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A34049 A companion to the altar, or, An help to the worthy receiving of the Lords Supper by discourses and meditations upon the whole communion office to which is added an essay upon the offices of baptism and confirmation / by Tho. Comber ... Comber, Thomas, 1645-1699. 1675 (1675) Wing C5450; ESTC R6280 319,234 511

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semper Deus Creat Durant de rit Eccl. l. 2. c. 44. that the antient Roman Church did not believe the substances to be annihilated no not after the Consecration Fifthly It was long before Rome it self did determine this Doctrine of Christs very flesh and blood being in the Sacrament g Ante Lateranense concilium Transubstantiatio non fuit dogma fidei Scot. 4. sent d. 11. q. 3. In Synaxi serò Transubstantiationem definivit Ecclesia diu satis erat credere sive sub pane Consecrato sive quocunque modo adesse verum corpus Christi Eras not ad 1 Corinth viz. not much above 400. years ago nor was it only opposed by Berengarius but the Master of the Sentences h Pet. Lomb. sent l. 4. c. 12. affirmed it was only a memorial and representation of the true Sacrifice and the famous Rabanus Maurus An. 850. plainly holds i Sacramentum in alimentum corporis redigitur virtute autem sacramenti aeterna vita adipiscitur Rab. Maur. de inst Cler l. 1. c. 3. The outward part still to remain and as Bread to be turned into the substance of the Body yea Scotus writ a peculiar Treatise against this then growing Doctrine which was condemned unjustly by Leo the IX not to mention now the Book of Bertram on this subject Sixthly To this we may finally annex many cogent reasons why this Transubstantiation is not to be believed viz. Because it is needless for us to expect to eat the natural flesh of Christ here where we come to seek a spiritual Union with him by Faith and an interest in his Death to which the eating his flesh would nothing conduce Again it is contrary to the nature of a Sacrament where the visible part must remain as the Water in Baptism doth to be a foundation for the inward and spiritual grace And further since the Heavens must contain Christs Body to the end of the World it is impossible it should be but one and yet many in several places at once always whole yet often broken received intire by every person and yet then at the right hand of God existing before yet Created by the Priest We must deny our Reason as well as our Senses if we can believe so great and absurd Contradictions Nor is it imaginable if this were the intent of our Lords words how he who was then alive and sitting at the Table could break and give himself or be eaten and yet remain intire and finally since we see and feel and tast it to be only Bread and Wine as to the substance still unless we will deny this great foundation of all our notions yea and of our Faith also we must not give credit to so strange and monstrous a conceit Yet still we do believe that every duly disposed Communicant doth receive really the Body and Blood of Christ in and by these Elements but it is by Faith and not by sense If we receive them in the manner and to the end which Christ appointed they give us a lively remembrance of his love and all-sufficient merit and thereby invite our Faith to embrace this Crucifyed Redeemer as the satisfaction for our sins whereupon he who is most ready to close with penitent Sinners doth by this rite of his own appointing give himself and the salutary benefits of his Death unto such and although the manner be mysterious yet the advantages are real and the effect more certain than if we eat or drunk his natural flesh and blood But we have diverted too far and therefore will reserve the Meditation upon this part until we come to the Administration Sect. III. § 3. § 10. Do this in Remembrance of me Having told us what it is which is presented to us our Lord goes on to prescribe the manner how we must make use of it viz. as a memorial of him The Ministers are to Do this which he hath done even to bless the Bread and break it and distribute it in remembrance of his Institution the people also are to Do this that is to take eat c. in Remembrance of his Passion And this being the great end of the Institution the Antients were wont always here to Commemorate all the principal Acts which Jesus hath done for us especially his Death k 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in omnibus Graec. Liturg. Memores passionis Lit. Clem. Memorantes ergo nos salutarium ejus passionum Lit. Basil Memores glori●sissimae ejus passionis ab inferis resurrectionis in coelum ascensionis Ambr. de sacr l. 4. c. 5. upon the Cross Our Master desires us not to celebrate his sufferings with a present expression of sorrow but by a perpetual remembring of them even as the brave Germannicus lying upon his Death-Bed desired his friends not to prosecute his Funerals with useless tears but if they would shew their love to him to do it by remembring his Will and executing his Commands Tacit. Let us then do this last Command of our dying Lord and remember him in these or the like thoughts It is but too apparent Blessed Lord how apt we are to forget thy dear love to us and thy bitter sufferings for us our continual transgressions publish it and our present stupidity and indevotion do declare it Praised therefore be thy goodness for these lively Emblems of thy most meritorious Cross and Passion oh that we may behold them with the same affections with which we should have been moved had we been spectators of thy horrid Tragedy so shall they imprint the Characters of thy love so deep upon our hearts that neither time nor temptation can obliterate them Behold we do here most affectionately call to mind the humility of thine Incarnation the merit of thy Death the power of thy Resurrection and the glories of thine Ascension And thus by thine own appointment Dearest Jesus we do shew our Thankfulness for thy Passion our Faith in thy Resurrection and our hope of thy second coming l In commemorationem mei i. e. hoc modo Mortem meam praedicabitis resurrectionem annuntiabitis adventum sperabitis donec iterum adveniam Ambros ut supr We will commemorate thy all-sufficient sacrifice before the Almighty to pacify his anger against us before the World to testifie our hope in a Crucified Saviour and before our selves to renew our sense of thy inexpressible love We will Do this so often and so sincerely with so much zeal and holy Passion that if it be possible neither we nor any others shall ever become unmindful of Thee and when we cannot have the Symbols before our Eyes the Impressions of them shall remain in our minds and our lives shall witness that we are not forgetful of thee § 11. Likewise also after Supper he took the Cup and when he had given thanks The life of Man requires not only meat but drink also to sustain it and therefore Christ hath set forth himself under both these to