" Nowadays, the Pope challengeth to
himself both swords, and useth both. Wherefore, it ought to seem less
marvel if that have followed which Clement saith, that is, "that he hath
deceived both his own self and those which have given ear unto him."
Pope Leo saith, "Upon one day it is lawful to say but one mass in one
church." These men say daily in one church commonly ten masses, twenty,
thirty, yea, oftentimes more. So that the poor gazer on can scant tell
which way he were best to turn him.
Pope Gelasius saith, "It is a wicked deed and sibb to sacrilege in any
man to divide the Communion, and when he hath received one kind to
abstain from the other." These men, contrary to God's Word, and contrary
to Pope Gelasius, command that one kind only of the Holy Communion be
given to the people, and by so doing they make their priests guilty of
sacrilege.
But if they will say that all these things are worn out of ure and nigh
dead, and pertain nothing to these present times, yet to the end all folk
may understand what faith is to be given to these men, and upon what hope
they call together their general councils, let us see in few words what
good heed they take to the selfsame thing, which they themselves these
very last years (and the remembrance thereof is yet new and fresh), in
their own general council that they had by order called, have decreed and
commanded to be devoutly kept.
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