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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46941	The absolute impossibility of transubstantiation demonstrated	Johnson, Samuel, 1649-1703.; Johnson, Samuel, 1649-1703. Second five year's struggle against popery and tyranny.	1688 (1688)	Wing J820; ESTC R28745	40,536	74

Christ's Body having been in Heaven these 1600 Years if in that Space of Time it has been upon Altars here on Earth then it has not been at the same time where it has been but it has broken the Rule of Concomitancy and has strangely straggled from it self which is Impossible Q. E. D. I have studied with all the Application of Mind of which I am capable to forecast in my thoughts what fault the Papists would find with any of the former Reasonings or with this last in particular and cannot foresee nor imagine any For though we should allow Christ's Body to be Independent of Place or to have any other Impossible Prerogatives which they list to Invent yet still this Body must be subject to the Rule of Concomitancy because they themselves are forced to make use of it to prove that the Body of Christ is under the Species of Wine and that the Blood of Christ is under the Species of Bread and it is the only Proof they have Now if of Necessity the Body must be by Concomitancy where the Blood is then by an antecedent Necessity the Blood must be where the Blood is for the Blood 's being there is the cause of the Bodies being there likewise So the Body being under the Form of Bread is the reason that the Blood is there also but then to be sure the Body must be there From whence as I shewed before it undeniably follows That Christ's Body is only in Heaven or else it is not where it is which overthrows the very Foundation of Concomitancy 2. The Second Argument shall be drawn from their Form of Consecration For this is my Body being the words of our Saviour from whence they have wrested the Doctrine of Transubstantiation Now to give them a Samplar of their own and to shew them how they themselves interpret Scripture I say that it appears by the very words of Consecration That the Priest himself is also Transubstantiated for the Body is Christ's and yet the Priest says it is My Body which cannot be True unless the Priest and Christ be the same And that cannot be but by an admirable Change and Conversion which the Holy Catholick Church has conveniently and properly named Transubstantiation No say the Papists in great anger There is no such Change at all for the Priest only stands for Christ and sustains his Person he only Represents him in that Action and is in Christ's stead so that we are not to look upon the Priest in that solemn Action as Friar John but as Christ himself And therefore the Priest may say with Truth this is My Body tho Literally and Properly and in strictness of Speech it is Christ's Body and not His. To which I again reply Why this is the very Exposition of these words of our Saviour for which the Hereticks have all along been Burnt namely This Bread stands for my Body and Represents it in this Action it is instead of my Body and bears the Character of it and you are not so much to consider it as Bread but to look upon it as the Representation of my Body which is given for you And therefore with Truth I can say it is my Body though Literally and Properly and in strictnefs of Speech it is Bread and not my Natural Body Now therefore let the Papists give or take Either the Bread is not Transubstantiated or if it be by virtue of the self-same words the Priest is Transubstantiated too For every word in the Prolation with one Breath except the word Enim Sect. 20. does Operate as well as Signifie and Does what it Says and therefore if the word Corpus be effectual to make it a Body then the word Meum makes it the Priests Body The Wit of Man cannot find an Evasion and I doubt not but I am able to maintain this Argument against all the Popish Priests in the world For all the Advantage lies clearly on the Protestant Side For our Saviour visibly took Bread and gave it the office of Representing him and made it the Figure of his Body as Tertullian's word is He erected it as a standing Memorial to be used in Remembrance or Commemoration of him as S. Luke's word is To shew forth his Death till he come as S. Paul speaks 'T is true he commanded his Disciples to repeat the same Action and to do as he had done But where did he bid the Priest to personate him That he gave us the Bread by the Name of his Body Three of the Four Gospels witness and by the Name of his Broken Body S. Paul witnesses But where did he ever say That He himself would always Sacrifice himself by the Priests Hands and say Hoc est Corpus meum to the end of the world by the Priests Mouth And further There is not one word which the Papists have said in behalf of the Bread being Transubstantiated but holds as strongly for the Priests being Transubstantiated which makes full as much for the Dignity and Majesty of the Sacrament for the abasing and mortifying of our Deceivable Senses and for the improving and exalting our Faith and making it Meritorious as the other can We have gained such considerable Advantages by the foregoing part of our Discourse that now we are able unalterably to renounce the Doctrine of Transubstantiation For having demonstrated the Impossibility of it We have thereby Demonstrated that though Heaven and Earth should pass away yet that Doctrine can never be True. We have likewise at the same time Demonstrated the Protestant Exposition of those words of our Saviour This is my Body to be the true and necessary Sense of them for either there is a Change of the Bread into the Body of Christ or there is not But because such a Change is an utter Impossibility as we have abundantly proved therefore it remains That the Protestant Doctrine which asserts there is no such Change is Demonstrably True. We have also made it as clear as the Light That neither the Letter of a Divine Revelation nor the pretence of an Infinite Power nor any thing in the World can support one single Contradiction because if one single Contradiction could stand it would destroy the very Being of God himself and deprive the World of the Adorable Object of all Religion For supposing it Impossible for a Being of Necessary Existence to Exist which is but supposing a Contradiction and we have immediately lost the Author of all Divine Revelation And not only so but the whole Universe likewise must presently sink into Nothing or rather indeed it could never have been at all But more particularly we shall find the Benefit of the former Demonstrations in the short remainder of our present Discourse for they will add to what we have further to say against Transubstantiation all the force and strength which Demonstration can give Costerus the Jesuit acknowledges and I suppose all Papists with him that If the Bread be not changed

into the Body of Christ the worship of the Host is gross Idolatry But we are past all Iss and And 's and have Demonstrated that there can be no such Change of the Bread into Christ's Body And consequently we have Demonstrated that the Papists in worshipping of the Host are guilty of gross Idolatry and the Best Friends they have in the world cannot free them from it So likewise it can be no longer a Moot-point or a disputable matter whether it be Criminal to call the Host their Lord God their Maker their Former and their Creator when we have Demonstrated that it cannot be so and that it is only a bit of Bread and to affirm Bread to be a God if it be not Blasphemy it wants a name in our Language In short That can never be a Divine Mystery which is not in a Possibility of being a Divine Truth And consequently the Mystery and Miraculousness of Transubstantiation which has been the old and dark stronghold of Popery is utterly demolished And the Papists having lost that shelter not only all the Absurdities of their Belief concerning it will fall upon them with their whole weight but also all their absurd Practices in reference to it to which I shall now proceed 2. The second General Head is of Practical Absurdities by which I mean such unreasonable and unworthy Actions as are done by the Papists in pursuance of their Doctrine of Transubstantiation And here I can by no means charge them with eating their Maker or eating Man's flesh and drinking Man's blood in the Sacrament For I have shewn it to be impossible for them to do either of these But yet because they intend and profess to do both perhaps the guilt is no less than if they really did them And the Absurdity of their Practice in this behalf is very equally matched with the Absurdity and Contradictiousness of their Belief For as they hold the Sacrament to be the Natural Body of Christ and yet say it is in several Places at once and is made at several times and is in the Form of Bread whereby it appears to be not the Natural Body of Christ but a piece of Bread wherein they say and unsay at once So likewise they worship and serve and pray to that which I have Demonstrated to be a bit of Bread as if it were a God and immediately they undo all that they have done and treat him not at all like a God but eat him up as if he were a bit of Bread. So also they say expresly That the common Nature of Mankind abhors the eating of Man's flesh and drinking of Man's blood and yet they eat and drink that of which they say they have greater Assurance that it is Man's flesh and Man's blood than the Testimony of all their Senses can give them But omitting these things and the great Indignity which is offered to our Blessed Saviour by such like Practices I shall I st take notice of their Idolatry in worshipping a piece of Bread as if it were God himself And this Practice is unavoidable Idolatry if the Doctrine of Transubstantiation should chance to be false And if it be not false then a Thousand Millions of Contradictions must be all of them true So that if the Apostles rent their Clothes when the Lycaonians said that the Gods were come down in the likeness of Men and were going to give them Divine Honour surely they would hardly spare their flesh but rend that too if they should be shewn more than an Hundred God Almighties together in the Form of Bread and should see Divine Worship paid to them Especially since the Apostles Evangelized men to turn away from Idolatry to the Living God who made Heaven and Earth if moreover the Papists should plead Gospel for their Idolatry and say that they were Evangelized into it I have often thought what St. Paul and Barnabas would have said and done in that Case But what they then cried out and said to the Lycaonians Sirs why do ye these things For we are men of like Passions with you methinks the Host it self says as loud every day to the Papists Sirs why do ye these things For I am no Object of Worship but like another piece of Bread. I have all the Properties and am subject to all the Casualties of any other bit of Bread For either I am presently eaten and swallowed down as any other Bread is or else if I be kept I grow Stale and Mouldy I am put into a Box for fear of Mischances for if the Mouse gets me I am gone Alas I am Bread I am no God. Thus to my Apprehension the Host it self continually cries out and reasons with them And Oh would to God that they would consider to as good purpose as the Lycaonians did I should be content to endure great hardships to see that Happy Day 2. The Reproach which is done to our Saviour in the worshipping of the Host is intolerable For would it not be an unsufferable affront to the Majesty of Earthly Princes to take a Bundle of Rags and place it in the Throne and serve it upon the Knee and cry God save the King and treat it in every respect like a Crown'd head and to destroy every good Subject that would not join in this contumelious Pageantry And is it nothing for the Great God of Heaven to be used in a more reproachful manner For I appeal to all Mankind considering the Infinite Distance there is betwixt the Persons whether it be not a less Scorn and Indignity to set up a King of Clouts than a Breaden God A Contemptible Crumb of Dough which is Kneaded and Baked and Crossed and Muttered into the most High God God over all Blessed for evermore I might descend to many more Particulars and enlarge upon them but this has already been done by Learneder Hands And now O ye Papists I have discharged my Conscience for it has troubled me that I had not long since laid these things plain and open before you And if I knew how to incline you to consider them I would not think much to kneel down at your Feet But if you will not consider them with that evenness of mind which is always necessary to Conviction but rather will consider them with that prejudice and indignation which shall put you upon Contradicting and Objecting and using all your Subtilties and Evasions then I beg of you to do this throughly and spare me not For I have written this Discourse only for the Honour of God and out of love to Truth which never loses any thing by being Tried and Examined but still comes the Brighter out of the Fire It is the Cause of God my Saviour who died for me and I am willing to spend the remainder of my days in it or lay down my life for it even which of the two He shall please And as for you O ye Protestants you have great reason to Bless God that