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.

NOw apply you these points of your Definition unto your Host, in the hand of the Priest, which by your owne Con∣fessions may possibly be, and by our proofes cannot possibly but be (after Consecration) Bread still, whereunto notwithstanding hee prostrateth himselfe, sweareth, by, and invocateth upon, as being in it selfe the person of Christ; the Priest himselfe saying, [ 10] d 1.1 O holy Host, &c. O Lambe of God, &c. whereby also, accor∣ding to your Definition of Idolatry, you your selves do seeke to professe, and thereby to beget in others an opinion of a God∣head in the Sacrament, as whereunto Divine honour doth pro∣perly belong. How then can you free your selves from the Crime of formall Idolatry, by pretence of Ignorance, and error of true knowledge of the thing falsly adored, seeing that Idola∣try (as you your selves have also defined) is an Error and Igno∣rance in the judgement of the Worshipper? This were, as if one, defining a disease to be a Distemperature of Humours, should [ 20] notwithstanding therefore deny a man to be sicke, because his humours are distempered.

Notes

• d 1.1

  Nos visibili Sacramento invisibi∣le Corpus Christi praesens, adeoque Christum ipsum in∣vocamus, & quasi divinum quoddam adoramus, & quasi vivum quiddam ra∣tionabile alloqui∣mur, rogamus [O salutaris Hostia, &c.] Espenc. lib. 5. de Ado∣rat. cap. 8. fol. 185 & ibid. lib. 1. cap. 9. fol. 25.