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A18103	The originall of idolatries: or, The birth of heresies a true, sincere, and exact description of all such sacred signes, sacrifices, and sacraments as haue been instituted and ordained of God since Adam; with the true source and liuely anatomy of the sacrifice of the Masse. First faithfully gathered out of sundry Greeke and Latine authors, as also out of diuers learned fathers; by that famous and learned Isaac Casaubon, and by him published in French, for the good of Gods Church: and now translated into English for the benefit of this monarchy; by Abraham Darcie.	Darcie, Abraham, fl. 1625.; Casaubon, Isaac, 1559-1614, attributed name.	1624 (1624)	STC 4747; ESTC S107577	78,965	150

engraffed and by the same blood we are entertained and preserued from hungring or thirsting for euer By the blood of Iesus Christ wee cast off our old corrupt skin and put on his body from which likewise wee receiue nourishment and eternall life By the blood of Iesus Christ we haue accesse and entry into the Kingdome of Heauen And by the same blood we haue fruition of the same kingdome In this sense the holy Apostle testifieth that wee were all baptized by the vertue of the holy Spirit and we are likewise drunke of the same spirituall drinke giuen vnto vs by Iesus Christ Be not these comparisons drawne out of the holy Scriptures to witnesse that Iesus Christ is the onely aime and scope whereto we must tend both in Baptisme and the holy Supper If therefore that the signes of sacramentall water in Baptisme and of Bread and Wine in the Supper of Iesus Christ are sacred Signes Earnests Gages Hostages Symboles Seales and Sacraments instituted by God for an assurance and approbation of our faith Wherefore O Missalians seeing you haue inuented a Magicke of transubstantiation for the Sacrament of the Supper why did you not likewise with the same Magicke sophisticate the Sacrament of Baptisme Why haue you not constituted that sacramentall water after it is by you exorcis'd and coniur'd with salt to repell diuels to be transubstantiated into the blood of Iesus Christ the water being no more water but an accident without substance as you haue forged by the Bread and Wine What difference doe you assigne but Sophistries Sophismes and Missalian subtilties If you perseuere in your heresie by reason of this word est this word is also vsed in the water of Baptisme which is termed renouation and regeneration it is named the holy Spirit and the Vestment by and with which wee are reuested renued and regenerated in the blood of Iesus Christ Seeing therefore you acknowledge O Missalians that you could neuer yet meet with a second Berengarius to institute another Decree of a Palinody for the extending of your Magicall transubstantiation to the sacred water of Baptisme and by the same meanes likewise to transubstantiate your lustrall Plegme Spittle your Oyle your Creames your Salt other Drugges wherewith you haue corrupted the holy Sacrament of Baptisme why are you so inueterate and obdurate in your Pompilian Religion as to hale Iesus Christ from the right hand of his Father to make him in body and blood to descend by your muttered Magick like another Iupiter Elicius before the day preordained for his second comming I may well propound vnto you the similitude of the Sunne called by some Apostles the Sunne of Righteousnes Iesus Christ because light comes from Heauen by this luminous and glorious sphericall Planet and so spirituall light is exhibited to vs by Iesus Christ who out of the night and darknesse of sinne hath brought vs into the brightnesse and cleare sun-shine of his grace You may now therefore vnderstand carnall grosse Capernaites this sufficient and euident comparison to intimate that the infinite power of God is much more compleat and perfect then your abominable inuention of Transubstantiation Will you not acknowledge except your eyes be blinded and obfu●cated with the palpable darknes of obstinacie that the Sunne giues vs his light his force his heat and vigour and yet neuerthelesse the body it self of the planetall Sunne remaines and continues in his sphericall Orbe Doe you not vse to say ordinarily in common language when the window of an house is open on that part where the Sunne shines that the Sunne is come into the house although the Sunne remaines still in the Firmament Must wee therefore violently hale and pull the body of the Sun to make it descend and bee transubstantiated into this earthly substance before it can affoord its heat beames light and nourishment to Plants Trees Herbes and Beasts of the earth Are you so brutish O Capernaits as not to recognize that the true Sunne of Righteousnes Iesus Christ hath more power then this Astrall Sunne being but mortall and created If then a mortall creature hath this power to infuse into vs the vertue and efficacie of his body by his beames light and heate extended really and effectually ouer the whole earth the body remaining still in its heauen and shall wee not beleeue that God an immortall Creator hath much more power to grant vs the true Sunne of Righteousnesse Iesus Christ to giue vs the vertue and power of his body and bloodshed for vs by the beames light and heate of his holy Spirit except hee be by your Magicke pluckt from the right hand of God and his body drawne out of heauen to be transubstantiated vpon earth Why should not Iesus Christ haue this power to affoord vs his light and to offer his body and blood to enter into vs if by faith and a pure conscience wee be ready to receiue him by the efficacy of his holy Spirit as well and better then the sphericall Sunne can enter into our houses with his force and power and neuer be drawne out of his heauen to bee transubstantiated The Sunne is an entire body created residing in heauen the cause of the generation of Plants Trees and Herbes which by his force and calidity giues sustentation to whatsoeuer liues vpon the earth and in one and the same moment hath power to quicken heat and nourish an infinit number of Plants Trees Herbes and beasts of the earth and yet his body is neuer separated diuided drawne out of his spheare nor transubstantiated The body also of Iesus Christ which he assumed vp into heauen set at the right hand of God hath not that more force more vertue more power to regenerate nourish and sustaine vs to giue vs his vertue light and beames to inspire quicken illuminate and nourish vs and in a moment to make vs all by faith partakers of his body and bloud to make vs members of his members vnited in and by him through his true promise comprehended vnder the symboles sacred signes commended vnto vs till the second cōming of his humanity be reuealed vpon earth Wherefore then O Missalians haue you deuised this Magicke of transubstantiation to blaspheme against God to impaire his omnipotency and disable his vertue more then you do that of the sphericall Sun but his creature Why should you hale the body of Iesus Christ out of heauen before the preordained time to transubstantiate it into your little round azimall hosts printed with image●y which you cause to bee ador●d seeing Christ as God there assists his Church perpetually and hath the power to regenerate feed and sustaine vs yea with an eternall life and nourishment by his most assured promise testified by the holy Sacraments of Baptisme and the sacred Supper For other more familiar and domesticall comparisons consider O Missalians how earthly and mo●tall Princes are reputed

reuerenced and honoured by such sacred signes as they ordaine I will onely propound vnto you two which is to say waxe and mettals of one the Princes seale is composed with which grants pardons and remissions are sealed charters and priuiledges by the Prince conferred He that falsifies this seale is he not punisht as in case of high treason euen as if hee had outraged the person of the Prince Does not this seale represent his owne person euen as if himselfe were present Neuerthelesse the seale though it bee called the seale of the Prince is not transubstantiated but still remaines waxe but otherwise hauing receiued the sacred character of the Prince being then no more called waxe but the Princes seale Also the mettals of gold or siluer coyned with the Princes stampe doe serue for mony although they are no more called gold nor siluer but hauing once exchanged their names at the Princes wil they are either crownes Angels or Pistols or else shillings groats or penies or other such like names they are yet notwithstanding mettals of the very substance as they were before there is but that difference that they haue the Princes impression vpon them by and in which hee is represented really so that whosoeuer clips or falsifies that money is sorely punisht by death as a fellon and a Traitor his Prince for it is in a manner as bad and as if he had offended and conspired against the Princes owne person by farre greater reason the bread and the wine consecrated and ordained to bee Sacraments of the pretious body and blood of Christ Iesus represents them really and not by picture Wherefore whosoeuer receiues it vnworthily commits a haynous crime against the supreame and Diuine Maiesty of him to his eternall damnation but t is not to conclude a transubstantiation by a most abhominable coniuration or witchcraft But if you Massalians or Masse-Priests Nicholaits and transubstantiators be not sufficiently satisfied with Iesus Christ his Apostles interpretations as likewise with those similitudes and familiar comparisons to reduce and bring you to the sincere way and certaine forme ordained of God for to celebrate his holy Sacraments in abolishing your Pompilian and Missafique Idolatries eiecting from you your abhominable witchcraft of transubstantiation At the least will ye not beleeue at all the interpretations of the anci●et authors of the Church hearken but to the sayings of St. Augustin against Adamantine that notable hereticke Euen as the blood saith hee in many parts and places of the holy Scripture is said to be the water the Stone also to bee Christ euen so the bread is said to be his body which three places must be vnderstood and interpreted to bee sacred signes and figures then when this very author said Christ Iesus vttered these words Hoc est corpus meum this is my body in presenting and breaking bread to his Disciples hee gaue them the signe of his body for otherwise it should seeme to bee a thing both inhumane and vnlawfull to deuoure the pretious flesh and blood of Iesus Christ if there were not the figure of the bread and wine for to keepe in memory his flesh and blood the body of Christ hauing beene sacrificed to God his Father for our life and eternal nourishment Againe the same author vseth this interpretation The Sacrament visible is the new Testament that is to say the sacred signe of the inuisible sacrifice the like interpretations are described by Tertullian against that hereticke Marcion Christus acceptum panem corpus suum fecit dicendo hoc est corpus meum id est figura corporis mei Wherefore then O Missalians haue you not followed the authority of these holy Doctors of the Church which would not blasphem against God by the magick of transubstantiation but haue freely and vertuously acknowledged the Sacrament to be a visible signe or sacred figure signifying by faith spirit that which is inuisible wherefore do you prepare the mouth and the belly for to deuoure the body and blood of Christ corporally really and carnally why offer you not your selues by true liuely faith for to eate worthily Christ Iesus Why haue you not vnderstood the manducation of the body of Christ by the notable distinction of that learned Doctor S. Ierome saying the flesh of Christ Iesus is to be vnderstood carnally when it is spoken of the shedding his blood and crucifying of his body for our saluation but spiritually when it is said that his flesh is the true meat for vs to eate For another proofe I will alledge that learned Prelate Gelase Bishop of Rome the which disputing against the Heretickes Eutichines and Nestorians doth affirme the bread wine consecrated and made Sacraments are neuerthelesse in substance bread and wine but to be signes of the body and blood of Christ Iesus by the mystery of the Sacrament And if ye desire larger testimonies Saint Ambrosius vpon the Epistle of Saint Paul to the Corinthians hath explicated and made manifest that the eating of the bread and the drinking of the wine doth signifie the flesh and the blood of Christ Iesus offered for vs. Origen likewise in his Homilies teacheth the Sacraments to be figures which we ought to examine really and not carnally because saith he that those words Hoc est corpus meum not vnderstood spiritually kils the soule when he writes to eate the flesh of Christ Wherefore S. Chrysostome admonished the people to honour that holy Sacrament in offring himselfe his soule to God for the which Christ Iesus was crucified that by that holy Sacament of bread wine is signified to vs the similitude of the body and blood of Iesus Christ For resolution we must follow and be ruled according to the instruction and interpretation of our holy Sauiour Christ Iesus and his Apostles to honor and reuerence his holy Sacraments instituted of him by exterior signes to lift vp our hearts and raise our spirits and minds to heauen for to comprehend that which by those signes is represented to vs and not to esteeme hold account them as vaine pictures or apparitions but endeuour to receiue them worthily by liuely faith and vertue of the holy Ghost to the end to be fed and nourished with celestiall bread to the saluation of our soules thereby to attaine life eternall Let vs then be assured in Christ Iesus as members of his body that we may be reduced and brought all into one vnity for to communicate and eate the same bread and drink the same wine compounded of many graines vnited together to the end that wee may say with the holy Apostle All wee faithfull are the body of Christ Iesus saued and redeemed by his holy body crucified and pretious blood shed for vs and so remaining permanent in faith in Christ Iesus in eating his body and drinking his blood to beleeue firmely to haue beene crucified and

THE ORIGINALL OF IDOLATRIES OR THE BIRTH OF HERESIES A true Sincere and exact description of all such SACRED SIGNES SACRIFICES and SACRAMENTS as haue been instituted and ordained of GOD since ADAM With the true source and liuely Anatomy of the Sacrifice of the Masse First faithfully gathered out of sundry Greeke and Latine Authors as also out of diuers learned Fathers By that famous and learned ISAAC CASAVBON and by him Published in French for the good of Gods Church And now translated into English for the benefit of this Monarchy By ABRAHAM DARCIE LONDON Printed by Authoritie for NATHANIEL BVTTER Anno Dom. MDCXXIV TO THE HIGH AND MIGHTY CHARLES PRINCE OF VVALES c. Heire Apparant to the incomparable Monarchies of GREAT BRITAINE c. Most mighty PRINCE HEAVEN turning all the Eminent DANGERS and PERILS of your HIGHNES famous TRAVELL to a strengthening and Confirmation of your HEROICALL and Magnanimous SPIRIT happily returned your HIGHNES to your owne proper Soyle with all true Hearts ioyfull CRIES and inexpressible ACCLAMATIONS of your loyall Subiects who with the rest of GODS people are euer bound to yeeld Thankes vnto the LORD in solemnizing that blest SVNDAY whereon your HIGHNES landed I am bold at this your ioyfull Returne to present to your PRINCELY view This Excellent sincere and most learned worke which may serue for a true and bright MIRROR wherein cleerely to discerne the liuely Portraiture of the true CHVRCH by the foule and odious deformities of her OPPOSITE A Treatise so faithfull and rare that it will absolutely resolue many doubts which vndoubtedly haue beene discussed in your HIGHNES hearing and poynt out as it were with a diuine finger the vncleane Puddle and Sinke from which all moderne Impurities in GODS SERVICE tooke apparant Originall It was first Published in French and now by my willing indeauors exprest in English out of a poore Strangers zeale and desire herein to make knowne to your HIGHNES the inward loyall affection of my heart wholly douoted to the humble obseruance of your High and most deseruing Titles and Illustrious dignities Resoluing euer both in life and death constantly to perseuer Your HIGHNES most Humble and deuoted prostitute AB DARCIE A TRES-PVISSANT PRINCE CHARLES PRINCE DE GALLES DVC DE CORNVALL YORKE ET ALBANI MARQVIS D'ORMONT CONTE DE CHESTER c. FILZ VNIQVE DV ROY CHARLES STVART ANAGRAM CHAST STAR RVLE long on your Illustr'ous Name HEAV'N pleasing PRINCE Accept this ANAGRAME AT HOME in FORREIGNE PARTS at SEA on LAND SAFE you haue STOOD So may you euer stand TO fright pale DANGER checke SINNES Surging SEAS SINNE that doth hourely seeke the SOVLES diseas THe various Changes of your FAMES bright STORY ANGELS protect for that IMMORTAL GLORY RIch glittering STAR-LIGHT Sempiternall Sence RAuisht at sight of GODS Omnipotence VNder whose SACRED Sempitern Defence LOng liue CHAST STAR on Earth to RVLE and shine ETernally in HEAV'N a Star DIVINE IN PERPETVALL HONOR AND IMMORTALL FAME OF THE RIGHT Honourable most pious Religious and truly Noble the LORDS of the Magnificent Court of the most Gracious and Noble PRINCE OF GREAT BRITTAINE Sir THOMAS HOWARD Viscount ANDIVER Master of the Horse to our Gracious PRINCE ROBERT Lord CARIE Baron of LEPINTON Chamberlaine to the PRINCE'S Highnes SPENCER Lord COMPTON Master of the Robes to his Highnesse IOHN Lord VAGHAN Controler of his Highnes Illustrious and Honourable Houshold And to the right generous and most vertuous Sir ROBERT CARR Master of his Highnes Priuie Purse One of the Gentlemen of the PRINCE his Bed-Chamber Sir FRANCIS COTTINGTON his Highnes Secretary Sir EDMOND VARNEY Sir WILLIAM HOWARD Sir RICHARD WINN Sir WILLIAM CROFTS Sir IOHN NORTH Mr. IOHN SANDELANS Mr. FRANCIS CARIE Gentlemen of his Highnes Priuie Chamber Mr. THOMAS CARIE Mr. GEORGE KIRKE Mr. ARCHIBALD PITCARNE Mr. ENDIMION PORTER Mr. WILLIAM MVRRAY Mr. IAMES LEVISTON Groomes of his Highnes Bed-Chamber Mr. ROBERT TERVVIT And Mr. IAMES BVY Quary to the PRINCE Mr. PETER YONG Mr. PETER NEVVTON Gentlemen Vshers dayly Wayter Mr. HVMPHREY DETICKE Gentleman Vsher Quarter Wayter Mr. IAMES ELIOT Mr. PHILIP PROGER Mr. IOHN PORTVIS Groomes of the Priuy Chamber Mr. THOMAS GERMAN Page to his Highnes And to the most learned and pious Mr. Doctor MAVVE And Mr. Doctor WREN Chaplaines to the Highnes of Prince CHARLES Most worthy Patrons of HONOVR patternes of VERTVE and Noble Louers of LEARNING and good endeuours ABRAHAM DARCIE presents to their iudicious viewes this Excellent Worke by him Translated for their Honorable vse Wishing to their Religious selues with the rest of the Nobles and worthy Seruants of his Highnesse that were in SPAINE with our PRINCE all externall internall and eternall happines in the holy Trinity TO THE HONOR AND VSE OF THE MOST ILLVSTRIOVS GEORGE Duke of Buckingham his Grace And to the Right Honourable The Earle of Arran Son to the Marquis Hamilton WILLIAM Earle of Denbigh c. HENRY Viscount Rochford c. Sir HENRY RICH Baron of Kenzington Sir DVDLY NORTH Sir GEORGE GORING IAMES Earle of Carlile Viscount Doncoster c. THOMAS Viscount Andeuer c. SPENCER Lord Compton ROBERT Lord Digbigh Sir ROBERT CARR Sir IOHN NORTH Sir WILLIAM CROFT Sir FRANCIS COTTINGTON Sir EDWARD VARNEY With the rest of the Noble Peeres and worthy Gentlemen of GREAT BRITAINE that were in SPAINE to Attend on the Most Mighty and Gracious Prince CHARLES our incomparable Prince ABRAHAM DARCIE humbly presents the Translation of this excellent and rare Worke to their Honorable censure wishing to their Noble Religious and Vertuous Persons all increase of true HONOR in this WORLD and in HEAVEN infinity of those incomprehensible FELICITIES and eternall ioyes allotted to Christs Elect. MOST ILLVSTRIOVS RIGHT HONORABLE RIGHT WORTHY NO HONORS can bee comparable to those which GOD most graciously returnes vpon them who constantly in this WORLD aduance the true HONOR of his NAME and confidently maintaine against all oppositions his sacred Verity and Truth This famous MONARCHY hath alwayes as vpon so many firme and Noble Pillars committed the earthly foundation of GODS Church and flocke to the Religious care and Honourable supportations of her Noble Peeres out of which number you are such Patrons as haue euer manifested a rare and confident protection of GODS vnspotted Religion and Worship but in your late HONOVRABLE employments in forraine parts vnder our Illustrious PRINCE they haue receiued a more apparent testimony of your true HEARTS RELIGION and ZEALE when soiourning for a time as one may say in the very Tents of KEDAR and beholding with your bodily eyes many superstitious Idolatries you yet retained firme and vnshaken the treasure of a sincere faith and inuiolable conscience hauing conueniently L'OEVIL AV GVET the eye at his sight-hole as our French Prouerbe termes it the better to discerne of all obiects and with the surer ayme to leuell all your Honourable Actions and worthy designes There is no doubt but your Noble selues mette with many Oppositions and Encounters by way of

Moses which was to circumcise the prepuce of their hearts Did the people of Israel giue credit to the good Prophet Ieremias who admonished them of the spirituall Circumcision and to circumcise the foreskin of their hearts in casting off the old skinne of their corrupt nature The like hath hapned in sacrifices and sacred signes instituted by God for signes of that sacrifice consummated in the sacred person of Iesus Christ for carnall man had reference to the corporall bloud of the terrestriall beasts whereas man should haue raised vp his spirit to heauen to haue apprehended what was presigured and signified by the Immolation and Oblation of beasts And therefore diuine Iustice is denounced by the Prophets What neede haue I saith the Lord God of your sacrifices I am angry with the oblation of your sheep I take no more delight in the bloud of oxen nor of lambes and sacrificed goats Why labour you to erect Altars to mee I le none of your vaine Offerings and Oblations I abhorre your Incenses I cannot endure your New Moones your Sabbaths your assemblies nor your feasts all this is but vanity I haue conceiued an hatred against your Feasts of New Moones O you Israelites and your solemne celebrations I am weary with hauing endured so much you are ready to addresse vnto mee your prayers but I will no more heare you for the abuses you haue committed by your hands full of blood I will accept of no Bull hereafter from the house of Israel because sacrifices are not pleasing to mee I take as much delight in the sacrifice of an immolated Oxe as in the murder of a man slaine and in the Oblation of Incense as in the adoration of an Idoll Wherefore then saith GOD take you so much paines to hunt after Incense from Saba and for odours out of a farre Countrey to mee to celebrate sacrifices that are not pleasing to mee Who incited you O Israelites to erect Images to the god Moloch and to the starre of Romphan during the time you were in the desarts where I fed you with my heauenly Manna Your Feastes are odious to mee your Holocausts Oblatio ns and Sacrifices for safetie I will reiect your Offerings displease mee By what meanes therefore must wee present our selues before GOD Must it bee by oblations of Heifers of a yeere old Doth God take pleasure in the great number of sheepe sacrificed to him or in the abundance of consecrated oyles Shal I offer vnto him saith the Prophet the first born for remission of sinnes Our good God herein clearely expresseth what he would haue vs to follow which is equity to loue mercie and to humble themselues before him with a contrite heart Obedience is better then sacrifice or the fat of sacrificed sheepe What mooued God to refuse the Sacraments and Sacrifices by himselfe ordayned but onely the abuses and corruptions the Israelites had committed vnderstanding too carnally the signes and ceremonies therein concurring to drawe them onely to true feare and obedince For in stead of comprehending what was figured in the signes and corporall sacrifices they relyed on the flesh of immolated beasts whereas they should haue circumcized the prepuce of their hearts they depended meerely in carnall circumcision and in the meane while strayed from the true adoration of God in repairing to the Creatures as to the Starres and the Queene of Heauen and to other strange gods offering Incense to them building of Temples instituting of Priests Chaplaines and Sacrificers making Oblations and celebrating sacrifices to them And then further to heape vp all corruptions they offered sacrifice with the bloud of Innocents offering and causing them to passe thorow the Purgatory fire in the valley of Tophet For the abuses also committed in the holy Sacrifices sacred signes and Oblations constituted for God it was said to the people of Israel by the Prophets that God would haue no more of their Feasts of their New Moones nor of their celebrated sacrifices by bloudy and idolatrous people CHAP. IIII. Corruptions punished AFter that the inscrutable Wisedome of God knew the obstinacie and infidelity of the Israelitish people which perseuered still in committing Idolatrie by corrupting the sacred signes sacraments and sacrifices and in stead of acknowledging Gods infinite goodnesse that had freed them from the tyranny of Pharaoh and fedde them in the Desart who had brought them into a promised fertile Land and had so many times assisted them in the warres against their neighbours the Canaanites Moabites Madianites Philistines Ammonites Syrians Sydonians and other enuious people and enemies This rude and ingratefull people continued still in their Idolatry instructed by their Priests sacrificers Princes and Kings without returning to the true adoration of one onely God For this cause after great mercies shewed and long expectation of a Iust rigorous Iudge who by all courses of correction was desirous to reduce his people by diuine particular inflictions which was by excited wars by captiuities seruitudes by diuisions of the Kingdom distributed between Roboam and Ieroboam successours to Salomon who fell to extreme Idolatry by intestine and ciuill warres growing betweene the same people diuided in themselues and by other vsuall scourges to chastize those whom God meant to fauour for the reducing of them vnder his feare and obedience At last this people beeing too much obdurate and inueterated in their Idolatries were brought into miserable seruitude vnder the Tyranny of the vnbeleeuing Assyrians the Idolatrous Babylonians and their kingdomes wholly extirpated But some pretty while after when the same people by the speciall mercy of God were deliuered out of the hands of these infidell Tyrants restored to their liberty and Countrey of promise they againe fell to Idolatry more then before vnder the gouernement of their sacrificers and high Priests which confounded the Spirituall and Temporall together so farre as to inuest themselues with the Royall Scepter and Diadem Then came in the Heresies of the Pharisees the Sadducees the Esseans Galileans Masbutheans Hermerobaptists and Samaritanes corrupted through the diuersity of strange Nations hauing subdued and inhabited the Countrey of Samaria next to Iudea For the Babylonians worshipped Succobenoth for their god The Cutheans of Persia had for their god Nergal or Nergel The Hamathensians called vpon their god Asima The Ananoys worshipped Nebahaze and Thartace The Sepharuamensians held for their gods Adramelech and Anamelech to which gods they sacrificed their childrē causing them to passe through the fire Wherefore when all kind of Idolatry was thus spred among the Israelites when the sacrifices were absolutely corrupted the sacrificers became mercenary auaricious tyrants and Idolatrous The people made tributary to the Tyrants of Rome the Countrey of Judeae reduced to a Prouince next to that of Syria vnder the subiection and power of the Romanes as also the Order and Law of electing high Priests adulterated and their dignity quite bastardized

that wipes out the sinnes of the world can wee herevpon induce a transubstantiation If Iesus Christ said that he was the doore of the sheepe-fold by whom we must enter to be saued And that hee is the good Pastor and wee his sheepe must we needs so straine and wrest these places of the holy Scripture as to thinke it necessary because the word est is mentioned to beleeue a transubstantiation When Iesus Christ admonished his Apostles saying that they were the salt of the earth did hee therefore transubstantiate or conuert them into Statues of Pillars of salt as he did Lots Wife If Iesus Christ said by his Apostles that we are the Temples of God in which the holy Ghost inhabits must wee therefore imagine that we are transubstantiated into a masse of stone If the holy Apostle writ that Iesus Christ is the Rocke out of whom came liuing water to wash and purge vs from our sinnes Must we wrest out of this a transmutation and transubstantiation of Iesus Christ into a Rocke or a materiall stone If the holy Apostle testifieth that we are the bodie of Christ may wee by this inferre that we are translated and now no more men but transubstantiated into an accident without substance I readily foresee O you obdurate Missalians that you will obiect all these pre-alleadged places wherein this word est is and make no mention of the Sacraments which must the more exactly bee obserued in that these be sacred mysteries ordained of God which is most true And this word est is not onely found in the holy Scriptures formerly cited but when we speake of holy Sacraments first instituted by God for his people of Israel is it written that Circumcision is Gods alliance and Couenant In the other holy Sacrament of the Communion of the Paschall Lambe was it said that the Lambe was the Passeouer which is to say the passage But shall we induce hereupon a Magicke of transubstantiation Will you not confesse O Missalian transubstantiators that in these passages of the holy Scriptures speaking of holy Sacraments that this word est can not be otherwise interpreted then to signifie some reall performance and that Circumcision was a signe and a marke of the Couenant and alliance contracted by God with Abraham The Paschall Lambe was also a sacred signe of the passage for a remembrance of their deliuerie out of Egypt The Arke of alliance for another Sacrament of which it is written that it is the truth and power of the Lord Must wee vnderstand by this that it was transubstantiated into the reall Maiestie of God Wee must wee must I say interpret the holy Scriptures with discretion and in humilitie without sophistication and without Magicke soundly to apprehend the conception of words and not sticke so close to the letter which kils but receiue the Word of God in liuely spirit If then the sacred Arke is called the Lord and nominated God because in it he exercised his omnipotent power and declared his Oracles and mysteries by exteriour signes to draw the Israelitish people to bee mindfull of God and to feare and obey him If Iesus Christ also said that hee was bread which came downe from Heauen the Bread of Life and that the Wine was his bloud that the Cup is the New Testament by the externall signes of Bread and Wine to giue vs to vnderstand that our life and sauing nutriment depended onely on Iesus Christ and that by his death bloodshed we haue assurance of eternall life euen as bread and Wine serue for corporall nourishment and that he meant and ordained these sacred signes to bee to vs for Sacraments to approue and confirme our faith Did he determin we should hereby Capernize Nicodemize to enquire or make doubt of Gods power how it is possible to eate the body or drinke the blood of Iesus Christ how we can possibly be regenerated and borne anew Seeing the promise was made vnto vs by the Word wherefore haue you O Missalians conceiued a carnall transubstantiation distrusting in the incomprehensible power of God May it not suffice you simply to beleeue that the body and blood of Iesus Christ was really and sacramentally offered to communicate thereof for our spirituall nourishment and to grant vs eternall life through the Bread and Wine consecrated with giuing of thankes the bread being truely his bodie and the Wine his Blood which we must worthily receiue by faith and puritie of conscience as sacred signes and markes of the diuine Character without searching too subtilly after the meanes other then the plaine interpretation of Iesus Christ that the flesh profits not but the Spirit quickens and that his words are spirit and life Should wee doubt whether God hath power by the symboles of Bread and Wine consecrated to make vs communicate of the bodie and blood of Iesus Christ though the bread remaine bread and the wine wine If it were otherwise this could be no Sacrament but rather called a Miracle As when Iesus Christ conuerted the Water into Wine hee then vsed the miracle of transubstantiation changing the Water into Wine But hee ordained not this for a Sacrament as he did the communion of his body blood by the sacred figures of Bread and Wine Was it not also as easie for God to change the Wine into blood or the bread into flesh as for Moses and Aaron to change the water of the Riuer into blood to confirme the hardnes of Pharaohs heart or when the clouds were turned into the flesh of Quailes that rained vpon the people of Israel Neuerthelesse God did not ordaine that these miracles should serue for ordinarie Sacraments but herein he applyed himselfe to our infirmitie exhibiting to vs sacred but not transubstantiated signes and yet are not vaine nor fantasticall but signes externall that we may behold touch eate and taste remaining still in their substance and neuerthelesse they represent sacramentally what is by them comprehended and intimated wherein consists the approbation of our faith to manifest by a sacramentall worke and ministration that wee are in the number of the regenerate and sustained by the holy Sacraments of Baptisme and the Supper CHAP. XXII Comparison betweene the two holy Sacraments IF wee may presume to make comparison of the two holy Sacraments of Baptisme and of the Supper though there bee a difference betweene it and regeneration which is not reiterated For it sufficeth that we be once regenerate and begotten anew but this spirituall nutriment is often renued according to the course of nature and other differences very amply described by the holy Apostles and Ministers of Gods Word Notwithstanding the same end the same Iesus Christ is represented as well in Baptisme as in the Supper By the blood of Iesus Christ wee are regenerated and by the same blood nourished By the blood of Iesus Christ we are renued sett and