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A07557	The princelie progresse of the church militant marching forth by the steps of the flocke to her triumphant bridegrome Christ Iesus. Encountered with an erronius army, turned aside from Iesus to the Ieesitcall [sic] faction, to fight with the lambe, and make warre with the saints. As it appeareth in the ensuing opposition. With an addition demonstrating the abolishing of Antichrist, supreme head of heretickes, and vniuersall maintainer of treason. Written by Thomas Bedle.	Bedle, Thomas.	1610 (1610)	STC 1794; ESTC S113620	73,293	130

thousand places at once yea in as many Hosts as pleaseth the Priests Secondly the wicked should receiue life as well as the godly Now that Christ is not present euery where their Annotation vpon the Rhems testifieth which thus saith Christ Reuel 6. annot nor his Saints be personally present euery where nor can be at once in euery place alike a● God is But their motion speed and agility to be where they list is incomperable and that their power and operation is according Here it plainely appeareth that Christ is not personally present according to his humanity euery where for that is proper to the God-head of Christ For if the flesh of Christ should be euery where Then the flesh of Christ is euerlasting which thing to hold 1. Ioh. 4.3 is to deny that Christ came in the fulnesse of time which is an especiall marke of Antichrist Secondly if Christ were really present in the Sacrament yea in the perfection and sweetnesse of glory as our Aduersary holdeth then it must of necessity follow that whosoeuer receiueth him receiueth life Whosoeuer saith Christ eateth my flesh and drinketh my hloud hath eternall life Col. 3.3.4 For what is death but the absence of God and his graces And what is life but the presence of God in whom our life is hid Aug. in trac Iohn 26. He that receiueth not this meate hath no life saith Saint Augustine and he that receiueth the same hath life and that euerlasting For as S. Gregory Missene cited vpon the Annotation of the Rhems saith That liuely body entring into our body changeth it and maketh it life and immortality Againe S. Cyrel there cited Ioh. 6. ann also thus speaketh Though by nature of our flesh we be corruptible yet by the participation of life we are reformed to the property of life Otherwise that comfortable doctrine of Saint Ambrose could not be true namely Thou shalt not feare death if thou beare Christ Nor that sweet sentence of S. Augustine cited in the Rhems namely Thou art life euerlasting and thou giuest not in thy flesh and bloud but that which thy selfe art Yet it is said in the Masse booke That the good folke receiue him and so do the ill though not all alike Mors est malis Vita est bonis It is death to the wicked but life to the godly But contrariwise Origen saith That Christ is the true food that no euill man can eate For if the euil mā could eate of the body of the Lord it should neuer be written Hee that eateth this bread shall liue for euer For the condemnation of the vnworthy receiuer lyeth not in eating the body of Christ 1. Cor. 11. but in not deseruing it as the Apostle testifieth in comming without faith the eye of the soule and therefore without Christ Whereas the worthy receiuer hauing faith Eph. 3 17. 1. Ioh. 3.24 hath Christ For by the spirit and faith Christ dwelleth in him Hauing Christ hee hath righteousnesse and so worthily presenteth himselfe to receiue the seale of a further confirmation and assurance by a visible signe of the inuisible righteousnesse which he bringeth with him by bringing Christ who is his righteousnesse Otherwise how can he looke for a confirmation at Gods hand of that by any seale or receiued signe which he hath not Abraham was iustified by an imputatiue righteousnesse hauing Christ dwelling in him by faith and afterward receiued circumcision as a token of the iustice of faith The Eunuch of Candace Queene of the Aethyopians first beleeued and after receiued baptisme as a witnessing signe that his sinnes were washed away by the bloud of the Lambe Christ Iesus Aug 〈◊〉 Ioh. T●●ct 26. This is to eate that meate saith S. Augustine and to drinke that drinke to dwell in Christ and Christ in vs Againe hee that dwelleth not in Christ and in whom Christ dwelleth not doth not eate spiritually his flesh But the annotation vpon the Rhems obiecteth That ill men receiue the body and bloud of Christ 1. Cor. 11. ann●● bee they ill l●●ers or infidels for in this case they could not be guilty in that they receiue not How then were the Iewes guilty it doth appeare by two most excellent testimonies Not in receiuing Christ but in betraying and murthering the iust saith S. Stephen And in crucifying the Lord of glory 〈◊〉 ● 3● A●● 2. ●6 saith S. Peter So the wicked are guilty not in receiuing Christ but in not receiuing him and in crucifying to themselues againe by sinne H●b 6.6 Prou ● 4 the Sonne of God approuing therein by forsaking the law the horrible impiety of the Iewes S. Augustine saith They are guilty not because they receiue but because they receiued not the body of Christ For as S. Hierome tea●heth Heretickes do not eate the body of the Lord nor drinke his bloud Thus in conclusion wee may see that the Scriptures will not allow their cake to be a God Gabriel Biel saith S●●e● Can●s ●●cl 40. That all their transubstantiatiō is not found expressed in the Canon of the Bible Scotus saith That neither by Scriptures nor by reason it can bee proued And the Iesuites themselues hold Ann●t Pop●s● tyr l. 1. Pro● 4. That it is not once named of the ancient Fathers and the Apostles knew not of it before the death of Christ For saith saith the Annotation vpon the Rhemes Heb. 10. annot It is by his death and resurrectiō to life againe that his body is become apt and fit in such diuine sort to bee sacrificed perpetually Neither was it heard of after the death of Christ vntill the Councell of Lateran holden in Rome vnder Pope Innocentius the third in the yeare of our Lord 1215. In the reigne of King Iohn This verity saith Scotus about Transubstantiation was declared first in the Councell of Lateran Hauing thus farre taken a view of their sacrifice without bloud being vnfit to wash away sinnes and no better then bread prophaned to an idolatrous vse and therefore altogether vnable to vphold religion and the worship of God We may boldly conclude that the Protestants relying vpon Christ haue both a sacrifice and religion whereas they relying vpon a peece of bread haue no sacrifice nor religion Neither do they altogether relye vpon their god of bread For with him as with a God not all sufficient they haue ioyned many commissioners to the remission of sinnes their Holy water Ashes Palmes Candles and such like Hallowed with this clause as it appeareth in their Pontifical that they may be to vs the saluation of body and soule Christ his sacrifice taketh away originall sinne Theirs actually therefore of greater efficacy Concerning their reall presence or god of bread Thomas Aquinus thus teacheth As the body of our Lord was once offered vpon the crosse for the debt of Originall sin so it is daily offered vpon the Altar for the debt of daily sins Concerning holy water Augustine Steu●ns thus speaketh We hallow water with salt and praiers that by the sprinckling thereof our sins may be forgiuen By this we may see that their God of bread marcheth not alone in forgiuenesse of sinnes therefore not the onely sacrifice but a sacrifice accompanied with many companions to the vpholding of religion and the worship of God which Christs sacrifice as they say is not able to do Notes of Antichrist in the Rhems Reuel 12. 2. Thes 2. annot Heb. 9.14 Thus Gentlemen you may behold Antichrist sitting in the Church of Rome attempting to draw from the true faith abrogating the dayly sacrifice and openly atchieuing desolation Attempting to draw from the true faith in denying that Christ hath taken away our sinnes in drawing vs from beleeuing the remission of sinnes confirmed vnto vs by the Oath of God and sealed with his bloud By teaching that faith in Christ is an idle apprehension of Christs iustice and a lying faith that inherent euill is inherent righteousnesse wherewith we are saued Abrogating the daily sacrifice in denying the sufficiency of Christs sacrifice in vndertaking to offer Christ in the Masse to the Father not to vs but for vs which cannot be done but by his eternall Spirit nor without his death who dyed but once for all Openly atchieuing desolation in seeking by treason to ruinate States inciting men to rebell against their Soueraigne and by plotting the ruine of Gods Church by spirituall desolation as well as temporall Therefore Gentlemen seeing by diuers markes and tokens set downe in the Rhems the Church of Rome the fulnesse of the Gentiles accomplished is become the seate of Antichrist I will say with the kingly Prophet Dauid Kisse the Sonne lest he be angry and so yee perish in the way Psalm 1. And conclude with the Councell of Ambrosius Ausbertus one of your owne Doctors The Prophet Ieremy saith O my people go forth from the middest of them and saue euery man his soule from the rage of the Lords fury For none of the elect of God can in this life go forth from the middest of that wicked citty that is from the middest of euill which that Babylon sign●fieth but by defying that they doe and by doing that they defie