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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 xvi.
Of the masses which are celebrated in the honour of men Saints & women Saints, & which bear their name, and of the application of them to all things: & what fruit the masses for the dead mought bring unto them, although indeed the invention of the Romaine purgatory were certain.
Of the masses which are celebrated in the honor of men Saints & womē Saints, & which beare their name, and of the application of thē to all things: & what fruit the masses for the dead mought bring vnto them, although indeed the inuention of the Romaine purgatorie were certaine.
And on the other side,1 I ask them, What need have they to Sacrifice, or to communicate for the Saints which are already in paradise? for, what need have they so to do? Now if they say that they do it in their praise and for their remembrance, I answer, that Jesus Christ hath not ordained his supper,2 either in the remembrance, or in the praise of any other then of him self, & for to yield thanks unto God for his benefits. And therefore he hath not ordained any supper either of S. Peter, 3or S. Paul or S. John, nor of any of the Angels, nor of any men saints, or women saints, be they either dead or living, but did ordain only one which is the supper of Jesus Christ: Wherefore men may not say the like of the Romaine masses, of the which the one is of S. James, the other of S. Philip, & others for this or that Saint, in sort as they have their names divers, according to the Saints to the which they are dedicated, and the persons and the things whereunto the are applied. For they do make a Recipe ad omnia, & a medicine for all diseases. I ask them also wherein the sacrifice & communion may serve for the dead, the which they do receive for them in their mass? For, for the first, what sure foundation have they for their fire of purgatory in all the holy scriptures, wherein they do lodge in manner all the souls of those that are departed, to make them after ward to pay ransom? And what foundation may it have, more then the sacrifice of the mass hath,