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A58699	The religion established by law, asserted to conduce most to the true interest of prince and subject as it was delivered in a charge, at the general quarter sessions of the peace, held at the borough of Newark, for the county of Nottingham, by adjournment for taking the oaths of Supremacy, &c., according to the late act of Parliament July 21th 1673 / by Peniston Whalley Esq.	Whalley, Penistone.	1674 (1674)	Wing S1535; ESTC R183102	23,556	38

Cloud where he amongst others had contrived the bloody Massacre at Paris the greatest piece of villany and treachery that the world ever knew justified except that of the Mamertines upon their hosts at Messana was slain by a Monk for not being papist enough Sir W. R. l. 1.270 though he had formerly so signalized it by an Act so Heroique that his Holiness thought fit to celebrate by calling his Cardinals together to give God thanks for so great a blessing conferred upon the Roman See and the Christian World To omit many more notorious practices it 's very principles are inconsistent with Monarchy for it sets up at the best two Supreams like Hobs his two omnipotents DeCive which will like them too be in a continual state of disobedience to each other which is utterly inconsistent with the ends of Government Now we have a great deal of reason to submit which they call reconciling our selves to the See of Rome when we consider how the Council of Constance broke the publique faith in burning of John Hus and Hierom of Prague C. T. and as the Diet at Wormes would have done in the case of Luther had not the Prince Palatine Lewis used his power as well as reasons against it and no wonder when it is considered what Paul the fourth Decemb. 20.1555 in the Consistory after wards declared a mongst other things that it is an article of Faith That the Pope cannot be bound and much less can bind himself C.T. 396. and that to say otherwise is manifest heresie and if any after that should say so the Inquisition should proceed I shall not say much of Infallibility their second Staff or Pillar because the pretences to it one would think cannot be very strong when you consider that there have been about 30 Schisms in that Church that is more then one Pope at a time and Council against Council too in the Case as that of Basil under Felix the fifth against Florence under Eugenius the fourth besides others and all equally pretending and I think with equal right too to Infallibility which is not much strengthned by the Act of Parliament that declared 2 R. 2. c. 5. that Vrban was duly chosen Pope and so ought to be accepted and obeyed Image worship I shall wave as being by an able Champion of our Church sufficiently proved to be Idolatry notwithstanding the nice distinctions of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Stilling of Idol and shall speak first of Transubstantiation as being the greatest if not the only part of their Religion that they are content to have the Scriptures extant for but with what reason we shall briefly examine 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 this is my body it is here observable that the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is not the Relative to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ham. annot Mat. 28. bread but of the neuter gender and consequently it is not here said that this bread is my body the body of Christ but either indefinitely this or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 take eat this is my body this taking or eating is or denotes my body which is more fully exprest Luke 22.19 This is my body which is given for you do this in remembrance or commemoration of me There are many other arguments made use of thereby this Learned Doctor to whom I refer those that desire further satisfaction in this point whereby he does invalidate the literal and carnal meaning of these words so far as you may as soon prove Extream Vnction by them as Transubstantiation Now having done with the Scriptural part of it Acts Mon. 218. it may not be amiss to tell you that it is but a Novel being but established under Pope Nicholas the second against Berengarius in the Council of Lateran Yet Hildebrand his Successor had no great faith in it though so established when he desired the Church to pray that God would shew by miracle whether Berengarius was rightly condemned or no an argument of his doubting but after he gave a special one that he no longer doubted though I cannot say it was any great argument of Faith when in a fit of madness he burnt the Host because it did not give an answer concerning the success of Henry the Emperor But since that doctrine with a great many other worthy ones hath been confirmed by the Council of Trent Con. Tr. Ses 13. which decreed that Divine honor should be given to the Bread But no wonder if you consider the Bishop of Quinque Ecclesiae's Letter an eminent member of the Council to the Emperour Maximilian the second What good saies he could be done in that Council where Votes were not weighed but numbred and a little after They were hireling Bishops who as Country Bagpipes C.T. 84. could not speak but as breath was put into them the holy Ghost had nothing to do in this Assembly For it consisted of Tituladoe's Beardless boys old flatterers unlearned and simple Ibid. yet fitted by their impudent boldness generals of orders names nor things ever heard of in the primitive time but they are the Popes Mamalukes with whom he doth enslave a great part of the world and desigus the same to the rest Now if the point of Transubstantiation for which divine honor is given to the bread come to be examined by reason which is not wholly to be declined in matters of Faith it will notwithstanding the Fathers of Trent be found little less then a meer Invention God Almighty requires a reasonable service of us 't is then impious to think that we must wave that faculty by which we are distinguished from Brutes in becoming his servants as all men must that believe that Doctrine And though they pretend that the doctrine of the Trinity is as irreconcilable to reason as the other and yet not to be disputed they may as well argue thus the Doctrine of the Trinity is not to be comprehended by reason Ergo the Pope is Infallible St. Peter on the day of Pentecost used other kind of Arguments when 3000 were converted for if he had said Acts 2. from v. 6. instead of God hath made the same Jesus whom ye have crucified both Lord and Christ that the wafer or piece of bread then shewed them was the same Jesus that not many days before was crucified at Jerusalem what would a rational man think would have been the sequel they would have counted him at the best as they did the Eleven full of new wine V. 13. nay rather some of the Zealots would have stoned him as they afterwards did St. Stephen and St. Paul upon a less occasion Therefore no wonder if the Jesuites so often miscarry amongst the Japaneses a very wise and rational people when the strongest arguments to induce them to Christianity consist in carrying a bit of bread in procession and worshipping it I 'le give you one Philosophical argument for

all out of Father Gage a late converted Dominican hoping it may be as lawful for me to have a Batt at the Pope with the Butt end of a Dominican as it was for Merry Andrew to have one at the Church of England with the Butt end of an Arch-Bishop Rehearsal transprosed and that 's thus When Mr. Gage was at Portabello in his return for England from the West Indies as he was celebrating Mass and being devout in his memento prayer Survey of the West Indies 197. a mouse came and stole away the Wafer which being recovered from her by the help of some Priests though half eaten up was a great motive for him to rub up his Philosophy concerning substance and accident and so resolved as any reasonable man would that what was eaten up by the mouse was no accident but a real substance which no Papist will be willing to say was the substance of Christs body because of the absurd consequence Ergo it must follow it was the sustance of bread and so no Transubstantiation Besides it contradicts the Philosophical Axiome Duo contradictoria non possunt simul semel de eodem verificari two contradictions cannot be verified both together and at the same time for here in Romes Judgment the body of Christ was gnawn and eaten and in another place it was not gnawn and eaten To this purpose Father Gage and rightly too For nothing is more absurd then this Doctrine for it implies contradictions which are reconcilable neither to right reason nor to omnipotency it self for that can do any thing but lye that is act contradictions They 'le tell you of many miracles about it but the greatest I believe i' th case is that men otherwise of great wisdom and learning should so much deny their sense and reason as to believe such a notoriety of contradictions and fopperies And to compleat the absurd consequences of it Dean Tillot son our senses are deceived too in their object and that at a due distance and if they be to be imposed upon in these circumstances all and at the same time their 's an end of all argumentation To conclude that opinion is hazardous even according to their own principles for 't is decreed under an Anathema That the Ministers intention is necessary to the essence of Sacraments C.T. Sess 7. Can. 11.12 and that the Minister who is in mortal sin giveth not the true Sacrament and that certainly made the condition of Henry the seventh Emperour very lamentable being poyson'd by a predicant Fryer in the Sacrament and damned too for committing Idolatry in worshiping the elements for though the Priest might have a right Intention in the consecration yet no man can excuse him from mortall sin in the Execution of so nefandous an act but it may be objected that the Pope who was then at enmity with the Emperour directed it and then the intention was right and no mortal sin in the Priest neither and so the good Emperour that was poison'd in the simplicity of his heart might get to Heaven especially if the Pope would have put to his helping hand as he did to Father Garnet the gunpowder man who died in a worse cause thought not so much out of the Popes favour Fullers Ch. Hist l. 10. p. 41. and so the heavenly Crown would make him ample amends for the loss of his Earthly And here I cannot but admire the great Prudence and Piety of the late Act of Parliament which I know has been much misconstrued by the malice of some and weakness of others who seem to intimate that the Parliament has declared the Sacrament to be meer bread and wine according to the opinion of the Sacramentaries which is most contrary both to the words of the Act and the Doctrine of our Church for the words are these I do believe that there is not any Transubstantiation in the Sacrament of the Lords Supper or in the Elements of Bread and Wine at or after the Consecration thereof by any person whatsoever which clears the point to the meanest capacity that nothing is affirmed nor nothing denied but Transubstantiation Not Con-substantiation it self the known opinion of the Lutheran Churches although as little believed amongst us as the other so that it is evident that this Act pen'd with all the modesty that became dutiful Sons of our Church and the wisdom befitting most worthy Patriots was not intended to define Doctrines but to distinguish persons The next point to be examined is Praying to Saints crept into the Church before but confirmed by Gregory the Great An. Dom. 590. which is not only against the command of God but more then probably lost labour for the Scripture tells us that Abraham knows us not and Israel is ignorant of us and 't is rational to believe that they are in as great a state of Bliss as Tho. Becket Dominick St. Francis or Ignatius Loyola who was a Gentleman of such behaviour that a Country Justice and no Adam Overdoe neither would have whipt for his good breeding as any body will believe that peruses the life of that glorious Saint Stilling Fan. 273. and indeed so it was done by a Spanish Governor to meliorate his understanding in the Ethiques of putting off his hat to a Magistrate yet all are solved by miracles which are such that all the Romances from Grand Cyrus to Tom Thumb put together compared to them may pass for Classical history To omit the 200 miracles wrought by Ignatius after his death I 'le give you a short story out of Father Cressy Ch. Hist 195. St. Piran fed ten Irish Kings and their Armies with three Cows raised dead men and dead pigs to life Now I wonder what should come into his politique pate to stuff a book with such Tales as these in order to the propagating any opinion soever now Miracles being commonly wrought at the Intercession or by the merit of some Saint or other adjust the praying to them but they being such as are greater then any that the Apostles or our Saviour himself did and to no purpose commonly as St. Bennets mending a Sieve by miracle to save two pence Ex leg in vita Ben. and throwing the Helve after the Hatchet into the water miraculously bringing them together again which either made good or gave occasion for the Proverb may justly bring them under the suspition of Romances not to say worse many tricks have been done by combination which have amazed the credulous people not having the priviledge or opportunity or perhaps skill for an Inquisition or search and therefore pass among some devout ones that have more Faith then reason for miracles of the first Magnitude To omit the antient ones I will give you one of a late date Frier Egan Fran. conv p. 15. About seven years ago a Priest nigh Limbrick named William Sackvel had for 50. s. hired a woman to pretend her self a Criple from her