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A27174
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Take heed of both extremes, or, Plain and useful cautions against popery and presbytery by way of dialogue : in two parts / by Luke de Beaulieu.
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Beaulieu, Luke, 1644 or 5-1723.
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look long enough before he could find any such thing in the New Testament and they were not pleased to say when nor where two or three of them were instituted P. Can't you take it upon their credit and don 't you think that as they had more so they had better eyes than you Sure you put a great deal of confidence in your capacity and in your senses That 's the reason I believe that you will not be perswaded that in the Sacrament of the Lords Supper the substance of Bread and Wine is really changed into the very substance of the Body and Bloud of Christ so that not only under either kind of the Elements but also under each the least crum or drop of them Christ is wholly and substantially contained his Body and Bloud with his Soul and Divine Nature This the same Fathers have taught us and it shall not be the weakness of your eyes shall save you from the Anathema they have pronounc'd against all those that will not believe it Concil Trid. c. 4. S. 13. Sacra Synodus declarat per consecrationem panis vini conversionem fieri totius substantiae panis in substantiam corporis Domini totius substantiae vini in substantiam sanguinis ejus S. 13. Can. 3. Et alibi Si quis negaverit in vencrabili sacramento sub unaquaque specie sub singulis cujuscunque speciei partibus separatione facta totum Christum contineri Anathema sit Si quis negaverit in Sacramento contineri vere S. 13. Can 1. realiter substantialiter corpus sanguinem una cum anima divinitate Domini ac proinde totum Christum Anathema sit G. Should they put out my very eyes with their fulminations I cannot believe the Gloss as they have made upon the Text of the Institution of that Sacrament I believe what Christ said That the Bread and Wine are his Body and Bloud after what manner he best knows I am sure his words are true and real though mysterious beyond the reach of our reason A little modesty had better becom'd your holy Fathers than thus peremptorily to define things which they themselves confess to be abstruse and by their Definitions heap absurdities one upon another make a thin Wafer and every crum of it distinctly to become a whole and entire Body so that you receive at a time as many Bodies of Christ as there is little parcels in the Bread you take And what becomes of all those entire Bodies and Souls in your Stomachs who knows And how Christ came by such an infinite multitude of Bodies when we read but of one that was conceived by the Holy Ghost in the holy Virgin and now sits at the right hand of God as we say in our Creed And what will become of them all whether they shall be reduc'd to nothing or glorified also after they have been a certain time in the Stomachs of the Receivers These and many more Questions some whereof very impious have been and are still disputed amongst your School-Divines Why was a Mystery which should be the object of our faith and reverence made a perplexed Riddle by making the object of our sense gross and material Eph. 3.17 The Scripture saith That Christ dwells in our hearts by faith not by a corporal presence which requires no faith as to that manner of presence Mat. 26.11 Christ saith The poor ye have always with you but me ye have not alway And St. Col. 3.1 Paul Seek ye the things which are above where Christ sitteth at the right hand of God It is written Heb. 2.17 That in all things he was made like unto his Brethren therefore his Body is but in one place at once and where it is is the object of sense as ours be and as we read his was after his Resurrection when he told his Disciples Handle me and see Luk. 24.39 for a Spirit hath not flesh and bones as ye see me have And the Angels said when he went up into Heaven Act. 1.11 This same Jesus which is taken up from you into Heaven shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into Heaven These Scriptures are plain and easie there is no mystery in them as there is in the words of the Institution of the Sacrament therefore he that believes both according as they are reveal'd doth certainly better than he that expounds a mysterious Text so as thereby to contradict many clear and plain ones P. But then how could Christ be really sacrificed in the Sacrament if his Body and Bloud was not there for we firmly believe that in the Mass the very same Christ who once yielded himself a bloudy sacrifice upon the Cross is bodily sacrificed without bloud-shedding and therein according to the Apostolical Tradition is truly and really offered a sacrifice not only for the sins pains satisfactions and other necessities of the faithful alive but also for those that are dead in the Lord and are not yet throughly purged Conc. Trident. S. 22. Cap. 2. Quoniam in divino illo sacrificio quod in Missa peragitur idem ille Christus continetur incruenter immolatur qui in ara crucis semel seipsum cruente obtulit docet sancta Synodus sacrificium istud vere propitiatorium esse quare non solum pro fidelium virorum peccatis poenis satisfactionibus aliis necessitatibus sed pro defunctis in Christo nondum ad plenum purgatis rite juxta Apostolorum traditionem offertur G. We don't read when Christ instituted the Sacrament that he offered a bodily Sacrifice for the sins of the living and the dead or instituted such an one though we believe that blessed Sacrament really to be a commemorative Sacrifice of that which Christ offered upon the Cross and which was typified as now it is remembred by real Sacrifices we don't read of any adoration given by the Apostles to the Sacrament but you teach that it must be worshipped with that highest kind of worship which is proper to God alone Latriae cultu Conc. Trident. S. 13. Cap. 5. We find the same example and command for the receiving the Wine as the Bread but you have wholly taken away the sacred Wine from all but the Ministers and withal pronounc'd a curse to those that should dare to say that ye have not well done Conc. Trident. S. 21. Can. 2. as also to those that should find fault with your not speaking in a vulgar Tongue or with your speaking very low part of the Canon and the words of Consecration or with your mixing Water with the Wine Concil Trident. S. 22. Can. 5. or with your celebrating Masses in honour of the Saints and to obtain their intercession Si imposturam esse Missas celebrare in honorem sanctorum pro illorum intercessione apud Deum obtinenda Anathema sit Si quis dixerit Ecclesia Romana ritum quo submissa voce