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TroposchemmalogiaTroposchēmalogia
Troposchemmalogia: Tropes and figures; or, A treatise of the metaphors, allegories, and express similitudes, &c. contained in the Bible of the Old and New Testament To which is prefixed, divers arguments to prove the divine authority of the Holy Scriptures wherein also 'tis largely evinced, that by the great whore, mystery Babylon is meant the Papal hierarchy, or present state and church of Rome. Philologia sacra, the second part. Wherein the schemes, or figures in Scripture, are reduced under their proper heads, with a brief explication of each. Together with a treatise of types, parables, &c. with an improvement of them parallel-wise. By B. KTroposchēmalogia: Tropes and figures; or, A treatise of the metaphors, allegories, and express similitudes, &c. contained in the Bible of the Old and New Testament To which is prefixed, divers arguments to prove the divine authority of the Holy Scriptures wherein also 'tis largely evinced, that by the great whore, mystery Babylon is meant the Papal hierarchy, or present state and church of Rome. Philologia sacra, the second part. Wherein the schemes, or figures in Scripture, are reduced under their proper heads, with a brief explication of each. Together with a treatise of types, parables, &c. with an improvement of them parallel-wise. By B. K
London: printed by John Darby, 1682
Tropes and Figures; OR, A TREATISE of the METAPHORS, ALLEGORIES, TY… › Head 5 › The Lord's Supper.
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But to proceed to show how irrational and absurd their Notion is, and what they hold, as you heard, that Christ's whole Body is present in every Crumb of the Bread, &c. and yet do affirm, Christ's Body is entire and undivided, and also believe it is really in Heaven, in such a proportion or bigness as he had upon Earth. Now then, saith Mr. Pool, (according to their Doctrine) the same Body of Christ is bigger than it self, and longer than it self, and which is worse, Christ is divided from himself. I know not what can be more impossible, than to say, That all Christ is at Rome, and all at London, and all in Heaven, and yet not all in the Places between.
But to proceed to shew how irrational and absurd their Notion is, and what they hold, as you heard, that Christ's whole Body is present in every Crumb of the Bread, &c. and yet do affirm, Christ's Body is entire and undivided, and also believe it is really in Heaven, in such a proportion or bigness as he had upon Earth. Now then, saith Mr. Pool, (according to their Doctrine) the same Body of Christ is bigger than it self, and longer than it self, and which is worse, Christ is divided from himself. I know not what can be more impossible, than to say, That all Christ is at Rome, and all at London, and all in Heaven, and yet not all in the Places between.
Object. All this (the Papists say) may be done by God's Almighty Power.
Answ. Then by the same Almighty Power, it is possible for any other Man to be in so many places: for it matters not that Christ should be invisible in so many places, and another should be there visibly; or that Christ is there in so little a Bulk, and another must be in a greater. And if this be so, what Monsters follow from hence? Can any devise greater Absurdities than they believe, if in very deed they believe what they say, and daily affirm? Suppose now John to be by Divine Power at the same time at Rome, at Paris, and at London: where ever John is alive, it follows he must have power to move himself, or else no living Creature. Then John at Rome may walk towards London, and the same John at London may walk towards Rome; and so they may meet (shall I say, the one the other) and you may be sure it will be a merry Meeting; it were worth enquiring, how long they will be ere they come together. Then again, at Rome all the Parts of John may be excessively hot, and at London excessively cold, and at Paris neither hot nor cold. This is beyond all Romances that ever were devised. Besides, John may be sorely wounded at Rome, and yet at London may sleep in a whole Skin; John may be feasting at Rome, and fasting at London, in the same moment.