CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…

2. Our proneness to know Christ after a corporal manner is seen in the ⟨p. 336⟩Doctrine of Transubstantiation, where the Papists hold the Bread and Wine to be really turned into the body and blood of Christ, that it's no longer bread or Wine but Christs body and blood; Therefore they look not up to Christ in heaven by Faith, but to Christ in the Sacrament, as if his corporal being there were all in all; Insomuch that all the affection and devotion they put forth in a Sacrament is wholly visible and carnal; They worship it as if the body of Christ were there; They set it up to be seen that all may bodily fall down and worship; Thus all is done in a corporal manner, and whereas of old it was sursum corda, now it is deorsum corda; None are more devoid of spiritual Understanding then those that are thus busied in a visible carnal way of Religion.

2. Our pronenesse to know Christ after a corporal manner is seen in the ⟨p. 336⟩Doctrine of Transubstantiation, where the Papists hold the Bread and Wine to be really turned into the body and bloud of Christ, that it's no longer bread or Wine but Christs body and bloud; Therefore they look not up to Christ in heaven by Faith, but to Christ in the Sacrament, as if his corporal being there were all in all; Insomuch that all the affection and devotion they put forth in a Sacrament is wholly visible and carnal; They worship it as if the body of Christ were there; They set it up to be seen that all may bodily fall down and worship; Thus all is done in a corporal manner, and whereas of old it was sursum corda, now it is deorsum corda; None are more devoid of spirituall Understanding then those that are thus busied in a visible carnal way of Religion.

3. The corrupt Opinions about Sacraments as if they did convey Grace and Christ by the very work done; This is also to know Christ after a carnal manner▪ for it's not the Ordinances but the Spirit of God in and by them, that doth us any good,