The primitive rule of Reformation according to the first liturgy of K. Edward VI, 1549 containing an extract of the same, so far as it is Popishly affected : together with several honourable testimonials thereof from church and state, of that, and of succeeding ages : as also the wishes of several churches and chuchmen of the Reformation, for restoring the said liturgy in parts.

For the Mass's being a Sacrifice for the Living and the Dead.

Once Suffer'd CHRIST by Himself, but yet ne∣ver the less his Suffering is Daily Renewed at the Mass, through the Mystery of the Holy Housel (or Host.) Therefore that Holy Mass is profitable both to the Living and the Dead: As it has been often declar'd. So Abbot Aelfrike, who lived in the year 990. in his fore-cited Saxon Homily on Easter: An Author, the rather to be esteem'd, as having had no less than the two Archbishops and 13. of Q. Elizabeths Bishops at once for his Vouchers upon his first Publication, been Printed more than once: And as being of that Reputation and Authority with Bishop Forbes, Bishop Bramhal, and the more Celebrated Writers of the English Pro∣testants; as that they doubt not to challenge him for their Own.

More plainly yet, that the Mass is a Sacrifice for the Dead; meaning by the Dead, even the Souls in Purgatory, is no less evident than that it is a Sacrifice for the whole Church; if we receive John Wickliffs Definition of the whole Church, who tells us, that General Holy Church is the Congregation of CHRIST, that is Head, and all good Angels in Heaven, and all Men and Women in Earth, or in Purgatory, that shall be saved and no more. Thus Wickliff, who liv'd in the year, 1371. in his Treatises against the Orders of Begging Fryars,

Printed at Oxford in the year 1608. cap. 39. on occasion of the Article of CHRIST's Holy Catho∣lick Church.