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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A23834	Remarks upon the ecclesiastical history of the antient churches of the Albigenses by Peter Allix ...	Allix, Pierre, 1641-1717.	1692 (1692)	Wing A1230; ESTC R14912	189,539	306

account he calls it the Truth of the Heavenly Sacrament We have a like Expression of Baptism alluding to the Passage of the Red-Sea in one of St. Augustin's Homilies upon Nicodemus's coming to Jesus Christ related by Paulus Diaconus In inventione S. Crucis and 't is the same we find also in several Passages of St. Caesarius We find that the word Transformation has perfectly charm'd him We therefore Lord keeping these Institutes and Precepts do most humbly beseech thee that thou wouldst be pleased to receive bless and sanctify this Sacrifice that it may be to us a true Eucharist in thy own and Son's Name and of the Holy Ghost that so there may be a Transformation of the Body and Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ thy only Begotten c. And in a Marginal Note he observes that the same Word is made use of in this Liturgy That it may please thee to send down thy Holy Spirit upon these Solemnities that it may be to us a true Eucharist in thy own and Son's Name and of the Holy Ghost for a Transformation of the Body and Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ thy only Begotten that it may bestow upon us who eat it eternal Life and the everlasting Kingdom to those that shall drink it And also That thy Blessing may come down upon this Bread and Wine for the Transformation of thy Holy Spirit that blessing thou may'st bless them and sanctifying thou may'st sanctify them c. And the like in other Missals as antient as this which he observes also in his Preface But this after all signifies nothing else but the Change which the Holy Ghost produceth in making the Elements after Consecration to become the Sacrament of the Body of Jesus Christ This is that which our Authors have fully justified by an infinite number of Examples borrowed from Baptism and other things consecrated by Prayer Boethius in his Books De consolatione Philosophiae saith Conversi in malitiam humanam quoque amisêre naturam Evenit ergo ut quem transformatum vitiis videas hominem existimare non possis Being turn'd into Malice they at the same time lose humane Nature So that if you see one transformed by Vice you cannot look upon him as a Man And Ratramnus in his Book of the Body and Blood of our Lord saith That Jesus Christ in former times could change the Manna and Water out of the Rock in the Wilderness into his Flesh and Blood the same Ratramnus that oppos'd Paschasius who was the first Publisher of the Doctrine of a real Change We find there the Notion of Vertere and convertere in carnem Beseeching that he who then changed the Water into Wine would be pleased now to change the Wine of our Oblations into his Blood And again Let us entreat him that he who as at this day by his Son turned the Species of Water into Wine would be pleased in like manner to change the Oblations and Prayers of us all into a Divine Sacrifice and to accept them as he did accept the Offering of Abel the Just and the Sacrifice of Abraham his Patriarch But the appearance of this seeming Difficulty we find in the following Leaf Besides that it is ridiculous to suppose the real Change of the Prayers of Believers into the Body and Blood of our Saviviour which is suppos'd of the Oblations We meet with an Expression which seems somewhat strange O Jesu Christ who in the Evening of the World wast made an Evening-Sacrifice on the Cross vouchsafe to us that we may become new Sepulchres for thy Body Tho indeed these Expressions plainly shew that they are only intended for the prefiguring the Death of Christ according to the Notion of Rabanus Maurus We find there frequently that the Sacrament is said to be a Remedy for the Body and an Expiation for the Soul but this doth no more suppose the carnal Presence or the Expiation which is the fruit of a Propitiatory Sacrifice than that which we find in the Roman Order in blessing a Grave that it may be a saving Remedy to the Party resting in it for the Redemption of his Soul In the same Liturgy they say to God Do thou therefore so come down into the present Oblation that it may afford Healing unto the Living and Refreshment unto those who are Dead But this regards only the Presence of Vertue as in the Roman Order they beg of God that he would afford his Presence and Majesty in Baptism There is mention likewise made of the Immolation of the Body of Jesus Christ but this is only said by way of Resemblance as St. Augustin explains it in his 23 d Epistle to Bonifacius for in other places this Liturgy speaks of Bread offered up There is also mention made of a Sacrifice But 1 st He gives that Name to the Eucharist which every-where throughout this Liturgy is termed a Sacrifice of Praises and Thanksgivings 2 ly It compares the Sacrifice with that of Melchizedeck wherein every one knows there was nothing of Transubstantiation This is that which Rabanus explains Lib. 1. de instit clericor cap. 31. Mabillon particularly triumphs when he takes notice of a Passage which is found in the 78 th Office He offer'd up himself first to thee a Sacrifice and first taught himself to be offer'd These words offer'd up himself seem to him to be applicable to the Act of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist but he must not take it ill if we tell him that it is not true that he then offer'd up any Sacrifice the Sacrifice of Jesus Christ consisting only in his Death on the Cross the Eucharist where he had only his Death before his Eyes was only the Memorial of his Sacrifice his Offering consisting only in his Death If he did offer up himself in the Eucharist then was he already dead which is a Notion attributed to Gregory Nissen but is refuted by the Divines of the Church of Rome as impertinent Some it may be will imagine that the Authors of the Gothick Liturgy take away all Equivocation when they say Let us receive that in the Wine which flow'd from thee on the Cross But indeed here we have reason to admire how far strong Prejudices will carry Men so as even to hinder common Sense from acting for really there can be no Notion more opposite to Transubstantiation since this Notion represents the State in which Christ was given to us that is a State of Death which is contrary to the Popish Notions by which they believe him alive in the Eucharist Besides it is absolutely false that Jesus Christ did after his Resurrection retake the same Blood which he lost on the Cross The Church of Rome pretends that she hath it in her keeping and it is shown in I don't know how many places This Expression is well known to be St. Augustin's whose Doctrine is vastly opposite to that of Transubstantiation as De

of the Romish Party We cannot but look upon Petrus Oxoniensis a Doctor of Salamanca in the Year 1479 as a Disciple of the Albigenses in divers Points especially those nine Conclusions which this Author was forced to retract by Sixtus IV th's Order who authorized the Archbishop of Toledo to condemn them Any Man that reads these nine Propositions which Caranza sets down would think that it was only these Opinions that offenced the Archbishop of Toledo but if we will but read the Bull of Sixtus IV which has been published by Alphonsus à Castro we shall find that this Doctor opposed many other Points of Popery The Pope's Words which are very remarkable are these Et alias propositiones quas propter earum enormitatem ut illi qui de eis notitiam habent obliviscantur earum qui de eis notitiam non habent ex praesentibus non instruantur in eis silentio praetermittendas duximus And there are other Propositions which are of so foul a Nature that we think it convenient to pass them over in silence that so those who know them may forget them and those that do not know them may not be instructed in them by these our Letters CONCLVSION THese are the Remarks I thought fit to make upon the History of the Churches of the Albigenses I suppose the Reader will own that I have deduced their Succession from the Apostles and their Independence on the See of Rome with care enough tho the Barbarity of the Enemies of the Truth has done its utmost Endeavours to abolish all the Monuments which these illustrious Witnesses of it had left in these Diocesses Neither do I believe that the Bishop of Meaux will have any pretence for the future to accuse them of Manicheism nor to reproach the Protestants that they can find no other Predecessors in Antiquity but a parcel of Men whose Doctrine and Lives were equally execrable Nothing but a Spirit animated with such a Rage and Fury as produc'd those Crusades can obstinately maintain such horrid Calumnies after all that we have here alledged for their Justification I might perhaps have been more particular in the Accounts which I have given of the bad Construction the Inquisitors have put upon their Belief but besides that I have sufficiently discovered the Injustice of these Ministers of Hell who is there amongst the Protestants nay amongst the very Papists themselves that is not fully convinc'd of the Iniquity and profound Malice of these Hearts of Tygers who under the name of Defenders of the Christian Faith have rack'd their Brains to blacken the most innocent Lives of the most religious Christians and who have made it their Diversion to exterminate them by the most dismal Torments The Bishop of Meaux may write as long as he pleases to maintain these diabolical Calumnies I am persuaded that if any equitable Members of his Communion will take the pains to compare the Carriage of the Heathens towards the Primitive Christians with the Behaviour of his Church under Innocent III and Gregory IX against the Albigenses and the Patience of the Albigenses slandered and persecuted by the Church of Rome with the Condition of the Primitive Church persecuted and slandered by the Heathens they will find it as difficult to look upon the Church of Rome as the Daughter of the Primitive Church as it will be easy for them to acknowledg the Albigenses as the genuine Off-spring of those Primitive Christians I did not think it necessary for my Design to tie my self Step by Step to every particular which I might justly have found fault with in the Book where the Bishop of Meaux handles the History of the Albigenses It is an endless Labour to trace a Man that follows false Guides and who hath nothing new besides the Art and turn of Expression and because the naked Truth hath always the better of Works of this nature it is sufficient to set it in a clear Light for the extinguishing that false Lustre which Men bestow upon Lies by Ornaments put upon them only to hide their Deformity And it is my Hope after all that as God hath illustriously displayed the Care of his Providence in raising the Church of Piedmont from those Ruins under which the Spirit of Persecution thought for ever to have buried it so he will be pleased to vouchsafe the same Protection to those desolate Flocks whom the Violence of the Romish Party hath constrain'd to dissemble their Faith by making a Show of embracing the Roman Religion to avoid the Extremities of their Persecution One would think that that God who hath wrought so many Wonders for their Preservation so many Ages together and who even then when they seem'd reduc'd to nothing by the bloody Vigilance of the Inquisitors who Age after Age have gleaned this Field after the barbarous Rage of the Crusades was over should be unwilling to suffer this oppressed Light to be wholly extinguished but that he will make these his Witnesses rise from their Graves now after the Church of Rome has signaliz'd her Joy for their Death and Destruction God of his great Mercy be pleased to restore to these afflicted Flocks the same Joy and the same Comfort which their Ancestors felt at the time of the Reformation when they gave such publick Evidence of their Zeal and entred by Crowds into the Bosom of the Reformed Church whose Principles they had maintained so many Ages before the Reformation and to open the Eyes of their Persecutors giving them Grace to acknowledg that they fight against God whilst they strive to force Mens Consciences and to engage the People to own that Religion as Divine which is only the Product of human Policy the very Sink of the Corruptions of these last Times and the Off-spring of the Spirit of Error EXTRACTS OF Several Trials OF SOME Pretended Hereticks in the Diocess of SARVM Taken out of an old Register IN the Name of the Holy Trinite Fadir Son and Holy Goste his blessed Modir and al the Holy Compeny of Hevyn We Austyn Stere of Herry Benette of Spene William Brigger of Thachum Richard Hignell William Priour and Richard Goddard of Newbery and every of us severally in the Diocess of Sarum gretely noted defamed detecte and to you Reverend Fadir in God Thomas by God's Grace Bishop of Sarum our Iugge and Ordinarie denownced for untrew belevyng Men and also that we and every of us shold hold afferme teche and defende openly and prively Heresies Errours singular Opinions and false Doctrines contrarie to the commen Doctrine of our Modir Holy Church and with Subtilites eville soundyng and deceyveable to the Ere 's of true sympille understanding Cristen People which be to us and every of us severelly nowe by your Auctorite procedyng of Office promoted judicially objected First That I Augustyn Stere have hold affermed and seyd that the Church of Criste is but a Sinagoge and an House of Marchandise and that Pristis be but Scribis