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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.
XVI. And it is some aggravation of these manifold Miracles that a Degraded Priest can do them:1 Because they follow the indelible Character: And so he that hath once made a Miracle-worker, cannot take away his power again, nor his sin lose his power. Is not this a marvellous power of Miracles, which becometh like a nature to them, as the power of speaking is?
XVI. And it is some aggravaion of these manifold Miracles that a Degraded Priest can do them:1 Because they follow the indelible Character: And so he that hath once made a Miracle-worker, cannot take away his power again, nor his sin lose his power. Is not this a marvellous power of Miracles, which becometh like a nature to them, as the power of speaking is?
- 1Vid. Aquin. 3. q. 82. a. 8.
XVII. Yet is this Miracle-working-power more miraculous, in that a mans own unwillingness, or Repentance of his Calling cannot hinder the Miracle if he do but speak four words. Consent it self is not necessary to it: Let a man Repent that ever he was a Priest, and profess that he continueth in that Calling against his will, yea, let him write as I now do against Transubstantiation, yet all this will not hinder his next Consecration from working all the foresaid Miracles.
XVIII. It is miraculous that if you keep a consecrated Wafer never so long, if you use it never so coarsely, if you (as he did who occasioned the conversion of Mr. Anthony Egan a late Irish Priest) pawn it at an Ale-house for thirty shillings; if you lay it down for a stake at Cards or Dice, &c. it will not cease to be Christs flesh (and so by his blood,) nor ever becomes bread, or any other substance till it corrupt: And yet in a mans stomach it ceaseth to be Christs body, as natural heat corrupteth it by concoction: And yet it is not Christs flesh that is concocted.