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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60427	Transusbstantiation examin'd and confuted in two sermons on the Lord's Supper / preach'd in the reign of Queen Elizabeth by H. Smith, sometime preacher at St. Clement Danes.	Smith, Henry, 1550?-1591.	1688 (1688)	Wing S4049; ESTC R37565	40,777	47

as the best Fifthly It will follow that Christ's Sacrifice once for all was not sufficient because we must Sacrifice him again and break his Body and shed his Blood as the Jews crucified him upon the Cross Sixthly It will follow that the Bread being turned into the body of our Redeemer hath a part of our Redemption as well as Christ. Seventhly It will follow that Christ did eat his own Body for all the Fathers say that he did eat the same Bread which he gave to his Disciples Lastly It will follow that a Massing Priest shall be the creator of his Creator because he makes him which made him All these Absurdities are hatch'd of Transubstantiation Thus when men devise Articles of their own while they strike upon the Anvil the Sparks fly in their Face and they are like the man which began to build and could not finish it When I see the Papists in so many Absurdities for entertaining one Error methinks he seemeth like a Collier which is grimed with his own Coals Therefore as in manners we should think of Peter's saying Whether is it meet to obey God or Men So in Doctrines we should think whether it be meet to believe God or Men Thus you have heard the Author of this Sacrament The Lord Jesus the time when it was instituted In the night that he was betrayed the manner how it was instituted after Thanksgiving the end why it was instituted for a remembrance of his Death and the discovery of Transubstantiation one of the last Heresies which Babylon hatch'd Now they which have been Patrons of it before should do like the Father and Mother of an Idolater that is lay the first hand upon him to shorten his Life Thus I end Think what account ye shall give of that ye have heard The end of the First Sermon The Second SERMON ON THE Lord's Supper 1 Cor. XI 25 26 27 28. After the same manner also he took the Cup when he had supped saying This Cup is the New Testament in my blood this do as aft as ye drink it in remembrance of me For as often as ye shall eat this Bread and drink this Cup ye shall shew the Lord's death till he come Wherefore whosoever shall eat this Bread and drink the Cup of the Lord unworthily shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. Let a man therefore examine himself and so let him eat of this Bread and drink of this Cup. HEre I am to speak of the second service as it were at the Lords Table and of that preparation which is like the Wedding Garment that every man must bring to this Banquet These words are diversly repeated of the Evangelists Here it is said This cup is the New Testament in my Blood. In Mathew and in Mark it is said This cup is my blood of the New Testament This is the first mention which Christ makes of a Testament as though now his promises deserved the name of a Testament because the Seal is set unto them which before this Sacrament was not sealed but like a bare writing without a Signet This word Testament doth imply a promise and therefore teacheth us that the Sacrament doth confirm and strengthen and nourish our Faith because it sealeth the promise which we should believe Here is to be noted that Christ doth not only speak of a Testament but he calleth it a New Testament which words never met together before as though the Law were for the old man to mortifie him and the Gospel for the new man to comfort him again or as if the Old Testament had so wash'd her Face and chang'd her Apparel at Christ's coming that one would not think it the same but a New Testament because even now she was shadowed with a Thousand Ceremonies and now they are gone from her like a mist at the Sun-rising As Christ calleth Love A new Commandement because he renewed it like a Law worn out of memory so he calleth the promise of salvation A new Testament because as it was renewed to Sem and after renewed to Abraham and after renewed to David so now he renewed it again which should be alway new and fresh unto us Every Tsteament is confirmed with blood the Old Testament was confirmed by the blood of Goats and Bullocks and Rams but the New Testament is confirmed by the blood of Christ My blood saith Christ is the blood of the New Testament nay This Cup saith Christ is the New Testament You may see then that they may gather as well out of Christ's words that the Cup is the New Testament as that the Wine is his Blood for Christ saith This Cup is the new Testament as well as he saith this wine is my blood or this bread is my body Beside when Christ speaks of a New Testament he implyeth that the Old Testament is fulfilled the Sacrifices and Ceremonies of the Law did signifie Christ before he came therefore they are fulfilled in his coming no more Sacrifices no more Ceremonies for the Truth is come Sacrifices and Cerimonies are honorably buried with the Priesthood of Aaron let them rest it is not lawful to violate the Sepulchers of the dead and take their bodies out of the Earth as the Witch would raise Samuel out of his Grave Therefore they which retain Ceremonies which should be abrogated Reliques of Judaism or Reliques of Papism may be said to violate the Sepulchers of the Dead and disturb the deceased like the Witch which presumed to raise Samuel out of his Grave This Testament is called a Testament in blood because the Testament and Will of a man is confirmed when the man is dead so Christ confirmed his Testament by his death Moses saith that life is in the blood so the blood of Christ is the life of this Testament If Christs blood had not been shed this Testament made unto us had been unprofitable as the Testament of a Father is unto his Son if the Father should not die but live therefore the Apostle saith without shedding of blood there is no remission of sins Therefore the Testament or Covenant of the remission of our sins is called the Testament in blood the blood of Christ is the Seal of the Testament which we have to shew unto God for the remission of our sins and the two Sacraments are a Seal of that blood to witness that it was shed Again this is a matter regarded in Testaments and Wills to the Testament of him that is dead no man addeth or detracteth but as the Testator made it so it standeth without alteration so should this Testament of Christ and this Sacrament of Christ no man should alter it now he is dead for he which addeth or detracteth hath a curse in Gods Book Therefore Christ when he Instituted this Sacrament commanded Do this that is do as I do least they should swerve one whit from

this is a poor and weak Testament which gave nothing Oh the goodliest Testament that ever was made for it bringeth to us the remissions of sins it is such a matter to forgive sins Yea the greatest benefit in all the world nay a greater benefit than all the world For thus it stood Thou hadst committed High Treason against the Queens Person thou art detected apprehended accused convicted and condemned upon it to be hanged and drawn quartered and thy Quarters to be set up for a spectacle like a Carcass which thou hast seen hanging upon a Gibbet and the Crows pecking upon it What a horror and shaking to thy mind to think of that day when all these torments and shame and fear shall surprize thee at once which would make thee quake and tremble if thou shouldst see but another so dismembred before thy face Thou hast no comfort now but this when I have suffered I shall be free before to morrow at this time all my pain will be past though my shame continue and my Children be beggers What grace what favour what mercy now to pardon thee all this and save thy life and set thee at liberty as though thou hadst never offended So I and thou and every one here had committed Treasons against the King of Kings and stood condemned for it not to suffer and then be free like them which break the laws of Men but to suffer and suffer and ever to suffer all that the Devils would heap upon us Then came the mercy of God for Christ which shed his Blood like an Umpire between God and us and said as Esay said to Hezechia Thou shalt not die but live loose him and let him go for he is mine So we were stayed like the Widows Son when he was carried to his grave This is the benefit of Christs death and this Sacrament is the remembrance of it and therefore whensoever we receive it this addition cometh with it Which is shed for the remission of sins Our fault was so heinous and grievous that no Ransom could countervail it unless God himself had suffered for us Being in this extremity neither Man nor Angel offered his Life for us but the Prince himself which should have crucified us came to be crucified of us for us that we might say with stedfast saith I believe the remission of sins not the satisfaction of sins but the remission of sins Mark this distinction against Popish Merits of Works or Penance Christ hath satisfied and not we we are remitted and not Christ therefore we say in our Confession I believe the remission of sins which I may call the quintessence and sweetness of the Twelve Therefore who but Antichrist durst deprave it If there be a satisfaction for our sins by Works or by Pilgrimages or by our Masses or by our Penance let Christ never be called a Forgiver but an Exchanger like the Pope which selleth his Pardons Wretched creatures which will not receive the Lord when he comes to their door Christ saith Take for nothing and they say no we will not take but buy Vile base miserable Man disdain to take Grace of God without satisfaction but they will cope with the Lord and give him so many Pilgrimages fast so many days hear so many Masses and pay so many Works for it untill they have done as much good as they have done evil Our sins are infinite God is infinite but our Works are finite in number measure Therefore be content with Josephs Brethren to take your money again and say that you have Corn for nothing that is you are saved for nothing or else when you say I believe the remission of sins you lie unto God because you do not believe the remission of sins but satisfaction for sins like the Papists It followeth As often as ye shall eat this Bread and drink this Cup ye shall shew the Lords death till he come Here are three invincible Arguments against Popish Transubstantiation like the three Witnesses under which every word doth stand First we are said to eat Bread then it is not Flesh but Bread. Secondly we are said to shew the Lords Death then it is but a shew or representation of his death Thirdly it is said until he come if he be to come then he is not come If he be come how can we say untill he come The effect of this Verse was shewed in these words Do this in remembrance of me For to say Do this in remembrance of me and to say So oft as ye do this you shew my death is much at one So that if you call this Sacrament a shew of Christs death as it is called here then it is not Christ or if you call it a remembrance of Christ as it is called there yet is it not Christ but a shew or remembrance of Christ but this is such a shew and remembrance that the next verse saith Whosoever receiveth it unworthily is guilty of the body and blood of Christ. Will ye know who Receiveth unworthily in the 29th verse Paul saith he discerneth not the Lord's Body i. e. which putteth no difference between this bread and othes but eateth like a Child the meat which he knoweth not and after the bread seemeth stones to him the wine poyson because his conscience telleth him I have received unworthily before I could say like David My heart is prepared My Sheep saith Christ know my voice as they discern Christs Body and therefore so often as they come into the Lords Table they seem to come into the Lords presence there they greet and kiss and imbrace one another with affections which none can know but they that feel like John which leaped in the Womb so soon as Christ came near him Will ye know beside what it is to be guilty of the body and blood of Christ even as Judas was guilty for betraying him and Pilate for delivering him and the Jews for crucifying him so they are guilty which receive this Sacrament unworthily as Pilate and Caiphas and Judas were If they be guilty of Christs death they are guilty of their own death too as if they had committed two murthers and therefore Paul saith after that many of the Chorinthians died only for the unworthy receiving this Sacrament As the Word is the savour of death to them which receive it unworthily so the Sacrament is the savour of death to them which receive it unworthily it never goeth into their mouth but they are traitors ipso facto and may say to Hell this day have I taken possession of thee because I am guilty of Christs blood Therefore it followeth immediately Let a man examine himself before he eat of this bread or drink of this wine as if he should say if he which receiveth this Sacrament unworthily be guilty of Christs death like Judas which hanged himself if these signs be received to salvation