The safe religion, or, Three disputations for the reformed catholic religion against popery proving…The safe religion, or, Three disputations for the reformed catholike religion against popery proving…

The Major will not be denied by Papists: The Minor I prove by one instance only (at this time:) and that is, their worshipping of the consecrated Host or Bread in their Mass, and at other times. He that worshipeth the consecrated Bread with Divine worship, doth worship the creature with Divine worship: But the Papists worship the consecrated Bread with Divine worship therefore. They deny the Major, and tell us, that it is no longer Bread but the Body of Christ: But that they worship that thing which we call Bread, and they call Christs Body, with Divine worship, they do not deny. Only some would excuse them from the guilt of Idolatry (which is a worshipping the creature instead of the Creator) by this, because they think it is Christ that they worship, and so interpretatively it is he in deed and the worship right. But if they will think that to be Christ which is not Christ, and then worship it, that will not excuse them from being some kind of Idolaters: What if they will think a Ranter or Quaker to be Christ, who call themselves Christ? are they therefore excusable if they worship them? Then why might not the old Pagan Idolaters be justified, or thus excused, seeing they thought that the Sun and Moon had been Gods. And when they worshipped an Image, they thought that some Deity had affixed ⟨p. 154⟩this special presence to that Image: What if an Egyptian thought that an Ox was God, or that a Deity did dwell in him, were they therefore no Idolaters? And then, how heinously God taketh the sin of Idolatry, the Scripture fully witnesseth.

The Major will not be denyed by Papists: The Minor I prove by one instance onely (at this time:) and that is, their worshiping of the consecrated Host or Bread in their Mass, and at other times. He that worshipeth the consecrated Bread with Divine wor•hip, doth worship the creature with Divine worship: But the Papists worship the consecrated Bread with Divine worship therefore. They deny the Major, and tell us, that it is no longer Bread but the Body of Christ: But that they worship that thing which we call Bread, and they call Christs Body, with Divine worship, they do not deny. Onely some would excuse them from the guilt of Idolatry (which is a worshiping the creature instead of the Creator) by this, because they think it is Christ that they worship, and so interpretatively it is he in deed and the worship right. But if they will think that to be Christ which is not Christ, and then worship it, that will not excuse them from being some kind of Idolaters: What if they will think a Ranter or Quaker to be Christ, who call themselves Christ? are they therefore excusable if they worship them? Then why might not the old Pagan Idolaters be justified, or thus excused, seeing they thought that the Sun and Moon had been Gods. And when they worshiped an Image, they thought that some Deity had affixed