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A31454	A preparation for martyrdom a discourse about the cause, the temper, the assistances and rewards of a martyr of Jesus Christ : in a dialogue betwixt a minister, and a gentlemanhis [sic] parishioner.	Cawdrey, Zachary, 1616-1684.	1681 (1681)	Wing C1648; ESTC R8822	35,036	47

the loosness of the Doctrines that indulge both their Lusts Ambition and Cruelties But besides the Popish Princes make use of the Popes Authority sometimes for quelling their Rebellious Popish Subjects sometimes to palliate their incestuous Marriages sometimes for fleecing of their Clergy whom they have suffered first to sleece their People sometimes for confiscating the Estates of whole Orders as of the Knights Templers and seizing the Revenues of Monasteries and Abbeys wherein the Pope always is a sharer and sometimes to countenance by his Bulls their Invading and Usurping others Kingdoms But I will proceed there are abundance of other Popish errours for opposal of which a Christian may warrantably suffer such is that Schismatical Doctrine that there is no Salvation but to those that are of the Romish Communion such also is their praying to Saints and Angels and worshipping Images such also is their Doctrine of Merit Purgatory Pardons and Indulgencies But no one Doctrine is fuller of errours and absurdities than their Doctrine of Transubstantiation for denial of which many thousand precious Servants of God here in England and other where have suffered death And how can any assent to the Doctrine of Transubstantiation as the Doctrine of the Gospel who understand the meaning of it Which is that the substance of the Bread and Wine in the Sacrament is turned into the very substance of the Body and Blood of our Blessed Saviour which then the Priest offers up to God as a propitiation for the sins of the Quick and Dead Which absurd Doctrine First is contrary to our Sences of both Seeing Feeling Smelling and Tasting and consequently takes away the credit of all Gods true Miracles for still we see and feel and taste and smell Bread and Wine nay If my Sences may be deceived What security have I that I read in the Scriptures these words This is my Body next it contradicts our Reason that our Saviours Body should be in so many hundred places at once as there are Masses Celebrated at the same time in all parts of the world Nay and as many Bodies of Christ in the same Church Chancel or Parlor as there are Minute and small separated Pieces and Particles of the Species of Bread and Wine for so the litter Romanists teach that every piece broken off is an entire Body of Christ Though the first Inventers of Transubstantiation in the 9th Century and so onward for almost three hundred Years taught that the whole Loaf Consecrated was turned into one Body of Christ part of which Holy Body was broken off when part of the appearances of the Consecrated Elements was broken off from the rest as the Learned Doctor Burnet well observes in his Fast Sermon Decemb. 22. 1680. page 22. And it is a Doctrine contrary to Scripture also which affirms Christ's Body to be in Heaven and is also opposite to the very design of Christ's Institution of that Sacrament as the Scriptures give us an account of it For Christ's declared intention of that institution was to bring his Death to our remembrance thereby and to shew the Lords Death till he came and by that remembrance of it to stir up in us the same Affections and Resolutions and the Exercise of the same Graces which would have been sit for a pious believing Penitent to have taken up and exercised If he had stood by Christs Cross when he suffered and seen the wounds made in his most precious body to redeem us from the curse due to our sins namely Sorrow and Humiliation for sin Faith in Gods Mercy in Jesus Christ devout love and thankfulness to him that redeemed us with his Death with solemn renewal of our Baptismal vow to live to him and his Glory who bought us with the price of his Sons Blood and by receiving of that Symbol of the Unity of Christs mystical Body for we being many are one Bread and one Body we protest our Unity and Love to and with all the members of Christ Now How contrary the Doctrine of Transubstantiation and its appendages are to this institution of Christ and the design of it will easily appear to any that considers it Besides what reason have we to think that God would put it into the power of an ignorant or wicked Priest to work with four words speaking such a Miracle as the like is not Recorded in Scripture Namely to turn a multitude of little Wafers into so many Bodies of Christ and at the same time to deceive four of our Sences which no true Miracle ever did Nay observe there never was a Miracle mentioned in Scripture to be wrought to bring a matter of Fact to remembrance as the design of the Sacrament is remembrance except we will call a Lot a Miracle But observe yet further what an horrid thing the Papists suppose of our Saviour himself namely that he at his last Supper did Crucify and Break his own Body nay break it into twelve several Bodies supposing the Communicants were so many and that many hours before his Crucifiers did nail it to the Cross Parish You have sufficently convinced me that I ought to bear Testimony even unto the Death against the errours and Idolatry of the Masse and Transubstantiation therein pretended and I hope if it should be my Lot in a Popish Countrey to meet in the Streets their Breaden Idol I should by the Grace of God not fall down and Worship it though I knew the Idolatrous Rabble would beat out my Brains Indeed I think I ought if I have the warning of their Sacred Tingtang to turn out of the way of their unbloody Sacrifice their Holy Host as they call it not out of fear but because I will not Provoke the Idolaters to make a Bloody Sacrifice of me and so draw the Guilt of innocent Blood upon their own Heads Minist You say well for we are not to provoke Persecutors to sin though we must couragiously suffer rather than comply to their sin and Idolatry There is one other Popish Principle that we ought to bear testimony against even unto sufferings and it is this That the Church hath a power to impose upon mens Consciences what she pleaseth and her Children are bound to obey her not from the Evidence of the expediency or necessity of the thing commanded but from the Authority forsooth of the Church commanding which is a Usurping upon the Prerogative of God himself to whom alone it belongs to command indisputable obedience I may indeed for peace sake or for fear of wrath comply to the commands which to me bona side seem neither necessary nor expedient provided they do not appear sinful But for the Church to command obedience blind obedience meerly pro imperio is to seat it self in the place of God And indeed this is the master vein of Popery running through not only the main Body of Papists but also every religious Order and Society amongst them To whom it is as sacred to obey what their Church

these consolatory Graces of sincere Love to God to his Church and our Eenemies with firm Faith and Heavenly Hope yielding their strength in the hour of suffering more than ever before do abundantly recompence the sufferings of the Martyrs But besides these Comforts which the exercise of these Graces then yields giving their influence chiefly by way of Reasoning or Discourse in our selves the Martyr may expect immediate Illapses and Incomes of Comfort God sealing then to his Soul the assurance of his unchangeable Love in Christ For it is suitable to the Fatherly Goodness of God than to unvail his Love and Mercy and lift up the Light of his Countenance on his suffering Servant that as St. Paul said 2 Cor. 1. 4. As the sufferings of Christ do abound in them so their Consolations also do abound by Christ This Joy has it that toned the Song of Paul and Silas in the Dungeon and hath enabled many a Martyr to sing in the Plaines Thus the Consolations of the Martyrs are looked upon by the Ancients as being of a larger size than any other Saints enjoyed on Earth like the Portion of the Heir or First Born which is double to his Brethren like Eliah's double Meal that must strenghthen him for travelling over an howling Wilderness Such are the joys and extasies of the suffering Saints even like the confines of Heaven it self as there is a greater and pleasanter light in the dawning of the Day than the Moon and Stars could give thus it is to the dying Martyr his soul is just entring upon that Eternal day of Glory that shall never decay So that we may apply to their state that of the Prophet Isaiah The light of the Moon shall be as the light of the Sun and the light of the Sun shall be seven fold as the light of seven days in the day that the Lord bindeth up the breach of his people and healeth the stroake of their wound Next God then Communicates to a suffering Christian Patience and Strength far surmounting all the Courage and Fortitude that ever was given to any other of the Sons of men for as a Christian then wrestles not with flesh and blood only but also with Devils and damned Spirits who possess and enrage their Persecutors so may they warrantably expect a supply of strength coming near to the impassibility of the Angels that what they feel shall not afflict them thus how composedly and in a manner unconcernedly have the Saints born their Torments and so by Patience have Triumphed over the Devil and his Instruments and thus it hath been to many Saints of old I will instance but in one St. Austine reports of Vincentius the Martyr that when he was Tormented he spake with that Meekness and Composedness that a Stander by would have thought it was one man that suffered and another that spake The Tyrants raged and roared and stamped and gnashed their Teeth for indignation that they could not break the courage of the Holy Martyr they tear and rend his Body and Members with a rage above that of Wild Beasts while the Martyr in meekness was still composed and himself in Patience possessing his own soul so that indeed the Tormenters were Tormented and the Tortured did Conquer and Triumph over Satan and evil Angels in the Cross of Christ and made a shew of them openly Oh what a glorious sight is this a spectaclo worthy of the Theatre of Heaven and Earth who would not clap their hands and lift up their shouts in applauding the Grace of God Conquering in his Saints Such strength may an humble Christian warrantably promise himself to be Communicated to him from God when he is called to suffer for him Parish Oh Sir How have you filled me with an Holy Emulation and desire to be also partaker of the sufferings of Christ But I will not interrupt you I pray you proceed Minis The last thing I propounded for your support was the consideration of the Reward to come the Glory that shall be revealed It is very true that sometimes that promise of Christ Mark 10. 29 30. is literally expressed He that forsakes houses or parents or wife or brethren or children for Christs sake and the Gospels receives an hundred fold now in this time Houses and Brethren and Mothers and Sisters and Children and Lands with Persecutions because God makes all the Saints near him to serve him with their Persons and Estates so that he hath an hundred Brethren and Sisters and Nurses and Houses for one that he forsook Thus Davids Cross led him to a Temporal Crown and the Faithful Christians in Constantius Clorus's Court who forsook their Offices and Preferments rather than they would forsake their Religion were received back to greater Favour and Higher Places the Emperor wisely concluding that they would be most faithful to their Emperor who were most true to their God and Saviour But this is a small part of that promise which Christ hath made unto his Martyrs for Matth. 5. 10 12. he not only promiseth them Heaven but a great reward in Heaven even greater than to other Saints who did not pass through that Red Sea of blood to the Promised Land Some Pious and Learned men suppose that the Resurrection of the Martyrs in their bodies before other Saints being the first Resurrection and their Raign with Christ a thousand years is warrantably expected from Rev. 20. 4 5 6. This opinion is far from the Pestilent and Seditious persuasion of the Fifth Monarchy men but whether this shall be so or no we must leave to God to make evident for events 〈…〉 the surest Interpreters of Prophecies but this we are 〈…〉 sured of that those who come out of great Tribulation 〈…〉 and have washed their Robes and made them White 〈…〉 the blood of the Lamb Rev. 7. 14. that is in suffering 〈…〉 Christ and after his example shall have Crowns of Rig●teouss of the brightest lustre for if God hath provided 〈…〉 the beauty and qualities of all Creatures to gratifie 〈…〉 sences of our bodies sure he hath provided some 〈…〉 things for our immortal souls Those Saints who 〈…〉 souls God doth as it were suck by a Kiss out of 〈…〉 bodies as the Jews say of Moses dying quietly in 〈…〉 Beds enter into Joys unspeakable and full of Glory 〈…〉 how much more abundant shall be the Portion of 〈…〉 Martyrs To be sure to them that overcome shall 〈…〉 given to Eat of the Tree Life which is in the midst 〈…〉 the Paradise of God the Heart and Centre of Joy 〈…〉 to Feast with hidden Manna and to have a White 〈…〉 a Symbal of Gods Approbation and special Love and 〈…〉 it a new name Written which none can Read but 〈…〉 that hath it and to receive the Morning Star the 〈…〉 Fruits of Glory and to be Clothed in White Rayme●● and follow the Lamb as his Favorite-Courtiers and to 〈…〉 made Pillars of the Temple of God the principla 〈…〉 of it on whom Christ will write his own Name and 〈…〉 Fathers Name and the Name of the City of God 〈…〉 New Jerusalem as those who have done special 〈…〉 to and therefore receive special Favour from God a Christ and his Church and to sit with Christ on 〈…〉 Throne and to be Kings and Priests to God for ever and 〈…〉 To him that loved us and washed us from our sins in 〈…〉 own Blood and Consecrates us by our sufferings with h 〈…〉 to Raign with him in Glory To him with the Father a 〈…〉 the blessed Spirit be Hononr and Glory and Dominic 〈…〉 for ever and ever Amen Parish Amen and Amen FINIS ERRATA Page 6. line 24. read Imbarked p. 7. l. 30. put in more l. 32. r. looser p. 〈…〉 l. 241 r. Christiant p. 14. l. 3 ● from p. 16. l. 11. r. intirely p. r 8 l. 29 r. succession 〈…〉 l. 30. blot out when p. 25. l. 15. r. sensualist The Reader is desired to Correct the last 〈…〉 Sheets if any faults have escaped the Author not having the perusal of them at the Pres 〈…〉 See Mr. Morgan Godwin's Negro's Advocate Isa 42. 23. Mat. 5. 10. 1 Pet. 3. 14. Psal 119. 115. Dan. 6. 10. Gen. 3. 15. Gen. 4. 1. Gen. 5. 29. Gen. 22. 18. Gen. 49. 10. Rev. 17. 6. The Patriarchal Sabbath was our Sunday changed to Saturday to the Jews on occasion of the sending Quails and Manna * Hoc est corpus meum Psal 149. 1. Psal 116. 15. Psal 119. 119. Ephes 6. 14 15 16 c. Is chiefly referred to in collection of the qualifications of a Mar 〈…〉 Psal 41. 12. Col. 2. 2 3 4. Per calcatam irem Patrem per calcatam Matrem Bp. Ridleys Letter to Bp. Hooper Psal 8. 2. Cant. 4 2●● 2 Cor. 1. 12 2 Cor. 5. 11. 1 Pet. 2. 22. Eccles 8. 1. Joh. 5. 4. Psal 46. ● 2. 1 King 19. 8. Isa 30. 26. Tantum poena in membris tanta tranquillitas in verbit tanquam alius tarquereretur alius loqueretur Rev. 2. 7. 17. 28. Rev. 3. 12. 21.