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A20148	No parliament powder But shot and powder for the Pope. And for all his Cardinalles, Bishops, Abbots, Fryers, Monkes; the maisters and great doctours of Sorbonne. Sent to his vn-holynesse, and them all, for a newe-yeares gift. 1609.; Sac & pieces pour le pape de Romme, ses cardinaux & evesques. English	Denakol.; Philagathus, fl. 1609.	1609 (1609)	STC 6582; ESTC S118652	52,903	98

spiritually vnderstood For it is the spirit that quickeneth the flesh profiteth nothing All this hath this learned Doctour written and in many other places very amply And to the end it may not appeare that this man onely was of this opinion wee are willing to alleadge the sayings of many other holy Fathers as of S. Chrisostome speaking thus Christ hath ordained the Table of his holy Supper to the ende that in this Sacrament hee might shewe vs daily bread and wine as the similitude of his body and blood for the nature of the wine remaineth euer The like saith S. Dionisius Ireneus and Origen who haue all with one consent and accord written the very same as is to bee seene in the Booke called the Ecclesiasticall Hierarchie and diuers others Moreouer wee will not conceale the Nicene Councell wherein it was decreed as followeth Wee are not bound to matters heere beneath as the bread and wine proposed on the Lords table But wee must by faith lift vp your spirits on high Considering and vnderstanding that the Lambe of God taking away the sinnes of the world is in this holy Table who is not offered in sacrifice by Priests after the maner of beasts And in taking his precious body and blood wee beleeue these are the signes of our resurrection You see heere the testimonie of many holy Fathers and Doctours of the Church who receiued this doctrine from the Apostles in this manner so truely as they are not to be gain-said The Pope and his Church THe Priest hauing an intention to consecrate saying but foure or fiue wordes leauing Enim vpon all the bread which is in the Market and vpon all the wine which is in a Sellar immediatly all the breads and and wines are conuerted and transubstantiated into the naturall body and blood of Christ So saith our learned Master Ioannes Scotus in quarto sententiarum I Gelasius Pope of Rome haue no way approoued your Transubstantiation For I will neuer vnsay that which I haue written against Eutichus and Nestorius Heretiques to wit The Sacraments of the body and blood of Iesus Christ which wee receiue are diuine things Therefore we are made partakers by them of the diuine nature and yet notwithstanding the substance of bread and wine doe not cease to be there still And surely the Image and similitude of Christs body and blood are celebrated in the action of the misteries It is then euidently shewen vnto vs what we ought to vnderstand in Iesus Christ our Lord. I Venerable Bede will neuer receiue your Transubstantiation for I will neuer reuoke that which I haue written vpon the 22. Chapter of Saint Luke namely Iesus Christ hath left the Sacraments of his flesh and blood vnder the figures of bread and wine in stead of the flesh and blood of the Lambe To the end that hee might shew himselfe to bee hee to whom our Lord had sworne and neuer would repent him Thou art the euerlasting Sacrificer I Drhumatus Monke of the holy Order of S. Benedict can no way approoue your Transubstantiation For I will neuer deny what I haue commented vpon S. Matth. to wit The wine doth cherish augment our blood for this cause is not the blood of Christ improperly figured thereby Because whatsoeuer commeth of him to vs doth cherish vs with a true and perfect ioy and increaseth all our happinesse Our Lord gaue to his Disciples the Sacrament of his body in remission of their sinnes and to preserue charitie among them To the end that keeping this act of his in their remembrance they might affixe in figure what he had done for them and neuer cast this charitie into obliuion This is my body that is to say in a Sacrament I Adrain Pope of Rome notwithstanding the ordinances of my Predecessors yet as I haue written in my fourth booke I confesse that the Church ought to know that she is not Mistresse but Minister of the Sacraments And that shee cannot institute any forme of Sacraments no more then shee can abolish any diuine Law The Apostles and Gods Church THe Disciple cannot be more perfect or wiser then his Master it is sufficient for him that he is as he is In regard wherof we will neither diminish nor ad any thing to the institution of our Lord and Master Iesus Christ whom we will onely heare and following his example as hee hath commanded vs wee will receiue and administer the holy Sacrament of his Supper vnder the two kinds of bread and wine nor dare wee doe otherwise without offering sacriledge The Councell of Basill vnderstood our Lordes will well enough when they ordained that Laye people should communicate in both kindes And S. Cyprian directly opposeth himselfe to any such contradiction of Iesus Christ affirming it to be full of sacriledge in his sermon to repentant sinners and these are his words How shall we exhort the people to spend their blood for the confession of Christ if we doe denie them his blood for whom they are to combate Or how shall we make them able to drinke of the cup of Martyrdome except wee first admit them to drinke of our Lords Cuppe Moreouer our Lord Iesus Christ and his Apostles did neuer teach or command vs to hide or keepe close the bread of the holy Supper or to cary it about hither and thither For the Church hauing beene alwayes obedient to his doctrine will neuer doe so And that full well vnderstood S. Clemens speaking thus As many Hostes as will suffise the people are to bee offered at the Altar If there shall any remaine or be left they are not to be kept vntill the morrow but by diligence of the Clerks with feare and trembling they are to bee receiued and eaten And Origen also opposeth himselfe against this superstitious vice which would haue intruded it selfe into the Church in his time hee saith Our Lord hath not ordained or appointed that the bread should bee kept vntill the morrow which hee purposed to giue to his Disciples but he sayd vnto them Take and eate Behold then how we will follow and imitate the Church of God without declining to the right hand or to the left The Pope and his Church THe Sacrament of the Altar ought to bee taken in bread and wine of the Priests onely But to Lay people it is to bee giuen vnder the kinde of bread onely Tit. de consecrat Distinct 2. Concerning them that be sicke the body of Iesus Christ ought to be caryed to them with great deuotion solemnitie and reuerence For this is the commandement of God and of his Church I Gelasius Pope of Rome doe oppose my selfe against your ordinance and will by no meanes approue it For I will neuer contradict that which I haue written in the Canon Comperimus de consecrat Distinct 2. speaking thus Wee haue vnderstood

together in my Name there am I in the midst of them Matth. 18. 20. And as they did eate Iesus tooke the bread and when hee had giuen thankes hee brake it and gaue it to his Disciples and sayd Take eate this is my body Also hee tooke the Cup and when hee had giuen thanks he gaue it them saying Drinke yee all of it For this is my blood of the New Testament that is shed for many for the remission of sinnes Matth. 26. Mark 14. Luke 22. The APOSTLES of our LORD IESVS CHRIST and his CHVRCH AS our Lord IESVS hath done so will we doe without altering any thing of his holy Institution For the Disciples are not wiser then their Master Wherefore as we haue receiued the holy Supper of our Lord euen so doe we beleeue and teach and in the selfe-same manner will wee receiue and administer the same As for your Masse it is vnknowne to vs because it is your Sacrament and sacrifice and not that which was instituted by our Lord. For wee are well assured that Iesus Christ hath consecrated for euer them that are sanctified by one sole sacrifice and onely oblation of his body The Pope and his Church Ovr holy Masse is the same Sacrament which is one Sacrifice for the redemption of the liuing and the dead For of all sacrifices this is the best and most excellent wherein at the voyce of the Priest heauen openeth and thence Iesus Christ with his Angels descendeth downe who are all there assistant The Apostles and Gods Church OVr Lord Iesus hath long since admonished vs not to listen vnto such as say Behold here is Christ and there is Christ And although an Angel from heauen should proclaime your newly forged Transubstantion to vs we would hold him for accursed For by faith truely and onely do we eate the bodie of Iesus Christ and drinke his blood in spirit which quickeneth for the flesh profiteth nothing Thus do we receiue these words of our Lord which hee hath said to be spirit and life The Pope and his Church IT ought to bee beleeued vpon paine of euerlasting damnation that very suddenly the bread and wine are transubstantiated and conuerted into the true body naturall and precious blood of Iesus Christ euen as great as grosse and as large as it was in the wombe of his mother and on the Crosse The holy Doctors and Fathers of Gods Church S. Augustine Ambrose Hierome Chrysostome Epiphanius Cyprian Ireneus Origen Hillarius Athanasius Tertulian and many others The Lords Signeurs and masters of the Popes Church Gratian with his Decretals Gregorie with his Decretals the graund master of the Sentences S. Thomas of Aquine Iohn Bonaduenture Raymondus Petrus Comestor Iohannes Scotus and many others The Apostles and Gods Church AS the holy Apostles did receiue it from our Lord Iesus Christ Euen so haue they deliuered it vnto vs. Wherefore we will not demolish or cast downe their building wee are ignorant of your Transubstantiation being certaine that ignorance thereof is knowledge agreeable vnto GOD. Nor haue wee any want of testimonie concerning the Apostles doctrine which the Doctours of the Church receiued from them as is easily discerned by that which they haue written Saint Augustine an ancient and faithfull Doctour both vnderstood beleeued this holy Sacrament as you may perceiue by his owne Exposition speaking thus I can interprete that this commandement consisteth in a signe for our Lord made no difficultie in his saying This is my body when he gaue the signe of his bodie He instructeth these things to be sayd euen as he spake by figure in signe by signification For the thing which is signified of Custome is to be called by the name of the thing signified Saint Ambrose also saith Thou receiuest the Sacrament for the similitude of the flesh and of the blood of Christ But thou obtainest the grace of his true nature and by receiuing the bread in this kinde thou doest participate of his diuine substance And euen as in Baptisme thou hast receaued the similitude of death in like manner doest thou drinke in the Sacrament the similitude of the precious blood of Christ Saint Hierome saith Like as Melchisedech the soueraigne Sacrificer of God performed in the figure hereof offering the bread and wine euen so Iesus Christ representeth the veritie of his body and of his blood The Pope and his Church ANd such is the alteration that the bread is no longer bread nor is the wine any longer wine or do containe any thing of their owne nature For they are really conuerted into the substance of the natural bodie of Iesus Christ As more amply and diuinely is written in our holy Decretals and Canons and specially by the venerable Father S. Thomas of Aquine In tertia parte summae in quarto sententiarum Toto titu de Celebrat Missar extra Et de concrat Distin 2. Et in Clement de reliq venerat Sanct. And in many other places I Thomas of Aquine am constrained to speake this trueth as I haue written in my Summe pars 3. in the 46. addition Article 6. in this maner Because that the Church is founded vpon Faith and the Sacraments it appertaineth not to the masters of the Church to make any newe Articles of Faith or create any new Sacraments or remooue or take away them that are made For therein is the excellencie and power which appertaineth onely to Iesus Christ who is the foundation of the Church The Apostles and Gods Church D OVR Lord Iesus Christ did neuer teach vs any such fables but flatly hath forbidden vs to giue any credite to them And S. Augustine well instructed in Gods owne Schoole Saith Vntill such time as the world shal be finished our Lord Iesus shall continually remaine aboue but his trueth abideth heere with vs. For it behoueth that the body wherewith he is risen should be in a certaine place but his trueth is euery where spread abroad For wee must not imagine that Iesus Christ is euery where dispersed according to the forme and substance of his body And wee ought in such sort to maintaine his diuinitie that we doe not destroy his humane nature It ensueth not therefore that all that is in God is God For to take and eate his very body may seem that he commanded a thing vnlawfull or an offence It is then by a figure commanded vs how to communicate in the Passion of our Lord and louingly and profitably to preserue in our memorie that his flesh was wounded and crucified for vs And the wordes of Iesus Christ are spirit and life as if he should say vnderstand spiritually what I haue said vnto you You shall not eate this bodie which you behold nor shall you drinke the blood which shall be shed by them that must crucifie me I haue commanded you a Sacrament

cap. 1. Et super 1. cor cap. 11. Et lib. de admist S. Hierom. super cap. 28. de S. Matth. These are the Popes bombards artillery thundred against Gods inuincible trueth All Poperie hath more listened to this man to renew and ouerthrow the holy Supper then to maintaine the true institution thereof Yet you heare what this man saith S. August in Quinquag Psal 54. Et ad Dardā Epist 67. in 3. lib. de doctri christi Et sup Joan tract 30 Et in 2. Quinquag psal 96. All that which is in God is not God that is to say the humanitie of Christ is not his diuinitie neither is his diuinitie his humanitie For the word is not made flesh as conuerted into flesh but it is vnited to the flesh without confounding the substance Neuerthelesse God and man is but one Jesus Christ who holdeth alwayes the true nature of man glorious and immortall S. Chrisost sup Psal 21. Et sup Matth. Cap. 5. Homil. 8. ad Caesar Monach. Iren. lib. cont Valens cap. 34 Origen super Matt. cap. 26. hom 83. super Leuit. Hom. 7. The Councel of Nice taught first and very diuinely how we ought to eate the Lords body and drinke his precious blood Fabulous Aesope could recount no merier tales then this seducing Scotus doth Gelasius a man learned was elected Byshop of Rome in the yeere of Christ 493. We may then well know that in his time Transubstantiation was not forged or receiued into Gods church as he very wel declareth in his owne writings Venerable Bede was not altogether popish for he did not beleeue Transubstantiation This Monke hath written heereon very learnedly And me thinks that all Benedictines should not defend Transubstantiation For it was not as yet forged in S. Benets time who gaue them better doctrine then they will follow This Pope is like vnto Saul who albeit he could doe nothing yet he would prophecie among the Prophets Matth. 10. 24. Deut. 4. 2. John 13. 15. S. Cyprian Serm. ad peccator poenitent S. Clem. in Epist 2. ad Jacobum Et in Can. tribus de consecrat Dist 3. Origen sup Leuit. Chap. 7. I can hardly number Gelasius in ranck of the Romaine Popes for he hath opposed himselfe against a number of their blaphemies The Popes Sacrament had been longer obserued and adored if they had knowen cunning to hide aad dissemble the corruption and wretched subiection thereof But yet the better to compasse their purpose they haue kept it in Boxes and Pixes But God hath permitted all for the best Psal 16. 4. Mark 16. 16. The will and power of God doe neuer disagree in themselues God can do all things as being almightie but he will not vse his absolute power against that which hee hath long since promised hauing so willed and commanded For God is neuer contrary to himselfe Most horrible words that our Lords body should be subiect to putrifaction and to bee eaten of beasts or to be burned The Arke of the couenant which was but a figure of Christ would not suffer it selfe to be so vsed For it caused all their deaths that approched neere it 1. Sam. 5. 11. Much greater reason is there for the bread what it might doe if it were conuerted and transubstantiated into Christs true bodie But we must confesse that the signe of the Sacrament being thus abused is not the thing signified thereby John 14. 10. 1. Iohn 2. 1. 2. Rom. 1. 4. 1. Tim. 4. S. Ambrose sup Epist ad Rom. cap. 1. S. August sup 1. Epist S. Ioan. tract 1. 2. Et cont Parme. Lib. 2. Chap. 6. 8. Et in Quinquag Psal 94. 108. S. August lib. de vera Relig. cap. vlt. Et sup Joan. tract 23 chap. 5. Et de eiu●t D●i lib. 10. 28. chap. 27. Et in lib. de cur atque mort cap. 13. Epiphan lib. 2. Com. 2. cont Collyrid lib. 3. Tom. 2. haeres 79. S. Chrysost in his imperfect worke vpon Matth. Chap. 2. Hom. 2. S. Hierom. Com. sup Eze● cap. 16. Eccles Hist lib. 5. Chap. 15. It ensueth then that creatures deceased know our hearts which is false For there is is none but God onely who is the searcher of all mens secrets Psalm 7. 9. Rom. 8. 25. Note that whosoeuer will read the Prayer of S. Claude shall finde it most singuler and worthy to be learned by heart to be preserued from the Feauer Quintain This Scholler of Caiphas hath not bin much ill tutord in his Schoole For there is maintained firmely that Romes great Pontifex is not able to sinne and that he can neuer erre What say yee then to a she-Pope Hyldebrand a Sorcerer 2. Syluester one a second deuill And the other held that our soules are mortall because otherwise a man could tell that Popes cannot erre Matth. 25. 34 Hebre. 1. 10. Coloss 1 14. 20. 1. Iohn 4. 10. Apoc. 1. 5. 1. Cor. 3. 13. S. August in Enchirid. ad Lauren. cap. 28 Lib 21. de Ciuit. Dei cap. 26. Et in tract de Fide O per. chap. 16. They that beleeue the fire of Purgatorie are deceiued in humane beneuolence not vnderstanding the holy Scriptures which render no other testimoni but of the sufficient purgation made by the precious blood of Iesus Christ onely Mahomet in his Alchoran confesseth Purgatorie as the Pope doth Since both of them then do agree in that faith it is not to be doubted but they shall both receiue reward alike 1. Cor. 3. 13. This venerable Master Raymond was so well skild in the holy Scriptures as he knew not to alleadge any thing but Canons and such shot But that which hefi●● saith is better prooued by Esa 43. 25 Mich. 7. 18. Iohn 3. 36. Rom. 8. 6. c. where it is proued that Christs blood is the intire sufficiēt purging satisfaction remission of sins which God giueth not by halfes but wholly and fully for the loue of his son Iesus Matth. 4 4. 1. Pet. 3. 15. Matth. 5. 16. 25. S. Ambrose sup Luc. chap. 12. S. Chris sup Matth. chap. 5. Hom● 10. Hillar Theo. in Can. Chrysost sup Matth. Chap. 12. homil 6. Grego sup Job chap. 29. Et in Moral lib. ●8 Chap. 17. Et in can Dist. 14. S. Hierom. in Epist ad Cher. Et in praesat de Prouer. Et in Prolog Galat. Matth. 5. 25. 26. Luke 12. 59. 2. Mac. 12. 27 Behold the subtile means inuented to bring water to the mill of Rome But the wise children of God accounted to be fooles in this world will neuer bring their corne to this Mill because it keeps too bad an noyse S. August lib. 18. de ciuit Dei cap. 3 8. Et in lib. 2. de doct Christ Concil Laodicea cap. 59. S. Cyprian in Serm. de mort sapient 2. 4. S. Ambrose do bon de mort Tom. 1. cap. 2. S. Hierom. sup Gal. cap. 6. Et in Eccles Tom. 7. cap. 9. Et sup Esay ca. 65. Epipha lib. 1.

that there are some who receiuing onely the body of our Lord doe abstaine from the Chalice wherein because they sinne through superstition they ought to receiue the Sacraments together or else to bee reiected from them quite For the diuision of so great a mysterie cannot be committed without notorious sacriledge The Apostles and Gods Church IN regard that wormes Mice Spiders and other creatures may and doe eate your Transubstantiated bread which being kept ouer long corrupteth and putrifieth of it selfe hereby it may be manifestly knowne that the signe of the Sacrament is not the thing signified thereby that is to say That the bread which is a signe as hath bin sufficiently proued already according as our Lord hath willed cannot thus be conuerted or transubstātiated into his natural body For it were a great fearefull blasphemie to say that the body of Iesus Christ should bee subiect to putrifaction corruption or the teeth of brute beasts Hence would ensue that Christ should bee lesse sufficient and more inferiour in power and vertue then were the Gods and Idols of the Gentiles For they defended themselues and spake by the cunning of him who thorowe Gods iust iudgement did hoodwinke and blinde the poore credulous world raysing beleife of such a transubstantiation after hee had once newly forged it in his owne shop Now the Church of God being instructed by the sanctified spirit beleeueth much more wisely namely That Iesus Christ is risen from the dead being no more subiected to death For he is glorified immortall and incorruptible sitting now at the right hand of God his Father from whence hee will not descend vntill such time as hee shall come to iudge both quicke and dead and render to euery one according to his workes Then will hee punish most grieuously these correcters and falsifiers of his word that haue changed and ouerturned the institution forme and true manner of his Sacraments And hee will iudge the horrible slaunder of our aduersaries who doe vniustly accuse vs to doubt of Gods power and deny that he cannot conuert the bread into the body of his sonne Iesus Christ But in this Article and difference of the Supper we pretend no disputation of Gods power which wee beleeue and confesse to be infinite and incomprehensible For heerein onely lyeth our controuersie that the will of God is such according to the testimonie of his owne holy word By the which we prooue clearly that we doe receiue and eate by faith and spiritually the very body and precious blood of Iesus Christ This confession is incorruptible not subiect to wormes Mice Spiders or to bee burned in the fire which being eternall is prepared for all them that shall breath foorth such blasphemies against our Lord and Master Iesus Christ The Pope and his Church OVr holy Father the Pope supreame head and President in the Councell of Orleance hath ordained and decreed as it is written in the fift Chapter to be seene That if the bodie of Iesus Christ be receiued and vomited by a sicke bodie If by humane frailty no person can be found that will licke vp and receiue the same againe I meane the same body of Iesus Christ so disgorged That then that body of our Lord is to bee burned and the ashes thereof put among the Reliques Also if the body of Iesus Christ bee lost or rotten by ouer-bad smell or age it shall be burned and the ashes layd vpon the Altar Moreouer if the body of Iesus Christ by the eating of Mice or Spiders do become much lessened impaired or gnawed by byting or if the very worme be found in it It shall bee burned But if there doe remaine any part of Christs body which is not gnawen or much out of order it is more safely done to take and eate that Neuerthelesse if it be greatly gnawen rotten and impaired by some vermine or putrifaction It shall incontinently be burned and the sacred ashes shall be reuerently put and kept among the Reliques Such is our holy ordinance which we will haue to be obserued vpon paine of Excommunication As most amply wee haue ordained and decreed in the sayd Councell and caused to be written vnder the title of Consecration the second distinction And yet much more clearely in the Cautells of our holy Masse OF ONE ONELY MEDIATOVR There is one MEDIATOVR between God and man which is the man CHRIST IESVS 1. Tim. 2. 5. Wee haue one Aduocate with the Father IESVS CHRIST the iust And he is the reconciliation for our sinnes and not for ours onely but also for the sinnes of the whole world 1. Iohn 1. 2. The Apostles and Gods Church THat is not the Church of God which beside both reproouing changing his word cannot so content it selfe but also disalloweth the sufficiencie of one onely Aduocate and Mediatour sole God and searcher of all hearts For the Apostles and the whole Church after them did reiect all other Aduocates and Mediatours contenting themselues with Iesus Christ onely who prayeth for vs as most euidently is testified vnto vs in the Scriptures and is likewise to be seene in the writings of the Doctours and Fathers of the Church And because we are to handle this point somewhat briefly Saint Ambrose deliuering the word for the whole Church speaketh thus There hath beene a miserable custome in saying that men might goe of and by themselues to God euen as by Earles and Princes they can make way to Kings Is there any man so mad or forgetfull of his owne saluation to attribute a Kings honour to a Prince or an Earle Why we see that if any man should dare but to speak this of his own King of good right hee ought to bee condemned as guilty of treason Shall not they then be held for much more faultie as dare attribute the honour of Gods name to creatures And in leauing our Lord shall honour such as are but seruantes with themselues Though men in Kings Courts are in more eminent place then others yet in the King of Kings Court the greatest meanest are all but seruantes and the poorest as soone heard as the proudest and sooner too For this cause men gaine accesse to a King by meanes of Princes and Lords because the king himselfe is but a man and knowes not otherwise how to deale in matters faithfully concerning his common-wealth But to gaine the fauour of God from whom nothing can be hidden because he knowes the hearts of all men their works wants or whatsoeuer There needs no other fauourite to present our supplication by but only an humble contrite and repentant heart These are the wordes of this worthy Father With him do consent many other Doctours of the Church affirming it to bee blasphemie and sacriledge to haue any other Aduocate Mediatour or Intercessour but Iesus Christ onely If any man shall make doubt hereof let him read what is learnedly written by diuers to