A01760:443
A dispute against the English-popish ceremonies, obtruded upon the Church of Scotland Wherein not…A dispute against the English-popish ceremonies, obtruded vpon the Church of Scotland Wherein not…
A dispute against the English-popish ceremonies, obtruded upon the Church of Scotland Wherein not only our own arguments [sic] against the same are strongly confirmed, but likewise the answers and defences of our opposites, such as Hooker, Morton ... Forbesse, &c. particularly confuted.A dispute against the English-popish ceremonies, obtruded vpon the Church of Scotland Wherein not only our ovvne argumemts [sic] against the same are strongly confirmed, but likewise the ansvveres and defences of our opposites, such as Hooker, Mortoune ... Forbesse, &c. particularly confuted.
Leiden: printed by W. Christiaens, 1637
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But 2. as we have seen what is to be thought of worshipping the flesh of Christ, so let us next consider, what may be thought Sect. XVI of worshipping his flesh in the Sacrament; for this was the other head which I proposed. Now, they who worship the flesh of Christ in the Sacrament, must either consider it, as present in the Sacrament, & in that respect to be there adored, because of the personal union of it with the Word, or else because of the Sacramental union of it with the outward Sign, which is a respect supervenient to that of the ubiquity of it in the person of the Word. First then, touching the former of those respects, the personal union of the flesh with the word, can neither infer the presence of the ⟨p. 67⟩flesh in the Sacrament, to those who worthily receive; nor yet can it make any thing for the adoration of the flesh. Not the former; for in respect of the ubiquity of the flesh in the person of the word, it is ever and alike present with the Communicants, whether they receive worthily, or not, & with the Bread & Wine, whether they be consecrated to be signs of his body and blood or not. Therefore Divines rightly hold rpresentiam corporis Christi in coena, non ab ubiquitate, sed a verbis Christi pendere. Not the latter neither; for (as I have showed already) notwithstanding of the personal union, yet the flesh of Christ remaineth a creature, and is not God, and so can not at all be worshipped with Divine worship. And if his flesh could be at all so worshipped, *yet were there no reason for worshipping it in the Sacrament, (in respect of its personal union with the Word,) more then in all other actions, and at all other times. For ever and always, is the flesh of Christ personally united with the Word, & in that respect present to us. There remaineth therefore nothing but that other respect of the Sacramental union of the flesh of Christ with the Sacramental Sign, which they can have for worshipping his flesh in the Sacrament. Whereas sB. Lindsey saith, that it is no error, to believe the spiritual powerful & personal presence of Christs body at the Sacrament, and in that respect to worship his flesh & blood there. He means (sure) some special respect, for which it may be said, that Christs body is present at the Sacrament, (so as it is not present out of the Sacrament,) and in that respect to be there adored.