Two discourses concerning the adoration of a B. Saviour in the H. Eucharist the first: Animadversions upon the alterations of the rubrick in the Communion-Service, in the Common-Prayer-Book of the Church of England : the second: The Catholicks defence for their adoration of our Lord, as believed really and substantially present in the Holy Sacrament of the Eucharist.

THESES of Adoration of the EƲCHARIST.

CONTENTS.

• 1. PRotestant-Concessions. §. 1.
• 2. Catholick-Assertions. § 1.
  • Presuppositions. § 1.
    • 1. Of a Precept of giving Divine Worship to our Lord. § 1.
    • 2. Of our Lord's whole Person its being where his Body is. §. 2.
    • 3. Of this Divine Person being supremely adorable wherever his Body is: Granted by Protestants. §. 3.
      • Not only in Virtue, but Substance. § 5.
    • 4. That this Presence of our Lord's Body and Blood is by Pro∣testants affirmed in the Eucharist; and that this Body is then to be worshipped with supreme Adoration. §. 5.
    • 5. Further affirmed; That Christ's Body and Blood are present not only to the worthy Communicant, but to the Symbols; and whilst present are to be adored. §. 7.
    • 6. Granted by Daille, That tho' he and his believe not Christ's Body present in the signs, yet they, for this, break not Com∣munion with those that hold it. §. 8.
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  • Catholick Assertions.
    • 1. A Sign or Symbol to remain after Consecoration distinct from the thing signified. §. 9.
      • This external Sign to be all, that which is perceptible by the senses. of the Bread and Wine; tho' not their Substance. §. 10.
    • 2. The word Sacrament to be taken not always in the same sense, but sometimes for the Sign or Symbol; sometimes for the thing signified. §. 11.
    • 3. Catholicks ground Adoration, not on Transubstantiation, (which, as also Consubstantiantion, involves it) but on Real Presence with the Symbols: maintaining Adoration due, tho' Christ's Body were present, neither under the Accidents of Bread (as Catholicks say); nor under the Substance of Bread (as Lutherans say); but after some other unknown manner distinct from both. §. § ••7.
    • 4. Supposing (not grant••••g 〈7 letters〉〈7 letters〉bstantiation an error, yet if Corporal or Real Pres•••••• 〈◊〉〈◊〉 by the Lutherans be true, Catholicks plead their Adoration warrantable. §. 18.
    • 5. Supposing Real Presence an Error, and the Lutheran and Roman Church both mistaken; yet these latter, in such Ado∣ration, as excusable from Idolatry, as the other. §. 19.
    • 6. Supposing both the former Opinions Errors, and (indeed) no Presence of Christ's Body with the Symbols at all; yet such Adoration by the one, or the other of Christ (who is a true object of supreme Adoration, and only mistaken by them to be where he is not) cannot be termed such Idolatry, as is the professed worshipping of an Object not at all adorable. §. 21.
    • 7. Whatever Idolatry it is called in a Manichean worshipping Christ in the Sun, or in an Israelite worshipping God in the Calves at Dan and Bethel, because adoring a fancy of their own, (and a good intention grounded on a culpable ignorance excuseth none from Idolatry;) yet since Daille, and perhaps others, allows a reasonable (tho' mistaken) ground of Ado∣ration sufficient for avoiding the just imputation of Idolatry;

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    • hence if Catholicks can produce a rational ground of their appre∣hending Christ present in the Eucharist, tho' possibly mistaken in it, they are to be excused from Idolatry, on the same terms. §. 22.
      • Catholicks Grounds for their Belief.
        • 1. Divine Revelation. §. 24.
        • 2. The Declaration thereof by the supremest Church-Autho∣rity in Councils. §. 25.
        • 3. The Testimony of Primitive Times. §. 26.
        • 4. The Ʋniversal Doctrine and Practice of the later, both Eastern and Western Churches. §. 27.
        • 5. Protestant Concessions. §. 28.
    • 8. For these Grounds given by Catholicks, Idolatry by many Pro∣testants of late but faintly charged upon the Church of Rome▪ §. 30.
    • 9. Catholicks grant, That to adore what is believed to be Bread, or perform the external signs of Adoration to our Lord as pre∣sent there, where the Worshipper believes he is not, is unlaw∣ful to be done by any whilst so perswaded. §. 33.