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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. x.
Of the first general point which is of the whole matter of the Mass, and of the additions which men have given to the supper of the Lord in the same, by the which they have clean overthrown his institution.
Of the first general point which is of the whole matter of the Masse, and of the additions vvhich men haue giuen to the supper of the Lorde in the same, by the vvhich they haue cleane ouerthrovven his institution.
The first point then that we do condemn in the Mass, is, that in general there are so many inventions, traditions, and humane additions to the Lords institution, & so many changes and disguisings of the same, and so many ceremonies and foolish and doltish superstitions, and insufferable Idolatries, that there remaineth in the same no kind of form of the pure ordinance of the Lord, but that it is there wholly overthrown. And by the same mean the expressed word of God is there openly violated, in as much as it is so often and so expressedly forbidden by the same, in the holy scriptures,1 to add or to diminish any thing to or from the law, statutes and ordinances of the Lord, or to go out either on the right hand or else on the left. For the which cause Saint Paul meaning to correct the abuses which were already in his time committed in the supper among the Corinthians, said plainly, setting forth the institution of Jesus Christ: I have received of the Lord that which also I have delivered unto you.2 And after ward ⟨image 11⟩he expoundeth it point by point, in what sort Jesus Christ did institute and administer this holy Sacrament, and ordained it to be administered afterward in his Church, wherein he meant to give plainly to understand, not only to the Corinthians, but also to the whole Church of God, as well for that present time as for all the time to come, that the institution of the Lord is pure, whole and perfect, & what rule there was and is to be observed in such matter, without adding any thing to it, or diminishing, changing, and disguising any thing from it or in it. For if Saint Paul which was plucked up even to the third heaven,