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A43256 The touch-stone of the reformed gospel wherein the principal heads and tenents of the Protestant doctrine (objected against Catholicks) are briefly refuted. By the express texts of the Protestants own Bible, set forth and approved by the Church of England. With the ancient fathers judgements thereon, in confirmation of the Catholick doctrine. Heigham, John, fl. 1639.; Kellison, Matthew, attributed name. 1676 (1676) Wing H1370E; ESTC R216621 50,365 158

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for so the unglorified Soul of man should be in two places at once which yet they deny even to the glorified body of Jesus Christ Not the second for so Christ should be in two places at once whom yet they say the Heavens must contain till the day of Judgement Act. 3. ¶ See the ancient Fathers that affirm the same S. Ignat. in ●p ad Smyr S. Justin Apol. 2. ad Antoninum S. Cyprian ser 4. de lapsis S. Ambr. l. 4. de Sacram. saith It is bread before the words of the Sacrament but after c. of bread it is made the flesh of Christ S. Remigius saith The flesh which the Word of God took in the Virgins womb and the bread consecrated in the Church are one Body XL. That we ought to receive under both kinds and that one alone sufficeth not COntrary to the expresse words of their own Bible John 6.51 If any man eat of this bread he shall live for ever and the bread which I will give is my flesh Here everlasting life is promised by our Lord himself to him that eats of this bread onely Therefore one kinde doth suffice Luke 24.30.8.35 Christ at Emaus communicated to his Disciples under one kinde Both S. Augustine and Theophilact expound this place of the B. Sacrament in the same sence lib. de consens Evang cap. 35. S. Chrysost hom 17. operis imperfecti S. Thomas of Aquin and many others But they will alleadge to the contrary that of S. John Vnless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his bloud you shall not have life in you The answer hereto is very easie which is that the conjunction and is there taken disjunctively instead of or as is learnedly observed by Doctour Kellison in his reply to M. Sutcliff p. 189. Again Christ in those words teacheth us the precept and not the manner of the precept that is to say he commands us to receive his body and his bloud without determining whether under one kinde or under both as the Counsel of Trent declareth For he that said Vnless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his bloud you shall not have life in you hath also said If any one eat of this bread he shall live for ever And he that said He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my bloud hath life everlasting hath also said The bread which I will give is my flesh for the life of the World He that said Who so eateth my flesh and drinketh my bloud dwelleth in me and I in him hath likewise said He that eateth this bread shall live for ever Therefore one alone doth suffice See more Acts 2.42 They further hold XLI That there is not in the Church a true and proper Sacrifice and that the Mass is not a Sacrifice COntrary to the express words of their own Bible Mac. 1.11 From the rising of the sun even to the going down of the same my Name shall be great among the Gentiles and in every place Incense shall be offered to my Name and a pure offering But this Sacrifice or pure Offering cannot be understood of Christ upon the Cross as they would have it which was offered onely once and in one place and then also not among the Gentiles nor yet can be ever iterated therefore neither is nor can be other than the dayly Sacrifice of the Mass Psal 110. we 109. 4. The Lord hath sworn and will not repent Thou art a Priest for ever after the order of Melchisedech But Melchisedechs Sacrifice was made in bread and wine therefore it must either be granted that our Saviour doth now sacrifice yea and ever shall in bread and wine above in Heaven which were absurd to say or else that this is meant of the sacrifice of the Mass whereon the Eternity of his Priest-hood doth depend on earth Nor can this be in a spiritual sort onely for that would not make him a Priest of any certain order as Melchisedech was Luke 22.19 This is my body which is given for you Which words do plainly prove not onely that Christs body is truly present but withal so present as that it is given offered and sacrificed for us For Christ saith not which is given to you broken to you or shed to you but for you Which clearly sheweth it to be a sacrifice it being evident that one would never say of the Sacrament in the quality of a Sacrament that it is given for man but to man that is to say that a man receiveth it and contrarywise of a Sacrifice that it is offered not to man but for man See more Heb. 7.15 16 17. Heb. 8.1.3 He. 9.11 ¶ The Fathers that affirm the same are S. Clement Apost cont lib. 6. cap. 23. who called it A reasonable unbloudy and mistycal Sacrifice S. Aug. A singular or most excellent sacrifice lib. 1. cont advers leg and Prophet cap. 18.19 S. Chrysost hom in Psal 95. The mystical table a pure and unbloudy host a heavenly and most reverend Sacrifice Isichius in Levit. cap. 4. saith that Christ preventing his enemies first sacrificed himself in his mystical supper and afterwards on the Cross S. Greg. Nissen orat 4. de Resurrectione proving that our Saviour gave his body and bloud in sacrifice for us in his last supper saith excellently That a man cannot eat the sheep unless the slaughter go before and yet averreth this to have been done by Christ in his last supper XLII That Sacramental Vnction is not to be used to the sick COntrary to the express words of their own Bible James 5.14 Is any sick among you Let him call for the Elders of the Church and let them pray over him anointing him with oyl in the name of the Lord and the prayer of faith shall save the sick and the Lord shall raise him up and if he have committed sins they shall be forgiven him Hardly is there any Sacrament whereof the matter the minister and the effect are more expresly specified in all the Scripture then of this The form is the prayer Let them pray over him The matter the oyl Anointing him with oyl The Minister a Priest or Elder of the Church Let him call for the Elders of the Church The primary effect is the forgiveness of sins and the secondary the easing of the sick in body saying And the Lord shall raise him up and if he have committed sins they shall be forgiven him Therefore Sacramental Unction is to be used to the sick Mark 6.13 And they anointed with oyl many that were sick and healed them Where it is clear that the Apostles themselves put in practice this holy Unction Which Beza confesseth in his Annotations saying that it was a Symbole of admirable supernatural virtue And had he not reason so to say For oyl of it self could not be naturally the Antidote of all diseases and albeit it were yet the Apostles were not sent to practise Phisick but to preach the Gospel
witnesseth in his Epistle ad Marcellam Philip. 2.20 That at the Name of Jesus every knee should bow of things in Heaven things in earth and things under the earth Now that is the Name of Jesus which either is pronounced by anothers mouth printed in a book or painted and engraven in an image but at any of these we are commanded to bow the knee Again if images ought not to be worshipped we may not whatsoever the Apostle saith bow our knee at the Name of Jesus seeing words as Aristoile saith and as the truth is are signs representative of the things they signifie and are the images of the ears as the others are of the eyes Num. 21.8 And the Lord said unto Moses Make thee a fiery Serpent and set it up upon a pole and it shall come to passe that every one that is bit when he looketh upon it shall live Hence are evidently proved divers things against our Reformers 1. That God commanded the making of this image 2. The setting of it up for a sign 3. He promised that the lookers thereon should assuredly receive succour and help 4. He warranted the making the setting up the beholding and the reverencing thereof to be exempted from breach of the first Commandment by working so many and so manifest miracles at and before the presence thereof Therefore an image may be made may be set up may be looked on and reverenced as Doctour Saunders most learnedly concludeth in his Treatise of Images ¶ See Fathers that affirm the same S. Amb. serm 1. in Psal ● 18. S. Aug. lib. 3. de Trinit S. Greg. lib. 7. epist 5 ad Joan. Finally S. Basil saith in Julian citat in 7. Sinod I honour the Histories of Images and do publickly worship them for this being delivered us from the holy Apostles is not to be forbidden S. Chrysostom in his Mass turned into Latin by Erasmus saith The Priest boweth his head to the Image of Christ S. Damascen lib. 4. cap. 17. saith The worshipping of the Cross and of Images is a Tradition of the Apostles But before I conclude this point I desire to solve a few objections which usually our Reformers bring against the Honour of holy Images The 1. Objection Is taken out of 2 Kings we 4. 18. where King Ezechias broke down the brasen Serpent whereof we last made mention seeing it to be the cause of Idolatry Answer This indeed is a common place from whence our Adversaries collect sundry false and sophistical arguments to wit from the abuse of any good thing to destroy it utterly together with the right use thereof But by the same Argument they may as well collect that the Sun and the Moon should be taken out of the Firmament because they were worshipped by the Gentiles for Gods Likewise that the holy Bible should be burnt because many a one draweth damnable Heresies forth of the same to his own perdition Yea this silly Argument borrowed from the abuse of things serves very fitly to prove the quite contrary thus Images have been sometimes abused therefore they were good in themselves for those things which are evil by abuse onely must needs be good being well used Their 2. Objection You give that honour to Images which is due to God alone worshipping adoring and creeping to them as to God Answer We say the contrary which thus we prove The difference of honour proceedeth principally from the minde and not from the exterior bowing or demeanour of the body For if I prostrate my selfe before an Image or kiss the same well knowing the while that it is no God nor reasonable Creature but onely a remembrance of God towards whom I desire to shew mine affection God knoweth how far off mine honour is from that honour which is due to him alone As contrariwise If I lay prostrate at Christs feet indeed kissed them knocked my breast held up my hands unto him called him the Son of God yet all this while think him not to be so in my heart mine honour truly should be no honour at all but a very contumely and affront unto Christ Adde hereto that the words which betoken honour adoration worship and the like are in a manner confounded in all languages but the heart from whence the honour proceedeth knoweth well the difference of every thing D. Saunders de Imag. pag. 10. Their 3. Objection It is expresly forbidden by God himself to fall down before any Image or to worship it Answer Some of our Reformers themselves do honour the Sacrament of Christs Supper which they teach to be an Image or representation of Christs body and bloud And seeing they believe no other substance to be in the Sacrament besides bread and wine nor will give the honour of latria as we call it thereunto it follows invincibly that they do worship or honour some Image Now as they would not for all this have us to judge or call them Idolaters even so let it please them for their own sakes to spare us For as they do not place or stay this honour in the bread and wine but from thence refer it to Christ himself so do we transfer all our honour from all Images unto the first form or pattern nor suffering the same to rest or end in the Image which we honour Sander ibid. pag. 52. Their 4. Objection An Image is a Creature and no God and to set up a Creature to be worshipped or adored is flat Idolatry Images are set up in Churches not specially to the intent that the people should worship or adore them but partly to stir up our minds to follow the example of those holy men whose Images we do there behold So that the worship and reverence which is there given to Images is given as it were by a consequence rather because it may be lawfully given than because it is principally sought to be given As for the Idolatry which is objected we are to understand that the word is compounded of Latria and Idolum and is as much to say as the giving of Latria or of Gods honour unto an Idol But our Images are no Idols nor the honour we give unto them that of Latria how then can it be said that Images are set up to be used to Idolatry Besides for further eviction of a Reformer that should charge me with Idolatry for reverencing a Picture or Image I would before his face break a Crucifix or tear a Picture of any Saint in pieces and throw the pieces into the fire and this not out of any contempt or scorn of what the Crucifix or Picture represents but to satisfie him that I gave them onely an inferiour relative kind of honour and used them as helps to my memory And then would shew him the Councel of Trent Session 25. in these words Images are not to be venerated for any virtue or Divinity is believed to be in them or for any thing that is to be Petitioned of them or