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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A23645	A brief history of transubstantiation shewing the time when, and the occasion how it first begun, the growth, encrease, and present state of it, the grounds and reasons, absurdities and follies of it : written for satisfaction of those that are, and shall be called to subscribe the declaration in the late act against popish recusants, for quieting the minds of His Majesties good subjects / by R.A., Pastor of the church at Henfield in Sussex.	R. A. (Richard Allen)	1674 (1674)	Wing A1042; ESTC R22423	7,065	22

the other hand to bare Figure if Caranza abuse him not for others affirm That he was of a sounder judgment holding a Conversion suo modo as we also do Whatever it was Pope Leo IX condemned his Opinion in a Council at Vercelles 1049. and soon after scil 1057 Pope Nicholas II. took him in hand and in the second Council of Lateran made him Recant and make this Publick Confession That the very body and blood of Christ was truly and sensibly broken and bruised with the teeth of the faithful And this Confession the Pope received and allowed for Catholick But no Papist at this day will undertake the defence of it and some of their own Doctors utterly dislike it because then aged People who have no teeth cannot eat effectually As yet we hear nothing of Transubstantiation the word was coyned afterwards for Lombard who lived a good while after this saith L. 4. Sent. D. ii If any man enquire what manner of conversion is in the Sacrament he could not resolve him Howsoever it was never received as an Article of Faith nor decreed by that name till the third Council of Lateran held under Innocent III. 1215 where Tit. de Fide Cathol it is declared That the very body and blood of Christ is truly contained in the Sacrament of the Altar the Bread being transubstantiate into the Body and the Wine into the Blood of Christ. This is the first News we hear of Transubstantiation We see now the Antiquity of Transubstantiation It is one of the Tares that were sowed whil'st men slept and grew up by degrees but was scarce known never decreed as an Article of Faith till above 1200 years after Christ and was never received generally to this day For some of their own Writers one a Cardinal say That they receive it chiefly out of reverence to the Church because she hath so decreed but otherwise in their own judgment rather approve that Opinion which saith That the substance of Bread and Wine remain in the Sacrament CHAP. II. The full growth and present state of Transubstantiation WE have seen now how Transubstantiation was first sowed and how it grew up by degrees but came not to its full growth and height till the Council of Trent called by Pope Paul III. and assembled in the City of Trent Decemb. 13. 1545. In this Council the Doctrine of Transubstantiation being called in question was with some earnestness debated between the Franciscan and Dominican Fryers The Dominicans affirmed That in the Lords Supper the Bread and Wine are turned into the very Body and Blood of Christ matter into matter and form into form and therefore it was called Transubstantiation On the contrary the Franciscans contended That it was called Transubstantiation not because one substance was made of the other as Dominicans say but because one substance succeeded in the place of the other the Bread vanishing and the Body of Christ coming in place of it I purposely pass over the hot dispute they had about the manner of Being of Christ in the Sacrament and how it differed from the manner of his Being in Heaven wherein the Learned Fryers were so confounded that they could neither agree themselves nor satisfie others The Fathers of the Council being for most part Lawyers understood not the subtilties of the Divines and it is a wonder how they should understand Locatum sine loco Quantum sine quantitate c. In a place possessing no place A Body without quantity Quantity in condition of a Body or Substance Substance without Accidents and Accidents not insisting but subsisting of themselves without a Subject And such like monstrous fancies enough to puzzle all the Wits in the World as it hath done their own Doctors to this day that they neither understand it themselves nor can explain it to others Such hard shifts men are often put to that forsake the Truth to maintain Errour The Fathers conclude to make an expression so universal as may be accommodated to the meaning of both Parties And so it is declared Con. Trid. S. 13. Dec. de Euchar. That after the words of Consecration the whole substance of the Bread is turned into the substance of the Body of Christ c. And that whole Christ Body and Soul together with his Godhead is contained in the Sacrament and in every part and particle of it But this did not please all the Council neither CHAP. III. The Grounds and Reasons for Transubstantiation THE Grounds and Reasons for this Opinion are the Power and Truth of Christ Who being God Almighty can do whatsoever he will and will do whatsoever he hath promised because he is Truth it self But Christ hath promised to give us his flesh to eat John 6. and afterwards instituting a Sacrament did give his Body to his Disciples saying Take eat this is my Body Some think it impossible but we say they must believe it for his other Miracles that he did as John 2. he turned water into wine and many other Miracles he did to witness his Almighty Power and Godhead that they which believed him not for his Word might believe him for his Works sake CHAP. IV. The Grounds and Reasons Considered IT is very true That Christ can do whatsoever he will and will do whatsoever he hath promised The question is not of his Power nor of his Truth but of his Will and Promise when and where made he any such promise He promised indeed John 6. to give his flesh for the life of the World and so he did upon the Cross once for all He promised also to give us his flesh to eat and so he doth to every faithful Receiver in the Sacrament As he said to his Disciples Take Eat this is my Body Not his Body Natural and Organical our Saviour never promised to give us that to eat That was the gross conceit of carnal Capernaites which our Saviour reproves and corrects John 6.62 63. That Body must ascend up into Heaven there to continue the flesh profiteth nothing Our Saviours words are spirit and life and will quicken us if understood spiritually Aug. Leave off then all carnal Thoughts Quid paras ventrem c August Why preparest thou belly or teeth Here is no Belly-chear but food for the Soul Believe and thou hast eaten 2. Our Saviour turned Water into Wine that was a true Miracle as all his Miracles were Water turned into Wine for colour taste and other qualities true Wine but this trick of Transubstantiation is a meer juggle that beguiles all the senses and would have us believe not only above but against Reason yea against Scriptures Fathers and Nature it self 3. In one part of the Sacrament there is a plain Trope or Figure Luke 22. This Cup is the New Testament in my blood Cup put for Wine in the Cup. And why there should be a Figure in one part of the Sacrament and not in the other when they give us a reason we shall give them