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A12090	Christ, on his throne; not in popish secrets A prophecie of Christ, against his pretended presence in popish secrets; laid open in a sermon preached before his Maiestie at Wansted certaine yeares agoe, and since much inlarged, and (vpon request) preached else where. By Richard Sheldon, Doctor in Diuinitie, his Maiesties chaplaine. In the preface whereof, there is also a briefe inquirie made by him, into a late sermon, stiled, The communion of saints.	Sheldon, Richard, d. 1642?	1622 (1622)	STC 22394; ESTC S117178	50,612	74

you Christ is in the secrets beleeue it not regard it not not for that I denie that faith is required that wee may beleeue that true reall and Sacramentall presence with Christ hath in the true Sacrament but for that I constantly affirme that Christ forbiddeth the beleefe of any such personall and carnall presence of himselfe in the Sacrament such as The false prophets behold inuites to faith of a prodigious corporall presence these false Prophets were to teach Thus haue I sufficiētly shewed or rather I doe suppose that the inuitation of the false prophets in the word behould is an inuitation to faith and beleefe of some prodigious presence behould he is in the Penetralls and Secrets that is beleeue hee is in the Penetralls and Secrets A mysticall hidden secret inuisible and mysterious presence of Christ in Secrets is then that which these false Prophets were to teach noted and expressed in this word Behould And so wee come to the further discussion of the false doctrine it selfe He is in Secrets And first what wee are here to vnderstand by these The false doctrine it selfe Secrets wherein Christ is affirmed to bee and Secondly that these false prophets were to teach the verie true Christ himselfe not Antichrist nor any other pretended Christ to bee in these Secrets The first as it is a poynt of high consequence so it is of What is to be vnderstood by the word Secrets psalme 8 great difficulty Hee who was once pleased to open the tongues of babes and infants and from their mouthes to perfect his owne praise bee pleased so to preuent assist and follow me with his grace that I may speake truely religiously and you may hear accordingly Though it may seem to some a nouelty yet it is most agreeing to the analogie of faith as I shall make it appear vnto you It is not such a nouelty but that Peter Martyr Plessis Mornay though Mart. loci class 4. loc 10. Plessis de Sacra l. 4. c. 9 they haue but a few lines heerof haue professedly thus declared this Text yea and some of the antient Fathers seem much inclining heerunto as heerafter shall be shewed Be therefore most attentiue and ponder well the declaration which by GOD's assistance I shall make for though noua c●da my interpretation may seem to some to be new yet it is not vt noua set vt vetustissima astruam that I Irenae l. 4. c. 32 Orig. hom 15. in Mat. Aug. trac 59. in Ioan. Eus in vit Const l. 4. c. 45 endeauour thereby to bring-in any new point of faith but to establish that which is most venerable antient and truely Apostolicall And for my more vn-reproueable manner of proceeding heerin I lay for a foundation inuiolable this Principle or prime assured Rule receiued by all Antiquity not reiected by any iudicious either Pontifician or Protestant and for truth as clear as the heauens to wit that the sacred Scriptures are euer literally according to their An infallible rule for orthodox in●erpretation of scripture plain sense to bee vnderstood and interpreted idem vt sit sensus mentis qui est sonus auris that the sense of the minde be the same with the sound of the eare when-as the literall and plaine sense of the same is neither against faith nor good manners nor seemeth to affirm any absurdity or impossibility Now to interpret and expound these words we haue in hand according to their plaine and literall sense maketh nothing against the truth of Christian faith but openeth a point of Antichristian pseudo-christianisme aimed at heer by our Sauiour neither maketh it against good manners neither containeth it any impossibilitie for it declareth that which is in the daily vse and practice of the Antichristian Church and which also they hould That Christ is in the Secrets is the corner-stone of all popish worship not onely to be possible but further make it a secondary Corner-stone of all their irreligious religion To this are directed and for this are intended the whole masse and troop of their superstitious ceremonies and lesser orders and vpon this as vpon a God amongst men not sursum but deorsum babentes corda having their hearts not lift vp but cast downe they doo rest the very hope of their saluation In this respect happy yea thrice happy is that man who can dy with this God in his mouth with this Christ in or vpon his stomack hauing such a viaticum within himself Most of the antient Interpreters of Saint Mathewes Gospell such as liued in the purer times of the Church whil'st this Prophecy of Christ was not fully compleated for before transubstantiation was fully decreed this Con● general Lat. sub Innoc. 3 anno 1215 Pseudo-christianisme of Christs being in Secrets Penetrals to be beheld and adored was not generally taught nor beleeued most I say of the antient Interpreters vnderstand this Text mystically of the priuate Conuenticles Origen austen apud Aqum in Cate. in Mat. 24 Assemblies of Hereticks and Schismaticks challenging to themselues the spirituall presence of Christ Which exposition also propter conscientiam reatus in regard of the guiltinesse of their consciences is very pleasing to the Rhemists Rhem. Test an 〈◊〉 in Mat. 24 and all our Romanists but with reuerence be it spoken this exposition is a mistaking and is conuinced to be such by an instance or two which pretermitting all others I will deliuer Instance First First if our Sauiour had meant this his prediction against false Prophets teaching a hidden presence of him h●er and there in Deserts in Secrets and in Closets to vse the Rhemists word to be onely vnderstood of the priuat Their Testamēt in Mat. 24 This doctrine of these false prophets is not to be vnderstood of a pretended spiritual presence Conuenticles of Hereticks and Schismaticks challenging his true Church and spirituall presence by teaching of his truth to bee onely with them and amongst them then should not our Sauiour haue specified and deliuered any proper condition and certaine property of the vniuersall Antichristian Synagogue which was not to bee confined within any one Nation but to bee spread ouer all Nations and Kingdomes where Christs Gospell had ● Thes 2 been taught And yet that our Sauiour doth in this place specifie a speciall and proper note a sure and certain mark of the said vniuersall Antichristian Synagogue some of the antient Fathers haue expresly taught and the Pontificians Chrys in hom Orig. Hier. Hill most expresly in cate apud Aquin can 25. in Mat. themselues doo generally confesse yea and the circumstances of the Text in the verses precedent and subsequent do more than manifestly euince which also shall heerafter be more clearly proued Instance 2 A second Instance I adioin If Christs Prophecy were mystically to be interpreted of a spiritual presence of him in regard of his truth taught in hidden places in the

com to annect my fourth reason which is thus reason Fourth These false Prophets were to teach a secret presence of some one called Christ Now this must needes bee either Antichrist the Great one himself or else some other petty false Christs challenging themselues to be the true Christ such as Theudas and Iudas of Galilie were of ould in Iewrie and such as George Dauid was of late in Germanie and Hacket in England else they must bee such as will falsely teach of the true Christ himselfe that hee is in such Secrets and Penetrals The first cannot stand For the Great This presence cannot be vnderstood of anie petty Anti-Christs Antichrists presence or rather reigne and kingdome shall bee most publike visible and glorious Neither can the second consist For in what daunger of perdition can the Elect bee by the preaching of such pettie and most impious Christlings such as George Dauid and Hacket were neither did these euer anie wonders The prophecie then must of necessitie bee vnderstood of some false prophets who were to teach a secret presence of the true Christ in the Great Anti-christian Synagogue as I haue proued aboue And this is also cleared by that of our Sauiour in Saint Luke 17. 22. 23. 24. where hee sheweth that these false-prophets would pretend to shewe the sonne of man himselfe To this purpose Theophilact writeth thus Si venerint inquit Theophil in 24. Math. Impostores c. Christ saith If Impostors shall come saying Christ is com but is in the desert or is hid in some house or in the promptuarie and cellar of the same or in the more inward Note these words of Theophilact more in ward parts then promptuary or cellar Theophilact fore sawe part of this point of popish pseudo-Christianisme places of it bee not deceiued for the comming of Christ shall not need any one to shewe the same for it shall bee manifest vnto all euen as the lightning is thus hee Which his words I bring not to proue fully my intent for Theophilact liuing before transubstantiation was decreed and before Christs such secret presence in penetrals was generally taught no maruell that hee did not fully attaine the sense of the prophecie but I produce his saying for this purpose onely to proue that the false-prophets doctrine is to be vnderstood of a secret presence of the true Christ himselfe in secrets and in the desert And so wee proceed to our fift reason which is the cleere fulfilling of the prophecie according as we vnderstand it Reason 5 A Prophecy vntill it be fulfilled as Irenaeus excellently 5. Iren. l. 4. cōntra haeres● 43 is as a riddle or a book sealed but beeing once accomplished it is no longer a hidden but a manifest truth an open reuelation Now it is as cleare as the heauens that this Prophecy of Christ beeing vnderstood according to the plain sense of the words and accordingly as I haue taken the same is fully and most clearly accomplished in the Roman Synagogue of whose religion it is a prime mystery To teach Christ to be heer and there in the Christ himself personally taught to be heer in the secrets of popish churches houses closets c. Secrets and Penetrals of their Churches Chappels and Oratories and to particularize in some For this cause they cry out Behould he is daily 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the cubbords arks and tabernacles of our Churches Behould he is on euery Good-friday and Mandie-thursday in the Secrets Penetrals of our sepulchres Behould he is frequently in the Secrets of the bosomes of our Priests and of the pixes yea and of the pockets also sometimes of our Priests Behould he is day by day in the Secrets of bread wine vpon our Altars and this with such a confusion that the blinde Suppliant finding himself in some one Church Christ eleuated in diuers places in one church at one and the same moment where at one and the same time diuers Masses are said and consequently Christ in diuers places made and eleuated he cannot well tell to which Altar he should turn himself for if his face bee humbly bowed to him vpon one altar his back c. must needs bee irreuerently turned towards him vpon another altar Christ is so vp and downe heer and there vpon their diuerse altars I will not say O sanctas Gentes O holy Nations but I bouldly inueigh O stultas Gentes quibus talia nascuntur ab altaribus numina O most foolish peoples who haue store of gods so growing and multiplying vpon their altars Heer I cannot omit it is so agreeing to our purpose to speak of their miraculous prodigious Hosts at Bruxels * See Iac. Suar. his Thes quadrag ser 42. in fer 2. do pal The papists miraculous hostes wherein Christ is adored at Bruxels Mechlin c. Naples Mechlines and elsewhere How euident is it that this Antichristian note Behould hee is Christ is in penetrals is fulfild in them when-as they pretend to keep Christ in such miraculous Hostes fast lockt vp at these places where they also doo often with a Behold hee is heer Behold hee is in the Penetrals inuite their blinde and superstitious people to behould and worship him at which fond and idolatrous superstition I my self haue been somtimes a superstitious Suppliant But it is a wonder to obserue with what acclamations the ignorant sort crying misericordia misericordia mercy mercy mercy doo The phrenzie of popish Idolatry there and then adore and inuocate this their Christ Hee is there then with them in Penetrals beheld beleeued adored and inuocated and what more can the false Prophets say or doo then that which these false Prophets do require Neither can it ought auail these false Prophets for their teaching of Christ his corporall presence in such places that as they say vpon these their miraculous Hostes drops of blood doo appear For if it be so which I my A difficulty concerning the pretended drops of blood in their miraculous hostes at Bruxels c. selfe could neuer perfectly discern then I demand of the learnedest Ignatian and Pontifician whether those dry drops of blood appearing in those miraculous Hostes be true drops of Christs naturall blood or not If so as many of them say and also say that euery drop of Christs blood was hypostatically vnited to the deity what then will they say to that true principle of Diuinity venerable for antiquity receiued also by themselues that Quod Aqum 3. q. 5. 2 6 a●t 5 Christus semel assumpsit nunquam dimisit What Christ once assumpted to himself by hypostaticall vnion hee neuer left the same What will they say that the same vnion is dissolued or will they say that by the meanes of the accidents of bread and wine they are still vnited to the dininity That were a dream Or will they say that like as Christ because he was ouer-amorous of Catharine of