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A07799	A catholike appeale for Protestants, out of the confessions of the Romane doctors particularly answering the mis-named Catholike apologie for the Romane faith, out of the Protestants: manifesting the antiquitie of our religion, and satisfying all scrupulous obiections which haue bene vrged against it. Written by Th. Morton Doctor of Diuinitie.	Morton, Thomas, 1564-1659.	1609 (1609)	STC 18176; ESTC S115095	584,219	660

be no Answer to say as Pope Leo in effect did viz. that as Priests you are not as were the Leviticall by naturall propagation but by a spirituall ordination because a spirituall Propagation is no proper but a metaphoricall Generation Fifthly not without Succession seeing that Succession as from Saint Peter is the chiefe tenure of your Priest-hood Nor will that of Epiphanius helpe you in this Case to say that You had no Succession by the seed of Aaron because although this may exempt you from the Leviticall Priest-hood yet will not it associate you with the Priest-hood of Melchizedech or of Christ whose Characters of Priest-hood was to be Priests soly individually and absolutely in themselves As little can your ordinary Answer availe telling us that you are not Successors but Vicars of Christ and Successors of Peter because whilest you claime that the Visible Priest-hood and Sacrifice of Christ is still in the Church which is perpetuated by Succession you must bid farewell to the Priest-hood of Melchizedech But if indeed you disclaime all Succession of Christ why is your Iesuit licensed to say that your Roman Popes doe succeed Christ in their Pastorship over the Church although not in their Priest-hood by offering Sacrifices expiating sinnes by their owne virtue Are not the titles of Pastor and Priest equally transcendent in Christ Sixthly not in respect of the no-necessity of a Succession which was Immortality because the Popes shewed themselves to be sufficiently mortall insomuch that one Pope maligning another after death hath dragged the Carcasse of his Predecessor out of his Grave to omit their other like barbarous outrages Seventhly not Personall Sanctity Holy impolluted and separated from sinnes For whosoever being meerely man shall arrogate to himselfe to be without sinne the holy Ghost will give him the Lie As for your Popes we wish you to make choice of whatsoever Historians you please and we doubt not but you shall finde upon record that many of them are noted to have beene as impious and mischievous in their lives and in their deaths as infamous and cursed as they were contrarily Bonifaces Innocents or Benedicts in their names Can there be then any Analogie betweene your high Roman Priest and Christ the Prototype to Melchizedech in so manifold Repugnances Yet notwithstanding every one of you must be forsooth a Priest after the order of Melchizedeck Nay but not to multiply many words the Novelty of your Pretence doth bewray it selfe from Peter Lombard Master of the Romish Schoole who Anno 1145. taught how truly looke you to that that every Priest at his Ordination in taking the Chalice with wine and platter with the Hoast should understand that his power of sacrificing was from The order of Aaron Nor may you thinke that this was his private opinion for He saith your Cardinall of him collected the sentences of Divines and deserved to be called the Master of Schoolmen Thus farre of the Person of Christ as Priest in the next place we are to enquire into his Priestly function Of the Function of Christ his Priest-hood now after his Ascension into Heaven and your Cardinall his Doctrine sacrilegiously detracting from it SECT VII BY the doctrine of your Cardinall in the name of your Church The old Priest-hood of Aaron was translated into the Priest-hood of Christ Every Priest saith the Apostle must have some thing to offer else he were no Priest Thus his Priest-hood is called Eternall and must have a perpetuall offering which was not that upon the Crosse Nor can that suffice which the Protestants say That his Preist-hood is perpetuall because of the perpetuall virtue of his sacrifice upon the Crosse or because of his perpetuall Act of Intercession as Priest in Heaven or of presenting his passion to his Father in Heaven whither his Priest-hood was translated No but it is certaine that Christ cannot now properly sacrifice by himselfe He doth it by his Ministers in the Eucharist Because the sacrifice of the Crosse in respect of Christians is now invisible and seene onely by Faith which although it be a more true sacrifice yet it is not as our Adversaries say the onely sacrifice of Christian Religion nor sufficient for the Conservation thereof And againe His sacrificing of himselfe in the Sacrament by his Ministers is that by which only ●e is said to have a perpetuall Priest-hood Accordingly your Cardinall Alan Christ saith he performeth no Priestly function in Heaven but with relation to our Ministery here on earth whereby he offereth So they for the dignifying of their Romish Masse as did also your Rhemists but with what Ecclipse of Iudgement and good Conscience is now to be declared If we take the Sacrifice of Christ for the proper Act of Sacrificing which is destructive so was Christ his Sacrifice but One and Once Heb. 7. and 8. But understanding it as the subject matter of the same Sacrifice once so offered to God upon the Crosse and after his Ascension entred into Heaven and so is it a perpetuall Sacrifice presentative before God For as the high-Priest of the Law after the Sacrifice was killed entred into the holy place once a yeare but not without Blood Heb. 9. 7. so Christ having purchased an eternall redemption by his Death upon the Crosse went into the holy place of Heaven with the same his owne blood V. 12. To what end Alwaies living to make supplication for us Ch. 7. V. 3. and 25. Hence followeth the continuall use which the soules of the faithfull have of his immediate function in Heaven Having a perpetuall Priest-hood he is able continually to save them that come to God by him V. 24 25. Whence issueth our boldnesse and all-confidence alwaies to addresse our prayers to him or by him unto God We having an high Priest over the house of God let us draw neare with a true heart infull assurance of faith having our hearts sprinckled from an evill Conscience Ch. 10. 22. The evidence of these Scriptures hath drawne from your Iesuit Ribera even then when he professeth himselfe an earnest defender of your Romane Masse these Acknowledgements following viz. upon the Ch. 7. 23. That Christ is a true Priest and all other doe partake of his Priest-hood in offering sacrifice onely in remembrance of his Sacrifice And that he did not performe the office of Priest-hood onely upon earth but even now also in heaven which function he now dischargeth by the virtue of his Sacrifice upon the Crosse He proceedeth No man saith he will deny this Position namely that Christ now ever exercizeth the office of a Priest by presenting himselfe for us So he This is still Christ's function of Priest-hood whereunto this Apostle exhorteth all Christians at all times of need to make their addresse which Saint Iohn propoundeth as the only Anchor-hold of Faith in his Propitiation 1. Iohn 2. If any sinne we have an Advocate with

a literall Sence against the evident Expressions of the same Fathers to the contrary I. Origen say you will have the Communicant to thinke himselfe Vnworthy that the Lord should enter under the roofe of his mouth Right hee saith so but in the same sence wherein he equivalently said that Hee who entertaineth a Bishop and Spirituall Pastor must know that now Christ entreth under his roofe namely Christ figuratively II. Chrysostome who speaketh in the highest straine saith that We see touch eate and teare with our teeth the flesh of Christ True but to note that hee spake it in a Rhetoricall and figurative Sence he equiualently saith also in the same place Our tongues are made red with his blood And else-where to put all out of question These saith he are spirituall and containe no Carnall thing Yet what need you our Comment Your Iesuite Maldonate would gladly prevent us The words of Chrysostome saith he of tearing the flesh of Christ cannot be otherwise understood than Sacramentally Even he which concluded but now that to say we Eate Christs flesh properly is a false proposition III. Gaudentius say you saith Wee receive the bodie which Christ reacheth We grant he said so but he interpreteth himselfe saying Christ would have our soules sanctified by the Image of his Passion IV. But Augustine teacheth that Wee receive the body of Christ both with heart and mouth Which your Obiector noteth as being very notable for the Orall Receiving Corporally albeit the same Saint Augustine immediatly expresseth that this and all other such Speeches are to be vnderstood figuratively and unproperly V. But Pope Leo is brought in saying Gustamus We taste with our flesh the flesh of Christ Nay but you have corrupted his Saying for his word is Gestamus Wee beare or carrie it namely by being baptized as there is expressed whereof the Apostle said You have put on Christ VI. But Pope Gregorie say you saith The blood of Christ is sprinkled upon both postes when we receive it both with heart and mouth Which wee say he spake with the same Improprietie of speech wherein hee addeth equivalently that The blood of Christ is sprinkled upon the upper postes when wee carry in our fore-heads by Baptisme the signe of the Crosse VII But Non● receiveth saith Hesychius save hee that perceiveth the truth of his blood But how even as hee himselfe there addeth By receiving the memorie of his Passion VIII But Optatus tels us that The members of Christ are upon the Altar and that The Altar is the seate of his Body and Blood and that it is an hainous thing to breake the Chalices of the Blood of Christ c. Wee grant these to be the Phrases of Optatus indeed which you have obiected but alas my Masters will you never learne the Dialect of the Ancient Fathers after so many Examples as it were lights to illuminate your iudgements Wherein as other Fathers have done Optatus will instruct you for his owne language who in this Booke inveighing against the madnesse of the Donatists for their iniuring of the Ministers of Christ Now saith he doe you imitate the Iewes they laid hands vpon Christ and Christ is now beaten by you on the Altar So hee by the same Hyperbole making as well the Priest that ministreth at the Altar Christ as he did the Signes and Symboles of the parts of Christ which are his Body and Blood the members of Christ even as Christ himselfe said to Saul the Persecutor of the Faithfull Saul Saul why persecutest thou me The great Oratour Chrysostome is further obiected flowing in his Rhetorike and saying of this Sacrament that Wee see him on the Altar and that He is held in the hands of the Priest namely in the same Rhetoricall sence wherewith Augustine said of all the faithfull Christian Communicants You are on the Table you are in the Cup. Or as Chrysostome himselfe required of persons baptized in their perfect age saying Hold you the feet of our Saviour Yet one more Augustine doubted not to say of this visible word the Sacrament of Christ that The Lord's blood is powred out into the mouthes of the faithfull And Hierome is as bold to say of the audible word of God that when it is preached The blood of Christ by it is powred into the eares of the Hearers Master Brereley would thinke much not to be suffered to put in his Vie iu the name of Cyprian Wee are anointed with his blood not only outwardly but also inwardly our soules are fortified with the sprinkling thereof So Cyprian What meaneth this not onely outwardly meaning in Body saith Master Brereley and addeth which convinceth our Bodily receiving thereof So hee From the same Cyprian who in the same place saith in the same stile We cleave to his Crosse sucke his blood and fixe our tongues within the wounds of our Redeemer which are all Sacramentall Allegoricall and Tropolasticall Phrases as Cyprian will clearely expresse himselfe in respect of our outward man and spiritually of the inward CHALLENGE BY this this time it may appeare that all your so serious and exquisite Collections out of the Fathers for proofe of a Corporall Presence of Christ in this Sacrament and Vnion with the Partakers thereof doe appeare by this Encounter of iust Parallels to be indeed the idle Imaginations of your Teachers and the ●rroneous Intoxications of all their Disciples who yeeld assent unto them For to interpret the figurative speeches of the Fathers literally is all one as to sticke Goose-feathers in their Caps and plainly to befoole them by making them of all others the most egregiously absurd as you have already heard and no lesse fond in the outward letter then are these others that follow to wit of Gaudentius We are commanded to eate the head of Christ's Deity with the feet of his Incarnation Or the saying of Saint Hierome When Christ said Hee that drinketh my blood although it may be understood in a Mystery yet the truer blood saith hee is the word of Scripture Or as before him Origen We drinke the blood of Christ saith he not only by the rite of a Sacrament but also in receiving his word whereof it is said My words are spirit and life So they And so iust cause have we to complaine of the Vnconscionablenesse of your Obiecters by their so often abusing the Testimonies of these holy Fathers insomuch that you had need of the often Admonition of your owne Senensis I have often given warning saith he that the sayings of Fathers be not urged in the rigidnesse of their words because they use to speake many times HYPERBOLICALLY and in excesse being either transported by the vehemencie of their Affections or carried with the C●rren● of their speech So hee CHAP. VI. The Second Romish Corporall Vnion of the Body of Christ with the Bodies