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A renunciation of several popish doctrines because contrary to the doctrine of faith of the Church of England / by R.R.
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R. R. (Robert Rogers)
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erroneous opinions destroy the humane nature of Christ and consequently all those Articles of our Creed which concern the bodily part of his humane nature and depend upon the verity thereof Besides Transubstantiation is also contrary to Canonical Scripture Mat. 26. 29 But I say unto you I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the Vine until that day when I drink it new with you in my Fathers Kingdom Where 't is clear that the wine which he drank and gave to his Disciples and which they did drink was naturally the fruit of the Vine and not the natural blood of Christ but called his blood Sacramentally because it did by the institution of Christ signifie or represent the blood of Christ as Circumcision by a like Sacramental phrase is called the Covenant Gen. 17. 10 11 This is my Covenant which ye shall keep between me and you and thy seed after thee every man-child among you shall be circumcised and ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin and it shall be a token of the Covenant betwixt me and you Lo here Circumcision which is properly but a sign of the Covenant that was made between God and Abraham and his seed as 't is called in the 11th verse is yet in the 10th verse figurative or if you will Tropically called the Covenant because 't was a sign of it by Gods special appointment and so these words This is my body and this is my blood Mat. 26. 26 28. are to be understood If the bread which he did eat and the wine which he drank and gave to his Disciples and that they did eat and drink had been Christs body and blood corporally and naturally then Christ and his Disciples did eat his natural humane body and drink his natural humane blood which is not only blasphemous to be spoken against Christ and slanderous against his holy Apostles but also improbable to be done and directly against Gods word Gen. 9. 4. But flesh with the life thereof which is the blood thereof shall ye not eat and if not of beasts then sure not of man And 't is contrary as well as Consubstantiation to Act. 3. 21. The Heavens must contain him that is Christ until the times of restitution of all things If Christ be corporally according to his humane nature in Heaven than he is not corporally present in the Sacrament of the Lords-Supper for his body is not cannot be in two * The Papists Decrees Decr. p. 3. Dist 2. c. 44. say thus Corpus Domini in quo resurrexit uno loco esse oportet The body of our Lord wherein he rose must be in one place proper places distant the one from the other as Heaven and that Sacrament are at one and the same instant of time That he was not in two places at one time while he was here on earth read Mat. 28. 5 6 And the Angel answered and said unto the women Fear not ye for I know that ye seek Jesus which was crucified he is not here for he is risen and he said come see the place where the â—ord lay Read also Mark 16. 5 6 They went into the Sepulchre c. And Luk. 24. 6. is the same relation and demonstration and vers 12. is one circumstance more Peter ran unto the Sepulchre and stooping down he beheld the linnen clothes laid by themselves but found not Jesus there And vers 23 The women found not his body in the Sepulchre And vers the 24th Certain men went to the Sepulchre and found it as the women had related but him they saw not Read also Joh. 20 2 3 4 5 6 7 8. and there you 'l see more of Christs Resurrection and that his body was not in the grave Thaâ— his body cannot be in two proper places at once is also evident because every body is circumscribed with his own proper place Christs body is a true humane body as our bodies are and therefore cannot be in two proper places at one and the same time and the proper place of Christs proper body cannot be a little bit oâ— bread or wafer but his proper place is and must be proportionable to the quantity or extension of the parts of his body and to affirm that Christs natural humane body is in Heaven and in the Sacrament too properly and circumscriptively is to affirm that his body is properly in a thousand places at once To affirm that Christs body is essentially substantially and truly present in the Elements of the Sacrament of the Supper as Dr. Laurence with Papists doth doth necessarily imply a contradiction to wit Court-Sermon p. 18. that his body is a true humane body and that it is not a true humane body which two Propositions cannot be true of the same subject at the same time Idem non potest esse non esse God hath absolute power as Thomas Aquinas speaks truly over the whole nature of the creature but not so as that he should cause it to be and not to be at once The object of Gods power as the Jesuits confess is whatsoever implies not a contradiction in it self now that the self-same body should sit down and not fit down should be visible and not visible shoâ—ld be divisible and not divisible should be here and yet elsewhere should be one and yet many are manifest contradictions saith Bishop Hall in his no peace with Rome Sec. 18. p. 658. of his Works Moreover it is contrary to 1 Cor. 11. 26. As oft as ye shall eat this bread not Christs real body and drink this wine not Christs real blood of his body ye shew forth the Lords death till he come and therefore he is not come corporally which he is and must be if he be in that Sacrament corporally under the forms of bread and wine And besides this Doctrine of Transubstantiation overthrows the nature of the Sacrament as the Church of England saith truly for where there is no Element or sign there can be no Sacrament and there is no Element if the bread and wine be turned into the substance of Christs body and blood Ergo it 's false Finally It hath been the occasion of much Superstition and Idolatry as the Church of England saith in her 28th Article for from hence proceeded the reservation of the transubstantiated bread for sundry * There is a Minister in place that I know who useth to keep some of the Sacr mental bread and gives it to sick persons to cure them superstitious purposes hence the adoration of the bread injoined even as God himself hence carrying the Wafer-god about in pompous Processions hence the Popish Feast called Corpus-Christi day Yea hence I mean from Christs real or corporâ—l presence in the Sacrament came kneeling or adoration at receiving the bread and wine at the Sacrament of the Lords-Supper as may be gathered from Dr. Heylin's words who saith thus That both the Lutherans as well as the Catholicks knew that if
who gave direction for it to his General Joab and he is guilty of it too for following of David's unjust command 2 Sam. 12. 9. Thou hast killed Vriah the Hittiâ—e with the sword and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon So here what the ten-horned beast is said to do may be well charged upon the Church of Rome the Pope and his Hierarchy because he causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast whose deadly wound was healed and he deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of these miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast Rev. 13. 12 14. Rev. 19. 20. And therefore is the blood of the Prophets and of all the Saints and of them that were slain upon the earth for Religion said to be found in her Rome Revel 18. 24. 2. Their activity v. 14. These shall make war with the Lamb. In Rev. 13. 7. 't is said That this ten-horned beast shall make war with the Saints and overcome them But here in Revel 17. 14. he makes war with Christ and is overcome by him for he is Lord of Lords and King of Kings and they that are with him are called and faithful and chosen 'T is true that they that make war against Christs Saints do make war against Christ Act 9 4 Saul Saul why persecutest thou me Those Kings that make war against and persecute Christs Saints as such do make war against and persecute Christ himself and so he takes it and will reward it That this ten-horned beast is said to overcome the Saints and yet to be overcome by Christ may be both true of the same beast for he did overcome the Saints at first but he is or shall be overcome by Christ and his called chosen and faithful Soldiers at last and therefore 't is said That he that leadeâ—h into captivity shall go into captivity he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword here is the patience and faith of the Saints to suffer in the mean time and to believe and wait for the performance of this promise Rev. 13. 10. 2. The Whore is described more plainly by her large Dominion by the people upon whom she sitteth called in the first verse many waters which is interpreted by the Angel v. 15. And he saith uâ—â—o the waters which thou sawest where the whore sitteth are people and multitudes and nations and tongues which is a manifest description of the Roman Empire which consisted of many People and Nations and Tongues and upon these as well as upon the ten-horned beast or chief secular rulers did the great Whore of Rome sit that is reign and rule prick on and stir up to Superstition Idolatry and Persecution against Christs Church And therefore 't is said That the Kings of the earth that is of the Empire or earthly Church and the inhabitants of the earth have committed fornication and been made drunk with the wine of her fornication Revel 17. 2. she claims universal power over all this Terrestial world 3. This great Whore is described by her destruction And that 1. By the * A learned man by ten Kings understands their Kingdoms or people who against the minds of their Kings will thus destroy the great whore Antic p. 23. Revel 18. 9. instruments of her ruin and they are the ten horns or the ten Kings unto whom the Roman Empire was divided v. 16. And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast these shall hate the whore c. 2. By the degrees of her destruction these ten Kings shall hate the whore and shall make her desolate and naked and shall eat her flesh and burn her with fire 1. They shall hate the whore of Rome the Pope his Cardinals Hierarchy and Clergy with whom they have committed spiritual fornication whereas before they loved her while the virtue of her intoxicating cup lasted but now seeing their own folly and her cunning craftiness selfishness pride covetousness luxury filthiness hypocrisie and cruelty that her whole Government Religion Worship pompous Ceremonies Purgatory Indulgences Excommunions Jubilees Processions Doctrines of the Popes Infallibility and Supremacy Justification of mens persons before God by their own good works traditions merits holiness of times places Churches Altars Vestments Copes Hats Palls Surplices Crosses Spittle Cream Salt Holy-water Auricular confession of sins worshipping of Saints departed Angels Images Reliques of Saints kissing of the Popes Toe of the Tayl of the Asse on which Christ rode adoring of the pretended Cross on which Christ was Crucified bowing to the East setting up of Altars and Crucifixes and Tapers on them and bowing to them as they do baptizing of Bells forbidding to Marry but allowing of Stews dispensing with Oaths incestuous Marriages holding of Plurality of Dignities Benefices with cure of souls and causeless Non-residency and many more such Doctrines and practises politick devices to uphold enrich and advance themselves their relations and servants and suppress the pure Doctrine and Worship of Christ and undo and destroy his most faithful servants and sincere Worshippers I say these Kings seeing these things and many more clearly their inordinate love is turned into well-guided hatred of her They hate her that is they separate from her they avoid communion with her they cease to commit any spiritual fornication with her 2. They make her desolate they do not only forsake her themselves but also they cause their subjects to do so too and that they do by setting up in their respective Kingdoms Gods pure worship and service without her proper ceremonies which she calls * Bellar. de effectibus Sacrament l. 2. c. 3. a. 20. badges and †Aquinas 12â— q. 103. a. 4. O. professions of her Religion and Gods pure word without her Legends Apocriphals and Traditions 3. They make her naked which they do both by words and deeds 1. By words by publick Preaching Confessions and Writings declaring and demonstrating her abominable filthiness that she may be detested by others 2. By deeds by with-drawing her gold silver precious stones first-fruits Peter-pence Abbies Friories Commendams Benefices Dignities and Revenues from her which were wont to be given her which the Whore by her pious frauds cunning craftiness got from the Ancestors of Kings and deluded people 4. They shall eat her flesh which is to be understood not carnally but mystically these Kings shall not prove Canibals and corporally with their teeth eat the flesh that is upon the bones of the great Whore of the Pope and his Cardinals but they will retain either to their own proper use or rather for the maintenance of Gods pure Worship and Interests those revenues which were paid to the Whore out of their Dominions as such to the upholding of her Pride and Idolatries Superstitions Luxuries and Bawds and they shall persecute her which in Scripture-language is eating of ones flesh Job 19. 22. Why do ye persecute