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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
word_n	blood_n	bread_n	consecration_n	4,106	5	10.7048	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29730	A dissuasive from popery sent in a letter from A.B. to C.D.	A. B.; C. D.	1681 (1681)	Wing B5; ESTC R23574	10,610	32

A DISSUASIVE From POPERY Sent in a LETTER From A. B. to C. D. DVBLN Printed by Benjamin Took and John Crook Printers to the King 's Most Excellent Majesty and are to be sold by Mary Crook Andrew Crook at his Majesties Printing-house in Skinner-Row 1681. Honoured Sir THe last time we were together you told me that a friend of yours long'd to see in a paper under my hand the reasons of my unkindness to Popery To which he or you for him obligingly added that I did not appear unkind to the persons of Papists and that indifferency in judging is there likelyest to be found where Bitternes of humour is not prevalent Now Sir though I know and very much honour you yet I am not acquainted with your friend and am sensible that use may be made of such a paper to my disadvantage How ever I here send it you for I do really look upon Protestancy That of the Church of England to be so high a Blessing both to the particular professors of it and to the Country where it is embrac'd that I could adventure very far in whatsoever should promise the advancement of it The paper may be shewn as you or your friend shall think fit but I would not have it published in Print t is not studied enough for that A Dissuasive from Popery I Reduce my dislikes of Popery to two Heads the incrediblenes of its Doctrins and the grievousness of the Yoke imposed on its Professors Of its incrdible Doctrins I name first Transubstantiation In the way of Nature this is not so properly called incredible as absurd and impossible It makes the Body of Christ to be in a Thousand places at once It makes that Body wear its own quantity under the dimensions of a Wafer that is to have its own bigness but to be never the bigger for it It makes the accidents of Bread and Wine Exist without a subject that is there is whiteness and there is moisture but there is nothing Either white or moist It makes the accidents of Bread and Wine to nourish the Eaters and Drinkers of them that is to be turned into Substances c. To all which it is answerd that Gods power is sufficient to overcome all these Difficulties Neither will I dispute his Power where his Will is revealed But I say it is incredible that Transubstantiation in the Eucharist should be the will of God For All other Miracles recorded in the Holy Scriptures serv'd to some End Elias called fire from Heaven to make it appear that the Lord is God and that he was his servant So Christ raised up the widow's son for the comfort of the widow and for the manifestation of his own Power But Transubstantiation serves to no End that has been yet nam'd It convices no body it profits no body Our Saviour says so Jo 6. the flesh profits not That is by being bodily Eaten Christs flesh profits by being taken into God by suffering upon the Cross by being believed on but by being bodily Eaten it has no effect either upon the body or the Soul of the cater Not upon the body for that they confess is concern'd only in the accidents of the bread and wine departed Nor upon the Soul for that feeds on Christ only Spiritually viz. by Faith Hope and Charity Now is it credible that God would worke so many miracles as are in the bowells of Transubstantiation for no end in the World 2ly The course of nature is certainly the will of God therefore we must not believe it is inverted but where God himself declares it is so Here they say God has declar'd for Transubstantiation in these words This is my body c. I answer no more then in these that rock was Christ Or then in these of the same Apostle We are all one bread For all three sentences are equally positive and are equally the word of God Now was the rock which followed the Israelites in the wilderness turned into the substance of Christ not then born Or are all Christians turned substantially into bread No all say that rock was Christ imports no more then that rock was the representative of Christ We are all one bread that is we are all represented by one bread Why not then this is my body that is this is the representative of my body If it be lawful to take one word of God figuratively it cannot be wicked to take another so if the matter equally requires And certainly there can be no greater necessity any where than in the Eucharist of flying from Transubstantiation to a figure 3ly t is Incredible that the Apostles or the Primitive Church ever thought of Transubstantiation When our Saviour said I go to the Father the Disciples asked what it was When he told the Parable of the Sower they asked what it meant If they had thought of a change of substance by the words of Consecration would they not have said how can this be do we not see there as formerly and the bread and wine as formerly But he had instructed them Jo. 6. how his flesh is meat indeed and his blood drink indeed to wit Spiritually not bodily therefore they boggl'd not Again not one Apostle nor one Christian Doctor for above six hundred years after Christ either mentions this change of substances or in all those vast volumnes says one word that infers it The Christians spoke not of it neither did the Jews or heathens object it Yet Transubstantiation in the eye of an unbeliever is a masse of contradictions What work would Lucian have made with it But no such matter is mentioned by that scoffer or by Porphyry or Festus or Julian the Apostate c. In so incredible a doctrine would Beringarius above a thousand years after Christ have been the first Heritique If Transubstantiation had been the setl'd doctrine of the Church in the days of Charlemaigne would that Emperour have writ to Bertram the Priest for his opinion of the real Presence Would Bertram have positively answered that the host is not the same body of Christ which was born of the Virgin Mary Only that body of Christ which was born of the Virgin Mary is to be ador'd therefore the adoration of the host was not in fashion in Bertrams days 4ly As there is nothing in the Holy Scripture or ancient Fathers which can be rationally brought in favour of Transubstantiation so there are in them very many sayings which seem incompatible with it Mat 26. Me yee have not always Which was spoken because of his Death and Ascension Hear St. Austin upon it Non semper c. Not always according to his bodily presence but as to his Majesty as to his Providence as to his invisible Grace is fulfilled that Behold I am with you to the end of the World So Act. 3. 31. Whom the Heavens must contain till the restitution of all things Yes say they he is only in Heaven locally and in the Host but