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 16, 2024.
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That it is necessary the Body of Christ (wheresoever) consist of distinct members and proportions of a Bodie.
SECT. II.
THe Body of Christ (as we professe) had perfect Dimensions and Distinctions of parts, an head exposed to pricking with thornes, a face to buffers, a backe to scourges, eyes to visible nod∣dings and mockings, eares to blasphemies, hands and feet to pier∣cing with nayles. This is that Body which we confesse to be the Body of Christ, and which we celebrate in the use of this Sacra∣ment, in Remembrance that he had a Body consisting of proportion of divers parts, distinct one from another. Two of your b Cardi∣nals
doe both answere that Quantity, magnitude, proportion, and ex∣tension of parts are unseparably united to the Body of Christ in this Sa∣crament: or else (saith one) If the Nose should stand where the Eye is, and the Eye where the Nose is, it should be a confused Monster. So they. So necessary it is; even in your owne faith, that the Bodie of Christ consist of Organicall parts, distinct one from another.
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Magnitudo & figura unitae sunt cor∣pori Christi natura∣litèr & inseperabili∣ter—& Christus corpus suum carnem vocat, Ioh. 6. At certè substantia sinè quantitate & complexione quadam accidentium caro dici non potest—Denique in corpore Christi eius animainest: atqui anima in corpore esse nequit, nisi disposito & organizato. Secundò extensum esse in se, & partem habere extra partem, & proindè situm quendam intrinsecum & ordi∣nem habere, & dispositionem partium, omninò essentiale magnitudini est. Quid enim linea nisi extensio in lon∣gitudinem? &c. Si tollas igitur extensionem, & partes, tollis paritèr magnitudinem. Bellar. l. 3. de Euch. c. 5. Tol∣lere partium distinctionem ponit monstrosam corporis confusionem, ut ibi sit nasus, ubi oculus; & manus, &c. Alan. l. 1. de Euch. c. 3. p. 444.