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XLVII. THE IVDGE.
HvsseWhat did the Popish faith decree (saith M. Fox) cōcerning Transubstātiatiō, which he (Iohn Husse) likewise did not confirme? M. Fox in Apoc. c. 11. p. 290. See him further acknowledged by the same M. Fox to haue maintained Transubstantiation, in Act. and Monum. p. 209. and 197. I haue here the rather giuen instance of Husse for this doctrine of Transubstantiation, then of anie learned Catholike, because he is generally by Protestants receaued for one of their owne Church.
Vnder the formes of bread and wine consist.
Luthers
Of the Sacrament of the Altar we decree that the bread and wine in the supper is the true bodie and bloud of Christ; and that it is not only giuen and receaued by the godlie, but likewise by bad and wicked Christians &c. We respect not the sophistical subtilitie of Transubstantiation, wherein they feigne &c. that true bread doth not remaine. For it agreeth best with scripture, that the bread is presēt & doth remaine &c. Luth. artic. Smalk ald. part. 3. art. 6.
With Christ's true real flesh, but ioyn'd with bread.
Zuinglius maintaineth, that the bread and wine
Are not Christ's bodie, but a naked signe.
Caluin
We may see therefore (saith Caluin) wherein Luther erred, & in like sort Zuinglius and Oecolampadius. Calu. lib. de Cæna Domini Argent. edit. an. 1540. see him further condemning the Lutherans for Consubstantiation, and the immensitie of Christ's bodie, charging them therfore with the errour of Marciō. Inst. l. 4. c. 17. sect. 16. 17. 18.
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In the mysterie of the Supper (saith Caluin in Instit. l. 4. c. 17. sect. 11.) by the signes of bread and wine is truly deliuered to vs Christ's bodie and bloud. And againe: In his holie Supper he commandeth me to take, eate, and drinke, vnder the Symbols of bread and wine, his bodie and bloud. I nothing doubt, that both he doth truly deliuer them and I doe receaue them. ibid. sect. 32. But I denie (saith he a litle after) that it can be eaten without the tast of faith. ib. sect. 33. & a few lines after: That Christ should be receaued without faith is no more agreeing with reason, then seed to bud in the fire.
Al these were learned Doctours, and suppos'd
To be by th'Spirit to al truth dispos'd;
These
Bohemia for the most part followeth the opinion of Iohn Husse, saith M. Grimst. in his Translat. of the Estates of the world. p. 580. The Marquis of Brandenburg, the Dukes of Sauonie, Brunswick, & Wittemberg, the Eearles of Mansfeldt, and the Free-townes, which confine with the Sea and France, follow the profession of Luther. ibid. p. 159. to which we may adde out of the same Authour Denmark pæg. 666. In Switzerland the doctrine of Zuinglius, as al know, hath possessed 5. of the better Cantons; and as for the Grisons (saith M. Grimston) they of the League, called Grise, are for the most part Catholikes, & the rest in a manner al Protestants, which follow Zuinglians doctrine. ib. p. 280. As for the doctrine of Calum, it is so generally knowne to be maintained in England, France, & Holland, as it needs no further testimonie.
Yon Townes, or Nations, which maintaine the fame;
The Scripture's words they did acknowledge al,
Al vs'd the same endeauours, which they cal
The best approued way, and meanes most fit
To find the true sense of th'ETERNAL'S Writ;
They al had skil in tongues, they al perus'd
And weigh'd the Text, they al (they thought) stil vs'd
Due diligence, with prayer, and places hard
And doubtful speaches carefully compar'd:
Yet did they al in this and manie more
Chief heads of Faith, which I haue toucht before,
Dissent so farre, as by a mutual stile
In greatest heat each other to reuile
With th'name of Heretike; and stil did grudge
To be oppos'd by anie: Where's the Iudge?
The Eucharist, Cōmunion, or Lord's supper (saith Zuinglius) is nothing else but a Cōmemoration &c. (tom. 2. f. 212.) it is nothing but a signe or figure, to make vs keep in mind the memorie of Christ's bodie, which was deliuered for vs, &c. This is, that is to say, this signifies my bodie; which is, as if anie woman shewing a ring, which for this end her husband had left with her, should say, Behold, this is my husband. Ib. fol. 293. see f. 477. and here before IX. 5.
The assured meanes assigned by Protestants to find out the vndoubted truth by the infallible interpretation of Scripture, is their reading thereof, their cōference of places, their weighing of the circumstances of the Text, their skil in the tongues, their diligēce, prayer, & such like. See D. Reynolds Confer. p. 83. 84. 92. 98. 99. & M. Whitaker de sacra Scrip. p. 521. 522. 523.
See XLII. throughout. Whereas some may here demād of me, where I find that Husse is so seuerely censured by the other three; I answer, that the doctrine of Transubstantiation, which Husse maintained, is by thē cōdemned in vs Catholikes for such; as likewise the other Catholike opinions, which he is cōfessed to haue belieued, as seauen Sacramēts (Fox Act. Mon. p. 216.) the Pope's Primacie (M. Iacob Def. of the Ch. of Engl. p. 13. and Act. Mon. p. 217. 216. Luther Assert. art. 30.) yea & the Masse it-self, as Luther granteth in colloq. Germ. cap. de Missa. See more in M. Iacob, vbi supra.
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