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.

Of the second Typicall Scripture, which is the Passeover: shewing the weaknesse of the Argument taken from thence, for proofe of a Proper Sacrifice in the Masse.

SECT. X.

FIrst it is meet we heare your Objector speake, even your a 1.1 Car∣dinall, who albeit he confesseth the Paschall Lamb to have been the figure of Christ on the Crosse, yet did it in the Ceremonies thereof (saith he) more immediatly and principally prefigure the Eucharist than the Passion, which is proved by Scripture, 1. Cor. 5. [Our Passeover is offered up, therefore let us feast it in the Azymes of Sincerity and Truth.] Which offering up was not fulfilled on the Crosse; but it is evident that the Apostle did eat this true Paschall Lambe, the flesh of Christ, at his Supper: and this Apostle exhor∣teth us to this Feast, in saying, [Let us therefore keepe our feast, &c.] So hee, bestowing a large Chapter of Arguments, wherewith to bleare our eyes, lest that we should see in this Scripture [Our Passeover is offered up] Rather the Immolation of Christ on the Crosse, than in the Eucharist. We willingly yeeld unto his allea∣ged Testimonies of Ancient Fathers, who by way of Allusion, or Analogie, doe all call the Eucharist a Paschall Sacrifice. But yet that the words of this Scripture should more properly and principally meane the Eucharisticall Sacrifice (as if the Iewish Passeover did rather prefigure the Sacrifice of Christ in the Masse, than on the Crosse) not one.

It were a tedious worke to sift out all the Drosse of his Argu∣mentations; Neverthelesse, because he putteth Protestants unto it, saying us followeth, b 1.2 But our Adversaries (saith he) will say, that the Apostle, in saying our Passeover is offered up, speaketh of Christ's Sacrifice offered upon the Crosse, but we will prove that this figure was properly fulfilled at his S••pper: (So he) We will now shew you that other Adversaries, than Protestants, are ready to encoun∣ter this your Champion.

First, the choisest Chieftaine of his owne side, armed with the Authority of Christ himselfe, Ioh. 13. 1. [Before the day of the Passeover, Iesus knowing that his howre was come, that he must passe out of the world unto the Father.] Now when was this spo∣ken? Even then, saith c 1.3 Tolet, your Cardinall and Iesuit, When he came to the celebrating of the Sacrament of his Body and Blood, that is, at his last Supper. But what was meant hereby? namely, Christ alluded unto the Iewish Passeover (saith he) in signification of his owne passing over by death to his Father. So he. So also your Iesuit d 1.4 Pererius, out of Augustine.

A second Scripture is the objected Text 1. Cor. 5. [Our Passe∣over is offered up, Christ:] that is, As the figurative paschall Lambe was offered up for the deliverance of the people of Israel out of Egypt, so Christ was offered up to death for the Redemption of his people, and so passed by his passion to his Father. So your e 1.5 Aquinas. [Our Passe∣over.] Namely, by his Sacrifice in shedding his Blood on the Crosse. So your Iesuit f 1.6 Becanus. And, By this his Passeover on the Crosse was the Passeover of the Iewes fulfilled. So your Bishop g 1.7 Iansenius, as flat diameter to your Cardinal's Objection as can be.

A third Scripture we finde, Ioh. 19. [They broke not his legs, that the Scriptures might be fulfilled which is written, A bone of him shall not be broken:] which your h 1.8 Cardinall himselfe confesseth to relate only to Christ's Sacrifice on the Crosse; and notwithstan∣ding dare immediatly oppose, saying, Neverthelesse the Ceremony of the Paschall Lambe did more immediatly and properly prefigure the Eucharist than Christs passion: wherein, whether he will or no, he must be an Adversary to himselfe. For there is no Ceremony more principall in any Sacrifice than are these two, viz. The mat∣ter of Sacrifice, and the Sacrificing Act thereof. Now the matter of the Sacrifice was a Lambe, the Sacrificing Act was the killing thereof, and offering it up killed unto God. Whether therefore the Paschall Lambe did more principally prefigure the visible Body of Christ on the Crosse, or your imagined Invisible in your Masse, whe∣ther

the slaine Paschall Lambe bleeding to death, did more pro∣perly and immediatly prefigure and represent a living and perfect Body of Christ, than that his Body wounded to death, and blood∣shed, Common sense may stand for Iudge.

The Ancient Fathers, when they speake of the Sacrifice of Christ's Passion, in a precise propriety of speech, doe de∣clare themselves accordingly. If in generall, then as i 1.9 Origen: All those other Sacrifices (saith hee) were prefigurations of this our perfect Sacrifice. If more particularly, then as k 1.10 Chrysostome, from the objected Text of the Apostle. 1. Cor. 5. [Our Passeover is offered up, Christ, Let us therefore keepe our feast, &c.] Dost thou see (saith he) in beholding the Crosse, the joy which we have from it? for Christ is offered upon the Crosse, and where there is an Immola∣tion, there is Reconciliation with God: this was a new Sacrifice, for in this the flesh of Christ was the thing sacrificed, his Spirit the Priest and Sacrificer, and the Crosse his Altar. In so much that, else-where he teacheth every Christian how, as a spirituall Priest, he may l 1.11 Alwaies keepe the Passeover of Christ. What greater plainenesse can be desired? and yet behold, if it bee possible, a greater from m 1.12 Origen, calling the Sacrifice on the Crosse the the Onely true Passeover. Which saying his Reporter Socrates im∣braceth, as a Divine Contemplation. From Typicall Scriptures we descend to Propheticall.

Notes

• a 1.1

  Bellarm. Immo∣latio Agni Paschalis potest quidem dici fi∣gura Passionis: nam fi Agnus ille fuit figu∣ra Eucharistiae, Eu∣charistia autem figu∣ra Passionis, quis ne∣gat Agnum istum fi∣guram fuisse & Re∣praesentationem Pas∣sionis? Quarè Joh. 19. Videmus Evange∣listam reddere can∣sam, cur non fuerant crura Christi confra∣cta in Passione, quia scriptum est de Agno Paschali, [Os non comminuetis ex eo.] Tamen magis imme∣diatè & principaliter Ceremonia Agni Pa∣schalis potiùs fuit fi∣gura Eucharistiae, quàm Passionis. Lib. 1. de Missa, cap. 7. §. Il∣lud.—Quod cele∣bratio Agni Paschalis fuit figura celebrationis Eucharistiae, probatur ex Scripturis, 1. Cor. 5. Pascha nostrum immolatus est Christus, itaque epulcmur in azymis Veritatis—Dicent Adversarii impletum fuisse hoc in Cruce—At constat Apostolos in coena manducasse carnem Christi,—Verum Agnum Paschalem, ad cujus epulum nos hortatur Apostolus. 1. Cor. 5. Epulemur, &c. Bellarm. ibid. §. Quod igitur, & §. Dicent.
• b 1.2

  Bellarm. q•• suprà §. Dicent &c. Dicent Adversarii Apostolum loqui de Immolatio∣ne in cruce facta: at nos probabimus figu∣ram illam propriè im∣pletam fuisse in c••••∣na.
• c 1.3

  Job. 13. 1. [Antè diem Paschae sciens Iesus, quia venit ho∣ra, ut transiret ex hoe mundo ad Patrem.] Hîc mortem Transi∣tum vocat.—Allu∣dit ad Pascha, ac fi Latinè diceret, Antè diem festum Transi∣tûs, sciens quia venit hora ut transiret ipse: Ipse enim Pascha no∣strum immolatus est Christus—Opti∣mus autem terminus, Transitus ejus ex hoc mundo ad Patrem. Tolet. Ies. Com. in ••um locum.
• d 1.4

  August. in Psal. 68. Cum venit Dominus ad Sacramentum san∣guinis & corporis sui, ità loquitur, [Sciens quod ho••a venit, ut transiret ad Patrem de mundo.] Quibus verbis expressit trans∣itum Paschae Teste Pe∣rerio Ies. in Exod. cap. 12. Disp. 8.
• e 1.5

  1. Cor. 5. Pascha nostrum immolatus est Christus, ergò E∣pulemur Azymis sin∣ceritatis, & veritatis. [Aquinas assign••t Rati∣onem, quare fideles de∣bent esse Azym••: quae quidem Ratio sumitut ex my•…•… Passionis]—Sicut Agnus figuralis immolatus est à fil••s Israel. ut populus li∣beraretur—it à Christus occisus ab Israëlitis, ut populus liberaretur à servitute Diaboli. Christus enim per passionem trans••t ex mundo ad Patrem. Joh. 13. Haec Aquin. Com. in 1. Cor. 5. And Tollet in his Testimony before cited. So Becanus Ies.
• f 1.6

  [Pascha nostrum. 1. Cor. 5] Nempè per immolationem in cruce, & effusionem sanguinis illius, liberatum est genus huma••um. Analog. utrius••u•• Testam. cap. 13. pag. 313.
• g 1.7

  Impleta erat figura Paschalis, quando ••e∣rum nostrum Pascha est immolatus Christus Iesus, & nos per ejus sanguinem liberati eramur. Iansen. Concord. 〈◊〉〈◊〉∣vang. c••p. 131. pag. 895
• h 1.8

  Joh. 19 [Cruta non confregerant, ut imple••e••ur quod scriptum est, Osnon com∣minuetis ex eo.] Bellarm. q•• sup. yet gaine-saith with his. Tamen &c. §. Illud.
• i 1.9

  Origen. Sacrifi∣cium, pro quo haec omnia Sacrificia in typo & figura praeces∣serunt, unum & per∣fectum immolatus est C••ristus. Hujus Sa∣crificii carnem quis∣quis tetigerit, sancti∣ficabitur. In Levit. cap. 6. Hom. 4.
• k 1.10

  Chrysost••mus de Cruce & Latrone. 1. Cor. 5. Pascha nostrū immolatus est Chri∣stus: ••estivitas ergò &c. Vides crucis ••n∣tuitu perceptam lae∣titiam? in cruce enim immolatus est Chri∣stus: Ubi immolatio, amputatio peccato∣rum; ubi amputatio peccatorum, reconci∣liatio Domini—novū Sacrificium—nam ipse Sacrificium erat, & Sacerdos; Sacrificiū secundum carnem, Sacerdos secundum Spiritū, offerebat secundum Spiritū▪ offereba∣tur secundum carnem—& altare Crux fuit. Chrys••st. T••••. 3. pag. 826.
• l 1.11

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Idem. Tom. 5. Serm. 88. Edit. Savil. pag. 602.
• m 1.12

  Sacrates Hist. lib. 5. cap. 22. Origenes Doctor valdè sapiens cum animad∣verteret Legis Mosaicae praecepta ad literam non posse intelligi, praeceptum de Paschate ad divinam contemplati∣onem traduxit: 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.