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.

Our Third Proofe, that the Substance of Bread remaineth after Consecration in the Sacrament, is taken from the Iudge∣ment of Sense, necessarily. First, by the Authority of Scripture. [ 40] SECT. VII.

ALthough man's Sense may be deceived, through the incon∣venient Disposition of the Medium, thorow which hee seeth, as it hapneth in judging a strait Staffe to bee Crooked, which standeth in the Water; and in thinking a White Object to bee Greene in it selfe, which is seene thorow a Greene glasse;

or Secondly by the unequall Distance of place, as by concel∣ving the Sunne to bee but two feete in breadth; or Thirdly by some defect in the Organ, or Instrument of seeing (which is the Eye) whereby it cometh to passe that wee take One to bee Two, or mistake a Shadow for a Substance. Yet notwith∣standing when our Eyes, that see, are of good Constitution, and Temper; the Medium, whereby wee see, is perfectly disposed; the Distance of the Object, which wee see, is indifferent; then (say we) the judgement of Sense, being free, is True, and the [ 10] Concurrence and joynt consent of divers Senses, in one arbitre∣ment, is infallible.

This Reason, taken from Sense, you peradventure will judge to bee but Naturall and Carnall, as those Termes are opposed to a true and Christian maner of Reasoning. We defend the Contrary, being warranted by the Argument which Christ himselfe used to his Disciples, Luke 24. 39. [Handle mee, and see.] Your Cardinall, although hee grant that this Reason of Christ was available, to prove that his owne Body was no Spirit, or Fancy, but a true Body, even by the onely Argument [ 20] from the sense of Touching;b 1.1 Yet (saith hee) was it not suffi∣cient in it selfe, without other Arguments, to confirme it and to prove it to have bin a human body, and the very same which it was. So he.

Which Answer of your Cardinall wee wish were but onely false, and not also greatly irreligious: for Christ demonstrated hereby not onely that hee had a Body (as your Cardinall spea∣keth) but also that it was his owne same Humane Body, now ri∣sen, which before had beene Crucified, and wounded to Death, and buried, according to that of Luke [That it is even I] Luke 24, 39. Now because* 1.2 It is not a Resurrection of a Body, except [ 30] it bee the Same Body: Therefore would Christ have Thomas to * 1.3 thrust his hands into his sides, and feele the print of his wounds, to manifest the Same Body; as Two of your Iesuites do also observe, the One with an [c 1.4 Optimè,] the Other with a [d 1.5 Pro∣batum est.] Accordingly the Apostle Saint Paul laid this Argu∣ment, taken from Sense, as the Foundation of a Fundamentall Article of Faith, even the Resurrection of the Same Body of Christ from the dead; for how often doth hee repeate, and inculcate this?* 1.6 Hee was seene, &c. And againe thrice more, Hee was seene, &c. And Saint Iohn argueth, to the same purpose, from [ 40] the Concurrence of three Senses:* 1.7 That which wee have heard, which wee have seene, and our hands have handled, declare wee unto you. The validity of this Reason was proved by the Effect, as

Christ averreth;* 1.8 Thomas because thou hast seene (that is, percei∣ved both by Eye, and hand) thou hast beleeved.

Notes

• b 1.1

  Consequen∣tia Christi, affirma∣tivè sumpta, Hoc palpatur, hoc videtur, Ergo est Corpus, op∣tu••a fuit, quià sensus non fallitur circa pro∣prium Objectum: ••ta{que} necessariò quod videtur, & tangitur Corporale est. At negativè, hoc non palpatur; nec videtur, Ergò non est corpus, Dominus non fecit, & mala est. Non fal∣luntur Sensus nostri, cum nos album quid, rotundum, solidum sentire arbitramur, quae sunt propria ob∣jècta. Sed cùm Panis Substantiam sub illis Accidentibus ••atere denunciant, fallun∣tur. Dominus solùm probare voluit se non esse inane spectrum, seu Phantasma, sed verum Corpus; id quod ex Testimonio sensus Tangendi op∣timè probavit. Illud autem Corpus esse humanum, idem quod anteà suerat, non probavit Dominus hoc solo Argumento, ex Tan∣gendi sensu desumpto (quod sine dubio non erat sufficiens) sed multis alijs modis, loquendo, manducando, testimonio Angelorum, miraculo Piscium, allegatione Scripturarum. Bellar. l. 1. de Euch. c. 14. §. Respondeo.
• * 1.2

  1. Cor. 15.
• * 1.3

  Ioh. 20. 27.
• c 1.4

  Optimè Origenes, Ostendit se Christus in vero Corpore suo re∣suscitatum. Tolet. les. in Ioh. c. 20. pag. 534.
• d 1.5

  Probatum est, Christum idem Corpus numero demon∣strāsse. Silarez Ies. Tom. 2. qu. 54. §. 1.
• * 1.6

  1. Cor. 15. 5.
• * 1.7

  1. Ioh. 1. 1.
• * 1.8

  1. Ioh. 20. 29.