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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. xii.
Of the pronunciation of the words of the Mass, and chiefly of those which are called sacramental, and what fault there is committed in the same, as well against the commandment of God, as against the laws Imperial.
Of the pronunciation of the woordes of the Masse, and chiefly of those which are called sacramentall, and what fault there is committed in the same, as wel against the commandement of God, as against the lawes Imperiall.
Furthermore, we have yet to note in the other point, which is of the pronunciation of the words of the Mass, that albeit that whatsoever should be there said in a language that should be understood of all men, yet for all that, Note. it could be in no wise sufferable, that any thing should be there recited with a whispering voice, & namely the principal words, which do properly belong to the institution of the supper, and chiefly those which they do call sacramental: the which they do pronounce with so soft a voice, as they can not be heard of any man, no not of those which are nearest the priest which pronounceth them: so far of are they from being understood ⟨image 13⟩by all the assembly. Wherein they fall again into the first inconvenience that I have already touched. For be it that they speak with a loud voice in an unknown tongue, or with a soft voice, in a known tongue, in sort that he is not heard at all, or else that men can not understand the words, the one sort is even as good as the other. This notwithstanding, they do commit both the faults in all their masses, chiefly in their cannon and in many other pieces, and namely in those, the which because of the same they do call the secrets. For beside that, that the language of them is unknown, at the least to the greatest part, they add thereunto also the pronunciation so soft, & so secret, that hardly there is any man that may understand one only word thereof, as I have already said. This thing is common to all Masses, as well high as low. For they have these two sorts, the which they do so distinguish according to the pronunciation which they use in the same. They call high masses,