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Full and easy satisfaction which is the true and safe religion in a conference…Full and easie satisfaction which is the true and safe religion in a conference…
Full and easy satisfaction which is the true and safe religion in a conference between D. a doubter, P. a papist, and R. a reformed Catholic Christian : in four parts ... / by Richard Baxter.Full and easie satisfaction which is the true and safe religion in a conference between D. a doubter, P. a papist, and R. a reformed Catholick Christian : in four parts ... / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Nev. Simmons, 1674
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
XIV. Either their Priests consecration worketh all these Miracles, when they intend it not, 1(as if they speak the words in jest or scorn, or in Infidelity,) or only when they intend it. If the first be said, it is a Miracle of Miracles, that any Priest can work so many and great Miracles by a jest or scorn—If not, then all the business is come to nothing, and no one but the Priest knoweth whether there be any such Miracle at all, and whether ever he eat the flesh of Christ: And so it will be in the power of the Priest to deceive and damn all the people, according to the Papists exposition of Christs words, Joh. 6. Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.
XIV. Either their Priests consecration worketh all these Miracles, when they intend it not, 1(as if they speak the words in jeast or scorn, or in Infidelity,) or only when they intend it. If the first be said, it is a Miracle of Miracles, that any Priest can work so many and great Miracles by a jeast or scorn—If not, then all the business is come to nothing, and no one but the Priest knoweth whether there be any such Miracle at all, and whether ever he eat the flesh of Christ: And so it will be in the power of the Priest to deceive and damn all the people, according to the Papists exposition of Christs words, Joh. 6. Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.
- 1Vid. Aquin. 3. q. 69. a. 9.
XV. Either a malicious intention to a wrong end will be effectual in Consecration, or not. If not, none but the Priest knoweth that there is any body and blood of Christ, or that ever he received any: Because none knoweth though the Priest intend Consecration, whether he intend it to a right end. But if a wicked end will serve (as I think most of them hold) the Miracle may be great and sad. For any Roguish drunken malicious Priest may undo a Baker or Vintner at his pleasure, and by four words deprive him of all his Bread and Wine: Yea, he might nullify all the Bread and Wine in the City, and so either make a famine at his pleasure, or else make whole Families and Cities live still and be nourished without any substance by bare Accidents, which would be a Miracle indeed.