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A25431	Reflections on that discourse, which a Master of Arts (once) of the University of Cambridg, calls rational presented in print to a person of honour, 1676, concerning transubstantiation / by one of no arts but down-right honesty, at the instance of an honourable person.	Anglesey, Arthur Annesley, Earl of, 1614-1686.	1676 (1676)	Wing A3176; ESTC R16001	11,514	16

he pronounced This Cup is the New-Testament Luk. 22.20 If the Master of Arts wll but bring along with him one Note out of St. Vincentius without which all the rest signifie but little we will joyn issue with him 'T is this Neither says he in that little Book I do not quote the page because the whole is but small are all ways and all kinds he means of Innovations to be impugned after this manner 〈◊〉 the ●●ruch's ●●adition but such only as are new and lately sprung whil'st by the straitness of time they be hindred from falsifying the rules of the ancient Faith and before their poison spreading they attempt to corrupt the writings of the Elders Oh my Friend are we arrived there Nay then we shall do well enough the world is pretty well advertised by several hands what your Church of Rome has done in that kind and I hope there are some instances in my Triple-Crown III. We have left yet one thing behind which though it be Vox praeteria Nihil is thought able in the hands of this Master of Arts to strike us all dumb I mean Oral Tradition But pray Sir was not that the same whereby the Law of God was become of none effect and so declared by himself Matth. 15. in our Saviours time He that considers the Parable Matth. 13.24 will not wonder that the Lord of the Field should ask Whence are those Tares And when I read the Eleventh to the Romans at Vers 22 I cannot hinder my self from concluding it very possible that that Church also may be cut off Surely many Circumstances that co-operated to the debauching of the Jewish-worship have passed likewise over the Romish Inundation of Barbarians Ignorance Ambition have had several runs and long reigns too ask Platina If this Calumny was invented by Protestants I must confess 't was less abhorrent to my reason when you pinned all upon the single infallibility of the Chair at Rome by vertue of a promise if any such could have been produced than to let all hang now on so wavering a pin as Oral Tradition The most think I hope Dr. Tillotson has pretty well beaten you off from that shred of a shelter And would you but impartially peruse the late Bishop Cosin his History of your Transubstantiation you would not sure talk so vainly of Bakers bread and the like Flams We own such a real presence even Calvin himself does so of the Body and Blood of Christ to every due receiver as either the Scripture or true Primitive Fathers do require without needing any of those Philosophical Disquisitions which your notion as to this great point must engage all Mankind unto if they be not meer Animals For to tell us that all your good Catholicks hold firmly the thing though they dispute the manner of Transubstantiation when the whole stands upon no sure foot either of Divine Revelation or sufficiently made-out testimony and is altogether unaccountable at the Bar of Reason will not sure make any Proselytes When I find Heb. 7.27 that our High priest needeth not dayly to offer up Sacrifice for this he did once when he offered up himself I wonder in what shape the necessity of a dayly true and proper Sacrifice appeared to get possession of so many mens Phancies especially if the last verse of the next Chapter and its coherence might be considered IV. Now Sir I must acknowledg your learned Harang concerning miracles is very Seraphical and highly surprizeing give me leave to serve you by adding thereto a few remarques the Collection whereof out of a huge Volume was a whole tedious winters work unto me but diverted my Company sometimes as we sate over our Coal fire in the Country Be it known unto all men therefore by these presents That a couple of great Romish Doctors whether they were Masters of Arts or no I know not Claudius de rota and Jacobus de Voragine printed at Lions Anno 1519 to be read to the people on Holy-days and to heighten their zeal as the prefixt Epistle declares and for the direction of Parish-Priests A golden Legend wherein there are plenty of such Stories as here follow Fol. 100. latter page 1. A certain Woman deprived of the comfort of her Husband and having one only Son whom she loved dearly This Son hapned to be taken by his Enemies and fast bound in prison which when the Mother came to know she wept beyond all expression But having an huge Devotion towards the blessed Virgin she plyed her with Prayers for his deliverance At last seeing that that would not do she goes all alone into the Church where there was a graven Image of the Virgin and our Saviour in her arms This disconsolate widow placing her self just before the Image speaks to it in these words O blessed Virgin Thus long have I supplicated thee for my sons freedom but without effect thou hast had no pity on me a poor Mother I have implored thine assistance and patronage for him but without any fruit Therefore now as my Son is taken from me so I 'le teke thy Son from thee and put him in safe Custody as a pledg for mine This said she snatch'd away the Child which the Virgin held cudling in her arms away she hyes home with it laps it up in pure Linnen puts it in a Chest and locks it very yea very securely rejoycing now that she had got so good a Pledg for her Son She watches it very diligently and behold the night following the blessed Virgin appears to the young man in prison throws open the Door knocks off his Fetters bids him go out and tell his Mother That since she had got her Son again she must restore to her likewise her own The released Captive does so there was then joy enough They took the Image of the Child go both of them to the Church put it where they found it the Woman saying Lady I thank thee that thou hast returned my only Son to me And lo here is now thine again Forasmuch as I do own the receit of mine Fol. 151. 2. There was at another time a Thief that had committed many Robberies But yet this Thief had great Devotion to the blessed Virgin and saluted her I cannot English the word in the Original otherwise for it is crebrius salutavit very often At an unluc●y season this Youngster plays one of his prancks is apprehended arraign'd and adjudged to die by the Rope but when he was thrown off the Ladder immediately the Virgin horresco referens was not only at his elbow but for three whole days seemed that is was seen by him and I know not whether by others too so to support him as he felt no harm Those that hanged him passing by and seeing him alive with chearfulness in his looks did imagin the Fatal-cord had not been right noos'd were about to have dispatch'd him with their swords but blessd Mary so the Book phrases it opposed her

REFLECTIONS On that DISCOURSE Which a Master of Arts once of the University of Cambridg Calls RATIONAL Presented in Print to a Person of Honour 1676. CONCERNING Transubstantiation By one of no Arts but down-right Honesty At the instance of an Honourable Person LONDON Printed in the Year 1676. Imprimatur Nihil in hoc libello reperio doctrinae Ecclesiae Anglicanae aut bonis moribus contrarium Jul. 10 1676. G. Jane The four Bulrush-pillars so confidently Erected for the support of his whole Building are 1. The Possibility of it to Gods Power 2. Sayings of the Fathers sounding that way 3. Oral Tradition supposed for it 4. Miracles supposed for it The first of these we deny not only we are a little confident there is neither sufficient evidence that it is so nor any need it should be so pag. 4 As to the second judicat Lector many of his proofs granting them genuine and true make nothing against us others must be tryed by Vincentius's rule All are reduceable to a sound sense in St. Augustine's or Origen's way pag 5 c The third is a mere Chymera pag. 6 The fourth often illusive frequently false never to be trusted to Deut. 13.1 2. Matt. 13.22 if they run contrary to the written word or have not its concurrence pag. 8 To each of these somewhat though not following him into every distinct Paragraph Romani addictus jurare in Verba Magistri THis Master of Arts as he would have us know resolves first to lay down his Position in the most ample not to say prodigious Terms and then to try his skill in the Defence of it My Sentiments says he concerning the Adorable Eucharist is That it is neither less nor more than the Sacred Body and Blood of God neither less nor more than whole-Christ God and man Soul Body and Divinity though for the love and service of Sinners vested under the vile Accidents and appearances of Common Bread and Ordinary Wine Concerning which mystery his first Assertion must be That it is possible to the Omnipotent Power of God 1. And I must confess this shew of an Argument went far with me whilst I was born in hand and did think for even I also had Espoused certain mis-beliefs during my Minority by the prevalency of Eudcation That the vile Protestants had denied the Lord God to be Almighty upon this very account but it ceast by the Divine Goodness to be so with me when I could not but discern and at length was fully convinc'd 1. That the true intent purpose and meaning of our Saviour did not at all oblige us to think of Transubstantiation 2. That there is no necessity import or use for it no service as our Author phrases it in the Christian Church And I shall candidly declare leaving the philosophical impossibility of Transubstantiation to be demonstrated by some other hand what has given me intire satisfaction as to this great Point I perceive by Christs own words recorded Joh. 6.53 that I am under an absolute necessity of eating his Flesh and drinking his Blood And therefore having in the first place considered of how great concern it is to arrive at the true meaning of them I do humbly supplicate the Divine Majesty That he will give me ever to think comprehend speak of and go about that great Mystery so as may be best pleasing to him and most expedient for my foul His own Paraphrase on what he had said cannot deceive me I dare believe since he so told his inquisitive Disciples Vers 63. That the life of them is wrapt up in a Spiritual acception And since he declares where he terms himself the Bread of Life Vers 35. That whoso cometh to him which is the peculiar act of Faith Joh. 1.12 shall never hunger since he attributes most clearly in pursuit still of the same Metaphor the quenching of thirst to believing what need we how can we doubt any more of the matter He takes off their amazement and gives stop to their murmurs Vers 61. not by telling them That though they were to see him ascend up where he was before yet they were ere long to have him corporally present in the form of Bread on ten thousand distant Altars at once nay in the very jaws of every Person how wicked soever that comes but to eat there He does not I say make his return at this rate but instructs them how to Spiritualize the whole business Vers 62 63. Neither would there be any thing difficult or obscure in the words of Institution afterwards For besides that he had here pre-instructed them There was almost nothing among the Jews which had Type or significancy in it but was expressed in this very manner Circumcision the Paschal-Lamb Manna the Rock were all sufficiently known to carry the names of those things they did but adumbrate There is one Scripture Joh 6. He that eats my flesh and drinks my blood hath eternal life abiding in him and I will raise him up at the last day Hence hath the memorable Vsher framed this Syllogism I think irrefragable The Body and Blood of Christ is received unto Life by all that do receive it and by none unto Condemnation But that which is outwardly delivered in the Sacrament is not received by all unto Life but by many unto Condemnation Ergo Therefore that which is outwardly taken in this Sacrament is not really the Body and Blood of Christ II. This Spiritual manducation and none other was the true sense of the Primitive Church I prove it by Saint Augustine in his 26th Tract he hath these words The Sacrament of this thing viz. of our eating the Flesh of Christ is taken from the Lords Table by some unto Life by some unto Destruction But the thing it self whereof it is a Sacrament is received by every man that does receive it unto Life and by none unto Destruction Prosper from him tells us Qui discordat a Christo nec carnem ejus manducat nec Sanguinem bibit More plainly yet St. Augustine again on Psal 97. With the most holy Sacrament not the Flesh which was Crucified is carnally eaten but the virtues of that Flesh are really eaten by the Soul in such manner as the Soul can eat that is Spiritually by her affections and other immanent real acts of internal Operations Wee 'l own and that without any prejudice to our cause That many of the Fathers did chuse and were delighted to imitate our Saviours way of Locution even through long discourses yet 't is evident we ought to understand them as Origen after he had played the Rhetorician in this sort concludes on Matth. 15. Et haec quidem de typico symbolicoque Corpore Augustine Quest 13. in Levit. says Seven Ears of Corn were seven years and the Blood is called the Soul after the manner of Sacraments And what think you must there not needs be a Figure in that speech of Christ when instituting the latter part of this Sacrament