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.

The Novelty of Transubstantiation examined, as well for the Name, as for the Nature thereof.

SECT. II.

The Title, and Name of Transubstantiation proved to be of a latter date.

YOu have imposed the very Title of Transubstantiation upon the Faith of Christians; albeit the word Transubstantiation (as you grant) f 1.1 was not used of any Ancient Fathers; and that

your Romish Change had not it's Christendome, or name a∣mong Christians to be called Transubstantiation (as your Car∣dinall g 1.2 Alan witnesseth) before the Councell of Laterane, which was 1215. yeares after Christ; nor can you produce One Father Greeke or Latine, for a Thousand yeares, attributing any word equivalent, in strict Sence; unto the same word Transubstantia∣tion, untill the yeare 1100. (which is beyond the Compasse of due Antiquitie) At what time you finde, note, and ••rge Theo∣phylact; who saith of the Bread, that It is Trans-elementated into the Body of Christ. Which Phrase, in what Sence hee vsed it, you might best have learned from himselfe, who in the very same place saith that Christ in a manner is h 1.3 Trans-elementated into the Communicant: which how unchristian a Paradoxe it were, being taken in strict and proper Sence, we permit to your owne iudge∣ments to determine.

Neither yet may you, for the countenancing of the Noveltie of this word, obiect the like use of this word [〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉] as though it had beene in use before the Arian Controversie began, because the Fathers of the Councell of Nice iudged the Obiection of the Novelty of that word Calumnious; for that the use of it had beene Antient before their times, as your Cardinall i 1.4 Bellarmine himselfe witnesseth.

You furthermore to prevent our Obiection (demanding why the Antient Fathers never called your fancied Romish Change, Transubstantiation, if they had beene of your Romish Faith, con∣cerning the Substantiall Change of Bread into the Body of Christ) haue shaped us this Answere, namely, that k 1.5 Although they used not the very word, Transubstantiation, yet have they words of the same signification, to wit, Conversion, Transmutation, Transition, Trans∣formation, Trans-elementation, and the like. So your Lorichius, Reader of Divinitie among you; who by his vast and rash bold∣nes might as iustly have inferred from the like Phrases of the A∣postle, viz. [* 1.6 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, we are transformed] that every Regene∣rate Christian is Transubstantiated into Christ: or, from the word [* 1.7 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, He is transfigured] say that the Diuell is Transub∣stantiated into an Angell of light: or from the word [〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, It is changed] (used by l 1.8 Cyrill) urge that whosoever the Spirit of God doth Sanctifie, is Transubstantiated into another thing: or from the word [〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉] in m 1.9 Nazianzene, conclude that Every Per∣son Baptized is Transubstantiated into Christ.

Will you have the world imagine that so many, so excellent, and so Ancient Fathers, with all that Divine and Humane Lear∣ning wherewith they were so admirably accomplished, could not in a Thousand yeares space, finde out either the Greeke word, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, or the Latine Transubstantiatio, and apply them to this

Change, if they had once dreamed of this your Article of Faith? Will you permit us to learne a point of wisedome in your Cardi∣nal? n 1.10 Liberty of devising new words (saith he) is a thing most dan∣gerous; because new words, by little and little, b••get new things. So hee. Therefore may wee iustly place this your new word among those 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, which S^t. * 1.11 Paul will have Christians by all means to avoid; els so new and barbarous a name must needs ingen∣der a novell, and brutish opinion, such as this Article it selfe will appeare to be; As followeth.

Notes

• f 1.1

  Fateor, neque Antiquos Patres u∣sos esse hoc nòmine Transubstantiationis. Christoph. de Capite fontium, Archi••p. Caesar. lib. de reali Praesent. cap. 59. art. 4.
• g 1.2

  Conc. Latera∣n ense sub▪ Innocen∣tio Tertio coactum, ut Haereticis os ob∣thuraret, Conver∣sionem hanc novo & valdè significante verbo dixit Tran∣substantiationem. A∣lan. lib. 1. de Euch. c. 34. p 422. As for that obiected place out of Cyrill of Alexandria Epist. ad Coelosyrium [Convertens ea in yeritatem Carnis:] It is answered by Vas∣quez the Iesuite; non habetur illa Episto∣la inter opera Cy∣rilli. Vasquez. in 3. T••om. Tom. 3. num. 24.
• h 1.3

  Theoph. in Ioh. 6. De Christo perfidem manducato, [〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉]
• i 1.4

  Calumniam hanc Patres Antiqui ap∣tissimè confu••âtunt, at{que} ostend••runt non inventum fuisse hoc nomen [〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉] in Concilio Nicaeno, sed fuisse antè in usu Patrum; at illud iam vocabulum vsur pari, quo sui Maiores usi fuissent. Bellarm. quo supra. c. 3.
• k 1.5

  Etsi veteres Ec∣clesiae Doctores non sint usi vo•••• Trāsub∣stantiationis, tamen usi sunt vocibus idem significantibus, ut Conversioni••, Trans∣mutationis, Transiti∣onis, Transformati∣onis, Transelemen∣tationis, & similibus. Lorich. Fortalit. fidei Tract. de Eucharist. §. Nota pro solutione Argumentorum. fol. 117.
• * 1.6

  2. Cor. 3. 18.
• * 1.7

  2 Cor. 11. 14.
• l 1.8

  Quicquid Spiri∣tus Sanctus te••ige∣rit, & Sanctificat 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Cyrill. Hieros. Catech. 5.
• m 1.9

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Nazianz. Orat. 40. p. 643. Edit. Paris.
• n 1.10

  Periculosa est vocum nova••um Li∣bertas in Ecclesia, cum paulatim ex vo∣cibus nov•…•… eriam res oriantur, cùm cui{que} licet in rebus Divinis nomi∣na ••ingere. Bell. lib. d•• Sacram. in Genere. c. 7. §. Ex quibus,
• * 1.11

  1. Tim. 6. 20.