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water_n	body_n	bread_n	wine_n	10,358	5	8.3741	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60978	Platonism unveil'd, or, An essay concerning the notions and opinions of Plato and some antient and modern divines his followers, in relation to the Logos, or word in particular, and the doctrine of the trinity in general : in two parts.; Platonisme déviolé. English	Souverain, Matthieu, d. ca. 1699.	1700 (1700)	Wing S4776	180,661	144

't is necessary that we should be Ministers of the Gospel as well in the Letter as in the Spirit and that we preach the sensible or corporeal Gospel as he stiles it When we see it proper we tell the Carnal that we aim at nothing else but to know Jesus Christ crucified But when we meet with the elevated Minds that are advanced in the Doctrine of our Saviour and enflamed with the Love of Heavenly Wisdom 't is these we acquaint with the Knowledg of the Word or Logos And in his 7th Book against Celsus There is not one Person says he to whom Jesus Christ does not give a tast of these Mysteries some way or other For he imparts his Theology to the Wise who raise their Minds to contemplate sublime Subjects On the other hand he accommodates himself to the Capacity of the Common People of Idiots of the Weak of Women of Slaves c. He affords them such means of a good Life as they seek after keeping from them such Notions as they cannot comprehend Thanks be to God I can now take Breath The Doctrine of God the Word is no more than secret or mystical Christianity not necessary to the Vulgar and serves only for Contemplation May it continue to be the Study of contemplative Minds who were born for the purpose of knowing Mysteries and have Skill to advance their Knowledg beyond Revelation It 's enough for me that I have their Leave to content my self with plain revealed Christianity which is the Object of Faith and that they allowing me the Rudiments or Lessons of the Gospel for my Guide I may say with their Leave as the Apostle and other plain simple Christians of the same Class I know nothing but Jesus Christ crucified Really one could not but with surprize hear so great a Doctor as Origen treating the Christian Religion and the Theology of St. Paul so unworthily if one did not know at the same time his Fondness for Platonism What! shall this Contemplation be accounted the sublime Christianity because it has found out Objects of it self without the help of Revelation What then is that poor Faith that 's founded upon Objects revealed Can it be any thing more or less than a carnal Christianity 'T is some favour however that it may be Christianity Tho so much as that will hardly be granted at this time of Day They who know nothing but a crucified Christ do not pass even for Christians now a deified Jesus is the only Orthodoxy If you have a mind to observe also what a prodigious difference there is between the Simplicity of the Apostolic Faith and the Mystery of Platonism you need only to consider how little regard it had to the first assoon as any one own'd this Fundamental Article that Jesus was the Messias he was instantly baptized and received as a true Member of the Church But when its Articles of Faith were enlarged and became inexplicable by the profound Speculations with which they were clog'd how cautiously and warily did they initiate Persons in the Theology of the same Church This is plain from the several degrees of the catechized State thro which their Novices passed At first they did not suffer them to come within their Churches then they admitted 'em only to hear Sermons after that they might be present at the Prayers at last after long Instructions they were qualified for Baptism Tantae molis erat Platonis condere gentem So great a Task had they to establish the Platonick Theology Will it not be said that these are the same Formalities that were us'd in admitting the antient Mystae Thro how many degrees must they pass before they were admitted to enter the Sanctuary of the Great Goddess that is before they became Epoprae or Eye-Witnesses of the most private Ceremonies The Pagans lost nothing in the Forms of Initiation by embracing the Christian Religion But this is not all it must be farther consider'd what a Beadroll of Mysteries are taught in their Catechisings Take but that of Cyril of Jerusalem and you will certainly meet with them in him There you have the Trinity the Eternal Generation the Incarnation the sacred and venerable Sacrifice and many other things of that nature that must be known he tells you in order to Baptism If any one of them be neglected there 's no Admission for you All these Mysteries have an essential Band of Union between them so that if any one of them be not understood you are in peril of being ignorant of all the rest And hereupon Cyril recommends to the Catechized before all other things the Knowledg of these Mysteries What a Drudgery is here for the poor Novices Incomprehensible Mystery and a Labyrinth in Theology And besides which is a little wonderful he does not forget that Mystery of Mysteries and sublimer part of Theology I mean the Doctrine of Transubstantiation There is no longer says he to his Novices Bread or Wine let your Senses say what they please you are not to regard them but the Testimony of Faith Since J. C. has said of the Bread This is my Body who dares call it in question And since he has said This is my Blood who dares say it is not He at other times changed Water into Wine and is he not to be believed when he says he has changed the Wine into his Blood c. Here he acquits himself like an Orator and a Sophister too Can any body wonder after this if the stew baptized were deluded into the Belief of the Trinity with such Harangues as these The Artifice is the same in both Cases Wherefore the Author of the Book of the Sacraments takes care to compare these two Mysteries and to prove them as I may say by one another shewing that what we receive in the Eucharist is as really the true Flesh of Christ as he is truly the consubstantial Son of God As Jesus Christ says he is the true Son of God and is so not only by Grace as Men are but as he is a Son of the Substance of the Father So it is the Flesh of Christ we receive and the Blood of Christ that we drink One deep calls upon another The Doctrine of the Consubstantiality c. is the Model and Original to the Doctrine of Transubstantiation And the first serves for a Guide and a Light to conduct you thro the Perplexitys and Obscurities of the last for they are Twin-Sisters born in Plato's School That which is remarkable is that Justin the first of the Platonizing Fathers made the very same Comparison so natural was it for Platonism to sort these two Mysterys and make 'em Companions We do not says he Apol. 2. receive these things as common Bread or common Wine but just as by the Word of God Jesus Christ our Saviour was made Man and took Flesh and Blood to save us so we are taught that the Elements wherewith our Flesh and Blood are nourished by the Alteration