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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 vi.
That the particular masses and Suppers of the Romaine catholics do rather represent a division and scattering abroad in the Church, then an union and communion.
That the particular masses and Suppers of the Romaine catholikes doe rather represent a diuision and scattering abroade in the Church, then an vnion and communion.
And therefore the priests and the Romaine catholics do very evil consider these things. For they do clean contrary, dividing and separating them selves in sort that they do divide and separate them selves the one from the others, both in table, in bread, and in their wine, as though their body of their Church were a body divided, dismembered, and rent in pieces, and that there were at all neither union nor conjunction among them. For, for the first,1 behold there are the tables of the priests separated from that of other men, the ⟨image 69⟩which they do not prepare very often: and albeit that they did often prepare them, they do allow as many particulars as men would have in divers places, and at sundry times, without keeping any certain order. And how often is it that they do prepare them for themselves, when they do not prepare them for any other at all? For in all their masses, wherein none of the assistants do communicate with them, they do prepare them only for them selves. And when they do prepare them for them selves, they should very well content them selves to prepare one for all, and to communicate the one with the others, and to receive the Supper the one at the hand of the other, without preparing so many tables apart, & so many banquets in a morning, all separate the one from the other, as though every of them did excommunicate his fellow, being at his several table and communion, who hath nothing common with any man. Wherein every of them playeth two parts: For they play the part of the minister which doeth administer the Supper, and of him unto whom it is administered. For every of them is minister to him self,