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body_n	bread_n	substance_n	transubstantiation_n	8,100	5	11.4453	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67894	The primitive practise for preserving truth. Or An historicall narration, shewing what course the primitive church anciently, and the best reformed churches since have taken to suppresse heresie and schisme. And occasionally also by way of opposition discovering the papall and prelaticall courses to destroy and roote out the same truth; and the judgements of God which have ensued upon persecuting princes and prelates. / By Sir Simonds D'Ewes.	D'Ewes, Simonds, Sir, 1602-1650.	1645 (1645)	Wing D1251; ESTC R200135	53,793	72

sagacious man alive First they proceeded against any person they suspected without accuser witnesse or proofe and fettered his eares with so many Questions to be answered unto upon oath and with so many severall examinations at severall times that at last as John de Monluce Bishop of Valence well observed of the Spanish Inquisition in the yeer 1562. that it was Decipula ad vexandos bonos illa● queandas conscientias Though hee came into their clutches unjustly suspected yet he was sure never to escape their griping talons justly acquitted A second invention was to adde many new matters to be confessed as matters of faith which were before left as matters of liberty and fact either to hold or not to hold and in this particular did that fatall Conventicle of Trent so blasphemously transcend the bounds of all sobriety as to adde twelve new Articles of faith to the ancient Creed to be believed upon pain of damnation and to this they commonly adjoyned as a slip or branch of it adjuration of all former truths or at least a Recantation Miserable experience hath taught the Lutherans and Pseudo-Lutheran in Germany the tyrannie of the Romanists in this particular who having assisted them to ruine those godly Protestants in the Empire of the most sound and Orthodox Helvetick or French confessions did as a reward of their treacherie finde them more implacable against them inforcing upon them a most dangerous and blasphemous abjuration then against the others These two former wayes of Inquisition went yet no further then the tongue but the next that followed included the hands also and compelled subscription to many false blasphemies and dangerous heresies Thus the Lutherans of Saxonie desiring to root out all the godly Ministers amongst them of the purer Confessions would have them subscribe to those two portentuous and monstrous errors of Consubstantiation and Ubiquity And it was a notable Machiavilian policy of charles the ninth of France who having enforced the consciences of the King of Navar and Prince of Conde in the yeer 1572. by the cruell murther of divers in their sight and by threatning death to themselves to cause them to write to Pope Gregorie the thirteenth by their Letters under their own hands that both their conversion to Popery and abjuration of the truth had been gratefull and voluntary But the fourth and last invention is a down-right and never failing way either of discovering the godly or of shipwracking their consciences being one of those sins Divines call Peccata vastantia Conscientiam and that is their enforcing them to adore their severall Idolls by bowing to and towards their hee-Saints and shee-Saints Altars Reliques Crucisixes and their great Moloch of the Masse This skill they learnt from the Heathens themselves who to avoid multiplicitie of Interrogations with the first holy and Primitive Christians who abhorred the placing of Images in their publique Temples and Oratories they asked them in a few words Will you sacrifice to the Image Charles the ninth of France never demanded of Henry de Clermont Prince of Conde whether he would turne Papist but will you goe said he to Masse He knew raw flesh to be harder for a true Protestant to digest then all the other parts of Popery And doubtless he that will adore and bow unto or towards an Image the Sacrament an Altar a Communion Table or any other creature where the bowing is not meerly Civill will never stumble at any other part or point of Popery but may safely passe to Rome or Rhemes Oh that the Papists could but see their own vanity in bowing to and adoring the Wafer Cake as God! For they confesse it is not transsubstantiated into Christs flesh unlesse the Priest that consecrate intend to turne and change it And what then if the Priest be so ignorant as many be that he know not the words at which his quu or turne is come by his imagination onely to worke a miracle what if his minde be roving about his necessary affaires or more unnecessarie and vainer thoughts usuall with them that reade one particular often over and so inadvertently he forget to joyne his intention to the words of Consecration Doubtless these cases and divers besides might be instanced in which the Priest hath often and doth daily faile to create his Saviour blasphemy I confesse positively to affirme for want of meere advertency and premeditation within the rules of the Romish Synagogue it selfe And then what follows but formall and materiall Idolatry by their owne confessions when they adore it So as should the Papists themselves see a Protestant Prelate or Minister bowing to and adoring the Elements of Bread and Wine in the Sacrament of the Lords Supper before or after Consecration he could not but account him a Poishly affected Priest belonging to his owne Church or an absolute Idolater For in the 29th Article of Religion published by the Church of England agreeing expresly with the Helvetick and French Confessions it is plainly let downe That Transubstantiation or any change of the substance of Bread and Wine is repugnant to the plaine words of the Scripture overthroweth the nature of the Sacrament and hath given occasion to many superstitions That the body of Christ is given taken and eaten in the Supper of the Lord onely after an heavenly and spirituall manner And that the meane whereby the body of Christ is received and eaten in the Supper is faith And that the Sacrament was not by Christs Ordinance reserved carried about lifted up or worshipped So the Article of the Church of England When therefore any Papist shall see his Masse celebrated by any English Divine with Elevation and Adoration or bowing to and towards it both gestures being condemned by the doctrine of that Church he must either within and by the rules of his own Church give him up for an adaquate Idolater in giving adoration to the substances of Bread and Wine which action the Romanists abhorre and condemne or else in charitie suppose howsoever in outward shew he seem an heretick yet in truth he is a good Catholick and did intend in and by the words of Consecration to make his Saviour and so supposing his body to be really there before him doth adore and bow to it The Lutherans condemne the Popish Transubstantiation the Jesuites deride the Lutherans Consubstantiation and Ubiquitie and both justly But should they heare of any subtle wittall that hath in theso dayes found out a third and more sublime invention out of the Bush that the man in the Moone carries at his back and can finde Christs body in the Sacrament as really and naturally as it was in the Virgins wombe but yet will not say he is bodily there either Con Sub or Trans they would most justly hisse him out of their Churches and Schooles Doubtlesse the Popish Transubstantiation is of the three the most rationall and profound error because that being accompanied with a supposed Miracle and may be