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A18639	A Christian and wholesom admonition directed to the Frenchmen, which are reuolted from true religion, and haue polluted themselues with the superstition and idolatrie of poperie.; Remonstrance chrestienne et salutaire. English	Constant, Léonard, d. 1610.; Fetherston, Christopher.	1587 (1587)	STC 5154; ESTC S120782	56,315	146

in the administratiō of the sacramēts to wit that they separate those thinges which God hath coupled togither that is the preaching of the worde which is as it were the soul of the sacraments and thē they rent in péeces the holie Supper of the Lord if that which they cal their Communiō cā be the true supper for they excōmunicat the simple people frō one essential part of the supper namelie frō the cup contrarie to the expresse commandement of Iesus Christ who saith Drinke ye all of this And it is said in another of the Euāgelists that all of them dranke thereof Mat. 26. Mar. 14. Consider then with what conscience you could assent to such falshoods and iniquities But this is not al come to that which followeth afterwarde consider I praie you how many pernicious errors horrible blasphemies are contained in the sixt and seuenth articles First of al you haue béene taught by the woorde of God that all hope of our saluation resteth in the onlie oblation which Iesus Christ made of his bodie vppon the crosse to appease the wrath of God towarde his elect that this sacrifice of the sonne of God was once so offered Heb. 7. 9. as saith the Apostle that it neither can nor ought to bée reiterated béeing most intire and perfect and therefore most sufficient to reconcile vs to God Notwithstanding you renounce this or at least seeme to make it imperfect and insufficient when you acknowledge that the masse is a propitiatorie sacrifice for the quick and the dead that is to saie that it is of suche power as to purchase Gods fauour to appease his wrath and to make satisfaction for sinnes and in summe to redeem and saue vs so that you put the masse an execrable idol in place of Iesus Christ spoiling him of the honor which to him belōgeth which is to be our sole soueraign priest and onlie propitiatory sacrifice which alone hath this vertue to appease the Father to make him become fauorable to vs. Furthermore you auouch an horrible blasphemie against the manhood of Iesus Christ when you confesse this goodly doctrine of their transubstantiation And surely this errour is of such importance that it bringeth which it an infinit number of other errours and spoyleth vs of al hope of saluation if we receiue it For if Iesus Christ were not verie man he shoulde not haue truelie died for vs and so haue satisfied Gods iudgement for the sinnes of men and so consequently we should as yet remaine in death But now he should not haue bin verie man like to vs in al thinges except sinne H●b 2. 4. as saith the Apostle if his body had béene inuisible as some ghost vnder a morcell of bread at such time as hee ordained his Supper together with his Apostles and if the Bread and Wine were transubstantiated into his bodie and into his blood by whispering certaine woordes which they call Sacramental woordes which is a kinde of charme so that hee was there fleshe and bone as thicke and as great as when hée was vpon the true trée of the crosse as these men most impudently affirme it should folow that the wicked ones vnbeleuing of the world coulde receiue Iesus Christ that he should be in dāger to be gnawn of vermin not to speak of a thousand other errors dānable absurdities which should require too long time if I should stande to rip thē vp Also if Iesus Christ should euery day come down betwéene the Priests hands that which is cōtained in the articles of our faith should not be true that he is ascēded into heauē where he shal be as touching his humanity vntil he come at the last day to iudge both the quick the dead as is cōfirmed by S. Peter who saith that the heauens must containe him Act. 3. vntil the restoring of al things c. Furthermore if he wer at one time in an infinite number of places as touching his humanitye his humane nature shuld be cōuerted into the diuine nature which alone is infinite To be short if the doctrine of the papists touching the māhood of Iesus Christ were true thē were he not very man so consequently not our mediator And if this were so thē sholud it folow that we should be as yet vnder the curse of God Marke thē what you haue done But ouer and besides cōsider that by allowing that doctrine of transubstantiation you make your selfe as guilty of that cursed idolatry which is committed in worshipping a morsell of paste or bread as if it were the sonne of God I omit to speake of another errour which issueth out of their transubstātiation wherof they make mention about the end of the seuenth article where they say that vnder both kindes is wholly contayned the body of Iesus Christ They had forgotten to saie the blood that they might thereby continue their concomitācy or accompanying of both kinds vnder one which they haue forged in their own brain to the end they might maintain this sacrilege in that they haue robbed the simple people of the vse of the cup. But there is not in al that so much as one sparkle of truth and yet you allow all these iniquities by this cursed abiuration As for Purgatorie which you confesse in the eight article doe you not perceiue what violence you offer to the sonne of God Iohn 1. 1. Ioh. 1. 1. Ioh. 2. Heb. 1. and what iniurie you offer to your selues You know that Iesus Christ is that Lambe of God which taketh awaie the sinnes of the world that his bloud cleanseth vs from all sinne that he is the attonement or propitiaton for our sins that he hmselfe hath purged them c. Lo it is he which is our true Purgatorie And yet you cōfesse another making of none effect so much as in you lieth the vertue of the precious blood of this vnspotted lambe and renouncing the true purgation of your sinnes Furthermore Mat. 4. Ioh. 14. Ioh. 15. 1. tim 2. 1. Ioh. 2. know you not that there is one onelie God whom we must worship and reuerence to whom we must pray vppon whom we must call and that in the name and mediation of Iesus Christ alone who is our onelie mediatour aduocate and intercessour And yet consider what confession you haue made in the ninth Article contrarie to your owne conscience that is that you must worship praie vnto and call vpon Saintes which is manifest idolatry forasmuch as inuocatiō is a kind of worshipping And furthermore you auouch that the saints are our aduocates intercessors which is to robbe Iesus Christ of that honour which belongeth to him alone But you doe woorse then this comes too when you confesse that you must woorshippe or reuerence the reliques of the saide Saintes vnder which woordes they comprehende not onelie the bones and reliques of dead Saintes but also the stinking and rotten carkaises of manie