of the Confession and read it, substituting either Lord's Supper or eucharist in place of the word mass.
"By which means the people are attracted to the communion and the _eucharist_, (the mass;") which is equivalent to saying, they were attracted to the eucharist and the eucharist.
"An annual fair was made, at which _eucharists_ (masses) were bought and sold." This would be historically untrue.
"And the greater part of them (the _eucharists_) in all the churches, were performed for money." To this the same remark applies.
"These money-_eucharists_ and closet _eucharists_ (masses,) have ceased in our churches:" but the eucharist certainly had not ceased.
"Hence also arose the controversy, whether a _eucharist_ (mass) performed for (not by) a number of persons collectively, was as efficacious as a separate _eucharist_ for each individual." This question applies only to the mass proper, and was never mooted about the eucharist.
"The ancient canons also show, that one of the priests performed or celebrated (halten, celebrare) _eucharist, and administered the communion to the other priests and deacons." [Note 34] This specimen, like the first, would be purely tautological.
5.

That the word mass is used in Article XXIV., distinctively for the mass, is evident from the fact that the _Romanists so understood_ it, and in their answer to the Confession attempt to refute the Protestant rejection not of the Lord's Supper, but of the private _masses_, the closet _masses_, and the sacrificial and vicarious nature of the _mass_ in general whilst they applaud the retention of public mass by the Reformers, if they would only celebrate it according to canonical regulations.

We will cite a single passage, out of many that might be adduced:-- "It, is therefore not rejected, nor regarded as wrong, that the (Protestant) princes and cities (according to Article XXIV.

of their Confession, on which they are commenting,) celebrate one common (or public) mass in their churches; if they only performed it properly, according to the holy rule and canonical regulations, as all Catholics perform it.

But that they (the Protestants) reject all _other_ masses, can neither be tolerated nor suffered by the Christian faith and Catholic profession;" (that is, cannot be allowed by us who profess the Roman Catholic religion.