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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58328	Animadversions by way of answer to a sermon preached by Dr. Thomas Kenne, Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells, in the Cathedral Church of Bath, on Ascension-Day last, being the fifth day of May, 1687	Reed, John, Father.	1687 (1687)	Wing R665; ESTC R36704	18,505	40

of that Verse I am the living Bread which came down from Heaven if any man eat of this Bread he shall live for ever and the Bread that I will give is my Flesh which I give for the Life of the World. What can be more positive for our purpose Yet Beza had the impudence to translate most perfidiously Life giving Bread instead of Living Bread but in this he was most absurdly perfidious for the Sun is Life giving tho' not living and being granted that this Bread is living it must of necessity be Jesus Christs own precious Body St. Paul 1 Cor. 10. v. 16. Proves it positively as appears by the following words The Cup of Blessing which we bless is it not the Communion of the Blood of Christ The Bread which we break is it not the Communion of the Body of Christ And 1 Cor. 12. v. 29. for he that eateth and drinketh unworthily eateth and drinketh damnation to himself not discerning the Lords Body There is none if he be not wilfully blind but may see out of both these passages and out of many more that before Jesus Christ gave this Sacrament to his Apostles at the actual giving it them and after he had given it them and they to others both Christ and his Apostles call it Flesh and Blood Christ sayeth This is my Flesh this is my Blood. And the Apostles name it Corpus Domini the Lords Body Now my Lord I will urge one instance more against your Communion by Faith only and thus I proceed either your Lordships Soul in your actual Communion ascendeth to Heaven there to feed on Christ by Faith or else Christ descendeth to feed your Soul. What to this my Lord You cannot allow the first for so your unglorified Soul should be in two places at once which you deny even to the very glorified Soul and Body of Christ You do not allow the second for so Christ shou'd be in two places at once and if in two why not in an hundred and an hundred thousand For the one is no more difficult to Gods absolute Power then the other This you do not allow for once granted the rest cou'd not be denied I wou'd fain then know what you are at in your Sacramental Communion for I do not find any third way your Lordship can feed in truth and really on Christs Body in your Sacrament nay I am sure you never found it out yet your self nor ever shall Now I see you must own you cannot well tell the way or manner how your Soul feeds on Christs most Sacred Body in the Sacrament You eat him then non dijudicans Corpus Domini viz. Not discerning the Lords Body Pray then read your own judgement in St. Paul 1 Cor. 22. judicium sibi manducat bibit He eats and drinks his own judgement I shall beg of your Lordship once more to deal sincerely and tell me your own opinion of the Protestant Communion I know full well what you say in the exposition of your Catechism Printed for Charles Brome anno 1686. That I know and will soon bring down your very words which are quite opposited to what I heard you Preach the last Ascention-Day But tell me once more I pray your meaning in this particular For my part I want day to find you out for I see your Sermon contradicts your Writings non es ergo tibi constans i. e. you are not constant to your self For now you receive Christs Flesh and Blood virtually now Figuratively another time spiritually by Faith and in Exposition of your Catechism you contradict all that in teaching the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ to be verily and indeed taken by the Faithful in our Lords Supper Here are your own words Pag. 75. Glory be to thee O adorable Jesus who under the outward and visible part the Bread and Wine things obvious and easily prepared both which thou hast commanded to be received dost communicate to our Souls the Mystery of Divine Love the inward and invisible Grace thy own most blessed Body and Blood which are verily and indeed taken and received by the Faithful in thy Supper for which all Love all Glory be to thee These are your own words my Lord Catholick enough on the Paper but quite contrary to what you teach in the Pulpit for there you say That the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ is verily and indeed taken by the Faithful and here you say not at all but sometimes one way and sometimes another spiriritually to day by Faith only and virtually to morrow and in your Catechism you write indeed and verily So that I cannot compare your Opinion of this Mystery better then to what White of Lincoln chargeth Bishop Ridley with concerning the destruction of Altars and the Erecting of Communion Tables in the beginning of the Reformation You will find it in Doctor Heylins History the 5th year of King Edward the 6ths Reign Pag. 106. Here are the words That when their Table was Constituted they could never be content in placing the same now East now North now one way now another until it pleased God of his goodness to place it quite out of the Church So much out of Heylin I say the same of your Lordships placing the Body and Blood of Christ in the Sacrament now Virtually now Figuratively now Spiritually now by Faith only and in your Catechism verily and indeed until at last it pleased God of his goodness to place himself quite out of your Sacrament Disprove this parity if you can In fine I remember your Lordship protested mightily against Roman Catholicks for Coining and Forgeing new Articles of Faith as well in relation to Transubstantiation as to spiritual Supremacy c. You ought to know my Lord that there is no Church on Earth that protests more against Innovations in matters of Faith Manners and Religious Ceremonies than the Roman Catholick Church As to what belongs to Faith we say write and teach publickly that all Articles of Faith are in themselves un-alterable being they are Eternal Verities whose Objects are eternally true Omnes articuli fidei sunt immutabiles eo quod objecta eorum sint eternae veritatis Nay we say and solemnly protest that St. Peter with all his Successors together if you will in one Chapter cannot alter and much less make one only Article of Faith they all being eternal verities belonging solely to Gods immediate Revelation It is true the Church can declare what is of Faith to be of Faith and what is not of Faith not to be of Faith And this is all the Church of Rome pretends to in the Decision of matters of Faith. So much in answer to your Lordships vehemency against Coiners of new Articles of Faith. Find them out and our Church will condemn 'em with much more Authority than your Lordship who ought rather to charge your own Church with that errour witness your 39 Articles than ours This is the substance my Lord of all

there that really I thought you were mistaken in our Doctrine of Transubstantiation or else that you were not at all sincere in omitting to expound candedly our Sense thereof to your People For if your Lordship teach them that We deprive Heaven of that most sacred Humanity whilst it continues on our Altars you impose most grossly on us and keep your Flock wilfully in ignorance For that was never our Opinion We say and teach that he is at the self-same time in Heaven and on our Altars because the Omnipotent Word of God makes use of his absolute Power to re-produce himself truly and really God and Man under the accidents of Bread and Wine nothing of either former Substances remaining and this change of Substance is call'd by the Roman Catholick Church Transubstantiation that is to say A total Change of the substance of the Bread to that of the Body and of the substance of the Wine to that of the most precious Blood of Jesus Christ and this is what we call Transubstantiation And John Calvin himself had not the face to deny this to Gods absolute Power to whom sin only is impossible And Jesus Christ says absolutely he does change it by virtue of these holy words Hoc est corpus meum c. for if he has changed the substance of Water to that of Wine and multiplied five small Loaves to the most plentiful saturity of five thousand men Water and Bread being purely material who can deny but he can do the like to his own most sacred Body being in the actual possession of all the qualities due to a glorious Spirit viz. Agility Subtility Clarity and Impassibility Do not I pray fool your poor People any more with the feigned impossibility of believing that so proper a Man as Jesus Christ is or can be in a little Wafer Speak my Lord like a Christian Scholar and own that these four glorious qualities just now mention'd do dispense with the Body of Christs local possessing of a place cum extensione partium supra partes It is true that living as a Mortal man on Earth he took his dimensions corporally as other Mortal men do tho' then it self he might have done it Spiritually as often as he pleased which was once only viz. pridie quam pateretur that is the day before he suffered You must therefore confess under pain of Eternal Damnation that our sweet Redeemers Body is no more subject to time or place Who is' t that can deny to the glorious Body of our Saviour Christ what St. Paul allows after the day of Judgement to the Bodies of all Souls justified by sanctifying Grace Here are his words Seminatur corpus animale surget spirituale c. Hence a Christian Poet took occasion to say Clari subtiles agiles impassibilesque Omnes quadruplici pollebunt dote beati viz. Clarity Subtility Agility and Impassibility shall be the four Gifts of beatified Bodies And if it be of Faith that all glorified Bodies shall enjoy these Priviledges when Doom is over who can deny it now to the most glorious Body of Jesus Christ He says it Hoc est corpus meum This is my Body c. And who shall find in his heart to say no You 'll alledge my Lord that the Mystery cannot be comprehended it is true and why Because it is incomprehensible as all the rest of the Mysteries of our Faith But this Mystery is called Antonomastice Mysterium Fidei that is the Mystery of Faith by excellency You will say my Lord you cannot comprehend it pray tell me whether you can comprehend the Mystery of the most holy Trinity the word Trinity being no more in Scripture than the word Transubstantiation and what is the reason you do not give credit as well to This as to That You have the self-same authority for both which is that of the Church Are not there a thousand little bagatels in Nature you cannot comprehend viz. The Ebbing and Flowing of the Seas the regular Fits of Agues the occult Vertue of the Sun giving real Life to Insects and cooperating vertually to the Life of all other Sublanary Creatures whether Vegitatively or Sensibly Living and many other such examples in nature obvious enough to our Senses but incomprehensible to our understandings and shoul'd not this be more then a sufficient argument to captivate our understandings in obsequium fidei This is not my Lord to totter the People with every blaste of Wind saying Christ is here or Christ is there that is to be understood not of Christians but of the Jews who after long expecting the Messias will at last feign he is here and he is there being weary of his tedious delay But Jesus Christ himself gave this warning to the Christians that will live in those days to the end that they may not be tottered by every blaste of Wind that shall say he is on this Altar or on that Altar We teach my Lord the Doctrine Jesus Christ left to his Apostles And his Apostles by Succession to Posterity and which shall continue in the Church of God to the Worlds End. It is the unquestionable Doctrine of Christ preach'd by his Apostles and their Successours in all Ages And your Doctrine is questionable to every body even to your selves for you do not know the way or manner Christ is in your Sacrament as I will instance out of your own Catechism before I end But I prove now that you taught in that Ascension Sermon a Doctrine quite repugnant to your own Bible Here are the words of St. Luke 22th Chap. 19th Vers This is my Body which is given for you What can be more plain Notwithstanding your Lordship must needs maintain that what Christ gave and his Apostles receiv'd was nothing else but Bread and Wine Do you pretend to know Christs meaning better than himself Is not this quite contrary to the great longing he had to eat this Pass-over with his Disciples Defiderio desideravi hoc pasca manducare vobiscum Luke 22th Chap. 15th Vers With desire I have desired to eat this Pass-over with you before I suffer Now to refer these words to a figurative eating only by Faith were most absurd for we cannot say that Jesus Christ cou'd eat himself by Faith since all the Schools of Divinity forbid us to admit Faith in the Son of God who is and always has been in the full possession of all the Objects of Divine Faith and that by Vertue of his Hypostatical Union We must therefore own and confess that what our Saviour desir'd so vehemently to eat with his Disciples before he suffer'd was truly really and substantially his most Sacred Body But for further proof of this verity go to the 6th Chap. of St. Johns Gospel and read it all over with attention and there you shall find nothing more plainly proved then the Real Presence But when you come to the 52th Verse thereof I beg of you to read it leasurely here be the words