Of the institution of the sacrament of the blessed bodie and blood of Christ, (by some called) the masse of Christ eight bookes; discovering the superstitious, sacrilegious, and idolatrous abominations of the Romish masse. Together with the consequent obstinacies, overtures of perjuries, and the heresies discernable in the defenders thereof. By the R. Father in God Thomas L. Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield.

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Title: Of the institution of the sacrament of the blessed bodie and blood of Christ, (by some called) the masse of Christ eight bookes; discovering the superstitious, sacrilegious, and idolatrous abominations of the Romish masse. Together with the consequent obstinacies, overtures of perjuries, and the heresies discernable in the defenders thereof. By the R. Father in God Thomas L. Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield.
Author: Morton, Thomas, 1564-1659.
Publication: London :: Printed by W. Stansby, for Robert Mylbourne in Pauls Church-yard at the signe of the Grey-hound,; MDCXXXI. [1631]
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That a Figurative sence of Christ his Speech [THIS IS MY BODY, &c.] is evinced out of the words themselves; from the Principles of the Romish Schooles.

SECT. I.

THere are two words, which may be unto us as two keyes, to un∣lock the questioned sence of Christ's words, viz. the Pronoune, [THIS] and the Verbe [IS.] We begin with the former.

The State of the Question, about the word [THIS.]

When wee shall fully vnderstand by your Church (which a 1.1 holdeth a Proper and litterall Signification) what the Pronoune [THIS] doth demonstrate, then shall We truly inferre an in∣fallible proofe of our figurative sence.

All Opinions concerning the Thing, which the word [THIS] in the divers opinions of Authours, pointeth at, may be reduced to Three heads; namely, to signifie either This Bread, or This Bodie of Christ, or else some Third Thing different from them both. Tell you vs, first, what you hold to be the opinion of Pro∣testants? Lutherans and all Calvinists (saith your b 1.2 Iesuite) thinke that the Pronoune [THIS] pointeth out Bread. But your Roman Doctors are at oddes among themselves, and divided into two principall Opinions. Some of them referre the word [THIS] to Christ's Body, Some to a Third thing, which you call Individuum vagum. In the first place we are to confute both these your Expo∣sitions; and after to confirme our owne.

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a 1.1

Conc. Trid. Sess. 13. cap. 1. Verba illa à Christo commemo∣rata, & à Divo Pau∣lo repetita propriam significationem prae se ferunt.

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b 1.2

Lutherani & om∣nes Calvinistae pro∣nomen [Hoc] pro pa∣ne positum esse di∣cunt, quià panem Christus in manu ac∣ceperat, & dixit [Hoc est Corpus meum.] Maldon. Ies. in Matth. 26. §. Hoc omnes—Lutherus in verba E∣vangelistae. Habent hunc sensum; Hic pa∣nis est corpus meum.

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