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A12090	Christ, on his throne; not in popish secrets A prophecie of Christ, against his pretended presence in popish secrets; laid open in a sermon preached before his Maiestie at Wansted certaine yeares agoe, and since much inlarged, and (vpon request) preached else where. By Richard Sheldon, Doctor in Diuinitie, his Maiesties chaplaine. In the preface whereof, there is also a briefe inquirie made by him, into a late sermon, stiled, The communion of saints.	Sheldon, Richard, d. 1642?	1622 (1622)	STC 22394; ESTC S117178	50,612	74

but in that impression in stead of omitting those words he claps-on a large marginall Comment of certain annotations familiar with the Papists though God wot not prouing his intent And heerupon greater offense beeing taken than before and an ouerture made of calling in his books in regard of such indirect and offensiue dealing he yeelded in the end to insert by way of parenthesis for further explication these words to weet in a sacramentall and mysticall sense But yet it is to bee obserued that he doth it not without a pretty sleight for immediately after the parenthesis hee addes They make the mysticall bodie of Christ when-as hee should haue said They make vp the mysticall bodie of Christ leauing out the word vp as not agreeing to his oblique purpose intent Further I vnderstand that he being expresly required to leaue out the word onely in the sixt page towards the page 6 end therof he did it not but makes our Sauiour to speak those words Doe this in remembrance of me onely to his Apostles perhaps thereby driuing after the popish sacrificing Facite when-as it is most certain that these words Do this haue reference to the whole mysticall action both of Minister and people respectiuely of blessing taking 1. Cor. 11 eating drinking c. Thus then the Reader may obserue how the Author like the fish called Cuttle hiding it selfe with his owne Sepia suo se atramento occ●●tat ink shuffles vp and downe now putting-in the words in a sacramentall and mysticall sense now leauing them out again in one impression putting-in the words vp and onely but in others leauing them out not knowing perhaps what or whereof he affirmeth May not the Author then in all brotherly loue or if need be his Patrone for him if he haue any such the reuerend Nemo Bishop of Nullibi with him Conclamatissimus most conclamed to others Occultatissimus most hidde be desired to come out of his blank and to appear in black for the defense and instruction of his so vncertain and wauering a Client that so wee the poor Readers may vnderstand what may be the meaning and mysterie of such dubious writing With the Authors Epistle dedicatory fronted in such an vncouth manner we may bee the bolder as also with the Preface annexed thereunto in some impressions for that they both haue been so bold as to prease to the Press without any presenting at all to Authority for their allowance to be printed First may not the Authors discretion or reading bee Epist d●d liue 1. questioned for deuising the Epithets of Consummatissimus and Conclamatissimus Pontificum thereby intending to honour his Reuerend Father in God which Epithets are not so vsed to be found in Sidonius as by the Author he Sid. Apol. l. 2. ep 2. l. 7. ep 7 is cited I finde indeed in Sidonius in his lib. 2. ep 2. these words Conclamatissimo fontium the most famous of fountains and in his epist 7. lib. 7. in the inscription thereof these Domino Graeco Papa To the Lord Greek Pope which title Papa Pope though in antient times it was vsed promiscuously to Bishops yet because the Author imposeth no speciall name vpon his masked Patrone may not I with others conjecture that he intendeth for his Patron that Pope who is now onely so called per eminentiam and claimeth to bee Conclamatissimus most conclamed ouer the whole Church of Christ What spirit of meeknes is in those words of the sayd Epist ded pag. 2 Epistle Those to haue neuer tasted of the spirit of goodnes who as the Authors phrase is did cut him for his Sermon and likewise in those wherein he taxeth those with intemperate Epist to the Reader page 1 maleuolence who had said that his Sermon was called in when as as hee there glorieth it was called out But how may it iustly be said of those that they had neuer tasted of the spirit of goodnes or that they had intemperate maleuolence for that they reprooued that Sermon which was so violently suspected to fauour Papism and also to be so contrary to the allowed and approoued Copie He glorieth that his Sermon was so fast called out for my part I maruell not thereat considering how great a number of Personated and Parsonated Chameleon-like Priests in all habits and shapes all colours and fashions saue their owne doo daily spatiate in Pauls and walk through Pauls Church yard And will not such disguised Massers makers of Christs body perhaps hauing it in their The Sermon page 6. 7 bosomes or their pockets creators of their Creator be ●agre to call out such a Sermon wherein their powerfull making of Christs body ore proprio with the Priests own mouth is so plainly maintained wherein they may finde diuerse Authors some dubious some counterfet approuingly related for the maintenance of such erroneus points as to them are gratefull Heer they may reade of the barbarous and forged Epistle of Pope Pontian the counterfet Liturgies page 7. 2. i●●pr page 9. 10 Epistele to the Reader of Basil and Chrysostome the most vain and dream like forged Constitutions of Clement How gratefully will they call out and solace themselues with that Sermon wherein all those are roundly censured to goe out of the way who to shew the doctrine of that Church the Authour meaneth Rome doo blazon the liues and doctrines of particular men Will it not serue them for and in stead of an inter-lude Epist to the Reader in the Ende to call out and to reade that Sermon wherein they may finde a Minister of the Church of England praying to Angels And though hee pray in Bernards phrase who was carried away with the errour of the time yet they will begin to conceiue that the Society wherein the Minister liued is not far off from the approuing of Saint inuocation yea and of transubstantiation also in regard of what he writeth in his Sermon page 7. with such other Will-worships as doo ineuitably flowe and follow thence-from Which their conception is but a mere deception like to that their pernicious Lie now vauntingly in print that the late most entire and religious Bishop of London Iohn Doctor King died a Papist a reconciled Papist O the impudent and shamelesse fore-head of such men Posuerunt spem suam mendacium they haue made lying to bee their Isa 28. 1. 1. Tim. 3. 13. hope So they haue euer done so they yet doo proficient in peins and heerin they will if I aim not amisse do worse for Papism is well-nigh arriued ad 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to the height of her deception Further though it should cost them dear yet they will call out and pry into that Sermon in the Preface whereof Epist To the Reader they may finde a world of warriours such warriors as haue written against the Tridentine Synod to be branded with the choice and election of the pleasure of temporall sin What

you Christ is in the secrets beleeue it not regard it not not for that I denie that faith is required that wee may beleeue that true reall and Sacramentall presence with Christ hath in the true Sacrament but for that I constantly affirme that Christ forbiddeth the beleefe of any such personall and carnall presence of himselfe in the Sacrament such as The false prophets behold inuites to faith of a prodigious corporall presence these false Prophets were to teach Thus haue I sufficiētly shewed or rather I doe suppose that the inuitation of the false prophets in the word behould is an inuitation to faith and beleefe of some prodigious presence behould he is in the Penetralls and Secrets that is beleeue hee is in the Penetralls and Secrets A mysticall hidden secret inuisible and mysterious presence of Christ in Secrets is then that which these false Prophets were to teach noted and expressed in this word Behould And so wee come to the further discussion of the false doctrine it selfe He is in Secrets And first what wee are here to vnderstand by these The false doctrine it selfe Secrets wherein Christ is affirmed to bee and Secondly that these false prophets were to teach the verie true Christ himselfe not Antichrist nor any other pretended Christ to bee in these Secrets The first as it is a poynt of high consequence so it is of What is to be vnderstood by the word Secrets psalme 8 great difficulty Hee who was once pleased to open the tongues of babes and infants and from their mouthes to perfect his owne praise bee pleased so to preuent assist and follow me with his grace that I may speake truely religiously and you may hear accordingly Though it may seem to some a nouelty yet it is most agreeing to the analogie of faith as I shall make it appear vnto you It is not such a nouelty but that Peter Martyr Plessis Mornay though Mart. loci class 4. loc 10. Plessis de Sacra l. 4. c. 9 they haue but a few lines heerof haue professedly thus declared this Text yea and some of the antient Fathers seem much inclining heerunto as heerafter shall be shewed Be therefore most attentiue and ponder well the declaration which by GOD's assistance I shall make for though noua c●da my interpretation may seem to some to be new yet it is not vt noua set vt vetustissima astruam that I Irenae l. 4. c. 32 Orig. hom 15. in Mat. Aug. trac 59. in Ioan. Eus in vit Const l. 4. c. 45 endeauour thereby to bring-in any new point of faith but to establish that which is most venerable antient and truely Apostolicall And for my more vn-reproueable manner of proceeding heerin I lay for a foundation inuiolable this Principle or prime assured Rule receiued by all Antiquity not reiected by any iudicious either Pontifician or Protestant and for truth as clear as the heauens to wit that the sacred Scriptures are euer literally according to their An infallible rule for orthodox in●erpretation of scripture plain sense to bee vnderstood and interpreted idem vt sit sensus mentis qui est sonus auris that the sense of the minde be the same with the sound of the eare when-as the literall and plaine sense of the same is neither against faith nor good manners nor seemeth to affirm any absurdity or impossibility Now to interpret and expound these words we haue in hand according to their plaine and literall sense maketh nothing against the truth of Christian faith but openeth a point of Antichristian pseudo-christianisme aimed at heer by our Sauiour neither maketh it against good manners neither containeth it any impossibilitie for it declareth that which is in the daily vse and practice of the Antichristian Church and which also they hould That Christ is in the Secrets is the corner-stone of all popish worship not onely to be possible but further make it a secondary Corner-stone of all their irreligious religion To this are directed and for this are intended the whole masse and troop of their superstitious ceremonies and lesser orders and vpon this as vpon a God amongst men not sursum but deorsum babentes corda having their hearts not lift vp but cast downe they doo rest the very hope of their saluation In this respect happy yea thrice happy is that man who can dy with this God in his mouth with this Christ in or vpon his stomack hauing such a viaticum within himself Most of the antient Interpreters of Saint Mathewes Gospell such as liued in the purer times of the Church whil'st this Prophecy of Christ was not fully compleated for before transubstantiation was fully decreed this Con● general Lat. sub Innoc. 3 anno 1215 Pseudo-christianisme of Christs being in Secrets Penetrals to be beheld and adored was not generally taught nor beleeued most I say of the antient Interpreters vnderstand this Text mystically of the priuate Conuenticles Origen austen apud Aqum in Cate. in Mat. 24 Assemblies of Hereticks and Schismaticks challenging to themselues the spirituall presence of Christ Which exposition also propter conscientiam reatus in regard of the guiltinesse of their consciences is very pleasing to the Rhemists Rhem. Test an 〈◊〉 in Mat. 24 and all our Romanists but with reuerence be it spoken this exposition is a mistaking and is conuinced to be such by an instance or two which pretermitting all others I will deliuer Instance First First if our Sauiour had meant this his prediction against false Prophets teaching a hidden presence of him h●er and there in Deserts in Secrets and in Closets to vse the Rhemists word to be onely vnderstood of the priuat Their Testamēt in Mat. 24 This doctrine of these false prophets is not to be vnderstood of a pretended spiritual presence Conuenticles of Hereticks and Schismaticks challenging his true Church and spirituall presence by teaching of his truth to bee onely with them and amongst them then should not our Sauiour haue specified and deliuered any proper condition and certaine property of the vniuersall Antichristian Synagogue which was not to bee confined within any one Nation but to bee spread ouer all Nations and Kingdomes where Christs Gospell had ● Thes 2 been taught And yet that our Sauiour doth in this place specifie a speciall and proper note a sure and certain mark of the said vniuersall Antichristian Synagogue some of the antient Fathers haue expresly taught and the Pontificians Chrys in hom Orig. Hier. Hill most expresly in cate apud Aquin can 25. in Mat. themselues doo generally confesse yea and the circumstances of the Text in the verses precedent and subsequent do more than manifestly euince which also shall heerafter be more clearly proued Instance 2 A second Instance I adioin If Christs Prophecy were mystically to be interpreted of a spiritual presence of him in regard of his truth taught in hidden places in the

pag. 3. Heb. 11. 25. all such warriours that haue opposed the Lady Hellen of Trent whether Royall Clerks or Laickes what all I say Louers of pleasures more than of God and yet all Pacificators Heb. 11 26. and Interimists Author-like aspicientes in remunerationem aiming at that reward which God hath promised to those that loue him O egregious such onely louers of God who endeauour to join light and darknes Christ and Belial God and Pope that is two most opposite religions It will not bee vnacceptable to them that the Author in his Epistle dedicatorie page 3 inueigheth so bitterly against Sermon-haunters wherin perhaps he wold shrowd himself by pretended opposing the opposers of Church-gouernment But may he not look further and thereby obliquely strike at our Church A practice not vnusuall heertofore to my knowledge in some indirect squinters against the doctrine and discipline of the same The Author in the same place much complaineth of a corrupted liuer Oh how sick and deadly sick would hee Epist ded pag. 4 make this famous Church to be of a corrupted liuer readie to cause the sound doctrine of our Redeemer to proue loathsome and none but scrubbers to be in request Vah the sound doctrine of our Redeemer proue loathsome Out alack none but scrubbers in request The Church of Rome I knowe what I write would buy it dearly that there were fewer of such scrubbers who haue scrubbed vp so vncessantly so faithfully the roots of her errours that the very bloud of her shame is thereby discouered and by them laid open to the view both of men and Angels And heerin I meane such handlers of controuersies preachers and lecturers as are approoued in the Church of England and allowed by Authority and to my vnderstanding the Author leuels against such his bitter and tart nick-name scrubbers Th●se phrases of the Authour which hee was required Ser. pages 1. 10 11. and 4. 5. to amend in his Sermon page 1 The three Saints page 10 The three first Saints page 11 Some are Saints by substantiall sanctitie c. and in page 4. and 5. The second Saint Are not these phrases very harsh if not dangerous in so sacred a mysterie Let them be compared with Athanasius his Creed It is not to be omitted that those words setting aside the efficacie of inspired Scripture which were required with some other to be put in the allowed Copie and for which the Author is beholding to his learned Censurer were wilfully left out in the first Impression And though they be put-in into the second Impression yet doo they alone hardly make good that Saying The preaching of L●icks can conuert no more than a good morall sentence out of Seneca Surely if such preaching or teaching as may bee His most Excellent Maiesties religious Meditations His diuine and exquisite Basili●on d●ron his other Theologicall workes Acts 8. 25. 26. ●7 28. Acts 8. 5. vsed by Kings to their Subiects Generals to their Souldiers Masters to their Families by Scholars for exercise or such as Christian Authors may deliuer in print for example the Lord Plessie Mornay and others at home bee not able to conuert more than a good morall sentence out of Seneca yet I hope the Author will not dare to denie but that the teaching or preaching of Priscilla and Aquila of Apollo of the * See I●en l. b. 3. c. 12. Doroth. in Synop. Eunuch of the Queen Candaces and of the Christians dispersed from Hierusalem did conuert more than anie the best morall sentence out of Seneca could haue done Hath the Author read in Seneca ought concerning Christ and saluation by him who thus debasing compareth the teaching of Christian doctrine though by Laicks to morall sentences fetcht out of Seneca Yet far be it from mee to allow any other teaching by Laicks then according as I haue heer expressed Should I haue written such a Sermon and haue alike intituled it The Communion of Saints I should not haue dared to taxe all the Hoste of the Lord from the daies of our Sauior for their neglect of duty in such a seruice Let vs ponder his words By how much the communion of page 21. Saints hath been neglected for from the daies of our Sauiour vntill this houre he reckons to the very time of the clocks stroke for his Sermon not one man hath been so charitable to the Saints as to bestowe one whole Sermon vpon their Communion for any thing that I can finde nor any iust Treatise onely some little expositions except onely one Schismatick who appropriates that Communion most vniustly to his own separation Thus the Author Hath he not forgotten or else he vnderstands them not Saint Austines Book de vnitate Ecclesiae his exquisite Volume de ciuitate Dei Cyprian de vnitate Ecclesiae or de simplicitate Praelatorum Gerson de vnitate ecclesiastica How many Authors in their short expositions vpon the Apostles Creed and in their Comments vpon the Epistle to the Ephesians and vpon the 17. of S. Iohn haue deliuered a great deal more substance touching this Communion of Saints in a few words than the Author hath don in this his so vne●en and vnconsonant a Sermon Could the Authour neither see nor smell in that sweet field of Doctor Field of the Church many fragrant passages touching this Argument Maruell he could not obserue Bellarmine treating after his fashion Bellar. tom 2. on the Communion of the Saints militant patient and triumphant I my self within these few years haue heard in this Church of England from the mouthes of such D. ● M. D. as the Author would perhaps haue reputed scrubbers very exquisite Sermons on this Subiect And haue not the like been done in all times when and where the gospell of Christ hath flourished To conclude pretermitting manie other points in his epistles worthie either of redargution or requiring interpretation I doe finally note how in his epistle to Pag. 2. line 26 the Reader hee promiseth thus wee shall search how farre that doctrine hee meaneth the Trid●ntine will admit re-union What reunion And may not the Authour here be aduised to thinke of his owne strength whether this bee feisible by him or no let him consider whether hee hath iudgement sufficient to resolue discretion to order ability to bring forth such a Childe hee I say who though hee hath taken libertie to haue printed in diuers things what hee hath listed hath notwithstanding after manie trauailes brought forth with a double birth so imperfect an Embryo according as in part it hath beene shewed and more might bee added More Doubts and demaundes I might haue proposed but these maie suffice the which I desire both the Authour and all courteous Readers to take no otherwise then as so many requests that the Authour would bee pleased to open and explane himselfe more fully But for so much as may concerne his pretended Conclamatissimus most Conclamed Patrone Lette him

into the Sacrament Now if there be a bringing of Christ then there is also a coming of Christ except it be said that Christ is brought against his will or that it is one Christ which is in the heauens and another Christ which is in the Sacrament neither of which I trowe the Papists will dare to affirm Christ then is there in the Secrets of bread and wine and also is there by coming and so this reason of our Sauior hath his force against the same Answer 3 Lastly I answer that it beeing receiued as a knowne Acts 3 Aug. ep 57. ad Dardan in Ioan. tract 31 Orig. hom 33 in Mat. truth amongst Christians professed by euident consequence in the Creed taught by Antients that Christ after his ascension was to make no other personall and bodily coming nor appearance vpon earth till his coming to iudgement It is most clear that this reason of our Sauiours is of force against al maner of false Prophets whatsoeuer who should teach any true corporall presence of him vpon earth in what habite site form or manner soeuer for his proof stands in this that hee will neuer appear corporally and presentially vpon earth vntil he com suddenly publikely and visibly like the lightning which shineth from the East and appeareth vnto the West And doth not this make most euidently against any manner and sort of Christs corporall and personall presence vpon earth pretended by any false Prophets whatsoeuer whether it bee by comming or by any other meanes whatsoeuer But grant that this first reason deliuered in the 27. verse bee not sufficient if taken alone yet if wee adioine it to that which follows in the 28. verse Wheresoeuer the body is there will the Eagles be gathered together it will make it most manifest that our Sauiour after his glorious ascension neuer intended that his body should be corporally and presentially in any place otherwise then should be fitting agreeing to the visible glory and perspicuous majesty of the same But to conclude howsoeuer this reason of our Sauiour may bee taken by some yet it proueth most euidently and certainly that the false doctrine and pseudo-christianisme of these false Prophets of teaching Christ to be heer and there to bee in Secrets and Penetrals is not to bee vnderstood onely of their challenging of his spiritual presence alone to be with them and with none but them but further of their teaching of some corporall manner of Christs presence vpon earth the which is that verie thing for which I specially doo her enforce the same And so I come to the confirmation of our reason by our Sauiours second argument thus If therefore they shall say unto you When therfore they shal say vnto you Behold he is Christ is in the penetrals beleeue it not for wheresoeuer verse 28. the dead body is thither will the Eagles bee gathered together Touching which argument of our Sauiour all interpretations being seriously waigh'd that of Chrysostom Chryso in Mat. 24. with other of the antient and moderne Writers will bee found more agreeing to truth to wit that like as the dead body or carcase being opēly exposed in the field the eagles do gather themselues by a naturall instinct sent to feed thereon so likewise where hee himself should for anie time after his glorious ascension be he would be in a glorious and conspicuous sort and presence in that there should not be wanting multitudes of Angels assisting and ministring vnto him And so agreeingly to this sense our Sauiour instructeth his faithful thus When the false prophets shall saie vnto you that I am in a hidden and obscure manner in their secrets and penetrals as a companion of Rats and mice beleeue it not for my comming and presence vpon earth after my glorious ascension shall neuer be but conspicuous glorious neuer without the assisting ministerie of glorious Angells And this indeed is shewed to be so by such apparitions as are recorded of Acts 7. 9. him in the Scriptures Stephen sawe him but it was the Heauens being opened in the glorie of his father Saul sawe him yet it was in the splendour of his glorie in arcanis Acts 9. and 2 Cor. 1● coelorum in the palace of Heauen where he sawe such things which were not to bee vttered Though the beloued disciple sawe him yet it was vpon his throne in the middest of Angells and Saints adoring and worshipping him so is Christ alwaies attended on and ministred vnto by the Glorious Eagles And therefore it is most impious pseudo christianisme to place him there or lyingly to teach him to bee there in such secrets and Penetrals where hee shall not only bee socius murium et soricum the companion of Rats and Mice but also bee their food for them to feede thereon And so I adioyne my second reason for this our principall poynt in hand reason Second Our Sauiour in this place for the fore-instruction of his faithful giueth vnto them certeine cleare and euident signes both of things practices and doctrines which Math. 24. 34. which were to happen and to bee in vse for the durance of his church in the antichristian Synagogue before his comming to iudgement and the consummation of the world But signes that they may be profitably significant must bee facill and easie to bee vnderstood Now if all other signes in this Chapter concerning the Antichristian Synagogue their working of miracles their seducing manie The popish practice according to the verie literall sense their persecuting c. bee literally to bee vnderstood why then shall not this their pseudo-christianisme of teaching Christ to be in secrets and Penetralls agreeingly to the plaine literall sense of the words bee taken and interpreted seeing it is a point of such moment concerning the perdition and saluation of many Soules And to adde a confirmation to this reason If these words of Christ were to bee vnderstood mystically against the priuate conuenticles of hereticks chalenging a spirituall presence of him by reason of their teaching of his truth to bee onely with them among them which I haue more clearely disproued aboue I cannot for my part see what certaintie for the faithfull's instruction may bee gathered out of the same which yet is the importantest amongst all the rest For as it is most euident by a neuer intermitted experience since Christs time that euery congregation of All heretickes arrogate Christs spirituall presence See August Epis 80. ad He●●●● Greg. Moral 19. cap. 29. The purest Churches in time of persecution teach Christs spirituall presence in Secrets The Rhemis●s erroneous position to their owne consusion Heretickes and Schismatickes as it challengeth to it selfe the power and spirituall presence of Christ so it obiecteth to all other the lacke of the same yea and the most Orthodox Churches of Christ himself haue their ebbes and flowes and then haue beene purest when in cripts deserts and woods they