CONTENTS. CHAPTER III. ON THE TERM MASS. 1. Meaning of the word Mass.-2. Origin of it.-3. The antiquity of its use. 297 PART THE SECOND. CHAPTER III. ON THE TERM MASS. THE unbloody sacrifice of the new law, predicted with so much emphasis by Malachias, when the Prophet says;-'From the rising of the sun even to the going down, my name is great among the Gentiles; and in every place there is a sacrifice, and there is offered to my name a clean offering,' has been designated by a variety of expressions, at the several periods of the Christian era. It has however been for more than fourteen hundred years denominated almost exclusively by the word Mass, throughout the Latin Church; and for the same period, has gone under the appropriate term of Liturgy amongst the Greeks. *Malach. C. i. V. 11. In the first edition of the Protestants' prayer book, called the book of Common Prayer, the communion service is entitled "The supper of the Lord,' and holy communion, commonly called the Mass. |