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 May 3, 2024.

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That the former Romish and Popish Faith, for the Maner of re∣ceiving of the Body of Christ, is at this day but some∣what altered; yet miserably inconstant and Faithlesse. [ 20] SECT. III.

PRotestants may have in this place just matter of insultation against your Romish Professors, to prove their Infidelity in that which they seeme to professe. As first, that the Ground of your Doctrine of Corporall presence is the litterall and proper interpretation of the words of Christ, when hee sayd [Take, eate, this is my Body:] yet now are you compelled to say, that Properly eaten, is no proper, but a false sense.

Your Second Doctrine is, that the Judgement of a Romane [ 30] Pope, in a Romane Councell, in a matter of Faith, is Infallible. Notwithstanding Pope Nicholas, with his Romane Councel, is found to have grossely erred in a tenor of Abjuration, which of all others (as hath beene confessed) is most Literall, and was therefore purposely devised against a Figurative Sense of the words of Christ; and forth-with published throughout Italy, France, Germany, &c. to direct men in the Faith of sensuall Ea∣ting, breaking, and tearing the Flesh of Christ with their teeth: yet notwithstanding, your common Judgement being now to reject such phrases, taken in their proper Signification, and in [ 40] a maner to abrenounce Berengarius his Abrenunciation, what is, if this be not an Argument that either you say, you care not, or else you beleeve you know not what? Let us goe on, in pur∣suit of your Doctrine of the Corporall maner of Eating, which you still maintaine, and it will be found to be Capernaiticall enough. And lest that you may evade, by pretence of Not-Chewing, wee adde as followeth.

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