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A49323	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 ...	Lane, Edward, 1605-1685.	1681 (1681)	Wing L331; ESTC R10768	106,099	120

Communion of the Body of Christ And this it is like was the Form which all the Apostles used in their Ministrations of this Nature for he speaks it here in the plural number We we Neither indeed is there the same Reason for us nor the same occasion before us to speak these words as there was for Christ to speak them He spake them discriminatim in a way of forbidding the former Sacrament of the Passover to be used any more and appointing this of his last Supper in its stead as shall appear more at large in the following parts of this Discourse upon which account it is that he then spake this word so expresly This is my Body to the end that his Apostles and after them his whole Church might understand his meaning in abolishing the old Sacrament and ordaining the New Which being so doubtless we are not to follow his example in speaking the words that he spake which brought on this change And accordingly I knew a man at that time Domino teste non mentior who for Conscience sake did not use that indirect Form when he Administred that Sacrament but varied from it using the aforesaid words of the Holy Apostle when he gaue tho Bread This Bread is the Communion of the Body of Christ adding thereto the words prescribed in our Liturgy viz. Take and cat this in Remembrance that Christ died for thee c. and when he gave the Cup This Cup is the Communion of the Blood of Christ Drink this in Remembrance c. For knowing assuredly that the real Presence of Christ is not in the outward Element but only in the Hearts of the worthy Communicants he durst not say so plainly and so punctually as he was then commanded that the Bread is the Body of Christ which is broken for his People A large mention hath been here made of the form that was then commanded to be used in Administring the Sacrament of the Lords Supper Not as if it were worthy of any Regard rather it deserves to be expunged out of the World with an Anathema fixed upon it but that our Enemies may not upbraid us with it and that the World may take notice how apt those that separate themselves from the established Orders of our Church will though they be associated in an Assembly as they were in those days at West minster and applauded by their followers for their Piety and Learning will be to fall into the worst of Romish Errors though they will seem most to protest against them Having removed the Rubs that lay in our way we may now go on in a plain Path which will lead us to hear the Voice of our Lord walking in his Garden which is in his Church where he commonly meets his People and makes his mind known unto them There it is where we have learnt the true Sense of his words in this Mystery Let us then hear what the Spirit hath said of it to the Church which is our Mother and to her Children amongst the rest to one who is the meanest of Gods poor Servants who rejoyceth that he hath attained to some Understanding in this Mystery And if his particular Judgment which shall be added towards the close of this Discourse be accounted by those who are to judge in such cases sit to be built upon the Foundation his song shall ever be Deo Gloria mihi venia The sense of the Church in general is declared in the twenty eighth Article of her Confession which is of the Lords Supper in this manner The Supper of the Lord is not only a sign of the Love that Christians ought to have among themselves one to another but rather it is a Sacrament of our Redemption by Christs Death insomuch that to such as worthily and with saith receive the same the Bread which we break is partaking of the Body of Christ and likewise the Cup of Blessing is a partaking of the Blood of Christ The Body of Christ is given and taken and eaten in the Supper only after an heavenly and spiritual Manner And the mean whereby the Body of Christ is Received and Eaten in the Supper is Faith This is the Voice of the Turtle which is heard in our Land the Echo whereof is heard in Heaven which makes sweet Musick in that Celestial Symphony The word which our Apostle useth 1 Cor. 10.16 in this case is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an Emphatical Word which makes Heaven and Earth intercommon together First on Gods part it is Communicatio for God by his Ministers in all ages Communicates or Distributes this spiritual Food among his People 2. On their side it is Participatio when they by Faith take and receive this Food into their Hearts for then and not before it turns into Nourishment in them and is digested by them From these two springs another 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 viz. A Communion or Fellowship not only among our selves but with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ 1 Joh. 1.3.7 a most sweet and apposite word a word which the said Apostle seems to delight in as appeareth by his repeating it in the same instant 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith he and again 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Surely it pleased him very well as well it might and to me it soundeth as if he would have us to account this Vinum generosum to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the common Wine that passed between God and his Guests at his Holy Table Much pains likewise have been taken by Orthodox Catholicks to smooth the way to a right understanding of this great Mystery R. V. But I shall not here multiply Quotations of that which is written hereof by them Their Sense shall be shortly summed up in that Form of words which is to be seen in a late Writer and is in effect used by them all When Christ said This is my Body what Body did he mean even his own natural Body which is given for us Luk. 22.19 which is broken for us 1 Cor. 24.10 but how can this be It 's impossible that Bread while it is Bread should be Christ's Body or Wine while it is Wine should be his Blood It 's very true that it is impossible Disparatum de disparato non proprium praedicatur We must therefore seek for a possible meaning and of necessity conclude with Calvin Sacramentalem esse Loquutionem that it is a Sacramental Form of Speech the sign bears the name of the thing signified as both in Vulgar and Scripture Language is common in Scripture signs either figuratively Representing or sacramentally Sealing do bear the name of the things Represented or Sealed v. g. Gen. 40.12 The three Branches are three Days Gen. 41.26 The seven Ears of Corn are seven years the seven Kine are seven years so Ezek. 37.11 These dry Bones are the whole House of Israel Dan. 2.38 Thou O King are this Head of Gold Dan 4.17 The four Beasts are four Kings Gal. 4.25

prove to us to be but as a Preface to their Writ de Comburendo for their merciless burning of our Bodies But blessed be God we have hitherto been kept out of their reach and blessed for ever of God be the Government which is set over us whereby under God we are still preserved Yet neither do we sleight the words of our Lord which he spake saying This is my Body God forbid that such a Thought should ever enter into our Hearts no but taking them in the sense which he intended they are the Crown of our rejoycing His Promise herein is the greatest Blessing that we can be capable of in this World It is our Life and without it we shall ever be dead in our Sins and Trespasses whatsoever spiritual Quicknings we have in us to heavenly things it is the Body of Christ and the Blood of Christ which we have Received into our Hearts by Faith that worketh them in us for we live not as the Apostle St. Paul said but Christ liveth in us It is the Body of Christ and it is the Blood of Christ which filleth the whole inward man inlightning the Understanding Rectifying the Will ordering the Affections putting courage into the Heart to encounter any Difficulties for Christ to suffer any Torments for his sake that can be inflicted upon us by Men or Devils Nay more It is the Body of Christ and it is the Blood of Christ separated each from other which were so taken and Received in the Lords Supper and which continue to be so in the Hearts of those that worthily Received that Holy Sacrament which fully satisfieth all their Hunger and Thirst as bringing a clear Evidence of Christs Death and consequently a full Assurance of the Pardon and Remission of their sins unto them the memorial of Christs Death being the main end why the Sacrament was ordained This in short is that real Presence of Christ in this Holy Ordinance which the Church the Spouse of Christ expecteth so as to be entertained by her Lord at his holy Table and which indeed is only to be desired as being most advantageous unto her As for that Presence of Christ in this Sacrament which Papists contend for let it pass for a Dream as it is It shall even be to use the words of the Prophet As when a hungry man dreameth and behold he eateth Is 19.8 but he awaketh and his Soul is empty And as when a thirsty man dreameth and behold he drinketh but he awaketh and behold he is faint and his Soul hath Appetite So shall their hoc est Corpus meum I mean their Doctrine of the Transubstantiation of the outward Elements in the Lords Supper into the Body and Blood of Christ prove to be unto them but a miserable Delusion Never never O my God let my Soul enter into their Secret nor be baptised with a Baptism that they are Baptised with And with this Confidence I do shut up this whole Discourse God Almighty give a Blessing unto it FINIS POSTSCRIPT BUt now it seems to strengthen the Popish Interest Hell is broke loose seditious Pamphlets now flutter about for the discrediting our Religion and our Church which hath been acknowledged the best Reformed Church in the Christian World such Pamphlets I say as are not only against the Doctrine of the true Protestant Religion but against the best Ecclesiastical Discipline also witness that scandalous and scurrilous Piece Gratum opus Agricolis Romanis atque Atheistis Entituled the Naked Truth Second Part whereas in many parts of it I say not in all it rather deserves the Title of impudent Untruth as shall be here made manifest past all Contradiction The Author thereof whom I care not to know being he is Prava Avis in Templis nigroque simillima Spectro begins his Epistle to the Reader with a colloguing Insinuation I had almost said with much Craft and Cunning in this manner No man does more Reverence good Bishops than my self and why so But because he does it may be account himself to be one it is an ill Bird then that will defile his own Nest nor saith he does any man less dread them with a slavish fear But non obstante all his Confidence I who am a poor inconsiderable man shall here take the boldness before I go with him a foot further to expostulate with him in this case Who Sir is there that doth so dread them I know a man who is in the seventy seventh year of his Age and in the fifty third year of his Ordination to the office and order of an Evangelical Priest yet in his full strength blessed be God at which Age fears do commonly as other weaknesses take hold of a man but although he hath in his time lived under the Inspection of many Bishops yet had he never such a fear of them upon him nor have I at this day for the plain truth is there neither was nor is any the least need of it Nor is there I believe any one of our Bishops who is willing to be so dreaded for if curteous Affability fatherly Instruction brotherly Condescention tender Compassion towards the weaker sort be to be found in them and that very frequently constantly upon all emergent Occasions presented before them as I know by experience to be in some of them what do these boasting words signifie but a vain-glorious hussing If they be not a most unchristian Suggestion and slanderous Susurration sufficient to make all that followeth in the whole Tract liable to suspition among wise Men. As indeed many other of his following words do I admire them saith he at my distance which he presumeth is not very great but I do not Idolize them and God forbid that he or any man else should I Honour them but I do not fall down and Worship them as if none could kneel unto them to crave their Blessing like dutiful Sons of their Grave and Reverend Fathers and as all good Subjects do to the King being so in Duty bound because he is Pater Patriae can none I say do this but they must thereupon make Idols of them and Worship them I can say saith he my Lord and not add my God But let me ask again does any do so or say so Sure there is not such a Polytheism to be found among us here in this Nation though there be God be merciful to us much Atheisin which is like to grow up to a more prodigious Height than it hath yet attained by the means of this and the like prodigious Pamphlets that are scattered among us The man goeth on in his Apology thus You will not find in this ensuing Inquiry the least tang of Bitterness or yellow Choler no not so much as one tart or harsh Expression being so far from justly disgusting any that I shall not so much as set their Teeth on edge so insipied and simple an Humour have I cherisht all-a-long through this whole Discourse for