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A30889 John Barclay his defence of the most holy sacrament of the Eucharist to the sectaries of the times book II, chap. II / Englished by a person of quality. Barclay, John, 1582-1621. 1688 (1688) Wing B715; ESTC R28347 15,059 28

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Heaven yet art thou still really on Earth Nor is any part of thee that is either thy Mind or Body really in Heaven there to receive Nourishment Shouldst thou never so Seriously fix thy Thoughts on Rome or on Hierusalem couldst thou be therefore said to be really at Rome or in Hierusalem It remains therefore that thou shew how thy Soul which ascends not really into Heaven can be really Fed with the Flesh of CHRIST unless CHRIST be truly and really on Earth and there also in many places at one and the same time since many of you at the very same moment Communicate both in England and France But thou wilt Reply thou art indeed ignorant of the manner yet certainly knowst that thou art Fed. Is it so If thou knowst not by what means these things are done then art thou not sure but it may be by Transubstantiation Why then dost thou with so great Boldness and Fury inveigh against it But be it that thou knowst not the Manner yet thou at least knowst that the Manner is such as may not in Thought and Faith only but in very Deed joyn thee to CHRIST's Body or else thou must confess that thou dost not indeed receive CHRIST's Body For thou sayst that by Faith thou eatest our Lords Body Now what doest thou mean by these words That thou by Faith hold'st and believ'st Vertue so to flow into thy Soul from the Body of CHRIST who is in Heaven that thou art thereby in some sort united to him But this O Sectary is not really to receive CHRIST's Body 't is at most to receive it but imaginarily For that Power and those Vertues which thou say'st flow from CHRIST into thee are not indeed CHRIST's Body And thou believest that thou receivest really nothing else Nor dost thou I suppose eat these Vertues Why therefore to elude the Sentence of the Fathers who testify That CHRIST's Flesh and Blood is in very deed receiv'd do you make use of such vain Deceits saying that you also hold the same But if thou say'st that thou by Faith apprehend'st and believ'st CHRIST's Body to be really Communicated to thee I answer that this Faith of thine is even in thine own Judgement false and ridiculous as making thee believe that which is not Since in thy Opinion our Lords Body is no where but in Heaven and thou art really no where but on Earth But because thou frequently appeal'st to the Scriptures come and let us hear what they say In St. Matthew Chap. xxvi our Saviour says This is my Body this is my Blood In St. Mark Chap. xiv This is my Body this is my Blood In St. Luke Chap. xxii This is my Body this is the Chalice of the New Testament in my Blood In St. John Chap. vi Vnless ye shall eat the Flesh of the Son of Man and drink his Blood ye shall not have Life in you And St. Paul in his first Epistle to the Corinthians ch xi pronounces him who comes unworthily to the Eucharist Guilty of the Body and Blood of our Lord. These are plain Words no perplex'd Testimonies nor things mention'd but once 〈◊〉 which being clearly vanquish'd you presently fly to 〈◊〉 ●xposition whereas when any thing seems to fav●● you ye stick close to the letter refuse all Interpretation and cry out we must adhere to the Word of GOD. As if you were the sole Judges and had Authority at your pleasure one while to decide by the bare Text of Scripture without admitting any Expositor and soon after to appeal to Interpretations and those only of your own Invention But come on What do you object against us Arguments you say taken out of the Scriptures First that the Eucharist is sometimes in the Scripture call'd Bread and Wine Next that CHRIST said in St. John chap. vi It is the Spirit that quickneth the Flesh profiteth nothing The words which I have spoken unto you are Spirit and Life Lastly That CHRIST sits at the Right-hand of the Father and shall come from thence to Judge the quick and the dead But I answer that these words are more obscure than those you would have explain'd by them to wit This is my Body my Flesh is Meat indeed Now what kind of Philosophy is this to explain one Obscurity by a greater or that I may speak more truly to gather the Sense of a clear place from a dark one But what if we should say that these Places you object against us are to be interpreted by those we have alledg'd What if we deny that you have any more Right to expound them than we You bring only doubtful Arguments and such as will be turn'd upon your selves Nor will it be any great labour briefly to solve them all The Eucharist you say is in the Scriptures call'd Bread and Wine Therefore the Scriptures you say acknowledge Bread and Wine to be truly in that Sacrament Proceed Sectary and by the same Argument more closely press us in this manner The Catholicks in their Discourses and Prayers frequently call the Eucharist Bread They believe therefore that there is in it true Bread and not only our Lords Body Is not the reason and strength of the Argument the same Why will you rather make the Scriptures when they mention the Eucharist by the Name of Bread and Wine to assert true Bread and Wine to be therein than us Catholicks when we call it by the same Names Give me leave therefore thus to retort this Argument upon you In the Catholick Church we often term the Eucharist Bread and Wine and yet believe not any Substance of Bread or Wine to be therein Therefore it cannot from the Scriptures using the same Names be concluded that they acknowledge true Bread and Wine to remain in it Lay aside Sectary the prejudice of thy Faction and tell me whether thou art not more justly overthrown by the same Argument with which thou assaulted'st us For that we often style this Sacrament Bread and Wine is so well known to those who live amongst us that 't were Impudence to deny it and gross Ignorance not to know it How often do we desire that not only the Eating but the Effect of this Bread may be granted us How often do we beg of GOD the Father that this Bread may be to us not a pledge of Death but of Glory And all this by Similitudes and Figures Which kind of Speeches you your selves also do not deny to be frequent in Holy Writ So St. Bernard whom none can without blushing deny to be ours calls the Eucharist Bread when in his first Sermon on the sixth Sunday after Pentecost distinguishing Bread into several Species he says Moreover the seventh kind of Bread is the Eucharist because our Saviour says the Bread which I give is my Flesh for the Life of the World. We therefore with the Scriptures call this Sacrament Bread Both because as the Natural Man lives by Bread so does the Spiritual Man by the Eucharist