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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 xviii.
Of prayers for the dead, & of the invocation of saints in the mass, & of the distinction of the Romaine doctors between the advocates of reconciliation and of intercession.
Of praiers for the dead, & of the inuocation of saints in the masse, & of the distinction of the Romaine doctors betwene the aduocates of reconciliation and of intercession.
I Have yet 2. points, for the 11. & 12. the which I will touch in brief.1 The first is concerning the prayers which they make in the mass, wherein we find 2. faults. The first is concerning those which they make for the dead, §1the which we can not accept by mean of the reasons which I have already alleged, concerning the points which have not at all any certain foundation in the holy scriptures. From whence it followeth also, that faith may have no place in them, by mean of the reasons which I have already yielded. §2The other is touching the invocation of men & women saints, against that which we have also like reason. Whereunto I yet add the great dishonour & outrage which is done to God, & to Jesus Christ our Lord in such prayers, in that that they be not addressed to ⟨image 83⟩God only, by our only mediator & advocate Jesus Christ,2 & by his merit, but also to dead men, and by their intercessions & merits: the which by this mean are put in the place of Jesus Christ the son of God, which only is given to us for mediator and advocate towards the father, according to the express testimony of the scriptures: or at the least are substituted or joined unto him for companions. And by this mean Jesus Christ i robbed if not in all, yet at the least of a great part of his office. Wherefore they may well allege that they do always say, Note. By Jesus Christ. For it is not enough that they take him for mediator & advocate, but they must also give this honour to him alone, without joining unto him any other fellows, or any other merit to his. And they may not here allege their distinction of advocates,