The grand sacrilege of the Church of Rome, in taking away the sacred cup from the laiety at the Lords Table: detected, and conuinced by the euidence of holy Scripture, and testimonies of all ages successiuely from the first propagation of the catholike Christian faith to this present: together with two conferences; the former at Paris with D. Smith, now stiled by the Romanists B of Calcedon; the later at London with M Euerard, priest: by Dan. Featly, Doctor in Diuinity.

Anno 1372.

Besides these written testimonies, wee haue engrauen, I meane the inscriptions of Chalices, or Communion Cups, called Ministerales be∣cause they serued for the people; x 1.1 Vadianus writeth of a cup in the Abbie of Sangall, that weighed 70. markes in siluer: without doubt, saith he, for the vse of the people at the publique C•…•…mmunion. y 1.2 Gretser censureth the writings of Pelichdorfius against the poore men of Lyons in this manner: This author, saith he, doth re∣fute in the first part of this work the poore men of Lyons, but with some such arguments as ring not well in the purified eares (of Catho∣liques.

I am sure this argument drawne from great siluer chalices, some of them with pipes for the Laiety to sucke out the consecrated wine, ring not well in the purified eares of Ro∣mane Catholiques. For not onely, Rhenanus * 1.3 out of Conradus Pellicanus relateth a constituti∣on amongst the Carthusians, whereby they are forbid to haue any pretious vessels, or plate, besides a siluer chalice, and a pipe, wherewith the Laietie may suck the blood of our Lord: but also Caietan maketh mention of them, and their vse to this purpose: and Cassander very much taxeth Eccius, for that he writeth, that he neuer read of the Laieties Communion in both kinds in the Roman Church, saue only in the story of S. Laurence his life; * 1.4 It is strange, saith he, that a man of so excellent a memorie, as Ec∣cius, should forget the ministeriall Chalices, whereof there is euer and anon mention made in the Romane Pontificall; which were so called, because the blood of Christ was out of thē ministred to the people; In most places for feare of shedding the blood of Christ, in de∣liuering it to the people, there were siluer pipes put in∣to the Chalices, that in the peoples drinking, or rather sucking the blood of Christ, not so much as a droppe might be spilt. These Chalices were not onely in vse in this Age, but a 1000. yeeres before, in Saint Cyprians time: if we may beleeue Cardi∣nall Caietan; who ingeniously confesseth, that they were so called from their vse in the Church, which was to serue the people. Thus * 1.5 he commenteth vpon Thomas: This custome,

saith hee, continued not onely in the time of that Martyr, whom Cyprian thought fit to bee forearmed with the Lords Cup, but also in the time of the peace of the Church. For we reade not onely of basons, but also of ministeriall a 1.6 Chalices made for this vse. ^a For why were they called ministeriall, but because they serued not to offer the blood of Christ, but to minister it to the people?

Notes

• x 1.1

  Aphoris. Eu∣char. lib. 6. Ad plebeiam il∣lud, & publicam communionem, haud dubiè, factam.
• y 1.2

  Ascitis quibus∣dam argumen∣tis, qu•…•… auribus probè purgatis non satis probè ti•…•…iunt. In No∣tis ad Pelich∣dorfiu•…•….
• * 1.3

  ^z In Tertul. de corona militis. Nequicquam pretium •…•…aso∣rum possideant, pr•…•…ter calicem argenteum, & fistulam, qua Laici Domini∣cum excipiant sanguinem.
• * 1.4

  Si non memi∣nerit calicum ministerialiū in Ecclesijs vrbis Romanae, quo∣rum in libro Pontificali sub∣inde fit mentio. &c. In plerisque locis calicibus, qui mi∣nisteriales voca∣ba•…•…ur, argen∣ti•…•… fistulae inse∣rebantur.
• * 1.5

  In t•…•…t. partem s•…•…mmae.
• a 1.6

  Quare mini∣steriales dict•…•… sunt, nisiquia non ad offeren∣dum, sed mini∣strandum populo Christi sangui∣nem deseruie∣bant?