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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

false prophets were to teach was to be most secret hidden presence of him vpon earth that might be imagined and consequently for this purpose as it may be probably affirmed he directed the pen of the Hebrew Greek Arabick and Siriack writers yea and of the authour of the vulgar edition also to vse those words which do expresse and signifie the most secret manner of presence and being that can or may bee thought vpon such as cannot indeed be conceiued but onely beleeued beleue it not saith hee beleeue it not And were there euer anie or can there bee anie who haue preached or maie teach a more mysticall presence a more hidden secret and obscure being The Authour submits his opinion and interpretation to the Church vniuersall of Christ in pixes boxes chests church-arks and church sanes then the Papists at this daie doe and for along time haue done let others thinke what they please for my part submitting my iudgement to the censure of Christs vniuersall Church I thinke that our Sauiour in this his prophecie did specially aime at this point of Popish pseudo-christianisme And to thinke so I am induced by this one Christ in his prophecie aimed at the Popish pseudo-christianisme reason if I had no other to wit that seeing the Great and vniuersall Antichristian Synagogue was to teach and doth teach to the perdition of innumerable Soules and high contempt of Christs Maiestie a carnall corporall continued presence of Christ vpō earth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in lockt closets in church-arkes tabernacles saues cubbords and coffers there to bee beheld and adored there to be carried and adorned there to bee trulie praied vnto and inuocated De cons●●rat dis● 2. cap. ●go Berengarius there to bee eaten yea sensibly eaten as Berengarius his Recantation hath it maie it bee thought that Christ so prouident louing and al-wise a shepheard of his Church would in no place haue so detestable and execrable a practice foreshewed for the good instruction and safety of his people Yes doubtless And where or when may that more conueniently be done than in this place in which so many other properties signes and badges of the great Antichristian Synagogue are described A reply with answer If it be replied and said that Christ doth indeed in this place foretell a pretended presence of Christ to bee taught by diuers false Prophets but this pretended presence is not of Christ himselfe but of the great Antichrist who shall come in his owne name and deny the true Christ I answer How mostidle and triuiall must this obiection needs be in the iudgement euen of the Pontificians themselues who all acknowledge that Antichrists presence This prophecy is not to be vnderstood of any hidde presence of the great Antichrist himself Ribera viega in apocal Bell. l. 3 de Rom. pont c. 6. 7. 8. Alij shall be publike and glorious yea for three yeeres and a half the whole time of his durance as they imagine most triumphant And if he be to sit in the Temple of God carrying himself as if he were a God then most certainly his presence shall not be in Secrets and Penetrals but euen in the very most eminent view of the whole world Let it then rest proued that this Prophecy of Christ is to be vnderstood of all such false prophets false anointed ones of Antichrist who to vse Hillaries phrase shall lyingly teach Christ to be in many places thereby to draw the vexed and afflicted hee Hill can 25. in Mat. apud Aquin in cate in 24. Mat. meaneth persecuted Christians into the seruice and subiection of Antichrist And is not this that very thing which is in their daily practice the very cuppe of abomination wherewith they inchant and ●ull a-sleep the Princes and Nations of the earth And to conclude this point is not this their pseudo-christianisme of teaching true Christ to be in their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in their Tabernacles Cup-boords and Arks the chiefest bait wherewith they negotiate the soules of the deceiued the cheefest scar-crowe whereby they endeauour to affright theirs from coming to vs for say they Behould we haue Christ truely and in personall presence with vs vpon our altars and in our arks but they meaning all reformed Churches haue nought else but a peece of bare leauened bread vpon their profane communion-tables Wherein they bely vs for the reformed Churches generally do acknowledge a true reall sacramentall presence of Christ effectually really working Christ really present by real operation thorough faith in him by faith in the worthy receiuers Angels are sayd truely and really to be not onely where they definituely are but also where they effectually work so Christs body is really not onely in the heauens where it is locally present but also in the sacred mysteries by the which it worketh effectually and really in the worthy receiuers And so I come to the ful declaration of our second point to weet that these false Prophets pointed at by our Sauiour were not to teach the presence of the great Antichrist nor of any other challenging himselfe to bee Christ and denying the true Christ our Lord and Sauior Iesus Christ but of such who were indeed to teach a secret presence and coming of the true Christ himself vpon earth with a Behould beleeue it behould he is in the Secrets He is in the Penetrals he is that is Christ is reason First My first reason I frame out of a double reason and argument vsed by our Sauiour to perswade and confirme his faithfull against the beleeuing of these false Prophets and the receiuing of their doctrine Our Sauiours first argument is this If they shall say vnto you or thus When Mat. 24. v. 27 they shall say vnto you Behould Christ is in the penetrals or Secrets beleeue it not For as the lightning commeth from the East and shineth vnto the West so shall the coming of the Son of man be Now as clear as the heauens it is that this argument A reason that these false teachers were to teach the true Christ himself to be in the secrets of Christ is to bee vnderstood of a true and corporall presence of himself coming in person which supposed then our infinitely-wise Sauiour who without blasphemy cannot be impeacht of impertinent discourse must needs be thought to oppose this his publike personall presence and comming against all other pretended presence comings of him before the same and against some hidden and secret presence or coming of himselfe pretended by these false Prophets for if thus hee should haue spoken only against such Hereticks who would pretend to haue alone his spiritual presence by the teaching of his truth in their Conuenticles then Christ must bee thought thus to haue argued against them If anie false Prophets shall challenge my truth to bee onely taught by them and so my spirituall presence to be only with them beleeue it not For

into the Sacrament Now if there be a bringing of Christ then there is also a coming of Christ except it be said that Christ is brought against his will or that it is one Christ which is in the heauens and another Christ which is in the Sacrament neither of which I trowe the Papists will dare to affirm Christ then is there in the Secrets of bread and wine and also is there by coming and so this reason of our Sauior hath his force against the same Answer 3 Lastly I answer that it beeing receiued as a knowne Acts 3 Aug. ep 57. ad Dardan in Ioan. tract 31 Orig. hom 33 in Mat. truth amongst Christians professed by euident consequence in the Creed taught by Antients that Christ after his ascension was to make no other personall and bodily coming nor appearance vpon earth till his coming to iudgement It is most clear that this reason of our Sauiours is of force against al maner of false Prophets whatsoeuer who should teach any true corporall presence of him vpon earth in what habite site form or manner soeuer for his proof stands in this that hee will neuer appear corporally and presentially vpon earth vntil he com suddenly publikely and visibly like the lightning which shineth from the East and appeareth vnto the West And doth not this make most euidently against any manner and sort of Christs corporall and personall presence vpon earth pretended by any false Prophets whatsoeuer whether it bee by comming or by any other meanes whatsoeuer But grant that this first reason deliuered in the 27. verse bee not sufficient if taken alone yet if wee adioine it to that which follows in the 28. verse Wheresoeuer the body is there will the Eagles be gathered together it will make it most manifest that our Sauiour after his glorious ascension neuer intended that his body should be corporally and presentially in any place otherwise then should be fitting agreeing to the visible glory and perspicuous majesty of the same But to conclude howsoeuer this reason of our Sauiour may bee taken by some yet it proueth most euidently and certainly that the false doctrine and pseudo-christianisme of these false Prophets of teaching Christ to be heer and there to bee in Secrets and Penetrals is not to bee vnderstood onely of their challenging of his spiritual presence alone to be with them and with none but them but further of their teaching of some corporall manner of Christs presence vpon earth the which is that verie thing for which I specially doo her enforce the same And so I come to the confirmation of our reason by our Sauiours second argument thus If therefore they shall say unto you When therfore they shal say vnto you Behold he is Christ is in the penetrals beleeue it not for wheresoeuer verse 28. the dead body is thither will the Eagles bee gathered together Touching which argument of our Sauiour all interpretations being seriously waigh'd that of Chrysostom Chryso in Mat. 24. with other of the antient and moderne Writers will bee found more agreeing to truth to wit that like as the dead body or carcase being opēly exposed in the field the eagles do gather themselues by a naturall instinct sent to feed thereon so likewise where hee himself should for anie time after his glorious ascension be he would be in a glorious and conspicuous sort and presence in that there should not be wanting multitudes of Angels assisting and ministring vnto him And so agreeingly to this sense our Sauiour instructeth his faithful thus When the false prophets shall saie vnto you that I am in a hidden and obscure manner in their secrets and penetrals as a companion of Rats and mice beleeue it not for my comming and presence vpon earth after my glorious ascension shall neuer be but conspicuous glorious neuer without the assisting ministerie of glorious Angells And this indeed is shewed to be so by such apparitions as are recorded of Acts 7. 9. him in the Scriptures Stephen sawe him but it was the Heauens being opened in the glorie of his father Saul sawe him yet it was in the splendour of his glorie in arcanis Acts 9. and 2 Cor. 1● coelorum in the palace of Heauen where he sawe such things which were not to bee vttered Though the beloued disciple sawe him yet it was vpon his throne in the middest of Angells and Saints adoring and worshipping him so is Christ alwaies attended on and ministred vnto by the Glorious Eagles And therefore it is most impious pseudo christianisme to place him there or lyingly to teach him to bee there in such secrets and Penetrals where hee shall not only bee socius murium et soricum the companion of Rats and Mice but also bee their food for them to feede thereon And so I adioyne my second reason for this our principall poynt in hand reason Second Our Sauiour in this place for the fore-instruction of his faithful giueth vnto them certeine cleare and euident signes both of things practices and doctrines which Math. 24. 34. which were to happen and to bee in vse for the durance of his church in the antichristian Synagogue before his comming to iudgement and the consummation of the world But signes that they may be profitably significant must bee facill and easie to bee vnderstood Now if all other signes in this Chapter concerning the Antichristian Synagogue their working of miracles their seducing manie The popish practice according to the verie literall sense their persecuting c. bee literally to bee vnderstood why then shall not this their pseudo-christianisme of teaching Christ to be in secrets and Penetralls agreeingly to the plaine literall sense of the words bee taken and interpreted seeing it is a point of such moment concerning the perdition and saluation of many Soules And to adde a confirmation to this reason If these words of Christ were to bee vnderstood mystically against the priuate conuenticles of hereticks chalenging a spirituall presence of him by reason of their teaching of his truth to bee onely with them among them which I haue more clearely disproued aboue I cannot for my part see what certaintie for the faithfull's instruction may bee gathered out of the same which yet is the importantest amongst all the rest For as it is most euident by a neuer intermitted experience since Christs time that euery congregation of All heretickes arrogate Christs spirituall presence See August Epis 80. ad He●●●● Greg. Moral 19. cap. 29. The purest Churches in time of persecution teach Christs spirituall presence in Secrets The Rhemis●s erroneous position to their owne consusion Heretickes and Schismatickes as it challengeth to it selfe the power and spirituall presence of Christ so it obiecteth to all other the lacke of the same yea and the most Orthodox Churches of Christ himself haue their ebbes and flowes and then haue beene purest when in cripts deserts and woods they

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