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.

Your Obiections, from the former Canon, answered.

SECT. V.

FIrst you m 1.1 Obiect, that The Lambe is said to be placed on the Table, mistaking what Table is meant; for the Canon specifying two Tables, one Here, which is of the Eucharist, and another That Table, namely in Heaven, saith that Christ is placed on That Table, according to our Faith of his sitting at the right hand of God in Heaven. Secondly, hee is said (say you) to be sacrificed by the hands of the Priest; which cannot be done, as hee is in Heaven. The words of the Canon, truly resolved, doe cashiere this Obie∣ction, as thus: The Lambe of God set at that Table (namely in Hea∣ven) is sacrificed by the hands of the Priest Here, to wit, on the Table below (representatively) as hereafter the Catholique Fathers themselves will shew. And these two may easily consist, without any necessity of the Priest reaching his hands as farre as the high∣est Heavens; as your Cardinall pleasantly obiecteth. Thirdly, you alleage; Wee are said to partake truly of the Body of Christ. As though there were not a Truth in a Sacramentall, that is Figu∣rative Receiving; and more especially (which * 1.2 hath beene both proved, and confessed) a Reall, and true participation of Christ's Body and Blood spiritually, without any Corporall Coniunction.

But it is added (saith he) that These (namely, the Body and Blood of Christ) are Symbols of our Resurrection; which is by reason that our Bodies are ioyned with the Body of Christ: otherwise if our Coniunction were onely of our soules, onely the Resurrection of our soules should be signified thereby. So hee, that's to say, as successesly as in the former.

For the word, HAEC, These, (which are called Symbols of our Re∣surrection) may be referred either to the Body and Blood of Christ, immediatly spoken of, and placed on the Table in Heaven (which we Commemorate also in the Celebration of this Sacrament) and in that respect may be called Symbols of the Resurrection of our Bodies: because, * 1.3 If Christ be risen, then must they that are Christs also rise againe. Or else the word, These, may have relation to the

more remote (after the manner of the Greekes) to wit, Bread and Cup on the first Table, because (as immediately followeth) they are these whereof not much, but little is taken; as you have heard. Which other * 1.4 Fathers will shew to be indeed Symbols of our Resurrection, without any Consequence of Christ's Bodily Coniun∣ction with our Bodies, more than there is by the Sacrament of Bap∣tisme, which they call the Earnest of our Resurrection; as doth also your Iesuite m 1.5 Coster call it The Pledge of our Resurrection. (But this our Coniunction with Christ is the subiect matter of the Fift Booke.) Lastly, how the Eucharist was called of the Fathers a Sacrifice, is plentifully resol∣ved in * 1.6 the Sixt Booke.

Notes

• m 1.1

  Ob. 1. Cum di∣cit agnum Dei sicum esse in sacra mensa, & eundem agnum opponit symbolis, de∣clarat agnū propriè esse in mensa: & non solùm ut per symbola repraesentatur. 2. Ag∣nus dicitur à Sacer∣dotum manibus im∣molari, quod non fit in coelo: neque enim tàm lōgas manus ha∣bent Sacerdotes, ut ad coelum pertingant 3. Dicimur verè su∣mere corpus Christi, & quòd non solùm corde sed & corpore sumitur, prebatur: quià corp{us} & sanguis Domini dicuntur es∣se nostrae resurrectio∣nis symbola, quià cùm nostris corporib{us} cō∣iunguntur. Si autem sola esset animorum coniunctio, solus ani∣mus resurrecturus sig∣nificaretur. Bellar. lib. 2. de Euch. c. 10.
• * 1.2

  See above Chap. 1. Sect. 2.
• * 1.3

  1. Cor. 1. 15.
• * 1.4

  See below Booke 5. Chap. 8. Sect. 6.
• m 1.5

  Ad futuram re∣surrectionē, per Bap∣tismi Sacramentum, ius & pignus accepi∣mus. Coster. Institut. Christ. l. 4. c. 4 See more in the Booke following. Chap. 8. Sect. 6.
• * 1.6

  Chap. 5. Sect.