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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35021	The legacy of the Right Reverend Father in God, Herbert, Lord Bishop of Hereford, to his diocess, or, A short determination of all controversies we have with the papists, by Gods holy word	Croft, Herbert, 1603-1691.	1679 (1679)	Wing C6966; ESTC R1143	85,065	144

the thing we still urge to ●hew us some compelling Motive why they make such an infinite difference between these two sayings when the forms of speech are both the same yet the one must infer a mighty miracle the other none at all but as familiar a Figure as may be Had our Saviour taken into his hand a picture of a Face and said This is my Face what Man could imagine he intended This picture is changed into my real substantial Face but rather undoubtedly conceive he meant This represents my Face And just so when he took Bread into his hand and said This is my Body who can imagine but he meant This represents my Body And therefore as I said it requires some urgent Reason to make us think otherwise But in stead of Reason they return us Railing that we are faithless Hereticks and we reply They are foolish Pratlers But now to shew how willing we are to believe Christ in this or any thing else be it ever so much against our reason we will narrowly examine and observe all circumstances in the institution of this blessed Sacrament and see if we can find any considerable motive to encline us to this miraculous change of transubstantiating bread into Christ's Body In the first place let us reflect on the Original type of this Sacrament which was the Sacrifice of Melchisedek King of Salem when he met Abraham coming from the Victory over the Heathen Kings mentioned Gen. 14. 18. And Melchisedek King of Salem brought forth bread and wine This Melchisedek was a Priest of the most high God And Heb. 7. the Apostle at large declares That Christ was a Priest of the same Order with Melchisedek in all things typified by Melchisedek Now what Sacrifice did Melchisedek offer up unto the most high God Bread and Wine real substantial Bread and Wine Doubtless then from hence we should conclude That Christ being a Priest of the same Order with Melchisedek should offer the same Sacrifice with him real substantial Bread and Wine Surely this makes against the Papists Transubstantiation Secondly Let us consider the Iewish Sacraments which were also Types of ours The Iews had in their Church two Sacraments Circumcision and the Paschal Lamb and these were as I said Types of what was to follow in Christ who abolishing that Church and Sacraments did introduce two other Sacraments in his Church Baptism and the holy Supper As Circumcision was the initiating Sacrament to the Iews So Baptism is to us And as the Paschal Lamb was the commemorating Sacrament to the Iews of their deliverance from their bondage in Aegypt so the holy Supper is our commemorating Sacrament of our deliverance from the bondage of Hell You see then that thus far our Sacraments resemble those of the Iews Was there any Transubstantiation in the Iewish Sacraments No We cannot then from the Iewish Sacraments find the least hint of Transubstantiation in ours Thirdly Let u● compare our two Sacraments one to the other Is there any Transubstantiation or any real alteration in the element of water in the Sacrament of Baptism No the water still remains in substance water We cannot then from that Sacrament find any ground for Transubstantiation in this Fourthly Let us consider this Sacrament in it self what was our Saviours intent in the institution of it which certainly should be a great and the best guide to us in this business 'T is evident by several Scriptures that it was instituted to commemorate our Saviour's Passion and Death Christ expresly declared it so at the institution Do this in remembrance of me And St. Paul 1 Cor. xi 26. expresly declares it so As often as ye eat this bread and drink this cup ye do shew the Lord's death till he come Now let us see if Transubstantiation do any way help towards a fuller setting forth the Lord's Death Let the Papists shew this if they can it would somewhat encline us to their Transubstantiation for my part I profess sincerely it appears to me quite otherwise For in their transubstantiated Sacrament there is no representation of our Saviour's Suffering nor of his Blood-shedding and Death for they affirm his Body to be there a Spiritual Body impassible no breaking of it no division of the Blood from his Fle●h for they believe Christ's Body to be entirely Flesh Bones and Blood the whole Body under both forms of Bread and Wine so saith their great Doctor Aquinas in the third Part of his Summes Quest. 76. Art 2. and there proves it in his School-way So that in their Sacrament there is nothing representing Christ's Sufferings nor Blood-shedding nor Death For first There is no real substance broken for the substance of Bread say they is gone and 't is now Christ's Body which is now impassible cannot be broken The Priest seems to break a Wafer but 't is no real Wafer 't is Christ's Body that is not broken neither So in truth and reality nothing is broken 't is broken and 't is not broken And then for the Chalice there is no Wine nor Christ's Blood apart 't is Christ's Body entire as they believe so you drink the same both Body and Blood together which before you have eaten and you eat before the very same which you afterwards drink So that eating and drinking is here one and the same rare School-devices Let us return to our own Sacrament there is real Bread and Wine the Bread is really broken by the Priest as it was by Christ 't is also bruised under the teeth of the eater So the Wine is received a part from the Bread both in a figure representing unto us Christ's Sufferings Blood-shedding and Death and buried in our breasts as in the Sepulchre And thus you see how much better our Sacrament of real Bread and Wine shews our Saviour's Sufferings and Death than their transubstantiated Bread and Wine Now considering how many figurative Speeches there are in the Gospel a man cannot but wonder how this Transubstantiation with accidents only of Bread and Wine hanging in the air without any substance of Bread and Wine to support them how this could come into the head of the first Inventer there being nothing in the Types and Sacraments of the Old Law nor in the Institution of the New to give us the least hint of it Especially considering the simplicity and plainness of the Gospel preached generally to a vulgar Auditory and fitted for their capacity and these Sacraments instituted for their use as well as others But the Papist Doctors have turned this into such an obscure Scholastick Sacrament that you must study Logick Physick Metaphysick and School-Divinity many years before you can understand what they would be at without any Scripture-foundation for this their Castle built in the Air. How cry the Papists without any Scripture-foundation Look we advise you into St. Iohn's Gospel Chap. 6. v. 53 54 55 56. Then Iesus said unto them Verily verily I say unto you Except ye eat

for St. Paul to declare to the Corinthians this great and hidden mystery if there were any But he declares the contrary telling them it was Bread which they did eat 1 Cor. xi 26 As often as ye eat this bread and the Bread is eaten after the words of Consecration If then it be Bread when we eat there is no change at all And I pray you let us observe also St. Paul's manner of Consecration First he tells them that he delivered unto them what he had received of the Lord to shew his fidelity in the business then proceeds to the form of consecrating the Bread And when he comes to the Cup he saith This Cup is the new Testament in my blood Mark I pray you He doth not say This Wine but This Cup. I here ask the Papists is this a literal or a figurative Speech If literal then the Cup is changed into the Blood so saith the letter Wine is not here mentioned And if you talk of God's Power God can as easily change the Cup into his Blood as the Wine The Papists then will needs have a figure in this Consecration so we in that of the Bread for it were absurd to take one literally and the other figuratively And I presume the Papists will not dare to say that St. Paul here prevaricated in delivering what he received from the Lord yet St. Paul's words differ somewhat from Christ's but if we take them figuratively they are in effect the same which plainly shews all here is figurative The Papists then having no Scripture expressing any substantial change of the Bread and we having a Scripture clearly expressing that it remains Bread after Consecration I suppose their figment of Transubstantiation is sufficiently confuted For had we ten Scriptures declaring the same they were of no more force than one In Humane Evidences many are of more weight than one because Man may erre God cannot Yet there want not other Scriptures strongly implying a denial of Christ's Corporal presence in the Sacrament First Our Saviour at the Institution of this blessed Sacrament commands his Disciples to celebrate it in Remembrance of him and it seems very incongruous to desire men to remember that person who is present before them Secondly Acts iii. 21. St. Peter tells us That the heavens must receive Christ until the times of restitution of all things And therefore we see Acts vii 56. when he was pleased to shew himself unto that blessed Martyr St. Stephen he did not descend from Heaven but opened the Heavens and strengthened the eyes of Stephen to behold him at that great distance Thirdly Ioh. xvi Where our blessed Saviour discourses largely to his Disciples of going ●rom them and their great Sorrow caused thereby he uses several Arguments to allay it and in conclusion promises to send them the Holy Ghost the Comforter of whom they had then but a very obscure notion and could not receive any present comfort by it But had our Saviour promised to return again presently and be daily in the celebration of his last Supper which we find was daily celebrated by the Apostles this would doubtless have been the greatest comfort imaginable to them Who then can doubt but that our Saviour would have given them this great comfort by telling them so had he intended any such thing as the Papists groundlesly believe But of this we find not one tittle 'T is a common saying Facilè credimus quod volumus We easily believe the thing we desire Wherefore were there I do not say a clear expression but any good intimation of that the Papists would have us believe what Christian would not most gladly and readily catch at it and believe it with all his heart For sure it would be a great and daily comfort to us to go to the Altar of our blessed Saviour Jesus that died for us there corporally present as they believe and there with Mary Magdalen adore him kiss those blessed feet that were pierced for us wash them with our tears and receive them and his whole Body into our breasts If it be said All this may as well be done now by Faith I grant a lively Faith of this affords great comfort to the Soul but whil'st our Soul is united to the Body we cannot so refine and spiritualize the affections of it but that we shall still hanker after some bodily comfort And I verily believe the bodily part of the Papists Devotions to this Sacrament as also to the worshipping of Saints with their Shrines Reliques Pictures and such like is a great means to gain People to their Religion To worship God in Spirit and Truth only though it be the only true Christian Worship yet it is a sublime and difficult thing and requires the Spiritual sublimation of Hearts by Grace And this is the reason of the Jews so often and so easily falling away to the gross Idolatry of the Heathens And in a great measure operates in like manner on the Papists And could we find any warrant in Scripture to save our Souls with such bodily worship I believe very few of us would be found so spiritual as not to encline to it Wherefore Let him that standeth take heed lest he fall All this while I have said nothing of their Idolatrous adoring their consecrated Wafer which they will needs have to be Christ's real Body But if it be not then they themselves confess an evident truth without their Confession That they are as great Idolaters as any Heathens adoring a dead Wafer for the ever-living God And I desire them also to remember the Determination of their Council of Constance mentioned before in the Supplement That the intention of the Priest in Consecration of the Host is requisite to effect their supposed Transubstantiation wherein if he fail they grant that there is no substantial change in the Bread nor any Consecration at all Now considering how many careless dissolute yea and villainous Priests are amongst them 't is more than probable that many of them intend not at all this business when they are about it and some as I said before in their Hearts laugh at it as a meer Mock shew to gull the Spectators who notwithstanding with all reverence adore the unconsecrated Wafers of those villainous Priests All which makes their case so dangerous that no man of any tolerable Reason or Conscience would venture without clear Scripture-warrant for it Wherefore I beseech them to consider that we have a plain text of Scripture against Transubstantiation viz. That it is Bread which we eat in this Sacrament after the Consecration of it besides many other Scriptures intimating the same we have both Reason and Sence also on our side which two latter we are bound to follow unless forbidden by some plain text of Scripture which they can never shew bringing only one figurative speech viz. This is my body which they will needs have to be literally spoken whereas there are many more the like