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.

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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.
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Morton, Thomas, 1564-1659.
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London :: printed for R.M. And part of the impression to be vended for the use and benefit of Edward Minshew, gentleman,
M.D.C.LVI. [1656]
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Lord's Supper -- Early works to 1800.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A51424.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 13, 2024.

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That this Romish Doctrine contradicteth your owne Principle. SECT. V.

REmember your* 1.1 former generall Principle, which wee ac∣knowledged to be sound and true, viz. All such Actions and Qualities, which are reall in any Body, without any relation to Place, cannot be sayd to be multiplyed in respect of divers places, wherein a Body is supposed to be. As for example: The Body of [ 40] Christ cannot be cold in one Altar, and hot in another, wounded, and whole, in joy, and griefe, dead, and alive at the same time. The reason. These are impossible (say you) because of Contradiction: for that the same thing should be capable of such Contrarieties, it is repugnant to the understanding of man. So you; which is an in∣fallible Truth, when the Modus, or Maner of a thing is compa∣red

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to it selfe, and not to any thing else: it is necessary that at one and the same time the Modus be onely one, the same Jesuit can∣not be sicke in Iapan, and sound and in health at Rome, in the same instant.

{fleur-de-lys} Take you, for a Conclusion, the Confession of your much approved Doctor, who doubteth not to call the opinion, which holdeth that [The Body of Christ is imperfect] to be 4 1.2 Blasphemous, Nor may you deny the Disabilitie of Mo∣tion in Christs Body to be an Imperfection, seeing that, as the Head of your Church taught (that which all Christian, Chur∣ches [ 10] ever professed) to wit,5 1.3 Agility is a proper 〈…〉〈…〉 of every glorified Bodie, wheresoever it is. And you may call to minde the Conclusion of your Iesuite Conincks above∣mentioned, (Cap. 4. Sect. 10.) Shewing that for the Same Body to be sayd to move in one place, and stand still in another, is as flat a Contradiction, as to say, It is frozen and warme both at once. Which hee confirmed (in the Margin) with seve∣rall Reasons, which do accordingly confute your Doctrine of Possibility of the voluntary Motion of Christs Body in [ 20] Heaven, and the Impossibilitie thereof, as it is in this Sa∣crament. {fleur-de-lys}

CHALLENGE.

NOw say (wee beseech you) is there not the like Contra∣diction to make the same Christ, at the same time, as hee is in Heaven, Intelligent, and Sensitive; and as on earth, Ignorant, [ 30] and Senslesse? Or Powerfull to move of himselfe on the Throne of Majestie; and absolutely Impotent, as hee is on the Altar? Because these Attributes, of Christ being Intelligent, and Potent equally, have no Relation to Place. Notwithstanding all which you shame not to professe a senslesse, ignorant, and feeble Christ. O come out of Babylon, and be no more bewitched by such her Sorceries. [ 40]

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