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A51260 The doctrin [sic] of transubstantiation consider'd and fully confuted from a union of scriptures hitherto not perform'd / by Tho. Moor; with An advertisement concerning a dispute in the country between T.M. and one Mr. S. on the 25th of July, 1700. Moor, Thomas, fl. 1695-1697. 1700 (1700) Wing M2608A; ESTC R29037 3,828 13

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THE DOCTRIN OF Transubstantiation Consider'd and fully CONFUTED From a Union of SCRIPTVRES Hitherto not Perform'd By THO. MOOR Author of the Clavis Aurea WITH An Advertisement concerning a Dispute in the Country between T. M. and one Mr. S. on the 25th of July 1700. LONDON Printed and Sold by W. Marshall at the Bible in Newgate-street 1700. Transubstantiation FULLY CONFUTED I Having pacified my Conscience in writing my Clavis Aurea and its Additions which Book although it was never Answer'd by any Preacher yet I Suffer'd for it and indeed should it be Answer'd I think only to leave their Answer to be compar'd to my Book aforesaid was condemn'd to be Burn'd as Irreligious and Seditious and my self Fin'd and Imprison'd in Newgate But this Subject of Transubstantiation cannot in reason affront our Divines which indeed wants the clearest Confutation for it hath cost the Lives of many Thousands of Men Women and Children and that by violent and torturing Deaths And because many are apt to say I am a Jesuit a Priest and the like I think it also very necessary to assay whether I cannot give a more clearer insight into that Error than what hath already been done None can deny but that our Senses perfectly contradict a mutation of the Consecrated Bread and Wine into real Flesh and Blood and that they are the very same Substance in Taste Smell Sight and Touch as they were before the words of Consecration were exprest by the Priest whereby it is not in the least changed yet we must believe this whether we can or no otherwise we are Hereticks and Damn'd they accounting it no moer Sin to destroy us than if we were so many Dogs c. notwithstanding our blessed Saviour teaches 'em to do as they would be done by Hence Persecution for Conscience in an Opinion in Religion is forbidden for no Persecutor himself can allow it Religious or would be Persecuted for his Conscience-sake But Persecution is more hainous when the Persecutor is not able to withstand the Arguments of the Persecuted Ignorance is a Sin Persecution then must of necessity be a Sin because it ignorantly or knowingly endeavours to keep Men in Ignorance And who ever Persecuted others more than those who have been extream Ignorant themselves In short God accepts of what we Conscientiously think is true and no Man can dive into another Mans Conscience it must then be great Iniquity to Persecute one anothers Conscience if Zealously affected to a Tenet tho that Tenet should prove to be Erroneous Much more then it must be great Iniquity to Persecute a Man for those Arguments which cannot be Overthrown Now to the Matter in hand in John 6 53. it's writ Verily verily I say unto you except ye eat of the Flesh of the Son of Man and drink his Blood ye have no life in you And verse 55 For my Flesh is Meat indeed and my Blood is Drink indeed For which saying many of his Disciples left him verse 60. But I find in verse 62 63 Christ opens this by telling them of his Ascention viz. What and if you shall see the Son of Man ascend up where he was before As much as to say How will ye eat my Flesh when I am Glorified And Christ adds It 's the Spirit that quick'neth the Flesh profiteth nothing The words that I speak unto you they are Spirit and Life And again he adds but there are some of you that believe not So that eating of his Flesh Was Mystically spoken of Believing in him For to eat his Flesh carnally was to profit nothing And again observe as soon as our Saviour said My words are spirit and life adds But there are some of you that believe not And it 's writ in verse 47 He that believeth on me hath everlasting Life And throughout the Scriptures it 's said We are sav'd by Faith and Christ being Ascended is no more to be known after the Flesh as 't is writ 2 Cor. 5.16 Tho we have known Christ after the flesh henceforth know we him no more How then can we eat in the Sacrament Christ's Flesh carnally or drink his Blood But we 'll suppose the Consecrated Bread and Wine at the last Supper were Christ's real Flesh and Blood there 's no particular Command with or without any Penalty for us to believe it or not believe it so Neither can our Unbelief change the Substance of the Consecrated Bread and Wine into another Substance If Christ hath left this Bread or Wine of his Last Supper dubious whether Figurative or Real we can but dubiously believe it so whereby we humbly submit our Faith to God believing it to be as he hath made it which is as much in this respect as reasonably can be expected from us Another Scripture on which they build this Error is Matth. 26 27 28. as for the Authority of their Church I mind it not because it is not to contradict the Scriptures And as they were eating Jesus took bread and blessed it and brake it and gave it to the Disciples and said Take eat this is my Body And he took the Cup and gave Thanks and gave it to them saying drink ye all of it for this is my blood of the New-Testament which is shed for the remission of Sins Now it 's observ'd that after these words Christ calls this the Fruit of the Vine in the very next Verse saying I will not henceforth drink of this fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father's kingdom Thus you see in Scripture the Figures of things are called by the name of the Substance and in words Mystically to have the same effect For had this been Christ's real Flesh and Blood and really broken and shed at the Last Supper it had really remitted Sin as being also said to be shed for the remission of Sin But we find it did not remit Sin because Christ after all this suffer'd Misery and Death on the Cross which had been great Weakness in him so to do if it had remitted Sin and also to pray Father if it be possible let this Cup pass from me Whereby it 's evident that the Consecrated Bread and Wine at the Last Supper was not his real Body and Blood Again The blood of Bulls and Goats under the Law were an Expiation or remitted Sin Yet St. Paul saith it is not possible that the blood of Bulls and Goats should take away sins Heb. 10.4 Yet they did take away Sin but 't was figuratively denoting the Blood of Christ Who can believe that Christ was really slain at the Last Supper If not then it is testified that a Testament is not of force till after the death of the Testator See Heb. 9.16 17. For where a Testament is there must of necessity be the Death of the Testator it being of no force while he liveth So that without shedding Christ's real Blood even unto Death there 's no remission
of Sin Whereby it 's evident Christ's Body and Blood eaten and drank at the last Supper was but Figurative not being a sufficient Testament to remit Sin And Christ being now in Glorv and never more to be known in the Flesh it 's impossible as his Body and Blood was never carnally eaten and drank so never is nor never shall be Thus in short have I given you my Satisfaction against that old Error of Transubstantiation which at this very day is held by Kings Princes and Learned Bishops who I am perswaded believe it true otherwise they could not be so Cruel to Persecute others for denying it and that by Fire Inquisition Prisons Massacres and other Tortures How Weak then are their Laity to Adore 'em concluding that their Learning and Study can free them from writing Learned Errors in Divinity Learning in Tongues is of this use To translate words out of one Language into another yet still the sense is the same And also serves the better to express those Mysteries God hath Revealed And it serves sometimes to hide by hard and unintelligible words the Ignorance of the Teacher But from such Learned blind Guides the Lord hath and I trust will for ever deliver me for which great Mercy let me always render Glory and Honour to his Holy Name Amen FINIS Advertisement IT is reported by some That T. M. was Overthrown in a Dispute with one Mr. S. which is False for S. disprov'd none of M's Arguments but only deny'd the Consequences which M observing the fallacy of let S. begin waiting to put him upon Uniting his seeming opposite Scriptures S. having begun he for two Hours brought only Scriptures against M's Scriptures but M's unhappiness was the People perceived it not in which was no Satisfaction S. having tired his Auditors M began and urg'd S. to unite the seeming opposite Scriptures S. reply'd He came not to Vnite the Scriptures whereas it was his business to out-do M. in their Union if he could both for satisfaction of the Auditors and to have the better of the Dispute How otherwise could he expect to get the day And besides What did he come for Vain-glory which M. despis'd or to play upon the Ignorance of the People to gain their Affections and give them no Satisfaction which M. design'd not How ean any Man be so Stupified to conclude M. Overthrown when S. did not pretend nay positively deny'd to Unite the Scriptures And when M. had United Mark 16.16 with Rom. 11.32 the People could not receive it as M. expected nor S. contradict it but confirm'd it in saying He did not say There was Free-will in Faith Yet he contended for Free-will before in his long Harangue Now since S. could not be brought to Unite the seeming opposite Scriptures and having own'd That there was no Free-will in Faith and would not have the Dispute in Writing nor in a Dialogue way and the People not receiving M's Union of the two aforesaid Texts M. broke off the Dispute as frivolous and vain from which no Satisfaction could be drawn I grant S. had his End through his much Talking viz. The Applause of the People who knew no more when Scriptures were United than S. knew how to Unite them Without a Union of Scriptures there 's no Satisfaction to be had and that 's the reason we have wanted Satisfaction these many Hundred Years But if Mr. S. pleases T. M. is ready to answer him in Writing concerning the Union of the Scriptures which will make his Logick of no Effect as it never was in finding out the Truth of the Scriptures SOme Arguments and Considerations serving as a full Answer to that Grand Question Whether Men can Will and do otherwise than what they do Bunyan of Election and Reprobation unfolded and explained in Eleven Chapters Price 6 d. The young Man's Guide for Drawing Limning and Etching with printed Directions 1 s.