A treatise of the cohabitacyon of the faithfull with the vnfaithfull.: Whereunto is added. A sermon made of the confessing of Christe and his gospell, and of the denyinge of the same.Vermigli, Pietro Martire
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A treatise of the cohabitacyon of the faithfull with the vnfaithfull.: Whereunto is added. A sermon made of the confessing of Christe and his gospell, and of the denyinge of the same.
Vermigli, Pietro Martire
Catholic Church -- Controversial literature -- Early works to 1800
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 cã neither heare thẽ
nor vnderstande them. And so do they rumble them vp to their
owne selues as thoughe the people were vnworthie to heare thẽ:
But christ in his super spake thẽ openlie. And so the greke
churche ãd the Churche of India / do yet speake thẽ with ã
audible voice And the aunciẽt manier was / as Ambrose and
Augustĩe amõg other of the fathers do testifie that the people
dyd answer vnto those words. Amẽ. But as I suppose the papistes
do thus murmure ãd speake these words in secrete / bicause they
wolde not haue their Lies knowen / for they do saye / Take ye
and eate / and this so oftẽ as ye do / do yt in the remẽbraũce
of me. But who taketh / or to whõ do they giue? The wordes be
spokẽ to the people: And yet they thẽ selues do eate and drike
vp all alone / and do distribute vnto no mã ells. Is not this to
make a lie? To lie alwaies is takẽ to be an euill thĩge / 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 thẽ 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 passiõ. Of a Sacramẽt they saye
that they make sacrifices to profit the quicke and the Deade.
and this do they ĩ 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.
It teachithe also that christe did institute the sacrament only
to this end that the congregacion shuld eate and drincke it in
the remẽberaunce of that same his Sacrifice. And that eiche one
in the drincking therof shuld apply vnto himself by faithe / the
fruite of that Sacrifice. Now compare the doctrine of the
scriptures and of the papistes in this pointe together / and
thou shalt se that their Masse is contrarie to christes
Institucion. But as they haue / so still will they saye:
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