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death_n	body_n	drink_v	eat_v	5,781	5	7.4332	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30727	Christian liberty asserted in oposition to the Roman yoke delivered in a sermon preached in His Majesties royal chappel of Windsor, the 8th of Decemb. 1678 / by John Butler.	Butler, John, D.D.	1678 (1678)	Wing B6277; ESTC R7538	15,021	44

in all cases If the Pope should so far err as to call vice De Rom. Pont. lib. 4. c. 5. vertue and vertue vice and command them to be accordingly practised and forborn the Church were bound to submit and conform her self unless she would sin against Conscience WELL said Cardinal THE good man had forgot that God himself had accursed those that call evil good and good evil But to let that pass how comes so great a man to suppose what he had taken so great pains to prove impossible i. e. that his Holiness can err and how comes he to pull down what he had before as much as in him lay built up i. e. the Popes infallibility For if we be not assured of the real and unalterable difference betwixt vertue and vice we have no certainty and where there is no certainty it is impossible there can be any infallibility Which doctrine of infallibility for I must hasten is the very beam of the yoke to be laid upon us in lieu of the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free WE are by Gods providence yet free from the yoke we celebrate the Supper of the Lord with eating and drinking according to his own most holy Institution Be not therefore intangled with this yoke of bondage TAKE for a second part of their yoke the doctrine of Transubstantiation than which I am sure Jacob Behmen has not any thing in all his enthusiastick writings more monstrously mysterious and unintelligible As if no man could possibly become a good Christian unless he threw away his memory and understanding at the same time TRANSUBSTANTIATION a name and thing so unknown to all antiquity and so utterly impossible in it self that I must shake hands with my nature before I can bring my neck to the yoke INDEED if the Assertors of that doctrine can once mould me into such a temper as that with the Comoedian I could run in their hand and in one and the same breath affirm with them that a Cloud looks like a Camel like a Weazel and like a Whale much may be done Till then they must give me leave and if they will not give it me I shall make bold to take it to belive my senses both inward and outward which I humbly conceive and am verily persuaded God and Nature did not bestow upon me with a design to deceive and cheat me IF they ask as they usually do why do we then believe the doctrine of the Trinity which on this occasion they will have to be as much against human reason I answer by denying what they take for granted i. e. That the doctrine of the Trinity and that of Transubstantiation are alike against reason That I and two more can be one or that any created being can be in more than one place at the same is indeed against reason because we have distinct beings and are distinctly circumscribed by our own proper limits and places but that God who is infinite in power and fills all places with his unbounded presence may be whatever he pleaseth to reveal and declare himself to be as touching his Divine Nature is if above yet not at all against my reason BUT to end this Paragraph to what purpose should I be obliged in this matter to call white black and black white Cui bono Cannot the same God who at the Preaching of the Gospel of his Son by his Apostles conferred the Holy Ghost on those that never heard of him before and cannot that Son of God who Instituted Holy Baptism to the mystical washing away of sin confer Grace and Spiritual nourishment to my soul upon my humble and grateful commemoration of his meritorious Death and Passion in eating and drinking the Consecrated Elements without the Priests turning by I know not how many unconceivable Miracles not only the Bread and Wine but even the Bread alone into his real Body and Blood IT cannot be expected that I should within the time allotted me say all that can be said if I could do it upon these and the following subjects and therefore I refer you for your further satisfaction and confirmation to the labours of those many Pious and Learned men of our Church who have in this and all other points controverted betwixt us so baffled our Adversaries of Rome that though they will have the last word there is no help for that they have nothing left them which with modesty they can say for themselves As for us we are yet by the Grace of God free from this groundless useless and senseless yoke of Transubstantiation Be not therefore intangled with this yoke of bondage WHAT shall I say of the Doctrin of the Popes Supremacy over the whole World his pretended power to confer and take away Crowns and Kingdoms and in the stead of God himself for King David makes it his peculiar Prerogative and so doth his Son too to pull down one and set up another They tell us a great many fine stories of St. Peters Keys and St. Pauls Sword but alass they are but stories ambitious imaginations of their own brains Now before I give mine own opinion in the case so far as we are concerned I crave leave to tell you what one of their late Pamphleteers hath affirmed in it viz. That Oliver Cromwel had as much right to exclude the Royal Family and set up for himself as King Henry the Eighth had to throw off his Obedience to the Pope Spoken like a good Subject and a well read man Is there no difference between an home-born Prince and a forein Usurper And for Gods sake what power or profit had ever the Popes of Rome in this Kingdom but what was either granted them by the indulgence and bounty of devout and unwary Princes or else what they extorted by watching their opportunities and fishing in troubled waters the last of which was no Title at all and the first being abused was justly forfeited THE first considerable footing that his Holiness got here was by Austin the Monk about the year 600. and then the Foundation was laid in blood in the blood of twelve hundred Monks A truer story I am sure than that of their 11000 Virgin-Martyrs And as the Naturalists say ex quibus componimur ex iisdem nutrimur so I may say of them If you prove good children believe as the Church believes and do what she bids you right or wrong pay your first-fruits tenths Peter-pence and other perquisites which the Apostolic Sea claims all which however I think better in the King of England's Exchequer than in the Roman Aerary then his Holiness smiles at your easiness and his word is Si populus vult decipi decipiatur c. but if you do not look to your selves the note is changed into that of Nebuchadnezzar his Predecessor in old Babylon If you worship not you shall be cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace But suppose we should not grant but give them what they