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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57614	Rome's overthrow in a fatal blow at her greatest idol, which leaves all inexusable who resolve still to be blind after such plain conviction a discourse very seasonable for these times wherein popery doth daily threaten in the nation / by a son of the Church.	Son of the Church.	1680 (1680)	Wing R1903; ESTC R29335	11,610	24

Rome's Overthrow IN A FATAL BLOW AT HER GREATEST IDOL Which leaves all Inexcusable who resolve still to be Blind after such plain Conviction A DISCOURSE Very Seasonable for these Times wherein POPERY Doth daily threaten Prevalence in the Nation By a Son of the Church LONDON Printed for John Kidgell at the Atlas in Cornhill near the Royal Exchange 1680. ROME'S OVER THROW In a FATAL BLOW At her GREATEST IDOL c. WHereas when Popery hath prevailed in England the sorest stroke which fell on the sincere Protestants was for their confessing against their most Idolized Transubstantiation and on the consideration of the danger of its return and consequently the need we have of being fortified against their Principles and especially their Magick of Transubstantiation I would herein endeavour to lay open its first Invention as also to Anatomize and Confute it Wheras the People of Pagan and Infidel Rome being not content with the Pompilian Institution in the Communion of little round Loaves but that the Roman Idolatrous Pontifes must needs further ordain the Killing and immolating of Beasts that they might eat and communicate of the Flesh of Victims in their Sacrifices especially the Sheep the Sow the Goat and the Oxe which was first instituted by Evander King of Arcadia Wherefore that the Missalians might not degenerate from the Idolatry of their Predecessors they must needs follow this communion of flesh And they not content with their little round Azimal Hosts consecrated and printed with Images but with time they have invented a new Magick to transubstantiate their little Hosts of Flower into Flesh and Bones the bread being no more bread but an accident without substance and by this means to convert the round Host of flower into a Carnal and Sanguinolent Host The Wine also offered in their Missal Chalices to be transubstantiated into Blood the Wine being no more Wine but an Accident without Substance Was there ever a more abominable Magick or a more detestable Heresie than this Missaline Transubstantiation When the People of Israel murmured against God because they were weary of Eating Manna and celestial Bread calling for flesh was the Manna transubstantiated into Fesh Bones and Blood When the ancient Roman Idolaters meant to change their round Host of Flower or Meal and grew to eat Flesh in their sacrifices did they use this Magick of Transubstantiation Wherefore I freely averr that this Missal Addition was lately invented by the Missalians more than a Thousand years after the Incarnation of Jesus Christ This Heresie began to spread very much by a Nicolaitane Antichrist climbing up to the Roman Pontificacy by the monopoly and suggestions of Hildebrand expelling by force the other elected Pope which was Benedict the second of that name in the year of Jesus Christ 1062. Afterwards by a Monopoly held in St. John Lateran in Rome it was advanced during the Eclefiastical Tyranny of Innocent the III. of that name about Two hundred years after the Palinodie canonized by Berengarius Dean of St. Maurice in Angiers Against which abominable Magick and Heresie we must briefly by form of a Recapitulation compare the Institutions of the Sacraments ordained by God First of all the Fruits of the knowledge of good and ill forbidden to our first Father Adam as sacred Signs and Sacraments of Fear and Obedience whereon depended Life or Death were they transubstantiated or converted into Knowledge or into Death to leave their nature of being Trees or Fruits reduced to an accident without substance The celestial Manna and the Rock gushing out lively water Sacraments that had reference to the holy Sacrament of the Supper were they transubstantiated into an accident without substance The unspotted Lambs immolated by Abel in his acceptable Sacrifice to God were they transubstantiated into another nature The Fore-skin circumcised for a note and mark of Covenant to the good Patriarch Abraham and his Posterity was it converted into an accident without substance The Blood of the Paschal Lamb for an assurance of Israels salvation was that converted into any other substance The Flesh of the immaculate Lamb to be eaten on the day of the Passover having reference to the holy Sacrament of the Supper was it transubstantiated into an accident without substance The brazen Serpent which being only beheld Health was granted to the Sick did it not continue a Serpent of Brass was that transubstantiated being ordained for a Sacrament and sacred sign to the People of Israel Victims offered in Sacrifice both of Beasts of the Earth and Azimal Loaves with other sacred Signs ordained of God for holy Signs and Sacraments of Expiation and Salvation for the People of Israel were they ever transubstantiated into accidents without substance All sacred Signs ordained by God in the Israelitish Church though they Sacramentally represented that which was by them figured and not as a simple Picture without real effect yet did there never live so detestable an Heretick which invented or added thereunto this Magick of Transubstantiation And nevertheless O Papists you must needs confess that the good and holy Fathers of Israel were adopted engrafted and regenerated by Faith in Jesus Christ that they were nourished and obtained Eternal Life by the Lord Jesus Christ that they and we have but one God and one only Jesus Christ one Mediator and Redeemer that by Faith they Sacramentally communicated and participated spiritually of the Blood of Jesus Christ for their salvation and eternal Life That there is no difference touching God between them who did precede the Incarnation of Jesus Christ and us that were since his Incarnation But both they and we are equally the Church of God redeemed by the blood of the Just and unspotted Lamb Christ Jesus For the rest they had a Faith of the future Promise and observed the holy Sacraments and sacred Symbols of the Sacrifice which should be consummated by Christ Jesus and we in the New Law celebrate the Memorial and remembrance of the Sacrifice now finished by Jesus Christ having a fruition of the Promise accomplished If then the Israelites eat the same celestial Bread and drank the same saving drink which we do by Faith in one onely Jesus Christ if they had sacred signs to represent actually and really the future death of Jesus Christ even as we retain sacred signs of his present or past death they for the future and we for what is past why did the Papists invent this new Magick to convert an holy Sacrament ordained by God into a Magick of Transubstantiation and into an accident without substance If God to approve his power and to manifest the hardness and obstinacy of Pharaoh was pleased to perform wonderful things by Moses and Aaron by converting a Rod into a Serpent Water of the River into Blood and into Frogs and dust of the Earth into Lice and then to make the Navigable Sea dry performing many other Miracles can we by this inferr a Transubstantiation of the little round azimal Host printed

and life Should we doubt whether God hath power by the Symbols of Bread and Wine consecrated to make us communicate of the body and blood of Jesus Christ though the bread remain bread and the Wine wine if it were otherwise this could be no Sacrament but rather called a Miracle as when Jesus Christ converted the Water into Wine he then used the Miracle of transubstantiation changing the water into wine but he ordained not this for a Sacrament as he did the communion of his body and blood by the sacred figures of bread and wine Was it not also as easie for God to change the wine into blood or the bread into flesh as for Moses and Aaron to change the water of the River into blood to confirm the hardness of Pharaohs heart or when the clouds were turned into the flesh of Quailes that rained upon the people of Israel Nevertheless God did not ordain that these Miracles should serve for ordinary Sacraments but herein he applyed himself to our infirmity exhibiting to us Sacred but not Transubstantiated signs and yet are not vain or fantastical but signs external that we may Behold Touch Eat and Tast remaining still in their substance and nevertheless they represent Sacramentally what is by them comprehended and intimated wherein consists the approbation of our faith to manifest by a Sacramental work and Ministration that we are in the number of the regenerate and sustained by the holy Sacraments of Baptism and the Supper And further I would leave with you for your further confutation in this Horrid Heresie of Transubstantiation this apt Similitude of the Sun seeing by some Apostles Christ is called the Sun of Righteousness to whom the Son may not unfitly be compared because Light comes down from Heaven by this luminous and glorious spherical Planet and so spiritual Light is exhibited to us by Jesus Christ who out of the night and darkness of Sin hath brought us into the brightness and clear Sun-shine of of his Grace You may now therefore understand carnal and gross Capernaites this sufficient and evident comparison to intimate that the Infinite power of God is much more compleat and perfect than your abominable invention of Transubstantiation Will you not acknowledg except your Eyes be blinded and obfuscated with the palpable darkness of Obstinacy that the Sun gives us his light his force his heat and vigor and yet nevertheless the Body it self of the Planetal Sun remains continues in his Spherical Orb Do you not use to say in ordinary common Language when the Window of an House is open on that part where the Sun shines that the Sun is come into the House although the Sun remains still in the Firmament Must we therefore hale and violently pull the Body of the Sun to make it descend and be transubstantiated into this Earthly substance before it can afford its heat beams light and nourishment to Plants Trees Herbs and Beasts of the earth are you so bruitish O Capernaites as not to recognize that the true Sun of Righteousness Jesus Christ hath more power than this Astral Sun being but Mortal and Created If then a Mortal Creature hath this power to infuse into us the virtue and efficacy of his Body by his Beams Light and Heat extend really and effectually over the whole Earth the Body remaining still in its Heaven and shall we not believe that God an immortal Creator hath much more power to grant unto us the true Sun of Righteousness Jesus Christ to give us the virtue and power of his Body and Blood shed for us by the beams light and heat of his Holy Spirit except he be by your Magick plucked from the right hand of God and his Body drawn out of Heaven to be transubstantiated upon Earth Why should not Jesus Christ have this power to afford us his light and to offer his Body and Blood to enter into us if by Faith and a pure Conscience we be ready to receive him by the efficacy of his Holy Spirit as well and much better than the Spherical Sun can enter into our Houses with his force and power and never be drawn out of its Heaven to be transubstantiated The Sun is an entire Body created residing in Heaven the cause of the generation of Plants Trees and Herbs which by its force and calidity gives sustentation to whatsoever lives upon the Earth and in one and the same moment hath power to quicken heat and nourish an infinite number of Plants Trees and Beasts of the Earth and yet his Body is never separated divided drawn out of his Sphere nor transubstantiated The Body also of Jesus Christ which he assumed up into Heaven set at the right hand of God hath not that more force more virtue more power to regenerate nourish and sustain us to give us his virtue light and beams to inspire quicken illuminate and nourish us and in a moment to make us all by Faith partakers of his Body and Blood to make us his Members united in and by him through his true promise comprehended under the Symbols and sacred Signs commended to us till the second coming of his humanity be revealed upon Earth Wherefore then O ye Popish Priests have you devised this Magick of transubstantiation to blaspheme against God to impair his Omnipotency and disable his virtue more than you do that of the Spherical Sun but his Creature Thus do I conclude praying that God would be pleased to open their blind Eyes if it may be but because they are wilfully blind and see not because they will not see O Lord if thou wilt not turn them for the good of thy Church and for the glory of thy Power overturn them and hasten their utter fall and Eternal overthrow FINIS