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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63898	Animadversions upon the doctrine of transubstantiation a sermon preached before the Right Honourable the lord mayor and the Court of Aldermen, Octob. XIX, 1679, at the Guild-Hall Chappel, London / by John Turner ...	Turner, John, b. 1649 or 50.	1679 (1679)	Wing T3299; ESTC R34683	24,130	37

ANIMAD VERSIONS Upon the Doctrine of Transubstantiation A SERMON PREACHED Before the Right Honourable THE Lord Mayor And the Court of ALDERMEN Octob. xix 1679. At the GUILD-HALL Chappel LONDON By JOHN TURNER Fellow of Christs-Colledge in CAMBRIDGE 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 LONDON Printed for Walter Kettilby at the Bishops-Head in S. Paul's Church-Yard 1679. To the Right Honourable Sir JAMES EDWARDS Kt. Lord MAYOR Of the CITY of LONDON And to the Court of ALDERMEN Right Honourable I Have presumed in Obedience to the Commands of my Superiours which are a Law to me and ought to be so to every Honest man to publish the following Discourse in which adventure I am so far from having any other Motive than that of perfect Submission to all the lawful injunctions of Authority that if I had been only to consult mine own inclination I think I should have deferred it till some farther time for otherwise I will not deny but that I did design this and somewhat more upon this Subject should appear abroad out of some hope which I have that as the Subject its self which I have undertaken will be very seasonable and suitable to the present juncture of time so also that what I have to suggest upon it may not be altogether unuseful or unacceptable to the World or at least to that part of it which has either the patience to hear Reason or the Justice to suffer themselves to be directed by it However it may be a certain Argument that I have no other Design than that of Obedience to Your Lordship and the Honourable Court that what I have now exposed to the View of the Publick is an Imperfect thing as will sufficiently appear by the perusal of the Sermon its self which leaves one of the particulars proposed in a great measure unconsidered I mean that Second Head of the Feast of Vnleavened Bread which will contain these Two Particulars First of the Time and Secondly of the Nature of that Last supper which our Saviour Celebrated with his Disciples which being a Disquisition of a Philological nature and so not altogether so proper for the Pulpit I have the confidence to hope that what I have performed upon This Occasion may seem the less defective for its want of that part Such as it is I do here in most Humble manner Present it to Your Patronage and Protection Hoping for Your kind and favourable Acceptance And am Right Honourable Your most Obedient Servant JOHN TVRNER LONDON October 27. 1679. A SERMON PREACHED Before the Lord MAYOR 1 Cor. chap. 5. vers 7 8. For even Christ our Passeover is Sacrificed for us therefore let us keep the Feast not with the old leaven neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness but with the unleavened bread of Sincerity and Truth FROM these words I design to speak some little of that great deal which may be urged against the doctrine of Transubstantiation a doctrine which though weak and unable to support its self yet it is of that consequence to the whole Fabrick of the Romish Church that if this be but once throughly defeated and exposed the other must of necessity fall together with it Wherefore as this Doctrine unable to maintain its self upon any bottom or foundation of its own flies for refuge to a vain pretence of an infallible Spirit that is of the Spirit of God so if it be but once granted that this Spirit cannot contradict its self or act inconsistently to its own declared revelations and then solidly proved that the revealed will of God in the Scriptures of the New Testament do plainly and directly oppose and condemn this Doctrine then is it manifest that the Catholick Church as they call themselves that is the Bishop of Rome and his followers are not only fallible but actually deceived in their main Article of Faith and in one of the most eminent marks of distinction betwixt those of That and the Reformed Communion So that to overthrow this Doctrine by unquestionable strength of Reason and by plain and undeniable testimony of Scripture is in effect to do by the Religion of Rome as she would have done by the persons of all that are not of the same grain and tincture with her self to cut it off and utterly destroy it at a blow Not that we are to expect that Faction or Prejudice or Interest will ever be disputed out of an opinion this perhaps will never wholly be brought to pass so long as there are either diverse men or diversity of Opinions and Interests in the World but I say if men would act according to the true dictates of natural conscience and reason then if it be acknowledged on both hands that the Scriptures are infallible and divinely inspired and if it be equally clear that the truth of the Scriptures cannot possibly consist with that of the doctrine of Transubstantiation then if men will not give themselves over to all manner of Imposture and delusion without measure and without end they must of necessity disclaim that doctrine as an error which is so far from being defended that it is manifestly and strongly opposed by the confessedly infallible Authority of Scripture And because both parts of a contradiction cannot possibly be infallibly true but the one must of necessity be infallibly true the other infallibly false there is nothing more plain than that if they acknowledge the truth of the Scriptures they must at the same time unavoidably renounce the pretended infallibility of the Church of Rome and consequently the Church its self the certainty of whose Faith and Doctrine is built upon this rotten and sandy foundation and which by consequence may under this false though specious pretence lead us into innumerable errors and mistakes and that in matters as well of Practice as Belief for when things come to be throughly examined it will be difficult to set bounds to this infallible Spirit so as to draw a line where infallibility borders upon the possibilities of error or upon downright mistake and to say thus far shalt thou go and no farther In the words therefore lately read to you there are two things worthy of your special notice First That Christ is our Passeover Secondly that we are to keep the Feast in memory of this Passeover as the Jewish Feast was a memorial Exod. 12. 14. of the Jewish Passeover with the unleavened bread of Sincerity and Truth 1. Christ is our Passeover that is he is the same thing to all mankind but in a more eminent and transcendent manner which the Jewish Passeover was to the Jews only with this difference that whereas the solemnity of the Passeover among the Jews was to be repeated every year at the stated and usual time that is See Numb 9. 5 collar cum v. 9. 10. 2 Chron 30. 13. to say on the Fourteenth day of the first or in some cases of the second Moneth Christ who was typified by it was to