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A20154	The heauenly banquet: or The doctrine of the Lords Supper set forth in seuen sermons. With two prayers before and after the receiuing. And a iustification of kneeling in the act of receiuing. By Iohn Denison, Doctor of Diuinity.	Denison, John, d. 1629.	1631 (1631)	STC 6589; ESTC S109561	131,917	382

was the custome of compassiona●e Ma●rons to prouide comfortable drink●s for them who went to execution to ch●are vp their hearts against the t●●r●r a●d trouble of death In which respe●t wine is excel●ent to setforth the sweet ioy of heart and peace of con●cience that we haue by our bless●d Sauiour For beeing iustified by Faith wee haue peace with God Rom. 5.1 through our Lord Iesus Christ Yea we haue peace within our selues Ro. 14.17 for the Kingdome of God is not meat nor drinke but righteousnesse and peace and ioy in the holy Ghost A fourth property of wine is in the vse of medicine to mundifie and cleanse a wound and Plutarch calls it a most sweete and powerfull medicine Medicamentum validissimum suauissimum Plut. sympos lib. 3. q. 1. We reade in the tenth of Luke that the Samaritane powred wine and oyle into the wounds of him that lay by the way side the one vt morderet the other vt foueret the one like the corrasiue to eat out the dead flesh and to cleanse the wound the other to supple and heale it Ambro. de Poe●it lib. 1. cap. 10. as Ambrose saith And in this respect wine doth notably represent the bloud of Christ which cleanseth and cureth the wounds of our soules and indeed he is that good Samaritan that powres in the mundifying wine and mollifying oyle of his merits to heale the broken-hearted Luk. 4.18 Thus we see what the outward Elements are and the wisedome of God in the fit choise of them Forasmuch then as the Sacrament must haue in it necessarily the Elements of bread and wine and seeing their significancy is to excellent the Church of Rome is hereby iustly taxed which by the doctrine of Transubstantiation doth annihilate the signes Eucharistia duabus rebus constat terrena coelesti Jren. lib. 4. cap. 14. and consequently doth ouerthrow the Sacrament For the Sacrament must consist of two things the one earthly the other heauenly They may seeme to haue taken a po●●icke course for the aduancement of the Eucharist by this supposed change of the substance but if the 〈◊〉 ●he duly considered they haue 〈◊〉 most improuidently for they ●●●e thereby ouerthrowne it The ●●hemists doe vehemently challenge vs that we haue taken away the blessed Sacrament altogether Rhem. Annot in Ioh. 6. 1. Cor. 11 but that iniurious imputation falls vpon themselues for they indeede haue altogether saken it away by taking away the signes for where there are no signes there is no Sacrament If it be answered the accidents remaine as namely the colour the tast● the ●●shion it will not s●●●ice For 〈◊〉 ●he Sacrament is set forth our ●piritua●l nourishment by a a●●g● of ●he corporall Now ●he body is ●ot nourished by accidents but by corporall sub●tances Curaeus de sensib lib. 2. cap. 8. as both Phy●●cian● and Philosophers doe truely ●●ach And therefore to set forth truely our n●urishment by Christ it is requ●site that the signes be corporall and substantiall Againe as they d●e by consequence ou●rthrow the Sacrament so doe they directly abrogate a part thereof by denying the cup to the people And seeing the wine is so comfortably significant in setting forth the quenching of our spirituall thirst the cleansing curing chearing and refreshing of our sinfull soules by the bloud of Christ how can it without great iniury bee denyed to the people Yea it is odious sacriledge to depriue the Church of a principall part of the Sacrament and that which a man would hardly indure in his ordinary repast The bloud of Christ is the speciall price of our redemption 1. Pet. 1.18 For we were redeemed with the precious bloud of Christ as of a Lambe without spot Heb. 12.24 So that whereas our sins doe cry for vengeance 1. Ioh. 1.7 the bloud of Christ speaketh to God for remission● yea it cleanseth vs from all our sinnes For asmuch therefore as the wine in the Sacrament is a liuely signe and seale of these benefites it is grosse iniury and impiety in the Church of Rome to deny it to the people to whom the benefits doe belong And what else is this but to endeuour the damming vp of the Fountaine which Christ Iesus hath set open to the house of Dauid Zac. 13.1 and the Inhabitants of Ierusalem for sinne and for vncleannesse But heerein they deale with Christ and his Church Bellarm. de verb. Dei lib. 4. cap. 1. regulam fidei non totalem sed partialem as they doe in other matters for they account the Scriptures not a perfect but a partiall rule of Faith and patch it vp with their traditions Yea they make Christ but halfe a Sauiour whilst they make others ioynt-purchasers with him ascribe to him the satisfaction for the fault but leaue to others to satisfie for the punishment No maruell therefore that these men doe square the Sacrament after the same proportion and bring in halfe a Sacrament for halfe a Sauiour If the people should deale with the Priests in their offerings after this maner it would either coole their deuotion or worke a reformation Our blessed Sauiour doubtlesse as he had respect to the demonstration of his passion and the shedding of his bloud by the whips speare nailes and crowne of thornes so had he a purpose by these outward elements Iausen Comor c. 131. Ludolp de vita Christi par 2. c. 56. to set foorth our full redemption perfect nourishment we haue by him which cannot be shewed but by eating and drinking And this diuers learned Papists yea the Romane Breuiary set forth by Pius Quintus doe obserue Christ himselfe saith of the Cup as it is here in the Text This Cup is the new Testament in my bloud Gelas de Cōsecrat distin 2. Who then without iniury can alter or abrogate any part of this Testament Yea the deuiding of one the same mysterie is not done without a greeuous sacriledge saith a Bishop of Rome This practice of the Church of Rome doth oppose it selfe to the institution of our Sauiour Christ Mat. 26.27 Mar. 14.23 Luk. 22.20 and crosseth the generall practice of Antiquity Three of the Euangelists haue carefully recorded the vse of the cup and St. Paul here hath duly related the same that in the mouth of many witnesses this doctrine might be established and the Churches right might remaine vpon record against this Romish sacriledge Yea lest the historicall narration might seeme insufficient to inforce it wee haue Christs precept to his disciples who did represent the laytie to vrge it For as in the sixe and twentieth of St. Mathew Christs commands Mat. 26.27 Drinke yee all of this so in the foureteenth of St. Mar. 14.23 Mark it is said They all dranke of it And Caietans reason vpon that place is good Caietan in Mat. 26. Drinke ye all of this because it is shed for all For it