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A14601	A looking-glasse for papists to see their owne deformities in matters of faith, and religion: and for formall protestants; to make them more carefull of the true profession of Iesus Christ: lest at any time they fall away from the sinceritie of the Gospell of Christ. With a briefe history of the Popes liues, from the first three hundred yeeres after Christ, vntill Paul the fift.	R. W., minister in Norfolk.; Woods, Richard, minister of Frettenham, attributed name.; Wrathall, Richard, attributed name.; Burges, John, 1561?-1635.	1621 (1621)	STC 24912; ESTC S119311	60,513	116

meate indeed and my bloud is drinke indeed Ergo say they Christs body must be eaten with the mouth The very Capernaites counted this absurd See Christs answer verse 62. 63. See also the answer of this place before and in the title of the Supper Besides this Chapter must be vnderstoode of a spirituall eating of Christ by faith whether in the Sacrament or without Againe heere is proued both kindes If of the Sacrament Augustine vpon this place saith This is to eate his flesh and drinke his bloud to abide in Christ and to haue him abiding in vs. This may be done without a Sacrament Ergo not necessary to be vnderstood of a Sacrament That it must be vnderstood spiritually Christ teacheth in vers 35. He that commeth to mee shall not hunger and he that beleeueth in me shall neuer thirst To eate then and to drinke Christ is to beleeue in him and verse 63. he saith The words which I speake are spirit and life that is spiritually to be vnderstood Bernard What is it to eate his flesh and drinke his bloud but to communicate with his Passion and to imitate that conuersation which hee vsed in the flesh The other places alledged by them may receiue answer from these because I will not be troubled with them in this age and weakenesse and are alledged by them of some through ignorance of other maliciously striuing against the streame of their owne knowledge To this Ergo as to the other I affirme our Doctrine to be more auncient then theirs as from Christ the Apostles and Scriptures and of a better foundation No question was heereof for the space of 1060. yeeres vntill Nicholas the second Transubstantiation By this the Papists meane a changing of the substance of Bread and Wine into the Body and Bloud of Christ so as after the words of consecration there remaines no Bread but the very Body and Bloud of Christ borne of the Virgin Mary and who shall say to the contrary let him be accursed Counsell of Trent 1550. attempted before 1212 but opposed Popish Reasons Matthew 17. Christ transfigured his Body vpon the Mount Ergo hee is able to exhibite his Body vnder the formes of Bread and Wine Ans The question is not so much of his power as of his will Psal 135. 6. Whatsoeuer the Lord would that did he in heauen and earth The second place Iob. 2. 7. He turned water into Wine then we need not doubt how he turned the Bread into his Body Answer In turning Water into Wine he left it to the Iudgement of our senses c. But Popish Recusants doe not feele the rawe flesh of Christs Body though they teach they teare it with their teeth and to feed vpon accidents is no nourishment Againe Transubstantiation ouerturneth the very Supper of our Lord for in euery Sacrament there must be a Signe Againe it taketh away the nourishment of the Soule vnto eternall life for in Transubstantiation there remayneth onely the fleshly body of Christ Councell of Constance As the flesh of our Lord was vnited by the Spirit to the diuine nature so the Bread of the Eucharist the image of his flesh being sanctified by the comming of the Holy-Ghost is become the diuine Body Againe they hold the Bread consecrated though not spent at once but reserued and kept in boxes pipes and other vessells of the Church for dayes weeks and moneths to be carried to the sicke or other vses are still the very Body and Bloud of Christ Counsell of Trent Sess 13. cap. 47. Then though it should stincke or grow full of wormes or dogges or Mice eate it yet it is his Body Thus Christs Body must be subiect to these inconueniences Also it is bound againe as in his graue or worse pinched against the nature of a fleshly body There was no publique Lawe for this deuice vntill the Counsell of Latterane vnder Pope Innocent the third Anno Christi 1215. Whereupon in this as in the rest wee conclude with the Scriptures and Fathers that the mysticall signes after Consecration loose not their proper nature Theodoret. Gelasius Bishop of Rome with others So as our doctrine is more ancient as from Christ his Apostles and Scriptures See the fruits of Transubstantiation in the Historie of Gregory the seauenth who cast the Hoste into the fire because it would giue no answere Against Images Papists make a great difference betweene an Image and an Idoll 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 say they is the true similitude of a thing but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Similacrum doth represent that which it is not as were the Idolls of Venus and Minerua women-gods meere deuised things of the heathen Images say they we haue but no Idolls Bellar. cap. 5. Their proofes 1 Cor. 10. 19. An Idoll is nothing that is representeth nothing such were the heathen Idolls But the place is not so to be vnderstood for so he saith of the things that are offered vnto them which were not made to represent any thing neither were it needefull to shunne Idoll sacrifice or to abhorre the Image but that they are abused and turned to the seruice of Idols as it followeth there verse 20. Therefore it is not said to be nothing or offensiue being but wood or stone or such like but because it is abused to Idolatrie Againe all the pictures of the Heathen were not Idolls in this sence because they represented nothing For Iupiter Mars Apollo Hercules whose Images they had were men sometime liuing Moreouer they haue Images representing nothing as of Angels of God the Father and of the Holy-Ghost which haue no shape or likenesse Deuter. 4. 15. 16. Exod. 33. 20. Micha 5. 13. where Idolls and Images are alike condemned So haue they also imagined Saints as Saint George and Saint Christopher for there were neuer any such And the Pope himselfe commaunded them to be put out of the Decretalls See Pope Marcellus 2. Paul 2. and therefore they haue Idolls by their owne interpretation as well as the Heathen but indeede there is no such difference in the Greeke names which are indifferently taken in Scripture Romans 1. 23. Paul calleth the Gentiles Idols Images They turned the glory of the immortall God into the Image of a corruptible man birds beasts c. The word ther is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Againe Reuel 9. 20. speaketh of them that continued to worship Diuells and Idolls of golde and siluer c. it must needes be meant of Papists We deny not Images for ciuill vses Luke 20. 24. or such as God hath commanded to be vsed but to be vsed in the worship of God or in Temples we vtterly deny Exod. 20. 4. Thou shalt make to thy selfe no grauen Image nor the likenesse c. If they say as before of any false gods they haue their answer before and the Roman Catechisme on the second Commandement saith it must be vnderstood of the true Iehoua and it forbids vs to resemble God either in his