The third part of the Defence of the Reformed Catholike against Doct. Bishops Second part of the Reformation of a Catholike, as the same was first guilefully published vnder that name, conteining only a large and most malicious preface to the reader, and an answer to M. Perkins his aduertisement to Romane Catholicks, &c. Whereunto is added an aduertisement for the time concerning the said Doct. Bishops reproofe, lately published against a little piece of the answer to his epistle to the King, with an answer to some few exceptions taken against the same, by M. T. Higgons latley become a proselyte of the Church of Rome. By R. Abbot Doctor of Diuinitie.

R. ABBOT.

What Christ instituted, appeareth in the Gospell: what the Apostles practised and deliuered, appeareth by S. Paul, holding himselfe entirely to that a which he had recei∣ued of the Lord. What doe wee finde there that doth in any sort resemble the ougly monster of the Popish Masse? Gregory Bishop of Rome saith, that b the Apostles were woont with the Lords praier only to consecrate the sacred host, and shall we then thinke the Apostles to haue been the au∣thours of those gew-gawes and fooleries, those turnings and windings, and crossings & blessings, and murmurations and eleuations, that are vsed in the Masse? Iulius Bishop of Rome the first, condemned the dipping of the Sacrament of Christs body in the cup of the bloud of Christ, c because no witnesse heereof is brought out of the Gospell. If nothing be to be done in the celebration of the Sacrament, but whereof there is witnesse in the Gospel, and d none, as Cy∣prian

saith, be to be followed therein but only Christ, we haue iust cause to reiect the Masse, which hath so little of that that Christ did, and so much that he did not. The Masse therefore is no sanctifying, but a prophaning of the Lords Sabaoth: but the true sanctifying of the Sabaoth is in our diuine seruice, wherein Gods word is read and taught, praier is made to God in the name of Iesus Christ, and the Sacraments are administred accordingly as Christ him∣selfe hath left the same vnto vs. Wherein we haue reteined whatsoeuer the abomination of desolation had left remaining of the ancient seruice of the Church; and whatsoeuer was wanting, we haue supplied agreeably thereto, and to the word of God; and no man will account it odly patched to∣gether, but such odde fellowes as M. Bishop is, who are so farre in loue with the Romish harlot, as that they like to eat no bread but what is moulded with her vncleane and filthie hands.

Notes

• a

  1. Cor. 11.23
• b

  Greg. ep. l. 7 Indict. 2. ep. 63. Mos Apostolo∣rum fuit vt ad ipsam solummo∣do orationem dominicam ob∣lationis hostiam consecrarent.
• c

  De cons. dist. 2. Cum omne. Quòd pro com∣plemento com∣munionis intin∣ctam tradunt Eucharistiam populis nec hoc prolatum ex Euangelio testi∣monium recepe∣runt, &c.
• d

  Cyp. l. 2. ep. 3. In sacrificio quod Christus est nonnisi Chri∣stu. sequendus est.