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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.
1. In that his Real natural body spake this, of the Bread and Wine which was not his natural body: His real natural body was present, visible, entire, unwounded, his blood unspilt, and did eat and drink (the other, as the Papists hold, as being the same): And can any living man imagine that the Disciples who understood not his Death, Resurrection, Ascension, &c. yet understood by these four words, when they saw Christs body alive and present, that this Bread and Wine was that same Body and Blood, without any more questioning?
2. In that he bids them, Do this in Remembrance of him; which plainly speaketh a commemorating sign: Who will say at his last farewell when he is parting with his friends, I will stay among you, or keep me among you, in Remembrance of me? So for Christ to say, Eat me in remembrance of me, were strange.
II. It may put all out of Controversy to find, that Christs words of one half of the Sacrament are (as they confess) figurative; therefore the other must be so judged also. Luk. 22.20. This Cup is the new Testament in my blood, which is shed for you: 1 Cor. 11.25. [This Cup is the new Testament in my blood.] And here no man denieth a double Trope at least: no man expoundeth it, that the Cup or the Wine was the New Testament it self. And yet it is as expressly said, as it is that the Bread is the Body it self. How then will they prove that one is spoken properly, and the other figuratively?
II. It may put all out of Controversie to find, that Christs words of one half of the Sacrament are (as they confess) figurative; therefore the other must be so judged also.