how filthy markettinges they vse, how vnhonest gaines they make wt their massinges, with how great rauening they fill their couetousnesse. Only I do point vnto, and yt with few & plaine words, what maner of thing is euē the very holiest holinesse of the Masse, for which it hath de∣serued in certain ages past to be so honorable & to be had in so great re∣uerence. For, to haue these so great mysteries set out according to their worthinesse, requireth a greater worke: and I am vnwilling to mingle herewith those filthy vncleannesses yt cōmonly shew themselues before the eyes & faces of al mē: yt al mē may vnderstād, yt the Masse taken in her most piked purenesse, & wherwith it may be set out to the best shew, without her appendances, from the roote to the topp swarmeth full of all kinde of wickednesse, blasphemie, idolatrie, and sacrilege.
[ 19] The Reders now haue in a maner almost al those thinges gathered into an abridgement, which we haue thought behoueful to be knowen cōcerning these twoo Sacramentes: ye vse of which hath ben deliuered to ye Christian Chirch frō the beginning of ye new testamēt, to continue to ye very ende of ye world: namely, yt Baptisme should be as it wer a cer∣taine entry into it, & an admissiō into Fayth: & the Supper should be as it were a cōtinual foode, wherewt Christ spiritually fedeth ye familie of hys faythful. Wherfore as there is but one God, one Fayth, one Christ, one Chirch his body: so there is but one Baptisme, & is not ofte mini∣stred againe. But ye Supper is frō tyme to tyme distributed, that they which haue ben ones receiued into ye Chirch, may vnderstand yt they be cōtinually fed wt Christ. Beside these twoo as there is no other Sacra∣mēt ordeined of God, so neither oughte ye Chirch of the faythfull to ac∣knowlege any other. For, yt it is not a thing yt lyeth in the choise of mā, to rayse & set vp new Sacramētes, he shal easily vnderstand ye remem∣breth yt which hath ben here before plainly enough declared, y• is, that Sacramentes are appointed of God to this end, y• they should instruct vs of some promise of his, & testifie to vs his good wil towarde vs: and he also yt calleth to minde, yt none hath ben Gods coūseller, yt might pro∣mise vs any certaintie of his wil, or assure vs and bring vs oute of care, what affectiō he beareth towarde vs, what he wil geue, or what he will deny vs. For therewt is also determined, yt no mā can set fourth a signe to be a testimonie of any wil or promise of his: it is he himselfe alone, yt can by a signe geuē testifie to vs of himselfe. I wil speake it more brefe∣ly, and paraduenture more grosly, but more plainly. A Sacrament cā neuer be without promise of saluation. Al men gathered on a heape to¦gether can of themselues promise nothing of our saluation. Therefore neither can they of themselues set fourth or set vp a Sacramente.
[ 20] Therefore let the Christian Chirch be contented with these twoo, and let her not only not admitt or acknowlege any third for the presēt time, but also not desire or loke for any to the ende of the world. For whereas certaine diuerse Sacramentes, beside those their ordinarie ones, were geuen to the Iewes, according to the diuerse course of tymes, as Mā∣na, Water sprynging oute of the rocke, the Brasen serpente and suche other: they were by thys change put in mynde that they should not stay vpon such figures, whoes state was not very stedfast: but yt they should loke for some better thing from God, which should cōtinue without any decayeng, and without any end. But we are in a farr other case, to whō