Ceremonies of the Monstrous Popish Mass, Part 1 · Chapter 24 – Chapter 25
Of the ſpilling of the wine and blood, and what is to be done to it, if it be froſen. CHAPTER XXIIII.
SI ante trāſſubſtantiationē effuſa fuerit pars vini aliqua, mutetur palla ſub ſilentio: & ſi celebrās officiū proſequatur.
Si totum effuſum fuerit, mutatis lint… aminibus miniſtret denuò & reincipiat ab. Hāc igitur oblationem: praemiſſa tamen confeſsione.
Si poſt tranſſubſtātiationē effuſa fuerit pars ſanguinis, nihilominus celebrās officiū proſequatur.
Si totum, quòd nihil omnino remanſerit (quod eſt valdè difficilè) penat ſuper propiciatorium: & miniſtret denuò paenem, & vinum & aquam: & reincipiat ab, Hanc igitur oblationem: &c. confeſsione praemiſſa, & ſumatur prima hoſtia à miniſtro vel ab infirmo, vel ab alio ad hoc parato.
Si ſanguis in calice cō geletur, debet tandiu exhalare deſisper, donec diſſoluatur, vel prunas reuerenter apponere: aut e… ſi aliter non valeret, ſolidum tranſglutire.
IF any parte of the a wine be ſpilt before the tranſubſtantiation, let him chaunge the b vaale, c without any wordes: and celebrating, proſecute his office.
If all be ſpilt, let the clothes be changed, and let him miniſter it againe, and begin from, This oblation therefore, alwayes prouided that he firſt make this confeſſion.
If any parte of the blood be ſpilt after tranſubſtantiation, yet let not the prieſt ceaſe to do his office.
But if it be all ſpilt, ſo that there remaine no iote thereof (which were an hard matter to do) let him laye it vponupon the Aultar, and miniſter the bread againe, and the wine and water alſo, and begin againe from, This oblation, therefore, &c. alwayes prouided that his Confiteor be firſt ſaid: and let the Miniſter, or ſicke body receaue the firſt hoſte, or ſome other that is ready for that purpoſe.
d If the blood freſe in the chalice (in froſtie weather) the prieſt muſt breath ouer it a good while, e till it be thawed, or with great reuerēce thawe it with quicke f chare coles: or if it can not ſo be thawed, let him ſwallow it downe whole.
a According to their philoſophie, they talke very cunningly in theſe cauteles. For, before the trā ſubſtantiation, they call the wine, wine: and after the tranſubſtantiation, they call it blood. For, by that they teach, it is then no more wine.
b This is it that couereth the chalice.
c This is, becauſe no body ſhould ſee it, that thereby, no occaſion of offence might ariſe: although it be a farre greater offence, to turne wine into blood.
d This manifeſtly ſheweth, that this blood muſt needes be very cold when as it is froſen, and ſeparated from the body. For, blood neuer friſeth in a mans body except the body be ſtone dead.
e And by this meanes the blood ſhalbe twiſe breathed ouer.
f It ſhalbe very requiſite, by this rekening, that the fier be next with the blood, as with the body, which was firſt made and ſodden in it betwene two hoate irons.
g This may wel be called a ſwallowing downe, and yet rather, an eating of wine: nay rather of blood, becauſe it is no more wine. And therefore if the prieſt be choked with it, whenas he thinketh to ſwallow it downe, a man may ſay that he was choked with the blood of his God. And yet for all our ieſting there is greater daunger in it, then we are aware of. For, if Anacreon was choked with the ſtone of a grape, and Fabius the pretour with an haire, as he was drinking of milke, and ſome others with a f…e in drinking of water, if a man ſhal beleue the aunciēt Hiſtories: muſt there not needs then (I beſeech you) be great daunger in ſwallowing downe an whole peece of iſe?
Of the Concluſion of the Cauteles of the Maſſe. CHAPTER XXV.
ITem, ſi quae hic deſunt, requirantur in Summa & lectura Hoſtienſ. in titulo de celebratione Miſſarum: vel melius, In ſummis modernorum doctorum vtriuſque iuris, & Theologorum.
ITEM, a if there be any other thing apperteining to this matter which is not here ſet downe, let them be ſought for in Hoſtienſis Breuiarie and Lecture, in the title, Of the celebration of Maſſes: or rather in the Summaries of the new doctours of the ciuile and Canon lawes, and of the Diuines.
a There is neuer a wiſeman a liue, that would once beleue, I will not ſpeake of the Paſtours and guides of Chriſtians, but euen of the moſt ſenſles people in all the world, that euer it were poſſible to thinke or imagine that there could be ſuch great mockeries & monſtrous abſurdities in theſe iolly Cautelles, which hetherto we hauehave heard of, if their owne bookes did not ſet them downe vntounto vsus, as ſure and certaine teſtimonies. For mine owne part, I would neuer hauehave beleued it, if I had not ſeene and felt them. Neuertheleſſe, by the cō cluſion which is here made, we may eaſely vnderſtand that there are carte Iodes of them, if all they were ſet downe which the alleaged doctours vpō this concluſion, hauehave writen on. For, how many queſtionarie and ſchoole doctours & how many Decretiſtes and Cannonniſtes hauehave bloted their papers with them? And beſides, which of them all hath not ſpokē of them, & beſtowed the greateſt parte of his time and ſtudie, to diſpute and write their reſolutions vponupon theſe toyes, mockeries, frenſies and furies? And therefore that that we hauehave here publiſhed abraod is but a ſhorte abſtract, taken word for word out of their popiſh Maſſe booke, wherof we hauehave heretofore ſpoken: which theſe venerable doctours hauehave collected, and thruſt into it for the inſtructiō of their anointed rable. And becauſe there ariſe a thouſand other inconueniences, of the abſurdities which follow this doctrine of tranſubſtantiation, which are not comprehended in the ſame, they ſend all ſuch as would vnderſtand further of them to the maiſters of that arte. Howbeit we hauehave of theſe here, moe then a good many. For, there are ouer many of them to be drawen out of this ther durtie doctrine, able to ſerue all ſuch as had rather feed with them, like filthie ſtinking dogges vppon that, which they hauehave vomited vp, then be fed and filled with the true bread of life, and ſound heauenly doctrine. For if there be ſuch an infinite nomber of mockeries, and filthy villanous abhominations in ſo ſmall a pamflet, in reſpect of the great volumes which hauehave bene writen of them, what anhorrible thing were it to read and heare all the blaſphemies that are conteined in thoſe bookes? Wherefore, what ſo euer he is that would vnderſtand any moe thinges of them, and is not contented to drinke of theſe ſmall ſtreames which iſſuethence, let him go and drinke his fill at the ſpring head: What? do I ſay at the ſpring head? Nay I might rather ſay at theſe ſtinking and filthy puddles, the onelyonly thinking of which, is able to make a man caſte vp, euen the very bowels out of his belly.