Ceremonies of the Monstrous Popish Mass, Part 1 · Chapter 2
What kindes of meates and drinkes, and what maner of Cup muſt be ſet vponupon this Table. CHAPITER II.
SEcunda eſt, vt non putet vel opinetur, ſed certo ſciat ſe debitas habere materias: hoc eſt, panem triticeum, & vinum cum aqua modica.
De vino & aqua ſic poteris certificari. Exigat à miniſtro, vt guſtet tam vinum quàm aquam. Ipſe autem presbyter guſtare non debet.
Guttam fundat in ma…u: digito terat & odo…et, ſic erit certior.
Non credat ampulle ſignatoe, non colori: qu… niam ſaepius fallunt.
Videat calicem, ne f… fractus.
Conſideret vinum, eſt corruptum, nullo m… do celebret: ſi eſt acet… ſum, diſſimulet: ſi nim… aquoſum, abſtineat, … ſi ſciat vinum aquae pr… ualere.
Et in omni caſu, ſi co… tingat dubitari vel pr… pter acedinē, vel prop… mixturā, vel in limpic tatē, virum poſſit confi… cōſulimus abſtinere: qu… in hoc ſacramento n… ſubdubio eſt agendū, … cer…iſſimè eſt dicendu… Hoc eſt enim corpus m… &: Hic eſt calix ſang… nis mei.
Item, hoſtias obl… conuenientes elegat, vinum competenter fundat: quia hoc ſa… mentum debet ſenſi… deſeruire, ad vidend… tangendum, & guſtan… vt ſenſus reficiantur ſpecie & intellectus re contenta foueatur.
Aqua etiā in paruma quātitate infunda… & ſaporem vini recipi… nō eſt enim periculū q… tumcunque modicū apnatur de aqua: eſt autem periculum ſi multum.
Apponitur etiam aqua ſolùm, ad ſignificandum. Sed vna gutta tantum ſignificat, quantum mille.
Ideo caueat ſacerdos ne cum impetu infundat, ne nimis cadat.
THe a ſecond Cautell is this, he muſt not ſuppoſe, or thinke onelyonly, but be fully aſſured that he hath ſuch conuenient and meete matters, as he hath neede of: to wit, bread made of wheat, and wine with a litle water.
b And by this meane ſhall he know that he hath both wine and water. Firſt let his Clark taſt both of the wine and alſo of the water: c for the prieſt him ſelfe muſt not taſt of them.
d But let him power a drop into his hand, and then let him chaufe it with his finger in his hand, and ſmell to it: and in ſo doing he ſhall be the more certaine.
e Let him not truſt to the wine crewet, nor yet to the colour: for by them, may a man be oftētimes deceiued.
f Let him looke well, that the Chalice be not broken.
g Let him take good heed that he celebrate not with corrupt wine: if it be ſharpe, he muſt diſſimule it. If it be too full of water, let him abſtaine from it, without he be aſſured that the wine will ſurpaſſe the water.
h And if in caſe, the matter be doubtful, either by reaſon of ſowerneſſe, or bycauſe of ſome mixture, or vnfindeneſſe, to wit, whether it may be made or not, we counſell him to abſtaine from it: bycauſe there muſt no i doubt at all be had in this Sacrament, wherein muſt moſt truely be ſaid, This is my body: and, This is the Cup of my blood.
Item, he muſt chooſe out the eauneſt and roundeſt hoſtes, and k powre in a competent portion of wine. For, this Sacrament ought to ſerue the ſenſes, of ſight, touching, and taſting, to the ende that the ſenſes might be refreſhed by the outward ſhew, and the vnderſtanding nouriſhed with the thinges conteined therein.
l He muſt likewiſe put but a very litle water, ſo that the wine may be the ſtronger: for there is no danger by putting in neuer ſo litle water: but by putting in to much.
Now, the water is put in but for a fignification onelyonly. And one onelyonly droppe ſignifieth aſmuch as a thouſand.
Let the prieſt therfore take great heede that he power it not in to faſt, for feare there runne in ouermuch.
a Herein, experience is more requiſite then opinion & good intent, for in this place we ſpeake of that which is to be ſet vponupon the table.
b The arte and cunning how to taſte wine.
c It were very dangerous if whippit Sir Iohn ſhould ſippe onelyonly the leaſt droppe, but that he ſhould for that day, loſe two blanckes and all his whole dayes worke, beſides the loſing of his breakfaſt afterward. For he ſhould then be no more faſting: & ſo conſequently not in the Eſtate to ſay Maſſe, without it were ſuch a drie Maſſe, as they ſay & be deawe or moiſten about womens beaddes that lie in.
d The Arte and skill how to braye wine, and taſte it without drinking thereof, to wit, to taſte it by the noſe.
e If the prieſt of Payerne, whoſe wine was powdred with ſalt, to wit, his bottell, whē he gaue it a ſoupe, had looked well to this cautell, he had not bene ſo deceaued as he was. But had ſouped of his bottell without powdring. For then, was it no more wine but blood: in the tranſubſtantatiō whereof, the ſalte was not tranſubſtantiated, as witneſſeth vntounto vsus the prieſt, who thought him ſelfe to be poiſoned, & with very feare, ſuppoſed that he ſhould hauehave died preſently at the Aultar.
i Here it were dangerous powring in of blood.
g Foraſmuch as wine is better, and becauſe alſo that the bottell and ſoupe of wine therein are likewiſe better: and in like ſorte the blood, and ſo conſequently the ſoule. For, if we ſhall giuegive credit to our auncient goſſips pinte pottes, who louelove well typling, and are well ſeene in the iudging of good wines: They ſay, that good wine maketh good blood, & good blood maketh a good ſoule: and a good ſoule is in the hie waye of ſaluation: Whervpon, they like liuely goſſips cōclude with a iolly Logicall Sorites or Sollogiſme that he which wilbe ſaued muſt drinke wel. And I verely beleue that thoſe venerable men our maiſters the Sorboniſtes, who louelove a cup of wine aſwell as our goſſips, ought not ſo greatly hauehave oppoſed thē ſelues againſt the Lutherans, and annotations of Robert Stephanus his Bible as they hauehave done, if they had done well.
h Saue that in the Adoration of the hoſte and chalice, which he muſt worſhip, with an, If, for feare of committing idolatry: becauſe that idolaters cannot be certaine and ſure of the minde and faith of the prieſt which ſayeth Maſſe. Wherefore, according to their diuinite, the hoſte which the prieſt ſheweth muſt be worſhipped, with this cō dition, ſaying in his heart, If thou be there ô God, I worſhip thee: but if thou be not there, I worſhip thee not, that is to ſay, I will withdraw my pinne from the ſtake and play no more.
i That is to ſay, according to the dryneſſe and and thirſtyneſſe of the time & prieſt. For, men cō monly, drinke more in Sommer then in Winter: & oftentimes many prieſtes are angry with their clearkes for powring in to litle, eſpecially at the laſt rinſing when they entend to make cleane the chalice, when as they ſay in the lifting vp of it, Quia pius es.
k Theſe ignorant doltes ſpeake here better then they are ware of, ſaying, That the outward ſignes ſerue the bodely ſenſes: and that the minde and ſoule are nourriſhed and fed with the thing ſignified & conteined in them, to wit, Sacramētally. Thē are not the body & blood of Ieſus receiued corporally, materially and ſenſibly, in the ſupper. For, the ſoule and mind hauehave no bodely mouth.
l Here, the boyes and ſtriplinges which ſerue at the Table are taught the skill how to power water into wine. And beſides, herein, I tell you, is very great danger. For, ouer and beſides that, the ſoupe of wine ſhould be nothing ſo good, neither could the wine be turned into blood, if there ſhould not be more wine then water.