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Preface to a MISSAL

The Mass that is henceforth to be used by the ancient Chriftians of St. Thomas of the Bishoprick of Angamale in the Serra of Malabar, in the Eaft-Indies, purged of the Neftorian Errors and Blafphemies it abounded with, by the most Illuftrious and Reverend Dom Frey Aleixo De Menezes, Arch-Bi. fhop of Goa, and Primate of the Indies, at the time when he reduced them to the Obedience of the Holy Roman Church. Translated word for word out of Syriack or Syrian,

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Mong the other things which the most Reverend Arch-Bishop of God, and Primate of the Indies, Dom Frey Aleixo` de Menezes, put in Order in the Diocefan Synod, affembled by him in the Bishoprick of Angamale of the Serra of Malabar,

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of the Chriftians of St. Thomas, in which he purged the Church of the Neftorian Herefies, and reduced it to the Obedience of the Holy Roman Church; one of the chief was the reforming the Syrian Mass, which was faid in the Chaldee Tongue in this Bishoprick, which having been compofed or inlarged by Neftorian Hereticks, was full of Errors and Blafphemies both in the Prayers and Commemorations of Neftorius, Theodorus, and Diodorus, and fe veral other Neftorian Hereticks, to whom as to Saints, they prayed, for to intercede for them: And whereas this People was in a profound Ignorance, nay the very Bifhops, who came from Babylon, not knowing the true Form of Confecration, all of them adding to it and taking from it at their pleasure; there being no certain particular Form of Confecration among them, until a certain Arch-Bishop came who had more knowledge than the reft in Ecclefiaftical Matters, and the Holy Scriptures; who perceiving that the Form wherewith they Confecrated, contained in it fome

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Errors, contrary to the Truth of the Di vine Sacrament, did establish the true. Form, adding fome words to it, both in the Confecration of the Body and Blood, in contradiction to the Error and Herefie of those who say that the Sacrament is only the Figure of the Body of Christ our Lord. From whence it is more than probable, the Hereticks of our Times, the revivers of the Errors of all the ancient condem ned Sects, took this Opinion: The Form established by the forementioned Arch-Bifhop was, This is in truth my Body; this. is in truth the Cup of my Blood, which was fhed for you and for many, for the propitiation and remiffion of your Sins; and this shall be a Pledge to you for ever and ever; in which Form they have now Confecrated for feveral Years. But the moft Reverend Arch-Bishop Primate, having removed the words that are not neceffary, eftablished the proper Form used in the Catholick Church, as it is in the Roman Miffal, laying afide divers and Sacrilegious and ignorant Ceremonies alfo, which fig.

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nified fome Herefies and Errors that were amongst them: And having thus refor med their Mafs, he continued it however in its ancient Form, until fuch time as he had confulted the Apoftolical See about it, to know what our Lord the Pope would determine in that Matter; many of the emendations are noted in the Synod, Dec. 10. Act. 5. of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mafs, and in the Action of Matters of Faith, where they are to be feen; I fhall here present the Curious only with the Mass reformed, and as its faid among them at this

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Have Publifhed this Preface for the fake of the Teftimony that is therein, of this Church's not having believed Tranfubftantiation, but have forbore to Print the Miffal it belongs to, because it is the Miffal that was impofed upon this Church by Arch-Bishop Menezes, or their Old Miffal, fo altered and mangled by him, as to be truly what Father Simon calls it, A confused indigested Office, and withal very tedious.

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