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Show I'drt4. OF THE KINGDOME Cbap.44. turning the holy wordsinto the manner of aCharme, \VlllCilpr0_ duceth nothing new to the Senfe; but they face us down, that it hath "n.4,. turned the Bread intoa Man; my more, into aGod; and require men to worihip it, as if it were our Savtour himlelr preient God and Man, and thereby to commit moi‘t groiTeIdolatry. For if it bee enough to excufe it of Idolatry,"to fay it is no more Bread,but God; why fhould not the fame excuie ferve the Egyptians,incafe they had the faces to fay, the Leeks,and Onyons they worlhipped, fore he be Baptized. Tiieie, and fome ot er Incantations, are thofe that are ufed in {lead of Benedié‘tions, and Confecrationsdn were not very Leeks, and Onyons, but a Divrnity under their fictiegorlikeneffe. The words, TIn: 1: my Body, are acquivaient to theft, TIn; fignifiu, or reprefmtr myBady; and it is an ordinary figure of Speech : but to take it literally , IS an abufe; not though fo taken, can it extend any furtherfthan to the Bread whicn Chrii‘t himfelf with his own hands Confecrated. For hee ne_ver faid, that of what Bread foever, any l'rieit whatfoever,fhouldiay, Tim is my Bzdy, or, T/m IS Clan/i5 Body, the fame iiaouitipi'efently be tranfubiiantiated. Nor did the Church ofRome ever cilabliih this Tranfubfiantiation, till the time or Imqmm the third; which was not above soo.years agoe, when the Power of Popes 0F D A R K N E S SE. Chap. 44; Gad : And again the fame Exorcifme is re cared once more beadminifiration of the Sacraments oiBaptifine, and the Lords Sup- per; wherein every thing that ferveth to thofe holy ufes (except the unhallowed Spittle of the Priefiflmh fome fer form of Exoreifme. Nor are the other rites, as of Marriage, of Extreme Unétion,of 4'" it? Mat: Vifitation of the Siek,ofConfecrating Churches,and Church-yardS, "4192'" V1.1" and the like, exempt from Charms, inasmuch as there is in them Eighth" ; the ufe of Enchanted Oyle,and Water, with the abuie of the Crofle, Con/c'mm fi and ofthe holy word of David, Afpergn me Domine Hyflbpa, as things ofefficacyto drive away 'Phantai'mes, and Imaginary Spia of £214ch tits. Another generall Error, is from the Misinterpretation of the Efforifrom, words Etmu/l Life, Evtr/aflmg Dear/J, and the Seam} DeathFor ""fl‘lly‘Wg 1?" though we read plainly in holy Scripture, that God created Adam "TJLJiflLfi/ej in an citate was at the Higheit, and the Darknefle ofthe time grown To great , as men diicerned not the Breadthat was given them to eat, Cipgciaily when it was flamped With the figure of Citrii‘t'uponr‘he ot‘Living for Ever, which was conditionall , 1.51:7", 1:22,? to fay, if he diibbeyed not his Commandement; which was that not ef- 1" ' fentiall to Humane Nature, but confequent tothe vertue ofthe Tree of Life; whereot‘hee had liberty to eat, as long as iiee had not Croiie, as if they would have men beieeve it were_ Traniu‘o- flantiated, not onely into the Body of Chrif-t, but alto into the Wood of his Crofle, andthatthey did eat both togetherin the Sa- finned; and that hee was thruft out of Paradiie after he had iiuned, left hce ihould cue thereof, and live for ever; and that Chriits crament. ~ , Incdiziaiimin The like Incantation, in Read of Confecration,‘ isuied alto in ibcCtmnomer the Sacrament of Baptifine: Where the abuie of Gods name in, 0i 5'1f'fl'u- each feverall Peribn, and in the whole Trinity, with the hen or the 00% at each name, maketh up the Charm: As fil'ii,\\'ii€n they make the Holy water, the Priefii‘aith, I Conjure 1.1m, 1/101: (Im- ture of Water, in themmc ofCoa' [I]: Fat/1N (Almighty, and m the name (If/«fur Cénfl his 012er San our Lord, and m emu: qf ti): Holy Glitz/f, 1114! than (mom: Conjurra' Il'fllt'r, ytfldr/TJ! away all 1/1: Power: of the Emmy, andw eradxmtt, and [riff/um 1/): 13m"'Lé'f- And the fame in the Benediction orthe bait to be min- gled withit; Than/Ion become Conylmd Salt, that .i// P/IJflftt/mtf, 4nd Ix'nnwy of the Dwrl/rfnmd may flyimd depart from the p/Jt‘e when": 1/1011 artfpri'n/ri'rd, and carry unrittm SIM/11286 Colin/red [y Him t/ut flux/Iramrtoyrmk t/chmri'emzd the dead. The tame in the Beuediflionot'the Oyie, 'T/utul/ 2/}: Pawn oft/Jr Him/2r , 11/ 1/}: H0]? of 1/): Drew/l, all Aflm/lr and Hutu/rm: of Saran, may 6: driver: anuybv r/u'; Creature of Oyle. And for the Infantthat is to be Baptized, heisl‘ubjefi to many Charms: hill, at the Church dorcthe l'rieii blows thrice in the Childs face, and 1:i_\'t‘<, Cu.» errfof [um unclean Spirit, and 311/: piece to 1/)! Holy (Zing/1‘ the C(m/t'r- Mr. As if all Children, tillblown on bythe l'rieit were Dtt‘moni"flu": Again, before his entrance into the Church, he faith as before, [Conjure 2/)", (Lee. to go: out, and a'rfarifrom rim Stunt-1! 0f 'Jll.: Paiiion is a Ditcharge of [in to alithat beleeve on him; and by cont‘equence, a rei‘titution of Etcrnall Life, to ailthe full, and to them-onely : yet the Doctrine is now, andFaith-hath been a long time far otherwil‘e; namely , that every man hath Eternity ot' Lite by Nature, in as much as his Soul is Immortall: So thatthe flaming Sword attire entraneeot'i'artidii‘e, though hinder a man from coming to the Tree of Life, hinders him notit from the immortality which God took from hurt for his Sin;nor makes him to need the iacriiicmg of Cill'iil: , for the recoveri ng or the lame; antitonfequenrly, not onely the faithfull and righteous, but altothe wicked, and the Heathen, ihalienjoy Eternaii Life, Without any Death at all, much ieile a Second, and Ever- lafiing Death. To {Jive this, it is (aid, that by Second, and Ever/.iyimtl Dean"), is meant a Second, and Everlaiiing Life, but in Torments, a Figure never tiled , but in this very Cafe. All which Doctrine is founded onely on Tome of the obfcurer places of the Ntw 'l‘eitament-g which nevertheieiie, the whole icope of the Scripture eoniidered, are eleer enough in a different (cute, and unneeeilary totize Chrifiian Faith. For iiippoiing that witenaman dies, there :‘emameth nothing ofhim but his carkaiie; cannot God that rait‘edinanimated dull and clay into a living crea- ture by his VVord,as eaiiiy raiie adead carkafle to hit again, and continue him alive for Ever, or make him die again, by another Word? The Soul: in Scripture, iignifieth alwaies, either the Lite, or the Living Creature; and the Body and Sonic jointly, the fiody d ["10 |