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A25431	Reflections on that discourse, which a Master of Arts (once) of the University of Cambridg, calls rational presented in print to a person of honour, 1676, concerning transubstantiation / by one of no arts but down-right honesty, at the instance of an honourable person.	Anglesey, Arthur Annesley, Earl of, 1614-1686.	1676 (1676)	Wing A3176; ESTC R16001	11,514	16

own hands to the blows and they could not hurt him Knowing then and hearing him relate That the Virgin was so much his friend they took him down dismist him And he betaking himself to a Monastery spent the rest of his days in the service of the Mother of God that is as I humbly conceive in repeating Ave-Marias's This is fully enough as to temporal deliverances But observe next matters of an higher frame and if your faith cannot get up to them you 'l find enough to wounder at 3. I do not cite the page not having the Book by me But I am sure it 's there There was once a good old Priest in France near an arm of the Sea who never fail'd to sing the Canonical hours of the Virgin Mary very duly But so it hapned that he had crossed the water to a certain Town and there lay'd with another mans Wife As he came back over this mouth of the River Sein and had no body in the Boat with him He began to Chant the foresaid hours and just as he entred upon the Invitatory Ave Maria gratia plena he was in the midst of the Flood when an huge Troop of Devils threw him and his little Ship together headlong into the Deep But on the third day after the Mother of Jesus and in her Company a great many Angels came to the place where those Devils were tormenting him she ask'd them why they so unjustly afflicted the Soul of her Servant they made answer We ought of right to have him for we took him in our employment nay says she but if they ought to have him whose work he was about Give me him for he was singing my Mattens when you slew him therefore you who never did so much for me are more guilty Hearing this those foul Fiends sneak'd away She restored his Soul to his Body took him by the arm made the waters stand as a wall on both sides to guard him brought him delivered thus from a double death safe to shore He falls down embraces her knees beseeching her to tell him what he should do for her who had delivered him from the jaws of the Lion and the pit of Hell She gently desired him That he would not commit adultery any more lest a worse thing happen unto him and said further which is the up-shot and design of the Story I intreat one thing more of thee that thou wilt for ever with devotion keep the feast of my Conception on the 6th of the Ides of December and preach it up that all may do so How will they ever look this blessed Mother of our Lord in the face hat have said such wild things to her and of her Fol. 124. latter page 4. Hearken to a strange Story which our Author says he had from a famous Doctor There was a Woman who her Husband being dead fell into despair with foresight of poverty to her the Devil appeared telling her If she would do his will he would make her rich enough she consents and he enjoyns her First That she should draw all Ecclesiastical Persons that came to her house for we may suppose her an Hostess into Fornication Secondly That she should seem to take in poor people on the day-time and then at night turn them out Thirdly That she should hinder Prayers in the Church by chatting or scolding Fourthly That she should never confess At last She comes to die her Son a good well-meaning young man would have her to Confession But she telling him what she had done cries out she could not confess neither would it do her any good But after he had wept pitifully a great while and promised he would do Penance for her at length she became compunct and sent away this Son of hers for a Priest But seeing that the Devil before he had got back had rush'd upon her and she through fear and horrour was dead he confessing in her stead and having done seven years Penance for her saw his Mother come again and render him abundance of thanks for she was thereby here lies the marrow of the matter out of Purgatory These are pretty mild benevolent Treatments and may work right on soft gentle Spirits but there are too rough stubborn hearts which must be broken listen therefore to a pleasant Tale. Fol. 143. 5. For the honour of St. Nicholas This Saints Letany or rather his Legend had not been received in the Church called Sancta-Cruce The Brothers all sollicite their Prior that they might sing it he a Puritanical old man would not consent saying he liked not Novelties The Friars were still very urgent with him so that at last he told them roundly that he would never have any new yea jocular Songs in his Church desiring them to be content You must know though that when St. Nicholas day drew near and many of those Brothers sung their Mattens all in grief their Day-break Mattens it must be understood for they were gone to Bed soon after as the Book holds forth in comes St. Nicholas looks grim on the poor Prior drags him from his Bed by the hair of the head and thumping it soundly against the Pavement of the Dormitory He begins this Antephony O Pastor Bone c. at every stop or pause through the whole giving him a sound Lash upon the bare with Rods he had brought with him for the very nonce doubling them in order and singing in a slow manner till he came at the very end And now when all the rest were roused by the Out-cries of the Prior they found him half dead and drew him into his Couch again At last he came to himself and only said Go your ways ever hereaster be sure to sing the new History of St. Nicholas Fol. 38 the latter page 6. There is one so quaint so fine and well contrived that I cannot pass without it though I step a great way back to retrieve it and it runs thus A Soldier of great rank gave over that Trade and put himself into a Monastry the Prior and Brothers were out of Countenance to have a man of so much repute in any inferior employments but it seems none might come to the preferment of being one of them I guess this might be in or about the ninth Age unless he were Book-learned so they set one to teach him to read he could never reach further than Ave-Maria all England yet it was I think in Spain or rather in the Indies before their discovery could not make him advance beyond those two words but them he cons to some purpose walking eating or whatever he was about he repeated them And lo when he dyed there grew upon his grave a delicate white Lilly and every Leaf had Ave-Maria upon it in Golden Letters the whole Covent were in a steer upon this miracle and having opened his resting-place or Tomb found that the root of the Flower was in his very mouth thence they concluded how highly his Devotion

REFLECTIONS On that DISCOURSE Which a Master of Arts once of the University of Cambridg Calls RATIONAL Presented in Print to a Person of Honour 1676. CONCERNING Transubstantiation By one of no Arts but down-right Honesty At the instance of an Honourable Person LONDON Printed in the Year 1676. Imprimatur Nihil in hoc libello reperio doctrinae Ecclesiae Anglicanae aut bonis moribus contrarium Jul. 10 1676. G. Jane The four Bulrush-pillars so confidently Erected for the support of his whole Building are 1. The Possibility of it to Gods Power 2. Sayings of the Fathers sounding that way 3. Oral Tradition supposed for it 4. Miracles supposed for it The first of these we deny not only we are a little confident there is neither sufficient evidence that it is so nor any need it should be so pag. 4 As to the second judicat Lector many of his proofs granting them genuine and true make nothing against us others must be tryed by Vincentius's rule All are reduceable to a sound sense in St. Augustine's or Origen's way pag 5 c The third is a mere Chymera pag. 6 The fourth often illusive frequently false never to be trusted to Deut. 13.1 2. Matt. 13.22 if they run contrary to the written word or have not its concurrence pag. 8 To each of these somewhat though not following him into every distinct Paragraph Romani addictus jurare in Verba Magistri THis Master of Arts as he would have us know resolves first to lay down his Position in the most ample not to say prodigious Terms and then to try his skill in the Defence of it My Sentiments says he concerning the Adorable Eucharist is That it is neither less nor more than the Sacred Body and Blood of God neither less nor more than whole-Christ God and man Soul Body and Divinity though for the love and service of Sinners vested under the vile Accidents and appearances of Common Bread and Ordinary Wine Concerning which mystery his first Assertion must be That it is possible to the Omnipotent Power of God 1. And I must confess this shew of an Argument went far with me whilst I was born in hand and did think for even I also had Espoused certain mis-beliefs during my Minority by the prevalency of Eudcation That the vile Protestants had denied the Lord God to be Almighty upon this very account but it ceast by the Divine Goodness to be so with me when I could not but discern and at length was fully convinc'd 1. That the true intent purpose and meaning of our Saviour did not at all oblige us to think of Transubstantiation 2. That there is no necessity import or use for it no service as our Author phrases it in the Christian Church And I shall candidly declare leaving the philosophical impossibility of Transubstantiation to be demonstrated by some other hand what has given me intire satisfaction as to this great Point I perceive by Christs own words recorded Joh. 6.53 that I am under an absolute necessity of eating his Flesh and drinking his Blood And therefore having in the first place considered of how great concern it is to arrive at the true meaning of them I do humbly supplicate the Divine Majesty That he will give me ever to think comprehend speak of and go about that great Mystery so as may be best pleasing to him and most expedient for my foul His own Paraphrase on what he had said cannot deceive me I dare believe since he so told his inquisitive Disciples Vers 63. That the life of them is wrapt up in a Spiritual acception And since he declares where he terms himself the Bread of Life Vers 35. That whoso cometh to him which is the peculiar act of Faith Joh. 1.12 shall never hunger since he attributes most clearly in pursuit still of the same Metaphor the quenching of thirst to believing what need we how can we doubt any more of the matter He takes off their amazement and gives stop to their murmurs Vers 61. not by telling them That though they were to see him ascend up where he was before yet they were ere long to have him corporally present in the form of Bread on ten thousand distant Altars at once nay in the very jaws of every Person how wicked soever that comes but to eat there He does not I say make his return at this rate but instructs them how to Spiritualize the whole business Vers 62 63. Neither would there be any thing difficult or obscure in the words of Institution afterwards For besides that he had here pre-instructed them There was almost nothing among the Jews which had Type or significancy in it but was expressed in this very manner Circumcision the Paschal-Lamb Manna the Rock were all sufficiently known to carry the names of those things they did but adumbrate There is one Scripture Joh 6. He that eats my flesh and drinks my blood hath eternal life abiding in him and I will raise him up at the last day Hence hath the memorable Vsher framed this Syllogism I think irrefragable The Body and Blood of Christ is received unto Life by all that do receive it and by none unto Condemnation But that which is outwardly delivered in the Sacrament is not received by all unto Life but by many unto Condemnation Ergo Therefore that which is outwardly taken in this Sacrament is not really the Body and Blood of Christ II. This Spiritual manducation and none other was the true sense of the Primitive Church I prove it by Saint Augustine in his 26th Tract he hath these words The Sacrament of this thing viz. of our eating the Flesh of Christ is taken from the Lords Table by some unto Life by some unto Destruction But the thing it self whereof it is a Sacrament is received by every man that does receive it unto Life and by none unto Destruction Prosper from him tells us Qui discordat a Christo nec carnem ejus manducat nec Sanguinem bibit More plainly yet St. Augustine again on Psal 97. With the most holy Sacrament not the Flesh which was Crucified is carnally eaten but the virtues of that Flesh are really eaten by the Soul in such manner as the Soul can eat that is Spiritually by her affections and other immanent real acts of internal Operations Wee 'l own and that without any prejudice to our cause That many of the Fathers did chuse and were delighted to imitate our Saviours way of Locution even through long discourses yet 't is evident we ought to understand them as Origen after he had played the Rhetorician in this sort concludes on Matth. 15. Et haec quidem de typico symbolicoque Corpore Augustine Quest 13. in Levit. says Seven Ears of Corn were seven years and the Blood is called the Soul after the manner of Sacraments And what think you must there not needs be a Figure in that speech of Christ when instituting the latter part of this Sacrament