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A52708 The Catholick answer to the seekers request in a letter directed to the seeker, proving the real presence, by the Scripture only N. N. 1687 (1687) Wing N30; ESTC R43473 5,026 10

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Evidence of Truth and as I conceive Your Design is to hear the Evidence and not the Parties by what You say Pag. 7. Without troubling Our selves to tell You the meaning on 't to which I submit as near as possible tho' let me tell You 't is a little hard of Our side that You will not hear Our other Witnesses who are without Number in all Ages since Christ that have Believed and Taught this very Doctrine of the Real Presence as We of the Catholick Church do now Believe and Teach it But to Your Request These are the Texts which I Produce of the Catholick Part to prove Our said Affirmative And First I prove Christ's Promise before He Instituted the Sacrament that He would give us the Bread to Eat which came down from Heaven and that The Bread which he would give us was his Flesh which he would give for the Life of the World. St. John Chap. 6. Vers 48. I am that Bread of Life says Christ 49. Your Fathers did Eat Manha in the Wilderness and are Dead 50. This is the Bread which cometh down from Heaven that a Man may Eat thereof and not Die. 51. 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 will give for the Life of the World. 54. Whoso Eateth My Flesh and Drinketh My Blood hath Eternal Life and I will raise him up at the last Day 55. For My Flesh is Meat indeed and My Blood is Drink indeed 56. He that Eateth My Flesh and Drinketh My Blood dwelleth in Me and I in him 57. As the Living Father hath sent Me and I live by the Father he that Eateth Me even he shall live by Me. 58. This is that Bread which came down from Heaven not as your Fathers did Eat Manna and are Dead He that Eateth of this Bread shall live for ever But as He saith Ver. 64. there are some of you that Believe not Which some of Unvelievers is since encreased by the numerous Off-springs of the Pretended Reformation-Lady For Protestants now like Murmuring Jews then strive Ibid Cap. Ver. 52. Amongst themselves saying How can this Man give us his Flesh to Eat And as the Disciples murmur'd then who Ver. 60. said This is an hard saying who can hear it And from that time ver 66 Went back and Walked no more with Him So Protestants who before were of Us do now go back with their How can this be 'T is an hard saying Who can either hear or believe it and for this cause Walk no more with us But unto Protestants as unto murmuring Jews our Saviour Answers and saith John 6. ver 53. Verily verily I say unto you Except ye Eat the Flesh of the Son of Man and Drink his Blood ye have no Life in you And unto Protestants as unto the Unbelieving Disciples For Jesus knew from the Beginning ver 64 who they were that Believed not and who should Betray him saith ver 61 62. Doth this Offend you What if ye shall s●● the Son of Man Ascend up where he was before For that the Doctrine of the Resurrection was of more difficulty to be Believed than this of giving us Bread to Eat which should be his Flesh and to shew the World that He meant as He said He suffers all sorts of Murmurers Jews Disciples and Protestants to go back and walk no more with Him without so much as telling them 't was but a Parable or a Figure of his Body or the like But to the contrary confirms it Ver. 63. It is the Spirit that quickeneth the Flesh profitteth nothing the words that I spake unto you t●ey are Spirit and they are Life For if We were not Quickened by the Spirit to Believe We might like Jews and Protestants murmur too For tho' the Flesh of Christ did infinitely profit Salvation unto Us yet Our Flesh profitteth not this Faith in Us to Believe whereby Christ might not complain of Us as he did of Them ver 64. But there are some of you that Believe not And unto Us as unto the Twelve Christ saith ver 67. Will ye also go away But with Peter We Believe and with Peter we Answer ver 68 69. Lord to whom shall we go Thou hast the words of Eternal Life and we Believe and are sure that Thou are Christ the Son of the Living God who can neither Deceive nor be Deceived In the next place I prove That notwithstanding the Repulse this Doctrine met with by the Murmuring of the Jews and the going back of the Unbelieving Disciples with their hard saying Who can hear it and not only to be Rejected of them but of Protestants and Others in after Ages for Christ knew from the Beginning who they were and who they should be that Believed not and would not Believe Yet so absolutely necessary to Our Salvation was the giving Us this Bread which should be his Flesh to Eat that mindful of his Promise the Eve before his Passion Mat. 26.26 Jesus took Bread and Blessed it and Brake it and gave it to the Disciples and said Take Eat This is my Body And I defie all the Ministers in England to produce so much as One Text to prove it was not his Body the same being again confirm'd by St. Mark chap. 14. ver 22. And as they did Eat Jesus took Bread and Blessed and Brake it and gave to them and said Take Eat This is my Body And who dare give Christ the Lye and say 'T is not so tho' the same be again confirmed by St. Luke chap. 22. ver 19. And He took Bread and gave Thanks and brake it and gave unto them saying This is my Body which is given for you This do in Remembrance of me And in like manner of the Cup in all these places that it was his Blood and the same again by St. Paul 1 Cor. chap. 11. ver 23 24 25 26 27 28 and 29. to which I refer the Seeker and in the same Chapter with St. Paul say ver 30. For this cause many are Weak and Sickly among you and many Sleep who have not Faith to Believe it nor Scripture to Disprove it if they have assure your self I will perform my Word and be of Their or any other Religion they shall appoint Me. Wherefore I sit down with the above Authorities as being sufficient to prove the Real Presence of Christ's Body and Blood in the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper and expect to hear what Scripture Authorities they have to produce against it and so soon as they Open fear not but We will Trace the Scent till the Fox be unkennell'd If they go to Figures and P●r●bles We know how to handle them but let them beware h●● they offer any thing without shewing a Rule for it For since they have Asserted the Bible to be Their Rule of Faith They cannot take it ill if by Their own Rule they be Well-Rul'd Which till next Occasion is what offers From SIR Your always Humble and Obliged Servant N. N. FINIS