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A26998	The Protestant religion truely stated and justified by the late Reverend Mr. Richard Baxter ; prepared for the press some time before his death ; whereunto is added, by way of preface, some account of the learned author, by Mr. Danel Williams and Mr. Matthew Sylvester.	Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.; Williams, Daniel, 1643?-1716.; Sylvester, Matthew, 1636 or 7-1708.	1692 (1692)	Wing B1359; ESTC R1422	79,512	227

sins And St. Paul saith 1 Cor. 11.23 I have received of the Lord that which I delivered to you That the Lord Jesus the Night in which he was betrayed took Bread c. Vers 25. After the same manner also he took the Cup when he had Supped saying This Cup is the New-Testament in my blood This do ye as oft as you drink it in remembrance of me For as often as ye eat this Bread and drink this Cup ye do shew the Lord's Death 'till he come Wherefore whosoever shall eat this Bread and drink this Cup of the Lord unworthily shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord But let a man examine himself and so let him eat of that bread and drink of that Cup. These words do so plainly say it is bread after the Consecration and do so plainly require all to drink of the Cup as well as to eat of the Bread that the Infallible Clergy are fain to accuse the Light of Darkness the Text of deceitful Obscurity till the Pope and his Prelates have expounded it by giving it the Lye Just like the Knave in Ignoramus's Play that Proclaimed the man to be Mad from whom he intended to extort Money that is for binding and abusing him What is it to proclaim Christ and Paul to be Fools that could not speak Sense if this be not But the Doctors have also contradictions to charge on Christ even that else-where he saith He that eateth his Flesh shall live for ever Ans 1. That is He that trusteth in a Sacrificed Christ as the means of his Salvation as bread is the means of natural Life He that would not understand cannot understand the plainest Words But doth Christ say that any man eateth his flesh that drinketh not his blood Or that he shall have Life that doth the one without the other 2. And seeing they take every Rogue that eateth their Wafer to eat Christs Flesh do they not here falsly say that all such shall have Eternal Life O happy miserable Church that hath Eternal Life how wicked soever for eating the Wafer and calling it Christs Flesh And all this that Faith may not be thought to be meant by eating 3. But seeing it must needs be eating by the Teeth or by Flesh eating that is meant they have found out a crafty literal way Christ saith that he loveth and cherisheth his Church as his own Flesh and we are Members of his body of his flesh and of his bones And so they that Murdered a Million of the Albigenses c. and Massacred 40000 in France and 200000 in Ireland and Burnt them in England Germany the Low Countries and Tormented and Killed them in Bohemia and many other Lands did learn the literal way of eating Christs Flesh And who doubts but the Devil tells them that they shall thereby obtain everlasting Life But why then are they against drinking his blood when actually they draw it out by streams Perhaps by Burning his Bones as they did Buce●s Phagius Wickliffes and 1000 more they think that their Teeth scape the trouble of gnawing them and thus they feed on Christs body flesh and bones For their Masters beat Witches if they bring him not account at every Meeting of some mischief that they have done 3. And what but flat opposition to Christ should move these men to forbid one half of his Sacrament which he calls the New-Testament in his blood One would wonder what should be their Motive It is no matter of Pleasure Profit or Honour This very Deceiver had more wit than to pretend Antiquity for it or any one ancient Doctor of the Church They dare not deny save to Ignorants and Fools that it is a Novelty contrary to unquestioned Consent and Practice of all Christs Church for above a thousand years or near at least It is undenyably against Christs Institution and Command against his Apostles Doctrine and Scripture Practice against all the Judgment and Practice of the ancient Church against the Nature and Integrity of the Sacrament against the Concord of the Church that will never Unite against all these against the Sense and Comfort of Believers What then doth over-rule so many men to Tear the Church to Murder so many Bohemians as they did c. for such a thing as this is Reader I will tell thee all that I know The Devil is in constant War against Christ and his Kingdom and the Souls of men As he thought he could have triumphed in making Job curse God to his Face so he would fain shew that he can make Christs own pretended Ministers oppose and despise the plainest of his Commands and defie his Word and him to his Face To this he gets by the baits of Worldly Wealth Honour and Dominion a sort of Fleshly Worldly men to be Bishops whose very hearts are against the Laws of Christ And puffing up these men by degrees he tells them how they must be Great and arrogate Power equal to Christs Apostles and so domineer over the Souls of men and all this on pretence of honouring Christ And having gotten a Generation of gross ignorant debauched Villains into the Papal elevated Seat and the Ruling Church Power when some poor Woman once or twice shed some of the Wine or a Priest chanced to spill it their prophane Holiness decreed that they should drink the Wine no more save the Clergy but should eat Christs Blood which they said was in his Flesh and a while they dipt the Wafer in Wine and then pretended Infallibility being their vain Glory they must not change lest they should seem to be fallible and should Repent for Repenting undoes Satans Kingdom The One and Fortieth accused Point That there is not in the Church a true and proper Sacrifice and that the Mass is not a Sacrifice Ans True and proper if the words are intelligible are put against false and equivocal or figurative And what man can tell us which Sence of the word Sacrifice must be taken for the only proper Sence when with Heathens and Christians the word is used in so many Sences and there are so many sorts of Sacrifices This man would not tell you whether it be the Thing or the Name that he controverteth that would be to come into the Light If it be the thing we never doubted but divers things are and must be in the Church which are called Sacrifices some in Scripture and some by Papists And some things by them called Sacrifices are in their Church which God is against If it be the Name that is the question we know that in a General Sence it may be given to many things of different Species and equivocally yet to more but which Sence to call proper among so many let quibling Grammarians tell him We strive no further about Names than tendeth to preserve the due Judgment of things Sometime a Sacrifice signifieth a second thing offered to God by way of worship Sometime more strictly somewhat supposed

it is Gold and Silver But if you ask in a Civil Political and Law-Sence we say it is a 20 s. piece a Jacobus a Carolus piece or it is a Crown or a Shilling So we say that Sacramentally and Morally and Relatively that which is naturally true Bread and Wine is yet also the true Body and Blood of Christ And we say not that it is only a Figure and Remembrance but it is such a Figure as is Representatively his very Flesh and Blood And it is to Deliver to us and Invest us in a Spiritual Vnion with Christ himself and right to his saving Grace A proxy that as Representative of a Prince Marrieth a Foreign Lady is more than a Remembrance and so is his Image if it be used in the Marriage A Key or a Twig and Turf by which Investiture in House and Land is delivered and a Staff and Ring by which Bishopricks were of old delivered by Investiture are all more than a bare Remembrance 2. As to your implied Doctrine of Transubstantiation that after the words of Consecration there is left no real Bread and Wine it is Copiously and undenyably proved a Novel Doctrine so monstrous as if it had been formed to engage Mankind in a Renunciation of Christianity Humanity and common Senses and to be an obliging profession of this Renunciation It is enough for us to believe that after the true Consecration it is no more meer Bread and Wine as after the Coyning a 20 s. Piece a Crown or a Noble or an Angel it is not meer Gold but the said named Coyn. But if ever Satan shewed himself a Dragon under the Name of an Angel of Light it was when he made the Canons of the 4th Laterane General Council under Innocent the 3d. that set up Transubstantiation and the Murdering of all that deny it of deposing Princes that will not exterminate them This adjuncts and effects will shew the difference between this Counterfeit Sacrament and Christ Christs Sacrament was instituted to be a Sacrament and Covenant of dearest Love between God and Man and one another But as Satan when he Covenanteth with Witches to sell him their Souls must have it sealed by his sucking their Blood so the seal that he set to the Monster of Transubstantiation was that his Church and it must live by the blood of those that own it not But what will convince men that by Noise and Worldly Interest have Conquered all that is proper to a man yea or a living sensible Animal 1. They pretend Christs Words This is my Body when they know that it was his ordinary parabolical phrase and they will take this Physically and singularly as different from all the rest Tho' he say I am the Door I am the Vine and ye are the Branches and my Father is the Husband-man and the Field is the World and the Tares are the Children of the Wicked one and the Harvest is the end of the World and the Reapers are the Angels they that received the Seed by the High-way are they that c. And so he speaketh usually 2. They know that in 1 Cor. 11. Paul calls it Bread after the Consecration three times in the three next Verses And would they have Burnt Paul for a Heretick What can they devise against these plain words 3. They sentence all to Death and Hell that will believe their Eyes Taste Feeling or any Sense of themselves and all others that perceiveth true Bread and Wine after Consecration 4. Hereby they make God as Creator the Grand Deceiver of the World by deluding all Men's Senses 5. And hereby they overthrow all certainty of Faith Divine and Humane For Sense and Humanity are before Faith and Christianity and their perception presupposed And if Sense be presupposed fallible yea false Faith must needs be so For we are not sure that ever we saw a Book or Man or Light or heard man speak or what he saith And how can he believe Gods Word or the Popes or Priests that is not sure that ever he heard or saw them 6. They feign every sottish filthy Priest to work more Miracles at his pleasure by his transubstantiating than Christ or his Apostles did 7. They enable a drunken Priest to undoe Bakers and Vintners by saying the words of Consecration Intentione Consecrandi over all their Bread and Wine And then they have none left 8. They feign Christ to have eaten his own Body by his Body and either that the same Body did eat it self or that he had two Bodies that did eat neither 9. They feign that his whole Body did eat his broken Body and that his Disciples did eat it before it was broken and drank his shed Blood before it was shed 10. When two General Councils C.P. the 5th and Nice the 2d tell us that Christs body in Heaven now is not Flesh and Blood and Paul saith 1 Cor. 15 that Flesh and Blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God yet they maintain that Christ hath had these 1600 years a body of Flesh and Blood 11. They feign abundance of Accidents without subject Substances that are the Accidents Quantity Quality c. of nothing 12. They feign a sottish Priest to make his Maker day by day 13. When Christ saith He that eateth my Flesh and drinketh my Blood shall live for ever they feign the most wicked men to eat his Flesh and drink his Blood 14. They feign Mice to eat God 15. They feign every wicked man to eat his God and digest part of him into his own Flesh and Blood and cast out the other part into the Jakes 16. They teach men to commit Idolatry by worshiping Bread as God 17. All this is enforced by Fire and Sword against the Blood of Holy men 18. All this is Novel Heresie contrary to the Doctrine of the Universal Church for a Thousand years after Christ and more 19. It 's contrary to Paul's Quere 1 Cor. 12. Are all workers of Miracles understood Negatively 20. It 's feigned a sufficient ground to depose Princes and destroy whole Lands But these things and specially the forged Miracles of the Transubstantiation are more largely confuted in many Treatises What hope of ending any Controversies with Papists that agree not with us in the credit of Senses as Heathens do Can we bring any Controversie to a plainer issue than to all Men's common Senses about due Objects and due Mediums And is there any disputing where no principle is agreed on The Fortieth accused Point That we ought to receive under both kinds and that one alone is not sufficient Ans It concerneth them that deny this either to keep men from Reading Gods Word or to tell them it is false and the Pope's is true that contradicteth it What is a flat defyance of God or his Word if this be not Christ saith Math. 26.27 28. Drink ye all of it For this is my Blood of the New-Testament which is shed for many for the remission of