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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20148	No parliament powder But shot and powder for the Pope. And for all his Cardinalles, Bishops, Abbots, Fryers, Monkes; the maisters and great doctours of Sorbonne. Sent to his vn-holynesse, and them all, for a newe-yeares gift. 1609.; Sac & pieces pour le pape de Romme, ses cardinaux & evesques. English	Denakol.; Philagathus, fl. 1609.	1609 (1609)	STC 6582; ESTC S118652	52,903	98

that there are some who receiuing onely the body of our Lord doe abstaine from the Chalice wherein because they sinne through superstition they ought to receiue the Sacraments together or else to bee reiected from them quite For the diuision of so great a mysterie cannot be committed without notorious sacriledge The Apostles and Gods Church IN regard that wormes Mice Spiders and other creatures may and doe eate your Transubstantiated bread which being kept ouer long corrupteth and putrifieth of it selfe hereby it may be manifestly knowne that the signe of the Sacrament is not the thing signified thereby that is to say That the bread which is a signe as hath bin sufficiently proued already according as our Lord hath willed cannot thus be conuerted or transubstātiated into his natural body For it were a great fearefull blasphemie to say that the body of Iesus Christ should bee subiect to putrifaction corruption or the teeth of brute beasts Hence would ensue that Christ should bee lesse sufficient and more inferiour in power and vertue then were the Gods and Idols of the Gentiles For they defended themselues and spake by the cunning of him who thorowe Gods iust iudgement did hoodwinke and blinde the poore credulous world raysing beleife of such a transubstantiation after hee had once newly forged it in his owne shop Now the Church of God being instructed by the sanctified spirit beleeueth much more wisely namely That Iesus Christ is risen from the dead being no more subiected to death For he is glorified immortall and incorruptible sitting now at the right hand of God his Father from whence hee will not descend vntill such time as hee shall come to iudge both quicke and dead and render to euery one according to his workes Then will hee punish most grieuously these correcters and falsifiers of his word that haue changed and ouerturned the institution forme and true manner of his Sacraments And hee will iudge the horrible slaunder of our aduersaries who doe vniustly accuse vs to doubt of Gods power and deny that he cannot conuert the bread into the body of his sonne Iesus Christ But in this Article and difference of the Supper we pretend no disputation of Gods power which wee beleeue and confesse to be infinite and incomprehensible For heerein onely lyeth our controuersie that the will of God is such according to the testimonie of his owne holy word By the which we prooue clearly that we doe receiue and eate by faith and spiritually the very body and precious blood of Iesus Christ This confession is incorruptible not subiect to wormes Mice Spiders or to bee burned in the fire which being eternall is prepared for all them that shall breath foorth such blasphemies against our Lord and Master Iesus Christ The Pope and his Church OVr holy Father the Pope supreame head and President in the Councell of Orleance hath ordained and decreed as it is written in the fift Chapter to be seene That if the bodie of Iesus Christ be receiued and vomited by a sicke bodie If by humane frailty no person can be found that will licke vp and receiue the same againe I meane the same body of Iesus Christ so disgorged That then that body of our Lord is to bee burned and the ashes thereof put among the Reliques Also if the body of Iesus Christ bee lost or rotten by ouer-bad smell or age it shall be burned and the ashes layd vpon the Altar Moreouer if the body of Iesus Christ by the eating of Mice or Spiders do become much lessened impaired or gnawed by byting or if the very worme be found in it It shall bee burned But if there doe remaine any part of Christs body which is not gnawen or much out of order it is more safely done to take and eate that Neuerthelesse if it be greatly gnawen rotten and impaired by some vermine or putrifaction It shall incontinently be burned and the sacred ashes shall be reuerently put and kept among the Reliques Such is our holy ordinance which we will haue to be obserued vpon paine of Excommunication As most amply wee haue ordained and decreed in the sayd Councell and caused to be written vnder the title of Consecration the second distinction And yet much more clearely in the Cautells of our holy Masse OF ONE ONELY MEDIATOVR There is one MEDIATOVR between God and man which is the man CHRIST IESVS 1. Tim. 2. 5. Wee haue one Aduocate with the Father IESVS CHRIST the iust And he is the reconciliation for our sinnes and not for ours onely but also for the sinnes of the whole world 1. Iohn 1. 2. The Apostles and Gods Church THat is not the Church of God which beside both reproouing changing his word cannot so content it selfe but also disalloweth the sufficiencie of one onely Aduocate and Mediatour sole God and searcher of all hearts For the Apostles and the whole Church after them did reiect all other Aduocates and Mediatours contenting themselues with Iesus Christ onely who prayeth for vs as most euidently is testified vnto vs in the Scriptures and is likewise to be seene in the writings of the Doctours and Fathers of the Church And because we are to handle this point somewhat briefly Saint Ambrose deliuering the word for the whole Church speaketh thus There hath beene a miserable custome in saying that men might goe of and by themselues to God euen as by Earles and Princes they can make way to Kings Is there any man so mad or forgetfull of his owne saluation to attribute a Kings honour to a Prince or an Earle Why we see that if any man should dare but to speak this of his own King of good right hee ought to bee condemned as guilty of treason Shall not they then be held for much more faultie as dare attribute the honour of Gods name to creatures And in leauing our Lord shall honour such as are but seruantes with themselues Though men in Kings Courts are in more eminent place then others yet in the King of Kings Court the greatest meanest are all but seruantes and the poorest as soone heard as the proudest and sooner too For this cause men gaine accesse to a King by meanes of Princes and Lords because the king himselfe is but a man and knowes not otherwise how to deale in matters faithfully concerning his common-wealth But to gaine the fauour of God from whom nothing can be hidden because he knowes the hearts of all men their works wants or whatsoeuer There needs no other fauourite to present our supplication by but only an humble contrite and repentant heart These are the wordes of this worthy Father With him do consent many other Doctours of the Church affirming it to bee blasphemie and sacriledge to haue any other Aduocate Mediatour or Intercessour but Iesus Christ onely If any man shall make doubt hereof let him read what is learnedly written by diuers to

together in my Name there am I in the midst of them Matth. 18. 20. And as they did eate Iesus tooke the bread and when hee had giuen thankes hee brake it and gaue it to his Disciples and sayd Take eate this is my body Also hee tooke the Cup and when hee had giuen thanks he gaue it them saying Drinke yee all of it For this is my blood of the New Testament that is shed for many for the remission of sinnes Matth. 26. Mark 14. Luke 22. The APOSTLES of our LORD IESVS CHRIST and his CHVRCH AS our Lord IESVS hath done so will we doe without altering any thing of his holy Institution For the Disciples are not wiser then their Master Wherefore as we haue receiued the holy Supper of our Lord euen so doe we beleeue and teach and in the selfe-same manner will wee receiue and administer the same As for your Masse it is vnknowne to vs because it is your Sacrament and sacrifice and not that which was instituted by our Lord. For wee are well assured that Iesus Christ hath consecrated for euer them that are sanctified by one sole sacrifice and onely oblation of his body The Pope and his Church Ovr holy Masse is the same Sacrament which is one Sacrifice for the redemption of the liuing and the dead For of all sacrifices this is the best and most excellent wherein at the voyce of the Priest heauen openeth and thence Iesus Christ with his Angels descendeth downe who are all there assistant The Apostles and Gods Church OVr Lord Iesus hath long since admonished vs not to listen vnto such as say Behold here is Christ and there is Christ And although an Angel from heauen should proclaime your newly forged Transubstantion to vs we would hold him for accursed For by faith truely and onely do we eate the bodie of Iesus Christ and drinke his blood in spirit which quickeneth for the flesh profiteth nothing Thus do we receiue these words of our Lord which hee hath said to be spirit and life The Pope and his Church IT ought to bee beleeued vpon paine of euerlasting damnation that very suddenly the bread and wine are transubstantiated and conuerted into the true body naturall and precious blood of Iesus Christ euen as great as grosse and as large as it was in the wombe of his mother and on the Crosse The holy Doctors and Fathers of Gods Church S. Augustine Ambrose Hierome Chrysostome Epiphanius Cyprian Ireneus Origen Hillarius Athanasius Tertulian and many others The Lords Signeurs and masters of the Popes Church Gratian with his Decretals Gregorie with his Decretals the graund master of the Sentences S. Thomas of Aquine Iohn Bonaduenture Raymondus Petrus Comestor Iohannes Scotus and many others The Apostles and Gods Church AS the holy Apostles did receiue it from our Lord Iesus Christ Euen so haue they deliuered it vnto vs. Wherefore we will not demolish or cast downe their building wee are ignorant of your Transubstantiation being certaine that ignorance thereof is knowledge agreeable vnto GOD. Nor haue wee any want of testimonie concerning the Apostles doctrine which the Doctours of the Church receiued from them as is easily discerned by that which they haue written Saint Augustine an ancient and faithfull Doctour both vnderstood beleeued this holy Sacrament as you may perceiue by his owne Exposition speaking thus I can interprete that this commandement consisteth in a signe for our Lord made no difficultie in his saying This is my body when he gaue the signe of his bodie He instructeth these things to be sayd euen as he spake by figure in signe by signification For the thing which is signified of Custome is to be called by the name of the thing signified Saint Ambrose also saith Thou receiuest the Sacrament for the similitude of the flesh and of the blood of Christ But thou obtainest the grace of his true nature and by receiuing the bread in this kinde thou doest participate of his diuine substance And euen as in Baptisme thou hast receaued the similitude of death in like manner doest thou drinke in the Sacrament the similitude of the precious blood of Christ Saint Hierome saith Like as Melchisedech the soueraigne Sacrificer of God performed in the figure hereof offering the bread and wine euen so Iesus Christ representeth the veritie of his body and of his blood The Pope and his Church ANd such is the alteration that the bread is no longer bread nor is the wine any longer wine or do containe any thing of their owne nature For they are really conuerted into the substance of the natural bodie of Iesus Christ As more amply and diuinely is written in our holy Decretals and Canons and specially by the venerable Father S. Thomas of Aquine In tertia parte summae in quarto sententiarum Toto titu de Celebrat Missar extra Et de concrat Distin 2. Et in Clement de reliq venerat Sanct. And in many other places I Thomas of Aquine am constrained to speake this trueth as I haue written in my Summe pars 3. in the 46. addition Article 6. in this maner Because that the Church is founded vpon Faith and the Sacraments it appertaineth not to the masters of the Church to make any newe Articles of Faith or create any new Sacraments or remooue or take away them that are made For therein is the excellencie and power which appertaineth onely to Iesus Christ who is the foundation of the Church The Apostles and Gods Church D OVR Lord Iesus Christ did neuer teach vs any such fables but flatly hath forbidden vs to giue any credite to them And S. Augustine well instructed in Gods owne Schoole Saith Vntill such time as the world shal be finished our Lord Iesus shall continually remaine aboue but his trueth abideth heere with vs. For it behoueth that the body wherewith he is risen should be in a certaine place but his trueth is euery where spread abroad For wee must not imagine that Iesus Christ is euery where dispersed according to the forme and substance of his body And wee ought in such sort to maintaine his diuinitie that we doe not destroy his humane nature It ensueth not therefore that all that is in God is God For to take and eate his very body may seem that he commanded a thing vnlawfull or an offence It is then by a figure commanded vs how to communicate in the Passion of our Lord and louingly and profitably to preserue in our memorie that his flesh was wounded and crucified for vs And the wordes of Iesus Christ are spirit and life as if he should say vnderstand spiritually what I haue said vnto you You shall not eate this bodie which you behold nor shall you drinke the blood which shall be shed by them that must crucifie me I haue commanded you a Sacrament