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A20939	Coales from the altar; or Foure religious treatises to kindle deuotion in this colde age. Written in French by Mounsieur du Moulin: and translated into English by N.M.	Du Moulin, Pierre, 1568-1658.; Metcalfe, Nicholas.	1622-1623 (1623)	STC 7318; ESTC S118640	76,812	278

transubstantiated into his bodie And S. Matthew in the 26. chapter 29. Iesus Christ hauing giuen the cup to his Disciples said vnto them Henceforth I will not drinke of the fruit of this vine hee drunke then the fruit of the vine and not of the bloud For although that there had beene two cups yet S. Matthew speaketh but of one and calleth not the fruit of the vine the wine of one cup he speaketh nothing of it Also wee finde the Apostle S. Paul in the 1 Cor. 2.16 saith three times We eat of this bread and drinke of this cup so we see it is still bread that they did eat The same Apostle in the same chapter and 16. verse saith The bread which we eat is the communion of the bodie of Christ he saith The bread which wee breake it is then bread when it is broken in the Sacrament yet it is not broken but after the consecration So in the 20. of the Acts 17. the Disciples are assembled to breake the bread It was bread then they broke amongst them and not flesh Iesus Christ saith in the 12. of S. Iohn 8. You shall alwayes haue the poore but you cannot haue me alwaies And in the 16. ver 18. I leaue the world and goe to my Father And in the 10. I am no more of the world This sentence should bee false if we should haue Iesus Christ shut vp within a peece of bread if hee were yet remaining in the world For he saith You shall not haue mee alwayes Now may one answer that we haue Iesus Christ no more visibly which is nothing to the purpose for to haue Iesus Christ inuisibly is alwayes to haue Iesus Christ Hee should bee a lier that should say hee had no money because his money was hid or hee that should say hee had no soule because it is inuisible And it is a strange libertie which the Doctors of the Roman Church take for to make these texts of no value they interpret them figuratiuely and for to shunne a naturall and vsuall figure in speaking of the Sacraments they introduce a dozen of vnusuall figures without example The action intirely whole of Iesus Christ and of his Disciples maketh for vs for the Apostles sate at the Table without any kinde of adoration which should haue been a very great irreuerence in them to eat Iesus Christ and to sacrifice him to God without making any adoration which is so much more remarkable because the Apostles neuer gaue assistance in such an action and also because it was the first institution of this Sacrament which is giuen for a patterne to the end to make them hereafter conformable Also we see not that Iesus Christ maketh any eleuation of the Host hee presenteth nothing to God but only to his Disciples To conclude in euery action Iesus Christ doth the contrary to that which is done in the Masse The text of the Masse maketh for vs wherin the Priest after the Consecration asketh of God that hee take this offering as acceptable as euer the Sacrifice of Abel was acceptable vnto him a prayer that was good before Transubstantiation was beleeued But in these daies is it not a great offence to God to entreat him to accept the Sacrifice of his Sonne as acceptable as a beast offered by Abel And which is more the Priest desireth of God that the Offring which he holdeth may be acceptable through Iesus Christ he beleeueth not then that hee holdeth Iesus Christ And to take away all doubt the Priest long after the Consecration looketh vpon the Hoast and the Cup standing vpon the Altar and saith that these are goods which God hath alwaies created which he viuifieth and sanctifieth through Iesus Christ All this may he say of bread and wine but not one of these words can agree with the body of Iesus Christ for can the bodie of Iesus Christ be called goods in the plurall Doth God create alwaies Iesus Christ Doth God alwaies viuifie Iesus Christ seeing that Iesus Christ himselfe saith that he himselfe is life Doth God create Iesus Christ by Iesus Christ Truly if these things should be spoken openly before the people in the vulgar tongue they would be much offended that is the reason why they say their Seruice in an vnknowne tongue against the example of Iesus Christ and against the saying of Saint Paul 1 Cor. 14. The Priest and the Reader speake to a people in a tongue they vnderstand not The sixt of Saint Iohn maketh also for the truth which wee defend for although there is nothing spoken of the holy Sacrament of the Eucharist which was not then instituted yet notwithstanding he speaketh there of the Communion of the Body of Iesus Christ wherof Iesus Christ speaketh in a manner that he manifestly sheweth he speaketh of a manducation which is not by the mouth for he speaketh of a manducation without the which no man can be saued saying If you doe not eat my flesh you shall not liue So you see hee speaketh not of a manducation by the mouth without the which so many persons are saued as the good theefe crucified with Iesus Christ holy Iohn Baptist and infinite others Also our Lord speakes of a manducation which how many soeuer participate thereof haue eternall life for he saith He that eateth his flesh hath life eternall he speaketh not then of the eating the Sacramēt with the mouth which many haue done and yet escaped not damnation witnesse Iudas and many moe Hypocrites But wee may not so conclude nor say thereupon of those that eat the flesh of Iesus Christ worthily For wee finde in S. Paul 1 Cor. 2. that some eat the bread vnworthily but we shall not finde that the flesh of Iesus Christ can be eaten vnworthily and indeed seeing that to eat the flesh of Iesus Christ to drinke his bloud is to beleeue in his incarnation and in his death who knowes not that one cannot possibly beleeue in Iesus Christ vnworthily seeing in the beleefe of Iesus Christ consisteth our dignitie But to eat and drinke is to be vnderstood to beleeue the Doctors and Canons of the Church of Rome say with vs and the holy Scripture is full of such manner of speaking and Iesus Christ in the same place saith That whosoeuer beleeueth in him shall neuer thirst to the end we may know that this Thirst is quenched in beleeuing and not in drinking with the mouth And a little after hauing said Who beleeueth in me shall haue eternal life thence he inferreth that he is the bread of life and aduertiseth vs that these words of eating and drinking are spirit and life for if they bee not taken spiritually they cannot viuifie Thereupon wee ought not to feare if Transubstantiation be taken away the Sacrament should become contemptible For Baptisme is not become contemptible but is more honoured in the Church of Rome than the Eucharist and is esteemed a thousand thousand times more albeit the water be

lesse for without repentance hee will be confessed to our wofull condemnation that he forgetteth nothing and therefore in all feare let vs apply our members to righteousnesse and with S. Paul Rom. 12.1 1 Pet. 1.18 19. Psal 13.4 Let vs offer our bodies as a liuing sacrifice holy pleasing to God which is our reasonable seruice Let vs sleepe no longer in our vaine conuersation from whence we are redeemed neither with gold nor siluer but with the precious bloud of the Sonne of God And now let vs awake let vs awake I say to sanctification and newnesse of life lest that it should proue the fearefull slumber of eternall death Let not the world nor the things of the world any longer hinder our affections to constraine our continuance in this horrible hypocrisie being content with the condition which it hath pleased the Lord to call vs vnto Rom. 3. seeing that all things turne to good to those that feare God So that pouerty when it findeth vs may not affright vs nor persecution astonish vs when wee must beare it for the name of the Eternall but let vs suffer with Christ cheerefully to the end to reigne with him eternally And let not the workes of the worldly which are seruile euer trouble vs nor any thing no not the very losse of life may make vs decline from the way of the Lord for S. Paul saith Rom. 8.18 The sufferings of the time present are not worthy to be compared to those blessings which are to come which are reserued for vs in Christ which S. Paul Philip. 1.21 saith It is not only gaine for vs to liue but to die and hereafter let vs not run to any vnlawfull meanes but only to God Eccles 11.14 who giueth blessings and curses life and death pouerty and riches and who I say hath so loued vs that he hath giuen his only Sonne to die for vs Rom. 8.3 will he suffer vs to want those things that are infinitely lesse No he will let vs want nothing that is fitting for our good his eye watcheth ouer them alwayes that feare him and trust in him for he is our strength our hope and our sure fortresse and let vs chase away all vanitie and cast away the foolish cursed confidence which wee ordinarily haue in the arme of man and in riches and from henceforth let vs not looke for any other thing in all the rest of our pilgrimage but to glorifie God and to edifie our neighbours putting our whole trust in him as Dauid did Psalme 40.4 Blessed is the man that maketh the Lord his trust and respecteth not the proud nor such as turne aside to lies Let vs renounce our owne wisdome which is but follie for so the Spirit of God calleth it Isaiah 5.2 Woe vnto them that are wise in their owne eies and prudent in their owne sight and let vs no longer thinke our felicitie dependeth in the desires of the flesh which is the all in all of bruit beasts who die together both in soule and body but that there is a soueraigne and eternall good for those that walke in the feare of the Lord let vs esteeme this aboue all other things knowing that the world and the desires of it vanish away and that all the glory of man is like the flower of the grasse which is fallen but the word of God remaineth for euer and therefore let vs say with Dauid Psal 62. That our soule only reposeth in God for from him only is our saluation euery day remembring this prayer Psalme 90. O Lord teach vs to number our daies that we may apply our hearts vnto wisdome waiting for the full enioying of all the benefits which are purchased for vs by the Death and Resurrection of Iesus Christ to the participation of this eternall beatitude and of the vnion which we haue by him in God to whom only wise only powerfull infinite and our only Creator be all honor and glory world without end through Iesus Christ his only Sonne and our only Sauiour who in the vnitie of the Holy Ghost liueth and reigneth with him eternally Amen The Almighty power of God and his will Wherein is declared how the Almightie power of God and of his will ought to rule our faith in the receiuing of the holy Sacrament TO binde vs to beleeue the Transubstantiation of bread with the bodie of Iesus Christ our aduersaries set before vs the Almightie power of God who they say hath wrought as great miracles whereupon wee say That vse wee ought to make of the Almightie power of God is to beleeue that hee will doe all which hee hath promised in his word but not to beleeue all that wee would imagine By that way one may defend the most false and absurd things in the world in saying that God is powerfull enough to doe it The power of God is not the rule of our religion but his will For to know if the bread of the Eucharist becommeth flesh and transubstantiateth it selfe into the bodie of Iesus Christ one must not begin with the consideration of the Almightie power of God but wee must first informe our selues of his will in his word And if wee finde that God will haue it so we must beleeue it without all difficultie First we learne in the Gospell that Iesus Christ hauing taken the bread gaue it He gaue bread then But it is not giuen vntill after the Consecration Also we finde that Iesus Christ giuing this bread said This is my bodie And to shew that that which he gaue was his bodie hee addeth that it is done in remembrance of him For ordinarily the Scripture calleth the remembrance or representatiue signe of any thing of name with that it signifieth and representeth in the same manner as when we say This is the King when wee see but the portrait If then this Sacrament be the commemoration of Iesus Christ it is not Iesus Christ himselfe for a man cannot bee the remembrance of himselfe This appeareth cleerely by that which is added For Iesus Christ giuing the cup said This cap is the new Testament in my bloud From whence it appeareth that this cup is not the bloud of Iesus Christ for the bloud of Iesus Christ is not in the bloud of Iesus Christ and so cannot hee bloud of his bloud If I say that Baptisme is the new Testament in the bloud of Iesus Christ by consequence I say that Baptisme is not the bloud of Iesus Christ So Iesus Christ saying that the cup is the Testament in his bloud also verie cleerely saith that the cup is not his bloud And euen as a man doth not find it strange that Iesus said that the cup is an alliance although the cup nor that which is within is not transubstantiated into an alliance but only is the Sacrament of the alliance of Iesus Christ so we may not finde it strange if Iesus Christ giuing the bread hath said that it was his bodie although it bee not