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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49323	Du Moulin's Reflections reverberated being a full answer to a pernicious pamphlet entituled Moral reflections on the number of the elect : together with several arguments against transubstantiation of the outward elements in the sacrament of the Lords Supper, transubstantiated into falshood and absurdity : to which is added a postscript in answer to some passages in Mr. Edmund Hickeringil's scurrilous piece stiled The second part of naked truth / by Edward Lone ...	Lane, Edward, 1605-1685.	1681 (1681)	Wing L331; ESTC R10768	106,099	120

this Agar is Mount Sinai Rev. 7.9 The seven Heads are seven Mountains So in Sacramentals Circumcision is called the Covenant Gen. 17. ●3 and a token of the Covenant ver 11. And a Seal of the Righteousness of Faith Rom. 4.11 The Lamb is called the Passover Ex. 2.21 The Rock was Christ 1 Cor. 10.4 and in this of our Lords Supper This is the Cup of the new Testament These and the like Instances are commonly used in this case and the Form of Speech is so plain that a Child may understand it Thus he But if Similitudes may be of any force I say not in Argumentation but Illustration in my Judgment there can be nothing more Pregnant to this purpose than a Resemblance that may be made between our Saviour himself and this his own Holy Ordinance Two Natures we believe are personally united in Christ the Divine and Human Now as the distinct Properties of these Natures are by vertue of this Hypostatical Union sometimes applyed and made common to both yet remain themselves entire without any Confusion each with other or Conversion into one another in like manner there being in this Ordinance of our Saviour a Sacramental Union between the ontward visible Sign and the inward and spiritual Grace well may the one be denominated by the other yet remain themselves entirely in their own Nature and Substance as they were before the said Union without any confused mixture one with the other or any real Conversion into each other So the Soul and Body of Man while they are united are oft-times put distinctly for the whole Person of a Man yet are both bounded within their original Beings But the truth is this real corporal Conversion of the Bread into the Body of Christ notwithstanding the Confidence which the Roman Party useth by it to bring on their Oral Manducation of Christs Body in the Mass hath no such Warrant as they dream of from these words of our Saviour which they so much harp upon For it is well known among the Learned as my aforesaid Author observeth out of Cameron and Moulin that the Hebrew Tongue or Syriack in which Christ spake doth not use in this form of Speech any Copula of Subject or Predicate either is or signifieth But sometimes and not always Pronoun as in those places before cited in the old Testamenr no is nor was nor any other Verb is there But thus The seven ears of Corn they seven years the four Beasts four Kings which when they come to be Translated into Greek or Latin then the Idiom of the Language requires it and saith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is e. g. The Rock is Christ So that they are much mistaken who to bolster up their devised Transubstantiation place the Emphasis here in this word Is which Word probably our Saviour did not speak when he instituted this Sacrament though it be as it must be so rendred by the Evangelists according as it hath been said to the Idiome of the Language in which they wrote Thus in short we see the Sense which hath been wont to be given of these words of our Saviour by Pious and Learned Men and which passeth for current among us of all sorts To which Sense I also for my part do readily subscribe though I do humbly conceive there is something lacking in it and so not fully comming up to our Saviours meaning I come therefore now according to my Promise to deliver my particular Judgment of it My particular I say because I never heard of it before nor in all my Reading met with it in any Author elder or later that hath written of this Subject And it is as followeth Our Lord Jesus Christ intending as it appeareth to put an end to the old Sacrament of the Paschal Lamb for which his Disciples had been so sollicitous and to Institute this of his last Supper in its stead he therefore having first lifted up his Eyes and Hands to Heaven that he might in the Name of his Father Consecrate the chosen Element of Bread and Wine speaks to his Disciples in this manner and form saying This is my Body and this is my Blood q.d. you have taken that for my Body hitherto according to the Rudiments of the Law of Moses for indeed Christ the Lamb of God was praesigured thereby but now This shall be it hereafter till my Coming again So placing the Emphasis in the word This as by way of distinction from the former Sacrament calling it likewise his Body in opposition to the former shadows not making any other change at all but only one Sacrament instead of another which it's true is generally acknowledged but the premised Emphatical Distinction hath not been heeded as it ought to have been from whence have sprung the differences and hot contentions about the manner of Christs Presence The Apostles themselves so understood it for they never after were inquisitive as they had been about the Passover but were no doubt obedient to the Command of their Lord and Master for he had laid this charge upon them in these words Do this in Remembrance of me as much as to say leave the other undone or use it no more and let none other use it in my Name hereafter The Apostle St. Paul who laboured more abundantly than all the rest of the Apostles kept himself precisely to this command in his Apostolical Office So he telleth the Church at Corinth 1 Cor. 11.23 that saith he which I have received of the Lord meaning not from Moses but of Christ have I delivered unto you Yea the very words of our Saviour himself which he spake of the Cup do seem to point out this Sense unto us for as he saith of that This is my Blood of the New Testament so his meaning very probably may be of the Bread This is my Body of the New Testament that is which in the time of the New Testament you and all other to the Worlds end shall take for my Body not that which hath been taken for it under the old For by these words he takes away the first Sacrament of the Passover how else comes it to be out of date And establisheth this of his last Supper the first being an ordinance of the Law to continue during the old Covenant the second he will have to be an ordinance of the Gospel as being more apt to agree with his new Covenant This this I say is clearly the thing that our Lord intended by using this form of Speech when he ordained this new Sacrament in his Church viz. This is my Body He would that his Apostles and his whole Church after them should take his meaning as spoken in this manner This Emphatically This Specifically This Substantially This not the former yet this mystically even as the former was is my Body whereby you shall be united together in bortherly Love your Faith also shall be Confirmed and your Souls strengthned and refreshed unto Life Eternal