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A76262	A Legacie left to Protestants, containing eighteen controversies, viz. 1. Of the Holy Scriptures. 2. Of Christs Catholick Church, &c. 3. Of the Bishop and Church of Rome, 4. Of traditions needfull, &c.	Bayly, Thomas, d. 1657?,; T. B.	1654 (1654)	Wing B1512; Thomason E1667_2; ESTC R208395	72,275	206

as a chief Protestant Doctor wrote thus to the Elector Brandeburg of her Elizabeth Queen of England hath with a temerity never before heard of made her self Papissam a she Pope in all Churches in her kingdome And all her Subiects must under great Penalties swear it to be so And had she not been for her power usefull in those times to the Hereticks of France Scotland and the Low-Countries in Rebellion against their Sovereigns she had been more than she was cried out against by them So as it is evident that in this change of Religion secular policy chiefly prevailed to the perpetual disgrace and shame of such as since have imbraced it And a mixture was made therein of many Religions as the Queen and her bad Councellors list●d wholy different from any other Protestant Reform●tions d●sli●●d therefore extremely by all several Professors of them yet so by prejudice of opinion education and custome imbraced by many in their affection at least thereunto albeit the use thereof be in these times debarred unto them as with those foolish Id●laters they still cry out that their gods are taken from them some affecting it the more because it is forbidden unto them others also because the Elizabethian Church Service and Government carried a greater decency and outward shew of Religion with it than that which amongst later Sectaries is now used in a Song and a Sermon onely ended without any set form of praying together not barer of ceremony than void of devotion and many times in ex tempore praying and preaching wholly ridiculous like it so much as they cannot be drawn from it even now when it is taken from them by a prevailing power unexpectedly raised to depresse Protestants and Puritans together to end also Bishops and Bishopricks with them Insomuch as in these miserable times I deem it to be a needfull and high point of Christian wisdome for Dialogo ultimo contra Luci●●rianos each one according to S. Hieroms rule to leave all new Sects and betake themselves to that Church which hath unalteredly continued one and the same profession of faith since the Apostles time whilest Novilists have in vain laboured to change it and are come themselves to nothing so as wise men will in succeeding ages with grief and compassion conclude and deplore the eternal damnation of such as have lived and died in the profession of them Was there ever for example any Heresie since Christs time so powerfully broach'd subtly defended so lastingly continued as the Arian Heresie for a long time together in so many parts of the world by whole Countries and Nations imbraced with such a shew of Scriptures making for it and other arguments produced by learned men to prove it yet we see now the same by all good Christians worthily hated and detested as all modern Sects of Protestants will after an age or two come to be abhorred and accounted to have been miserable Seductions of Souls and damnable professions of different beliefs before in the world not so much as heard of time and truth prevailing to discover the falshood of them The sixth Controversie Of the Holy Eucharist 1. PART Concerning our Saviours reall Presence therein PL●inly imported in these words when of br●ad blessed in his last Supper he said this is my body c. and of Wine this my ●loud of the new Testament which shall be shed for many in remi●sion of Sinnes ever literally understood and believed saith Luther L●b de interpret v●rborum Caenae by Christian Past●urs and People since the Apostles calling his S●cramentari●n Advers●ries Corrupt●rs of Christs plain words and mu●derers of souls by new and false interpretations of them and I would have saith he these brave men who from Sense and Reason chiefly im●ugn the literal understanding of them to tell me why God by his infinite and unconceiveable pow●r cannot make the same body to be at once in many places sithence our Saviours r●peated and expresse promises of giving us his fl●sh to ●at and his bloud to drink plainly require this miracle to b● done by him for the fulfilling ●f th●m Not distributed by parts and in their proper formes as the Carpharnites carnal●y and gross●ly understand them but Sacramentally and hiddenly under the forms of Bread ●nd wine communicat●d unto us In which s●nse St. Paul asked of th● Corinthians the Chal●ice of benediction which we ble●●e is i● not the communication of Christs bl●ud and the Bread which we break is it not the participation Ep. 1. c. 10. of our Lords body to wit under the forms of B●ead and Wine wont t● be cons●crat●d by the Apostles themselves and distributed to the People according to St. Justins words where speaking of the Primitive Christians Apologia 2. ad Antonium in their Sinax●s and publick meetings we receive not in them saith he common Bread and Wine but we believe them to be the Flesh and bloud of our incarnat Lord. For the Bread Serm de Coena saith St. Cyprian which our Lord gave unto his disciples was not in shew but in the nature thereof changed made flesh by the omnipotency of Christs words from whom we are warranted to drink bloud by Moses in his law so strictly forbidden And St. Catech. 1 3 4. Cyrill having affirmed the same Doctrine addeth albeit sense suggesteth the contrary unto thee yet let faith confirm thee that Bread and Wine after the invocation of the blessed Trinity are made the Body and Bloud of Christ and he who refuseth to believe In ancorato so of them saith Epiphanius loseth grace and salvation St. Ambrose likewise thus plainly Lib. 4. de Sacramentis c. 4 5. delivereth the same Doctrine Bread distributed at the Altar is Bread before Consecration but after Consecration of Bread is made the Flesh of Christ and let us certainly believe it But how can that which was Bread be made so by Consecration by what words then and by whose is Consecration made by those words of our Lord Jesus this is my body c. for when the venerable Sacrament is to be made the Priest useth not his own words but the words of Christ c. and St. Hierome to the same purpose that Bread saith he which our Lord brake and gave to his Disciples was as Epist 1●0 quae est ad Hedibiam we believe his own flesh and the Challice which he blessed was his Bloud neither is it man now that consecrateth the Bread and Wine laid on the Altar and maketh them the Body Homil. de proditione Judae and Bloud of Christ but himself who was crucified for us Saith St. Chrisostome the words are pronounced by the mouth of the Priest but the Elements are consecrated by the power of Christs words and as the speech of God increase and multiply once pronounced hath force still to effect what he intended by them so have Christs words this is my body still power at all

Tables of the Church to perfect the Sacrifice He saith Gaudentius who descended In cap. 2. Exodi from heaven said the Bread which I will give shall be my Flesh who being Lord and Creator of all things a● he produceth Corn from the earth to make Bread so both he can and promised of Bread to make his Body And he who of Water made Wine can of Wine make his Bloud c. think not therefore that to be earthly which is heavenly Truth cannot lye c. St. Orat. magna Cate●hetica Gregory Nissen likewise biddeth us to consider how Christs Body received in many places ●nd by thousands together can wholly and intirely be communicated ●●●●ch one of them wherefore I do rightly believe Bread by Gods word to be transmuted or wholly changed into th● Body of Christ and not to remain both together in the Sacrament as Luther even Harmoni● in cap. 26. Matth. in Calvins opinion absurdly affirmed And indeed all the Authorities of ancient Fathers hitherto alledged by me do plainly prove a totall change of Bread into the body and of Wine into the bloud of our Saviour fitly called in the great Laterane counc●l Transubstantiation And that in the distinct Consecrations of our Saviours Body and Bloud at the Altar under the forms of Bread and Wine is celebrated his misterious Sacrifice according to the order of Melchisedech and foretold by Malachy the Prop●et is so plainly and frequently testified by Ancientest and Chiefest Fathers of Christs Church as when we cite the Testimonies even of such as lived Lib. de vera reformatione Ecclesiae with the Apostles themselves Calvin passeth on us this mild and modest censure Solemne est istis nebulonibus c. It is the custome of these knaves to rake up out of the ancient Fathers whatsoever hath been written erroniously and ●alsly by them when therefore they object Malachies foretelling a continuall Sacrifice c. We answer saith he that these Fathers also taught Chri●●s bodily presence in the Sacrament but so ridiculously as Reason and Truth inforce us to leave them Could a Devil in human● shape have more proudly or contemptuously censured St. Irenaeus St. Justin St. Cyprian St. Alhanasius St. Chrysostom St. Ambrose St. Hilary St. Augustine and many others chief lights of Christs Church in their time for learning and Sanctity highly renowned And elswhere I see saith he the Fathers Lib. 4. In●it cap. 28. Sect. 11. even the ancientest and chiefest amongst them to have wrested the memory of Christs sacrifice on the Crosse and to have acknowledged therein the face of a renewed oblation more than was agreeable to the institution thereof imitating so the Jewish manner of sacrificing more than Christ ordained or the Gospel permitted as if he alone knew better than all ancient Doctors before him what Christ ordained in his last Supp●r even such as had known the Apostles themselves or conversed with some of their chiefest Disciples in his Commentary also on St. Pauls Ep. to cap. 6. v. 9. the Hebrews he hath these words I cannot but wonder to see the ancient Fathers so preoccupated with the opinion of Christs corporall Presence in the Sacrament but a● one errour draweth on another when they had forged a sacrifice in the Lords Supper and adulterated thereby the sam● they laboured to gather colour●ble Arguments whereby they might seem to maintain their errour So as mentioning no further his impudent and unchristian boldnesse in accusing so many glorious Saints now raigning with Christ in Heaven of Judaisme Idolatry and Superstition practised by themselves and taught to others I will accept here what he so plainly confesseth that all the ancientest and chiefest Fathers of Christs Church held the reall presence of our Saviour in the Eucharist and acknowledged a true sacrifice in the daily Consecration thereof celebrated still by us after their example and our Saviours institution mentioned also by St. Paul blessing Bread and 1 Cor. 10. Wine and distributing them as the Body and Bloud of our Lord according to S. Irenaeus his words our Lord saying of Bread this is my Body and Lib. 4. c. 32. confessing the Challice which he consecrated to be his bloud taught us a new oblation of the new Testament which the Church having received it from the Apostles offereth to God throughout the whole world as Malachy had foretold c. And not to speak of those ancient Li●urgies extant in Greek and Latine under divers Apostles names and proved to have been truly theirs by many grave and learned Authors one●y because Protestants are not pleased for such to accept them I will boldly here affirm that no point or practice of faith can be more faithfully made known and testified by all manners unto us and even in Protestant Authors themselves more plainly confessed than that this great and onely sacrifice of Christians hath still in all ages since Christ even untill this very time both in our Western and those Eastern Churches of Greece Syria Armenia E●ypt and India it self been celebrated so as yearly out of those and other parts of the world Christians come with their Priests unto Jerusalem many thousands of them together having no other publick service of God but the celebration of this sacrifice used amongst them never but in their first Apostolicall Conversions taught unto them and since still retained by them And albeit Nestorisme besides other ancient and condemned heresies have crept in lamentably amongst them yet in a Catholick belief of ●ur Saviours presence in the Sacrament and sacrifice of the Masse ordained by him there is no disagreement at all between them and this concord of many Nations remote from each other and void of all commerce between themselves for many ages together Lib. de Pr●script according to Tertullians rule non error sed traditio est is no error but tradition still continued amongst them The second Part. FOr proof of the Masse also I could here if Calvins former confession that the ancientest and chiefest Fathers acknowledged and celebrated the same saved me not that labour heap up many pregnant testimonies out of their authenticall works truly collected that being most true which S. Epiphanius affirmed that all the Apostles severally prescribed the order of celebrating this sacrifice And St. Isidorus lib. 2. Officiorum telleth us that the Masse used in his time in these Western parts of the World was according to St. Peters Ordination which mysterious and unbloudy sacrifice albeit in the Host it self and chief Offerer thereof it be all one with the sacrifice of the Crosse yet is it far different in the manner and ceremonies thereof for whereas in that his body and bloud were painfully parted and his death thereby caused in this they are onely by distinct consecrations of them mysteriously severved So as to distinguish these sacrifices we may fitly call that other the sacrifice of our redemption consummated indeed fully by it and this

your calling is naught and pernitious to Christs Church The like is written by Amandus Polanus Andreas Musculus and other chief Protestant Writers And therefore the holy Fathers St. Athanasius St. Hilary St. Hierom St. Austin and Tertullian doubted not to call such as took upon them ecclesiastical ministeries without being lawfully called unto them false Prophets Wolves in sheeps garments theeves entring not by the doore to kill and destroy the flock of Christ Children without fathers c. Those Lib. 4. c. 43. saith St. Irenaeus being onely true Doctors and securely in Christs Church to be followed who with the truth of heavenly Doctrine have had their Succession from the Apostles The Ordination likewise of these men was and is still suitable to their Vocation in all Sects and Assemblies Lib. de doctrina moribus Secta of them of which George Wicelius a learned man who lived in Luthers time and saw the beginnings of them writeth thus They reject the Roman Rite of Ordination and without more ado he whom the Visitors like is sufficiently called to the ministery elected and ordered amongst them Neither is their manner of Ordination yet fully agreed upon so as since that time several Sects therein observe different fashions and particularly amongst the Calvinists the Elders are to choose and approve such as are to be ordered and together with their Minist●r Impose their hands on them wher●in their O●dination chiefly consist●th neither holy nor much to be regarded according to Luther● Doctrine who to vilifi● the Sacrament of O●der and take away all use thereof in Christs Church expresly affirmeth all sorts of Persons men women and children to be in their very Baptisme m●dePriests and Bishops admitting no Tom. 2. Wit●enb●rgens● sol 90. l. de capt Babiloni●a distinction at all between Clergie men and Lay persons as Tertullian in his Prescriptions said of Hereticks in his time One is a Bishop this day and none to morrow another a Priest now that was none yesterday for that all amongst them are admitted to Priestly Functions Neither doth Luther stay his madnesse here but saith that the Devil himself in humane shape may conescrate the holy Eucharist and administer other Sacraments if he will have a right intention therein and do what Christ commanded neither saith he would I lay a wager to the contrary but that he hath at one time or other plaid so the part of a Pastor perchance in their Churches who have scarcely any thing but Baptism sacred amongst them Lastly Concerning Church-government and particularly that of Geneva craftily devised by Calvin to gain therby to himself and his Ministers the government of that City as Hooker in his Preface of his Ecclesiastical Policy modestly declareth it and Bancrost more roundly relateth the manner thereof I may after many learned mens judgements written of the same rightly affirm it to be a politick confusion of Civil and Ecclefiastical power together A diabolical invention of establishing Christ in his Throne as they term it but indeed of disturbing the peace of States and subverting the government of Christian Kingdomes under a colour of propagating the Gospel insomuch as Bullenger who had somewhat holpen Calvin in his erection thereof seeing the inconveniences ensuing from the same and writing to the Bishops of England compared these Consistorial Lords not in title but in power to the seditious Tribunes of Rome wont to gain power and honour unto themselves by moving tumults amongst the people Gualterus likewise his successor in Zuirick admonished in one letter the Bishop of London and in another the Bishop of Eli to look in time to that Genevian Hydra rising then with new heads amongst them in whose Consistories each Minister hath Pretorial and Episcopal power enjoyned together as able with his ignorant Elders to examine and punish with Excommunication first and greater penalties after wards if he be not obeyed all sorts of Delinquents And these Elders are in Cities Towns and Vilages for the most part ignorant Tradsmen chosen and put in authority for a year onely and then returned to their shops again without any manner at all of consecration yet able that year whilest they are in Office to determine with their Ministers and conclude seditious Councels of War against Princes and States which they live in of which France Flaunders Scotland Poland and other places are able to affo●d dreadfull examples And in setting up this Destruction as I may rightly ●erm it of all antient Church government Calvin hath misappli●d the word Presbyter and giv●n it to his Elders For albei● according to the Gre●k and Gramm●tical signification thereof it may signifie any E●d●● in ag● or authority yet according to th● Ecclesiastical and sacred use thereof even in scripture it self it signifi●th a Priest consecrated and ord●in●d to offer the sacrifice of our L●rd bod● and bloud at the Altar administer S●craments and preach I ad Tim. 5. to the peo●le according to St. Pauls words affirming such Priests to be worthy of double honour as labour in the word and doctrine d●stinguish d from the Laity and ●x●rcis●●g their hi●●● Office of governing under Bishops Christian People commited in several Churches to the government of them having under them fo● the ministry of the Altar Deacons Subdeacons and other inferiour Church Officers as glorious St. Igna●ius in his Epistles particularly m●ntioneth them What saith he Epist ad Trallian●s is the Bishop but Father Prince and Head of the Clergie What is Priesthood but a holy institution of being Counsellour and assistent to the Bishop What are Deacons c. but helpers of Bishops and Priests in performing a clean immaculate work as most blessed Stephen did to James Timothy and Linus to Paul Anacletus and Clement to Peter in serving them at Masse distributing the Chalice to the people keeping and dispensing the Treasures of the Church as St. Laurence told Sixtus his Bishop desirous to be Martyred with him Priests are good and Preachers of Gods Word Epist. ad Smi●nenses but the Bishop is better than they honour him as the Father of Priests and chiefest of them resembling God himself and like unto Christ amongst his Disciples c. And writing to his own Church at Antioch I salute saith he the Priests and Deacons Subdeacons Lectors Acolathists Cantors Doorkeepers c. your Colledge of Virgins c. having then particularly written unto Hero his Deacon and told him how our Saviour had revealed unto him that he should next in that See succeed him So as the whole order and form of Ecclesiasticall government used in the Apostles time is there according to all degrees thereof declared by him Calvin therefore and his Companions in changing the same have done as if a few Rebels invading some part of a grea● and well s●tled kingdome should change the old laws and government thereof to be new in that as in other points of their Doctrine and refusing to follow those