A01760:444
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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Now Christs body is spiritually and powerfully present to us in the Word (as I showed before,) yea as often as looking by faith upon his body broken, and blood shed for us, we receive the sense & assurance of the remission of our sins through his merits: and as for this personal presence of Christs body, which he speaketh of, I have showed also, that the adoring of the flesh of Christ in the Sacrament, can not be inferred upon it; Wherefore he can tell us nothing, which may be thought to infer the presence of Christs flesh in the Sacrament, and the adoration of it in that respect, save only the Sacramental union of it with the outward Sign. Now adoration in this respect & for this reason, must suppose the bodily presence of Christs flesh in the Sacrament. Whereupon tthe Archb. of Spalato saith, that the Papists adore the body of Christ in the Sacrament, only because of the supposition of the bodily presence of it; and if they knew, that the true body of Christ is not under the species of the Bread and Wine, they would exhibit no adoration. And uelsewhere he showeth, that the mystery of the Eucharist can not make the manhood of Christ to be adored, quia in pane corporalis Christi presentia non est: implying, that if the flesh of Christ be adored in respect of the mystery of the ⟨p. 68⟩Eucharist, then must it be bodily present in the Sign, which is false; and hereupon he gathereth truly, that it can not be adored in respect of the mystery of the Eucharist.
Now Christs body is spiritually and powerfully present to us in the Word (as I shewed before,) yea as often as looking by faith upon his body broken, and bloud shed for us, we receive the sence & assurance of the remission of our sinnes through his merites: and as for this personall presence of Christs body, which he speaketh of, I have shewed also, that the adoring of the flesh of Christ in the Sacramēt, can not be inferred upon it; Wherefore he can tell us nothing, which may be thought to inferre the presence of Christs flesh in the Sacrament, and the adoration of it in that respect, save onely the Sacramentall union of it with the outwarde Signe. Now adoration in this respect & for this reason, must suppose the bodily presence of Christs flesh in the Sacrament. Whereupon