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Du Moulin's Reflections reverberated being a full answer to a pernicious pamphlet entituled Moral reflections on the number of the elect : together with several arguments against transubstantiation of the outward elements in the sacrament of the Lords Supper, transubstantiated into falshood and absurdity : to which is added a postscript in answer to some passages in Mr. Edmund Hickeringil's scurrilous piece stiled The second part of naked truth / by Edward Lone ...
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Lane, Edward, 1605-1685.
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heard let them take their rest let curious and sharp-witted men beat their Heads about what Questions themselves will The very Letter of the word of Christ giveth plain security that these Mysteries do as Nails fasten us to his very Cross that by them we may draw out as touching Essicacy Force and Virtue even the Blood of his Gored Side c. They are things wonderful which he feeleth great which he seeth and unheard of which he uttereth whose Soul is possest of this Paschal Lamb and made joyful in the strength of this new Wine c. What these Elements are in themselves it skilleth not it is enough that to me which take them they are the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ His Promise in witness hereof sufficeth his Words he knoweth which way to accomplish Why should any Cogitation possess the mind of a faithful Communicant but this O my God thou art True O my Soul thou art Happy Thus sweetly thus Christianly thus Divinely would this Holy and humble Man put a peaceable end to this unhappy Controversie A man I say of whom and of his works the Bishop of Rome himself that then was viz. Clement the Eight gives this Character There is no Learning that this man hath not searcht into nothing too hard for his Understanding this man indeed deserves the name of an Author his Books will get Reverence by Age for there is in them such Seeds of Eternity that if the rest be like unto this they shall last till the last fire shall consume all Learning To this purpose did that Pope if my Historian be of ny Credit as I believe he is declare his Opinion Isaac walker when he heard one of his Books of Ecclesiastical Policy read before him But now to draw towards a Conclusion I shall only add one story out of our Martyrologist of a certain Disputation about these very words of our Saviour viz. This is my Body It was really most Eminent the King himself that then was viz. Henry the Eight being a chief Disputant in it the story omitting needless Circumlocutions is as followeth When a great Assembly of the Nobles and other the Chief of the Nation was gathered by express Order and Command from the King from all parts of the Realm and all the Seats and Places were full of men round about the Scaffold within a short time a godly Servant of Jesus Christ one John Lambert was brought from the Prison with a Guard of armed men even as a Lamb to fight with many Lions and placed right against that where the King 's Royal Seat was prepared so that now they tarried but for the King 's coming At length the King himself did come with a great Guard and when the King was set in his Throne he beheld Lambert with a stern Countenance and turning himself to his Counsellors he called forth Dr. Day Bishop of Chichester commanding him to declare unto the People the Cause of that present Assembly and Judgment After he had made an end of his Oration the King standing up upon his Feet leaning upon a Cushion of white Cloth of Tissue turning himself toward Lambert with his Brows bent as it were threatning some terrible thing to him said these words Hoe good fellow what is thy name Then the humble Lamb of Christ humbly kneeling down said my name is John Nicholson although of many I be called Lambert What said the King have you two names I would not trust you having two names although you were my Brother But after many Profaces and much talk had in this manner the poor man shewing the Reason how his name came to be changed the King commanded him to go to the matter and to declare his Mind and Opinion what he thought as touching the Sacrament of the Altar Whereupon Lambert beginning to speak for himself gave thanks to God in that he had inclined the Heart of the King so as not to disdain to hear and understand the Controversies of Religion c Then the King with an angry Voice interrupting him I came not hither saith he to hear mine own Praises c. but briesly go to the matter without any more Circumstance Lambert being abashed at the Kings angry Words contrary to all mons Expectation stayed a while considering with himself what he might do in those great Straits and Extremities But the King being hasty with Anger and Vehemency said why standest thou still Answer as touching the Sacrament of the Altar whether dost thou say that it is the Body of Christ or wilt deny it and with that word the King lifted up his Cap. Then saith Lambert I answer with St Austin that it is the Body of Christ after a certain manner Answer me saith the King neither out of St. Austins nor by the Authority of any other but test me plainly whether thou sayest it is the Body of Christ or no Lambert replyed I deny it then to be the Body of Christ Mark well saith the King for now thou shalt be condemned even by Christ's own Words Hoc est corpus meum This is my Body When this was finished with great Triumphing amongst the Opponents and sundry other Arguments used by them against him all which were common and nothing sorcible the King asked him what sayest thou Art thou not yet satisfied Wilt thou live or dye Thou hast yet free choice Lambert answered I yield and submit my self wholly unto the will of your Majesty Then said the King Commit thy self unto the Hands of God not unto mine Lambert replyed I Commend my Soul unto the Hands of God but my Body I wholly yield and submit unto your Clemency The King replyed very smartly upon him if you do commit your self unto my Judgment you must dye for I will not be a Patron unto Hereticks And thereupon immediately caused the Sentence of Condemnation to be read against him which was Executed in a most terrible manner with greater Cruelty than ordinary Here if may be said was a Bolt soon shot which of it self in Reason could do no hurt but being backt with the Venom of Folly and Phrensie proved deadly For let all mankind judge who are able and impartial was not this a doughty Argument which that King used to drive a poor innocent Lamb to the Slaughter And will not the very Children of this Generation that are instructed in the knowledge of this Truth as it is here opened and made evident be amazed and ashamed to see the Holy Scripture so grosly abused in the maintenance of such a cursed Error Yet was this their Argumentum Achilleum their dead doing Weapon in those days of Ignorance and Cruelty and still is at this very day with our Catholicks falsly so called unless it be that they are of a Catholick Confederacy against Christ and his Gospel which we shall certainly find to our smart and sorrow if ever they come to prevail over us For their hoc est Corpus meum will
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But little or nothing is written of their Repentance before they died yet will no man be so rash as to doubt of their Salvation Why should you then or your Complices be so peremptory as to cast a scruple about the Salvation of Solomon Cannot you be contented with that which is written of him Favoris Gratiâ but you must have a damnable sling at him as if he were hovering between Heaven and Hell But how else could you maintain your absurd Paradox of your hundred Thousands and Millions of Men that shall perish in their sins in comparison of one that shall be saved We read Joh. 13.1 whom the Lord loveth he loveth to the end and do we not read also again and again that the Lord loved Solomon 2 Sam. 12.24 Neh. 13.26 yea that this Love was confirmed unto him by the best Assurance that could be given him viz. propter Jehovam the Lord loved him for the Lords sake that is for Christ the Messiah's sake in whom all Gods Elect from the beginning of the World to the end are beloved with an everlasting love Did God chuse him out to be one of his Actuaries of his publick Records to his Church viz. the Book of the Proverbs the Book of Ecclesiastes or the Preacher the Book of the Canticles that pure Caelestial Epithalamum or Marriage Song and of two of the Psalms as the Title of them signifies viz. Ps 72. and Ps 127. And can it be probably thought that he should be dignified in this high Degree if he had been no better than a wretched Castaway in Gods eternal Purpose What were there not Heirs enough of everlasting Salvation to be inspired by the Holy Ghost for the office of a publick Notary of Heaven but one must be taken from among the Bondslaves of Hell to make up the number Was he a Preacher sent of God and was not one of his Books called Ecclesiastes his Recantation Sermon which he writ in his old age when he took a more serious view of his by-past Life wherein among other his Follies he sheweth his Abhorrency of his being misled by Women I find saith he more bitter than Death the Woman whose Heart is Snares and Nets Eccles 7.26 and her Hands as Bands Implying that though Death be bitter yet he had rather die than be entangled again in the Snares of a whorish Woman Which option may well be justified if we consider the Aggravations of this sin as they are rendred by a good Interpreter Bishop R. one of a Thousand and a right Reverend Preacher among us in our Church whose words are these viz. They that is wicked Harlots are more bitter than Death more pernicious and bring more heavy Miseries with them We read of the Bitterness of Death 1 Sam. 15.32 And of a worse Bitterness the end of a strange Woman is bitter c. and her steps take hold of Hell Pro. 5.4.5 Death may be sweetued and sanctified made a welcome and desirable thing to a Believer 1 Cor. 15. But the Bitterness of Hell is incurable Death may be honourable to die in a good Cause as our King Charles the Martyr comforted himself in his Death to die in a good old Age to go to the Grave in Peace lamented desired with the sweet savour of a holy Life and many good Works to follow one But to consume and putrifie alive under a Tabes of Impure Lusts to shipwrack a mans Honour ruine his Estate shorten his years consume his Flesh rot his Bones put a Hell into his Conscience to bury his Name his Substance his Soul his Carkass in the Bosom of a Harlot This is a Bitterness beyond that of Death This now is that which Solomon here means and complaineth of And whether this be a sound of Repentance or no judge you And if your judgment be of any value how dare you doubt of his Salvation Being so true a Penitent as you see neither can you but acknowledge him to be so Reflector Nothing can be concluded of the Salvation or damnation of those that were the Types of things to come Answer Can nothing then be concluded of the Salvation of Samson who was an Eminent Type of Jesus Christ So doth our Learned Whitaker demonstrate him to be viz. 1. In sanctitate nativâ 2. In servatoris Munere 3. In juvicto Robore 4. In morte calamitosa cum Hostibus If all this will not satisfie you the Apostles numbring him among the Saints Heb. 11. should convince you that you may conclude of his Salvation I could instance in sundry others as Gideon Jephthah c. But this may suffice to shew you your Errour herein Reflector For it happ'ned sometimes that one Person as Esau who was the Figure and Type of the Reprobate was also that of the most excellent thing in the World viz. The Righteousness of Jesus Christ under which a Jacob a Sinner obtained the Blessing of God Answer Your Reason here is defective both in Sense and Truth worthy therefore of no regard But that you may not flatter your self in your Folly What a confused shuffling words is here like the Quakers jumbling several things together without sense As for Esau it seems you have so much Charity for him as not to conclude him to be a Reprobate though the Spirit of God in Scripture hath noted him to be a prophane Person and one whom God hated But how it came to pass that he hath escap'd your censure of a Reprobate when you make him a Type of the Reprobate I know not it being a Rule in Logick if ever you learnt it de proportionalibus est idem judicium Et quod de uno secundum proportionem affirmatur id etiam de altero If Esau then be a Type of the Reprobate that is hath the Impression of a Reprobate upon him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the word Type signifies He must needs be a Reprobate But let me demand of you is it for you or I to cast a Figure thus or create a Type of Gods eternal Decree concerning Mankind We should certainly usurp upon Gods Power if what is written in Scripture we may wrest it to our meaning without an express warrant from the Spirit of God And Polanus an Author whom I suppose you approve of saith Typi fuerant Figurae a Deo destinatae ad Res Divinas praefigurandas In Syntag. Let us not then be too bold to thrust our selves into Gods Pavillion by giving our Judgment of things which God hath kept in his own Power For my part I cannot say that Esau was a Type of the Reprobate much less that he himself was a Reprobate This I can say with good probability he was in that Generation admitted into the Church of God by the Sacrament of Circumsion as well as his Brother Jacob who though he took him by the Heel at the Birth signifying his future supplantation of him yet could he not supplant him in