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A89813
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The plain mans defence against popery: or, A discourse, shewing the flat opposition of popery to the Scripture. By J.N. chaplain to a person of honour
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J. N.
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1675
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Wing N22; ESTC R9788
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sins the Remission of pain and guilt for the living and the dead This Doctrine is most filthy and injurious to that All sufficient Sacrifice of Christ offered once for ever upon the Cross here again the Popish-Doctrine razeth the foundation of Religion to the very bottom Note A real and outward Sacrifice is against the nature of a Sacrament especially the Supper of the Lord for one end thereof is to keep in memory the Sacrifice of Christ Again in a Sacrament God gives Christ to us whereas in a real Sacrifice God receives from man he gives something to God in the Popish Sacrifice of the Masse the Priest pretends to give Christ to God Note The Masse may well be so called for it 's a Mass and heap of blasphemies and abominations it is like a Beggars Cloak patch't up with many pieces one Pope puts in one patch another another it was not fully patch't up as now it is till twelve hundred years after Christ Note The Masse being Idolatrous it is not lawful to be present at it as appears by 1 Cor. 10.14 Flee from Idolatry these Scriptures forbid going to Masse 2 Cor. 6.16 17.1 Cor. 10.21 Psal 26. 4.1 Joh. 5.21.1 King 19.18.1 Cor. 6. 20. Rev. 21.8 Rev. 13.7 It is not lawful for a man outwardly to accommodate himself to Popish Idolatry though he doth keep his heart to God and in his mind address all Religious worship to God alone Matt. 10.33 Rom. 10.10 The example of Naaman 2 King 5.18 will not excuse our Masse Gospellers for 1. Naaman made open profession by word and deed of Adoring the true God only 2 King 5.17 2. His bowing was only a civil honour to the King his Master who leaned upon him as t is the custom of Princes in state to do when the King bowed Naaman must stoop also to hold up and support the King 50. Q. Is Christ Corporally in the Lords Supper Is there a change of the substance of the Bread Wine into the substance of Christs body and blood or shall Christs body abide in Heaven till the end of the World A. He shall send Jesus Christ whom the Heavens must receive until the times of restitution of all things Act. 3.21 The poor ye have alwayes me ye have not alwayes Mark 14.7 Christ sits at the right hand of God Col. 3.1 This do in remembrance of me 1 Cor. 11.26 They follow the Lamb whethersoever he goes Rev. 14.4 A Spirit hath not flesh and bones as ye see me have Luk. 24.39 Jesus took bread and break it 1 Cor. 11.24 As oft as ye eat this bread and drink this Cup ye do shew the Lords death till he come 1 Cor. 11.26 Note The Popish Doctrine of Transubstantiation viz. The change of the Bread and Wine into the natural body and blood of Christ is repugnant to plain Testimonies of Scripture overthroweth the nature of a Sacrament hath given occasion to most grosse Idolatry and manifold Superstitions doth contain infinite absurdities and contradictions as 1. Then Christ must hold himself in his own hands yea devour and eat up himself and yet sit whole and entire at the Table with his Disciples 2. His body must be in a Thousand places at the same time 3. His whole body must be in every Communicants mouth at once 4. His whole body must be less in quantity than the least limb of his body 5. His body must at the same time be broken and yet not broken 6. His body must at the same time both ascend and descend 7. His body must be subject to corruption and putrefaction c. Note Matth. 26.26 This is my body is to be understood this doth signifie and represent my body Christ is called a Rock 1 Cor. 10.4 A door Joh. 10.9 A Vine John 15.1 Believers are called one bread 1 Cor. 10.4 Can any one be so senseless as to think that Christ was Transubstantiated or turned into a Rock a Door a Vine or the whole Church into Bread Note The Papists have infinite disputes and cannot agree among themselves whether Christs body be made in the Bread or brought into it whether his body under the form of bread be living have all the parts of a man have weight Why it is not perceived whether the Priest make his Maker by blessing the Elements or by saying This is my body c. The ancient Fathers say nothing of Transubstantiation the first determination of it was 1200 years after Christ for the proof of it they alledge this miracle that on a time St. Francis found a Spider in the Communion Cup which he would not cast out but drank up with the Wine afterwards rubbing his thigh where it itched the Spider came whole out of his thigh without harm to either Note John 6. Is not to be understood of any corporal eating of Christ in the Sacrament as Papists falsly pretend but of spiritual eating and drinking by faith whether in the Sacrament or without as is plain John 6.35 John 6.47 51. Q. Are not the Papists guilty of horrible Idolatry in giving Divine worship to the Sacrament In giving the same Religious worship to the bread which the Priest holds in his hands which is due to the true God In adoring a Breaden God A. Thou shalt have no other Gods before me Exod. 20.3 Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God and him only Matth. 4.10 My glory will I not give to another Esa 42.8 Note The Papist adore and give Divine worship to the very Sacrament and require it of all who have Communion with them there they err again in the very foundation for that we should give Religious worship to God alone is the first and principle command of Gods Law and it is the great and chief foundation of the Gospel as our Saviour teaches John 17.3 It was the main crime of the Jews and also of the Heathens to render to the Creature the glory and adoration due to God The N. Testament threatens eternal Damnation to Idolaters 1 Cor. 6.10 Rev. 21.8 Note It will not at all excuse the Papists to say that they worship not the bread but Christ for they suppose the bread to be Christ this argument cannot excuse the Papists from Idolatry for if it doth it will excuse the greatest Heathen Idolater for those Heathens that worshipped the Sun did suppose the Sun to be God they that worshipped Jupiter did suppose him to be God If this will excuse from Idolatry ye shall not find any thing that can be justly called Idolatry Gal. 4.8 52. Q. Should people receive but half the Sacrament the bread but not the cup of the Lord A. He took the Cup and gave it to them saying drink ye all of it Matth. 26.27 He took the Cup and gave it to them and they all drank of it Mark 14.23 Let a man examine himself and so let him eat of that bread and drink of that Cup 1 Cor. 11.28 see 1 Cor. 10.16 Note The Papists are guilty