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A41019 Virtumnus romanus, or, A discovrse penned by a Romish priest wherein he endevours to prove that it is lawfull for a papist in England to goe to the Protestant church, to receive the communion, and to take the oathes, both of allegiance and supremacie : to which are adjoyned animadversions in the in the [sic] margin by way of antidote against those places where the rankest poyson is couched / by Daniel Featley ... Featley, Daniel, 1582-1645. 1642 (1642) Wing F597; ESTC R2100 140,574 186

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words The body of our Lord Iesus Christ which was given for thee preserve thy body and soule unto eternall life and yet all this while never thinke of receiving the Sacrament but only of eating a piece of bread and drinking a draught of wine which shall be better done with the remembrance of Christ then without it He will say that our Sacrament is nothing but common bread and wine and that nought else is to be received a● our Communion Table The Lord rebuke thee thou false tongue What because we beleeve not that the bread and wine is transubstantiated into Christs body and blood must it therefore be nothing but common bread and bare wine By the same reason he might say that because the water in Baptisme is not transubstantiated into Christs blood that therefore it is nothing but faire water and he may in a jesting manner wash a childe in remembrance of Christs washing us with his blood It is true we teach with Theodoret Dial. 2. That the sacred symbols after consecration depart not out of their own nature but still remaine 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in their former substance shape and figure but withall we teach that they remaine not the same in use signification and supernaturall efficacie by vertue of Christs promise to all that worthily partake of the same Neither could this prophane scoffer be ignorant hereof for he saith He hath often been at our Service where we professe that all who with a lively faith receive the holy Sacrament spiritually eate the flesh of Christ and drinke his blood He also maketh mention in this Pamphlet of the 39. Articles which he will have to be the definition of a Protestant and in those Articles he could not but reade Art 28. Christs body is given received and eaten in the Supper but only after a heavenly and spirituall manner And in the Apologie of the Church of England part 2. cap. 14. The Supper of the Lord is not only a signe of the love that Christians ought to beare amongst themselves one to the other but rather it is a Sacrament of our Redemption by Christs death in so much that to such as rightly worthily and with faith receive the same the bread which we breake is the partaking of the body of Christ and likewise the cup of blessing is a partaking of the blood of Christ. With which confession of ours fully accordeth the Helvetian the French the Belgicke the Augustane and the Swevick as he that hath an eare may heare in the Harmony of Confessions Printed 1581. cap. 21. De sacrâ coenâ Domini What should I need for further proofe hereof either to alleadge the testimonie of Calvin Epist. 31. Non modo figuratur in coenae communio quam habemus cum Christo sed etiam exhibetur neque verba illic nobis dantur à Domino sed veritas ac res constat cum verbis Haec porro communio non imaginaria est sed qua in unum corpus unamque substantiam cum capite nostro coalescimus There is not only figured in the Supper that communion which we have with Christ but it is also exhibited neither doth our Lord deceive us but the truth of the thing is correspondent to his words neither is the communion we speake of an imaginarie but such a reall one whereby we grow into one body and one substance with Chr●st our head or the testimonie of Bucer Epist. ad Italos addit hoc est corpus meum hic sanguis meus id credamus nec dubitemus haec dari nobis his ipsis symbolis dari in cibum potum vitae aeternae ut magis magisque vivamus in Christo habeamus illum manentem in nobis He addeth this is my body this is my blood let us beleeve it and no way doubt but that these things are given unto us by or with these very symbols and that they are given unto us for the food and drinke of eternall life that we may more and more live in Christ and have him living in us It never came into the thought of any professour of the Gospel to celebrate the Supper of the Lord without the Lord as Bucer speaketh in this Epistle or exclude him from his owne Table We teach he is there truly present and is truly received by all worthy communicants but spiritually by faith not carnally with the mouth according to the grosse Capernaitical conceipt of Romanists For first our Saviour in the sixth of Iohn where he commandeth all to eate his flesh and drinke his blood vers 53. affirming that his flesh is meat indeed and his blood is drinke indeed perceiving that some were offended thereat saying vers 60. this is a hard saying who can beare it thus he declareth his own meaning vers 63. The words which I speake unto you they are spirit and they are life that is spiritually to be understood not carnally and grossely Secondly the Orthodox Fathers disclaime this carnall eating with the mouth St. Cyril in his Anathems denyeth the Sacrament to be hominis comestionem An Anthropophagie or man eating St. Chrysostome saith it is mensa aquilarum not graculorum and St. Austine that it is cibus mentis not ventris or dentis the food of the soule not of the tooth or belly Tract 20. in Iohan. Vt quid paras dentes ventrem crede manducasti Why dost thou prepare thy teeth and thy belly beleeve and thou hast eaten and St. Cyprian de coena Dom. haec quoties agimus non dentes ad manducondum acuimus sed fide sincera panem sanctum frangimus As oft as we doe these things we doe not wh●t our teeth to eate but with sincere faith we breake that holy bread Thirdly Christ never instituted any Sacramentall action but it was profitable to the soule but the eating of Christs flesh with the mouth and swallowing it down in the stomack doth no way at all profit the soule Fourthly Christ never wrought any miracle outwardly upon the creature but the truth therof appeared even to sense when he turned the water into wine Ioh. 2. The change was discovered by the taste vers 9 10. When the Ruler of the feast had tasted it he said to the Bridegroome thou hast kept the good wine till now In like manner when Christ multiplyed the five Barley loaves and the two fishes both the taste and the stomacke and the eyes of all that were present gave testimonie to the truth of this miracle For they did all eate and were satisfied and saw twelve bask●ts remaining full of the fragments or broken meat which remained to them that had eaten Neither can it be shewed that ever Christ the Author of truth deluded the sense If therefore the bread had been truly and really turned into the substance of flesh either the sight or the taste or the touch would have discerned this change which yet as themselves confesse discover nothing but the whitenesse the roundnesse the