, & consequently also that it is not the Sacrament thereof, but is a new sacrament invented by men, and wholly contrary to that of the Lord, from the which they would give unto it his foundation and his countenance.2 For what communion is there ordinarily, either in private or particular masses, either in those which are public the which they do call parochial: for there is both in the one & in the other, but the priest only which is at the altar, who doth participate of the bread & of the wine that which he doth consecrate in the same. For he eateth and drinketh all alone at his altar, without offering or presenting any thing of that which he eateth and drinketh, not only to the people which do assist at his mass, but also to his own fellows which are of the same occupation that he is of, and which help him to say and do the same, and are the nearest to his table and altar. This notwithstanding, he calleth this little banquet which he maketh in his mass, Communion: and the prayer which followeth it shortly after, Postcommunion. Communion is taken of common: but what is it that is there common where one taketh all? The only name which they do use, doth convince them of their error, and of the wrong that they do to all Christian people. And if they do reply that they