in their churches
vse their vulgare and commen speache.
Those wordes of our greate and singuler consolation / in wich
the partakinge of Christes bodye and bloude is promised / the
papistes in their Masse speake secretlie / they whisper them so
that euen they which knowe the Latine tonge can neither heare them
nor vnderstande them. And so do they rumble them vp to their
owne selues as thoughe the people were vnworthie to heare them:
But christ in his super spake them openlie. And so the greke
churche and the Churche of India / do yet speake them with an
audible voice And the auncient manier was / as Ambrose and
Augustine among other of the fathers do testifie that the people
dyd answer vnto those words. Amen. But as I suppose the papistes
do thus murmure and speake these words in secrete / bicause they
wolde not haue their Lies knowen / for they do saye / Take ye
and eate / and this so often as ye do / do yt in the remembraunce
of me. But who taketh / or to whom do they giue? The wordes be
spoken to the people: And yet they them selues do eate and drike
vp all alone / and do distribute vnto no man ells. Is not this to
make a lie? To lie alwaies is taken to be an euill thinge / but
before god to lie / is a moste shamles and wiked thinge: who
dothe eate (o ye lyyng papistes) or who doth drinke wyth you? If
ye do distribute at any tyme to ony other ye do yt not when ye
your selues receyue / but ye chose for them an other time / yea
and another kinde also / for to them ye do minister but the
breade onlye. Thus ye se that all theise thinges which these
massers do in their masse / ar contrarye to the institution of
Christe. Ther masse then and Christes supper ar not lyke.
The papistes saye that by their Action (I meane ther handeling
of ther breade and wyne) they do applie vnto others the profitt
of Christs bloudie sacrifice and passion. Of a Sacrament they saye
that they make sacrifices to profit the quicke and the Deade.
and this do they in ther masse. But the scripture teacheth / that
there is but one only propiciatorie sacrifice / able and
auaylable to take awaie synnes / whiche Christe Iesus offered in
his owne fleshe vpon the Crosse. And that euerie man muste
applie vnto him selfe by liuelie faythe the benefite of that
same sacrifice of christe / as the scripture teacheth likewise /
that eche man is iustified by his own faithe, and that eche man
in his owne righteousnes or vnrighteousnes / doth liue / or die.
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