her purchase to thy self greate
gilte of synne / for that the gaye glosse of the ceremonies or
ony worthines of the ministers shall not helpe the at all. Euen
Ieroboam himself wold haue beene counted to haue sacrificed to
the Godd of Israel: but yet bicause he did not sacrifice after
the same manier which God had commaunded / but rather after that
sorte which he himself hadd inuented amd instituted / godd did
not accept his sacrifices / and thos did synne against godd and
against true religion / yea and against the lawfull Sacrifices of
godd / as many as did communicate with the sacrifices of Ieroboam.
For both that Ieroboam synned / and that he did leade Israel to
synne / the scripture doth repeate very ofte / to beate in to the
heade of the whole worlde / that simple obedience doth pleas the
lorde / in which we keape his ordinaunces after that manier only
which he hath instituted / addynge nothinge / dyminishing
nothing / and chaunging nothing in them.

I will not now reason how that the Masse doth agre nothing at
all with the lordes supper / for this is euen to the eyes of all
men often tymes shewed in many bookes of most lerned and godly
seruantes of Godd. Yea euen children which are but instructed in
the principles of faith / do know that Christe did institute a
comon partaking / ore communion / in which all the faithfull which
are one bodie in Christe are knitt together into one bodie / and
that the Masse is a dissipacion of vnitie and a priuate deuowring
of one lurching sacrificer. They knowe that Christ commaunded:
Take / eate / diuide it amonge you / and drincke ye all of this.
And that the Masse doth sett furth theis thinges to be gazed
vppon / to be worshipped / to be caried about / and to be shutt
vpp / to be handeled and also receyued of preistes only: They
know that Christe sayd: Do this in the rememberaunce of me. And
that the priestes do saye Masse in the rememberaunce of sayntes /
that they do sacrifice for the synnes of the quicke and the
deade / and to be short that they do say masse for euery
thinge / for filthie lucres sake.

Ther were in the tyme of the Apostles certayn witty disputars
which reasoned that it was lawful for Christians to eate meates
offered vnto Idols. Meates offered to Idolls / were sacrifices
vsed in the temples of Idolls / to be offered vnto Idols.
Therfor thos faithfull men did contend / that it was lauful
indifferently to communicate with the holy seruice of the
Christ