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A56191	A pleasant purge for a Roman Catholike to evacuate his evill humours consisting of a century of polemicall epigrams, wherein divers grosse errors and corruptions of the Church of Rome are discovered, censured, refuted, in a facetious yet serious manner / by William Prynne ...	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1642 (1642)	Wing P4038; ESTC R5059	135,316	198

will raise him up for my flesh I say Is meate indeede and my blood drinke indeed Which crosse conversion stands Rome in no steed But damnes that Transubstantiation Which she endeavours to erect hereon He that eateth my flesh AND DRINKETH my Blood dwels in me and I in him onely Spiritually not corporally Here Christs flesh and blood eating drinking appeare Foure severall times combined and drinking Christs blood is thrice made a most needfull thing To gaine eternall life Nor can Rome cry That this was spoken unto Priests onely For 't was spoke to the people as is cleare By expresse words and Christs whole discourse here Besides it differs eating from drinking Oft times as a distinct and diverse thing And make both equally needfull Therefore Rome to Lay-men the Cup must now restore Else she will rob them of life eternall Of Christs blood and to Hell fire damne them all To shunne this Rocke Rome saith that Lay-men Drinke Christs blood in eating the dry Host I thinke None but meere sots devoyd of reason sense Will be deluded with this grosse non-sense Is any man so simple once to thinke That he Wine Cyder Beere doth truely drinke In eating dry Grapes Apples Barly Meate Or that he drinkes swines blood when he doth eate Blacke puddings and so needes not for drinke call Because he drinkes Wine Cyder Beere in all Reasons Bread Apples meates he eates Truely I ne're yet heard nor read in History Of any so besotted as to thinke That in bare eating he did truely drinke Wine Beare included in dry bread onely And eate drink both in one for company Should Priests tell Children fooles than how much more Wisemen when they eate bread dry meates good store And then call for wine beare that they neede none Because they truely drinke Wine Beere alone In eating bread or dry meates they would cry Forthwith they did but them mocke cheat belye And give no credit to their words at all But them meere Lyers and impostors call Should Priests in this sort onely drinke at Table They would this shift damne as a senselesse Fable Why are lay Papists then such blockes to thinke Their Priests speake truth in saying that they drinke Christs Cup blood truely in eating dry bread No doubt their wits are lost their senses fled Should they tell Priests or Priests tell them when as They feast at home in private not at Masse That they drinke wine in eating of their bread Neither by either would be credited How then can they beleeve they drinke truely Christs Cup Blood when they eate the bread onely All know that eating is not drinking they In Scripture Authors speech use are alway Distinct things and still put as opposite One to another How then dares Rome write Or Pope decree such Nonsense that eating Is drinking drinking eating both one thing When each man child foole knows the contrary And may here justly say they erre and lye Are they the same why then did Christ say Eate And drinke yea both of them so oft repeate As different things why doe Priests both eate drinke And as to them eating no drinking thinke If Lay-men drinke in eating not Priests then They can doe more than Popes Priests Clergie-men If Priests in eating drinke as well as they The Cup must then from Priests be tooke away Lest they drinke twice for once nay eate twice too In drinking wherein Rome holds her Priests doe Eate Christs body conjoyn'd unseprably Vnto his blood and by concomitancy Is eate in drinking But if neither drinke In truth in eating bread why doth Rome thinke She doth it against Scripture reason sense Christs expresse verdict and experience Men alwayes chew the things they eate and they Hard solid dense not liquid things alway The Objects of eating are sayd to eate They swallow when they drinke not chew not meate Bread solid things but liquors drinkes onely The objects which men still drinke properly Men take what they eate with hand knife spone sup Quaffe what they drinke out of some pot glasse Cup. It is a contradiction then to thinke Say he that eates the bread doth truely drinke The Cup thereby O Papists now espie Renounce Romes monstrous Nonsense Foolery Christ bids all eate and drinke still distinctly Not both in one and that successively First eate the bread next drinke the Cup that he At first ordained and them gave thus the Apostles still tooke them successively In former times but those who drinke onely In eating of the bread doe both together In one act moment and doe not them sever Christ bids men drinke not eate his blood but they Who take it in the Host it eate alway Not drinke at all as men doe onely eate Blood in blacke puddings fowles or strangled meate Wherein blood is contain'd Nay he bids all Here not drinke of his blood in generall But specially to drinke it in the Cup And wine Now those who onely drinke it up Within the bread and neither Cup wine take Transgresse Christs precept and his forme forsake The Bread is not the Cup wine Christs body Is not his blood these differ really One from another then those who onely The Body Bread eate cannot possibly Be sayd to drinke the Cup Wine blood thereby This to evade Romes Doctors will reply That Christs body under the forme of bread Containes his blood and is accompaned Still with it Therefore those who eate the one Doe drinke the other in it not alone But Christ himselfe thought not so when he the Lords Supper first ordained sith that he Commanded all to eate his body in The bread alone his blood to drinke within The Cup and wine onely not in the bread Which he from Cup and wine distinguished Those then who eate the body bread onely Can not the Cup Wine Blood thus drink therby As Christ enjoynes them Nay the Sacrament Ordain'd by Christ to this end and intent His blood-shedding and death to signifie Is quite subverted by this Novelty For blood within Christs Body and the Bread Unshed cannot Christs Passion and Blood-shed In any lively manner represent And so cannot be a true Sacrament Of Christs death bloodshed who saith expresly This Cup is the new Testament in my Blood which IS SHED for many for pardon Of sinnes of which there 's no remission Without the shedding of Christs blood wherein Whereby we are washt cleansed from all sinne You must then in the Sacrament drinke up Christs blood not in his body veines but Cup As shed and sever'd from his body on The Crosse else you his bloods effusion And sinnes remission cannot represent By an unbloody Host or Sacrament Which can no comfort to mens soules convey Since it Christs blood-shed death doth not display Adde that Christs body in the sacred bread Is eaten not as living but as dead Nail'd broken on the Crosse quite voyd of blood All shed out of his

And therefore sends all from his Supper dry Except Masse-Priests who drinke the wine onely To Christs dishonour his guests discontents Who neither love dry feasts nor Sacraments When Lords allow wine for all guests to drinke All will those lewde presumptuous Servants think Who dare eclipse their liberality And send their guests away from Supper dry Thus Rome deales with her Lord Christs guests I feare She will one day for this affront pay deare If any urge That Moses anciently In cases of Divorce did really Dispence with Gods owne Law Therefore Popes may The Sacred Cup from Lay-men take away I rejoyne Moses did not this thing by His owne meere power and Authority But by expresse Command from God which we In sundry Texts upon record yet see But Popes have no command from Christ to take Away the Cup see then their grosse mistake And absur'd argument Moses say they By Gods Command did let men put away Their wives in certaine cases contrary To the first law of Marriage formerly Enacted therefore Popes without command From Christ by their owne might may countermand Christs Institutions and quite take away His Cup from people who are meerely Lay. A grosse inconsequent But if that I Grant Moses by his owne authority Did this which is not true yet Popes must next Prove their power as great as his from some Text And that this cause of divorce arbitrary At mens free choyce and practised onely By few is just the same with Popes taking The Cup by force from all Lay-men which thing Sith they can no wayes prove they must confesse Their wicked error theft and it redresse But Romes Popes here object this precept was Given to Priests alone who in the Masse Still drinke the Cup not unto Lay-men I To this evasion shall first thus reply That if Drinke ye ALL of it were spoke to Th' Apostles onely as Priests not Lay so Likewise must Take eate this is my body Be spoken to and meant of Priests onely Since both were spoke to the same men at the Same time and this word All we clearely see Omitted in the Breads delivery And exprest in this of the Cup onely Will this enforce which if true then you may As well the Bread as Cup now take away From all Lay-men and so deprive them quite Of the Lords Supper Bread Wine Priests sole right Lay-men have right to both kinds else to nether Rome must then keepe back or give both together But was it spoke to Priests onely why then Doth Rome deny as well as to Lay-men The Cup to Priests who doe not consecrate And by Trents Acts leave them in Lay-mens state Christ onely hallow'd by consent of all The bread and wine at first and did not call Any of his Disciples to assist Him in the consecration yet then Christ Sayd to them Drinke ye all of this and they All dranke thereof as in Marke read you may It s then against Christs precept practise to Deny the Cup to such Priests as you doe Or unto any who communicate Since Christ words to all such alike relate But how knowes Rome that at this Sacrament When first ordain'd none but Priests were present The Twelve were present but than they onely Were there no Text doth prove infallibly But grant it true they did not receive then As Priests Apostles but as Christian men And members of Christs body Church which they There represented else no Priests nor Lay Men any ground had to receive the bread Or wine at all ●●th Christs words related Onely to the Apostles then present To whom he spake and gave the Sacrament Since therefore they first received bread and wine In this sense onely as all grant define Then all Lay men have as good Title right Unto the Cup as any Jesuite Pope Priest or Prelate Nor can Rome say they Receive them as they were Priests but as Lay. For Rome resolved hath in Trents Councill That the Apostles were not made Priests till After the consecration and the bread No sacred Cup to them delivered And that by vertue of these words Doe this In remembrance of me which they say is The ground and forme of her new Sacrament Of Orders Priesthood Then by Romes assent Not being Priests till these words uttered They were Laymen whom they first receiv'd The Bread Wine since Paul addes Christ sayd This doe In my remembrance after the Cup too Which clause if it makes Masse-priests all shall be Created such Priests who receive which she Cannot gaine say since all men equally Must take the bread and wine in memory Of Christ and DOE THIS in as ample wise As any Masse-priests whence this will arise That all receivers are Priests and therefore None must be kept from the cup any more Adde Paul C●rists words applyeth equally To all Receivers Priests or Laity And makes the Cup as common unto all As is the bread Hence he is generall Of the faithfull Jewes writes that they did eate ALL as we doe the same spirituall meate And did ALL DRINKE the SAME spirituall drink For they dranke of the Rocke Christ If you think This proofe not full enough he writes to all The Church of Corinth Saints in generall Ye cannot drinke the Cup of the Lord and The Cup of Divils which can never stand Together ye cannot partakers be Of the Lords Table and partake of the Table of Devils In which notable Text the Cup is twice plac'd before the Table And sacred bread and eke appropriated To all the faithfull as well as the bread He addes for as oft as ye this bread eate And drinke this Cup ye the Lords death repeate And shew forth till be come wherefore O thinke Of this who ere shall eate this bread and DRINKE THIS CVP of the Lord but unworthily Shall be guilty of the blood and body Of Christ But let a man well examine Himselfe and so eate of that bread divine AND DRINKE of that Cup for he that eateth AND DRINKES unworthily eates AND DRINKETH Da●●ation to himselfe Christ by S. Paul Declares the Cup as common unto all As is the bread That Laymen must it drinke As well as Priests whence he the bread doth linke Five times together with the Cup. Cup Bread Eate Drinke are still conjoyn'd not severed All must them both receive or both forbeare What Christ conjoynes none must asunder teare All Lay men must eate drinke as well as Priests Else they prove Rebles and meere Antichrists Yea barre themselves both from the life of grace And glory too witnesse that noted place In John Except ye eate the flesh AND DRINKE The blood of the Sonne of Man which Priests thinke Meant onely of the Sacrament though then Not instituted nor made knowne to men You have no life in you Whoso eateth My flesh AND my blood by true faith DRINKETH Hath life eternall and at the last day I

then not true Christ as you think On Transubstantiation and the Popes Vicarship IS not the Pope Christs Vicar here Yes why Christs absence upon earth still to supply Is not Christ present in the Sacrament In reall manner we have Romes consent Thy Pope his Vicar then cannot here be Sith Christ's here present by Romes owne decree Not in one Place or Country as of old But in so many as cannot be told If his meere presence in one place whilst here Banisht all Vicars thou hast cause to feare His omni-presence in each Church Pix Host Will quite exclud Popes from the wide earths Cost To be his Vicar no where but in Hell Sith he in Heav'n and Earth doth alwayes d well Pope Chuse thy fate to be his Vicar there Or else deny his Reall presence here Else canst thou be no Vicar Generall On earth for him no Vicar Pope at all But if to save thy place thou wilt deale faire Confesse thou erdst then Popes may erre in chaire And if in this why not in more in all Turne where thou wilt Pope here thou hast a fall On the Reall Presence Pix and Crucifixe IS Reall Presence true Christ in the Pix What neede his Pictures than or Crucifix Pictures are uselesse when the person 's by Either your Pictures or your Pixes lye Both cannot stand together one must part You Lye but are unskilfull in the Art Lyes must keepe quarter if they chance to Jarre Or meete too neere they will the tale quite marre Ye must disclaime Christs presence in the Pix Or else breake downe your lying Crucifix You were unwise to place these two so nigh That now they fight and give each o're the Lye On Transubstantiation and Popes Leaders Bulls THose who can each day change Lead into Gold Bread to Christs Body chang'd may safely hold The first wants Scripture but hath reason store The last a shew of Scripture and no more Gaine proves the first I thinke the latter too Should both prove fals it would Popes quite undo Meane while they take the last by Scriptures shew The first by sense not text they will still know On Popish Priests taking away the Cup from the People I Wonder not that Priests alone ingrosse The Sacred Cup they love the Pot to tosse Should Lay-men drinke Vines would not them suffice With Wine at least the price thereof would rise By this device they have ingrossed all The Wine to them and made the price to fall Men wondred much before why Priests were drown'd So oft in drinke the reason now is found On Popish Concomitancy and the Sacred Cup. PRiests say that Laickes Christs Cup and Blood drinke In eating of dry Bread and so they thinke Could they perswade them thus to drink at Table Drunkennesse then would soone become a Fable With them and None but Joviall Priests be found In wine or other liquors henceforth drown'd And so they onely of right should possesse Both Pot Cup Barrell Wine and drunkennesse But since they cannot make Fooles Children think Much lesse men drunkards that they wine beare drink In eating of bread or meate at their Table They should disclaime this whimsie as a Fable On Popish Concomitancy and halfe Communion THe Priests say Laymen When they the bread eate Doe therein drinke Christs Blood Bread's drinke and Meate If Laickes then Priest likewise pray then why Doe Priests not to themselves the Cup deny Belike they neede the Wine their Hearts to cheare And wash their throats to chaunt their Massemore cleare If so they say that they in drinking take And eate Christs body let them then part stake Priests drinke the Wine Laickes eate all the bread Else Priests will twice Laickes but once be fed On Praying to and representing of God and Saints by Pictures VVHat goe by Pictures both to God and Saint You deeme both shaddowes then or else but Paint If God or Saints be like to what you see They then no substance but meere shaddowes be And dare Rome Shaddowes for her Gods adore She 's then more sot than Pagans heretofore Are they not like nor what their picture●●re Then are thy Pictures Lyes Rome and Popes erre More than the Painte● for he onely Paints These lyes and errours but they make them Saints By consecrating them for sacred use For shame now see detest this great abuse On Worshipping Images VVHat must we have no Images nor Stockes To Worship Yes you are not men but blockes The Idols Makers Worshippers are one All at the best but Mettle Blockes or stone Your whole Religion 's blockish or a Play You just like it your Puppits this display On Popish Confessers and Pardons IF Men Confesse to God absolv'd they are What neede they then their sinnes to Priests declare If to their Priests not God they may them Paine But not absolve Confession then is Vaine If Men repent God Pardons instantly Without a fee why will they Pardons buy If they repent not Popes cannot forgive Their Pardon 's voyde why will they Money give On Popish Altars and Masse Priests NO Altars now Priests then are quite undone There were no Masse-Priests till Altars begun Take them away Masse Massing-Priests must cease And Christs rent Church shall live in greater peace No sweeter Sacrifice can men devise Than Priests and Altars both to Sacrifice On Popish Purgatory and its fire ALL Papists hold a fiery Purgatory The Wise to gaine the Fooles to spend their Money The first to fill the last to Purge the Purse The ones great blessing but the others Curse If it hath any fire t is fed with Gold Substract but it this fire will soone grow cold On Popish Judulgencies VVHat neede men pray to God Angels or Saints If Popes can pardon sinners grant their Plaints They that can loose from Hell and Men Heav'n grant No doubt will give if askt all things they want Give did I say if askt No they sell all Else none to God Angells or Saints would call To give what Popes can grant their sales to high Force most from them to these to runne and cry If Popes would give as free as sell they might In grosse all suites from these be God's out right On Popish Merits and Prayers to Saints PApists have Merits store themselves to save And others too yet not enough to crave Pardon or Almes from God unlesse some Saints Not Christ put up their undeserving plaints They who can finde no Merit once to cry For Almes or Pardon sure have none to buy Heav'n for themselves or others they must now Their Prayers to Saints or Merits disavow On Papists praying to Christ to save them by Thomas Beckets blood an Arch-Traytor and Rebell PApists to Christ himselfe pray them to save By Beckets blood shed for him an Arch-knave And ingrate Traytor to his Soveraigne Yet his blood 's saving Christs but shed in Vaine