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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.
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.
Answ. There are some things, which it is no dishonour to God to say he cannot do them, because they are either sinful, (so God cannot lie) or absolutely impossible. God himself cannot make a Man to be alive and dead at the same time; God cannot make the Whole to be less than a Part of it; He cannot make Three to be more than Threescore; He cannot make a Son to beget his Father; He cannot make the same Man to be born at several times, (as Papist Authors confess) and therefore in like manner he cannot make the same Body to be in two several places, for this is not one jot less impossible than the other: But they must believe, Christ may have Ten Thousand Bodies at one time, or so many as there are Priests to consecrate the Bread, and distinct Congregations to celebrate the Holy Supper.
Object. These indeed are great Difficulties to humane Reason, but Reason is not to be believed against Scripture.
Answ. True; but this is their hard Hap, this Doctrine of theirs is against Scripture, as well as Reason, in as much as it is highly dishonourable to Christ, whose Honour is the great Design of Scripture. What a foul dishonour is it to him, to subject him to the Will of every Mass-Priest, who when he pleaseth can command him down into Bread! And what a Dishonour is it, That the very Body of Christ may be eaten by Rats, 1or Worms, and may be cast up by Vomit, and the like, as Aquinas affirms, and that their Church in her Missals hath put this amongst other Directions, That if Worms or Rats have eaten Christ's Body, they must be burned; and if any Man vomit it up, it must be eaten again, or burned, or made a Relic. And yet this is no more than their Doctrine will force them to own: for if they will believe Christ's own Words in one place, as well as in another, he assureth us, That whatsoever (without exception) entereth into the Mouth,