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A28845	A pastoral letter from the Lord Bishop of Meaux to the new Catholicks of his diocess exhorting them to keep their Easter, and giving them necessary advertisements against the false pastoral letters of their ministers : with reflections upon the pretended persecution / translated out of French, and publish'd with allowance.; Lettre pastorale. English	Bossuet, Jacques Bénigne, 1627-1704.	1686 (1686)	Wing B3787; ESTC R12514	28,012	60

Communicated when he was Dying as St. Cyprian and other Saints Communicated Infants as the Martyrs Communicated in their Houses and the Hermits in their Retreats as many Saints have understood that JESUS CHRIST Communicated the two Disciples at Emaus as our Adversaries themselves Communicate those who have an Aversion to Wine and believe not they deprive them of the Sacrament of JESUS CHRIST tho' they make the whole Vertue of it to consist in the Species How much more ought they to be content with one Kind alone in the Catholick Church where the Efficacy of the Sacrament is plac'd in JESUS CHRIST himself Do you believe the Church that good Mother would deprive Her Children of the Grace of a Sacrament whose Sweets and Vertue she so well knows Or that JESUS CHRIST who hath promis'd to be alwayes with Her would permit it Upon account of this Promise Monsieur Claude acknowledges That there is always a Church which publishes the Faith a Church to which JESUS CHRIST hath given an exteriour Ministry and by consequence a Church which is Plain and Visible He allows That we must acknowledge in Vertue of this Promise a perpetual Subsistence of the Ministry in a State sufficient for the Salvation of God's Elect for the Edifying the Body of Christ and for the bringing of all his Elect and true Faithful Ones to perfection If they want any thing Essential to so great a Sacrament as this of the Communion is the Ministry sufficient to the Salvation and Perfection of the Faithful Is it to be in this State not to receive such a Sacrament but by violating the Commandment of JESUS CHRIST It is a manifest Truth both among us and the Ministers That the Church cannot be where the Sacraments are not If then both Kinds are absolutely necessary to every particular Faithful if the Sacrament do's not subsist but in the Distribution of them both the Ministers must say That so long as but one Kind was given the Church was without the Sacrament of the LORD'S SUPPER Nevertheless they dare not say this They are forc'd to allow that People were sav'd amongst us at least before their Reformation and that the True Church was there They are necessarily bound then to acknowledge the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper was there also and that by consequence it subsists in its full perfection being distributed but in one only Kind This is also what Monsieur Claude acknowledges after such a manner that it leaves no doubt to those who will but ●ead him with Attention Behold how he defines the Church The Church is the true Faithful who make Profession of the Truth and of Christian Piety and of true Sanctity under a Ministry which furnisheth them with necessary Food for a Spiritual Life WITHOUT DEPRIVING THEM OF ANY THING OF IT There is nothing more Essential to the Church than what enters into the Definition of it There enters into the Definition of a Church That it be under a Ministry that is to say under Pastors who are to furnish it with all necessary Food for a Spiritual Life without depriving them of any of it This Minister agrees with us in this Foundation and all the Ministers grant it That at least untill the Pretended Reformation People were sav'd under the Ministry of the Latin Pastors and of the Roman Church and that the true Church was there also It was under a Ministry then that furnish'd it with all necessary Food without depriving them of any even tho' they had ceased to give the Cup and the Cup cannot then be reckon'd among those Aliments necessary to a Spiritual Life Come then my dear Brethren come to the Sacred Bancquet of the Church and make not its Perfection to consist in both the Kinds since the Ministers themselves are forc'd to grant they give you under one Kind all the Aliment that is necessary to a Spiritual Life without Depriving you of any of it In effect what ground can you have to doubt It is upon the Faith of the Church you content your self with your Baptism though you receiv'd it in your Infancy without the Authority of Scripture and after a manner if the Letter only be regarded so different from that which JESUS CHRIST ordained that he himself observ'd the first wherein also the Apostles have plac'd the Mysterious representation of our Burial as well as of our Resurrection with JESUS CHRIST You understand well that I speak of the Immersion practis'd in Baptism during so many Ages and comprised in the Words of our Lord Baptize c. that is to say Plunge and dip intirely under Water If upon the Faith of the Church you are at quiet as to your Baptism rely upon the same Faith as to your Communion and deprive not your selves of the whole Sacrament under pretence of desiring a part of it It is the utmost of my wishes to see you at the Holy Table perfecting the Mystery of your Peace and Reconciliation with the Church But least you should there receive your Condemnation and for want of discerning the Body of our LORD render your selves culpable we desire as far as it is possible to prepare you our selves for this Celestial Bancquet and we will go from we must understand I will be always with you Teaching and Baptizing From whence it follows by his Confession That JESUS CHRIST promised to his Church to be with her and to teach with her without interruption even to the end of the World And again There shall always be a Church and JESUS CHRIST will be always in the mid'st of her Baptizing with her and Teaching with her Without doubt it is by the Pastors he will exercise this Ministry 't is with the Pastors then he promised to Baptize and Teach Let them explain to us how those can Baptize ill or Teach ill with whom JESVS CHRIST Baptizes and with whom JESVS CHRIST Teaches Monsieur Claude opposes to us Experience and to shew us that this invincible force which we attribute to the Ecclesiastical Ministry in vertue of the Promises of JESVS CHRIST do's not at all belong to it he brings us many Passages of Heriveus of St. Bernard of Alvares Pelagius and of others who in the foregoing Ages deplored the disorders of the Clergy and desired a Reformation I undertake not here to Examine these Passages You may read them and if you find but only one where these Authors have complained of Transubstantiation or of the Sacrifice or of the Adoration of the Eucharist or finally of any of the points of Doctrine upon which Luther and Calvin have grounded their Reformation I will readily abandon the cause But if on the contrary among so many Passages cull'd out as it were for Ostentation there be not to be found one that regards the least of these things acknowledge that these Pretended Reformers have only taken from these Venerable Men the name of Reformation and have done nothing but abused