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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96332	A demonstration that the Church of Rome, and her councils have erred by shewing, that the councils of Constance, Basil, and Trent, have, in all their decrees touching communion in one kind, contradicted the received doctrine of the Church of Christ. With an appendix, in answer to the XXI. chapter of the author of A papist misrepresented, and represented.	Whitby, Daniel, 1638-1726.	1688 (1688)	Wing W1721A; ESTC R226161	116,790	130

believing Jews who heard these words and died before our Saviour's Passion Joh. vi 4. must of necessity be damned for our Lord saith with an asseveration to them Except you eat the flesh c. now this was said at least above a Year before our Saviour's Passion and so before the Institution of that Sacrament in which alone his flesh could be corporally eaten and therefore had it been intended of corporeal and sacramental eating it was impossible that any person of those Hearers could be saved who died in the ensuing year 2. These words interpreted in the corporeal Sence do plainly and inevitably inferr That they who do deprive the Laity all their whole lives of drinking of this blood expose them to inevitable damnation Christ having said Except you drink the Blood of the Son of Man you have no Life in you for though eating and drinking being taken figuratively do signifie the same thing viz. believing in a crucified Saviour yet being taken properly they cannot be reputed the same thing For albeit they who receive the body only may be well said to eat the flesh of Christ because they take something by way of Meat into their Mouths yet cannot they be said to drink his blood if they take nothing into their Mouths by way of Drink Since therefore eating and drinking are two distinct Actions so that he cannot properly be said to drink who only eats since the privation of Life is here connected with not drinking of Christ's Blood as much as with not eating of his flesh according to the corporeal Interpretation pretation of these words he must certainly be deprived of the Life here promised who doth not receive the Cup because he is deprived of drinking of the Blood of Christ 4. From Vers 54 56. the Argument runs thus whoseover eateth the Flesh and drinketh the Blood of Christ in the sence here spoken of abideth in Christ and Christ in him and therefore is a true and living Member of Christ's Body and he shall have Eternal Life and be partaker of an happy Resurrection and so no person can be either wicked here or deprived of Everlasting Life hereafter who in this sence here mentioned eats of the Flesh and drinketh of the Blood of Christ Now this is very true of eating Spiritually and by Faith as it imports believing on Christ for Vers 40 This saith Christ is the Will of him that sent me That every one who believeth on the Son may hve Everelasting Life and I will raise him up at the lat Day but then of Sacramental eating of Christ's Flesh it is as false for this was eaten by a Judas and continually is eaten by Millions who are both wicked here and will be damned hereafter this therefore cannot be the import of our Saviour's words and here observe 1. That our Lord speaks in the general whosoever eats 2. That he speaks thus not by way of Promise which might be conditional but by way of plain Assertion and declaration of a thing most certain And 3. That the Text shews the eating mentioned here can never be performed unprofitably no not without the greatest benefit for 't is opposed to the eating of Manna in the Wilderness on this account that whereas that gave only Temporal Life this would assuredly conferr Eternal whereas that was not able to preserve from Temporal this would preserve from Death Eternal 5. Moreover Vers 61 62. our Lord speaks thus Doth this offend you what if you shall see the Son of Man ascend up where he was before i. e. are you offended that I thus speak of giving you my Fleh to eat do you look on this Expression now as so absurd and unintelligible what then will you think of it when this Body shall be removed hence to Heaven i. e. HOw will you then be scandalized and think it still more difficult and more impossible to apprehend how you should eat my Flesh and drink my Blood provided you go on to understand my words in the gross carnal Sence For Athanasius In illud Evang Quicunque dixerit P. 979. saith well That Christ here mentioneth his ascent into Heaven 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That he might divert them from the corporeal sence and therefore argued thus Seing it will be hen impossible that you should corporally eat my Flesh when it is so far removed from you by this you may discern I speak of a spiritul eating of it Whence by the way we learn That Christ thought his Ascention into Heaven sufficient demonstration to the Jews his Flesh could not be eaten upon Earth and why it should not be so to the Christian I am yet to learn. 6. The 63. Vers affords us a more plain and certain Exposition of our Saviour's meaning in the precedent words for thus they run It is the Spirit that quickeneth the Flesh profiteth nothing 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Euseb de ecclesiaftic Theolog. l. 3. c. 12. The words that I speak unto you they are Spirit and they are Life For the import of these words is to this effect unto that eating and drinking of which in this Discourse I have still spoken I have annexed the Promise of Life saying expressly He that eateth me shall live by me he shall by me be quickned Now all Men know That 't is the Spirit in them that gives them Life and when that Spirit is taken from them the Flesh cannot live or minister to the continuance of their Life by which similitude you may plainly learn I spake not of my real Flesh when I told you that by eating it you should have Life but of my Word and Doctrine that of my Passion more especially for my words which I speak to you they are Spirit and they are Life i.e. if you will hearken to them they will make you live Spiritually here Eternally hereafter and by so doing will be Life yea where they are embraced they are that to the new Man which is the Spirit to the Flesh they give him Life Activity and Motion and therefore they are Spirit Had our Lord said it is the Spirit that quickeneth the Flesh profiteth nothing therefore the Flesh which I will give shall be still joined to my Divinity and by the virtue of it give you Life he had said somewhat like the sence which others put upon this Text but saying only The words which I speak unto you they are Spirit we cannot doubt but he speaks of eating and of drinking of his words spiritually 7. Our Saviour having said unto the Twelve Will ye also go away St. Peter Answers To whom should we go Thou hast the words of eternal Life and we believe thou art that Christ the Son of the living God. Where 1. observe that Peter here doth as it were repeat the words of Christ My words are Life saith Christ Thou hast the words of Life eternal saith St. Peter whereas if he had understood our Saviour to have spoken here of Oral Manducation his Answer