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blood_n	bread_n	drink_v	sacrament_n	5,470	4	7.2763	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57693	Catholick charitie complaining and maintaining, that Rome is uncharitable to sundry eminent parts of the Catholick Church, and especially to Protestants, and is therefore Uncatholick : and so, a Romish book, called Charitie mistaken, though undertaken by a second, is it selfe a mistaking / by F. Rous.	Rous, Francis, 1579-1659.	1641 (1641)	Wing R2017; ESTC R14076	205,332	412

Indulgences even absolution from Penance which being set to sale doe plainely crosse Christs charitable doctrine by making it easier for a rich man then a poore man to enter into the Kingdome of heaven But indeed it hath had this charitable consequence that it hath caused many Nations to cast up not single sins only but the man of sinne himselfe But otherwise whereas this Author speakes of this Sacrament to cast up sinne wee must complaine that it hath beene used as a meanes to cast up goodnesse and to cast sinne into a mould even to nourish and strengthen it for Garnet thought it a good covert and hiding place of treason saying that in Confession hee first received the knowledge of the Powder-treason and secondly himselfe would not say that hee did cause his Penitents to cast up this treason but left it in their stomacks wherein it lay with some of them untill death not acknowledged as a sinne Behold right Romish charity plainly proved by the Sacrament of Confession yea this Sacrament hath beene by them uncharitably used as a means not to cast up sin but to cast up righteousnesse for some maine acts and duties of righteousnesse have been put to Penance as great sinnes Sir Thomas Overbury and my selfe met with an Irish Pilgrime in France who taking us as hee said for Catholickes wherein hee was not mistaken if hee had rightly understood the word told us that hee was enjoyned by way of penance to goe on Pilgrimage to Rome and Compostella for serving Queene Elizabeth in her warres against Tyrone See here not a sin cast up but an excellent duty of subjection and loyalty and so the Romish Sacrament of Penance not a proofe of charity but of disloyall uncharitablenesse Hee goes on and sayes that Rome to make her child grow and stand out feeds him from time to time with the precious Body of our blessed Lord in the Sacrament of the Altar But where is Romish charitie in taking away the Bloud of our blessed Lord in the same Sacrament If it be charity to give bread to a childe is it not uncharitable to deny him drinke but the children of Rome are left to cry like Sampson though not heard as Sampson Thou hast given this great deliverance and now shall I die for thirst Christ hath given them a great deliverance and now Rome would kill them with thirst Yet the same Lord in his Passion gives both meat and drink to their soules and therefore hee not onely saith that his flesh is meate indeed but that his bloud is drink indeed and so is hee perfect nourishment and a just refection being both meat and drinke Hee gives no lesse to the true Israel then to the typicall Israel the type of the Church in their Journey to Canaan it is said of them they did eat spirituall meat and drank spirituall drink for they drank of the Rock and that Rock was Christ. But Romish charity or uncharitablenesse takes from the people that drink which Christ gave them and as it were drives the true Israel from the waters that issue from this Rock to refresh them in their walking through the wildernesse to this heavenly Canaan Neither doth it availe any thing to say that there is bloud in the body for bloud out of the body is given us in this Sacrament to quench the otherwise unquenchable and ever-thirsty guilt of sinne Bloud that was shed for us is given to us in this Sacrament as the very words of our Saviour in the Institution of it doe affirme and if Christ say hee gives us bloud that is shed either they must profanely deny the words which our Saviour spake or else they must bee inforced to witnesse that they doe uncharitably and unchristianly deny to us that which our Saviour gave us and indeed bloud that is shed and so powred out of the body is the proper Sacrifice for sinne for without the shedding of bloud there is no remission yea our Saviour himselfe here saith of his bloud given in the Sacrament that it is shed for the remission of sinnes What therefore Christ the fountaine of charity hath shed for us out of his body and so given us being shed for the remission of our sinnes is it not extreme uncharitablenesse in Rome to take the same from us for thereby shee takes from us an excellent means of the remission of our sinnes and so the remission which should come to us by this meanes I could here multiply complaints of Romish uncharitablenesse in the manifold abuses of this Sacrament and among them of their Latine that is barbarous as Saint Paul saith and whispering Consecration It is no Sacrament in the Romish beleefe without the Priests intention and the words that should give some ghesse of his intention are not heard and understood How short then are t●e poore people of knowing the Priests intention when they either heare not or understand not the words which might give them at least some hope of his intention But darknesse fits best with a doctrine of darknesse and it is best nourished by that which begat it But their doctrine of worshipping this Sacrament yea even when they know not whether it be a Sacrament yea carrying it about the streets in a solemne procession on a set day of purpose to bee worshipped is a most killing uncharitablenesse if I may say of the Sacrament by their corruption as Saint Paul of the Law by the corruption of nature That which Christ ordained to life is thus found to be unto death The Lord of life appointed this Sacrament to communicate life by it and Popish uncharitablenesse by it gives death to her children But I say the lesse because the truly reverend and learned Bishop of Durham hath so plainely revealed and soundly convinced the Idolatry of the Masse that hee who reads it and after kils his soule by stumbling at this Idol and falling downe before it into hell cannot lay all the fault on Rome but must share uncharitablenesse with her and have part of his owne bloud laid on his owne head It followes If he will bestow himselfe upon the service of Almighty God in a more particular manner by taking Priesthood shee not onely gives him holy Orders but shee doth it by a Sacrament conferring grace I should here have expected that Romish charity should have expressed her selfe in giving Orders and Grace to one that before had the grace and gift of Teaching from on high which that Lord that ascended on high gave unto Pastors for the building of his Church but I heare nothing of this fruit of charity but I heare of a Priesthood which too often is a resemblance of the order of Ieroboam and that the Priesthood is a Sacrament divided into two Powers one to sacrifice and another to absolve but I read not of a third power or commission of teaching to bee given by this Sacrament and so the Priests lips that under