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A39896 An essay of original righteousness and conveyed sin wherein the question is sightly stated, the latent venome of some of Dr. Jeremiah Tayler's heretical assertions detected, and accurately impugn'd. By [J.] Ford gentlemen. Ford, John, Mayor of Bath. 1657 (1657) Wing F1464; ESTC R222666 41,888 180

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Queen Elizabeth for the glory light and liberty of the Gospel as it was pretended was there salvation to be had or no Doctor Tayler for fear of shame and laughter will answer affirmatively why then doth he dare subvert the whole fabrick of the same and quit undo at a breach what hath been so long a doing sure it was to the end that God permitting the monster of reformation should reveal its own turpitud and horrid basis and betray it self by sects divisions and subdivisions that those that are come to some eminency in learning and zeal might easily discern it to be not a City built on a mountain but a wall raised and dawbed without tempering Ezekiel 13. 11. A fools Cottage erected upon slying sand where no setled footing can be found for the old Proverb of the Hebrews is most sure that truth hath strong and stedfast footing and is of a permanent perpetual durance but a lye of a tottering foundation easily supplanted and overthrown therefore all reformations of forged Sectaries are to be esteemed as weak and groundlesse lyes and fooleries according to the doctrine of Trismegistus Omne quod alteratur falsitas est non manens in se ipso every thing subject to alteration is false And it is very observable how one of the grave Prelates and first reformers being asked by an ingenious Gentleman why did the new reformers accuse the ancient Church of Rome of Idolatry and superstition which she only had suppressed both in this Nation and in the whole universe as all Historians do witnesse The Prelate ingeniously and candidly returned answer that the reformation began with lies follies and vain inventions and so it must end in lies and impostures This prediction seems manifestly come to passe this day for that the reformation began with lies and grosse falshoods I need not prove any man that is compos mentis may see but that reformation now ends in lies is manifestly evinced by the late doctrine of Doctor Jeremiah Tayler for how can there be a more grosse and horrid lye then to hold that Infants are saved and not by Christ and that any may be saved in any religion or sect whatsoever that Laicks have power to administer Sacraments Preach interpret Scripture and what not and that Original sin is so called abusive that in the Sacrament of baptism there is had but a figurative remission of sin thus doth our brave Doctor end the specious reformation Thus you may observe how he brings up the rear of new denials of some part of the ancient faith which former reformers had not yet obtained the impudent boldnesse to reject Such and no other be all reformations a dayly taking away and negative abolitions of the antient Tenets without any positive institution Was not I pray the necessity of faith and merit of works taken away by some Feast-days Lents and all fasting rejected by others Priest his power and Mass which were as ancient in England and generally throughout the whole world as Christianity it self put down by some contrition and Penance by others Was not soon after Sacrificing Unction Altars Vows Pilgramage chas'd away by some the Lords-prayer the Ten Commandements cried down and neglected by new Tub praters and by the unrelenting malice of hellish monsters Thus by a gradual proceedeng of infidelity and blasphemy of the whole fabrick of Christian Religion there is not left one stone upon another Only unum baptismae in remissionem peccatorum as the distinctive character betwixt Christian and Pagan left together with the reall presence in the Lords Supper maintained in the 39. Article are this day contemned by Doctor Tayler and reduced to bare shades figures and dreams so perfecting the work by degrees leaves us but damnation Were all reformers before him sent from God with devine commission to inlighten the world if they were why then did they not do their work to the full must an ignorant Taylor or Bungler at the end of a full age step in to accomplish it yes sure now our Tayler hath done the deed to the utmost beyond all addition now the reformation consisting of the denial of essential truths and all practical principles of Religion is brought to the non plus ultra he brings up the rear having ushered and ●ed by the hand James Naylor to Pillory and with him many thousands into horrid blasphemies and atheism neither doth his impiety stay here but dares deny against Scripture ancient Fathers and the general received practise of all ages the necessity and reality of Christ's body in the B. Eucharist For its a general rule approved by all Divines that we must never understand any place in Scripture figuratively unlesse we be evidently compelled thereunto but no such matter in these words This is my body for our Saviour doth not say this bread is my body neither can his words be so understood especially seeing the word hoc this is both in Greek and Latine Texts of the Neuter Gender the word bread is of the Masculine And by the figures of this most B. Sacrament the Catholique doctrine is thus proved the figures ought necessarily to be of a meaner dignity then the thing figured Colos. 2. But if the Eucharist were no more then simple and natural bread signifying Christs body and not his very body it self then should the figures thereof be no whit inferiour in dignity to the B. Eucharist it self yea some figures should be more excellent then it which is most absurd for if we consider a Lamb and bread as they are natural things no question but the Lamb is more excellent then bread if considered only as external signs for who seeth not that Christs flesh is far better signified by the flesh of a Lamb then by bread Christs death is better signified by the death of a Lamb then by breaking of bread Christs innocency meeknesse c. are better signified by the property of the fame then by those of bread As for the Manna it was made with Angels hands it rained down from heaven it had all kind of taste in all which respect it was far more excellent then bread so as that now Christians would be in a far more sad and more pitious condition then those of the old Law if we had figuratively only Christs body and blood and not really present in the B. Eucharist and there is no colour in the world why any should admit Christs words to be otherwise taken then really and properly for the four Evangelists use them unanimously None of the ancient Fathers ever understood them figuratively but expresly reach that they are to be understood properly no place of Scripture no Article of faith no decree of Councel no explication of the Church compelleth us to take them figuratively therefore we must needs take them really with all the Saints and primitive fathers See the 28. Article of the Church of England and the 94. of Ireland established in Dublin in the year 1615.
Where the Protestants do teach that in the Eucharist the body and blood of Christ is not only signified and offered but also really substantially and truly presented exhibited and communicated and consequently that the bread is not a bare sign significative only but also exhibitive of Christs body See Vsher's Sermon before the Commons Page 16. Edit. 2. Sure had Christs body been only figuratively presented he would have removed the doubt when he saw the Jews offended at the reality as Hereticks be now a days John 6. and he would not have confirmed and repeated his saying in terminis with promise of a greater wonder John 6. 62. The Lutherans believe our Saviour to be as really in the Eucharist as he was upon the Crosse but do not adore him the Roman Catholiques both believe the reality of it and adore it For my part I should clearly hold with these for S. Paul and all the four Evangelists unanimously teach the Doctrine of the reall presence and not one single place produceable that in direct terms calls the B. Eucharist a sign or figure of Christs body notwithstanding the vain cursed maintainers thereof admit no proof as authentical but the pr●cise Text of Scripture but in this so important controversie they fly to logical inferences and Philosophical discourses and so make their own bare reason the Judge and not the word of God rendering by their new and private interpretations this great Sacrament inferiour in dignity not only to the Paschal Lamb a type of Christ but even to Manna which was but a figure of this very mystery Surely if we shall add to so many and so evident Texts of S●ripture the constant judgement of the Fathers and the universal practise of the whole Christian world for above a thousand years we may safely conclude the doctrine of our Saviours presence in the B. Eucharist to be most probable and true and consequently Roman Catholiques in no wise accusable of rashness or obstinacy in believing a position so efficaciously recommended to them and conveyed from hand to hand therefore what can be more dangerous and pernitious to any Kingdom then to quite abolish such a dread Sacrament plainly invincible which adorneth and graceth the whole universe fomenteth innocency extirpats vice and by most evident ways demonstrate that a living God lieth under it and set up in its place a piece of prophane bread which never yet discovered more grace or force in the Ministers hand then it brought out of the Oven As it s evinced out of Christs repeated words By this so important digression we have the omnipotencie of God against all weaknesse idle curiosities sophisms and artificial falsities of new wits as a pledge sufficient enough to evince and secure the reality of Christ in the Sacrament of the Altar and believe that under the Sacramental species sensible and corruptible our Saviour subsisted with a glorious body which is called by S. Paul spiritual body because it s dignified with qualities and conditions of spirit though it lose not the essence of a body adoring therein with all humility that which cannot be sufficiently comprehended but by expresse passages of Scripture clear decision of 40. Councels the testimony of above 500. Authors antient and holy which ought to be preferred to the chimeras imaginary figments and bare assertions of any particular Lay-man and if plain Scripture-Texts with the Church Saints and general Councels exposition be not sufficient for a man to rest both his Science and Conscience upon I know not where he will find a resting satisfiable place it may shoot at randome but never come to take a right aim It being the most palpable folly which can creep into the brain of man to desire wisedom contrary to the wisedom of Saints my firm hope is that Doctor Taylor having with so much labour and charges indeavoured to honour Christ in a meer shadow will now in the name of God turn his tongue and pen to honour and glorifie him in his true real and substantial body and receive those rules of Religion ever unalterable eternal universal and constant and not any longer to run with the Jews after simple figures and weak elements Now it s more then time to look after Christs true Church still the same without opposition to it self in any fundamental doctrine when all other arising Sects are notoriously known to contradict both their Associates and themselves at the end Behold more then sufficient cause and ground for all those that pretend to any fear of God any care or regard of their souls eternal welfare utterly to detest and anathematize all novellism and damnable principles now its time to return to the Catholique Church setled by Christ upon a Rock never to be prevailed against by humane or divels power Cause enough there is to take warning for the future not to remit the planting of religion to every giddy pretending spirit Now it s more then time that truth the centre of our understanding maugre never so long or strong opposition should powerfully work upon those very many Machievillians of our times that seriously and deliberately say Pox on it I 'l be of any Sect rather then hazard my liberty honour or fortunes I 'l keep my consciene to my self but I 'l never lose my Land for want of outward compliance or conformity with the prevailing l●bertines Alas how many brave ancient families are quite extinguished and brought to nothing for want of compliance or conformity with God and his holy revealed Ordinances as it s by woeful experience obvious to any judicious person for non est prudentia non est concilium contra Dominum for my own part I cannot but wonder that any man acknowledging his sould immortal and that either Hell or Heaven must be the eternal domicil after this life withal acknowledging that a false wavering religion cannot be the way to beatitude shall not desert that sect of whose falsenesse and damnablenesse to mans soul and inconsistency with a well ordered Church he hath so many and pregnant demonstrations to the eye Finally its time for all to begin to follow the main current and generality of Religion ancient and well grounded Erubescat senectus quae se emendare non potest nullus pudor est ad meliora transire S. Ambros. Ep. 31. ad valent And now that we see the Protestants fighting writing and preaching against Protestants for Protestant Religion The old Catholique Religion must be the white at which we must all aim out of which none can hope for salvation I beseech God the Father of light and mercy may open the heart and eyes of our Doctor and of his Profelytes and resolve them herein for to receive that faith which hath God himself for object Let me now end with two words concerning the B. Virgin Mother ever most highly reverenced under God by all Christians upon earth as the blessed instrument of our welfare who but a turbulent Momus or a