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.

CHALLENGE.

THis your owne Reason may wee justly retort upon your selves, proving, that if the naturall disposition of the Body [ 40] of Christ be thus proportionably extended in it selfe, it must be so likewise in respect of Place and Space; because the three di∣mensions of the Body of Christ (as you have confessed) stand thus, that one is an extension in Length, another in Breadth, the third in Depth, and each of these three are distinct one from another. Well then, the Arme must be here, and thus farre lon∣ger than the Foot, the Legge here, and thus farre thicker than

the Finger, the Hand here, and thus farre broader than the Toe, and accordingly distinctly in other parts. But Hîc, and Huc∣••sque; Here and There, thus farre and so farre, being Relatives of Space, and Place, do demonstratively shew that that Exten∣sion of distinct parts of the Body, which they have in them∣selves divisibly, the same they must necessarily have in respect of the Vbi, Place, or Space, wherein the Body is. If therefore you will not Heretically teach a Mathematicall, or Phantasticall Body o•• Christ, you must deny the Article of Trent, untill you can beleeve, and make good, that a part of a divisible Body, lon∣ger [ 10] or shorter, broader or narrower, can be (and that equally) in one indivisible point.

This is confirmed by the Essence of Christ his glorified Body, (as you confesse it to be) now in Heaven, possessing a Reall place in the sayd proportion of Spaces of length, and breadth, as it had here upon earth, which it doth by the naturall Mag∣nitude, or Quantity thereof. But the sayd naturall Magni∣tude, or quantity of the sayd Body of Christ is (according to your wone generall Doctrine) in this Sacrament. Therefore must it have the same Commensuration of Space, although not [ 20] of the same Space which is one earth.

Wee should be loath to trouble your wits with these specu∣lations, if that the necessity of the Cause (by reason of the Ab∣surdities, of your Romish profession) did not inforce us hereun∣to; Therefore must you suffer us a little to sport at your trifling seriousnesse, who writing of this Divine Sacrament, and seeing it to be round, solid, broken, moulded, in the one kind; and liquid, frozen, and sowring in the other, do attribute all these to Quantities, and Qualities, and Accidents, without any other subject at all. So then by the Romish Faith wee shall be constrai∣ned [ 30] to beleeve, in effect, that the Cup is filled with Mathe∣maticall lines, the Mouse eating the Hoast is sed with colours, and formes: that it is Coldnesse that is frozen, and Roundnesse which weigheth downe, and falleth to the ground; as if you should describe a Romish Communicant to be a creature clo∣thed with Shadowes, armed with Idaea's, fed with Abstracts, augmented with Fancies, second Intentions, and Individuall Vagues, and consisting wholly of Chimaera's.