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A46991	A collection of the works of that holy man and profound divine, Thomas Iackson ... containing his comments upon the Apostles Creed, &c. : with the life of the author and an index annexed.; Selections. 1653	Jackson, Thomas, 1579-1640.; Oley, Barnabas, 1602-1686.; Vaughan, Edmund.	1653 (1653)	Wing J88; Wing J91; ESTC R10327	823,194	586

former Precept except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood ye have no life in you as peremptorie as any can be for communicating as well sacramentally as spiritually in both kinds it were uncharitable to mistrust Gods mercie towards such poor souls as long for the Cup of Salvation which no man giveth them yea which the Romish Church hath by Decree as peremptorie as she could make denied to all the Laitie without exception to all the Clergie except such as may by a peculiar right challenge his blood as their own by way of exchange because they have made him a Bodie which he had not before 14 Yet is it a small thing with this great Whore to deprive the Christian World of the Lords unlesse she urge it instead thereof to pledge her in the cup of Devils full of the wine of fornication coloured with her adulterate Scriptures authorized no doubt for such purposes Where our Apostle Saint Paul saith that he and his Ministers were Stewards of the mysteries of God the vulgar Roman Edition renders the Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by the Latin Dispensatores and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 rightly rendred in this place elsewhere upon carelesnesse rather then any intention of harm as I am perswaded by the Latin Sacramentum Whether upon set purpose of some more learned in that Councel presuming to gull the simple and illiterate by their cunning as Chemnitius probably thinks or whether the mysterie of iniquitie as is more probable wrought unawares in the brains of the ignorant which were the major part and as some have related did oversway the learned uncapable of such impudencie as should give countenance to this ignominious Decree partly from the equivocation of the Latin Dispensatores partly from the synonymical signification which the vulgar hath made of Mysterium and Sacramentum the Beetle-heads have hammered out an interpretation of Saint Pauls words before cited so scurrilously contrarie to his meaning that the Black Dog which is said to have appeared unto Cardinal Crescentius might he have spoken in the Councel could scarce have uttered it without blushing For the Apostle meant such Dispensatores or Stewards as our Saviour speaks of in the four and twentieth of Saint Matthew such as should give their Fellow-servants their just portions without purloining such as daily expected their Masters Return to call them unto a strict Account of their Stewardship For so it is expressely added Moreover or as much as belongs unto our office it is required of Stewards that they be all found faithfull 1 Cor. 4. 2. 15 Not to dispute of the Churches Authority in disposing of Sacraments nor to exagitate the impietie of this decree be the one for the present supposed as great the other as little as they list to make it onely this I would demand of any that is so himself whether he can imagine any men sober or in their right mindes would not assoon have urged that text The fool hath said in his heart there is no God for establishing Atheisme or S. Peters check unto Simon Magus to prove Simonie lawful as derive the Churches authoritie for detaining the least part of the Word of life much lesse the Cup of Salvation from these words Let a man so think of us as of the Ministers of Christ and disposers of the secrets of God What secrets of the Gospel before hid but now to be published to all the World of which the same Apostle elsewhere had said A necessity is laid upon me and wo unto me if I preach it not Of the use or necessity of the Lords Cup not a word in this place not a syllable for the Lord had sent him not to administer this Sacrament but to preach the Gospel of which the Doctrine of the Lords Supper was a part indeed but where expressely and directly he delivers that doth he intimate by any circumstance that either it had been was or might be otherwise administred then according to the patern prescribed by our Saviour at the first Institution Rather his often repetition of these conjunctives This bread and this cup eating and drinking the bodie and bloud c. argue he never thought the one should be received without the other that this prohibition of the Cup was a particular branch of the mysterie of iniquitie not to break out till latter Ages hid from his eyes that had seen the Mysterie it self begin to work As often as ye shall eat this bread saith the Apostle and drink this cup ye shew the Lords death till ●e come Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread and drink the cup of the Lord unworthily shall be guilty of the body and bloud of the Lord. Let a man therefore examine himself and so let him eat of this bread and drink of this 〈◊〉 For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily eateth and drinketh his own d●… tion because he discerneth not the Lords Bodie Yet unto the Trent Councel Saint Paul in the former place where he had no such occasion as not speaking one word either of the Doctrine necessitie or use of the Sacraments seems to intimate and that not obscurelie the Churches Authority in dispensing them as the Trent Fathers have done What then might every Minister of Christ every distributer of Gods secrets have used the like authoritie before the Church representative did at least by tact consent approve the practise This place doubtlesse proves either altogether nothing or thus much for the Apostles words are indefinite for their literal sence equally appliable to every faithfull Minister or private dispenser of such secrets not appropriate to the intire publick bodie Ecciesiastick or the Capital or Cardinal parts thereof Of the Corinthians to whom he wrote one said I am Pauls another I am Apollos the third I am of Cephas all boasting in the personal excellencies of their first Parents in Christ as the Papists now do in Saint Peters and his successours Catholick Primacie To asswage these carnal humours in his children their Father that great Doctor of the Gentiles seeks more in this then in any other place of all his Epistles to debase himself and diminish others high esteem either of his own worth or of his calling Who is Paul then and who is Apollos but the Ministers by whom ye believed and as the Lord gave to every man I have planted Apollos watered but God gave the increase So then neither is he that planteth any thing neither he that watereth but God that giveth the increase And he that planteth and he that watereth are one and every man shall receive his wages according to his labour For we together are Gods labourers ye are Gods husbandry and Gods building And after a serious incitement of master builders to fidelitie with the like admonition to Gods husbandry or building not to rejoyce in men he concludes as he had begun Let every man esteem us such as I have said

Ministers of Christ and disposers of the mysteries of God Of whom were they so to esteem Of Saint Paul himself and every faithfull Minister Doth he then intimate here any such Prerogative above the meanest of his brethren as the Romish Clergie usurps over the whole Christian World any authority to prohibit either the Dispensers of Gods mysteries from administring or men so carnally minded as were these to whom he wrote from communicating Christs bloud as well as his bodie So the Trent Fathers think and as if for their wilfull denial of the Lords Cup unto the people the Lord had given them the cup of giddinesse to cast them into a Babylonish slumber whilest they consulted about this decree and their Scribes through wretchlesnesse had written what their raving Masters in their sickly or drunken dreams had uttered we find in the same Decree another place of S. Paul immediately annexed though as disproportionable to the former as it is placed in their discourse as a mans head to an horses neck both as unsutable to their intended Conclusion as a super-addition of Fins or Feathers would be to such a monstrous Hippocentaurick combination The place is S. Pauls Conclusion of that discourse concerning the Sacraments Other things will I set in order when I come 16 Granting what is not necessary he spake of ordering matters concerning this Sacrament to receive the wine as well as the bread was no part of their present disorder whose misbehaviour at the Lords Table did minister more just occasions to Saint Paul then long Beards did to the Councel of Constance to denie the use of the Cup might Christs blood and bodie which he had jointly tendered to all be upon any occasion justly severed by man in the administration of his last Will and Testament Whatsoever the number or qualitie of the guests be the great Lords Table must be alwayes so furnished as it was at the first Institution for he hath no respect of persons If a rich stately Prelate come in with a gold ring in goodly vestiments and a poor honest Laick in vile raiments he saith not to him in Pontifical robes come sit you here at my messe where you may drink of my wine as well as eat of my bread nor to the poor Laick stand thou there apart or sit down here under my footstool where thou maiest be partaker of the crummes which fall from my Table though not of my cup which must be kept for thy betters High and low rich and poor all were redeemed with one price all at this offering equal all alike free to tast of every dish so they come with wedding-garments without which even the best must be cast out as unworthy to tast of any part if not of all That part which the Councels of Constance and Trent upon pretences of reverence to the Lords Supper have detained from Modern Christians the Corinthians had received unworthily yet was not the Cup for this reason held superfluous by Saint Paul who onely sought to represse the abuse as knowing the use of it to be most necessarie The matters then he meant to order when he came was to set out this Heavenly banquet with greater decencie and solemnitie not to abridge them of any substantial or material part thereof 17 Nor do the Trent Fathers if we may trust them upon their words For they desirous as it seems to make the whole Christian World as sottish as themselves were impious would make men believe they could juggle away the Cup and never touch the very substance of the Sacrament as if the wine were not as substantial a part of the Lords Supper as was his blood of his bodie or humanitie An integral or material part they cannot denie it to be and such if it be there Apologie is as shamelesse as if a man should let out most of anothers blood cut off his arm or leg or maim him in some principal part and plead for himself I did not meddle with his substance meaning as the Councel I take it here doth his Essence seeing he is yet as truly a reasonable Creature as before 18 But to debar them of that refuge it may be they sought or their followers may yet hope to find in the equivocation of this word substance importing as much sometimes as a material or integral sometimes as an essential part If the Cup be an essential and substantial part of this Sacrament the Councel by their own confession did foully erre in prohibiting Communion under both kinds If no such part it be they might by their own rule have altogether denied the use of it so much as to the sacrificer or conficient but so the very use and end on which the essence of the Sacrament as of all other matters of moral practise immediately depends and by whose expiration instantly most determine should utterly have perished The end and use of this sacred Institution as our Saviour expressely teacheth and the Councel grants was to represent the Testators Death yea so to represent it as we might be partakers of his bodie and blood not spiritually onely but withall as the Trent Fathers contend Sacramentally Admitting then all they can pretend against the necessity of the Cup That whole Christ were in the Bread alone yet this will not preserve the true and fruitfull use of the Sacrament nor salve that deadly wound the essence of it must perforce receive from frustration of the end necessarily ensuing the Cups absence For this Sacrament was ordained as to represent so to exhibit Christs body unto all faithful Communicants not as intire and whole his bloud not as it was inclosed in the veines but the one as torne and rent the other as shed and powred out upon the crosse This is my bloud of the new Testament saith our Saviour which is shed for many for all that receive it faithfully for the remission of sins His Bloud then as shed and powred out is as the loadstar of penitent and contrite hearts whereon the eyes of their faith that seek remission of sins in this Sacrament must be fastened for as the ‖ Apostle saith without shedding of bloud is no remission This was the complement of that inestimable all-sufficient Sacrifice that which represents his precious bloud thus poured out the principal part of this Sacrament as wel in respect of representing his death as in applying remission of sins thereby in general purchased and by this Sacramental Type sealed to every one in particular especially if the Trent Councels Doctrine be true that Christs very bloud which was shed upon the crosse is really present in the Chalice and might be as immediately sprinkled at least upon the lips or doors of every faithful receivers heart as the bloud of the Paschal Lamb was upon the door-posts of the Israelites Thus as Satan the Father of lies so false opinions suggested by him draw men with pleasure into those evils for whose practise in the end

from speaking any good unto the Jew●… yet the Oracles of Carmel assure Vespasian of good Successe in all that he should set ●is hand unto 2 As these and many other Presignifications were more then Natural so the means of his Advancement if we respect onely the purpose of men were meerly Casual nor is it possible for the Atheist to imagin their Concurren●e contrived by Policy 3 But herein we may clearly see Gods Covenant of exalting this People and humbling their foes quite Inverted All the Plagues threatned to such as bare ill will to Sion light on her Friends and Inhabitants All the ●les●ing● promised to such as prayed for Jerusalems Peace are heaped upon them that work her Ruine More particularly do they verisie that Prophe●●e of M●… ●●●t 28. 4● The stranger that is amongst you shall climb up on high and t●●● shalt come down beneath alow For these Children of the Kingdom taking Violent but false hold upon Gods truest Promises do by their unseasonable desire of exalting themselves above the Nations hoise Him up to highest Dignity that was ordained to pluck them down from their seat and bring them below all other people The manner of it was thus 4 There was a constant Opinion through the East that Jewry about this time should bring forth the Monarch of the World In Confidence of which Prophecie the Jews as the Roman Writers observe did Rebel Vesp●… otherwise likely to have lived in Danger and died in Obscurity and disgrace whereunto Nero had designed him appointed for reasons afore alledged to Manage these Wars gets Renown for his good Service among the Roman● Good w●… of the Eastern nations and upon Nero's death and Civil Broiles thence ensuing partly by promise of assistance from the Parthian partly by other unexpected Occurrents had the Empire thrust upon him otherwise backward of himself to entertain Hopes suggested to him from Heaven by many wonderful Signs and tokens Yet after all this being made Emperour on a suddain before he could bethink himself what belonged to so High a Place he wanted 〈◊〉 as the Historian notes Authority and Majesty to countenance his proceedings and these again are conf●●med unto him at his first entrance into the Empire by means more Miraculous then the former Since Rome began was it not heard that any Roman had opened the eyes of the Blind unlesse this man had been from God he ●ould have done nothing Why then do the Heathen rage and the people ●…in thing against God and his Annointed The Christ as if He had not Healed him which was born Blind with Spittle when as Vespasian ●…perour d●d ●ure one desperately blind by spitting upon his eyes or whence came that vertue into this new Emperours feet that he should ●eal a lame and withered thigh by treading upon it Both these effects were well known unto the most judicious Roman Writers of those times so constantly avouched by them as can leave no place for su●pition in Ages following 5 What shall we Christians say to these things Onely this In both these Cures there was the Finger of God pointing out Vespasian to the world as Christs Right Hand appointed for some Extraordinary and Peculiar Service even to in●… the Plagues foretold by him upon these Jews which had reviled traduced and crucified the Lord of Glory for the like and infinite other far greater Miracles wrought amongst them These strange Calamities had they fallen in Nero's or other like Emperours time might have been attributed to their Cruel disposition but that Vespasian for his natural Inclination another Moses scarce provocable to revenge Practize of Treason against his Person in private men should work that strange desolation upon a whole Land hath this signification that he was Gods Instrument onely in this Businesse what he did he did impelled by Him not of his own Motion or Inclination And because he had diligently executed that which was right in Gods eyes and had done unto these Jews according to all things that were in Gods Heart he had by what Revelation God best knoweth Jehu's Blessing Sealed unto him That his Son should sit upon his Throne so confident was he in this perswasion as after the discovery of many to scorn all Conspiracies though daily intended against ●… avouching still either his Sons or None must succeed him in the Empire as both of them did Though the later much degenerate from so worthy a Father most dislike unto his noble brother was most unworthy and uncapable of so High a Place but onely from his Fathers deserts which GOD had ordained should be rewarded with this Honour Had either of his Sons rendred according to the reward bestowed upon them more Scepters had sprung from the Flavian Stock But as it Grew ●pace so did it quickly Fade Titus the fairest Branch to all mens seeming being plucked off to his great Hearts grief in the Blossom for what Secret sin GOD knoweth best This One was grievous enough to have deserved a more grievous death that apprehending his Fates approach he durst so Considently look Heaven in the Face and Expostulate his untimely death as unjust seeing he never had offended the Sacred Powers thereof but Onely Once The Signs of those Times were Extraordinary could the Romans have rightly observed them But these Great Conquerours were taken with their Captives ●rrour in not discerning or mis-applying them As the Spring Sun which naturally reviveth all other living Creatures often times prepareth such Human bodies as are fullest of Life and Bloud but most neglective of the opportunity of taking Physick or using diet convenient for that season to hot and desperate diseases never perceived in their Summers growth until they be ripe of death in the Autumn so albeit the Sun of Righteousnesse whose coming into the world was to give life unto it did first arise in Jewry yet by her childrens Confidence in their wonted Temper so whole and sound unto their seeming that of all other people they onely needed no Physitian the very Beames of saving Health did secretly dispose their evil disposed hearts to violent death which burst out in the later end or Autumn of that Age wherein he appeared For that Generation with whom our Saviour Christ Jesus conversed on earth was not fully past until this People began to swell with insolent and proud hopes of Soveraignty over others and by their untimely provocation of the Romans bring suddain Destruction upon themselves as stout and full Bodies by violent and unseasonable Exercises are soonest brought down from the height of their strength unto the grave The Romans again seeing these Jews defeated and themselves possessed of their hopes Vespasian being called to the Empire during these wars which Titus his son did gloriously finish to the utter ruine of that Nation think sure their Gods had been more potent then the GOD of the Jews and apply the Prophecie meant of Christ unto Vespasian as if He

for after a long and various deliberation used by the Councel Caiaphas who now sate as chief being the High-Priest pronounced that sentence where unto almost all at the least the major part agreed It is expedient that one die for the people and that the whole nation perish not upon which speech the Evangelist forthwith addes This he spake not of himself but being High-Priest for that yeer he prophesied Whence it follows faith Canus that our Prelates lives and actions may perhaps be contrary to our Lord Jesus but their judicial decrees or sentences such as are confirmed by the Pope who must be president in their Councels as Caiaphas was shall prove true and profitable unto Christians as instituted by God for the peoples good yea they shall proceed from the Holy Ghost for the reason which we have learned of the Evangelist to wit because such as give them are Prelates of Christs Church And this is all I have to say unto the second Argument 12 It is easie indeed for them thus to answer to whom it is most easie and most usual to blaspheme That the Popes aswell as Caiapha's prophecies may in the Event prove true and profitable to Christs Church we do not doubt because unto such as love God or are beloved of him all things even Sathans malice that had suborned Cai●phas and his brethren against Christ and his members turn to the best But he that had taken this High-Priest whilest he uttered this sentence for an infallible Prophet of the Lord had been bound in conscience to have done so to our Saviour at his as the people did to Baals Priests at Elias's instigation If our adversaries will permit us to interpret the Trent Councels Decrees as the faithfull of those times did Ca●a●bus prophecie we will subscribe unto them without delay It is expedient we grant and profitable with all unto the Church that there should be such Decrees whereby the faith of others might be tried But as it was not lawfull for the people to imbrue their hands in Christs bloud though the greatest benefit that ever befell the world was by his death so neither is it safe to admit the Trent Canons though a wonderfull blessing of God they should be set forth because they so clearly testifie the truth of his word concerning Antichrist Canus said more in this then was needfull according to his supposed principles in his answer to the next argument But God who ruled the mouth of Cai●phas and made him speak the truth when he intended nothing lesse d●● also direct Canus●s pen to vent what upon better consideration he would have concealed Yet herein he wrote but out of the abundance of his own and most of his fellows hearts who hold that the Priests and 〈◊〉 ●●re onely in a matter of Fact not in any point of Faith when they 〈◊〉 Christ For conclusion of this consider with me Christian Reader how great cause we have to thank our gracious God that the s●●t of 〈◊〉 or ●abble of Predicants were not founded in our Saviours dave● for th●… doub●●e the Devil had picked a traitor out of that crue whose impuden● sophistical Apologies for open Blasphemie and unrelenting perseverance 〈◊〉 trait●rous plots might have outfaced the world that the delivering of Chri●… into his enemies hands had been no ●uch sin as J●… testified it wa●… his p●nitent speech and desperate end CAP. XIV What it would disadvantage the Romish Chur●h to ●eny the infall●…lity of the Synagngue THat any visible company of men before our Saviour Christs time d●… challenge such absolu●e authority over mens faith as the Pore doth would be very hard for them to prove and no question but the high-P●… and ●…ers amongst the Jews did oftentimes challenge more then they had If the Rom mist should say that they had no such infallible authority in deciding all controversies as their Church now challengeth the assertion would be as improbable in it self as incongruous to their positions For unto any indifferent man such Infalli●ilitie in the Watch-Tower of Sion m●… quisite during the time of the Law then since th● promulgation of the Gospel ●e it granted the points to be expresly believed of the an● ent people were but few yet even such of them as were most necessary to salvation were more enigmatically and mystically set down then any in the new Testament a●e and the measure of Gods Spirit upon every sort of men the vulgar especially in th●se times much lesse For this c●use God raised u● Prophets to instruct them whose authority though it was not such as the Roman Church now challengeth but given to supply the ignorance and negligence of the Church representative in those dayes yet much greater th●n is ordinarily required in the light of the Gospel by which as the doctrine of salvation is become most conspicuous in it self so is the illumination ●… Gods Spirit more plentifull then before it had been And since the Prophets have been so clearly expounded by the Apostles and the harmony of the two Testaments so distinctly heard the ordinary Test●… of ●esu●●… 〈◊〉 to the spirit of Prophe●ie Allowing then these infinite ods on our p●rts that enjoy the labours of former ages with the ordinary preaching of the Gospel an infallible oecumenical authority is much 〈◊〉 needfull now then it was in the Law 2 Or if our adversaries will be so wayward as to deny the like infallibility to have been requisite in the ancient Jewish Church they shall hereby thwart evidently themselves disanull their chief title and utterly disclaim the main plea hitherto used for their own infallibilitie Fo●… them do u●ge Gods promises made unto that Church to prove a●… of 〈◊〉 a like authority in theirs And if these promises made to the Jews admit any distinction condition or limitation whereby t●… absolute infallibilitie as they suppose it may be impaired then may all the promises made or supposed to be made unto their Church admit the same or like But besides the weakning of their title by debarring themselves of this plea drawn from the example of the ancient Jewish Church no man that reads their writings can be ignorant that all their chief and principal arguments wherewith they carry away most simple souls and importune such as almost neither fear God nor man to give sentence for them and their Church against us are drawn from these or the like Topicks unlesse God had ordained one supreme Judge or infallible Authority that might decide all controversies in matters of faith viva v●ce he had not sufficiently provided for his Church yea which were most absurd he had left it in worse estate then civil Estates are for ordinary matters for they besides their written Laws have Judges to determine all cases or controversies arising And seeing that Monarchical Government is of all others the best and in any wise mans judgement most available for avoiding all dissention and keeping the unity of