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IT would be a wonder to us, to heare Any of our owne profession to be so extremely Indifferent, con∣cerning the different opinions of the Manner of the Presence of Christ's Body in the Sacrament, as to thinke the Romish Sect therefore either Tollerable, or Reconciliable, upon Pretence that the Question is only De modo,
(that is) of the manner of Being, and that consequently all Con∣troversie about this is but vaine Iangling. Such an one ought to enter into his second thoughts, to consider the necessity that lieth upon every Christian to abandon divers Heresies, albeit their diffe∣rence from the Orthodoxe profession were only De modo. As for example, First, The Gnostick taught man's soule to have it's begin∣ning by manner of Production, from the substance of God. The Catholikes said nay, but by manner of Creation, of nothing. The Pelagians maintained a free will in spirituall Acts, from the grace of Nature. The Catholikes nay; but by speciall grace of Christ, freeing the will through the efficacious operation of his holy Spirit. The Catharists held themselves pure, in a purity of an absolute per∣fection: The Catholikes nay, but by an Inchoative, comparative, and imperfect perfection of purity. Furthermore against our Chri∣stian Faith, of beleeving God to be absolutely a Spirit; the Anthre∣pomorphites conceived of God, as of one (after the manner of men) consisting of Armes and Legges, &c.
Not to be tedious. We come to the Sacraments. The Cataphry∣gae did not baptize in the name of the blessed Trinity, after the man∣ner of the Catholikes. The Artotyritae celebrated the Eucharist in Bread and Cheese. To omit many others, take one poniard, which we are sure will pierce into the entrailes of the Cause (to wit) the heresie of the Capernaits, in the dayes of our Saviour Christ: who hearing his Sermon, teaching men to Eate his flesh; and conceiving thereby a carnall manner of Eating, irreconciliably contrary to the spirituall manner, which was beleeved by the true Disciples of Christ, departed from Christ, and Apostated from the Faith. And that the Romish manner of Eating Christ his Body is Capernaiti∣call; her manner of Sacrifice sacrilegious; her manner of Divine Adoration thereof Idolatrous; and all these manners Irreconci∣liable to the manner of our Church, is copiously declared in the Bookes following. For this present we are to exhibit the different, and contradictory manners, concerning the Presence of Christ herein.
The manner of Presence of Christ his Body 1. According to the Iudgement of Protestants. 2. In the profession of the Church of Rome.