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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58627	A sermon preached at White-Hall before His Late Majesty / by John Tillotson.	Tillotson, John, 1630-1694.	1686 (1686)	Wing S1250A; ESTC R25649	14,978	33

to a fair ●e If the testimony of sense be to be relied on then Transubstantiation is false If it be ●t then no man is sure that Christianity is ●e For the utmost assurance that the A●●stles had of the truth of Christianity was ●e testimony of their own senses concerning ●r Saviour's miracles and this testimony ●ery man hath against Transubstantiation ●om whence it plainly follows that no man ●o not the Apostles themselves had more ●ason to believe Christianity to be true than ●ery man hath to believe Transubstantiation 〈◊〉 be false And we who did not see our Sa●●our's Miracles as the Apostles did and ●●ve only a credible relation of them but do ●e the Sacrament have less evidence of the ●●uth of Christianity than of the falshood of ●ransubstantiation But cannot God impose upon the senses of ●en and represent things to them otherwise ●an they are Yes undoubtedly And if he ●ath revealed that he doth this are we not 〈◊〉 believe him Most certainly But then we ●ight to be assured that he hath made such a ●evelation which Assurance no man can have ●e certainty of sense being taken away I shall press the business a little farther ●upposing the Scripture to be a Divine Revela●ion and that these words This is my Body 〈◊〉 they be in Scripture must necessarily be taken in the strict and literal sense I ask no● What greater evidence any man has th 〈…〉 these words This is my Body are in the 〈…〉 ble than every man has that the Bread 〈…〉 not chang'd in the Sacrament Nay no m 〈…〉 has so much for we have only the eviden 〈…〉 of one sense that these words are in the Bib●● but that the Bread is not chang'd we have t 〈…〉 concurring testimony of several of our sens 〈…〉 In a word if this be once admmitted th 〈…〉 the Senses of all men are deceiv'd in one 〈…〉 the most plain sensible matters that can b 〈…〉 there is no certain means left either to conv 〈…〉 or prove a Divine Revelation to men nor 〈…〉 there any way to confute the grossest imp 〈…〉 stures in the World For if the clear eviden 〈…〉 of all mens senses be not sufficient for this p 〈…〉 pose let any man if he can find a better a 〈…〉 more convincing argument 5. I will instance but in one Doctrine mo 〈…〉 And that shall be their Doctrine of depos 〈…〉 Kings in case of Heresie and absolving th 〈…〉 Subjects from their Allegiance to them A 〈…〉 this is not a meer speculative Doctrine b 〈…〉 hath been put in practice many a time by t 〈…〉 Bishops of Rome as every one knows that 〈…〉 vers'd in History For the troubles and co 〈…〉 fusions which were occasion'd by this ve 〈…〉 thing make up a good part of the History 〈…〉 several Ages I hope no body expects that I should take the pains to shew that this was not the Doctrine of our Saviour and his Apostles nor of the Primitive Christians The Papists are many of them so far from pretending this that in some times and places when it is not seasonable and for their purpose we have much a-do to perswade them that ever it was their Doctrine But if Transubstantiation be their Doctrine this is for they came both out of the same Forge I mean the Council of Lateran under Pope Innocent the Third And if as they tell us Transubstantiation was then establish'd so was this And indeed one would think they were Twins and brought forth at the same time they are so like one another both of them so mostrously unreasonable II. I come now in the second place to consider some Practices of the Church of Rome which I am afraid will prove as bad as her Doctrines I shall instance in these five 1. Their celebrating of their Divine service in an unknown Tongue And that not only contrary to the practice of the Primitive Church and to the great end and design of Religious Worship which is the Edification of those who are concerned in it and it is hard to imagine how men can be edified by what they do not understand but likewise in direct Contradiction to St. Paul who hath no less than a whole Chapter wherein he confutes this Practice as fully and condemns it as plainly as any thing is condemned in the whole Bible And they that can have the face to maintain that this Practice was not condemned by St. Paul or that it was allowed and used in the first Ages of Christianity need not be ashamed to set up for the defence of any Paradox in the World 2. The Communion in one kind And that notwithstanding that even by their own acknowledgment our Saviour instituted it in both kinds and the Primitive Church administred it in both kinds This I must acknowledg is no addition to Christianity but a sacrilegious taking away of an essential part of the Sacrament For the Cup is as essential a part of the Institution as the Bread and they might as well and by the same Authority take away the one as the other and both as well as either 3. Their worshipping of Images Which practice notwithstanding all their Distinctions about it which are no other but what the Heathens used in the same case is as point-blank against the second Commandment as a deliberate and malicious killing of a man is against the sixth But if the case be so plain a man would think that at least the Teachers and Guides of that Church should be sensible of it Why they are so and afraid the people should be so too and therefore in their ordinary Catechisms and Manuals of Devotion they leave out the second Commandment and divide the tenth into two to make up the number lest if the common people should know 〈…〉 t their Consciences should start at the doing of a thing so directly contrary to the plain command of God 4. The worshipping of the bread and wine in the Eucharist out of a false and groundless perswasion that they are substantially changed into the body and blood of Christ Which if it be not true and it hath good fortune if it be for certainly it is one of the most incredible things in the whole World then by the confession of several of their own learned Writers they are guilty of gross Idolatry 5. The worship and invocation of Saints and Angels and particularly of the Virgin Mary which hath now for some Ages been a principal part of their Religion Now a man may justly wonder that so considerable a part of Religion as they make this to be should have no manner of foundation in the Scripture Does our Saviour any where speak one word concerning the worshipping of Her Nay does he not take all occasions to restrain all extravagant apprehensions and imaginations concerning honour due to Her as foreseeing the degeneracy of the Church in this thing When he was told that his Mother and Brethren were without Who says he are