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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

others for denying that which the most zealous amongst them doe not constantly beleeue scrupulosities they are miserably vexed afflicted and tormented So is then the case the verie best of the Popish Church are not constantly perswaded of the truth of that for the not beleeuing of which they haue most in humanely in their fierie trialls taken away and consumed to ashes the best of our churches the Saints and seruants of God who haue offered themselues to their furies for the testimonie of Iesus Beleeue it not Beleeue it not Most Religious Audience if my voice were a shrill trumpet sufficient to sounde in the eares of all within this Brittish Monarchie I should say vnto them warranted thereunto by Christs charge beleeue it not though an Angell from heauen though al the P●ntifician false-prophets cry out loe he is here in the Closet of this Lady as the vse is loe he is there in the cellar of that Marchant as the manner is loe hee is yonder in the treasurie boxes of that Grandy as the custome hath beene and may bee beleeue it not beleeue it not It is the Lords charge worthy of all receiuing it is the Lords charge necessarily to bee receiued vnlesse wee will be seduced and drawen away to the eternall perdition of our Soules Beleeue it not saith Christ Beleeue it not And doth hee not in this charge seeme thus to exhort and charge his Faithfull My first and Prime commandement Exod. 20. is Thou shalt haue no other Gods but me but if you beleeue these false-prophets then shall you worship another God for mee howsoeuer they falsely pretend that they haue mee and no other substantially and personally in their Secrets there to be worshipped and adored but mee but beleeue it not I say another God for mee bread and wine for mee according to those blasphemous ould verses sometimes frequent in the Antichristian Synagogue H●lcot in 4. q. 3. Constat in altari carnem de pane creari Hic panis deus est Qui negat hoc reus est Of Bread is made the flesh of Christ This bread is God Say no thou ly'st You professe in your Creed that I am ascended vp into Act. 3. August Tract 50. in Ioan. et epist ad Dardanum heauen sit there at the right hand of my Father in his Glorie wherein the heauens shall recceiue mee vntill my comming but if you beleeue these false-prophets you will also beleeue mee to bee in the secrets of Arks Pixes and Tabernacles Christs vnion with his faithfull most effectual though Spirituall where neither I shall nor will be For Cui bono to what end whereas the summe of that communion and coniunction which is betwixt mee and mine is Spirituall in the Soule Spirit for the effecting wherof what neede a corporall and carnall presence Therefore beleeue it not Againe this Sacrament is a sacred significant and working signe it is a remembrance a cōmemoratiō of me How then I in it personally Beleeue it not It is indeede a 1 Cor. 10. 16. communication of my bodie but in eating of sanctified bread It is a participation of my blood but in drinking of the hallowed God-christ made present in the Secrets by these false prophets Bellar. lib. 3. de Eucharist cap. 18. and blessed wine But these false prophets teach a transubstantiating of bread into mee of wine into me Yea they dare thus blaspheme that Creatura est factor creatoris sui the Creature is the maker of his Creatour So then God must bee behoulding to man for his making so som call it for his creating so others for his production so some for his adduction and bringing so with Bellarmien others tearme it but beleeue them not beleeue it not Lastly if you beleeue it then you put your trust in it and on it you long after it and adhaere to it then not sursum but deorsum corda quaquaversum corda then will not your hearts be lift vpward but cast downe or dispersed vp downe here and there euerie-where where they pretend me to bee whereas venerable Antiquitie cryed out in the very sacredst of these mysteries Sursum corda sursum corda let vs lift vp let vs lift vp our hearts and the People of God euer answered Habemus ad dominum wee haue them wee lift them vp vnto the Lord wee are not humbly nor meanly intentiue to that which is set vpon the table but wee lift vp our hearts vnto the Lord who sitteth aboue in the Heauens donec finiantur secula vntill the consummation of all generations and ages I conclude and summe vp all in this short prayer Dear Sauiour as thou hast ben graciously pleased to forewarne vs that we beleeue it not so bee thou as graciously pleased to strengthen and confirme vs that wee beleeue it not Blessing Clarity Wisedome Thankesgiuing Honour Vertue and Power to our God together with the Lambe that lurketh not in popish secrets but sitteth on the Throne and to the euer-blessed Spirit bee rendered by vs and all creature● from hence-forth and for euer Amen Deo vni trinoque Gloria

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

in a tabernacle Which doth so liuely point vnto vs the pseudo-Christ of the Papists whom they pretend to be Christ himself God indeed of greatest strength and the power of his Father and whom also they professe to dwell in their Church-tabernacles that nothing can bee brought clearer against them nor nothing with better purpose to confirm the interpretation of this our Text which we haue in hand Bellarmine who laboureth stoutly to free his holy Father Bellar. lib. 3. de rom ●ont c. 14 from worshipping the god Maozim in his best answer thinketh citing Lyra's authority for the same that Maozim signifieth fortitude or of greatest strength and a tower withall so that the god Maozim is in his interpretation The God of greatest fortitude in a towre And if Bellarmine in stead of the word towre had vsed the word turret then he had hit the mark and mentioned those very turrets which the Papists vse to bear their god Maozim in vp An Hoste pared with scissers being too great for the turret wherein it was to be caried in procession Doc. Cyp. tratta●o de la missa page 428 and down in their Processions Such a manner of turret was that which was vsed at Barcelone in Spain when the Inquisitor Molon was enforced to round and lessen with a pair of scissers a consecrated Hoste which was to bee put into the same pixe or turret but it beeing too great for the turret till the Hoste was lessened the Procession was staid and could not proceed Some such like thing hapned at Rome in my time in the English Church when the Procession was staid and could not goe forth at the time appointed because he who sang the high Masse as A second mass said to prouide an Host fit for the pix or turret at the English colledge at Rome they call it that day had forgotten to make a consecrated Hoste fit for the pix and turret wherein it was to be carried vp and down in Procession And so I end this point inferring out of all that which hath been prooued that the false Prophets pseudo-Christs and false Anointed-ones of the popish Church do directly and punctually teach and preach Christ to bee vp and down heer and there in the Secrets and Penetrals of their Church-arks and tabernacles the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the very Secrets at which our Sauiour heer aimeth and giueth his most strict charge against the same Beleeue it not beleeue it not Which charge of Christ is our third part and now in a few words we come to declare the same Beleeue it not part The third Admirable is the goodnes of Christ to fore-warn his Elect of dangers which they are to auoid Hee it is who worketh in His all in all to begin and perfect to desire and perform to purpose and to doo yet he doth it not in vs without vs who notwithstanding can do nothing without him For this respect hee saith Beleeue it not Goe not out Beleeue it not But whil'st our Sauiour in this place doth fore-charge his Faithfull that they beleeue it not we must not so interpret the same as though with the supernaturall act or habit of faith the same may bee beleeued no no errour and so pernicious an errour as this is may not be the object of faith Whereas therefore he chargeth Beleeue it not we are thus to take the same that by no means wee be perswaded of the truth of it but that wee take it as it is for a most pernicious and damnable errour and a highest point of impiety Beleeue it not The false Prophets say Behould this admirable mystery and beleeue it Beleeue that Christ is personally totus Miss rom s●que Breu. rom in ●e corp christ ●ym ●ub vtraque specie wholly vnder the Secrets of both forms but Christ saith Beleeue it not They say Praestet fides supplementum sensuum defectui let faith supply the defect of the senses beleeue it Christ saith These false Prophets and pseudo-Christs shall indeed so say but Beleeue it not O how presumptuous is that man who will beleeue anie thing of Christ which he hath not commanded or commended to be beleeued of him but more then desperately presumptuous then is he who to vse Saint Austines Aug. de vnit eccl●s c. 10 words in like case will beleeue ought contra vocem pastoris tam apertam tam claram c. against the voice of the sheepheard so clear so manifest the which no man is so dull that he can iustly say he hath not vnderstood it yea and this against the shep-herds voice condemning a point of highest errour so prodigious and so paradoxicall that few of the professers of Popery it self doo constantly beleeue the same And so heer vpon this occasion I cannot omit to declare Three sorts of ●opish professers vnto you what I haue by most certain experience concerning this point obserued amongst them I distinguish all the professers of Popery into three degrees First Atheists or semi-Atheists secondly zelantes sed prauae vitae zealous papists but of wicked liues thirdly zelantes sed simplicis vitae zealous papists but of more honest conuersations and liues The first whereof Italie and France is very full by their irreligious carriage at their Masses talking with and courting of dames then and there their adoring of the eleuated Hoste but with one knee or with the sparing and short congie of their bodies or with a few short knocks vpon their breasts doe euince that they do not beleeue Christ to bee there personally eleuated vp in the hands of the Priest The second sort zealous but of wicked liues do seem most constantly to be perswaded of the same and are indeed euer with great violence carried and bent against all such who beleeue it not I could be particular The third sort the more discreet Papist doth indeed Popish professers of more honest better conuersation cannot attaine to a stedfast faith of Christ in their masse or boxes endeauour to beleeue it and is much perplexed that hee or shee can not constantly beleeue it but fewe or none there are of this kinde who are not daie by daie molested with thoughts of misbeleefe or vnbeleefe as they call it that Christ is not truely and personally in the Secrets and Penetrals of bread and wine wherefore they pray they crie daie night Lord helpe our beleefe So they serue a God on whom constantly they cannot beleeue who giueth them no rest neither by date nor by night How true this is I Ie rem 16. 13. will not endeuour to confirme by particulars it is a secret of the Mysterie of iniq●itie but that this is most true I referre me to the consciences of the best and most Religious Priests and Pap●sts themselues and to those who hearing and taking the Confessions of their flocke doe wel vnderstand with what daily and inces●ant doubts feares The papists most immane burning