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The Protestant religion truly stated and justified by the late Reverend Mr. Richard BaxterThe Protestant religion truely stated and justified by the late Reverend Mr. Richard Baxter
The Protestant religion truly stated and justified by the late Reverend Mr. Richard Baxter ; prepared for the press some time before his death ; whereunto is added, by way of preface, some account of the learned author, by Mr. Daniel Williams and Mr. Matthew Sylvester.The Protestant religion truely stated and justified by the late Reverend Mr. Richard Baxter ; prepared for the press some time before his death ; whereunto is added, by way of preface, some account of the learned author, by Mr. Danel Williams and Mr. Matthew Sylvester.
London: printed for John Salusbury, 1692
Protestant Religion Truly Stated, and Justified, &c. › The Fortieth accused Point.
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.
But the Doctors have also contradictions to charge on Christ, even that else-where he saith, [He that eateth his Flesh shall live for ever:] Ans. 1. That is, He that trusteth in a Sacrificed Christ as the means of his Salvation, as bread is the means of natural Life: He that would not understand, cannot understand the plainest Words: But doth Christ say, that any man eateth his flesh, that drinketh not his blood? Or that he shall have Life, that doth the one without the other?
2. And seeing they take every Rogue that eateth their Wafer to eat Christs Flesh, do they not here falsely say that all such shall have Eternal Life: O happy (miserable) Church, that hath Eternal Life, how wicked soever, for eating the Wafer, and calling it Christs Flesh! And all this, that Faith may not be thought to be meant by eating.
2. And seeing they take every Rogue that eateth their Wafer to eat Christs Flesh, do they not here falsly say that all such shall have Eternal Life: O happy (miserable) Church, that hath Eternal Life, how wicked soever, for eating the Wafer, and calling it Christs Flesh! And all this, that Faith may not be thought to be meant by eating.
3. But seeing it must needs be eating by the Teeth, or by Flesh eating that is meant, they have found out a crafty literal way: ⟨p. 139⟩Christ saith that he loveth and cherisheth his Church as his own Flesh, and we are Members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones: And so they that Murdered a Million of the Albigenses, &c. and Massacred 40000 in France, and 200000 in Ireland, and Burnt them in England, Germany, the Low Countries, and Tormented and Killed them in Bohemia, and many other Lands, did learn the literal way of eating Christs Flesh. And who doubts but the Devil tells them that they shall thereby obtain everlasting Life? But why then are they against drinking his blood, when actually they draw it out by streams? Perhaps by Burning his Bones, (as they did Buces, Phagius, Wickliffe's, and 1000 more;) they think that their Teeth scape the trouble of gnawing them, and thus they feed on Christs body, flesh and bones: For their Masters beat Witches if they bring him not account at every Meeting, of some mischief that they have done.