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A30895	An apology for the true Christian divinity, as the same is held forth, and preached by the people, called, in scorn, Quakers being a full explanation and vindication of their principles and doctrines, by many arguments, deduced from Scripture and right reason, and the testimony of famous authors, both ancient and modern, with a full answer to the strongest objections usually made against them, presented to the King / written and published in Latine, for the information of strangers, by Robert Barclay ; and now put into our own language, for the benefit of his country-men.; Theologiae verè Christianae apologia. English	Barclay, Robert, 1648-1690.	1678 (1678)	Wing B721; ESTC R1740	415,337	436

could they have been vessels capable to receive that power and again transmit it to their successors Thirdly it would follow from this that the Priests and Bishops of the Romish Church are yet really true Pastors and Teachers for if Protestant Ministers have no authority but what they received from them and since the Church of Rome is the same she was at that time of the reformation in doctrine and manners and she has the same power now she had then and if the power lye in the Succession then these Priests of the Romish Church now which derive their ordination from those Bishops that ordained the first reformers have the same authority which the successors of the reformed have and consequently are no less Ministers of the Church than they are But how shall this agree with that opinion which the primitive Protestants had of the Romish Priests and Clergy to whom Luther did not only deny any power or authority but contrariwise affirmed that it was wickedly done of them to assume to themselves only this authority to teach and be Priests and Ministers c. For he himself affirmed that every good Christian not only men but even women also is a Preacher § X. But against this vain succession as asserted either by the Papists or Protestants as a necessary thing to the call of a minister I answer that such as plead for it as a sufficient or necessary thing to the call of a minister do thereby sufficiently declare their ignorance of the nature of Christianity and how much they are strangers to the Life and Power of a Christian ministery which is not entail'd to succession as an outward inheritance and herein as hath been often before observed they not only make the Gospel not better than the Law but even far short of it for Jesus Christ as he regardeth not any distinct particular family or nation in the gathering of his Children but only such as are joined to and leavened with his own pure and righteous Seed so neither regards he a bare outward succession where his pure immaculate and righteous Life is wanting for that were all one He took not in the Nations within the New Covenant that he might suffer them to fall into the old errors of the Jews or to approve them in these errors but that he might gather unto himself a pure people out of the earth Now this was the great error of the Jews to think they were the Church and People of God because they could derive their outward succession from Abraham whereby they reckoned themselves the Children of God as being the off-spring of Abraham who was the Father of the faithful But how severely doth the Scripture rebuke this vain and frivolous pretence Telling them that God is able of the stones to raise children unto Abraham and that not the outward seed but those that were found in the faith of Abraham are the true Children of faithful Abraham Far less then can this pretence hold among Christians seeing Christ rejects all outward affinity of that kind These saith he are my mother brethren and sisters who do the will of my Father which is in heaven And again He looked round about him and said who shall do the will of God these said he are my brethren So then such as do not the commands of Christ as are not found cloathed with his righteousness are not his disciples and that which a man hath not he cannot give to another and it 's clear that no man nor Church though truly called of God and as such having the authority of a Church and Minister can any longer retain that authority than they retain the power life and righteousness of Christianity for the form is entailed to the power and substance and not the substance to the form So that when a man ceaseth inwardly in his heart to be a Christian where his Christianity must lie by turning to Satan and becoming a reprobate he is no more a Christian though he retain the name and form than a dead man is a man though he have the image and representation of one or than the Picture or Statue of a man is a man and though a dead man may serve to a Painter to retain some imperfect representation of the man that sometimes was alive and so one Picture may serve to make another by yet none of those can serve to make a true living man again neither can they conveigh the life and spirit of the man it must be God that made the man at first that alone can revive him As death then makes such interruption of an outward natural succession that no art nor outward form can uphold and as a dead man after he is dead can have no issue neither can dead images of men make living men so that it is the living that are only capable to succeed one another and such as dye so soon as they dye cease to succeed or to transmit Succession So it is in Spiritual things it is the life of Christianity taking place in the Heart that makes a Christian and so it is a number of such being alive joyned together in the life of Christianity that make a Church of Christ and it is all those that are thus alive and quickened considered together that make the Catholick Church of Christ Therefore where this life ceaseth in one then that one ceaseth to be a Christian and all power vertue and authority which he had as a Christian ceaseth with it so that if he hath been a Minister or Teacher he ceaseth to be so any more and though he retain the form and hold to the authority in words yet that signifies no more nor is it of any more real vertue or authority than the meer image of a dead man And as this is most agreeable to Reason so is it to the Scriptures Testimony for it is said of Judas Acts 1.25 That Judas fell from his Ministry and Apostleship by transgression So his transgression caused him to cease to be an Apostle any more whereas had the Apostleship been entailed to his person so that transgression could not cause him to lose it until he had been formally degraded by the Church which Judas never was so long as he lived Judas had been as really an Apostle after he betrayed Christ as before And as it is of one so of many yea of a whole Church for seeing nothing makes a man truly a Christian but the life of Christianity inwardly ruling in his Heart so nothing makes a Church but the gathering of several true Christians into one Body Now where all these members lose in this life there the Church ceaseth to be though they still uphold the form and retain the name for when that which made them a Church and for which they were a Church ceaseth then they cease also to be a Church and therefore the Spirit speaking to the Church of Laodicea because of her luke-warmness Rev. 3.16 threateneth to

spue her out of his mouth Now suppose the Church of Laodicea had continued in that luke-warmness and had come under that condemnation and iudgment though she had retained the name and form of a Church and had had her Pastors and Ministers as no doubt she had at that time yet surely she had been no true Church of Christ nor had the authority of her Pastors and Teachers been to be regarded because of any outward succession though perhaps some of them had it immediately from the Apostles From all which I infer That since the authority of the Christian Church and her Pastors is always united and never separated from the inward power vertue and righteous life of Christianity where this ceaseth that ceaseth also But our adversaries acknowledge That many if not most of those by and through whom they derive this authority were altogether destitute of this life and vertue of Christianity Therefore they could neither receive have nor transmit any Christian authority Obj. But if it be objected That though the generality of the Bishops and Priests of the Church of Rome during the apostasie were such wicked men yet Protestants affirm and thou thy self seemest to acknowledge that there were some good men among them whom the Lord regarded and who were true members of the Catholick Church of Christ might not they then have transmitted this authority Answ. I answer This saith nothing in respect Protestants do not at all lay claim to their Ministry as transmitted to them by a direct line of such good men which they can never shew nor yet pretend to but generally place this succession as inherent in the whole Pastors of the Apostate Church neither do they plead their call to be good and valid because they can derive it through a line of good men separate and observable distinguishable from the rest of the Bishops and Clergy of the Romish Church but they derive it as an Authority residing in the whole for they think it heresie to judge that the quality or condition of the Administrator any ways invalidates or prejudiceth his work This vain then and pretended Succession not only militates against and fights with the very manifest purpose and intent of Christ in the gathering and calling of his Church but makes him so to speak more blind and less prudent than natural men are in conveying and establishing their outward Inheritances for where an Estate is entailed to a certain Name and Family when that Family weareth out and there is no lawful Successor found of it that can make a just title appear as being really of blood and affinity to the Family it is not lawful for any one of another race or blood because he assumes the name or arms of that Family to possess the estate and claim the superiorities and priviledges of the family but by the law of Nations the inheritance devolves into the Prince as being ultimus haeres and so he giveth it again immediately to whom he seeth meet and makes them bear the name and arms of the family who then are entitled to the priviledges and revenues thereof So in like manner the true name and title of a Christian by which he hath right to the heavenly inheritance and is a member of Jesus Christ is inward Righteousness and Holiness and the mind redeemed from the vanities lusts and iniquities of this world And a gathering or company made up of such members makes a Church where this is lost the title is lost and so the true Seed to which the promise is and to which the inheritance is due becomes extinguished in them and they become dead as to it and so it retires and devolves it self again into Christ who is the righteous heir of Life and he gives the title and true right again immediately to whom it pleaseth him even to as many as being turned to his Pure Light in their Consciences come again to walk in his righteous and innocent life and so become true members of his body which is the Church So the authority power and heirship is not annexed to persons as they bear the bare names or retain a form holding the meer shell or shadow of Christianity But the promise is to Christ and to the Seed in whom the authority is inherent and in as many as are one with him and united unto him by purity and holiness and by the inward renovation and regeneration of their minds Moreover this pretended succession is contrary to Scripture definitions and nature of the Church of Christ and of the true members For first The Church is the house of God the pillar and ground of Truth 1 Tim. 3.15 But according to this Doctrine the house of God is a polluted nest of all sort of wickedness and abominations made up of the most ugly defiled and perverse stones that are in the earth where the devil rules in all manner of unrighteousness For so our adversaries confess and History informs the Church of Rome to have been as some of their Historians acknowledge and if that be truly the house of God what may we call the house of Satan or may we call it therefore the house of God notwithstanding all this impiety because they had a bare form and that vitiated many ways also and because they pretended to the name of Christianity though they were anti-christian devilish and atheistical in their whole practice and spirit and also in many of their principles Would not this infer yet a greater absurdity as if they had been something to be accounted of because of their hypocrisie and deceit and false pretences Whereas the Scripture looks upon that as an aggravation of guilt and calls it Blasphemy Rev. 2.9 Of two wicked men he is most to be abhorred who covereth his wickedness with a vain pretence of God and righteousness even so these abominable beasts and fearful monsters who look upon themselves to be Bishops in the apostate Church were never a whit the better that they falsly pretended to be the Successors of the Holy Apostles unless to lie be commendable and that hypocrisie be the way to Heaven Yea were not this to fall into that evil condemned among the Jews Jer. 7.4 Trust ye not in lying words saying The Temple of the Lord the Temple of the Lord the Temple of the Lord are these throughly amend your ways c. as if such outward names and things were the thing the Lord regarded and not inward holiness or can that then be the pillar and ground of Truth which is the very sink and pit of wickedness from which so much error superstition idolatry and all abomination springs Can there be any thing more contrary both to Scripture and Reason Secondly The Church is defined to be the Kingdom of the dear Son of God into which the Saints are translated being delivered from the power of darkness It is called the Body of Christ which from him by joynts and bands having nourishment ministred and knit

be truly one must be much more necessary to make a man a Minister of Christianity seeing the one is a degree above the other and has it included in it nothing less than he that supposeth a master supposeth him first to have attained the knowledg and capacity of a Scholar They that are not Christians cannot be Teachers or Ministers among Christians But this inward call power and vertue of the Spirit of God is necessary to make a man a Christian as we have abundantly proved before in the second proposition according to these Scriptures He that hath not the Spirit of Christ is none of his As many as are led by the Spirit of God are the sons of God Therefore this call moving and drawing of the Spirit must be much more necessary to make a minister Secondly all ministers of the New Testament ought to be ministers of the Spirit and not of the letter according to that 2 Cor. 3.6 and as the old Latine hath it not by the letter but by the Spirit But how can a man be a minister of the Spirit who is not inwardly called by it and who looks not upon the operation and testimony of the Spirit as essential to his call As he could not be a minister of the letter who had thence no ground for his call yea that were altogether a stranger to and unacquainted with it so neither can he be a minister of the Spirit who is a stranger to it and unacquainted with the motions thereof and knows it not to draw act and move him and go before him in the work of the Ministery I would willingly know how those that take upon them to be ministers as they suppose of the Gospel meerly from an outward vocation without so much as being any ways sensible of the work of the Spirit or any inward call therefrom can either satisfie themselves or others that they are Ministers of the Spirit or wherein they differ from the ministers of the Letter For Thirdly if this inward call or testimony of the Spirit were not essential and necessary to a minister then the ministery of the New Testament should not only be no ways preferable to but in divers respects far worse than that of the Law for under the Law there was certain tribe allotted for the ministery and of that tribe certain families set apart for the priesthood and other offices by the immediate command of God to Moses so that the people needed not be in any doubt who should be Priests and Ministers of the holy things yea and besides this God called forth by the immediate testimony of his Spirit several at divers times to teach instruct and reprove his people as Samuel Nathan Elias Elisa Jeremiah Amos and many more of the Prophets But now under the New Covenant where the ministry ought to be more spiritual the way more certain and the access more easie unto the Lord our adversaries by denying the necessity of this inward and Spiritual vocation make it quite otherways for there being now no certain family or tribe to which the ministry is limited we are left in uncertainty to chuse and have pastors at a venture without all certain assent of the will of God having neither an outward rule nor certainty in this affair to walk by for that the Scripture cannot give any certain rule in this matter hath in the third Proposition concerning it been already shewn Fourthly Christ proclaims them all Thieves and Robbers that enter not by him the door into the Sheep-fold but climb up some other way whom the Sheep ought not to hear but such as come in without the Call movings and leadings of the Spirit of Christ wherewith he leads his Children into all truth come in certainly not by Christ who is the Door but some other way and therefore are not true Shepherds Obj. § VIII To all this they object the succession of the Church alledging that since Christ gave a call to his Apostles and Disciples they have conveyed that call to their Successors having power to ordain Pastors and Teachers by which power the authority of ordaining and making Ministers and Pastors is successively conveyed to us so that such who are ordained and called by the Pastors of the Church are therefore true and lawful Ministers and others who are not so called are to be accounted but intruders Hereunto also some Protestants add a necessity though they make it not as a thing essential that besides this calling of the Church every one being called ought to have the inward call of the Spirit inclining him so chosen to his work but this they say is subjective and not objective of which before Answ. As to what is subjoined of the inward call of the Spirit in that they make it not essential to a true call but a supererogation as it were it sheweth how little they set by it since those they admit to the ministery are not so much as questioned in their trials whether they have this or not Yet in that it hath been often mentioned especially by the Primitive Protestants in their treatises of this subject it sheweth how much they were secretly convinced in their minds that this inward call of the Spirit was most excellent and preferable to any other and therefore in the most noble and heroick acts of the reformation they laid claim unto it so that many of the primitive Protestants did not scruple both to despise and disown this outward call when urged by the Papists against them But now Protestants having gone from the testimony of the Spirit plead for the same succession and being pressed by those whom God now raiseth up by his Spirit to reform these many abuses that are among them with the example of their Forefathers practice against Rome they are not at all asham'd utterly to deny that their fathers were call'd to their work by the inward and immediate vocation of the Spirit cloathing themselves with that call which they say their Forefathers had as Pastors of the Roman Church For thus not to go further affirmeth Nicolaus Arnoldus in a pamphlet written against the same Propositions called a Theologick Exercitation sect 40. averring that they pretended not to an immediate act of the Holy Spirit but reformed by the vertue of the ordinary vocation which they had in the Church as it then was to wit that of Rome c. § IX Many absurdities do Protestants fall into by deriving their ministry thus through the Church of Rome As first they must acknowledg her to be a true Church of Christ though only erroneous in some things which contradicts their fore-fathers so frequently and yet truly calling her Anti-Christ Secondly they must needs acknowledge that the Priests and Bishops of the Romish Church are true Ministers and Pastors of the Church of Christ as to the essential part else they could not have been fit subjects for that power and authority to have resided in neither

maintainance to a Minister is founded upon their need and such as have opportunity to work are comended rather in not receiving than in receiving it can no ways be supposed lawful for them to receive more then is sufficient and indeed were they truly pious and right tho necessitate they would rather incline to take too little than be gaping after too much § XXXI Now that there is great excess and abuse hereof among Christians the vast Revenues which the Bishops and Priests have both Papist and Protestant do declare since I judg it may be said without any Hyperbole that some particular persons have more paid them yearly than Christ and his Apostles made use of their whole life time who yet wanted not what was needful as to the outward man and no doubt deserved it far better than those that enjoy that fulness But it is manifest these Bishops and Priests love their fat benefices and the Pleasure and Honour that attend them so well that they purpose neither to follow Christ nor his Apostles Example nor advice in this matter But it 's usually objected that Christians are become so hard-hearted and generally so little heed Spiritual things Obj. that if Ministers had not a settled and stinted maintainance secured them by Law they and their Families might starve for want of bread Answ. I answer This objection might have some weight as to a carnal Ministry made up of natural men who have no Life Power nor Vertue with them and so may insinuate some need of such a maintainance for such a Ministry but it saith nothing as to such as are called and sent of God who sends no man away faring upon his own charges and so go forth in the Authority and Power of God to turn People from Darkness to Light for such can trust to him that sendeth them and do believe that he will provide for them knowing that he requireth nothing of any but what he giveth power to perform and so when they return if he inquire can say they wanted nothing And such also when they stay in a place being immediately furnished by God and not needing to borrow and steal what they preach from Books and take up their time that way fall a working of their lawful Imployments and labour with their hands as Paul did when he gathered the Church of Corinth And indeed if this objection had any weight the Apostles and primitive Pastors should never had gone forth to convert the nations for fear of want Doth not the Doctrin of Christ teach us to venture all and part with all to serve God Can they then be accounted Ministers of Christ who are afraid to preach him lest they get not money for it or will not do it until they be sure of their payment What for serves the Ministry but to perfect the Saints and so to Convert them from that hard-heartedness But thou wilt say I have laboured and preached to them Obj. and they are hard-hearted still and will not give me any thing Then surely thou hast either not been sent to them of God Answ. and so thy Ministry and Preaching hath not been among them in the Power Vertue and Life of Christ and so thou deserv'st nothing or else they have rejected thy Testimony and so are not worthy and from such thou ought'st not to expect yea nor yet to receive any thing if they would give thee but thou ought'st to shake off the dust from thy Feet and leave them And how frivolous this objection is appears in that in the darkest and most superstitious times the Priests Revenues increased most and they were most richly rewarded though they deserved least So that he that is truly sent of God as he needs not so neither will he be afraid of want so long as he serves so good a Master neither will he ever forbear to do his work for that cause And indeed such as make this objection shew truly that they serve not the Lord Christ but their own belly and that makes them so anxious for want of food to it § XXXII But lastly as to the abuses of this kind of maintainance indeed he that would go through them all though he did it passingly might make of it alone an huge Volumn they are so great and numerous For this abuse as others crept in with the Apostacy there being nothing of this in the primitive times then the Ministers claimed no Tithes neither sought they a stinted or forced maintainance but such as wanted had their necessity supplyed by the Church and others wrought with their hands But the Persecutions being over and the Emperours and Princes coming under the Name of Christians the Zeal of those great men was quickly abused by Covetousness of the Clergy who soon learned to change their Cottages with the Palaces of Princes and rested not until by degrees some of them came to be Princes themselves nothing inferiour to them in Splendor Luxury and Magnificence a method of living that honest Peter and John the Fisher-men and Paul the Tent-maker never coveted And perhaps as little imagined that men pretending to be their Successors should have arrived to these things and so soon as the Bishops were thus seated and constitute forgetting the Life and Work of a Christian they went usually by the Ears together about the precedency and revenues each coveting the chiefest and fattest Benefice It is also to be regreted to think how soon this mischief crept in among Protestants who had scarce well appeared when the Clergy among them began to speak at the old rate and shew that though they had forsaken the Bishop of Rome they were not resolved to part with their old Benefices and therefore so soon as any Princes or States shook off the Popes Authority and so demollished the Abbeys Nunneries and other Monuments of Superstition the reformed Clergy began presently to cry out to the Magistrates to beware of meddling with the Churches Patrimony severely exclaiming against making a lawful use of those vast revenues that had been superstitiously bestowed upon the Church so called to the good and benefit of the Common-wealth as no less than Sacriledge But by keeping up of this kind of maintainance for the Ministry and Clergy-men so called there is first a bait laid for Coveteousness which is Idolatry and of all things most hurtful so that for Coveteousness sake many being led by the desire of filthy Lucre do apply themselves to be Ministers that they may get a Lively-hood by it if a man have several Children he will allot one of them to be a Minister which if he can get it to be he reckons it as good as a Patrimony so that a fat Benefice hath always a good many expectants and then what Bribing what Courting what Industry and shameful actions are used to acquire these things is too openly known and needs not to be proved The scandal that herethrough is raised among Christians is so manifest that it is

iii 27 277 iv   156   19 148 v 12 20 339   24 383 vi 6 220   14 78 Ephesians i 13 179   14 279 ii   63   4 5 6 169   5 148   8 200   15 134 iii 9 10 iv   214   5 18 277   7 11 16 201   11 165 294   23 239   23 24 149   24 169 iv 30 279 v 8 104   11 350   13 83 93     116   25 26 27 165 vi 12 383   18 268 Philippians i 6 177   8 376   21 66 ii 13 155 iii 10 134   14 178   15 346 Colossians i 13 104   23 83 108   24 135   27 28 148   28 74 ii 6 16 20 327   8 350   12 277   15 253   19 194 iii 1 325   2 370   16 276 iv 2 243   12 166 I Thessalonians i 5 215 ii 12 158 iii 13 166 v 5 104   6 243   12 13 217   17 265   19 20 219   21 346   23 166   27 376 II Thessalonians i 5 8 158 ii 11 12 175 I Timothy i 19 177 ii 1 3 4 6 75   3 71   8 9 10 366   11 220 iii 2 203   2 3 4 5 6 229   15 193 v 16 220   17 217 vi 5 6 c. 229   7 8 9 10 224   8 230   20 209 II Timothy iii 2 229   15 16 17 49   17 166 iv 5 243   7 180 Titus i c   203   7 8 9 229   10 11 230   15 93 ii 11 118 200   14 134 164 iii 5 154   7 144   10 331 Hebrews i 3 356 ii 9 76 iii 14 177 iv 12 13 110 v 4 204 229 vi 16 377 vii 26 140 viii 10 26 ix 9 168   10 328 x 24 259 xi   17   6 138   7 14 15 xii 14 151   16 17 87   22 23 169 xiii 7 8 18   17 217 James i 21 107   25 249   27 78 ii 24 151 iii 9 10 170 iv 1 383 v 6 128   12 371   14 303 326 I Peter i 5 177   14 350   17 367   23 114 ii 5 205   21 90   22 140   22 24 134 iii 3 4 366   18 134   20 99   21 277 iv 7 243 249   10 11 202 229 v 5 217 II Peter i 4 135 162   10 45 179   12 13 49   16 356 ii 1 2 3 230   3 211   1 3 14 15 229   20 78 iii 9 71 77   15 99 I John i 1 206   7 133   8 170 ii 1 2 77   2 to 6 167   15 78   27 27 iii 1 13 78   2 to 10 167   4 172   5 8 164   7 20 149   9 163 iv 4 5 78   9 75   10 134   13 35 46 v 3 169   6 35 46   14 269   19 78 Jude i 16 229   20 268 Revelation ii 9 194   20 338 iii 12 174 179   16 292   20 11 315 xiv 1 to 5 169 xix 10 363 xxii 9 363   14 151   18 56 A TABLE Of the Chief Things A ABraham's Faith 15. Adam See man sin redemption what happiness he lost by the Fall 63. what death he died 59 66. He retained in his nature no will or light capable of it self to manifest Spiritual things 59. whether there be any reliques of the heavenly image left in them 62 91. Alexander Skein's Queries proposed to the Preachers 271 272. Anabaptists of Great Britain 31 251. Anabaptists of Munster how their mischievous actings nothing touch the Quakers 28 29 30 31 32. Anicetus 30. Anointing the Anointing teacheth all things it is and abideth for ever a common priviledge and sure Rule to all Saints 27 28. Antichrist is exalted when the seed of God is expressed 20 92. his work 213 214 228. Antinomians their Opinion concerning Justification 137. Apostasie 174 211. Apostle who he is their number was not limitted and whether any may be now adaies so called 216 217. Appearances See Faith Arians they first brought in the Doctrin of Persecution upon the account of Religion 342. Arius by what he fell into error 210.211 Arminians See Remonstrants Assemblings are needful and what sort 33 237 c. See Worship they are not to be forsaken 245. Astrologer 35. Aurelia there ten Canonicks were burnt and why 301. B Baptism is one its definition 277 279 280 281 283 284. It is the Baptism of Christ and of the Spirit not of Water 277 279 to 287. the Baptism of Water which was John's Baptism was a figure of this Baptism and is not to be continued 277 280 285 286 to 302. Baptism with Water doth not cleanse the heart 280 288. nor is it a badge of Christianity as was Circumcision to the Jews 202 291 301. that Paul was not sent to Baptize is explain'd 290 291 292. concerning what Baptism Christ speaks Mat. 28.20 it is explained 293 204. how the Apostles Baptized with Water is explained 296 297 298 299. to Baptize signifies to Plunge and how Sprinkling was brought in 299 300. those of old that used Water-baptism were plunged and they that were only sprinkled were not admitted to an Ecclesiastick Function and why 399. against the use of Water-baptism many heretofore have testified 301. Infant-baptism is a meer humane tradition 277 302 Bible the last Translations alwaies find fault with the first 47. Birth the Spiritual birth 37. holy birth 248 see Justification Bishop of Rome concerning his primacy 30. how he abuseth his authority and by what he deposeth Princes and absolveth the people from the Oath of Fidelity 341 344. Blood to abstain from blood and things strangled 303 326 329. it hath been shed 310. Blood of Christ see Communion Body to bow the body see Head Books Canonical and Apocryphal see Canon Scripture Bonaventure 236. Bow to bow the knee see uncover the Head Bread the breaking of bread among the Jews was no singular thing 317 321. it is now other waies performed than it was by Christ 322. whether unleavened or leavened bread is to be used also it is hotly disputed about the manner of taking it and to whom it is to be given 321 322. see Communion C Calvinists see Protestants they deny consubstantiation 30. they maintain absolute reprobation 26. they think Grace is a certain irresistible power and what sort of a Saviour they would have 115 116. of the flesh and blood of Christ 307 309.310 they use leavened bread in the Supper 321. Canon whether the Scripture be a filled up Canon 55. whether it can be proved by Scripture that any Book is Canonical 55 56. Castellio banished 345. Ceremonies see Superstition Christ see Communion Justification Redemption Word He sheweth himself daily revealing the knowledge of the Father 6. without his