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A36765	An historical treatise, written by an author of the communion of the Church of Rome, touching transubstantiation wherein is made appear, that according to the principles of that church, this doctrine cannot be an article of faith.; Traitté d'un autheur de la communion romaine touchant la transsubstantiation. English	Dufour de Longuerue, Louis, 1652-1733.; Wake, William, 1657-1737.	1687 (1687)	Wing D2457; ESTC R5606	67,980	82

they were not seen to propose nor deliberate nor advise nor prepare any of the Constitutions which were there in great numbers but they were presented to the Council ready drawn up it not appearing that the advice of the Assembly was taken on each of them as is usually practis'd in all free and lawful Councils Mathew Paris on the year 1215. speaks in these terms Every one being Assembled in the place abovesaid and each having according to the custom of the General Councils taken their place the Pope having first made an Exhortatory Sermon there was read in full Council Sixty Articles which were liked by some and disliked by others Godfry a Fryer of St. Pantalion at Cologne saith There was nothing worth the remembrance done at this Council only that the Eastern Church submitted to the Western which before was never known Naucerlus and Platina in the Life of Innocent the 3d. affirm the same for they mark that several things were there propos'd but that nothing was clearly determin'd And Kings and Princes have no Reason to allow of this Council because in the 3d Chap. of the said Council Power is given to the Pope to deprive Princes and Lords of their Lands and to give them to others Guy leGros Archbishop of Narbonne in the year 1268. did not believe Transubstantiation for being at Rome and discovering his mind to a certain Doctor being return'd to Narbonne Pope Clement the IV. wrote him a Letter telling him that a certain Doctor inform'd him that discoursing with him he held that the Body of Christ was not essentially in the Sacrament and no otherwise than as the thing signified is in the Sign and that he said also this Opinion was common at Paris This appears by the Register'd Manuscript of the Letters of Clement the IV. And to shew that the Arch Bishop of Narbonne said this Doctrine was very frequent at Paris we find that two years after that is to say in the year 1270. which was in the year St. Lewis died Stephen Bishop of Paris by advice of some Doctors in Divinity condemned those which held that God cannot make an Accident to be without a Subject because it is of its Essence to be actually in its Subject 2ly That the Accident without a Subject is not evident unless it be equivocal 3ly That to make the Accident subsist without its Subject as we think it does in the Eucharist is a thing impossible and implies a Contradiction 4ly That God cannot make the Accident be without its Subject neither that it should have several Dimensions Which Maxims being inconsistent with Transubstantiation doth plainly shew that even at that time Men were divided on the Subject of Transubstantiation One William saith the Fryer Walsingham in the Life of Richard the 2d King of England on the year 1381. Preached at Leicester on Palm-Sunday That the Sacrament of the Altar is real Bread after Consecration and that the Bishop of Lincoln going to punish him for it the People appearing concern'd for him made the Bishop not dare do any thing against him which doth plainly shew that in that time the Doctrine of Transubstantiation had not taken any deep root in the minds of the People Reginal Peacock Bishop of Chichester in England in the year 1457 did not hold Transubstantiation seeing Baleus reports on the Credit of Thomas Gasconius and Leland that he had no sound thoughts touching the Eucharist and that he asserted the Doctrine of Wickliff Now the Doctrine of Wickliff as is related by this Frier Walsingham and Thomas Waldensis was That after Consecration by the Priest in the Mass there remains true Bread and Wine such as they were before nevertheless saith Walsingham the Lords and Nobles of the Land favour'd Wickliff which shews plainly that the belief of Transubstantiation was not generally received Guy of Cluvigny Doctor in Divinity of the Order of Carmelites and Reader of the Sacred Palace did not hold Transubstantiation but held the Opinion of Rupert de Duits to wit the Impanation and said That this Opinion was so agreeable to him that if he were Pope he would establish it Thomas Waldensis reports the same thing having receiv'd it from John of Paris It 's certain that John of Paris teacheth so in his Manuscript Treatise in the Library of St. Victor having for its Title Determinatio fratris Joannis de Parisiis Praedicatoris de modo existendi Corpus Christi in Sacramento Altaris alio quam sit ille quem tenet Ecclesia The same John de Paris wrote the Treatise above mention'd about the year 1300. he was a Jacobin and Doctor of the Sorbon he held that the Eucharist is the Body of Christ as Rupert de Duits and Guy of Cluvigny did to wit by Assumption Jesus Christ having taken the Bread into the Unity of his Suppositum as he took the human Nature into the Unity of his Person And towards the end of the Manuscript it is said That the faculty thought fit that the manner of explaining the Eucharist by Assumption of the Bread or by Conversion was a probable Opinion but that neither the one nor the other was decided as a matter of Faith and that whoever said otherwise did not say well and run the risque of Excommunication In praesentia Collegii Magistrorum in Theologia dictum est says the end of the Manuscript utrumque modum ponendi Corpus Christi esse in Altare tenet pro Opinioni probabili approbat utrumque per. Et per dicta Sanctorum Dicit tamen quod nullus est determinatus per Ecclesiam idcirco nullus cadit sub fide si aliter dixisset minus bene dixisset qui aliter dicunt minus bene dicunt qui determinate assereret alterum praecise cadere sub fide incurreret sententiam Canonis vel Anathematis Thomas Waldensis attributes this Opinion to John de Paris There is commonly found in the Library of the Franciscan Friers a Book called the Poor's Reckoning writ by one called De Goris a Doctor of Tholouse and Native of Arragon he Dedicated his Book to Alphonsus of Arragon Arch-Bishop of Sarragossa He chargeth John de Paris with the Opinion of the Impanation and doth not condemn it It is on the 4th Book of Sentences Dist. 11. q. 3. The Continuator of William de Nangis his Manuscript Chronicle in the Library of St. German de Pres that John de Paris is stiled Doctor of great Knowledg and Learning Trythemius and Auctuar le Mire give him also the same Epithets I observe That in this Manuscript John de Paris to confirm his Opinion makes use of the Authority of the Master of the Sentences in 4th Sent. Dist. 21. I take it to be Dist. 12. as if the Master of the Sentences should there say That the Impanation is a probable Opinion He also cites to the same purpose Dominus Hostiensem c. Super Corpus juris extra de summa Trinit

and ridiculous which happened every day It also seems that St. Austin had been too wide when he doubts in the 146th Ep. to Consentius Whether Jesus Christ has Blood when he saith on the 98th Psalm You shall not eat this Body which you see nor shall drink this Blood which those that shall crucify me shall shed I have given you a Sacrament c. And in the 20th Book against Faustus The Flesh and Blood of this Sacrifice was promised by Sacrifices of resemblance before the coming of Jesus Christ It was given by the verity in the Passion of Jesus Christ after the Ascension of Jesus Christ it is celebrated by the Sacrament of Commemoration To conclude St. Austin in his 33d Sermon on the Words of our Lord having said as hath been seen before That of things which are put to signify there are some that are to remain others to be destroy'd when the Ministry of their Signification is accomplish'd as the Bread of the Sacrament he adds But because these things are obvious to men as being practic'd by Men they may deserve our Veneration as being Holy and Religious things but they cannot cause any wonder in us as if they were miraculous Certainly if St. Austin had held Transubstantiation as it comprehends many things repugnant to natural Reason which are so many astonishing Miracles St. Austin could not have said That the Sacraments wherein he includes that of the Eucharist have something in them that deserves our Respect and Veneration but have nothing that deserves our Astonishment and Admiration These are some of the Reasons which made Monsieur De Marca Archbishop of Paris Predecessor to him that with so much Reputation now fills the chiefest See of France say That the Catholick Doctors are to blame when they pretend that St. Austin expounded the Text of the Institution of the Eucharist as it is done in the Schools And a little before that in St. Austin's Divinity This is my Body should be expounded in this manner This Bread is the Sign and Sacrament of my Body For according to St. Austin saith Monsieur De Marca The Bread to speak properly is but the Sign and Sacrament of the Body to which Jesus Christ made no scruple to give the name of the thing signified It is also the Judgment of Tertullian when he saith When Jesus Christ said this is my Body That is to say this is the Figure of my Body and saith Monsieur De Marca The Reasons that are given to the contrary are not satisfactory Bullenger writing against Casaubon recites this passage of Theodoret who was a Priest at Antioch in the year 411. As the King saith he and his Image are not two Kings so also the personal Body of Jesus Christ which Body is in the Heavens and the Bread which is his Antitype and is distributed to Believers by the Priest are not two Bodies It appears by this comparison That Theodoret did believe the Bread of the Eucharist is something else besides the Body of Christ and by consequence he believed that there remained true Bread in the Sacrament and not Bread in shew and appearance only Theodoret who in the year 423 was Bishop of Cyrus doth so fully explain himself hereupon that there is no doubt to be made of his Opinion He was pleas'd saith he that those who participated of the Divine Mysteries should not have any regard to the nature of the things that are seen but that they should believe by the change of Names the change that is made by Grace For having called his Body Wheat and Bread and having called himself a Vine he honours the visible Symbols with the name of his Body and Blood not in changing their Nature but in adding Grace to their Nature He could not more fully express that he did not hold Transubstantiation Arnobius the younger who wrote in the year 431. upon the 4th Psalm saith speaking of the Sacrament We have received Wheat in the Body Wine in the Blood and Oyl in the Chrism On the 22d Psalm and on the 51st and 54th Psalms Let us see what the Church keepeth She hath a Table from which she gives Bread to Believers She hath Oyl wherewith she refresheth the Head in libertatem conscientiae praesumenti c. On Psalm 103. We receive Bread because it strengthens the Body we receive Wine because it rejoyces the Heart and having received double comfort in the Heart our Faces are made shine by the Oyl of Chrism To conclude on Psalm 104. he saith these words speaking of the Lord That the Lord in the Eucharist gives us the Species of Bread and Wine as he doth the Species of Oyl in Baptism which cannot be understood of appearances and Accidents as the terms of Species of Oyl cannot be taken for the Accidents and appearances of Oyl Moreover he observes we receive in the Eucharist Bread and Wine as we receive Oyl in the Holy Chrism Now in the Holy Chrism it is true Oyl that we receive Arnobius then could not reason so if he believed Transubstantiation The Author of the Books of the Promises and Predictions of God attributed to St. Prosper by Cassiodorus and which were written about the year 450 under the Empire of Valentinian the 3d relates a History of a young unchast Girl that was possessed with the Devil who in Communicating had received a little morsel of the Lord's Body which the Priest had moistned it was half an hour before she could swallow it down till such time as the Priest touched her throat with the Chalice then she cried out instantly that she was healed After which prayers being made for her she received a portion of the Sacrifice and was restor'd to her former health These terms of some portion of the Sacrifice and of a little part of the moistned Body of the Lord by the Priest cannot be understood of the true Body of Jesus Christ of necessity then the Bread by this Author must be called by the name of the Body of Jesus Christ and by consequence he believed it remained in the Sacrament after Consecration Hesychius one of the Priests of the Church of Jerusalem in the year 480 saith in the second Book on Leviticus ch 8. This Mystery speaking of the Eucharist is at once Bread and Flesh Illud Mysterium simul panis caro In this same place he saith it was the custom of the Church of Jerusalem in his time to burn what remained after the Communion Procopius of Gaza who in all likelihood wrote in the end of the fifth Century expounding these words of Genesis where Jacob saith to Juda His eyes be red with wine and his teeth white with milk c. applying them to our Blessed Saviour in the Mystery of the Sacrament saith that 't is a Metaphor taken from those that having drank are the merrier for it c. and saith that the holy Scritures would

denote the gladness which the Lord left to his Disciples in giving them the Mystical Wine by the words of Institution Take drink ye all of this These words saith he do shew that Jesus Christ doth with mercy look on all those that believe in him because 't is the nature of wine to make every one merry And upon these words his teeth are white as milk milk saith he doth denote to us the whiteness and purity of the mystical nourishment for Jesus Christ gave to his Disciples the Image of his true Body not desiring any of the bloody sacrifices of the Law he would by the white teeth signifie to us the purity of the food wherewith we are nourished for according to holy David Sacrifice and burnt-offerings thou wouldest not but a Body hast thou prepared me When Procopius speaketh of the Mystical Wine that rejoyced the Disciples it being the nature of Wine to make merry this Mystical Wine is not the Blood of Jesus Christ for 't is not the nature of Blood to rejoyce It must therefore be meant that Procopius said by the Wine which Jesus Christ distributed to his Disciples was to be understood true Wine and by the whitness of the Mystical food he meant the whiteness of the Bread which is both food and Image which cannot be understood of the true Body of Jesus Christ which is neither the Image of himself nor bodily food nor of the accidents which cannot nourish the Body because nourishment proceedeth from matter The same Procopius in his Commentary on Esay expounding these words of the Prophet Chap. 3. The Lord of Hosts will take away from Judah and Jerusalem the staff of Bread and Water saith that in the first place these words of the Prophet may be understood of Jesus Christ and of his Flesh and Blood. The Bread being to be understood of him of whom David saith He gave them bread from Heaven and the waters of those of which Jesus Christ said to the Samaritan Whosoever drinketh of this water it shall be a fountain flowing unto everlasting Life Then he adds There is another bread which giveth life to the world which was taken from the Jews and another water which is that of Baptism Now by this other bread which was taken from the Jews he means that of the Eucharist and whereas he distinguishes it from the bread which is the Lord as he distinguisheth the water of Baptism from that which was given to the Samaritan it follows that the Bread of the Eucharist is something that is distinguisht from Jesus Christ himself the Bread of Heaven Gelasius Bishop of Rome in the year 492 wrote a Treatise of the two Natures against Nestorius and Eutyches and he excludes Transubstantiation when he saith that the substance or nature of Bread and VVine doth still remain This work is assuredly of Pope Gelasius As is confessed by Cardinal Du Perron because first Fulgentius cites four passages of this Treatise as being writ by Pope Gelasius And Pope John the Second in Epist. ad Amaenum also cites some passages of this Work as being writ by Gelasius and though he doth not give him the Title of Pope 't is because his name was well enough known at Rome when John the Second lived That the Fathers of the SIXTH CENTURY did not believe Transubstantiation SAint Fulgentius saith The Catholick Church doth continually offer to God the Father Son and Holy Ghost a Sacrifice of Bread and Wine throughtout all the World. For in the fleshly Sacrifices of the Old Testament there is a type of the Flesh of Jesus Christ which he was to offer without spot for our Sins but in this Sacrifice there is a Thanksgiving and commemoration of the same Flesh which he offer'd for us and of the Blood which he shed for us He saith That this Sacrifice consists in offering Bread and Wine there must then be true Bread and Wine in this Sacrifice to be offer'd Ephraem first a Lieutenant of the Eastern part of the Empire then made Bishop of Antioch in the Year 526. wrote Books which he intituled Sacred Laws in the first of which disputing against the Eutychians he saith When our Fathers said That Jesus Christ is compos'd of two Natures they meant two Substances as by two Substances two Natures No body of any sense but may say that the Nature of that which is to be felt and not felt in Jesus Christ is the same Nature Thus it is that the body of Jesus Christ which is received by Believers doth not quit its sensible Nature and remains without being separated from the intelligible Grace The which he confirms by the Example of Water which doth not lose its Nature by Consecration This Argument is of the same kind of that we see of Theodoret and of Gelasius whereby these three others prove that in the Incarnation the presence of the Word did not destroy the human Nature in Jesus Christ as the presence of the Holy Ghost doth not destroy the Substance of Bread and Wine in the Eucharist We may say of this Triple and same Argument Funiculus triplex difficile rumpitur Mons. de Marca saith in reference to this passage and of those we have instanced of Theodoret and St. Chrysostom that these three Authors have owned a real change of the Bread which nevertheless leaves the Species in their natural Substance Facundus Bishop of Hermiana in Africa in the year 552. whose Books which he wrote in Defence of the Three chapters of the Council of Chalcedon are justly praised by Victor of Tunes in his Chronology and by St. Isidore of Sevil and which Father Sirmond the Jesuit got out of the Vatican Library going about to excuse Theodore de Mopsuest who taught that Jesus Christ had taken the Adoption of the Children of God from whence it might have been concluded that he believed that Jesus Christ is only an adoptive Son saith Baptism which is the Sacrament of Adoption may be call'd Adoption as we call the Sacrament of his Body and Blood which is in the consecrated Bread and Wine his Body and Blood not that the Bread is properly his Body and the Cup his Blood but because they contain in them the Mystery of his Body and Blood. Therefore as the faithful Servants of Jesus Christ receiving the Sacrament of his Body and Blood are very rightly said to receive his Body and Blood so also Jesus Christ having received the Sacrament of the Adoption of Children might very well be said to have received the Adoption of Children Certainly if the Sacrament of Bread and Wine is not properly the Body of Jesus Christ as Facundus saith but barely Body and Blood as Baptism is Adoption the Bread and Wine are not Transubstantiated into the Eucharist and are but simple signs and something that is distinguished from the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ. Primasius Bishop of Adruemetum in Africa in his

Commentary upon the 10th Chapter of the 1st to the Corinth saith As the Bread which we break is the Participation of the body of Christ so also the Bread of Idols is the Participation of Devils Now as the Participation of the Bread of Idols is no Transubstantiation or real change into Devils so also the Participation of the Bread of the Lord is not a real and substantial change of Bread into the Body of the Lord. The same Doctor on the words of the 11th Chap. of the same Epistle where 't is said That the Lord took Bread the night in which he was betrayed relates That Jesus Christ thereby gave to us the commemoration of his Body And on the following words The Lord saith he hath given us an Example to the end that as often as we do this we should think in our minds that Christ died for us It is for this end that 't is said to us the Body of Christ that so thinking of it we should not be ungrateful and unthankful for his Grace As if any one at his Death should leave to his Friend a pledg of his Love could he when he saw it refrain from Tears if he really loved his Friend There must therefore needs be in the Sacrament Bread and Wine to be Pledges of Jesus Christ for he cannot be a pledg of himself That the Fathers of the SEVENTH and EIGHTH CENTURY 's did not believe Transubstantiation ISidore Bishop of Sevil Anno 600. saith That by the command of Jesus Christ himself we do call Body and Blood that which being the Fruits of the Earth is sanctified and made a Sacrament by the invisible Operation of the Holy Ghost In the 1st Book of Ecclesiastical Offices he saith That the Bread is called the Body of Jesus Christ because it strengthens the Body and that the Wine is called his Blood because it increaseth Blood in the Body and that the Bread and Wine are two visible things which being sanctified by the Holy Ghost do go on to be the Sacrament of the Divine Body Now a Sacrament signifies a holy Sign It would therefore be a strange kind of way of Isidore if he had believ'd the Bread and Wine were transubstantiated to say the Bread and Wine are two things visible which being sanctified by the Holy Ghost do become the Sacraments of the Divine Body By this Language it might as well be said That the Fathers believed that the Water of Baptism was transubstantiated after their Consecration The same Bishop saith Melchisedeck that offer'd of the Fruits of the Earth a Sacrifice to God thereby represented the Priesthood or Reign of Jesus Christ which is the true King of Peace of whose Body and Blood that is to say the Oblation of Bread and Wine is offer'd throughout the VVorld And in the Treatise De Vocat Gentium cap. 26. These are not any longer Jewish Sacrifices such as were offer'd by Aaron the Priest which are now offer'd by Believers but they are such Sacrifices as were presented by Melchisedeck King of Salem that is to say it is Bread and Wine the true Sacrament of the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ. He saith The Sacrament of the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ is Bread and Wine That both the one and the other are such Sacrifices as those offer'd by Melchisedeck there is therefore no question but St. Isidore did not believe that the Bread was destroy'd in the Sacrament because he establishes the Sacrament in the Bread and Wine such as Melchisedeck had offer'd Beda an English Priest saith That Jesus Christ having ended the Ceremony of the Ancient Passover which was celebrated in Commemoration of the Bondage in Egypt out of which the Jews had been deliver'd proceeded to the new Passover which the Church celebrates in remembrance of His Redemption the Figure of his Body to the end that instead of the Flesh and Blood of the Lamb substituting the Sacrament of his Flesh and Blood in the Figure of Bread and Wine he might shew that it was him to whom God had sworn and repented not saying Thou art a Priest for ever after the Order of Melchisedeck Now continues Beda Jesus Christ broke the Bread which he distributed to his Disciples to shew That the breaking of his Body did not come to pass without his good will. It appears from these words substituting the Sacrament of his Flesh and Blood in the Figure of Bread and Wine that the Bread and Wine remain after Consecration to be the Figure of the Body and Blood of Christ. As when the Apostle saith the sign of Circumcision signum Circumcisionis That is to say Circumcision which is a sign and a figure So Beda maketh the Sacrament consist in the Bread and Wine Therefore in the Homily De Sanct is in Epiphania he saith That Jesus Christ the Heavenly Lamb having been offer'd up transfer'd into the Creatures of Bread and Wine the Mystery of his Passion and thereby became a Priest for ever after the Order of Melchisedeck And elsewhere he saith Melchisedeck Priest of the most High God did long before the time of the legal Priesthood offer up Bread and Wine Therefore our Saviour is called Priest after the Order of Melchisedeck because he abrogated the Sacrifices of the Law and instituted a Sacrifice of the same kind to be under the New Testament the Mystery of his Body and Blood. Certainly As our Mystery is no Mystery till after Consecration and that 't is of the same Nature as was that of Melchisedeck it must be concluded that the Bread and Wine do remain in the Sacrament of the Eucharist Sedulius a Scotchman Author of the Commentaries upon St. Paul and who flourished about the year 735. in his Commentary upon the first to the Corinthians Chap. 11. saith Jesus Christ in the Eucharist hath left us the remembrance of himself as if one going a far journey should leave with his Friend the pledg of his love to remember their ancient Amity There must then needs be something that is not Jesus Christ himself for no one is a pledg of himself Damascen a Fryer who lived about the year 750 saith in his fourth Book of Orthodox Law Chap. 14. The Shew-bread did typifie this Bread and 't is this pure and unbloody Sacrifice which our Saviour foretold by the Prophet should be offered to him from the rising of the Sun to the setting of the same to wit the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ which passeth into the substance of our Body and Soul without being consumed without being corrupted without going into the draft God forbid but passing into our substance for our Preservation Now every Body agrees this cannot be said of the proper Body of Jesus Christ. It must then be concluded Damascen supposed that the Bread remained In the same place he adds That as in Baptism because men are wont to wash with Water and anoint them