I will come into him and will sup with him and he with me This is the Gospel-communion here was no outward Bread nor Wine Cup nor Chalice but here is that which the bread and wine pointed at the cup of blessing If we walk in the Light as he is in the Light we have Fellowship one with another and the Blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth us from all sin 1 Joh. 1.7 In the Light Fellowship with the Lord is known and Fellowship one with another and the Word is known which became Flesh and tabernacles in man this the Redeemed eat feed on discern and though it be said The Flesh profitteth nothing Joh. 6. and that Flesh and Blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God 1 Cor. 15. yet 't is said Except ye eat the Flesh of the Son of Man and drink his Blood ye have no Life in you and he that eateth my Flesh and drinks my Blood dwelleth in me and I in him Joh. 6. And Paul said We are Members of his Body of his Flesh and of his Bones Ephes 5.30 And these are no contradictionâ— but fulfilled in the ground of Self-denyal in the cross to the mortal the Lords Death is shewed forth till he come who lives forever who abolishes Death and brings Life and Immortality to light thorow the Gospel 2 Tim. 1.10 yea and Joh. 3.13 The same that descended the same is ascended and is flesh and bone and nourishes the Soul to eternal Lise here the end of Shadows is known Augustin said truly if truly and livingly read To eat Christ is to believe in Christ why providest thou a Tooth and a Belly believe only and thou hast eaten Faith centers in the eternal Word in the quickning Word so that is revealed which fulfils outward Shadows other things as well as Bread and Wine were not of perpetual continuance nor needful to be practised in the Church after their bounds and season John 13.14 15. Acts 15.28 29. Jam. 5.14 Paul testified saying Henceforth know we no man after the flesh yea though we have known Christ after the flesh yet now henceforth we know him no more 2 Cor. 5.16 Paul was so spiritualized as that he centered in nothing below the eternal Substance he stickt not in Bread and Wine or any other Shadow but in fervency of spirit waited to be comprehended in the prefixed Life as a man that so looks for a lost Jewel that he overlooks all besides it outward things reach no further then fleshly Knowledge but a spiritual Understanding is revealed in by and thorow that which is spiritual Of Transubstantiation Though Israel saw the Wonders of the Lord in Aegypt the Execution of his Judgments for their Deliverance though the Lord went before them by Day in a Pillar of a Cloud and by Night in a Pillar of Fire though they passed thorow the Red Sea as upon dry Land and saw the Aegyptians drowned so that thorow a sense of his Power and mighty Acts they sang a Song of Praise and Thanksgiving unto the Lord saying He was glorious in Holiness fearful in Praises doing Wonders yet coming unto Mount Sinai on to which Moses was called and continued 40 Dayes and 40 Nights Israel fell into a spiritual Lethargy to forget the Lord and his Noble Acts and losing the sense of the pure living invisible eternal God they cryed for artificial Gods Gods of Mans making saying to Aaron Vp make us Gods which shall go before us for as for this Moses that brought us out of the Land of Egypt we wâ—â— what is become of him Exod. 32. Aaron made them a Calf and they said These be thy Gods O Israel which brought thee up out of the Land of Egypt thus losing the sense of the Living and Life-giving God they turned to cryed up and ascribed their Deliverance to a Molten Calf fashioned with a Graving-Tool In the Apostles days and primitive times while their Garments were undefiled being Branches of the Heavenly Olive kept their Heavenly Places in Christ Jesus they had the Bread of Life Water of Life Heavenly Manna the Word that became Flesh in the persumed Houses of sanctified Hearts they drank of the Cup of Salvation the Cup of Blessing they were come to Mount Sion they were Members of the New Jerusalem they were in the spiritual Worship they came to the Life Sum Substance of all Types Figures Shadows and all thorow the Operation of Christ Jesus in them who led them from the Aegyptian-Bondage of Hellish Pharaoh old Abaeddon the Destroyer they knew the Prince of Peace Christ Jesus and their Labour and living concern was that in all things he might have the Preeminence But in dayes succeeding the Apostles when the Mystery of Iniquity which the Apostle saw inwardly working in his day was more and more manifested the Star faln from Heaven Sun and Air darkned the Purity of the primitive Church spoiled through the Smoke of the bottomless Pit through the Darkness and Delusion of this Smoke they lost the bread of Life the cup of blessing within so came to reassume bread and wine without and let in a Sea of Confusion about the same some ministring it to all some to Believers only sometime to Young Children sometime to Dead People c. and the more the Smoke arose out of the Pit the greater Darkness entred the Professors of Christianity till at length like as Israel having lost the sense of the living God called for Gods without so had a Molten Calf and worshipped the same ascribing their Deliverances thereunto even so apostatized Christianity having lost the Bread of Life the Cup of Blessing Christ Jesus thorow the in-steamings of the bottomless Pit they must have an artificial Christ how is that since the Apostles dayes when the Life and Power of Godliness was lost then this Doctrine came to be preacht That Bread and Wine after it be consecrated by the Priest is no more Bread and Wine but the very Christ that was born of the Virgin so to be worshipped that the Bread and Wine by the consecration of the Priest is transubstantiated that is changed into the very Body and Blood of Christ from this came the word Transubstantiation this Doctrine is grounded upon those words This is my Body for from these words Papists say Christ is present transuâ—stantially Lutherans say consubstantially Calvinists say He is present sacramentally Author of the Naked Truth Whether the Bread and Wine after consecration be transubstantiated or not hath been and is much controverted betwixt Papists and Protestants One said Corpore de Christi lis est de sanguine lis est Lis est de modo non habitura modum How Bread and Wine the living Christ should be 'T is controverted much men disagree The Council of Trent begun in the year 1545. and others taught That Bread and Wine being consecrated by the Priest is turned into the true real substantial Body of Christ Flesh Blood Bones c. even the same that was
born of the Virgin bread into his body wine into his blood and that this consecrated Host being offered to God by the Priest is a Propitiatory Sacrifice for the Quick and the Dead and that men are thereby reconciled to God and that it must be worshipped and carried about in Processions and that such as denyed the same should be Anathema accursed And not only this Council but also the Lateran Council Pope Nicholas Pope Leo Pope Innocent Pope Pius the fourth Pope Victor Pope Honorius c. taught the same for denying of this Doctrine many have been burned to Ashes as Ecclesiastical Writers testifie Summa Concil et Pontif. Oruphrius Pope Innocent the third invented Pixes and Boxes as 't is said to put the sacramental Bread in Again such Reverence came to be given to consecrated Bread without when the bread of life was turned from yea and the true Worship of God in Spirit and in Truth that a Council put out a Canon forbidding Women to receive the Eucharist that is the consecrated Host with bare Hands Concil Antisid Summa Concil et Pontif. Roman-Catholicks tell of a Miracle of an Ass that left his Provender to worship the consecrated Host on such Conceit as this saith Mede the Doctrine of Transubstantiation is grounded Of Aderation given to the Consecrated Host When it came to be believed that bread after consecration was the very Christ the Lamb of God that takes away the sins of the World then Popes and Councils ordained that at certain times it should be lifted up above the Priests Head and that at the heaving of it up a Bell should be rung and that all that hear it s found should not only do low Obeysance but fall down on their Knees and with Hands lifted up towards Heaven worship it and say Pater Noster or some other Prayer they ordained also that it should be born to the Sick with great Reverence and that with lighted Caudles though at noon day for the same they instituted a solemn Feast called Corpus Christi Day on which the consecrated Host is born about lifted up and worshipped Further 'T was enjoyned That if a Priest were called in the Night season to housel the Sick and there spent all his Hosts as he came Homeward he was to put out the Candle left the people should adore the empty Tabernacle such as read the Canons of Pope Honorius Gregory the ninth Pope Innocent Pope Clement the fifth their Lives and Councils in their dayes they may see these things In France saith Heylin in his Survey of the Estate of France a couple of Priests carries the Host under a Canopy before it goeth a Bell continually tinkling all in Houses perceiving their God to go by make some shew of Reverence all in the Streets with bended Knees and elevated Hands do it Honour to the Protestants it is as a Watch-Peal to be gone left for their â—â—reverence they be knocked down in this saith he is a smatch of Turcism who when they hear the Cryers bawling in their Streets they fall prostrate on the Ground where-ever they are and kiss it thrice so perform their Devotions to Mahomet their carrying it about the Streets hath a touch of Judaism from the Levites carrying about the Ark on their Shoulders their Adoration of it is especially from Gentilism for never any people but Heathen saith he afforded divine Honours to things inanimate Thus when Heavenly Salt Wisdom from above was lost within multitudes of Inventious swarmed into Apostatized Christendom Lanctantius in his first Book of Institutions taxed the Gentiles of Ridiculousness who worshipped Jupiter as a God Cam cundem tamen Saturno et Rhea gentium confiterentur seeing they so perfectly knew his Original much more are they to be blamed who impose upon the peole the Adoration of a Dead God a principis non ita fuit it was not so from the the beginning Heylins Survey c. Christ said unto his Disciples Take eat this is my Body this denotes signifies be tokens my Body what bread and wine is to the body of man that is Christ the Bread of Life his Flesh his Blood to the Soul the Doctrine of Bread-worship Invocation of Saints Worshipping of Images and many other pestilent Errors have steamed into the Church from the mis-understanding and mis-interpretation of Scriptures saith Rainold in his Orations Paul who had the Mind of Christ a feeling sense of Christs Institution said thrice in a Breath as I may say that the Bread after it was blessed or Thanks were given which is called Consecration remained Bread he called it so and he called it what it was his words imply not his belief of Transubstantiation but expresly the contrary 1 Cor. 11.26 27 28. Again Mat. 26. Christ took the Cup and gave Thanks and bad them drink saying This is my Blood that is signifies betokens or holds out my Blood not his Blood after Consecration but a Shadow of his Blood his own words immediately following evidently demonstrates this I will not drink henceforth of the Fruit of the Vine he calls what was in the Cup the Fruit of the Vine now his Blood was not the Fruit of the Vine but Wine is the Fruit of the Vine until that day when I drink it new with you in my Fathers Kingdom saith he now whoever say that Bread and Wine after Consecration is Christ's Flesh and Blood consider this Did Christ cat his own Body Did he drink his own Blood you say consecrated Bread and Wine is Christ's Flesh and Blood and Christ eat and drank thereof what Consquences would follow this Doctrine Christ his Flesh his Blood is hid from apostatized Ages and Generations his Word became Flesh living Food Food of living Souls Christ is the living Bread which came down from Heaven his Flesh is the Bread that he gives who came from Heaven given for the Life of the World but perishing Bread and Wine though consecrated a thousand times came not from Heaven this said he who also said The Flesh profiâ—â—eth nothing it is the Spirit that quickeneth and the words that I speak unto you they are Spirit and they are Life John 6. And whereas Paul said to the Corinthians As often as ye eat this Bread and Drink this Cup ye do shew the Lords Death till he come 1 Cor. 11.26 Now if the consecrated Host were Christ then he were come then how is it done till he come and were it proper to say till he come when he is already come Christ was obedient to Death even the Death of the Cross the Corinthians were in the Cross in the daily dying having Tastes of the eternal Inheritance and in the dying he comes with perfect Conquest abolishing Death and bringing Life and Immortality to Light And Paul said This do ye as often as ye drink it in remembrance of me this plainly shews that consecrated Bread and Wine is not his Body where his Body is there is no need of
first telling them that all Power was given unto him in Heaven and in Earth then he informed them what their Work should be First To Disciple the Nations that is by the Power of their Ministry to bring them to be Disciples of Christ to learn of him to know his Teaching to take up his Yoke to bear the same to learn Obedience to come into the self-denying state of Discipleship so the word â—riginally imports saith Bullenger Zwinglius Leigh Fisher c. Trapp Secondly He told his Disciples that they should baptize or dip the Nations not in the Name but into the Name of the Father c. Dell Fisher Hammon Trapp And what is it to baptize or dip into the Name of the Father Even the same that Paul spoke of when he said By one spirit we are all baptâ—zed into one body 1 Cor. 12.13 So that it is the Spirit that baptizeth into one Body as also into the Name of the Father to be a living Member of that Body whereof Christ is the Head 't is the Spirit that effects this not visible Water Furthermore Christ in these words commanded not his Disciple to turn back to John's Ministration to dip them in Jordan or in any other River or in a Bowl Bason or Font but into the Name of the Father c. which is no other thing then by the Power of the Spirit whereof they were Ministers to bring them into the Power of God to have fellowship with him through the Spirit Now the Name of God is his Vertue or Power as In my Name they shall cast out Devils that is in my Power this Zwinglius on this place observes Teachers in Sprinkling of Infants which they call Baptism use this Scripture as a Form of words saying I baptize thee in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost which thing the Apostles did not which undoubtedly they would have done if Christ had commanded it as an absolute Form Further Zwinglius said of this place Christus Jesus baptismi formulam qua uteremur his verbis non instituit quemadmodum Theologi hactenus falso tradiderunt that is Christ Jesus did not in these words institute a form of Baptism which we should use as Divines have hitherto falsly taught This was the Testimony of Zwinglius who in his Day was a great Opposer of Anabaptists Lib de bap pag. 66. Tom. 2. oper Piscator on the same place peaks fully to the same purpose Again This place cannot be meant of Water-baptism because Paul thanked God he had baptized none but such and such for saith he Christ sent me not to baptize but to preach the Gospel 1 Cor. 1.14 15 16 17. yet he fulfilled that Mat. 28. he preached the Gospel in a circuit from Jerusalem to Illyricum and many by his Ministry were discipled brought into the state of Disciples to learn of Christ yea and into the Name of God that is into his Power many were baptized into the Name of the Father as his Sons into the Name of his Son as his Jewels and Ransomed Ones into the Name of the Holy Spirit as his Sanctified Ones these knew the One Baptism by One Spirit into One Body Why doth Paul thank God that he baptized none but such and such 1st Because he saw them idolizing and jangling about it which he knew to be a thing not of absolute Necessity not a Command of Christ but used or born with for a season for the sake of the Weak and others in reference to Iohn's Ministry if he had commonly practised it before from his Practice they might have been strengthned in their Thoughts about it he being a great Apostle Secondly He thanks God that he baptized none but such and such And why Because he was not sent of Christ so to do Thirdly Lest some should say that he baptized in his own Name rather into his own Name as the Greek Copies and divers English Translations render it seeing from Christ in whose Name he came he had no Command so to do What Ambassadour of an earthly Prince commissioned to treat with a forreign Prince about especial Matters if he fail in reference to the Contents of his Commission and treat about Matters whereto he was not commissioned can he expect that his Prince's Favour should be unto him as Dew upon the Grass or rather that his Wrath should be as the Roaring of a Lyon So if that in Matth. 28. had been a Command obligatory to all Gospel-Ministers to Baptize with outward Water could Paul have Cause of Rejoycing in that he fulfilled â—ot the Command Consider this and judge Cbj. That in Mat. 28. must needs relate to outward Water for the Apostles could not Baptize with the Spirit Answ Who as thus reason are ignorant of the Ministry of Christ which is a Ministry of the Spirit for all that are sent of Christ through their Ministry people are turned from Darkness to Light and translated from Death to Life where Christ's Baptism is known and this they do as indued with Power from above John 17.18 As thou hast sent me into the World saith Christ even so send I them And must not Christ and his Ministers be found in one Work even to turn people from Satan's power to the Power of God where the spiritual Baptism is While Peter preached to Cornelius and his Kinsmen and near Friends the holy Spirit fell on them Acts 10. wherein Christ's Baptism is Moreover Paul laid his Hands on certain and the holy Spirit fell upon them Acts 19. even that Spirit wherewith Christ baptizeth Yea and in Acts 26. Paul gave a Relation of his Call as also of his Work I saith the Lord have appeared unto thee for this purpose to make thee a Minister And what was his Work In preaching to the Gentiles to open their Eyes to turn them from Darkness to Light from the power of Satan usto God that they may receive Forgiveness of Sins and an Inheritance among them that are sanctified by Faith in Christ Iesus Paul declared his Commission to preach and the Effects of it was glorious Conversion Faith Remission of Sins Sanctification Salvation he took not Flesh and Blood into counsel evil Counsellors for the Soul but silencing Flesh entertaining a noble Resolution he put himself into the hand of God saying in effect Te duce vera sequor To duce falsa nego Consider Paul in and through the Virtue of him that sent him opened peoples Eyes and turned them from Darkness to Light and from Satan's power unto God Were not these Witnesses of the Spirit 's Baptism Yes for without the Spirit and its Baptism none come to God nor out of Satans power Thus Paul discipled the Gentiles that received his Testimony and baptized them in and through the Spirit into the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy Spirit and this was and is done not by Water-baptism without but by the Spirit 's
the holy Spirit wherein the Redeemed cry Abba Father Rom. 14. Visibles are temporal as Moses's Laver-washing John's Jordan-washing imposed only until the Time of Reformation but Invisibles are eternal as the Spirit of the Lord is eternal in which Christs Baptism is such as center in temporals that Eye being shut which sees into the beginning before the temporals these are but as an House without Pillars tottering with every Blast as a Ship without Anchor tossed with every Wave for the Establishment is in that which is Eternal Whose Antitype Baptism doth also now save us By this Scripture as all the wise in heart understand Peter puts an End to Baptism of the Flesh as Paul did to Circumcision of the Flesh for saith Paul Rom. 2.28 29. He is not a Jew which is one outwardly neither is that Circumcision which is outward in the Flesh but he is a Jew which is one inwardly and Circumcision is that of the Heart in the Spirit and not in the Letter whose Praise is not of men but of God which in effect is this In Gospel-dayes where all shadows are fulfilled Circumcision in the Spirit puts an end to Circumcision in the Flesh in effect Peter saith as much of Baptism Baptism saith he saves but not that Baptism which puts but away the Filth of the Flesh but that Baptism of Christ in the Spirit where the Answer of a good Conscience is known Yea by this Peter intimates that Baptism in the Spirit puts an to Baptism in the Flesh for of a Truth it may be said He is not a Christian who is one outwardly neither is that Baptism which is outward in the Flesh but he is a Christian which is one inwardly and Baptism is that of the Heart in the Spirit and not in the Letter whose Praife is not of men but of God For neither Moses's Laver-shawing nor John's Jordan-washing could bring inward Cleanness and Purity of Conscience therefore Christ put an end to all outward shadows figures and Types by the Power of his Spirit inwardly effecting and fulfilling that which they in an outward manner shadowed out Many bear record in Truth to the Apostles Testimony who said The Law make nothing perfect but the bringing in of a better hope by the which we draw nigh unto God Hebr. 7.19 Here is the perfecting of the Children of Light here they are truly joynted whom Satan had dislocated Paul who was not sent to baptize but to preach the Everlasting Gospel a more weighty and ponderous Concern he had his Call from Heaven in writing to the Church at Rome he speaks of Gifts differing and exhorts every one to be faithful but of baptizing with Water he speaks not but in other places sets up the Spirit 's Baptism as conducing to the Salvation of the Soul So who are serious in the things of God cannot but conclude from what is spoken that the Spirit 's Baptism is the only Baptism peculiar to Gospel-dayes and that the continuance thereof is of absolute necessity whatever you be that deny it to and in the Church you shut out of the Church the divine Nature the new Name the true Worship Translation into the Kingdom of God the Lords Temple the Gospel-Ministry the true Service of God true Unity inward cleansing true Christianity present Salvation and what is that Church and what are the respective Members thereof that are destitute hereof Out-sides Formalists tossed to and fro as a Feather or Froth upon the Waves hurried about with every Wind of Doctrine like Glasses blown into this or that shape at the pleasure of mans breath what are Professors that are destitute of the Spirit and its Baptism as hollow Trees in an old Wood tall but pithless sapless and unsound What are these lifeless Formalists as a Bulrush whose Colour is fresh Skin smooth Body knotless yet nothing is within but a kind of spongeous unsubstantial substance The Swan in the Law was rejected for sacrifice as some affirm because of her Black Skin under White Feathers thus it is with Unscripturalized Out-side Formalists their Performances how specious soever black Death reigning within brings them not unto divine Acceptance their most Religious Duties and Performances issue from Art and Acquired Parts not from divine In-dwellings who then touched with the sense and possession of the Lord's Presence and with the Virtue of his spiritual Baptism can be silent And not as the Lord's Worthies contend for it of the which such excellent things are spoken if Christ must have preheminence in all things if he be All in his Church beautified out of his Wardrobe why is Outward Water so much magnified in Gospel dayes Christ is sufficient to and in his Church without John though John was of use in his season to point out Christ to come so the Baptism of Christ without visible Water is sufficient in his Church without the Baptism of John with Water though the Baptism of John with Water was useful in its season being a shadow of a better thing to come even of Christs Baptism with the Spirit who said He that believes on me out of his Belly shall flow Rivers of living Water but this spake he of the Spirit which Believers in him should receive John 7.38 39. So that Believers receive the Spirit so Christs Baptism living Water is to flow out of the Womb of their Souls they know the precious Virtue thereof its Cooling Cleansing Thirst-quenching and Fructifying Virtue they know the fulfilling of Moses's Laver and John's Jordan-Washing in their Mortal Bodies The Fourth Assertion Rantism that is Sprinkling of Infants is a Case unpresidented in the Primitive times an Irreptitious Custom sprung up in the Night of Apostacy after the Falling Away from the Primitive Order I Have already shewed the Temporary Baptism of John and have likewise spoken of the Baptism of Christ with the Spirit and that this Baptism put an end to John's Water-baptism as to the other shadows so that to and in the gathered Churches one Baptism was preached and that by one Spirit into one Body the shadow being left off now it remains that I inform you how Dipping which was John's Ministration came to be re-assumed and likewise how Sprinkling of Infants got entrance among the Professers of Christianity Christ being upon the Mount of Olives with his Disciples told them that False Christs and False Prophets should come Mat. 24. which John seeing fulfilling and fulfilled said expresly they were come saying Little Children it is the last time and as ye have heard that Antichrist shall come even now are there many Antichrists whereby we know that it is the last time â— John 2.18 Paul in the Spirit of Discerning sore-saw and fore-told of an Apostacy a Departure from the Faith that seducing spirits should be heeded and Doctrines of Devils 1 Tim. 4.1 John in the Spirit fore-saw all the world wondring after the Beast Revel 13.3 yea and he saw and fore-told of a great Whore that
a Representation consecrated Bread works not the Works of the true Christ the true and faithful Witness so is not Christ Christ called also Jesus by interpretation a Saviour such is his Name such is his Nature he saves his People from their Sins Mat. 1.21 thorow his inward Operation they become new Creatures God's Workmanship in a word of Beth-aven that is a House of Vanity or Iniquity they become Bethel that is the House of God Sharers in the Riches Peace of the Lords Family consecrated Bread effects not these things in the Receivers though a thousand times consecrated received so is not the Virgins Birth John testified saying The Blood of Jesus Christ clenseth us from all sin 1 Joh 1.7 this is the effectual remedy the Lords Candle finds many a foul Flaw in man such as believe are reduced into the Order of the heavenly Truth the Apostle further bare record saying He loved us and washed us from our sins in his own Blood Rev. 1.5 6. and hath made us Kings and Priests unto God Kings to reign in Truths Dominion over the Earth over the World over Lusts over spiritual Adversaries Priests to offer a Sacrifice of Praise and Thanksgiving unto the Lord to this Dignity Bread and Wine though a thousand times consecrated cannot bring Again The true Christ the Virgins Birth is the same today yesterday and forever incorruptible perishes not immortal the Holy One sees not Corruption but Bread and Wine though consecrated corrupts perishes grows mouldy loses Vertues Taste Savour so is not the Body and Blood of Christ and the Disciples were not to labour for the Meat which perishes but for that Meat which endureth unto everlasting Life John 6.27 Again Thorow the Body of Christ the faithful become dead to the Law to be married to Christ to be fruitful unto God Rom. 7.4 dead to the Law dead to sin yea and the Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus makes free from the Law of Sin and Death Rom. 8.2 10. but the consecrated Host hath not this Operation in man but leaves men alive in Sin dead to God so not Christs bodâ— not his flesh not his blood Christ said to the Jews Your Fathers did eat Manna in the Wilderness and are dead such Minds as stick in Visibles are dead in Sins and Trespasses though consecrated by Man they quicken not it is the Spirit that quickneth and he that eats of the Bread saith Christ that comes from Heaven the Word Christ's Flesh he knows a Vivification a Quickning he dyes not but lives forever John 6. and 't is the Lord that gives being and Vertue to all Creatures not mans Consecration which cannot keep Visibles from losing their Vertue Savour Taste 't is evident by their own Constitution that they were conscious of this who enjoyned That Priests on every eighth day should renew the holy Eucharist that is consecrated Bread c. lest thorow Oldness thereof some should be brought into Indevotion to have the Spark of their Devotion as I may say in measure extinguished Summa Concil et Pontif. but Christ is the same today yesterday and forever his Years fail not he waxes not old as a Garment Of giving Bread and Wine to the World for this it is alledged that Judas did eat of the Bread and did drink of the Cup. Answ That was that the Scripture might be fulfilled Mine own familiar Friend which did eat of my Bread hath lift up his Heel against me Psal 41.9 yea and Christ the Store-house of Wisdom and Knowledge said He that dippeth his Hand with me in the Dish the same shall betray me Matth. 26.23 his Fellow-commoner as I may say whereby the Indiguity of the thing was much aggravated as for Judas he was numbred with the Disciples and had obtained part of the true Ministry Acts 1. but fell by Transgression and became a Member of that sinful and unsociable Society which Christ testified against and for giving Bread and Wine the Sacrament as 't is called to the World have you no Example but Judas who sold Christ for Money as many sell Bread and Wine for Money now which after Consecration is truly and really Christ as many in Degeneration affirm Christ gave it to his Disciples only a Shadow of a more spiritual Bread of a more spiritual Cup after to be received Of giving Bread and Wine to Infants After the Primitive Times when thorow the inundation of Apostacy and over-spreading of that foul Leprosie the living Bread and living Cup was lost then streamed in a Sea of Confusion as I said before the Heavenly Key of pure Knowledge and Divine Understanding was lost things of God became as a Book sealed with seven Seals the Opener and Fulfiller of the Scriptures of Truth came in a high measure to be lost then a Cloud of Mis-apprehensions and Mis-interpretations of Scriptures involved the Professors of Christianity then thorow a Mis-apprehension and Mis-understanding of that Scripture of Christ Except ye eat the Flesh of the Son of Man and drink his Blood ye have no Life in you John 6.53 the Fathers fell into that Error that None but Communicants could be saved whereupon they gave the Sacrament so called to Infants and put it into the Mouthes of Dead Men c. Augustine Bishop of Hippo was thus minded as appears by this his following Conclusion tâ—at It is in vain to promise Salvation and Life Eternal to little Children unless they be baptized and receive the Body and Blood of Christ since the Necessity of them both is attested by so many so great and divine Testimonies This Practice of giving the Sacrament to Infants crept in the early Ages of the World became wonderful general and continued above six hundred years in the Church till the time of Charlemain some were so strict in it as that a Canon enjoyned That baptized Infants should receive the Communion before they sucked or received any other Nourishment the same is or hath been observed by the Greeks Aethiopians Bohemians Moravians and that this was enjoyned by Popes Bishops c. these following Authors testifie recourse being had to their Canons Constitutions c. Pope Innocent Paganinus Gaudentius Theol. de moribus seculi Nicephorus in Histor Eccles Johannes Langius Augustin Taylors worthy Communicant chap. 3. Alcninus Maldonate on John 6. Author of the Naked Truth Grotius Notwithstanding Pope Innocent had appointed the Sacrament to be given to Infants and it became in a manner universal of long continuance yet the Council of Trent put out this Canon If any one shall say that the Communion of the Eucharist that is consecrated Bread is necessary for Children before they attain unto years of Discretion let him be Anathema accursed Concil Trident. Sect. 3. Can. 4. Here the Pope who cannot err as 't is said came to be questioned his Doctrine Augustin's Doctrine and the Church Practice for above six hundred years came to be cast out as spurious by the