I Call the heauen and yearth for a trouthe to witnesse , againste this pompous , and proude Papisticall Masse , by the whiche the worlde ( if GOD verie soone dooe not remeadie ) how it is , and shalbee wholie desolate , ruinate , loste , and caste into the depe dongeon of hell , for in the same our lorde is so outragiously blasphemed , and the people seduced , and blinded , so that no man can suffer or abide it , but to the ende , that more easely the matter maie be of euery one vnderstanded , it is méete and conuenient to procede by Articles .

FIrste of all , to euery faithfull christian , it is and ought to be moste certaine , that our lorde and onely sauior Iesus Christ as the greate Bishop , ● . Peter . 〈◇〉 . and eternall shepherde ordeined of GOD , ● . Timo . ii . hath geuen his bodie , his soule , his life and his blood , for a full , Hebre . viii . Roma . viii . and perfecte Sacrifice for our sanctification : the whiche sacrifice maie not , nor ought neuer to bée made againe , by any sacrifice visible : who would not fullie and wholie renounce , and forsake the same , as it were without efficacie , insufficient , vnperfecte , and that Iesus Christ not satisfied to the Iustice of God his father for vs. And that he was not the true Christe ; Sauiour , Prieste , Bishop , and mediatour . The whiche thyng not onely to saie , but also to thinke is horrible , and execrable blasphemie . And alwaies the yearth hath been , and is yet at this presente , in many places charged , and filled with this miserable sacrificyng Priestes : the whiche as if thei were our redemers , thei put themselues in the place of Iesus Christe , or els thei make themselues his compaignions , saiyng , that thei offer to God a Sacrifice , pleasaunt and agréeable , as the same of Abraham , Isaac , and Iacob , for the health aswell of the liuing as of the dead : and this thei make openly against al truth of the holy scripture , makyng liers all the Apostles , and Euangelistes : and so lye vpon them selues : seyng that with Dauid thei syng , Psalm . Cx. and confesse al the Sondaies in their Euensonges , that Iesus Christ is the eternall sacrificer , after the order of Melchizedeche . Now thei can by no vnderstanding , make the people to vnderstande , that Iesus Christ and his Apostles & Prophetes ( whiche geue witnes of him ) be made lyers : but must spite of their tethe , that the pope , & all his vermine of Cardinalles , Bishops , Priestes , Monkes , and other Hypocrites , saiers of Masses , and all those that consent to the same , be suche , that is to saie , false Prophetes , damnable deceiuers , false Apostles , Wolues clothed in Shepeskinnes false feeders , Idolaters , seducers , lyers , and curssed blasphemers , dronckardes , gluttons , deuourers of widowes houses , vnder the colour of religion , murtherers of soules , forsakers of Iesus Christe of his Death , and Passion , false witnesse bearers , traitours , theues , and rauishers and robbers of Gods honour , and to bee brieffe , more detestable then the Deuill . For by the greate and wonderfull Sacrifice of Iesus Christe , all outward and visible Sacrifice , is abholished and made voide : And for euer none other abideth . This that I saie is moste ample set forth in the Hebrues . Heb . vii . ix.x . vij . ix . and tenth Chapiter , the whiche I praie and beseche al the worlde , diligently to consider . Yet alwaies a little to touche , and helpe the spirite of the young ones . Hebre . vii . In the seuenth chapiter it is thus written . It was mete and conuenient , that we should haue a Bishop , holie , innocente , and without spotte : the whiche hath no neede to offer euery daie Sacrifices , first for his owne sinnes , and then for the people : for he hath doen this in offeryng vp of hymself ones . Notablie it is said , in offryng vp of hym self ones . For neuer was this oblacion before , nor shal be reiterated or doen againe , nor any like . Hebre . ix . x . Eze . xviii . Also in the nineth Chapiter , Christ the high Bisshoppe of good thynges to come , by his owne blood , is entered ones into the holie place . Loe , here ones again he saieth , that by hymself to bee entered ones , eternall redenption is made . Wherfore it is euident , that in our redemption wee haue no neede of suche Sacrificyng priestes , if we will not renounce and forsake the death of Iesus Christ . In the .x. Hebre . x . Chapiter to the Hebrues . Loe I come to the ende , to dooe thy will , by the whiche will we bee sanctified by the oblacion of the bodie of Iesus Christe , ones for all . And also the holie Ghoste doeth testifie , saiyng : Eze . xviii . I will no more remember their iniquities : And where remission of the same is , there remaineth no more oblacion for synne . This that by argument to bee vnauoided of the Apostle , Hebre . v. vii.viii . and .x. I shewe thus to the Hebrues . v. vj.vij . and . viij . and tenth , the holie Apostle saieth , that for the imperfection of the Sacrifices of the olde lawe , we must euery daie begin againe , vntill that one be offred vp , that is all perfecte . This that hath been doen ones by Iesus Christe . Whereby I demaunde of all Sacrificers : whether their Sacrifice bee perfecte , or vnperfecte . If it be vnperfecte , wherefore doe thei then so abuse the whole worlde : If it be perfect , wherefore then must it bée doen againe ? Come on , stande forthe here you Sacrificers : and if you haue power to answer , then answere .

Secondlie , in this moste wicked Masse , thei haue not onely prouoked , but also plonged , and all whollie drowned ( as it were ) the whole worlde in open and publike Idolatrie : when falsly thei haue giuen to vnderstande , that vnder the kinde of bread and wine , Iesus Christe is conteined , and hidde corporally , really , and in deede whollie and personally in fleshe and bones , so greate and perfecte , as though presently he were liuyng . This the holie scripture and our faithe dooeth not teache vs : Math . xxviii . Marke . xvi . Actes . i . Hebre . i . but is all to the contrary . For Iesus Christ after his resurreccion , ascended vp into heauen , and sitteth on the right hande of God the father almightie , and from thence shall come to iudge the quicke and the dedde . Also S. Actes . viii . Collos . iii . Paule to the Collossians the .iij. writeth thus . If ye be risen again with Christ , seke those thynges that are aboue , where Christe sitteth on the right hande of GOD . He dooeth not sai● , searche Christe that is in the Masse , or in the holie place , or in the Boxe , or in the Aulmerie : but in heauen . Wherefore it must nedes folowe , that if the bodie bée in heauen , at this presente , then it is not on the yearth , and if it bee on the yearth , then it is not in heauen . For moste certaine , neuer a true bodie is but in one place at ones , occupiyng a place certaine , in qualitie and bignes certain . Wherefore he can not make , that a man of twentie or thirtie yeres , bee hidde in a piece of paste , suche as is the wafer cake . Now to replie , that as he is almightie , so is he inuisible , infinite , and in all places : that can not haue place , consideryng that as he is almightie , so is he moste true , and the truthe it self , certifiyng vs by the same truthe of his bodie , by this that he answered to his disciples , Luke . xxiiii . that it was he ( speakyng of his corporall presence ) makyng them to vnderstande , that he was no santasse , nor inuisible : and that a spirite hath nother fleshe nor bones , as he hath . And in the Enangelist sainct Ihon it is recited in the twentie Chapiter , that he came and stoode in the middest of his disciples , the doores beyng shutte , this is not to sate ( as these abusers falsly make men to vnderstande ) that thei were not opened by the Deuine power of Iesus Christe , for the passage of his true bodie . For if he had the power to make thē open by his angell , to deliuer sainct Peter out of prison , it was also as easie for hym to make open to entre to his Disciples , by meanes marueilous , as his godlie pleasure was , without changyng the nature of his bodie into a spirite , or into any other that was not a true bodie . Also the Enangelist dooeth not saie , that Iesus went through the gates , but that he came to his disciples , and that he was there in unddest of them , the gates beyng shutte . Wherin he giueth to vnderstand , in what feare his Disciples were , beyng assembled together , and that he would declare and shewe in that , a priuie manifestacion of his Deuine power , by the whiche the gates did open before hym , enteryng unraculously , to make his Disciples more attentiffe to his diuinitie . In conclusion , the bodie of Iesus Christe , is not like a spirite . Also that it bée infinite and euery where : maie not be a true bodie , nor true man , if he were as well infinite , by reason of his humaine nature , as he is by reason of his Diuine nature . He is then conteined in a certaine place , and there beyng , is in none other . This sainct Augustine well knewe , when he speakyng of the Lorde Iesus Christ , he spake thus . Donec finiatur saeculum sursum dominus est : Augustinus ad Dardan . sed tamen hic nobiscum est veritas domine . Corpus enimī quo resurrexit in vno loco esse oportet , voritas autem eius vbique diffusa est . The Lorde is on high in heauen , vntill the ende of the worlde , & yet notwithstandyng , the truth of the lorde is with vs , for the body wherin he rose , Fulgentius ad thrasimum dum . Lib . 2. muste bée in one place , but the truthe of the lorde is dispersed in all places . Fulgentius he writeth thus .

Absens erat coelo secundum humanam substanciam , quum esset in terra : & derelinquens terram , quum ascendiscet in coelum : secundum verò diuinam , & immensam substantiam nec coelum dimittens , quum de coelo descendit , nec terram deserens quum ad coelum ascendit . He was absente from heauen , as touchyng his humaine bodie , when he was in earth , and leauyng the yearth , when he ascended into heauen : but accordyng to his diuine and infinite substaunce , he left not heauen , when he descended from heauen nor he lefte not the yearth , when he ascended vp into heauen . Further , we haue a moste certaine assuraunce by the holie scripture , that the commyng of the sonne of manne , when he shall come from heauen , shal be visible and open . And if any ma shall saie vnto you , here is Christ , or there is Christ : beleue it not . Yea , Iesus hymself sateth , beleue it not : And the sacrificyng priestes saie , ye must beleue it . Thei syng well lift vp your hartes : therby exhorting the people , to searche Iesus Christe in heauen : but thei doe the contrary : In this that thei dooe areste , and staie theim selues , vpon the serchyng of hym in their handes , and in their Boxes and Aulmeries .

Thirdlie , these blinde Sacrificers , to adde errour , vpon errour , & haue in their frensie , said and taught , that after to haue blowen and spoken vpon the breade , the whiche thei take betwne their fingers , and likewise vpon the wine , that thei put into the Chalice , that there remaineth no more Breade , nor Wine : but ( as thei speake by greate , and prodigious woordes ) by Transsubstantiacion , Iesus Christ to bee vnder the accidentes of breade and wine , hidde and wrapped vp : the whiche is the doctrine of Deuilles , againste all truthe , and the hol●e scripture . And therfore , I doe demaunde of these great harted men , where thei haue inuented , and found , this grosse worde , Transsubstanciation . Sainct Matthewe , sainct Marke , S. Luke , sainct Ihon , sainct Paule , and the old aunciente fathers neuer haue so spoken : i . Cor . xi . Math . xxvi . Marke . xiiii . Luke . xxii . but when thei haue made mencion of the holie Supper of Iesus Christ , thei haue openly , and simply named the breade and the wine , bread and wine . Beholde sainct Paule how he writeth : Let a man proue , and examine himself , he doeth not saie , to one shauelyng that he be proued , but he saieth , that euery man proue hym self , and then it followeth . And so eate of the bread , he saieth not . Eate the body of Christ that is inclosed therein , or that is vnder the likenes , or vnder the kinde or shewe of bread , but openly and purely be saieth , eate of this breade . Now it is certain , that the scripture doeth not vse any suche deceipcion or subteltie , and that in the same there is no fantaste : whereupon it foloweth well , that it is bread . Also in an other place , Actes . xx . it is thus written . And vpon a certaine Sabboth daie , the Disciples beyng gathered together to breake bread , &c. All whiche euident places , the holfe Seripture pronounceth and safeth expresly , that it is bread , and not a kinde apparaunce , or likenesse of breade . Who then maie vphold , beare , or endure suche mockers , suche pestilente and peruerse Antechristes . The whiche as presumpteous and arrogant , accordyng to their ordinarie custome , haue béen so foolishe and hardie to conclude , and determine to the contrarie . Wherefore as the enemies of GOD , and of his holie woorde , of right therefore , men ought to cast them of , and vtterly detest them . For thei hauyng no shame to enclose the bodie of Iesus in their wafer cake : also ( brainles heretikes as thei be ) thei haue had no shame to saie , that if the Rattes , Spiders , or any other vermine , as it is written of redde letters in their Missaulles , in the .xxii. Cautele , Item si corpus domini à Muribus vel Araneis . &c. Cautela . 22. whiche beginneth thus . If the bodie of the lorde were comsumed by Mise , or Spiders , and come to nothyng , or els muche mangeled and chewed , or if the Worme be founde whole within , that then it must bée burned , and put in emong the Reliques . O yearth how is it that thou doest not open , to swallowe vp these horrible blasphemers ? O vilaines and moste detestable , this bodie is it the Lorde Iesus , the true sonne of God ? will he suffer him self to be eaten of Mise and Spiders ? He that is the true foode of Angelles , and of all the children of God , is he not geuen to bée made meate for beastes ? He that is incorruptible , and sitteth on the righte hande of God , will you make hym subfecte to Wormes , Psalme . vi . and to putrifaccion , against this that Dauid hath said , prophestyng of his resurreccion ? O moste miserable , and if there were none other euill in all your bellishe Theologie , but onely in this that you speake so vnreuerently , againste the precious bodie of Iesus . Oh how muche doe you deserue to haue the fire and fagot , blasphemers and heretickes . Yea , truely the moste greatest , and moste hurtfull that euer were in all the worlde . Lighten then your owne fagottes to burne , and to roste your selues and not vs , because wee will not beleue struceion . Further , also to haue remembraunce of the greate charitie and loue , wherewith he hath so moche loued vs , that he hath geuen his life for vs , and hath purged vs by his owne blood . Also , wee tastyng all of one breade , and of one Cuppe , wee are warned of the loue , and greate vnitie , in the whiche we ought al in one spirite , to liue and dye in Iesus Christ . And this well vnderstanded , doeth moche reioyce the soule of the faithfull , replenishyng and fillyng the same with diuine consolacion , in all humilitie , growyng in faithe from daie to daie , exercisyng hymself in all goodnes , and moste swete and louyng charitie . But the fruit of the Masse is farre otherwise , as experience dooeth shewe vs. For by the same all knowledge of Iesus Christ , is cleane put out and defaced , the preachyng of the Gospell is caste forthe , and hindered , the ryme occupied in ringyng , hurlyng and syngyng , vaine Ceremonies , light , censynges , disguisynges , and soche like maner of sorceries , by the whiche the poore worlde ( is as Shepe or Muttons ) miserably deceiued , holden , kept , and ledde , and by these raueshyng Wolues eaten , gnawed , and deuoured . And who might not saie and thinke of the theftes of these filthie whoremongers ? By this Masse the● haue laied hande of all , destroied all , and all swalowed vp . Yea , thei haue disherited Kynges , and Princes , Lordes , Marthauntes , and all what els a man maie sale , bee it dedde , or quicke . By the same thei liue carelesse , thei haue neede of nothyng to dooe withall , to studie nothyng lesse : what will you more ? It is not then to be marueiled at , if thei doe so strongly vpholde it , if thei kill , if thei burne , if thei destroie , if thei murther as cutte throtes , all them that sate against them : for other thyng haue thei not more to defende them selues againste the scripture , then their power and sagotes , Truthe faileth thē , Truthe threatneth theim , Truthe ouertaketh them , Truthe estonisheth them , by the whiche shortely their Kyngdome shal be destroied for euer .

Of many other execrable abuses , and infinite supersticions of the Masse , is treated more at large in their booke of Cautelles of the Masse , yea moste excellente subtelties , and also in the booke that thei doe call , The diuine rationall of offices , ( or hellike ) in somme Angelical ( or Diabolicall ) to the Shepherde ( the soules féedyng , and nourishing of hote coales ) and to the Pontificall ( not all euill ) with the whiche thei be all wholie filled .