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.

Of the exceeding Obstinacie of the Romish Disputers, made palpable by their owne Contradictions; and of the De∣fence thereof, as being Contradictory in it selfe. SECT. I. [ 30]

ALl your Disputers shew themselves in nothing more zealous, than in maintenance of your Romish Masse, which they contend for by objecting Scriptures, Fathers, and Reasons: notwithstanding their Ex∣positions of Scriptures, their Inferences out of the Fathers, their devised Reasons, and almost all their Confutations are confuted, rejected, and contradicted by their owne fel∣lowes, as the Sections thorowout this whole Tractate do plainly demonstrate. Wee cannot therefore otherwise judge, [ 40] but that as Prejudice is the chiefe Director, so Obstinacie is the greatest Supporter of your Cause.

How much more when the Defence it selfe is found to con∣sist upon meere Contradictories, whereof you may take a Taste out of your Doctrine of Corporall Presence, and of a proper Sa∣crifice. In the first, by obtruding on mens Consciences a Be∣liefe (upon due Consequence) of a Body of Christ Borne, and not

Borne of the Virgin Mary; One, and not one; Finite, and not Finite; Divisible, and not Divisible; Perfect, and not Perfect; and also Glorious, and not Glorious, as hath beenea 1.1 proved in each point.

II. In a point of properly Sacrificing of Christ's Body, your Musicke stands upon the same kind of Discords, ofb 1.2 Teaching a Body Broken, and not Broken; a matter visible, and not visible; of Blood shed, and not shed; and of a suffering Destruction, and not suffering Destruction. Evident Arguments of Obstinacie one would thinke, and yet behold a plainer, if it may be. [ 10]

Notes

• a 1.1

  Booke 4. tho∣rowout.
• b 1.2

  See Booke 6. thorowout.