The 3. Section, Of the canon of the Masse.
THe papistes of late daies, ascribe such sanctimonie to the ca∣non of their Masse, as farre surpasseth all sense and reason. So soone as they come to the beginning thereof, they spread a∣broad both the armes, they looke vp to heauen, they ioyne their handes in solemne maner, they kisse the altar, they multiply the signes of the crosse,* 1.1 they quake, they tremble, as if heauen and hell should go togither, they mumble to themselues, no by stander knoweth what but by coniecture, although (as they prate) euen thē be in hand the chiefest mystery of their redemp∣tion. And yet for all these solemne magicall dispositions, this their canon was inuented by one Scholasticus of latter daies.
Pope Gregorie, a man of sufficient credite, doth witnesse the same, to the confusion of all the Papistes. These are his expresse wordes:* 1.2 Et valde mihi inconueniens visum est, vt precem quam Scholasticus composuerat, seu per oblatio∣nem diceremus, & ipsam traditionem quam redemptor noster composuit, super eius corpus & sanguinem non diceremus. And it seemed to me verie vnfit, that wee should say that praier ouer the oblation, which Scholasticus composed; and let that tradition passe, which our Lord himselfe deliuered.
To the noueltie may fitly be annexed, the manifold varietie of their mangled irreligious canon. For they haue one of