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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40089	A sermon preached before the judges, &c. in the time of the assizes in the Cathedral church at Gloucester on Sunday Aug. 7, 1681 published to put a stop to false and injurious representations / by Edward Fowler.	Fowler, Edward, 1632-1714.	1681 (1681)	Wing F1716; ESTC R10669	23,348	42

Ear-rings too was that very God which brought them out of the Land of Egypt But the Gentlemen of Rome would have us think that they were so forsaken of their Intellectuals as so to believe and we cannot blame them for that neither For if they did not impudently bear us down that the Children of Israel believed that this Moulten Calf was that God that divided the Sea wrought so many Miracles for them and the maker of Heaven and Earth they would they are sensible be necessitated to excuse them from Idolatry expresly contrary to the words of Scripture And if this their Notion of Idolatry be the only true one we are certain that it will be extremely difficult if not impossible to find out Idolaters among the very Pagans What think you of their Doctrine of Transubstantiation of which take this account from the Council of Trent By the Consecration the whole substance of the Bread is changed into the substance of the Body of Christ our Lord and the whole substance of the Wine into the substance of the bloud of Christ. So that as like as it still looks to Bread and Wine Though it hath the perfect Tast the perfect Feeling and Smell of Bread and Wine yet it is nothing less 't is that very Body that hung upon the Cross at Ierusalem and that very bloud that was there shed This is the most prodigiously contradictious Doctrine that I will not say the Wit but the Madness of men can possibly invent 't is a most wonderful complication of most horrid contradictions and absolute impossibilities But this is not the worst of it it is also the foundation of so gross and foul Idolatry as is scarcely to be named among the Gentiles or to be found parallel'd in Peruvia it self or the most barbarous parts of India The forementioned Holy Council declares nullus itaque dubitandi locus relinquitur c. There is therefore no place left for doubt but that all good Christians do give the Worship of Latria quae Vero Deo debetur which is due to the true God to this most Holy Sacrament according to the always received custom of the Catholick Church They should have said according to the late and upstart custom of the Romish Faction Here you see that the Bread and Wine are Worshipped by them not as Representations of God but as God himself But what if those words of our Saviour This is my Body should prove to be a Figure like those other of his I am a Vine I am a Door c. or what if This is my body should be as much a Figure as they will confess the words presently following are viz. This Cup is the New Testament in my Bloud Where we have a double Figure both the Cup put for the Wine in it and the Wine said to be the New Testament or Covenant when supposing it were the very Bloud of Christ it could not be the New Covenant it self but the Seal of that Covenant I say what if these words be to be understood figuratively as why they should not the Papists can shew nothing like a reason but we have shewn them the greatest absurdities imaginable in otherwise understanding them why then they themselves will and do acknowledge that they should be guilty of the most gross Idolatry in their Worship of the Host. What say you to the Popish Doctrine of the Sacrifice of the Mass which is of near kin to the foregoing The Doctrine of the Roman Church is as you shall find it in the Council of Trent That in this Sacrifice which is performed in the Mass that very Christ is contained and in a bloudless manner offered which upon the Altar of the Cross did once offer up himself in a bloudy manner So that according to this Doctrine our Blessed Saviour must still to the end of the world be laid hold of by Sinners be ground with their teeth and sent down into their impure paunches as often as the Priest shall pronounce the charm hoc est enim corpus meum And it seems that he was a false Prophet when he said upon the Cross it is finished seeing there was such an infinite deal of loathsome Drudgery still to be undergone by him And it seems the Author to the Hebrews is found to be a false Apostle in asserting so expresly as more than once he doth that such is the Dignity of Christ's Priesthood and its excellency above the Levitical that by one offering he hath made perfect satisfaction and expiation for sin So that this their Doctrine of the Sacrifice of the Mass is not only False but very Corrupt and impious Doctrine What say you to their Doctrine of Purgatory which in short is this That no souls except such as are perfectly purified in this life which they 'l surely acknowledge are extremely few shall go at their departure hence into a place of happiness or ease but all the forementioned excepted into a place of torment where they may abide for an exceeding long time even many hundreds of years except some effectual care be taken for their deliverance By this Doctrine the poor people are brought into a most slavish state by the means hereof their merciless Tyrants the Priests hale them into worse than Egyptian Bondage who instead of enjoyning them the most reasonable duties to which the Precepts of their Saviour oblige them and which are most admirably adapted to the cleansing of their natures and mortifying their corrupt affections impose upon them a great number of ridiculous Services of their own invention But though they cannot pretend the least warrant from Scripture for such doings as those yet they have a most express Text they tell you for their Doctrine of Purgatory viz. those words of S. Paul 1 Cor. 3.15 But he shall be saved yet so as by fire But he who considers these two things will see nothing like Purgatory in this Text namely First that it is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not he shall be saved by fire but as it were by fire or rather through fire Secondly that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to be saved as through fire is a Proverbial Speech as those great Criticks Grotius and Scaliger with others have shewed signifying to be saved from most eminent danger And as this Doctrine of theirs is groundless so is it as wicked it being a most vile affront to the Merits and and Satisfaction of our Blessed Saviour For in order to the establishing of this Doctrine they teach that The Passion of Christ takes away only the guilt of Mortal sins not their eternal Punishment which is as non-sensical as false and impious 'T is an impious Doctrine also both as it is devised to inslave the Consciences of the Poor People and to bring them into absolute subjection to their Priests and likewise to gratifie their greedy Appetites and to bring their Purses no less under their power than their Consciences What say you to their Doctrine of