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Show 'A 9tafonable C~veat againft' PoPERY~ VoL t' T lve Eat the .very whole Body, and Laj/ly, Could every on.e. of the. ~~hem 1' And all this Wbile one and vet rh:J.t very Body be VI~~lk. j1~ ar ecchoingj from fame Popifh Zealot, 'the f::me Body? But meffi .1~ 5 3frront fo Sacred a Myftery, with fo rna .. no fmall .Anarhc»Jtl, foro _ermg co ·es ny Carnal Cavils, and Yam lnt~rrog1)toir~ t-his Point that I ftand amazed; To whom 1 fh1ll anfwer bonce p,or ~,when rhe onlY Demonftr:uion of his ilOW Jny M::~n ofSen~c can e a nap/din ir. Religion, muft be hi~ ~ot under nti~nedg (for Brevity) might have ~een o~ .. Manv fond Abfmdtrtes UOf!lC h d more over any Opinion, than th1s Senfe· fervcd ·: For, Rcafon ne~e': tnumt-~h may be one very good Argument why ltfi One ofTronf~bflahnttot~o~ ;t~nded the Diibelief of it. io much Perfecut1on JS el' e The Senfe of Antiquity, and their.own Authors. ~ 2 ~ .) · h Hirndred Years after Chrift it was ne- .Antiquity k.norv1 11 nor: For Etg_t~ rear Difgults entertained. ver heard of, ~md, when ita ned, ~~ fig{\: that undertook to impofe it 4 and. TI-l: Co11ncil of L~ttra~, ~as t ew~ol1 Abortive:; for they are no~ to be the Decrees, ~s. to thts ~oJnt, ~ere Twel~e Hundred Years after Chn1t. found ::as CoiiCibary; thts ~::as a. oTe Jufi. Mart. ::aga.inft Trypbon the Tcrtullion agai.nft MrtrCJon, b~. 4p,~P· ~~d Pope Geloji11t himfelf, renoun~. ].fJU. Greg. ]\~.ztan:::. Oral: 2 •• m n 1. lo it The Nature of a bare Fllur~, ced and difcl:11med H, ann~uR~g on } B ead' and WiTte. · And many oftheu m n·taining the S11bjlance ~n ~17'~, ::afrure'lls of it's Novelty. Dot\-ors, Sconn, Bel/armme, BleS,. it~ality of the Myftery and KnowlediW Bur how far are fuch from the P!I that defcended from above (theAnh .. ~f the True Heavenly Bread ahd ~mte 'nty of fuch a Tr.anfubftantiacion, as Type) who ignornn.tly affirm t e eB a~ad and Wine at the fame Time,. the ren4ers that very Vt.fible Elemen;~;ffiei Body of Chrift? By which they m~.ke '"'l' ln'lfible, Spmtu~~ ~ndv?fible, Invifible, S~iritual,J'.lementaty Cbnft, tllm a Glonfied~. Cruel e ' f b · · m:ularger Trall. all at the fame Ttme. But more o I H zn J • V. Of C 0 M wu N 10 N in one Kind. :· .r.r Th 1 rom rbe Beginning of Cbrijlianiry, rb( Papif. t;WEfJh~omlyb lCyo mcomnu;em.Jo..rn, .W Ma nJ 1:,i. •i1.J1' reJ. afi.e q~~Cnt/y in borh, andjomt: 1ilf1C! in cacb f;in~, accordiJig'/0 fever a/ CJrcumJ.onces. < J .,. , . b R :n by his frequent Confellions; .Jlnjw ;pc may know him to e a 'P'l'• f b. . ii:duced by them, and mcrhmks i~ fhould_ notonlr,prreventPe~pl~t:::nAb~~~ieriCe . of fo muck but reduce thoie of then own nay, to • a!iowed Apoftacy. . r. ffi d thls Jh•l 'and tlie' otlter Thing, "?t to ~~~tP',~~~~~esp~;~tc; ~~1 elr~llituti~n. R~~ th:s !~f~'~tti~;,ri~~~ft dfo -com{l11lnc in h~th,F;,ind~ up~~nw~"r/~lfe~~Ioofo of lef~ Virtue than t~e f~v~rel v proh1buca oy RPmamt·~ · f . 1 {e~Orates after this flpdy?' Even that which the S.~nptdur~ renenF,r borfl'b,\ Blood. 'But they: Mcinner, TbeBZooJ, ofCleapfiiJg, an Jove 1.1lll ,m . , proceed further, and fay, rlJI • Papi!t. Hcnccrhe Holy Cbur<>l ,r.oT.1a w~•~ g rb { 'l. (t,e.,toy oinfC obnrel flKiainnds , wuEho~n i 'nirfetno·t jibly b.ccmnc occlljjomed lo rcce!ve u almo;: 11_1! vq-" .. ~ . t! iniflred, tbougb J\lotives did 4urwnrds Ordaz!! to bave 11 ''!one, os noto g 111 rbe Receiving of it Jv, is n91 Matrtr of Ftutb. ~ .JJ.nfv.~. Three-Things- are VC'f.·Y'• o bferva bl e• £r om t h"t s p al t of their Con, fe!lion. ' 1. That VoL. I. A SetijQnable Caveat againfl PoPERY:i r. That beca~tc. it. w~s fomerimes Rec:cived in One Kind, accordWg to t6]o. Circumibnces,, lr tnJcnfibly became Recetved by Holy <;:"burch, bur in one ~ Kind: More 1\onjcnfe and. Fa/jboad, could nor weU be info many Words. +7~ (J\_onfenJcJ. For what Confequence can the l.Jrter Words be to the former; if mc::tchK111d, then nor any one more than the other, or why nor Blood and not .Q.read, as well as Bread, aJ¥1 n.o~ Blood : But :tmo~g the f11pijl.r,' the People. only parr::ake of the WJ ~er : (}alfhood) for they neither have, nor can rhey gtve one Infiance of rhar fhppery or hcedlefs Way of Receiving ir as in each 1\~nd ; hut '_'Vhenever it was taken, for Three Hundred Years roiether,: ir was Jn both Kmds. And what were thofe Circumftances, that we can hear of none of them) Horrible Cheats, and idle lJ!Jpoj/llres! To delude the Unlearned and Unfiable; Nor is ir lefs Impudence for t.t:lem to fay, Tharrbe Cb11rcb Received it in b11t ~h~: fj;~ttb::;;{a{f:.b Score: The Conclufion can ne\•er be right, where 2. l 'b.u ilpon Grear .Motives, it war afurwarJs Ordained to be Received biJr in One Kind, which great Motives the}' keep to themfelves; either they mult thin~ us fuch Fools as ro credit them, Hand over Head, and fo r1eeded not to menrion them, or elfe, they do!Jbting their Grear Motives, to be down-right Dijfwnfiv•s with a111bbtr and intelligent People, cHqfe rather to be filenr, than more particular. 3· T/Jtulbe f o Reuiving it z-f no .Matter of Fdirh, which is fo notoriouS ln Umrurh, as their own i!nnal.r exPrcfly tell us, thar 8{}7fiface the_ Sth and Job'! the 2~ct, (if I miftak~ not; for I .was, when I met the PamPhlet; deftuu~e of fuch Books) h1gh~y <;ontrad.rE\:ed one an?the~, f!ne thre:ttning the Pnefls to turn them our, 1f rhty d1d not admimfter It m hotll. Kinds\ :~.nd the Other, to Excommunicate them, if nor Burn them, in CJfe they did, which as it fhews the Eagernefs oft he Popes, fo there is a Choice Piece flf InjtzUibilir; to be obierved. Two in/allible Popts rruu}ing encb otber of grofs FtJUihiltry. Papift. Ncitbcr do we believe, Rel(gious CommuriifnntJ are btrdy bereaved of any Benefit in obeying tbe Cburcb's Order, }ince our Belief inflru{fs 111, that our Blcffed Lord H U]IJa!ly prefenr ill Dne Kind, ~~~in both . .Anfw. To fay that Religious Communicants ;~i-e not bereaVed of any Benefit by Receiving it in One Kind.' would imply, th:rt irreligious Com.: municaors, the Receh•ers of both Kmds, have the Advantage; if fo, m~thinks ir is Narural ro believe, That Religious CommunicantS, in both Kin~s. have the moil Benefit: Bur what Church is lt that gives thofe Orders? .d Free Genua! Co1mci! of Chri/iians, where Men may j)eak. witbonJ hdng in Danger of rbcir Lives ? No, but a Cabal of Perfons, pickt, with a Probatum eil !tampt upon them, our of the Pape's CloJcr, or Contlave o/Cardind! J, before rhey be admitted into the Airembly of Judges; as molt of tho Council of Trent notorioufly were (often cited by the Author of this Pamphlet) fo that in plain Terms, Tbe Chunb U what the Pope and hi.r CrtrJi,. zll, wilL b.:Jve ir ; to whole Intereft moft ~ouncils have facrificed their Privilcdges, and thcrebt brought Univerfal Bondage upon whole Kingdoms and Srate.s. · That Belief which infiruEl:s them, That Chrijl ii tguaOy prefent, and Iheref orc no J\'ccd of Ueccivi~tg ill botb Kinds, muft needs be Built upon the Srmdj Fo11nJd1ion of l'dpa/Trttdition; nor rhat of Scripture, Reafon, or Antiquity; for if that \'erv Specitic.:~l and Numerical Virtue, which is in ~he Bread, be in the Wine, t·hen Cbrijl is implicitly charg'd by the Romtmijh, .. of Jn unJleceffary M~Hter : But if there be fame Virtue lignified by the Wine, more than hy the Bread, It is horrid S11crikdge to rob rbe Sign, 11111ch tn~re rbe Tbmg Jignifo:d: It is a SIJpper, t111d 11 SJJpper there jhuu!.l he to Drmk, n.r tceU IillO t.ill. There Can he no Bod'y Without Blood, and the drinking or his Rlood, fhews A SbtJJmg of llis Blood for the World, nRd a Parricip.uiDit ,f ir • P p I' 2 llefid~'lt |