That the Originall of the word, MASSE, nothing ad∣vantageth the Romish Masse.
DIvers of your Romish a 1.1 Doctors would haue the word, MASSE, first to be (in the first and primi∣tiue Imposition and vse thereof) Diuine. Secondly, in time, more ancient than Christ. Thirdly, in signification, most Religious, deri∣ued (as They say) from the Hebrew word Missah, which signifieth Ob∣lation and Sacrifice; euen the high∣est homage that can be performed vnto God. And all this to proue (if it may be) that which you call THE SACRIFICE OF THE MASSE.