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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51590	The Catholike scriptvrist, or, The plea of the Roman Catholikes shewing the Scriptures to hold forth the Roman faith in above forty of the chiefe controversies now under debate ... / by I.M.	Mumford, J. (James), 1606-1666.	1662 (1662)	Wing M3063; ESTC R32100	169,010	338

body his body is put under the species of bread and then in a place a part from that body of his he by force of these words This is my blood doth put his blood in the Chalice under the shape of wyne like blood poured forth and separed from the body 3. Again Ieremy 33. v. 18. There shall not faile of David a man to fitt upon the throne of the house of Israël And of the Priests and Levits there shall not faile from before my face a man to offer offerings and to kindle meat offerings and to do sacrifice continually By such sacrifices as then were known God expressed the continuance of true sacrifice in his Church there must not then fayle now Priests and Levits offering a true sacrifice 4. Now God speaks thus expresly to the Priests of the old Law I have no will in you sayth the Lord of Hostes and an offering I will not receive of your hands Malachy 1. v. 10. So that the former Text must needs be understood of Priests offering continually Sacrifices in the new Testament But now a cleane Sacrifice not a bloody one therefore here in the next verse it followeth for from the rising of the Sunne even to the going down great is my name among the Gentles And in every place incense shall be offered to my name and a pure offering to wit the pure offering and cleane Oblation of Christs body under the sweet and lovely shape of bread and wyne into which all those Holocausts burnt-offerings and killing of Victimes were turned though Ieremy used these termes because they as then knew no other sacrifices as they knew no other Priests and Levits but such as were killers of Victimes in a bloody manner But it is very observable that the same Prophet Malachy speaking in the third chapter of the coming of the Messias and the Lord whom ye seek v. 1. doth allso tell us clearly this then shall the offerings of Iuda and Ierusalem be pleasant unto the Lord v. 4. although before he had so flatly sayd to the Priests of Iuda and Ierusalem I have no will in you and offerings I will not receive at your hands Whence it is evident that by the pleasing Sacrifice of Iuda and Ierusalem he meaneth not the carnall but the spirituall Iuda and Ierusalem that is Christs Church where sacrifice is to be done continually as we did now say out of Ieremy 5. In the very last yeares of the world Antichrist knowing the chiefe worship of God to consist in this Sacrifice shall so mightily labour to abolish it that he shall seem for a very short time to have prevailed Daniel 9.27 And in the half of the weeke shall the Host and the Sacrifice faile and there shall be in the Temple abomination of desolation which last words our Saviour himself expoundeth to be understood of the end of the world Matth. 24. What signe of thy coming and of the Consummation of the world Sayd the Apostles to him v. 3. Our Lord telling many other signes at last sayth v. 14. This Ghospel shall be preached in the whole world and then shall come the Consummation thereof therefore when you shall shee the abomination of desolation which is spoken of by Daniel the Prophet c. This then shall not happē untill the world is evē come to the end and the Ghospel shall have been preached every where 6. According therefore to the practice of the Law of nature in time of Melchisedech and according to the practice and manifest prophecies in the written law exteriour Sacrifice which from the beginning of the world was ever held the chief and peculiar worship due to God is allso to be found in the Church of Christ from the rising of the Sunne to the going down even till the worlds end when Anti-christ for a short time shall in great part abolish it Lett us then see the Sacrifice that Christ a Priest for ever according to the order of Melchisedech did institute in his Church Luke 22. v. 19. This is my body which is given for you Now given in this very present time and now by me offered in an vnbloody manner he sayth not to you but for you that is for your sins which body presently after I wil offer in a bloody Sacrifice upon the Crosse Behold here a Sacrifice and a propitiatory Sacrifice For what is offered for us and offered for remission of sins is a propitiatory offering applying plentifully the satisfaction of Christs Passion to us not derogating from that Sacrifice but deriving the fruits thereof to us Thus his body is properly sayd given for us But when it is given in the Sacrament it is sayd given to us not for us This Sacrifice the Apostles were offering to our Lord Act. 13.2 when they are sayd to have been ministring to our Lord. Had they been ministring the word of God or ministring the Sacrament they had ministred to the people But they had not been ministring to our Lord that is offering some thing to him In the Greeke text it is they beeing offering Sacrifice to our Lord. And so Erasmus translats it 7. This Sacrifice is plainly insinuated in S. Paul 1 Cor. 10. if his discourse be well noted He there discoursing of the Iewish and Heathnish Sacrifice doth conclude that all such persons as will be partakers of these Sacrifices can not be made partakers of the Christian Sacrifice of the Body and Blood of our Saviour First then v. 14. he bids them fly from serving Idols by eyther Sacrificing to them or eating of that which hath been Sacrificed to them If they will doe this he tells them of a farr better Sacrifice of which they may be made partakers at our Altars For sayth he v. 16. The Chalice of benediction which we do bless is it not the Communication of the Blood of Christ And the bread which we break is it not the partieipation of the Body of our Lord And having thus taught them that by vertue of the Priests Benediction or Consecration the true Body and Blood of Christ are made communicable upon our Altars under the shapes of bread and wyne he goeth on to tell them they can not be partakers of this Sacrifice if they will continue still to partake of eyther Iewish or Heathnish Sacrifices of which they truly make themselves partakers if they will still eat of that which is sacrificed by them For behould Israël sayth he v. 18 they that eat of the sacrificed Hosts are they not partakers of the Altar For by thus doeing they communicate with those that Sacrifice And having thus spoakē of the Iewish Sacrifices he speaks to them of the Gentills Sacrifices But the things which Heathens do Sacrifice to Divels they Sacrifice and not to God And I will not have you have fellow●hip with the Divels as you will if you eat or partake of what is imolated to thē and will drink the Libaments offered out of theyr cup. 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is or can be due to those sinns yet Christ out of his Prudence and Iustice thought fit to order so that this full fruit of his Passion should not be applyed to any but such as should performe severall things which he requires at theyr hands for this effect Not that there is neede of this to supply any want of value in his Passion but there is neede to do all this to fullfill on our parts the Covenant and conditions upon which this benefitt is graunted As you must say of all those five severall things which you yourselves require to be superadded by us on our part that we may enjoy the full fruit of his Passion To these five things we Roman Catholicks adde a sixth and we have Scripture for this sixth as well as you have for the other five That sixth thing is that Christ requires of us severall penall and laborious works which though in themselues and as they meerely proceede from us they have no sufficient proportion to cancell the paines due unto our sins as allso you must confesse all that is done by us in Baptisme or in believing or in repenting or in receaving his body or in endeavouring to keepe his Law hath allso no such proportion yet each of them have vertue to this effect But this vertue is meerely from the vertue of the Passion of our Saviour which is communicated to us by the performance of these things For wee so magnify the vertue of our Saviours Passion that we say a most satisfactory vertue or a speciall efficacy to cancel paine due to sinns is not only communicated by it to Faith but the like efficacy in order to this effect is by the same Passion communicated to our painfull and laborious works of fasting hayrecloath watching praying almesdeedes and therefore this our doctrine is so farre from derogating to our Saviours Passion that it honoureth it more then yours which doth deny the Passion of our Saviour this praise of being sufficient to elevate and rayse our poore endeavours of satisfying to any ability of making reall satisfaction 3. The force and vertue of these actions was well known to H. David who did practice them so much as I shewed in the last point n. 4. His knees were weakned with fasting he laboured in sighing he every night washed his bed and watered his couch with his teares The voice of his perpetuall groaning for his sins with other austerities joyned therewith made his boanes cleave to his skin he being meerely skin and boanes for did eate ashes as bread and mingle his drinke with his most frequent teares he gave himselfe to prayer night and day Every night washing his bed with teares rysing at midnight to confesse to our Lord and then preventing the dawning of the day by the cry of his morning prayers Seven times in the day he sayd praise to God all this he did being a King Almesdeeds may seeme lesse wonderfull in a Royall person yet his bountifull Almes considering the charge of so continuall warrs were even incredible Towards the building of the Temple 1. Chron. 22. v. 14 Behold sayth he I in my trouble prepared the charges of the house of our Lord. Of Gold a hundred thousand talents and of silver a thousand thousand talents and of brasse and of iron without weight for the number is surpassed by the greatnesse timber and stoanes I have prepared to all the charges To all this in the 29. Ch. v. 3 Above all these things which I have offered into the house of my God I give of myne owne peculiar goods gold and silver unto the Temple of my God besids those things which I have prepared for the Holy House Three thousand talents of the gold of Ophir and seven thousand talents of most approved sylver Thus he excelled in all the three satisfactory works Fasting Prayer and Almesdeeds to which three all other satisfactory works are reduced Who commaunded David this The excellency of his Charity to God 4. In like manner Iob of himselfe I abhorre my selfe and repent in dust and ashes Iob 42.6 And as for Almes c. 31. v. 17. If I have eaten my morsels alone and the pupil hath not eaten with me If his sydes have not blessed me and he was not warmed with the fleeces of my sheepe The straunger tarryed noth without my doore was open to the wayfaring man If I have bene affrayde of a very great multitude In another place he was an eye to the blinde a staff to the lame c. Of Holy Iudiths actions we spoake in the former point Heare what is sayd to that wicked King by Daniel 4.24 Wherefore ô King lett my counsel be acceptable to thee break of thy sinns by rightiousnesse and thine iniquities by shewing mercy to the poore Behold the sinns even of Nabuchodonozar might be cancelled by Almes For Prov 16.6 By Mercy and truth iniquity is purged Ioë 2.12 Convert to me in all your hart in fasting and in weeping and in mourning and rent your harts and not your garments Ionas 3 5. The men of Ninive proclaymed a fast and were cloathed with sackcloath c. And God saw theyr works and had mercy c. Why He saw theyr works 5. In the new Testament we are exhorted to approve our selves Ministers of God in labours in watching in fasting in Chastity 2. Cor. 6.4 We have S. Iohn Baptist neither eating nor drinking Matth. 14. His Disciples fasting often Christ promising that after his death his allso should fast as S. Iohns did that is should fast often Matth. 9.15 We have S. Anne by fasting and prayers serving night and day Luk. 2.37 S. Paul chastizing his body his Disciple Timothy drinking still water And as for Almes after so many woës denounced to the most uncleane Scribes and Pharises Christ himselfe sayth But yet what remayneth give Almes and behold all thinges are cleansed unto you Luk. 11.41 So that to cleanse them by his blood he would have theyr Almes joyned with the vertue of his blood which blood gave this cleansing power to theyr Almes And S. Paul promiseth us Rom. 8.17 That we may be Heyres of God and Ioyntheyres with Christ if so be we suffer with him that we may allso be glorified with him Note the condition if so be that we suffer Though Christs suffering of its owne selfe be more then enough yet he will have ours joyned upon these tearmes he covenants to communicate the full fruit of his Passion to us and therefore without this be done on our part something is sayd to be wanting to the Passion of Christ in order to its full effect 6. This is cleare out of Col. 1.24 I Paul who now reioyce in suffering for you and do fill up what is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body which is the Church Notwithstanding Christs Passion as I declared n. 1. and 2. some scores are left behind so that some things are wanting not wanting on Christs part