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The catechism of the Church of England, poetically paraphrased. By James Fowler
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Fowler, James, verse-writer.; Church of England. aut
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1678
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eats his God Not thinking how by such Religious fictions He vents these inconsistent contradictions First that our Lord behold a fatal shelf That splits their Doctrine once did eat himself That accidents taste colour outward show Should be in things and yet not subject know That the same Body is at once existent In many places from it self is distant Does at the same time rest yet truly move Is here and there below and yet above Can meet it self and then with wondrous Art Retire again and from it self depart Nor are the Lutherans indeed less out Who seek t' unty the Knot and salve the Doubt By Consubstantiation For that they With little Reason less Religion say The words This is my Body this my Blood Must in the lit'ral sense be understood Yet not the Elements chang'd They only deem The Blood and Body in or under them Nor do they this a Local Union call But Personal and Hypostatical As Christ his humane nature cannot be At all divided from the Deity And in this sense indeed the Papists may Be counted more allowable than they Whose Doctrine Christs two natures quite confounds His omnipresence and his Local bounds And by this argument as well we may Of common Bread as Sacramental say This is Christs Body since themselves declare That his divine and humane Nature are Inseparable whence where one is we Must think the other nature still will be And if his Deity all places fill His manhood not divided from it will That other practise of the Church of Rome Which will allow the Wine to only some And those the Priests is a bold Sacriledg That does the lay-communicant abridg Of half his right But Rome hath power of late What God himself hath joyn'd to separate Christ's blood to Laymen says the Priest 't is vain The body does the blood of Christ contain So Grass hath moisture in 't and therefore may The Shepheard to the Sheep when thirsty say Eat Sheep to quench your thirst if that won't do I will by Drinking do the rest for you Authentick Constance-counsel whose decree Can thus for Orthodox speak Blasphemy Be 't thus by us establisht Notwithstanding Primitive practice and Gods mouth commanding But no Non-obstance Act can supersede What in his institution Christ decreed Which was if Scriptures are be believ'd Both Bread and Wine by all to be receiv'd Question Now what 's the inward part that 's signifi'd Answer Though in the former notion I deny'd The real presence of Christ's flesh and blood As those at Capernaum understood Yet in a mystick sense both are I grant Partaken by the true Communicant And he that truly does in Christ believe Does both indéed and verily receive Question What are the benefits and graces that Receivers do hereby participate Answer Confirming grace which vig'rous strength imparts And grace of comfort to our feeble hearts For as our outward bodies by the Bread And wine which they receive are nourished So by the Body and the Blood of Christ Our inward-man is strengthned and refresht And as to temp'ral life those feed the carnal These nourish up the Soul to life Eternal Question What is required and expected front Such as to this great Wedding-Supper come Answer To come with Wedding garments trim'd and drest As suits the quality of such a feast First to examine the most inward parts And close recesses of their treach'rous hearts To try if there they find repentance true With stedfast purpose to be born anew Whether forsaking all their former Sin They do a Course of Righteousness begin The Room must first of filthy lust be clear'd And then with holy purposes prepar'd Before we must expect the Lord our guest Or dare approach his Soul-refreshing feast To this must come a lively faith and firm Such as may give the Man-of-no-man worm A confidence that God will mercy have On such as in his merits Mercy crave And to these graces next there must be joyn'd A pious thankful and Remembring mind Of Christ his death that Cursed death which he Dy'd freely from a worse to set us free In which his precious Sacred blood was shed To wash our Souls with those dear drops he bled He Gall and Vinegar drank that we might drink Rivers of pleasure that o'r-flow the brink And in a word to shame from glory fell To lift up sinful Man to Heaven from Hell And to compleat the man of God that he Furnish'd to all good works may perfect be It is requir'd that in his Soul there move An universal Charity and Love Not such a charity as does extend Only to benefactor lover friend Not such a narrow strait-lac'd love as will Requite a good turn and revenge an ill Not such half-love as can forgive and yet Will never be persuaded to forget Not such a squeamish love or rather passion As reaches not beyond its own persuasion Not that self-ended love whose only drifts In giving are to purchase greater gifts But such impartial love as deals abroad Its alms to all the images of God True objects of its Charity does chuse Gives freely looks for no return or use Such as does envy scorn revenge despise From heart forgives and prays for enemies As God himself who bids us pardon thus Both hath and will for Christ's sake pardon us This is the Card'nal grace the Axel-Pole The hinge of vertue in a Christian Soul This grace like Jacob's Scale by steps shall rise Mount up from earth and mounting reach the skies And when our faith shall be compleat in vision When hope shall be consummate in fruition Love an inhabitant in Heav'n shall prove As lasting as the God himself of Love 'T is this we stand or fall by this that brings Our Souls to Abra'ms bosome makes us Kings 'T is this that gives us Crowns which never fade Among the Spirits of Just men perfect made Who swallow'd up in joys in Heav'n above God and each other shall for ever love FINIS