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.

Morton, Thomas, 1564-1659.

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OF THE INSTITVTION OF THE SACRAMENT of the blessed Body and Blood OF CHRIST, &c.

THE THIRD BOOKE, Treating of the First Romish Doctrinall Consequence, pretended to arise from your former depraved Exposi∣tion of Christ's wordes. [This is my Body.] called TRANSVBSTAN∣TIATION.

CHAP. I.

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First of the Sacramentall. SECT. I.

THere lyeth a charge upon every Soule, that shall communicate and participate of this Sacrament, that herein hee Discerne the Lords Body: [ 20] which Office of Discerning (according to the judgement of Protestants) is not onely in the use, but also in the Nature to distinguish the Object of Faith, from the Object of Sense. The First Object of Christian Faith, is the Divine Alteration, and Change of naturall Bread, into a Sacrament of Christs Bodie. This wee call a Divine Change, because none but the same * Omnipotent power, that made the Creature and Element of Bread, can Change it into a Sacrament. [ 30]

The Second Object of Faith, is the Body of Christ it selfe, Sa∣cramentally represented, and verily exhibited to the Faithfull Communicants. There are then three Objects, in all, to be di∣stinguished. The First is before Consecration, the Bread meerely Naturall. Secondly, After Consecration, Bread Sacramentall. Thirdly, Christs owne Body, which is the Spirituall, and Super∣substantiall Bread, truly exhibited by this Sacramentall, to the nourishment of the soules of the Faithfull.

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