The Lords Supper or, A vindication of the sacrament of the blessed body and blood of Christ according to its primitive institution. In eight books; discovering the superstitious, sacrilegious, and idolatrous abomination of the Romish Master. Together with the consequent obstinacies, overtures of perjuries, and the heresies discernable in the defenders thereof. By Thomas Morton B.D. Bp. of Duresme.

The first Objection. SECT. I. [ 10]

NOthing useth to bee more properlie and simplie spoken, (saya 1.1 you) than words of Testaments and Covenants. Ergò this being a Testamentary Phrase must be taken in the literall Sense.

CHALLENGE. [ 20]

VVHat is this? are Figurative speeches never used in Cove∣nants, and Testamentarie Language? or is there not ther∣fore sufficient perspicuity in Figures? This is your rash and lavish Assertion, for you your selves doe teach thatb 1.2 The Old and New Testament are both full fraught with multitude of [ 30] Tropes and Figures, and yet are called Testaments. Secondly, That the Scripture, speaking of the Trinitie, and some divine things, cannot but speake Improperly and siguratively. Thirdly, That Sacramentall speeches, as, [The Rocke was Christ,] and the like words re* 1.3 Tropicall and Figurative. Fourthly, That even in the Testamentary Speech of Christ, at his Institution of this Sacrament, saying, [This Cup is the New Testament in my Blood:] there is a Figure in the very wordc 1.4 Testament. So have you confessed, and so have you consequently con∣futed your owne Objection. [ 40]

Hereto might bee added the Testament of Iacob, prophe∣sying of his sonnes, and saying,* 1.5 Reuben is my strength: Iudah a Lions Whelpe: Issachar a strong Asse: Dan an Adder in the

way. All figurative Allusions. Nay, no man, in making his Testament, can call it his Will, or say that hee hath set his hand and Seale unto it, without Figures. Namely, that hee hath gi∣ven by writing a Signification of his Will; that the Subscrip∣tion was made by his Hand; and that he added unto it the Print of his Seale. These Three, Will, Hand, Seale, every word Figu∣rative, even in a Testament.

Notes

• a 1.1

  Primum Ar∣gumentum sumitur à materiâ, est enim materia, de quâ hic agitur, Pactum, Sa∣cramentum. Testa∣mentum Novum fuisse à Domino institutum pater ex illis verbis [Hic est calix Novi Testamenti in sanguine meo]—Iam verò nihil solet magis propriè, simplicitèr, aut exquisitè explica•••• quàm Testamentum, nè viz. detur occasio litigandi Pacta seu toedera sunt etiam ex eodem genera, quae exquisitissimè & proprijs verbis explicantur, nè locus ullus relinquatur cavillis. Sacramentum hoc esse, de quo agitur, nemo negat,—Sacra∣mentum autem solere à Deo institui proprijs verbis, ut in corum usu non cretur. Bellar. lib. 1. de Euch c. 9. §. Primùm, & §. Deindè. & §. Poriò ••acramentum. A Testament must be alwayes taken, in a reall and sub∣stantiall meaning. M. Maloun the Ies. in his Reply.
• b 1.2

  In ipsâ Scrip∣tura dicitur Testa∣mentum, & Instru∣mentum—Quia pa∣cta Dei & soedera ini∣ta nobiscum conti∣nent, ut patet in pa∣cto Circumcisionis cum Abrahamo.—Ante omnia praefa∣mur S. Scripturam uti Metaphoris, non solum ob utilitatem nostram, sed etiam propter necessitatem, à pluribus Patribus traditur. Sacram scrip∣turam de Deo, de Trinitate, de Patre, Filio, & Spiritu san∣cto, propriè loqui non passe—Quandò sermo est de vità aeterâ, & p••aemio siliorum Dei, ••la••is rebus comparatur, per Tropos est explicandus—ut August. ait, Nullo genere l••cutionis, quod in consuetudine humanâ reperitur, Scripturae non utuntur, quia utiqué hominibus 〈◊〉〈◊〉. Sal••••er I••s. Pro••••g. lib. 1. p. 3. & 4. & lib. 21. pag. 371. & 227. 229. 231. 234.
• * 1.3

  See above, Chap. 2. Sect 3. let [c.]
• c 1.4

  See above, Chap. 2 Sect. 4. (p. q.)
• * 1.5

  Gen. 49.