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A31454	A preparation for martyrdom a discourse about the cause, the temper, the assistances and rewards of a martyr of Jesus Christ : in a dialogue betwixt a minister, and a gentlemanhis [sic] parishioner.	Cawdrey, Zachary, 1616-1684.	1681 (1681)	Wing C1648; ESTC R8822	35,036	47

the loosness of the Doctrines that indulge both their Lusts Ambition and Cruelties But besides the Popish Princes make use of the Popes Authority sometimes for quelling their Rebellious Popish Subjects sometimes to palliate their incestuous Marriages sometimes for fleecing of their Clergy whom they have suffered first to sleece their People sometimes for confiscating the Estates of whole Orders as of the Knights Templers and seizing the Revenues of Monasteries and Abbeys wherein the Pope always is a sharer and sometimes to countenance by his Bulls their Invading and Usurping others Kingdoms But I will proceed there are abundance of other Popish errours for opposal of which a Christian may warrantably suffer such is that Schismatical Doctrine that there is no Salvation but to those that are of the Romish Communion such also is their praying to Saints and Angels and worshipping Images such also is their Doctrine of Merit Purgatory Pardons and Indulgencies But no one Doctrine is fuller of errours and absurdities than their Doctrine of Transubstantiation for denial of which many thousand precious Servants of God here in England and other where have suffered death And how can any assent to the Doctrine of Transubstantiation as the Doctrine of the Gospel who understand the meaning of it Which is that the substance of the Bread and Wine in the Sacrament is turned into the very substance of the Body and Blood of our Blessed Saviour which then the Priest offers up to God as a propitiation for the sins of the Quick and Dead Which absurd Doctrine First is contrary to our Sences of both Seeing Feeling Smelling and Tasting and consequently takes away the credit of all Gods true Miracles for still we see and feel and taste and smell Bread and Wine nay If my Sences may be deceived What security have I that I read in the Scriptures these words This is my Body next it contradicts our Reason that our Saviours Body should be in so many hundred places at once as there are Masses Celebrated at the same time in all parts of the world Nay and as many Bodies of Christ in the same Church Chancel or Parlor as there are Minute and small separated Pieces and Particles of the Species of Bread and Wine for so the litter Romanists teach that every piece broken off is an entire Body of Christ Though the first Inventers of Transubstantiation in the 9th Century and so onward for almost three hundred Years taught that the whole Loaf Consecrated was turned into one Body of Christ part of which Holy Body was broken off when part of the appearances of the Consecrated Elements was broken off from the rest as the Learned Doctor Burnet well observes in his Fast Sermon Decemb. 22. 1680. page 22. And it is a Doctrine contrary to Scripture also which affirms Christ's Body to be in Heaven and is also opposite to the very design of Christ's Institution of that Sacrament as the Scriptures give us an account of it For Christ's declared intention of that institution was to bring his Death to our remembrance thereby and to shew the Lords Death till he came and by that remembrance of it to stir up in us the same Affections and Resolutions and the Exercise of the same Graces which would have been sit for a pious believing Penitent to have taken up and exercised If he had stood by Christs Cross when he suffered and seen the wounds made in his most precious body to redeem us from the curse due to our sins namely Sorrow and Humiliation for sin Faith in Gods Mercy in Jesus Christ devout love and thankfulness to him that redeemed us with his Death with solemn renewal of our Baptismal vow to live to him and his Glory who bought us with the price of his Sons Blood and by receiving of that Symbol of the Unity of Christs mystical Body for we being many are one Bread and one Body we protest our Unity and Love to and with all the members of Christ Now How contrary the Doctrine of Transubstantiation and its appendages are to this institution of Christ and the design of it will easily appear to any that considers it Besides what reason have we to think that God would put it into the power of an ignorant or wicked Priest to work with four words speaking such a Miracle as the like is not Recorded in Scripture Namely to turn a multitude of little Wafers into so many Bodies of Christ and at the same time to deceive four of our Sences which no true Miracle ever did Nay observe there never was a Miracle mentioned in Scripture to be wrought to bring a matter of Fact to remembrance as the design of the Sacrament is remembrance except we will call a Lot a Miracle But observe yet further what an horrid thing the Papists suppose of our Saviour himself namely that he at his last Supper did Crucify and Break his own Body nay break it into twelve several Bodies supposing the Communicants were so many and that many hours before his Crucifiers did nail it to the Cross Parish You have sufficently convinced me that I ought to bear Testimony even unto the Death against the errours and Idolatry of the Masse and Transubstantiation therein pretended and I hope if it should be my Lot in a Popish Countrey to meet in the Streets their Breaden Idol I should by the Grace of God not fall down and Worship it though I knew the Idolatrous Rabble would beat out my Brains Indeed I think I ought if I have the warning of their Sacred Tingtang to turn out of the way of their unbloody Sacrifice their Holy Host as they call it not out of fear but because I will not Provoke the Idolaters to make a Bloody Sacrifice of me and so draw the Guilt of innocent Blood upon their own Heads Minist You say well for we are not to provoke Persecutors to sin though we must couragiously suffer rather than comply to their sin and Idolatry There is one other Popish Principle that we ought to bear testimony against even unto sufferings and it is this That the Church hath a power to impose upon mens Consciences what she pleaseth and her Children are bound to obey her not from the Evidence of the expediency or necessity of the thing commanded but from the Authority forsooth of the Church commanding which is a Usurping upon the Prerogative of God himself to whom alone it belongs to command indisputable obedience I may indeed for peace sake or for fear of wrath comply to the commands which to me bona side seem neither necessary nor expedient provided they do not appear sinful But for the Church to command obedience blind obedience meerly pro imperio is to seat it self in the place of God And indeed this is the master vein of Popery running through not only the main Body of Papists but also every religious Order and Society amongst them To whom it is as sacred to obey what their Church

or Superiour commands without disputing as to obey God and Christ in what he commands This therefore is another piece of their Idolatry setting up their Church or Superiours in the place of God Parish Sir I shall not call you to more instances being assured that in every suffering of the Martyrs of Jesus under the Whore of Babylon one of these or all these are the Ingredients in their Accusation that they deny the Churches Traditions and Infallibility and Authority and the Popes Supremacy and Transubstantiation which they call the real presence ignorantly and slanderously imputing to us that we deny the real presence of the Body and Blood of Christ because we deny their sensless fiction of Transubstantiation But I long to hear you discourse of those other two excellent Heads Namely of the qualifications of a Martyr and of the supports and rewards he may expect Minist Indeed Sir I longed to come to them my self as knowing they are speculation yeilding ten times more sweetness than the controversal part of the discourse because we could not treat on that without reflexion on others wickedness or errour which is no pleasing prospect to humble and charitable Persons But the rest of our way will be all beset with the fragrant Graces of Gods Spirit and the Fruit-bearing Trees of his rich and precious promises I shall proceed therefore 1. He is very ignorant of the nature of God who thinks God stands in need of a vile and profligate wretch living yet in the practise of known sins to assert the cause of his holy truth for his praise is in the Congregation of his holy ones and dear in his sight is the death only of his Saints But he putteth away the wicked of the Earth like dross First Therefore none are fitted to be Martyrs but sincere Mourners for their former sins When thunders and Storms are without and swelling Winds are in the Bowels of the Earth there must needs be a terrible Earth-quake So he that is called to suffer for the truth and hath the Enemies of truth raging and menacing without him and conscience accusing him within that he is not only an high transgressor but a careless neglecter of seeking his peace with God can never confidently dye in the best Cause When the Philistines were coming upon Saul 1 Sam. 13. the careless man then is awakened by his own terrours and cries out verse 12. the Philistines will now come down upon me to Gilgal and I have not made Supplication to the Lord so will Conscience say to the impenitently careless how darest thou venture thy Life in the cause of that truth thou hast neglected to obey never seriously searching thy heart and ways never sincerely mourning for thy sins never applying thy self by earnest prayer to the mercy of God in Christ I do not deny that a man who is under great fears and doubts having for some considerable time been earnestly seeking Gods favour in Christ prizing his loving kindness more than life may make a couragious Martyr for such an ones thoughts will work at this rate Lord thou knowest how I have longed for thy Salvation though therefore I yet walk in darkness and see no light only a little dawning of hope appears I will not set my Comforts at a greater distance from me by a cowardly betraying of thy Cause whether therefore thou please to lift up the light of thy countenance upon me or no yet will I trust in thee and live and dye to thy to thy Glory knowing that duty is my work and must be my care and comfort is thy free gift and it coming at any time or in any degree is both more and sooner than I deserve as said the three Children Dan. 3. 17. we know our God can deliver us but if he will not be it known unto thee we will not serve thy Gods nor worship the Golden Image which thou hast set up so saith the humble penitent God can make the bones which he hath broken to rejoyce but however I will not depart from him nor betray that truth he calls me to own This is one of the Greaves or Bootes mentioned Ephes 6. 15. For amongst other parts of the Spiritual Armour the Apostle exhorts to have their feet shod with the prepraration of the Gospel of peace the preparation of it according to the Doctrine of Saint John Baptist Christs forerunner is Repentance Matth. 3. 2. Repent for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand But he that is yet a careless impenitent hath no Boots or Greaves on but his naked Feet are subject to be wounded with the Gall-traps of his Enemies when Conscience tells him that according to the Tenor of the Gospel he is in no capacity for peace or for pardon and his Enemies without suppose Heathen tell him he shall perish here and hereafter as an Enemy to the gods or Popish persecutors curse him solemnly with Bell Book and Candle to the Fire of Hell as well as to the Flames here and forbid the people to pray for them as they did in Queen Marys days prohibit all to assist the Martyrs so much as by a prayer for them how can such a one dye couragiously But still I must take heed of discouraging any sincere though late penitent for I do not question but as our Saviour received the penitent Thief upon the Cross so some have entred profane wretches into Prison who yet have had such conviction of the preciousness of the truth they were urged to renounce that they durst not deny it and have come out to Execution sincere penitents nay it may be rejoycing through hope and have died happily yea comfortably in the Lord But serious repentance and sorrow founded in serious search of our ways and heart sooner or later is a necessary qualification for a Martyr of Jesus Secondly So also is mortification necessary that is that the Martyr hath endeavoured faithfully to subdue every lust in himself and to cleanse himself from all defilements of Flesh and Spirit perfecting holiness in the fear and love of God for God will not receive a polluted Sacrifice though offered with the Fire of his own Altar nor can such expect the assistances of Gods Spirit who have grieved that good Spirit by wilful allowance of themselves in known sins not denying their lusts One living lust is like a potent opposite party in a Garrison that will weaken the hands of the Defenders the Conscience of being under the power of one ruling Sin will cut the Sinews of our courage and God will say to such as Psal 50. Why takest thou my Law into thy Mouth seeing thou hatest to be reformed Why offerest thou to fight my battels against the adversaries of my truth seeing thou fightest against my fear obeying the adversaries of my honour thy lusts This is the other Boot or Greave of the preparation of the Gospel of Peace which according to St. John Bapists Doctrine is prepared