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The plausible arguments of a Romish priest answered by an English Protestant seasonable and useful for all Protestant families.
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Comber, Thomas, 1645-1699.
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Wing C5481; ESTC R16555
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Po. Well but the Literal sense is not to be left unless where the words cannot be taken otherwise than Figuratively which is not the case here Prot. Yes that is the very case here for the Literal sense is impossible and full of Contradictions but the Figurative is natural plain and easie For if we take these words Literally Christ's Body was whole and sitting at the Table and broken into pieces on the Table at the same time it must be entire now in Heaven and yet all of it in ten thousand different and distant places on the Earth We must believe the substance of Flesh hath none of its proper Accidents and that the Accidents of Bread can subsist without their proper substance We must think that to be real Flesh and Blood which we see smell taste and feel to be real Bread and Wine We must believe there is a Miracle when all our Senses which are witnesses to all other Miracles give Evidence there is no Miracle at all here In short we must contradict our Reason and deny our Senses without any need unless it be to uphold an unintelligible Literal sense when the Figurative is far more plain Po. 'T is strange how Prejudice may blind Men surely you cannot be in earnest when you say a Figurative Speech is plainer than a Speech without a Figure This only shews how desperate your Cause is which drives you to these Absurdities Prot. I will prove it is no Absurdity to maintain that in this case the Figurative sense is easier For that is the easiest sense of any words which the Mind first apprehends when we hear them For Example if one point to an House and Land and say This is my Estate there the plain sense is the Literal sense But if one hold a Writing sealed in his Hand and say This is my Estate the easiest and plainest sense then is This is that which conveys my Estate and all the benefits of it to me So if Christ had pointed to himself sitting at Table and said This is my Body the Apostles would and we must have taken it Literally but since he points to Bread and saith This is my Body the first and most natural sense of the words is This is that which signifies my Body and communicates all the benefits of my Incarnation and Passion to you and thus S. Paul expresly doth expound it when he saith it is the Communion of his Body and Blood 1 Cor. x. 16. Po. What then do you believe that Christ is in this Sacrament no otherwise but in a bare figure and empty sign Prot. We believe that Christ is here verily and indeed taken and received by the faithful and really present as to all the effects and benefits of his Passion but this presence though it be real yet is spiritual and apprehended by Faith not corporal and substantial because then it must be discerned by sense Po. From one absurdity granted many will follow and your absurd exposition forces you to hold this ridiculous assertion That a Spiritual Presence is a real Presence Prot. Dare you seriously deny this which you call a ridiculous assertion Is not Christ really with his Church to the end of the World by his Spiritual Presence Is not the Holy Ghost really with every Regenerate Man by his Spiritual Presence The effects and benefits of Christ's Death which we seek in this Sacrament are Spiritual such as Pardon Peace Grace and hopes of Glory yet they are very real and therefore we think it fittest to expect them in a Spiritual manner especially since our Lord hath told us It is the Spirit that quickneth the Flesh profiteth nothing John vi 63. And the Aposte saith Faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen Heb. xi 1. That is It makes things invisible and Spiritual to be very real to the true Believer Po. I find you delight much in calling this Spiritual Meat and Drink but would gladly understand how you dare do so without any Authority of Scripture yea when the Scripture saith Christ will give us his Flesh to Eat John vi 53. Prot. We have good Authority of Scripture for this viz 1 Cor. x. 3 4 Where it is said that the Israelites had the priviledge by certain signs to Eat and Drink into Christ as well as we in a mystical way For they did all Eat of the same Spiritual Meat and did all Drink of the same Spiritual Drink For they Drank of that Spiritual Rock that followed them and that Rock was Christ We see it was Spiritual Meat and Drink which they had yet it was the same with ours and therefore ours must be Spiritual Meat and Drink too Again we are not said All to Drink into one Blood but into one Spirit 1 Cor. xii 13. Nor can we understand how St. Paul could call that which is the Communion of Christs Body by the Name of Bread after Consecration 1 Cor. xi 26 27 28. If the outward part did not remain unchanged in substance though its use be changed and our Souls are certainly fed here yet these are not capable of feeding either on Bread or Flesh Yea our Lord himself teaches us to Expound those Words in St. John of a Spiritual Communication of his Body for he saith The words he speaks to us are Spirit and Life John vi 63. Po. You do but prevaricate when you pretend to believe Christ is really present in the Sacrament for if you truly believed this you would give Divine Worship to the Host as we do Prot. We bend our Knees address our Prayers and give Divine Worship to Christ who is really present to our Faith in this Sacrament But since we are sure that the outward part is not changed in nature but only in use and signification and doth still remain Bread we dare not give Divine Worship to that which is a Creature since it would be Idolatry so to do Po. Well I will inform you of one very ill consequence of your denying Christs Flesh and Blood to be substantially in this Sacrament that is you make it to be only a Commemoration of the Sacrifice on the Cross but we give it far more honour believing it to be a Propitiatory Sacrifice for the sins of quick and dead Prot. Neither you nor we ought to make the Sacrament what we please we must take our Notions of it from Scripture and from Christ who instituted it and he bids us Do this in Remembrance of Him Luk. xxii 19. And S. Paul doth not say it is the Lords Death but the shewing forth of his Death 1 Cor. xi 26. Yea he makes this the main difference between the legal Sacrifices and that of Christ on the Cross that they were often Offered but he was only to be Offered once and by that one Offering hath perfectly satisfied for the Sins of the whole World Hebr. ix 25 26. And Chap. x. 14. So that this Sacrament is certainly a
Law and Equity of the Gospel or the Goodness of our Lord as a Legislator Delivered first from the Pulpit in two plain Sermons and now Repeated from the Press with others tending to the same end to which is added The Grand Inquiry to be made in these Inquisitive Times together with the Resolution of Paul and Silas as also an Improvement of that Inquiry containing in its Parts a Resolution unto it self and a Scriptural Prognostick of Jesus Christ's Second Advent to Judge the World Lastly A Preservative against Ambition By Thomas Pierce D. D. Chaplain in Ordinary to his Majesty and Dean of Sarum The Excellency of Monarchical Government especially of the English Monarchy Wherein is Treated The several Benefits of Kingly Government and the Inconvenience of Common Wealths Also of the several Badges of Soveraignty in General and Particularly according to the Constitution of the Laws of England likewise of the Duty of Subjects and the Mischiefs of Faction Sedition and Rebellion In all which the Principles and Practices of our late Common-Wealths-Men are considered By Nathaniel Johnson Doctor in Physick An Historical Vindication of the Divine Right of Tithes from Scripture Reason and the Opinion and Practice of Jews Gentiles and Christians in all Ages designed to Supply the Omissions Answer the Objections and Rectifie the Mistakes of Mr. Selden's History of Tithes Part I. A further Vindication of the Divine Right of Tithes Proved by Scripture and Antiquity and Illustrated by the Solemn Consecration and great Conveniency of them with an Answer to the Objections of other Authors against them Part II. To which is added A Discourse of Excommunication By Thomas Comber D. D. Precentor of York A Church Catechism with a brief and easie Explanation thereof for the help of the meanest Capacities and weakest Memories in order to the Establishing them in the Religion of the Church of England A Treatise of Spousals and Matrimonial Contracts wherein all the Questions relating to that Subject are ingenuously debated and resolved By the late Famous and Learned Mr. Henry Swinborn Author of the Treatise of Wills and Testaments Sir William Dugdales Summons to all Parliaments since the 49th Year of King Henry the Third The Dean of Durham's Counsel and Directions Divine and Moral in Letters of Advice to a Young Gentleman soon after his Admission into a Colledge in Oxford Archbishop Stern's Logick The Popes Bull concerning the Damnation Excommunication c. of Queen Elizabeth with Observations and Animadversions thereon By Thomas Lord Bishop of Lincoln There is also Printed with it the Popes Bull for the Damnation and Excommunication of King Henry the Eighth ☞ The Plausible Arguments of a Romish Priest Answered by an English Protestant Written by an Eminent Hand Seasonable and Useful for all Protestant Families Price Stich'd Six pence Newly Published FINIS * The Religion of the Church of England taught by Christ and his Apostles The Scriptures in an unknown Tongue The pretended Roman Catholick Church St. Peter's Superiority and Jurisdiction over the rest of the Apostles The Popes Supremacy The Popes Infallibility Implicit Faith or Believing as the Church believes * Oral Tradition or the Faith delivered down by Word of Mouth from Age. to Age. The Church of Rome full gross Errors Image-Worship Invocation of Saints and Angels The Worship of the Blessed Virgin The Adoration of Relicks Divine Service in an unkown Tongue Transubstantiation Half-Communion or denying the Cup to the Laity The Doctrine of Concomitancy or the Blood always accompanying the Body Auricular Confession or that which is privately whispered into the Ear of the Priest Priestly Absolution Satisfaction or Peâ—nances Indulgences Purgatory 〈…〉 of Religious 〈◊〉 Exorcisms or Casting out Evil Spirits The Conclusion