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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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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Morton, Thomas, 1564-1659.
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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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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A07812.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 26, 2024.
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THE FIRST CHALLENGE,
Against the first Romish Answere, touching the word Type and Antitype, vsed by the Greeke Fathers.
THree kinds of Answeres have beene applyed, as Three wedges to dissolve this difficulty; but a knot of wood cannot be loosed with a wedge of waxe, such as every of your Answeres will ap∣peare to be. The first interpreting Types and Antitypes not to be taken for Signes, but for Examples, is at the first hearing reiected by your yCardinall, and others.
The Second, alleadged out of Damascen, and much insisted upon by some favourers of your Romish Sence; namely, that the Fathers should call Bread and Wine Antitypes; but not after Conse∣cration. So they. And if so, then indeed we should have no cause to oppose. But this Answere is proved to be apparantly false by
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your zCardinall and others out of the expresse Testimonies of these Greeke Fathers, viz. Dio••ysius Areopagita, Clemens, Iustine, Maca∣rius, Basil, and Nazianzene. The third Answere is your Cardinals owne, yet but faintly urged, with a aPeradventure they called them Antitypes, but not Types after Consecration: and he is encountred by your bSuarez and Billius, acknowledging that the words Types and Antitypes are used of the same Fathers in one and the same signi∣fication. This our Obiection how strong it is, may be seene by your much, but vaine strugling. Your quaintest device is yet behind.
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Prima solutio; Vocem Antitypon non accipi pro signo, sed pro Exemplari, &c. sed haec opinio facilè reijci potest, quià vox ea nunquam sumitur pro exem∣plar••. Bel. l. 2. de Euch. cap. 15.
Alterasolutio est aliorū, Panem & Vi∣num Antitypon dici, sed ante Cōsecratio∣nem non postea; it à respondit olim Ioh. Damasc. l. 4. de ••ide c. 14. Et Epi. in 7. Syn. Art. 6. Tom. 3. sed in∣venimus apud Basiliū Eucharistiā dici An∣titypon corporis post recitationem istorum verborum, [H. E. C. M.]—Tamen Theod. apertissimè eam sic vocat. Dial. 1. & Macar. Aegypt. Hom. 27. imo Dion. Areop. Eccl. Hier. c. 1. Naz. orat. in Gorgon. Bell. ibid.—Etiam Clemens in Constit. Billius Com▪ ad Eli∣am Cret••nsem, in Orat. 11. Nazianz. Hanc interpretationem (Damasceni) refellunt Bessar••on Card. & Turrian. Durant. de Rit. l. 2. c. 39.
Foratassis Basilius & alij Graeci Patres non vocant typum aut figuram, sed Antitypa, quia Antitypa non sunt quaelibet figurae, sed illa tantūm, quae nihil fere differunt à veritate. Bel. Ibid. quo supra.
Negari non potest quin nonnunquam nomen Typi inveniatur in Patribus, ut ex Hieronymo paulò ante no∣tavi. Idem reperitur apud Chrysost. Hom. 16. ad Hebr. & Bilius apud Nazian. Annot. in or at. vndecimam, in fine. Quare probabile valdè existimo vocem Antitypi in eadem significatione usurpari hoc loco, quo Typi, seu figurae. Suarez Ies. quo sup. p. 554.