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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 iiii.
Of the difference which is between the assistants at the mass, be they priests or no, & the penitents, and excommunicated of the ancient Church, & of the faults which are to be blamed in particular excommunications.
Of the difference which is betwenc the assistants at the masse, be thei priests or no, & the penitents, and excommunicated of the auncient Church, & of the faults which are to be blamed in particular excommunications.
Then when the priest,1 which is at the altar, receiveth his sacrament alone, and communicateth nothing to any one of all those which do assist at his mass, is not this as a kind of excommunication, whereby he shuteth them all ⟨image 66⟩out from the Supper which he receiveth all alone? for doth he not as though there were none but he alone which were worthy & capable thereof, &. that all the rest were unworthy & mought be rejected as persons excommunicated?2 For there is no great difference between that which they do at this day in the mass, in respect of those which do assist at the same, and that which they did in time passed in the ancient Church in the administration of the Supper, toward excommunicated persons which were in the place of the penitents. For albeit that they did assist in the Temple, yet for all that they were separated from those which did communicate at the supper, and were shut forth from the communication of the same, until such time as they were reconciled to the Church. But yet they had that more then those have which do assist at the mass, that they did understand both the prayers and the doctrine, which were set forth in the assembly, & mought make their profit thereof. But the greatest part of those which do assist at the mass, may carry away with them no such profit, forsomuch as they understand there nothing at all. And then when the excommunicated were reconciled to the Church, they mought go to the supper as often as the same should be administered. For they then made no particular. Supper for any, but made it only general for all: