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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02628	A recantation sermon preached in the gate-house at VVestminster the 30. day of Iuly 1620 In the presence of many worshipfull persons, by Iohn Harding, late Priest and Dominican Fryar. Wherein he hath declared his iust motiues which haue moued him to leaue the Church of Rome, and to vnite himselfe with the reformed Church of England, whose faith and doctrine, the ancient fathers and holy martyrs haue confirmed both by bloud and writing. Shewing herein the grose errors of Rome, in matters of faith, their corrupting the Fathers, and their present declining to some strange and future ruine.	Harding, John, fl. 1620.	1620 (1620)	STC 12756; ESTC S115165	15,923	28

Scripture but in the meaning Therefore Saint Paul saith that the Communicant doth eate Bread after Consecration for if the Bread were wholy and truly Transubstantiated into the Body of Christ hence it followeth that euery one that doth receiue the sacrament doth also eate the Body of Christ and consequently cannot be damned For our Sauiour saith He that eateth my Flesh and drinketh my Bloud hath eternall life so by this rule the wicked shall be saued as well as the godly Moreouer if Christ be present according to his humane Nature then is it no Sacrament for euery Sacrament is a signe inanis est signi visus vbi resipsa presens est the signe is to no effect where the thing it selfe is present And it is to be noted likewise that the signe must haue some Analogie with the thing that it signifieth Now the thing signified is the Body and Bloud of Christ which is true meate true drinke as our Sauiour himselfe witnesseth in St. Iohns Gospell but the species or accidents of Bread and Wine are not true meate nor true drinke by that meanes cannot giue any fit proportion with the thing signified by them Further it is an Axiome in Phylosophy that accidentis esse est in esse that the being of an accident is to be in some subiect But these accidents as colour sauour and roundnesse they cannot bee in any subiect and so by consequence they cannot exist in the Sacrament For they cannot be in the body of Christ because it is glorified but the accidents are subiect to corruption and therfore they must either exist without a subiect which is contrary to Phylosophy or else to bee seated in the Body of Christ which is now glorified and this is impossible It is further to be noted that the Church of Rome doth mutilate and curtall this Sacrament for they take the bloud of our Sauiour which is our redemption from the lay-people yet certaine it is that our Sauiour did institute this Sacrament vnder both kinds and as he said to all take eate this is my Body So did he likewise speake vnto all when he deliuered the Cup saying drinke ye all of this and Saint Paul writing to the Corinthians sayth As often as ye eate of this Bread and drinke of this Cup ye shew forth the Lords death vntill he come For as Alexander of Hailes saith whole Christ is not conteyned vnder each kind but the Flesh only vnder the forme of Bread and the Bloud vnder the forme of Wine And heere vpon Gelasius Pope made a Decree that they should either receiue the whole vnder both kinds or receiue none at all vnder any kinde For there can bee no deuision of this one Sacrament and high mistery without great Sacriledge so that by their owne Doctors it is euident that they commit great Sacriledge in deuiding this Sacrament and do much abuse the people of God in deceiuing them of the precious Bloud of our Sauiour The 5. Motiue which mooued mee to persist in this my enterprise is that the Pope challengeth authority vnto himselfe to forgiue sinnes and thereupon sendeth forth his Bulls Pardons and Indulgences pardoning whom he list and as he list as if he were God himselfe hauing absolute power to do what he list insomuch as Traytors and Rebels against God and their lawfull Prince hee will not only pardon without exception but he will enable them in their damnable courses to the ouerthrowing of themselues and their Princes What the Religion of Rome is it may easily appeare by this that a man may haue for money a Licence or dispensation for any sinne a Popes pardon is sufficient for all but to what end serueth pardons when as there is no Purgatorie for neither the ancient Fathers make mention of it and the Grecians vntill this day beleeue it not Siluester Prierias in his Booke against Luther saith that Pardons are not knowne vnto vs by any authority of the Scriptures but by authorie of the Pope which is greater then the authority of the Scriptures Vox bouis non hominis It is the voice or saying of some Beast and not of any Christian man Certaine I am that the Pope cannot justifie an vnrighteous man whom God abhorreth neither can he condemn the faithfull whō God doth much tender and fauour therfore his Pardons are rather pernitious then any whit commodious to the persons that buy them bearing them in peace and security when indeede they are in much perill and misery VVhere doe they find that the Pope hath any superiority ouer Kings Princes or Emperours that hee hath any authority to depose them from their Crownes and dignities and to absolue their subiects from their Oath and Allegeance which they haue sworne vnto their Princes That vpon his Excommunication it is lawfull for them to rebell against them and so practise all Hostility to depose them There is not one word sentence or place out of the Scripture to proue it no precept or example of antiquity to warrant it and yet they commend it for a chiefe point and ground of Catholike and Christian faith By what right doth he claime this supreme authority if he clayme it as a successor of St. Peter it is impossible for that Saint Peter neuer had any such Title or preeminence ouer the rest of the Apostles It is true that Christ said to Peter Thou art Peter and vpon this Rock I wil build my Church These words hitherto giue no superiority to Peter aboue the rest Only they shew that the Church is built non super petrum sed super Petram not vpon the person of Peter but vpon the Rocke Of which Saint Paul saith Petra autem erat Christus the Rock was Christ whom Saint Peter confessed to be the Sonne of the euerliuing God This confession of Saint Peter is that Christ is the Rock wherevpon the Church is builded aliud fundamentum nemo potest ponere nisi id quod positum est Christus Iesus Other Foundation can no man lay but that which is laid already namely Christ Iesus Where then shall wee find that Peter was made Prince of the Apostles to rule ouer all the rest as our Popes doe now But what hath the Pope to doe with Peter or what doth the Pope doe as Saint Peter did Saint Peter did conuert soules plant Churches and preach the Word of God vnto all Nations but in what Pulpit hath our Popes euer set foote where haue they preached the Gospell or expounded the Word The first Lesson that Saint Peter teacheth vs is to feare God the next is to Honour the King Quis haec est voluntas Dei for this is the will of God But the Popes say that they are Princes aboue Nations and Kingdomes they can depose Kings and pull downe Emperours they haue authority ouer their subiects to discharge them from their Oathes they haue the right and clayme vnto both swords as well temporall as spirituall And that