A FRIENDLY DEBATE BETWEEN A Roman Catholic AND A PROTESTANT, Concerning the Doctrine of TRANSUBSTANTIATION; WHEREIN The said Doctrine is utterly Confuted, and Antichrist is clearly and fully Described; and his inevitable Destruction predicted: With a Challenge to all the Romish Doctors, that Preach and Teach the said Doctrine, to Answer it.  
LICENCED, September 24. 1688.  
LONDON: 〈…〉   

A FRIENDLY DEBATE BETWEEN A Roman Catholic AND A PROTESTANT, CONCERNING THE Doctrine of TRANSUBSTANTIATION, etc.  PRotestant. 
Sir, Do you believe that there is a Real Change wrought upon the Elements of Bread and Wine, after they are Consecrated by the Priest in the Sacrament of the Eucharist, into the Substantial, Material, Living Body and Blood of Christ, which makes up his Real Person, to wit, of Body, Soul and Divinity?  Roman Catholic. 
Yes Sir, I do believe that the Elements are Transubstantiated into the very living person of Christ, to wit, of Body, Soul and Divinity; that is, into the very same Body which he assumed before he died; the same Body in which he suffered and died upon the Cross, without the Gates of Jerusalem; the same Body that laid in the Grave three days; and the very same Body in which he ascended up into Glory, and is sat down at the right hand of God in Glory.  Prot. 
I must confess, Sir, according to the genuine sense of your Doctrine of Transubstantiation, it must be so, or else it is a mere shame and mockery: For if the Elements be Transubstantiated into the very Body, Soul and Divinity of Christ, and then be offered up a sacrifice propitiatory and sufficient for the sins of the living and the dead, than Christ must be alive, or else you do offer a dead sacrifice. But I do utterly deny it; and therefore, Sir, I 〈…〉.  Rom. 
Yes, Sir, I will prove it by Scripture, from our Saviour Christ's own words, and also from the words of the Apostle St. Paul  Prot. 
Pray, Sir, let me hear that.  Rom. 
First of all I shall prove it from our Saviour Christ himself, by the words of Institution, when he Instituted this Ordinance of the Sacrament of the Eucharist, Luke 22.19, 20. And as they were eating, Jesus took bread and blessed it, and broke it and gave it to the Disciples, and said, Take, eat, this is my Body: Likewise the cup, after supper, saying This cup is the new-testament in my blood. Matt. 26.26, 27, 28. And as they were eating, Jesus took bread and blessed it, and broke it, and gave it to the Disciples and said, Take, eat, this is my body; And he took th● cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them; for this ●● my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins. And in John 6.52, 53, 54 I am the living bread which came down from heaven if any man eat of this bread he shall live for every And the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I wi●● give for the life of the world. Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, except ye eat th●● flesh of the son of man, and drink his blood, ye have 〈◊〉 life in you: Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh m● blood, hath eternal life, and I will raise him up at th● last day. Thus, you see, I have clearly 〈◊〉 〈…〉 That it is Christ's Real Body and Blood that we do eat and drink in the Sacrament of the Eucharist.  
And secondly, I shall prove this Doctrine from the Apostle St. Paul's words also, in the 1 Cor. 11.24.25. where he saith, Take, Eat this is my Body which is broken for you. After the same manner also he took the Cup when he had supped, saying, This Cup is the New Testament in my Blood. Thus you see I have proved this Doctrine of Transubstantiation by Scripture, and I could also prove it by Councils and Decrees, and Canons, and Traditions of our Fathers, and the like. And besides all that has been said, it is an Article of the faith of our Church which is infallible, and cannot err. And we are bound to believe as the Church believes, and commands us to believe. And therefore this Doctrine must be infallibly true?  Prot. 
Sir, is this all that you have to say to prove this Doctrine of your Infallible Church.  Rom. 
Yes Sir, and I think it is a sufficient proof of it too.  Prot. 
Why then, I pray Sir, Give me leave to answer you as well as I can from Scripture, and from Reason also.  Rom. 
Yes, Sir, with all my Heart.  Prot. 
Why first of all, Sir, in the first place give me leave to tell ye, you have not taken the whole verses or sentence in some of these Scriptures which you have quoted; you have gone away with part of a Text, even so far as will serve your turn, which is a very dangerous thing, for it is no less than to clip the King of Heaven's Coin, which is Spiritual High Treason, which is the worst of Treason, and is punishable with no less than all the Curses of the Book of the Holy Word of God, without true Repentance, Rev. 22.18, 19 Deut. 4.2. Prov. 30.6.  
Sir, you know Satan when he tempted our Blessed Saviour Christ, he quoted part of a Text of Scripture to serve his own turn, Matth. 4.5, 6. Then the Devil taketh him up into the holy City, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the Temple, and saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God cast thyself down, for it is written, He shall give his Angels charge concerning thee, and in their hands they shall bear thee up lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone. 'Tis written, saith Satan, quoting Psal. 91.11, 12. for he shall give his Angels charge over thee to keep thee in all thy ways; they shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone: The Devil leaves out that part of the Text, (to wit) He shall keep thee in all thy ways.  
Sir, you do own and believe these Scriptures which you have quoted to be understood literally and properly, and not Mystically and Spiritually, but according to the plain letter of them?  Rom. 
Yes, Sir, I do, for the Text is plain and clear.  Prot. 
Now, Sir, I will answer you from the words of our Saviour Christ in the same Chapters, and in some of the same verses which you have quoted, and also from the words of the Apostle Paul in that same Chapter which you have made use of, and also in many other places of the Holy Scriptures, whereby you shall see by God's assistance this Doctrine of yours overthrown and utterly confuted; therefore let us bring it to the Touchstone of God's Word; To the Law and to the Testimony, if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them, Isa. 8.20.  
1. First of all, By the words of our Blessed and only Mediator and Redeemer, in Luk. 22.19, 20. And he took Bread and gave thanks, and broke it, and gave it unto them, saying, This is my Body which is broken for you: so far you go; but you leave out and omit; this do in Remembrance of me; likewise also the Cup after Supper, saying, This Cup is the New Testament in my Blood which is shed for you. Mat. 26.26, 27. And as they were eating, Jesus took Bread and blessed it, and broke it, and gave it to the Disciples, and said, Take; Eat, this is my Body; and he took the Cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it. Here, pray Sir, observe by the way, that it is said, that Christ took Bread and blessed it, and broke it, and gave it to the Disciples; what is to be understood by this word [it]? why it was it Bread; for had it been Christ's Real, Corporeal, Substantial Body, it should have been more properer thus, He took the Bread and blessed him, and broke him, and gave him to the Disciples. And he took the Cup and gave Thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it. Now if your Doctrine were true, than it should have been, After Christ had given Thanks, he gave him to them, saying, Drink ye all of him, and not drink ye all of it, that is, all the Congregation, both Minister and People that are Christ's true Disciples, must all partake of the Cup, or Wine in the Sacrament of the Lords-Supper. But by what Authority your Priests are so uncharitable as to deny the Lay-people the Cup, I know not, when as our Saviour Christ commands expressly, that all his Disciples must drink of it, that is of the Wine in the Cup, and not of his Material Blood that was then running in his Humane veins; and the Cup may rather be taken for the Blood of Christ than the Wine, if it be to be understood literally, because the Cup only is mentioned, and not the Wine, for it is said, This Cup is the New Testament in my Blood which is shed for you.  
Christ himself did partake of this Holy Ordinance at the same time when he did institute it, The same night in which he was betrayed. But now if your Doctrine be true, than Christ did eat his own Substantial Body, and drink his own Material Blood; and yet was visible with his Disciples before their Eyes, without any alteration in the least. It is said, His Blood is shed for many for the remission of sins. And yet then at that time Christ had not actually and properly shed his Blood, but virtually in the Decree of God he had done it before the foundation of the world; for all those that ever were saved before Christ came in the flesh, and for all that ever should be saved after he came in the flesh, down throughout all Ages to the end of the world, 1 Pet. 1.20. Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifested in these last times for you. Revel. 13.8. And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him whose names are not written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. Act. 2.23. Him being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have Crucified and slain.  
This Ordinance of the Lords-Supper is to be kept up and practised in the Churches of God, for a Remembrance of Christ's Death and Passion, from them words of our Saviour, which words you omit and leave out, namely, Do this in Remembrance of me, as will yet further appear by and by from the Apostle St. Paul's words when he celebrated this Holy Ordinance of the Lords-Supper in the Church of Corinth.  
But again, from our Saviour's words which you do take and interpret as if spoken literally, whereon you lay so much stress, and make it serve for a foundation to build this Doctrine of Transubstantiation upon, which was spoken before the Ordinance of the Lords-Supper was Instituted by our Saviour himself in Joh. 6.51, 53, 54. I am the living Bread which came down from Heaven; if any man eat of this Bread he shall live for ever. And the Bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world. Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of Man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you. Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath Eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. Here you see it is, Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, etc. How so? what is the meaning of that word of our Saviour Christ, viz. Whoso eateth, & c? why this refers to what Christ had been speaking before in the same Chapter, which leads to this Discourse of Eating his flesh, and drinking his blood, in setting out the usefulness and excellency of the Grace of Faith, and the absolute necessity of it, vers. 35, 40, 47, 48. here you shall see that this, Whoso eateth Christ's flesh, and drinketh his blood, is this, viz. Whosoever believeth in Christ, and resteth upon him alone for Spiritual life here, and Eternal life in Glory hereafter. Pray mark the words of our Saviour, And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life, he that cometh to me shall never hunger, and he that believeth on me shall never thirst: And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seethe the Son and believeth on him, may have everlasting life, and I will raise him up at the last day. Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that believeth on me hat● everlasting life. I am (that) bread of life. What bread of life? Why that bread which by faith in his Righteousness and Merits alone justifies and acquits the soul from the guilt and pollution of sin, without any works or righteousness of ours in conjunction, or i● competition with Christ's; for he will have no Rival he will have all the honour of saving a sinner t● himself; for he is made the only Spiritual bread o● flesh, for the new creature to live upon; and it is nourished and strengthened thereby, even as our natural bodies are fed and nourished, and strengthened by our natural food, Joh. 3.16. For God so loved t●● world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whose ever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. It is not said here, whosoever eateth the material flesh of Christ shall be saved; but whosoever believeth on Christ shall have Everlasting li●● Our Lord Jesus Christ is the only Spiritual bread for every believing soul to live and feed upon Spiritually by the mouth of faith. But you will say Here is a plain Text of Scripture for your Doctrine viz. This is the Bread which cometh down from Heaven, that a man may eat thereof and not did I am the living bread which came down from Heaven, 〈◊〉 any man eat of this bread he shall live for ever, and t●● bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give f●● the life of the world; that is, that all Believers shou●● live Spiritually by the blessed fruits and effects whi●● is produced by Christ's taking flesh upon him. T●● Jews they were offended at this Mystical Spiritual Doctrine of Christ, because it was not given 〈◊〉 them to believe; the Jews therefore strove amo● themselves, saying, How can this man give us his f●● to eat? as indeed well they might, if it had b● to be understood literally and properly, as they ●●nally and vainly through unbelief did conceive 〈◊〉 imagine that the words was spoken: Then Jesus 〈◊〉 unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except you the flesh of the Son of Man, and drink his blood, ye 〈◊〉 no life in you. And in vers. 60. there Christ's Dimples were stumbled and offended at this Doctrine saying of his, Many therefore of his Disciples where had heard this, said, This is an hard saying, who can h●●  
But now I pray, Sir, mind strictly the wo●● our Saviour, and you shall hear how plainly clearly he himself has expounded and unfolded his own meaning unto us, of this eating his 〈◊〉 and drinking his blood, in the 61, 62, 63. 〈◊〉 When Jesus knew in himself that his Disciples mur●● at it, he said unto them, Doth this offend you? wh●● if ye shall see the Son of Man ascend up where he 〈◊〉 fore? it is the spirit that quickeneth, the flesh p●● nothing; the words that I speak unto you, they are and they are life.  
As if our Blessed Lord and Saviour should said, Do you think that I intent by 〈◊〉 ●hat I have spoken unto you, to cut and carve out ●he flesh of my real, substantial, and finite body, ●nd give it unto you to eat? And likewise broach ●●y material blood, and let that out of my ●eins, and give it unto you to drink? for if I should ●o so, it would not quicken you unto spiritual life, ●● must be my Spirit that must do that, and not my ●esh; for the flesh profiteth nothing. But besides ●●l that, with what body must I suffer in, and die ●● redeem the World in? And with what body ●●all I arise in from the dead? And with what body ●●all I ascend up into glory in, where I was before, ●amely, where I was before ever I assumed this marial, finite body, made of material flesh and blood? ● Act. 1.9. there is his Ascension; and in Heb. 10.5. there ●his Body which God the Father prepared for him.  
And again, if Christ's substantial body be eaten, ●●d his real material blood be drunken literally in 〈◊〉 Sacrament of the Eucharist, then consequentially must Christ's sinless, spotless, holy body see corruption, which is Diametrically contrary to the ●●ly Word of God, both in the Old Testament and 〈◊〉 New, Psal. 16.10, 11. For thou wilt not leave my 〈◊〉 in hell, neither wilt thu suffer thine holy One to see corruption. Acts 2.26, 27, 31. Therefore did my heart ●●●yce, and my tongue was glad: moreover also my flesh 〈◊〉 rest in hope, Because thou wilt not leave my soul in 〈◊〉 neither wilt thou suffer thine holy One to see cor●●●ion. He seeing this before, spoke of the resurrection Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his 〈◊〉 did see corruption. Now, Sir, if this Doctrine yours, of Transubstantiation, in your sense, be 〈◊〉, why then Christ, the Holy one of God, whose ●●less nature was without the least Tincture of 〈◊〉 or any kind of inclination thereunto, must see ●●●ption, ay, and must be turned into corruption 〈◊〉 yea, and that into the very worst sort of ma●●l corruption, namely, into Man's Excrements, ●nto Man's Dung; and, that, as often as the 〈◊〉 saith the Mass; For I pray you what does be●●●e of what we do eat and drink? Is it not turned corruption? Ay, and the Body that eats it too, 〈◊〉 be turned into Corruption. Meat is for the 〈◊〉, and the Belly for Meat; but both are for ●●●ption or Destruction. And pray mind what ●aviour saith of what we do eat, in Matt. 15.17. ●●t ye yet understand, that whatsoever entereth in at ●outh, goeth into the belly, and is cast into the ●●●ht? I could be larger here, as well as in most ●●e rest of these points, but I must consult bre●●or, as I hope, a public good; and leave the 〈◊〉 to expatiate upon it in his own mind, thou resolved to write the most part of the Scrip●●●● that I have occasion to quote, at length; and ●●eatest reason for it is this, because that it may esentially fall into the hands of some, perhaps, 〈…〉 keep one, or look into it; and for their sakes I do not repent my labour, that this may put them upon getting the holy Bible, and looking into it, to see if these things be so or no, Acts 17.11. These were more noble than those in Thessulonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the Scriptures daily whether those things were so. The Holy Scriptures are able to make persons wise unto salvation, 2 Tim. 3.15. which is the greatest wisdom of all. John 5.39. Search the Scriptures, for in them ye think ye have eternal life, and they are they which testify of me. Christ expressly commands us to search the Scriptures: But your Church expressly forbids it. Who shall we obey, Christ who is Infallible, or your Church which pretends to be so?  
Again, Our Saviour Christ has but one humane body, and that is a finite body, Heb. 4.15. For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities: but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. And therefore our Saviour's Body was not to see corruption, because it never did see sin, so as to be tainted in the least measure with it; and therefore Christ could never have died, had it not been for the sins of his people; because the wages of sin is death. And if Christ will take Believers sins upon him, he must take the wages also that was due unto them: And therefore it is said, that he tasted death for every man; that is, for every man that ever did, or that ever should believe in him: But because his sin was by imputation, and not inherent in his nature, as ours is, but only by imputation; therefore though he tasted death for every man, and by that took the curse or sting that is in death, away, for all Believers, yet his holy Body did not see corruption; Death could not hold him, because there was no sin in him; but it was upon him by imputation; as Sinners are made righteous, even so Christ was made a sinner; for as Sinners are made righteous by the Righteousness of Christ imputed unto them, so Christ was made a Sinner by imputing our sins unto him; but not by Contamination or Pollution, but as a Surety; for if Christ had had no more sin upon him, than he had in him, he could never have died; it had been impossible; for it would have been inconsistent with the Justice of God, Isa. 53.5, 6, 10. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities, the chastisement of our peace was upon him, and with his stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray, we have turned every one to his own way, and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all; yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him, he hath put him to grief; when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin. But this of our Saviour Christ's giving his flesh to eat, and his blood to drink, must be understood Symbolically and Sacramentally by Faith, it is the sign of Christ's 〈…〉 had not Christ taken humane flesh upon him, and died for sinners, the whole species of the humane race had perished and been lost as all the fallen Angels were, and not one soul had ever been saved; and so his flesh and blood became meat and drink unto us, to live upon him by faith alone, who do share in all these benefits and blessings which came by Christ's taking flesh and blood upon him; and is not such a wonderful great mercy as this is, worthy of a holy thankful remembrance? which is the principal end and design of Christ in his Instituting of this Ordinance, and aught to be ours in partaking of it; for if our Saviour Christ had given us his material flesh to eat, and his real blood to drink, it would have availed us nothing. And thus are the words of our Saviour to be understood in that 6. Joh. in retort to the carnal conception of the unbelieving Jews, as well as to his unbelieving Disciples which dreamt even as you do of the Roman Catholic faith, that Christ spoke of giving them his real substantial body to eat, and his real blood to drink; said the Jews, How can this man give us his flesh to eat? and said the Disciples, This is an hard saying, who can bear it? But mind narrowly our Saviour's own words, viz. It is the spirit that quickeneth, the flesh profiteth nothing; the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life. It is the Spirit that begetteth faith in every true Believer; and that quickeneth the new Creature or Babe of Grace, after it is begotten and born of God in its first quickenings or formation, and in its after-quicknings, for it is of the seed Royal of Heaven, Psal. 89.29. and it is conveyed unto us through Jesus Christ by his holy Spirit, and so we come to be made alive to God, and are Children of the most High, for God is the Father of Spirits, and the only Spiritual Father of all that believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son from all Eternity by Generation, for all the rest of God's Sons of humane race are his Sons by Adoption and Regeneration; and all this is effected and brought about through the agency and aid of the Holy and ever Blessed and Eternal Spirit; and therefore that which is thus begotten and born of God, must be Spiritual; for as Adam begot a Son in his own likeness, who was himself of the Earth, and Earthly; so God begets all his Children in his own likeness, who are all Spiritual and Heavenly Children; they have all of them the Image of their Father stamped upon them, which is Grace and Holiness; the more holy, the more like unto God they are, who is Essentially holy; and theefore the food which this spiritual man liveth upon, must be Spiritual, Heavenly food; he lives upon God in Christ, and feeds upon God in Christ by faith; for all our springs are in him. Now for any persons to imagine that a spiritual being can live and subsist upon carnal material food, is but a vain imagination; 〈…〉 less flesh, and his blood without the least tincture of sin, yet notwithstanding all that, it is food beneath the new Creature to live upon; for by Christ's taking flesh upon him, he made himself lower than the Angels, as he was man, Heb. 2.7. Thou madest him a little lower than the Angels, thou crownedst him with Glory and Honour, and didst set him over the works of thy hands. But as Christ was God, so he is higher than the Heavens; yea the Heavens are unclean in his sight; and all the food which the new creature doth live upon, is all treasured up in Christ; he is the great Lord Treasurer of Heaven and Earth; h●● is the Dispenser of all Grace; for it hath pleased the Father, that in him all fullness shall dwell: And in him are hid all the treasures of Wisdom and Grace; there it is placed by God the Father; there it is laid up for all his children, for them to come and fetch by faith and prayer, all whatsoever they stand in need of; and we all receive from Christ's fullness, and grace for grace. Psal. 84.11. For the Lord God is a Sun and a Shield; the Lord wi●● give Grace and Glory, no good thing will he withhold from them that live uprightly. There it is Treasurer up in Christ, who is the only Infallible head of th● true Ancient Catholic Apostolical Church, to distribute and give forth unto all his members as ●● seethe to be needful and necessary for them, both Spiritual and Temporal Blessings and Mercies. Alas how can a Spiritual being subsist upon carnal substantial food? it is utterly incoherent and inconsistent, as our Saviour Christ said in another case 〈◊〉 cure Thomas a Didimus' unbelief, viz. A spirit has 〈◊〉 flesh and bones as ye see me have. Now if your Transubstantiated Christ could convince us after th● manner as our Saviour convinced Thomas a Didim●● your Doctrine might obtain some credit amo●● those sort of people that are not debarred of the 〈◊〉 of their sense and reason, as yours are. But Believe have not a carnal body to be fed in this sense, 〈◊〉 that is fed with the meat that perisheth, but th● fed with that meat which endureth to everlast life. A Cow may as well and better live upon● bare Sea-Rocks, and feed upon Oysters or Cockles a Fish live out of the water upon the dry land, 〈◊〉 feed upon hay or straw, as for the new Creature, Spiritual man, to live upon material substantial 〈◊〉 and blood. And our Saviour Christ himself has us consequentially, in effect, that his flesh would fit us nothing if he should give it unto us to ea●●  
Again, in the next place this eating of Ch●●● flesh, and drinking his blood, is no more to b●●● derstood literally and properly, than the Doctrine Regeneration was, which our Saviour Christ 〈◊〉 red unto old Nicodemus; and if you observe it gently, you will find that our Saviour Christ 〈◊〉 pounded it much after the same manner as 〈◊〉 done this of eating his flesh 〈…〉 blood, and gives the like check to the understanding of the one carnally and literally, as he does to the other. And pray take notice, that our Saviour Christ is the only infallible Judge and Interpreter of the holy Scriptures, as well as he is the Infallible Head of the Church; for who can give a better interpretation or Exposition of the Law, than the Lawmaker can? therefore no person can understand or give a right Interpretation of the Holy Scriptures, but them to whom Christ gives this gift, and that is to many thousands, to some more, and some less; some have a higher measure than others; it is given to every believer, which is a spiritual man, to know the mystery of Gods will in the Salvation of poor sinners; for saith Christ, It is given to you to know the mystery of the Kingdom, but unto them it is not. God hides these things from the wise and prudent, and revealeth them unto babes, saith Christ. 1 Cor. 2.14, 15. But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness unto him; neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he that is spiritual, judgeth all things. Here you see who is the chief Judge of the Scriptures, and who are Missionaries, or whom he has Commissionated so ●o do, not any one single person above the rest. But ●o return to what we are upon, Joh. 3.3, 4. Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto ●●ee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the ●●ingdom of God. Nicodemus saith unto him, How can 〈◊〉 man be born again when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born? This is ●●st as the unbelieving Jews, that said, How can this ●●an give us his flesh to eat? And old Nicodemus notwithstanding he was a great Rabbi and Ruler in Israel, yet he had like to have gone away under as ●●eat a mistake about the Doctrine of Regeneration, 〈◊〉 you Romanist have done of this mystical saying of ●●r Saviour Christ's, in that he hath said, Take, Eat, ●●is is my Body; and of giving his flesh to eat, and ●●s blood to drink.  
Now pray observe how nearly alike our Saviour Christ interprets and expounds this Doctrine of Re●●neration unto Nicodemus in the 5th and 6th. verses, ●●sus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except man be born of water, and of the spirit, he cannot en●● into the Kingdom of God; that which is born of the 〈◊〉 is flesh, and that which is born of the spirit is spirit. ●●w see the 6. Joh. 63. and compare them toge●●r, It is the spirit that quickeneth, the flesh profiteth ●●hing; the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, 〈◊〉 they are life. Here you see all the carnal fleshly ●●●eption or Transubstantiated fancy utterly overtown and knocked in the head in these words of ●●aviour Christ, as well as that also of Nicodemus' ●●al conception of the Doctrine of Regeneration. 〈…〉 understood mystically and Spiri●●● 〈…〉 eaten by faith, in every Ordinance of God in Religious worship, and especially in the Ordinance of the Lords-Supper; for faith is the mouth of the new creature, the great grace of faith is the souls Nurse, but it feeds upon Christ, and lives upon Christ, which is this spiritual Bread which came down from Heaven, that a man may eat thereof and not die. And so likewise our Saviour gives the like interpretation of the graces of the Spirit in the Believer, much after the same manner; which are compared to rivers of living water in Joh. 7.37, 38, 39 In the last day, that great day of the Feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, if any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink. And pray mind what the drink is that Christ giveth him, He that believeth on me, as the Scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. But pray mind what Exposition our Blessed Redeemer gives in the following verses, But this spoke he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive. You see this drinking here is by faith in Christ, and the liquor which they drink, is spiritual liquor, it is the water of life.  
Now if these Scriptures are to be understood literally and properly, than you must understand the Contexts, and the Coherence of them literally and properly also; for Christ does not, as I remember, speak a whole sentence, wherein one part wholly contains spiritual matter, and the other part wholly contains a literal and proper meaning in it; though one whole sentence may have both a mystical and literal meaning in it: Now pray mind in Joh. 6.35, 50. And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life; he that cometh to me, shall never hunger; and he that believeth in me, shall never thirst. Now is not here the very same reason to believe that we shall never be corporally a hungry, nor a thirst again, as there is for us to believe that that is material bread or flesh that Christ spoke of in the same verse? Again this is the bread which cometh down from Heaven, that a man may eat thereof and not die. Now is not here as much reason to believe and understand this literally and properly, as there is for any of the other to be understood so? and if the rest be to be understood so, than they that eat Christ's flesh, and drink his blood, shall never die a natural death.  
Again, if this Doctrine in Joh. 6. be to be understood literally and properly, then must the Doctrine of Regeneration be understood so, in Joh. 3. And if so, then none should ever see the Kingdom of God, nor enter into the Kingdom of Heaven, and be saved, but them, and them only that crept into their mother's womb, and were born again, literally and properly, as old Nicodemus ignorantly imagined. There is every whit as much reason to believe this, as there is to believe your Doctrine of Transubstantiation. Pray mind the Interrogation of Nicodemus, and that of the Jews, how like they are the one to the other: 〈…〉 is old, etc. Secondly, the Jews they said, How can this man give us his flesh to eat? Now if these Scriptures in Joh. 3. and in Joh. 6. are to be taken, and the sense of them expounded literally in the plain letter of the word, then must this of Joh. 7.38. be understood so in like manner, where it is said that rivers of living water shall flow out of the Believers belly; and we might as rationally expect that Scullers should ply the Ferry at every believers belly in these rivers of living water; and also that every believer has crept into his mother's womb, and been born again, as to believe that the Bread and Wine in the Sacrament of the Lords-Supper after Consecration is Transubstantiated into the Body, Soul, and Divinity of our Saviour Christ, which is into his very person. But what will become of all those poor souls whose mothers are dead before they are or were converted, that have never a mother's womb to creep into? for I will assure you that the one is as true as the other, let who will deny or contradict it. And thus you do hear how our Saviour Christ hath expounded his own meaning, who spoke as never man spoke like him, he has given a clear interpretation of these mystical Scriptures afore mentioned, that this eating of his flesh, and drinking of his blood, is to be understood Symbolically, Spiritually, and Sacramentally, by faith, to Commemorate the great love of God in the Transaction of man's Redemption by the Death and Sufferings of our Lord Jesus Christ. But thus much for the words of our Saviour Christ for the present.  
But secondly, in the second place, let us hear the full of what the Apostle Paul saith unto this Doctrine also, for give me leave to tell ye, Sir, that you have quoted but part of the Apostle's words, you have curtailed his words also in the 1 Cor. 11.23, 25, 26. For I have received of the Lord that which also I deliver unto you, that the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed, took bread, and when he had given thanks he broke it, and said, Take this my body. Thus far you go, Take, Eat this my body; what Body was that? why it was Christ's Sacramental Body, namely the Bread and Wine, which are the Signs of his Body, which prefigures out unto us his real material Body, which was Crucified without the Gates of Jerusalem; it is to Commemorate the Death and Sufferings of Christ, and all the Benefits and Blessings which did flow forth unto poor lost and undone fallen man, for all that ever did believe, or that ever should believe in him, and expect eternal life and salvation upon the account of his Righteousness and Merits alone, through the aid and agency of the Eternal blessed and holy Spirit, and all this comes flowing unto us from that Blessed fountain of all the Christians Mercies, namely the Eternal love of God the Father, which was the efficient or first moving cause of all. And as the Glorious Trinity had all a hand in making man, so they all have a hand in redeeming man.  
But again, this is that Body which was evidently set forth Crucified before the Galatians eyes, Gal. 3.1. It was the Representation of Christ's Crucified Body in the Sacrament of the Lords-Supper among the Galatians, and not the Real Crucifixion of his Substantial Body without the Gates of Jerusalem. And this is that Body which the Apostle saith, Take, Eat, this my body, that was his Sacramental body, or the sign of his body. In the Sacrament of the Lords Supper, that was crucified and nothing else; and this is that body which all true believers in the Sacrament do discern and partake of, and eat now in the Churches of Christ, and all this is done by faith in a holy Reverential Remembrance of Christ, to show forth his Death till he come.  
After the same manner also he took the Cup when he had supped, saying, This Cup is the New Testament in my blood, this do ye, as often as ye drink it, in remembrance: Which latter words you always omit, and take no notice at all of them; which words carry great weight in them, if you would but be so kind unto your own souls as to adhere unto them; for saith the Apostle, As often as ye eat this Bread, and drink this Cup, ye do show the Lords Death till he come. This Ordinance was Instituted by our Saviour Christ himself, the same night in which he was betrayed. And at that time Christ did partake of i● with his Disciples; so that if your Doctrine o● Transubstantiation be true, than Christ must make his body at that time, and eat himself, body, soul● and Divinity; and so he had two bodies, one to ea● with, and the other to be eaten; or otherwise h● must give the same body which he was then in unto his Disciples to eat and to drink; nay, that 〈◊〉 not all, for he must eat his own body, and yet 〈◊〉 visible at the Table with them at the same time nay, that is not all, for he must eat all his Disciple or Members, and also all his Members that parta●● of this Ordinance must eat him; for every true believer is in Christ, and Christ is in them; nay, th● is not all, for every true believer when he partake● of this Ordinance according to your Doctrine, m● not only eat Christ carnally, but he must also 〈◊〉 his own self. Nay that is not all, for he must 〈◊〉 the Church too, for all is in Christ, and Christ is God. I in them, saith our Saviour, and thou in 〈◊〉 that they may be one as thou art one. And in the 1 〈◊〉 10.16, 17. The cup of blessing which we bless, is it 〈◊〉 the communion of the blood of Christ? the bread which break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ 〈◊〉 we being many are one bread, and one body, for we 〈◊〉 all partakers of that one bread. Here the Church called bread, and it is called body also, as our 〈◊〉 viour Christ is in the Sacrament, and at the Sacrament also in 〈…〉 once more, Every individual person that partaketh of this Ordinance, must eat the body of Christ singly and entirely, or else they divide Christ, and so eat but a part of a Christ, as you Laics do; for you have but a very dry lifeless Christ that hath not one drop of blood in his veins; so that, so many partakers, so many Christ's there must be, which must be a jolly company of them indeed. But Christ as he was God, did make or prepare his own material body, Heb. 10. but whither will these Absurdities hurry us? I could name many more that this Doctrine affords us, some of which will necessarily and consequentially fall in my way in the remaining part of my Discourse.  
Secondly, Again in the next place, this Ordinance is to be kept up and celebrated during Christ's absence, until some eminent and glorious appearance of his in his Churches, which appearance I humbly conceive, under correction, will ●ender this Ordinance useless, by the Apostle's words, viz. Ye do show the Lords Death till he come; that is, until Christ come. I do not remember that I tread that Christ after he Instituted this Ordinance, did ever partake of it himself, nor his Disciples neither during Christ's personal presence with them, until after his Ascension.  
And this Ordinance doth also show unto the world ●he great undertaking of Christ, who trod the Wine-press of God's wrath alone, and of the people there was none with him; he bore the wrath of God for sin that was due unto sinners, that poor sinners might be made partakers of the love and grace of God; he was made a curse for sinners, Gal. 3.13. Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the Law, being made a curse for us, for it is written, Cursed is every ●ne that hangeth on a tree. He bore the curse to purchase the blessing of Eternal life and Salvation, for all that believe in him. And this is that which will mightily aggravate the condemnation of the wicked world at the day of Judgement; That light is come ●nto the world, and men love darkness rather than ●ight, because their deeds are evil; they hear of Christ, but will not come and believe in him, nor reign up the conduct and government of their souls ●nto him; and this Ordinance of the Lords-Supper 〈◊〉 to quicken and strengthen the believers graces, and 〈◊〉 show forth the transcendent wisdom and grace of ●od in contriving and bringing to pass this blessed ●ork of man's Redemption by his only begotten ●n Jesus Christ.  
This holy Ordinance may be compared, with ●●ly reverence, unto a tender hearted loving Husband that is just taking his leave of his dearly be●●ed Wife, and going some long voyage by Sea, or ●●he tedious journey by Land: And at his departure when he taketh his leave of his wife, he saith 〈…〉 long time from thee, therefore I will leave this Diamond Ring, or this precious Jewel with thee, as a Token of my entire love and affections unto thee, for thee to remember me during my absence, until I return unto thee again. But when he returneth, his Wife hath no need of the Ring or Jewel to remember him by, because he himself is now personally present with her; why even so our Lord Jesus Christ, our Head and Husband, just the very night in which he was betrayed, leaves this Ordinance, this precious Jewel with his Spouse the Church, as a Love-token for to remember him by, during his absence, while he is personally sitting at the right hand of God the Father; as you may observe from them words of our Saviour, Do this in remembrance of me. The true Catholic Apostolic Church is Christ's Spouse, Cant. 5.1. I am come into my Garden, my Sistor, my Spouse; and Christ is the Church's Husband, Isa. 54.5. For thy maker is thy Husband, the Lord of Hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Isael, the God of the whole Earth shall he be called.  
But if this Doctrine of Transubstantiation in your sense be true, viz. that the Bread and Wine is Transubstantiated into the very person of Christ, namely into Body, Soul and Divinity, which makes up the complete person of Christ as much now, as he was before and after his Death and Resurrection, and as much as he will be at the great day of Judgement, for he will be then in Body, Soul and Divinity; but there will not be one soul that will even dare to stand by and own this strange Doctrine in that day, any otherwise than to abhor it, and to be ashamed of it. And Christ is in Body, Soul and Divinity, now at the right hand of God in Glory.  
But if this Doctrine of yours be true, That Christ is Personally and Corporeally present, every time that the Priest saith the Mass: Then first in the first place, It will consequentially follow, that either the Priest maketh a new Christ every time the Mass is said, and so we have one Christ personally in Heaven, and they have thousands of Christ's personally upon Earth. Or Secondly, They fetch down Christ materially, personally, from the right hand of God the Father: And if so, then in the third place, Christ has no time at all in Heaven with the Father, (I call it time in Heaven, for distinction sake) to intercede and plead as an Advocate and Mediator with God the Father for sinners, all his time would be taken up and spent in attending upon the Priests every time they say Mass, in all those many remote places round the Globe almost, which takes in their Mass-hours, perhaps, all the four and twenty Hours, being upon several Orisons. Fourthly, If this Doctrine be true, than Christ is come, and then this Ordinance ceases to be, as I conceive, and there needs no such thing to remember him by, or to show 〈…〉 suade him to stay when he is come in your Mass; for according to your Doctrine, there is a complete Christ that cometh in the Mass, every time it is said; for when Christ doth come from the right hand of God to judge the quick and the dead, as you yourselves do confess, and own in your own Creed, to my own certain knowledge; which I shall have occasion to speak more of by and by; for Christ will come then in no other manner, as to his person, than in Body, Soul and Divinity; if he went to Heaven so, he will come again so; as you may see Act. 1.11. Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into Heaven? this same Jesus which is taken up from you into Heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into Heaven. Now if Christ be thus come, than I humbly conceive, this Ordinance should be at an end; for when once the substance is come, than the shadows must flee away and cease to be; for what need the children of the Bride-chamber mourn when the Bridegroom shall come again to them, and be with them for ever? for what need a man have any thing to put him in mind, or to remember a friend that is always present with him, and is always before his eyes?— Why when Christ doth come, his people shall see him eye to eye, Isa. 52.8. and Rev. 1.7. Behold he cometh in the Clouds, and every eye shall see him. And they also which pierced him, that shall be both Jews and Gentiles, Zech. 12.10.  
Again thirdly, the same Apostle saith, That Christ was to be offered up but once; and he gives this as one reason of it, viz. for saith he, If he had been offered up often, then must he have suffered often since the foundation of the world. And the Apostle Peter, whom some do count Prince of the Apostles, saith, That Christ suffered once, 1 Pet. 3.18. For Christ also hath once suffered for sin, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God; being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the spirit. Mark ye, it was the humane flesh or body of Christ that suffered and died, and not his Godhead, for that is not capable of suffering.— I pray, Sir, observe these following Scriptures, and believe them, Heb. 9.25, 26, 28. For Christ is not entered into the holy place made without hands, which are the forerunners of the true; but into Heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us; nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high Priests entered into the holy place every year, with the blood of others; for than must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: But now in the end of the world hath appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself: So Christ was once offered to bear the sin of many; and unto them that look for him, shall he appear the second time without sin unto Salvation. Here you see Christ was ordained and appointed to be offered up but once, and that was a sufficient sacrifice for sin, in the wisdom and account of God: but you 〈◊〉 once offering up himself, was not a sufficient Sacrifice for the sins of his people; and therefore you 〈◊〉 offer up Christ often, even as often as the Mass said, as a Sacrifice sufficient and propitiatory for t●● sin of the living and the dead; which is to prof●● that you do know God, but in works you deny h●● at the highest rate that ever can be imagined by a●● that ever called themselves Christians; for you s●● it clearly proved, that as often as Christ is offe●● up, so often must he suffer; and if it be so, w●● then how many millions of times must Christ ha●● suffered by your Priests, since this opinion has be●● broached in the world among you, that the Sacrament of the Lords-Supper is a Sacrifice, and th● you do offer up Christ in the Mass in Body, Soul a●● Divinity, a Sacrifice sufficient and propitiatory f●● the sins of the living and the dead? and is not th● to say plainly, that Christ's Sacrifice of himself, w●● not a sufficient and propitiatory Sacrifice for the sin of his people? nothing can speak bolder and plain●● than this does.  
Again fourthly, Let us hear furthermore wh●● the Apostle St. Paul saith, who himself lived 〈◊〉 Rome, which is more than I can understand th●● ever the Prince of the Apostles did; I cannot sa●● that St. Paul never dreamt of this newfound Doctrine of yours; but yet this I am sure, in the fi●● place, that he never taught any such kind of Doctrine there: And secondly, That he did see in his da●● by a Prophetic Spirit, that there would be such 〈◊〉 Doctrine brought after his time; which I sh●● prove anon. But to our purpose before us, Heb. 〈◊〉 9, 10, 11, 12, 13. Then said he, Lo, I come to do 〈◊〉 will, O God; He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second. By the which will ye are sancti●● through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once 〈◊〉 all. And every Priest standeth daily ministering, offing oftentimes the same sacrifice, which can never 〈◊〉 away sin. But this man, after he had effered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down at the right ha●● God, expecting till his enemies be made his foot●●. But why is it said, that Christ is expecting till 〈◊〉 enemies be made his footstool? Why, Christ repects it, because God the Father hath determined 〈◊〉 promised it, in Psal. 110.1. The Lord said unto my L●● sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemy's footstool. This does unavoidably lead me to a digram on; therefore, Sir, I must beg leave of you, for 〈◊〉 present, to pursue this digression: But I will certainly meet you again anon, upon the same Top●● and discourse out the point with you.  
In the first place, God the Father hath said 〈◊〉 Christ, his only Son, Sat thou at my right hand, 〈◊〉 I make thine enemies thy footstool. God the F●● 〈…〉 of all his Enemies? why, it must be infallibly him that opposeth Christ most. And, pray, who is that? Why, It is the Man of sin, Antichrist: His very Titles, as well as his Characters and Practices signify the same. It is he that is gotten into the Temple of God, and claims a power and sovereignty over Kings and Rulers, and over men's souls and Consciences: But he is but a Usurper, for he exalts himself unto that Power and Dominion; for it is a power that properly and peculiarly belongeth unto Jesus Christ, for it is he that is King of Kings, and Lord of Lords, and the only Ruler of Princes, Rev. 19.16. Rev. 17.14. 1 Tim. 6.15. Prov. 8.15, 16. By me King's reign, and Princes decree justice; by one Prince's Rule, and Nobles, even all the Judges of the earth. Here you see, whose right it is to Rule over Kings, and Princes, and Judges of the Earth; Ay, and Christ is to have this power restored unto him again, because God the Father hath promised it unto him: And also it is his right, in Ezck. 21.27. I will overturn, overturn, overturn it, and it shall be no more, until he come whose right it is, and I will give it him. Rev. 17.16, 17. And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall cather flesh, and burn her with fire; for God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will. I am apt to think that this is Antichrist's will which they fulfil, and to agree and give their Kingdom to the Beast, until the Word of God shall be fulfilled, Dan. 8.25. He shall stand up against the Prince of Princes; but he shall be broken without hands, Isa. 47.8, 9, 10, 11. Rev. 18.7, 8. And that which is to antecede, or go before the destruction of Antichrist to usher it in upon him, you have in Rev. 16.17, 18, 19, 20, 21. Here is already, or will be suddenly, a threefold division among them, and strange unusual thunder, and lightning, and fire, and great hail of that magnitude, that it will be sufficient to knock down an Ox; and great earthquakes both literal and metaphorical. But you will ask me, who this Antichrist, the Man of sin, is? why, my answer in the genral is this, That the Apostle Paul has described him, and set several infallible marks upon him, that he may easily be distinguished from all other persons in the World; he is the head of the many Antichrists which did Apostatise from the true Gospel, Worship, Doctrine and Discipline; he is the chief head and promoter of all wickedness, and therefore called, the Man of sin, by way of Eminency, as you may see in that famous descriminating Chapter, 2 Thess. 2.2, 3, 4. Here the Apostle brings it in by way of caution to the Christians of that day, and in the spirit of Prophecy also, viz. that ye be not soon shaken in mind, or troubled neither by Spirit, nor by Word, nor by Letter, as 〈…〉 that the 〈◊〉 Christ is at hand; Pray hath had his day; for as Antichrist hath sat upon Christ's Throne, viz. the Temple of God, and made his people his footstool, which is indeed to make Christ his footstool; for what is done to his people is done to himself: As you may see in the Case of this Apostle Paul, when he was a Persecutor, Acts 9 Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? Who art thou, Lord? I am Jesus whom thou persecutest. Why, so Christ will depose the man of sin, and take the Throne himself, and make Antichrist his footstool; for if Antichrist will exalt himself above all that is called God, and sit in the seat of God himself, than he must be abased and made Christ's footstool: For the Word of God saith, He that exalteth himself shall be abased: And therefore Antichrist must be made Christ's footstool; for Christ in his day of Exaltation will debase this Usurper, and tread him under his feet. But to return to what I was upon, let no man deceive you by any means, for that shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that Man of sin be revealed, the Son of Perdition. The Apostle gives him the same Name or Title here, as our Saviour has given Judas, who betrayed him, Joh. 17.12. And the Apostle has a great deal of reason for giving Antichrist this Title; for as Judas, under the pretence of the greatest friendship, proved our Saviour's greatest enemy; why, so does Antichrist; and as Judas had a hand in crucifying Christ's real Body, so hath Antichrist in crucifying of Christ's mystical Body, the Catholic, Apostolical Church. Pray mind how the Apostle has laid down the Prophecy, wherein he gives the infallible Marks and Characters of Antichrist, First, there was to be a falling away, that is, the Apostatising from the true Doctrine of Faith, 1 Tim. 4.1, 2. Secondly, The man of sin must be revealed; That is, he must appear visible in the Church, or Temple of God, in his Colours. Thirdly, here is his practices when he is thus revealed, viz. he opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; That is, above all the Civil Magistracy, and above all the Ministry, both which Orders of Men are called Gods in Scripture, Psal. 82. Joh. 10.34, 35. and there is a Civil Worship or Reverence that is due unto them both, above all other men. But this is not all, but he exalts himself above God himself, and placeth himself in the room of Christ, so that he, as God, sitteth in the Temple of God, showing himself that he is God; and he opposeth and deposeth all power that standeth in the way of his exalting himself, both Ecclesiastical and Civil; and he exalted himself, by taking to himself that power which belongeth only to God, viz. the Sovereignty over all Kings, Princes and Rulers, which either his Sword or Deceit can Conquer, Dan. 8.25. And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in and by peace shall destroy many: That is, those which adhere unto his Doctrine, and are reconciled unto him as their Head, and so are at peace with him; by which peace their Souls will be destroyed, for it is a peace with Satan; and therefore judge what kind of fruit that peace must produce. Lastly, He Exalts himself above all true Worship and Worshippers, which is above all Churches, and over men's Souls and Consciences, Rev. 18.13. And he assumes to himself one of God's Glorious Attributes, namely his Holiness; for none is essentially Holy, nor Holiness, but God: So that he, as God, sitteth in the Temple of God; That is, where none but Christ ought to sit: And this is his standing up against the Prince of Princes; but he shall be broken without hands, saith Daniel 8.25. He shall be destroyed by the brightness of Christ's coming, saith St. Paul, 2 Thess. 2.8. Therefore evil shall come upon thee, thou shalt not know from whence it cometh; and mischief shall fall upon him, he shall not be able to put it off: and it shall come suddenly, saith the Prophet, Isa. 47. When God gins, he will soon make an end: and her plagues shall come in one day, saith John, Rev. 18. that may be in one year which is at hand, I doubt not.  
Now whosoever is found under these marks and indelible characters which are here given, and what I shall yet find out and and add, That is the Man of Sin, be he who he will that claims this universal power, both Spiritual and Temporal, Rev. 17.18. And the woman which thou sawest, is that great City which reigneth over the kings of the earth. And who this Woman is, and what she doth or hath done, you may see in the same Chapter, Verse 5, 6. And upon her forehead was a name written, Mystery Babylon the Great, the Mother of Harlots, and Abominations of the Earth. And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.  
But why is he called the Man of Sin by the Apostle Paul, and called a Woman by St. John, in the Revelations? The Reason why he is called the Man of Sin, I humbly conceive, respects him as a single person, and a temporal Prince, with all his temporal power and cruelty, Dan. 7.7. And the Reason of her being called Woman, is that which respects her Ecclesiastical Power, as Head of the Church, in conjunction with the Body, so she is a Woman; And as he is Antichrist, the Man of Sin, so he is Head and Husband to this Woman, their Church, which is made up of the many Antichrists. As our Saviour Christ is called the Man Christ Jesus, and the Holy One, who alone is Head and Husband to the true Catholic, Apostolic Church of God; for both the false, Antichristian Church, whereof the Man of Sin is Head, and also the true and pure Church of God, whereof Christ is Head, are pre●●●● 〈…〉 Woman; the false, Antichristian Church, is 〈◊〉 presented unto us as a Whorish woman, a Strum 〈◊〉 Rev. 17.1, 2. But the true Church is represent unto us as a  Virgin, and a Clean Church without spot or wrinkle, Ephes. 5.27.— And 〈◊〉 an illustrious, beautiful Woman richly cloth●● Rev. 12.1. Psal. 45.13, 14 Cant. 6.10. But 〈◊〉 false Church, this Whorish woman hath deser●● Christ who was her Head and Husband, before 〈◊〉 played the Harlot with many Lovers, by forsake her Husband's bed, the pure Worship and Ordnances of God, and is become guilty of spiritual ●●nication and adultery, Rev. 17.4, 5. and there 〈◊〉 Christ hath deserted her, and cast her off, and gi●● her a Bill of Divorce; and so the Text tells 〈◊〉 that this Woman is in the Wilderness, Rev. 17. 〈◊〉 And we have this Antichristian Church, or Wom●● prophesied of also in Zech. 5.7, 8. And behold, th● was lift up a talon of lead: and this a woman that 〈◊〉 teth in the midst of the ephah. And he said, Th●● Wickedness. Here is Antichrist, the Man of Sin, 〈◊〉 the Church or Temple of God; and my Rea●● why I look upon it to be so, is this, Because 〈◊〉 the Destruction of this Woman, namely Wickedly which you have in the latter part of the 8th V●● Then upon this cometh forth two women, w●● the wind in their wings, Verse 9 which are 〈◊〉 two Churches of both Jews and Gentiles, which 〈◊〉 to be after the destruction of Antichrist, and 〈◊〉 conversion of the Jews; the one is the Jews, 〈◊〉 will then be form into a Gospel Church, and 〈◊〉 other the Church of the Gentiles; and this Win●● their Wings, I take to be their Gospel Doctrine and it signifieth their spirituality and their s●f●● the Wings are God's Attributes; for than they 〈◊〉 be built up and established, and set upon her 〈◊〉 Base, Verse 10.11. Then these two Women, 〈◊〉 the two Churches of the Jews and Gentiles, sha●● beautiful and glorious in the eyes of all pe●● Zech. 14.20, 21. So thus you see the Reason 〈◊〉 the Apostle St. Paul called Antichrist a Man 〈◊〉 why St. John called her a Woman, The one re●● him as a Prince in his temporal power, and 〈◊〉 other respects him as head of the Church, 〈◊〉 spiritual power; for it is both one and the 〈◊〉 person, though successively and conjunctively th●● all the Reign of Antichrist.  
But there are some persons in the World 〈◊〉 would fain have this the Antichrist, to be the 〈◊〉 Turk, and that for this reason; because it is 〈◊〉 1 John 4.1, 2, 3. Hereby know ye the spirit of every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is 〈◊〉 the flesh, is of God. And every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh, is not 〈◊〉 and this is that spirit of Antichrist, whereof you● heard that it should come, and even now already 〈◊〉 〈…〉 How did they come to 〈◊〉 this? ●ur Saviour Christ told them and us so, in Matt. 24. ●, 25, 26. And also the Apostle Paul, by the Spirit 〈◊〉 Christ, gave a very clear description of him, in Thess. 2.7. For the mystery of iniquity doth already ●●rk. That was the Man of Sin, Antichrist,— ●●s way was a preparing, and paving for him, to ●t into the Church, or Temple of God, even then 〈◊〉 his time. But some people will say, and them ●●ly perhaps that are the persons principally concerned, That this cannot be meant of us, because ●●e do confess that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh: ●ut pray give me leave to tell you, that there is ●●ore in this than a bare verbal confession, that Je●●s Christ is come in the flesh; pray mind what the apostle saith to this, Rom. 10.9, 10. That if thou ●●●lt confess with thy mouth, the Lord Jesus, and shalt ●●●eve in thine heart that God hath raised him from the ●●●d, thou shalt be saved: For with the heart man believeth ●●●o righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made ●●●o salvation. This sort of Faith leads the Soul 〈◊〉 of his own Righteousness in point of merit, or Justification, and leads him to the Righteousness ●●d Merits of Christ alone for Justifiction; for let ●●em confess never so often with their mouth, that ●●us Christ is come in the flesh, if they do not believe in their hearts that his Righteousness and Me●●● alone is sufficient to justify and acquit them ●●●m sin, and render them acceptable unto God, 〈◊〉 will join their own Righteousness and Works ●●●h that of Christ's, it will avail them nothing: 〈◊〉 the same Apostle saith, That by the deeds of the 〈◊〉 shall no flesh be justified; for by grace are ye saved though faith, and that not of yourselves: For it is 〈◊〉 gift of God, not of works, lest any man should 〈◊〉. The proper work and office of the Tongue, is confess from the heart, That Salvation cometh 〈◊〉 Christ's Righteousness and Merits alone, which 〈◊〉 wrought out in his Rising from the dead, by ●●ich he was justified, and acquitted from all the 〈◊〉 which lay upon him when he hung on the ●●ss; he was put to Death in the Flesh, but Justice in the Spirit.  
But if a bare verbal Confession of Jesus Christ ●●●g come in the flesh, be sufficient to make a 〈◊〉 a true Christian, than no doubt but Judas was a good Christian, and was saved, although 〈◊〉 Scripture calls him Son of Perdition, A lost Son. ●●on by external profession of the Christian Reli●●●, but lost for his Treason and Rebellion; as it 〈◊〉 call the Man of Sin, Antichrist: For no doubt Judas, as he was an Apostle and a Preacher of ●●●st, though a great Hypocrite and Traitor, yet he 〈◊〉 often confess, that Jesus Christ was come in the 〈◊〉 Nay, all the Protestants that ever were Hang●● burned for Heretics, confessed, that Jesus 〈◊〉 it was come in the flesh: And therefore if this 〈…〉 come in the flesh, does acquit them that hanged and burned them, from being the Antichrist; why, then it does also acquit them that were Hanged and Burned, from being Heretics; for Antichrist is the greatest Heretic that ever was in the World, and all Heretics are Antichrists; but not them that are commonly called Heretics, but them that call them so, that put darkness for light. And thus you see clearly, that they condemn themselves of being guilty of the Blood of the Martyrs, by their own Argument, which they vainly use to clear themselves from being Antichrist.  
Again, Thirdly, If a bare verbal Confession of Jesus Christ being come in the flesh, be sufficient to interest them in the great privilege of true Christianity, then may the Devils themselves come in for a share of this kind of Christianity, and great Privilege; for they went a great way beyond this, of a bare Confession that Jesus Christ was come in the Flesh; for they owned, and confessed him to be the Son of God, and worshipped him, as Christ told the Devil, when he tempted him, Luke 8.28. When he saw Jesus, he cried out, and fell down before him, and with a loud voice, said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus thou Son of God, most high? I beseech thee torment me not. Luke 4.41. And Devils also came out of many, crying out, and saying, Thou art Christ the Son of God; and he rebuking them, suffered them not to speak, for they knew that he was Christ. And the Apostle James 2.19. Thou believest that there is one God, thou dost well: the Devils also believe and tremble. Alas, it is not a notional confession of the Head only, of Jesus Christ in the Flesh, in words only, that will make a Man a true Christian, and entitle him unto all those glorious privileges which does arise therefrom; for people may confess that Jesus Christ is come in the Flesh, in words, and yet at the same time deny it in works, Titus 1.16. They profess that they know God, but in works they deny him, being abominable and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate. 2 Pet. 2.1. But there were false Prophets among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bringing upon themselves swift destruction. Jud. 4. For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation; ungodly men, turning the grace of God into lasciviousness: denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ. This is a denying Jesus Christ to be come in the flesh Doctrinally.  
Again, This Man of Sin is one that pretends to the Apostolical Office, and working of Miracles and Wonders, 2 Thess. 2.9. Even him whose coming is after the working of Satan, with all power, and signs, and lying wonders: Who is this him that cometh? Why, it was Antichrist the Man of Sin, as you may 〈…〉 if he that cometh, Who is this he that cometh? Why, it is even the same again with him that cometh, viz. The Man of Sin, the Antichrist. And what does he do after he cometh? Pray mark: For if he that cometh, preacheth another Jesus whom we have not preached, and if ye receive another Spirit which ye have not received, or another Gospel which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him. Here the Apostle Prophesied of another Jesus, that is, of a false transubstantiated Christ, as I humbly conceive, which he saw by the inspiration of the Holy Ghost, would come into the Gospel Church or Temple of God, which caused God to turn it into a Desert: And these are the same false Christ's which our Saviour does forewarn us, and commands us not to go out after them; That is, that we should not believe in them. Matt. 24.23, 24, 25, 26. And there was Signs and Wonders to attend these false Christ's which our Saviour spoke of; insomuch, that if it were possible, they should deceive the very Elect: But they are but lying Wonders, and false Signs, as the Apostle declares, they are made up of deceit. But here the Apostle Paul spoke of another Spirit, which St. John calleth the spirit of Antichrist, 1 John 4.3. Rev. 16.13, 14. This is the same spirit by which they do work their pretended Miracles, Signs and Lying Wonders; and this is another Gospel, which is, their Canons and Councils, Decrees and Prescriptions, and unscriptural Traditions of old Fathers; and so they did cast off the true and pure Gospel of God, and do not adhere unto it to this day; and place these Scriptures of their own invention in the room of it, and cry them up to be Canonical, and Infallible: And this is that, another Gospel, namely, A false Antichristian Gospel, stuffed with nothing but Errors and Heresy. And pray observe what the Apostle saith, by way of caution, concerning this kind of Gospel, and them that Teach it, Gal. 1.8, 9 But though we, or an Angel from heaven preach any other Gospel unto you, than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. As we said before, so say I now again, if any man preach any other Gospel unto you, than that ye have received, let him be accursed. The Apostle spoke by the inspiration of the Holy Ghost, prophetically and clearly of what was to come into the Temple of God, when the Man of Sin should be revealed. And in the 13, 14, 15. verses of that 2 Cor. 11. he gives a clear character of those persons that should be guilty in assisting to bring in and preach up another Jesus, and another Spirit, and another Gospel, into the Temple of God, viz. such are false Apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the Apostles of Christ; and no marvel, for Satan himself is transformed into an Angel of light, therefore it is no great thing if his Mi●●● 〈…〉 righteousness, whose end shall be according to the works; they are for works of Merits, and in 〈◊〉 end they shall have as much salvation as they have earned by them, these you see are the Devils Ministers, and they are acted and influenced by his spirit, Rev. 16.13, 14. And I saw three unclean spirit like Frogs, come out of the mouth of the Dragon, and o● of the mouth of the Beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet: for they are the spirits of Devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth, & Acts 20.28, 29, 30. Take heed therefore unto yourselves and to all the flock, over the which the holy Ghost have made you overseers, to feed the Church of God, which 〈◊〉 hath purchased with his own blood. For I know th●● that after my departing, shall grievous Wolves enter 〈◊〉 among you, not sparing the flock. Also of your o●● selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them. 1 Tim. 4.1, 2, 3. No● the spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall departed from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils, speaking lies in hypocrisies having their consciences seared with a hot iron, forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth. Now what Sect, or sort of persons are there to be found among Christians, that do forbid Men, that are in spiritual Orders, to Marry? or if they are Married, that do forbidden them to take that Office or Place upon them? And these are the person here intended by the Holy Ghost, which sent the Apostle an express from Heaven, with the foreknowledge of it.  
The Apostle Peter, who some call the Prince of the Apostles, was a married man, for we read 〈◊〉 a miracle that our Saviour Christ wrought to cu● his wife's mother of a Fever, Mat. 8.14, 15. a●● several of the other Apostles were married me● 1 Cor. 9.5. And the same Apostle, namely Paul, sa●● in the 1 Cor. 7.9. It is better to marry than to bur● viz. than to burn in lusts here, and in Hell he after to all Eterniy for Fornication and Adultery it is better for them to be married seven times to ●ven wives successively in God's way and holy Ordnance, than it is for them to borrow or make be with their neighbour's wife once.  
And then as for commanding to abstain fr●● Meats at certain times and seasons, that is universe and reacheth to all; and the same Apostle sai● That we may eat whatsoever is sold in the Shambles, ●ing no questions for conscience sake, 1 Cor. 10.25. 〈◊〉 does not say eat whatsoever is sold in the Fish-mar● though he did not prohibit that; and all those am●● Christians that are thus guilty which are fo●●●●der this Character, are those th●● 〈…〉 Man of Sin the 〈…〉 theirs from Christ their Head; for though they confess that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh in words, yet in works they deny it.  
Again, the Turk never professed the Christian Religion, nor owned the true Gospel of God, and the pure Instituted Worship of Jesus Christ, and afterwards Apostatised from it, and rejected and despised the Faith and Truth of the Gospel, and fit in the Temple of God, and usurp a power over all Christian Kings, and Princes, and Rulers, and over all Worship and Worshippers, and sit in the room of Christ in his Temple, and give Laws to men's Consciences, as this Man of Sin doth, and as the many Antichrists do. Nor did the Turk broach, nor bring in strange and monstrous Doctrines of Devils into the Church or Temple of God; for mind the Apostle, Act. 20.30. Also of your own selves shall men arise; this could not be Turks, for they were Christians; and what shall these do? speaking perversethings to draw away Disciples after them. 1 Tim. 4.1, 2. Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall departed from the faith, giving heed ●o sedning spirits, and Doctrines of Devils, etc. Now can you think this to be meant of the Turks? It is spoken of persons that profess the name of Christ, that do call themselves Christians.  
Here we see was Prophesied that in the latter times, that is in the time of Antichrist's power and ●eign, some, (not all) should departed from the Faith; that is, they should Apostatise from the very Doctrine of the true Christian Faith, they would disown the true Doctrine of Faith, they would departed from the very fundamental Doctrine of Justification, and Sanctification and Salvation, by the Righteousness, Merits and Spirit of Christ alone; and look to be saved by their own righteousness, and Meritorious works, in conjunction with Christ's Righteousness and Merits; when it is said in Act. 4.12. Neither is there Salvation in any other, for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved: and in Rom. 10.3, 4. For they being ignorant of God's Righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the Righteousness of God, for Christ is the End of the Law for Righteousness to every one that believeth; for by the deeds of the Law shall no flesh be justified. And they departed from the Faith of one Mediator between God and Man, the Man Christ Jesus, 1 Tim. 2.5. And they have made to themselves many Mediators.  
And they have departed from the Faith of one intercessor in Heaven, and have made to themselves many Intercessors; when as it is said in Rom. 8.33, 34. Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's Elect, it is ●●d that justifieth; who is he that condemneth, it is 〈…〉 that is risen again, who is 〈…〉 ●●cession for us; he is our Advocate with the Father, 1 Joh. 2.1, 2, 3.  
And lastly, they depart from all other fundamental Doctrines of true Gospel-worship and Discipline, and in all these departings they departed from God himself, who is the chief Good, and aught to be the last End, and by this they fall into all mischief and Heresy; being drawn away and seduced by these seducing spirits, who are false Teachers, to give up the sole conduct and government of their souls unto them that have their own Consciences seared with an hot Iron, who feed them with Doctrines of Devils or Demons; they teach or speak lies in hypocrisy. And here the Apostle layeth down their forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from Meats, to be part of these Lies; For, saith he, Speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their conscience seared with a hot Iron, forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe, and know the Truth. (Mark) they pervert the very End and Design of God in the Creation of these things; God has created them to be made use of in his own way and ordinance, the one in Chastity, and the other in Temperance. Not but that a Minister or any others are left to their liberty, whether they will marry or not; but they ought not to be imposed on by others; but in this case they are a law to themselves; neither doth this destroy a holy fasting or abstinency, when it is done hearty and sincerely, according to God's own appointment and prescription in his Holy Word; but it wholly destroys all Impositions that are irregular; and also it destroys all Pharisaical, Hypocritical Meritorious Fasting and Penance.  
But you will say, How can this forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from Meats, be part of those Lies and Doctrines of Devils which they speak in Hypocrisy?  
First, in forbidding to marry, they enjoin the penalty of Damnation; and pretend that if any persons in Spiritual Orders do marry, they do not only forfeit the said Office, but do also incur the guilt of damnation, and they will yet sooner absolve them of the guilt of Fornication or Adultery, as they pretend, than of that offence. Now this is Diametrically contrary to the Holy Scriptures, which is the whole Faith and Truth, which they are departed from; and therefore, it must needs be a lie, for the word of Truth saith plainly, That it is better to marry than to burn, 1 Cor. 7.9.  
Secondly, They do command all to abstain from Meats, and make the ignorant people believe that they shall be damned if they eat flesh on certain times and seasons which they have prohibited, without a dispensation from the Church, which is the 〈…〉  
Now the word of Truth saith, Whatsoever is sold in the Shambles, that eat, ask no questions for Conscience sake. And further it is said, If any of them that believe not, bid you to a Feast, and ye be disposed to go, whatsoever is set before you, eat, ask no questions for conscience sake. Here you see the Man of Sin commandeth one thing, and the holy God by his servant Paul commandeth another; therefore this must be a lie, because God is a God of Truth, and cannot lie; and the same Apostle saith, Let God be true, and every man a liar, Rom. 3.4. But the Man of Sin is a liar, and is departed from the Faith, and the Truth is not in him. Thus you see how they do impose upon the easy credulous ignorant people, and make them believe that if they do disobey the Canons or Commands of their Church, they do incur the penalty of damnation; because say they, our Church is infallible, and cannot err. And therefore you must believe as the Church believes, or as she commands ye to believe, which is to assume that Power and Prerogative which peculiarly and properly belongeth unto God, viz. to make them a willing people in the day of his power, Psal. 110.3. Why even so Antichrist by force or fraud makes them an ignorant willing people in the day of his Dragooning power, by the permission of God. But here lieth the great difference; whereas God when he doth come by his Spirit, by the Omnipotent power of Grace to work upon the souls of sinners to make them a willing people, he also maketh them a wise and understanding people, Psal 119.130. The entrance of thy words giveth light, it giveth understanding to the simple. God worketh first upon the Understanding, and then upon the Will, and by that he enlightens the Mind in the knowledge of Christ, and then the Will is sanctified and changed, and so of an unwilling people they are made willing: But Antichrist when he exerts and puts forth his power to proselyte a soul, he works first upon the Understanding, and then upon the Will also; but it is to put out the common light of the Understanding in Spiritual things, and wholly depraveth the Will, and resigns it up to the will of Antichrist, and then leadeth the Mind wholly into the dark, that they may not discern their deceit, nor see the true way to come to the knowledge of Christ; and therefore they take away and rob them of the Key of Knowledge, namely the Holy Scriptures, which is the Rule of Life and Faith, that every man ought to walk by and believe, because it is the revealed Will of God.  
But say they, our Church is infallible, and cannot err; that is, she is so good and so holy, that there needs no amendment nor reformation in her; which if it were true, would be a higher degree of perfection than ever any Church of Christ has yet 〈…〉 and the Apostles time. We read of Seven Churches at one time in Rev. 2. and Rev. 3. but we find they had all of them their failings, there was neither Infallibility nor Supremacy to be found among them, though notwithstanding it is true the Gospel true Catholic, Apostolical Church, is perfect and infallible; but not in nor of herself, but she is so in Christ her Infallible Head, for there her perfection lieth, Ephes. 5.26, 27. That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, that he might present it to himself a glorious Church, not having spot or wrinkle, or any such thing, but that it should be holy and without blemish. Therefore this Doctrine of Infallibility of theirs must also be another Lie, which they speak or teach in Hypocrisy; for the Scripture saith in Jam. 3.2. In many things we offend all. And in Eccles. 7.20. For there is not a just man upon earth, that doth good and sinneth not. Therefore the Man of Sin cannot be infallible, although in conjunction with all these many Antichrists and false Prophets which do belong unto him. And pray mind what another Servant of God saith, though acted by the same spirit as Paul was, 1 Joh. 2.18, 19 Little children, it is the last time, and as ye have heard that Antichrist shall come, even now are there many Antichrists, whereby ye know that it is the last time. And here followeth their Apostatising from the true Church and Worship of God, They went out from us, but they were not of us, for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us; but they went out that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us. Pray observe, it was these many Antichrists that went out from the Church of Christ, and made the first rent or schism. But the true Church of Christ kept her standing, though perhaps not so visible in some Centuries or Ages, because she fled into the Wilderness, into her place prepared by God for her, and was hid there, after the Dragon by the permissive will of God, got into the Temple of God which is called Heaven, in his Son Antichrist; for as God is the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, so o● the contrary the Dragon is Antichrist's Father, Re● 12.1, 2, 3, 6. After this great fight in Heave● which was persecution of the Church, is the W● man or Church of Christ fled into the Wilderness where she hath a place prepared by God that the should feed her there 1260 days, which is all the reign of Antichrist. And the Antichristian Church that woman is in the Wilderness also, Rev. 17.3. B● as the true Church is in the Wilderness in mere to her, because she is in her place which God d● prepare for her, to hid her in from the Dragon the cast out floods of wrath and malice after her; 〈◊〉 the false Antichristian Church is in the Wilderness in judgement to her, for she is bewildered and I 〈◊〉 there. These many 〈…〉 did not go first from them, for she kept close to Christ's Standard in all Ages, They followed the Lamb whithersoever he went; and did not flinch nor run from their Colours; but these Antichrists deserted the service of Christ, and run from their Colours to Satan the Enemy.  
And now to clench this Nail that is driven into the head of Antichrist the Man of Sin, pray look into the same Chapter where he is described and prophesied of, and observe strictly what is the cause that produced this dreadful effect, namely what was it that provoked God to bring this tremendous judgement upon them; and there you shall find that it is charged upon them by way of prediction for their despising and departing from the Faith, 1 Tim. 4.1. which is from the whole Doctrine of Faith, namely the Gospel of God, 2 Thes. 2.9, 10, 11, 12. Even him whose coming is after the working of Satan, with all power and signs, and lying wonders, and with all deceiveableness of unrighteousness in them that perish, because they receive not the love of the truth that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusions that they should believe a lie, that they all might be damned who believe not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness. They please themselves with the conceit of being saved by their own righteousness, which is unrighteousness in competition with the Righteousness of Christ for Justification; they departed from the very Doctrine of Faith, the means of Grace and Salvation, which is the Spiritual food under Christ for the souls of true Christian Believers to live upon, Psal. 19.8, 9, 10.— Now that person must needs perish and die that refuseth and despiseth his natural food, and will not feed upon it, but pretend to live upon the wind; why even so it is with a respect to Spiritual food, that soul or souls must needs perish and be damned, that reject and refuse the means of Grace and Salvation: Because, saith the Apostle, they received not the love of the truth that they might be saved; and for this cause God shall send them strong delusions that they should believe a lie, that they all might be damned. That is, the whole of their Faith, Doctrine, Discipline and Worship, is one great lie; as the whole of the true Gospel-Faith, Doctrine, Discipline, and Worship, is called the Truth in the same Chapter, in opposition this great Lie. So that the whole of their Spiritual opinion is only a heap of lies and deceit wrapped up and incorporated together; And therefore called by the Holy Ghost, a strong delusion, and a lie. It is a Delusion full of Delusions, or a Lie full of Lies. The Apostle by the Holy Ghost prophesied clearly what a dreadful Judgement God would inflict upon all them that would be thus horribly guilty; For this cause God shall send them strong Delusions; first, hence we may observe that God did not proceed in 〈…〉 we may observe, that this Judgement did not come of itself, but God sent it. Thirdly, God sent them the Truth, but they did not receive it in the love of it. Fourthly, you may observe that it was not an ordinary weak puny Judgement or Delusion that God sent, which should not be able or strong enough to do the work; no, but it was a strong delusion that should overcome them. Fifthly, you may observe that this strong Delusion was not then come, because that the Man of Sin was not yet revealed. Sixthly, the cause of it was then commencing, for the Mystery of Iniquity did then begin to work. Seventhly, hence we may observe, that they themselves did choose these Delusions, which was their great sin, by which they provoked God to give them up unto them; and so God in his Justice made their sin their punishment; for it is said, The Backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways. Eighthly, we may observe, that although this Mystery of Iniquity did begin to work even then in the Apostles day, yet it was not to come to that full measure and degree of iniquity which it was to come unto, until after his death, that was not until the Man of Sin should be revealed, Act. 20.29, 30. Ninthly and lastly, it is to be observed, that the cause of God's sending this strong delusion unto them, was for their abandoning and casting off the Gospel of God, which tendered Life and Salvation by Christ's Righteousness unto them; and following after lying vanities; it was that which provoked God to inflict this sore judgement upon them, so that they have eyes and see not, and ears and hear not; which may very aptly refer to this, viz. that these persons have as great natural Gifts and Endowments as other persons have; namely, Sense, Reason, and Understanding, with all the Intellectuals and Faculties that belong unto men as men; but they are not suffered to make use of them upon Spiritual objects or occasions; neither will they suffer themselves to make use of them in that way and manner as would most glorify God, and tend to the Salvation of their own souls; their Consciences are seared with a hot Iron, they have quite lost all Spiritual feeling; for though Senses, Reason, Understanding, and all the Faculties do their work and office, yet none of them are to be believed: And who are blinder than those that will not see? They are just like the Images which they do bow down unto, and pray before, if not worship them. And they have no better Spiritual use of them than a condemned Malefactor has of the temporal use of his legs, which only serve to carry him to the place of execution. Nay, give me leave to tell ye, that they have no more use of their Senses; Reason and Understanding, in Spiritual things, than these very Images have which they adore, of natural Senses, Reason and Understanding. 〈…〉 least, for look into Psal. 115.4, 5, 6, 7, 8. Their Idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands; they have mouths, but they speak not; eyes have they, but they see not; they have ears but they hear not; noses have they but they smell not; they have hands but they handle not; feet have they but they walk not; neither speak they through the throat. Pray mark the winding up, They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them: First, they have mouths, but they must not preach the pure Doctrine of the Gospel of God therewith. 2. They have eyes, but they must not see the way to Life and Salvation by the Righteousness and Merits of Jesus Christ alone with them. 3. They have ears, but they hear not: That is, they must not, nor will not hear the Preaching of the Gospel with them. 4. They have Noses: But they must not smell any savour in the holy ways and pure worship of God with them them. 5. They have hands, but they must not believe them, when they tell them that the Bread or Wafer is but Bread, and is not flesh, nor a material body. 6. They have feet: But they must not walk to the House of God with them, but they will walk to the Idols Temple with them. 7. And lastly, They have Throats: but they must not pray nor speak unto God through them in a right manner, according to his will and mind; but they pray with them unto Saints departed, and preach up the Infallibility of the Church, and the Doctrine of Implicit Faith, with and to it. And thus they come to have eyes and see not, and ears and hear not, and so are like unto the Images they make and pray to, and before, and by this means the holy Bible cometh to be a sealed Book unto them, Isa. 29.10, 11, 12. And now I leave any one to judge whether this Man of Sin that sitteth in the Temple of God, and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped, can be the great Turk; or whether it can be meant of any sort of Protestants whatsoever, for they do not assume any such universal power and dominion, or Sovereignty over Kings and Rulers, Kingdoms and Nations, and over men's souls and consciences. But if the Turk be not Antichrist, the Man of Sin, nor the Protestants, then pray who is Antichrist? my answer is this, viz. I will name no body, but I will refer ye to the Scriptural Characters that I have observed, and let it be compared to some men's Office and Offices, and to their Faith, Doctrine, Worship, Discipline, Manners and Practices in the world; and they shall answer for me, and tell you plainly who Antichrist the Man of Sin is, for the Holy Ghost in the Sacred Scriptures have drawn his Effigies or Picture so clear and conspicuous, that any man of Gospel-sense, or that hath but the use of natural reason, may wink with both eyes, and tell who the Antichrist is, and where he sits; for indeed the Holy Scriptures have written his name in his forehead, so that we may read the very Scriptures that relate unto him, in his Office, Doctrines, Worship, Discipline, Practice and Manners, as clear and as plain as we may read his Office, Doctrines, Worship, Discipline, Practice and Manners by and in the Holy Scriptures, Rev. 17.5, 6. with which Scripture I shall conclude this Digression, viz. And upon her forehead was a name written, Mystery, Babylon the Great, the Mother of Harlots, and Abominations of the Earth. And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the Saints, and with the blood of the Martyrs of Jesus. Now he that runneth may read who this Man of Sin the Antichrist is, if he be not wilfully blind, if they will but give themselves leave to adhere to sense and reason. I have made a tedious digression, by which I have gone a little out of my way, but it was to meet with Antichrist the Man of Sin, and his Adherents, which are all out in the Wilderness with the Woman, or deserted Church, and Idolatrous worship which doth belong unto him, and doth attend upon him. God awaken the Kings of the Earth, and open their eyes that they also may see and know who this the Antichrist is, Rev. 17.16, 17, 18. that he may ride them no longer.  
But now, my Dear Friend, although I have taken a very long turn with Antichrist, yet I remember my promise unto you, viz. That I would meet you again upon our old Topic or Point of Doctrine that we were discoursing upon, before I met with Antichrist, the Man of Sin, namely the Doctrine of Transubstantiation, for I have not done with that as yet; for I have more considerations to offer against it, for the confuting of it; the first shall be this: viz. Christ saith, in Rev. 1.18. I am he that liveth and was dead; and behold I am alive for evermore. Pray mistake not, for as Christ was God, so he could not die; for his Godhead could not suffer, nor die. But as he was Man, and surety for all sinners that ever did, or that ever should believe in him, so he died; and as he was ordained and appointed by God the Father so to do, in the Confederal Covenant between the Father and the Son, Zech. 16.13. Now, I pray, Sir, How can you Romanists eat and drink Christ personally and substantially, in his Body, Soul and Divinity; but that Christ at the same time must of necessity suffer and die? And then how many Millions of times must Christ have suffered and died by your hands, according to this Doctrine of yours, since you first brought it into the World? For the Apostle saith plainly, That if Christ be offered up often, that then he must suffer often; which clearly infers, that as often as he is offered up, so often he suffers; and he also saith, that Christ died but once, Rom. 6.10. For in that he died, he died but once; but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God. And, I pray, Sir, do you roman-catholics look into your own Creed, and there you will 〈…〉 of the Articles of your Faith, that Christ suffered once under Pontius Pilate, and was Buried, and Descended into Hell, and Rose again from the Dead the third Day, and is Ascended up into Heaven, and is sat down at the Right hand of God, from whence he shall come to Judge the Quick and the Dead. Which is very true, I do own it to be so. And the Holy Scriptures say clearly and positively, That Christ is ascended up into Heaven, and is sat down at the Right hand of God, and there he is to sit until God has made his enemies his footstool: And Antichrist the Man of Sin, is the greatest enemy that our Saviour Christ hath upon Earth, whom Christ will consume with the spirit or rod of his mouth, and destroy by the brightness of his coming. Tho Antichrist have usurped Christ's Throne for a long time, in the Temple of God, and Reigned and Ruled over the Souls and Consciences of men, which is Christ's peculiar Prerogative, yet the time is at hand that he shall be made his footstool; this was spoken Prophetically by David, of what was to be in the last times, at the period of Antichrist's Reign, Psal. 110.1. And our Saviour himself gives it further Sanction, in Matt. 22.44. The Lord said unto my Lord, sit thou on my right hand, till I have made thine enemies thy footstool. Mark 12.36. Luke 20.42, 43. Hence we may observe, That from Christ's state of Humiliation and Ascension into Glory, until he comes again in Triumph, in his state of Exaltation; all that time that Christ sits at the right hand of God the Father, by God's permissive will, his enemies were to be uppermost in the World; first the Heathen Emperors, and after them, than Antichrist the Man of Sin, he got into the Temple of God, and his Reign there was to be One thousand two hundred and sixty days, which is so many years, Ezek. 4.6. until Christ comes again and makes him his footstool. But whether he will come personally, as some are of opinion he will, or otherwise, I will not determine; but I will leave the Reader to the Scriptures, Acts 1.9, 10, 11. And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up, and a cloud received him out of their sight. And while they looked steadfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold two men stood by them in white apparel, which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? This same Jesus which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven. Rev. 20.4. Rev. 1.7. Job 19.25, 26, 27. Now, Does Christ so come in your Mass? But now if Christ be in person, sitting at the right hand of God the Father, in Glory, as you see clearly proved by the Holy Word of God he is, and that he is not to come from thence until his enemies be made his footstool; and that when he does come from thence, he is to come in like manner as he ascended 〈…〉 shall 〈◊〉 him so come, and that his Body is a finite Body; Why if this be so, then Christ cannot be personally and corporeally present in the Sacrament of the Eucharist, in so many thousand places at once, as the Mass is or may be said, and yet at the same time to be personally and corporeally at the right hand of God the Father in Glory, making intercession with him for poor Sinners; Tho Christ, as God, is in all places both in Heaven and Earth, and excluded from no place: But yet as he is the only Mediator between God and Man, so he is fixed in Heaven at the right hand of God, until his enemy's measure of iniquity be full, and then they shall all be made his footstool. He is entered into Heaven as the forerunner, for his people; he entered into Heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us as an Advocate: He is the first fruits of the resurrection of the dead. So that this Doctrine of Christ's Personal and Corporeal Presence in the Sacrament, does even contradict and destroy your own Faith or Creed, as well as it does overthrow the whole current of the Holy and Sacred Scriptures. As for the former, I will appeal, even unto you your own selves who are Romanists, that do say, and pretend to own and believe your own Creed, whether it be not so or no? And as for the latter, I will appeal unto all sorts of Christians whatsoever, that do own and believe the Holy Scriptures to be the revealed word and will of God, whether it be not so or no? And also I will appeal to their own Sense and Reason.  
Again secondly, Let us hear further what the Apostle saith, for more light into this dark matter; in 1 Cor. 10.1, 2, 3, 4. Brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed thorough the sea: And were all baptised unto Moses (who was a type of Christ) And were all baptised unto Moses in the cloud, and in the sea: And did all eat the same spiritual meat: And did all drink the same spiritual drink: For they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ. These were all true Believers in Christ, which were among the Children of Israel in Moses' days, and all of them did live by Faith upon Christ, and they all fed upon the same spiritual food then, as we do now under the Gospel, this is that hidden Manna, Rev. 2.17. This is that meat which God gives his Children to eat, which the World knows nothing of. By Faith, Moses forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the King; for he endured, as seeing him who is Invisible. That was by an eye of Faith, Moses saw Christ in his day, that could not be seen by an eye of sense; through Faith he kept the Passover and sprinkling of Blood, lest he that destroyed the first born, should touch them; by Faith, they passed through the Red Sea, as by dry 〈…〉 Christ under the Mosaical Law, is wholly ascribed unto Faith; and that it was Spiritual meat and drink, and the very same meat and drink that Believers do live upon spiritually now, under the dispensation of the Gospel; hence you may observe, that Christ was as much materially and corporeally eaten and drank, before ever he had assumed humane nature, or had a real material body to eat, and blood to drink, as ever he has been at any time since, that he hath taken humane nature upon him; for if Christ be really Transubstantiated into his very person consisting of Body, Soul and Divinity, and so eaten, now under the Gospel, since he had a Body, why, then it will necessarily and consequentially follow, that Christ was corporeally and substantially eaten in Body, Soul and Divinity, before ever he had a Body to be eaten; for you see it clearly proved from the Apostle's words, that the believing Israelites did eat the same spiritual meat, and did all drink the same spiritual drink then, as true Believers do now under the Gospel; for the Text saith plainly, that they did all eat of the same spiritual meat, and did all drink of the same spiritual drink; for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them, and that Rock was Christ. The Children of Israel might as well have Transubstantiated a Rock into the real Body and Blood of Christ, and so eaten and dranken that instead of Christ, or for Christ, which is to eat Stones instead of the Bread of Life; as for you to imagine, or pretend to eat and drink Christ corporeally and personally in the Sacrament of the Eucharist: For I will assure ye that there is as good Reason, and as clear a Warrant and Authority, either from Scripture or Reason, to believe the one, as there is to believe the other; for our Saviour Christ was spiritual meat and spiritual drink under the Mosaical Law, and he is the same and no other now under the Gospel: Their feeding upon Christ, and enjoying communion and fellowship with Christ, under the Law, was Spiritual and by Faith; why, even so it is the same, and no more, nor no less now, nor in all foregoing Ages under the Gospel. Christ is to be received and eaten by Faith, and in spiritual love also now, as he was then, of which I shall give you a farther proof by and by.  
Again thirdly, Pray, Sir, observe strictly what the same Apostle saith, in 1 Cor. 10.20, 21. But I say, the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to Devils, and not to God. I would not that ye should have fellowship with Devils: Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of Devils; ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's Table, and of the Table of Devils.  
The Apostle spoke this cautionarily, by way of reproof to some persons, perhaps, in that day, that might be somewhat guilty thereof because he 〈…〉 told them of Thessalonica, that the mystery of iniquity did begin to work in that day, 2 Thess. 2. 〈◊〉 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work. T●● Man of Sin, Antichrist, was a beginning to cre●● into the Church, the Temple of God, even the●● as you may see in Verse 3, 4. And also the Apostle by a Prophetic Spirit, did speak concerning some that would pretend to be Christians, that would thus horribly profane the Sacrament of the Lord Supper, which is there called the Cup of the Lord and the Table of the Lord, and that, by making 〈◊〉 Sacrifice of that holy Ordinance, which was instituted principally, to remember the great Sacrifi●● that was offered up for Sin, namely, the Lord Jes●● Christ, who was offered up once for all, a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable unto God. And it is the e●press command of Christ, viz. Do this in remembrance of me.  
Now these Gentiles here, which the Apostle do●● arraign as guilty, that do thus profane the Cup 〈◊〉 the Lord, and the Table of the Lord, cou●● not be meant of the Heathen, Idolatrous Gentil●● which never professed, nor owned the name 〈◊〉 Christ, and therefore they never made use of th● Ordinance; but this was Prophesied of Idolatrous Gentiles, pretended Christians, that do own t●● Ordinance, though not in A Right manner, for th●● make a Sacrifice of it: And they do also own 〈◊〉 name of Christ in words, though in works of me●● and by works of supererogation they deny hi●● Secondly, Neither could this be spoken of t●● Jews which do offer Sacrifices, because the Apo●●● saith they were Gentiles, that should come into 〈◊〉 Church or Temple of God, and offer up this ki●●● of Sacrifice upon the Table of the Lord, whi●● they make an Altar of; which Error of sacrifici●● or Mystery of Iniquity, might be part of t●● which began to work in the Apostles days, wh●● were a forerunner of Antichrist, the Man of S●●● for the Passover, and all the Sacrifices under 〈◊〉 Mosaical Law, were all but Types and Shadows 〈◊〉 Christ's coming in the Flesh, and dying in the F●● for sinners, they were all but signs and figure● remember Christ by, and Christ was spiritually 〈◊〉 joyed under them, and eaten and dranken in t●● by Faith, as the Apostle asserts, which has been 〈◊〉 ready proved, 1 Cor. 10.1, 2, 3, 4. Why, 〈◊〉 so the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper was i●●●tuted by our Saviour Christ, the Night in whic● 〈◊〉 was betrayed, to keep up a holy, thankful remembrance of Christ's being come in the flesh, and ●●ing in the flesh, in the room of poor fallen 〈◊〉 that lay polluted in his Blood, in sin and mi●●● out in the open field, and none to pity nor 〈◊〉 him, neither was he capable to help himself; 〈◊〉 that which was worst of all, he did not, nor 〈◊〉 not desire any help, Ezek. 16.3, 4, 5, 6. Th● 〈◊〉 ●eas an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite. And as for ●hy nativity, in the day thou wast born, thy navel was not ●ut, neither waist thou washed in water to supple thee: ●hou wast not salted at all, nor swaddled at all. This is Man in a natural lapsed state and condition. None ●e pitted thee, to do any of these unto thee, to have compassion upon thee, but thou wast cast into the open field, 〈◊〉 the loathing of thy person in the day that thou wast ●●rn. And when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted 〈◊〉 thine own blood, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy ●●ood, Live: yea, I said unto thee, when thou wast in ●●●y blood, Live. This was the case and condition of mankind after the fall, and is of every particular individual person before the work of Regeneration ●●sseth upon his Soul, by the mighty powerful ●●eration of the Holy Ghost, out of which state ●●d condition there was no Redemption, but by christ's offering up himself a Sacrifice to satisfy ●●●vine Justice, and so to make up the breach that 〈◊〉 had made between God and Man, and reconcile 〈◊〉 and Man together: And this great and only sacrifice we are in special manner to commemorate 〈◊〉 the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, from them ●●●rds of our Saviour Christ, Do this in remembrance ●●●one.  
Why, even so the Passover, and all the Sacrifices under the Ceremonial Law, were instituted and ●●●●●inted by God, for a Remembrance, that Christ 〈◊〉 to come in the flesh, and die in the flesh to re●●●●● fallen Man: And here I will show you the 〈◊〉 over and the Sacrifice both joined together in 〈◊〉 Antitype, or that which they signified unto us; 〈◊〉 also the sanctifying, purging nature and virtue, ●●●●●ysical operation of it, in 1 Cor. 5.7. Purge out ●●●●●fore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as 〈◊〉 unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacri●●●● for us.  
●●d as there was a Remembrance of Sin in the ●●●●●fices, to show what an evil and dangerous thing 〈◊〉 and how contrary it is to the holy Nature of 〈◊〉 why, even so there is a remembrance of sin 〈◊〉 Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, to show 〈◊〉 an evil there is in sin, and also how contrary 〈◊〉 the Holy Nature of God.  
〈◊〉 Sacrifice under the Law, and the Sacrament 〈◊〉 the Gospel, are like two great Looking- 〈◊〉 in which Believers saw the deformity of 〈◊〉 in which they also see the great Love of 〈◊〉 poor sinful Dust and Ashes. In the Glass under 〈◊〉, they saw that Christ was to come and be of●●●●● for sin; and in our great Glass under the 〈◊〉, we see that Christ hath come, and has ●●●●●ered up for sin.— Sin is such a heinous, ●●●●voking thing, that nothing short of the 〈◊〉 precious Blood of Christ, the spotless 〈◊〉 God, could appease, or extinguish the 〈◊〉 God that was kindled against sinners, and expel the guilt, and expiate sin, and satisfy the Justice of God, and justify and atone them to God, and purchase Eternal Life and Salvation for them, at the price of his own precious Blood, and copious Righteousness, and Alsufficient Merits. And he made up the Breach that sin did make between sinful man, and that God, who is of purer eyes then to behold iniquity, with any approbation thereunto; For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life, through Jesus Christ our Lord: And Christ received the wages that was due unto us sinning men; and poor sinners receive the gift of God that was purchased by him: For although God gives it, yet Christ purchases it. All the Sacrifices under the Law of Moses, no, nor all the good works, nor pretended sacrifices under the Gospel, they all cannot take away, nor expiate the least vain sinful thought; for all our Righteousnesses are all but filthy Rags. Tho it is true, we shall not be saved without Good Works, and right Gospel Sacrifices, yet we shall never be saved by, nor for them; for Christ saith, Luke 17.10. So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all these things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants, we have done that which was our duty to do. Eph. 2.8, 9 For by grace are ye saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; for it is the gift of God: No, for Faith itself is not of ourselves, for it is the Gift of God. Not of works, lest any man should boast. For if Man were to be saved by, and for his own works, he would be proud, and make his boast of it: For there is not a prouder person upon Earth, in the account of God, than a Pharisaical, selfconceited righteous person is. Pray see what is said of him, in Prov. 30.12, 13. There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness. There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up. And in Isa. 65.3, 5. A people that provoked me to anger continually to my face, that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth Incense upon Altars of brick. The Prophet here prophesied of a Generation of pretended Christians, Ay, and of such as do look upon themselves to be the only, Infallible holy Christians, and that are Sacrificers in Gospel times. Pray mind what he saith of them, as followeth, Which say, stand by thyself, come not near to me, for I am more holier than thou. It must needs be so, when they count themselves the only Christians, and all other to be Heretics. But see how God accepts these persons and their Sacrifices, that are our Gospel Sacrificers, viz. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the day. And no person is pure in his own eyes, but the self-righteous person. And I pray hear further what is said by our Saviour Christ of such a person, Luke 18.10, 11, 12, 13, 14. Two men went up into the temple to pray the 〈◊〉 a Pharisee, and the other a Publican; the Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this Publican. I fast twice in the week, (It may be that was on Wednesdays and Fridays) I give tithes of all that I possess. (He thought himself Cocksure of Heaven, and did not so much as dream of stopping at Purgatory by the way: But see what it all came to at last,) And the Publican standing afar off, would not so much as lift up his eyes unto heaven, but snote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner. I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased, and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted. I say again, That all the Sacrifices under the Law, could not take away, nor expiate sin, for they were but figures of Christ the great and only Sacrifice, that was to be offered up in due time, to take away sin from the ungodly, and make them holy.  
Pray, Sir, observe with me these following Scriptures for further illumination, Heb. 8.4, 5, 6, 7. For if he were on earth (That is, Christ) he should not be a priest, seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according to the law, which serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things. Mind, These Sacrifices were but examples and shadows, when they were in force, and according to God's appointment, before Christ abolished them, of Heavenly things that was to come, that was the fruit, and effect, or product of the heavenly things that were transacted between God the Father and Christ his Son, in his Eternal Council with the Holy Ghost, which proceeds from the Father and the Son, in order to Man's Redemption. As Moses was admonished of God, when he was about to make the jabernacle; for see, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shown to thee in the Mount: But now hath obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises: For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second. Heb. 7.19. I do believe the Apostle Paul, in Heb. 8.4. spoke Ironically of those Priests that were so ignorant then, Ay, and that do now offer up material Sacrifices, both of Jews and Gentiles, in Gospel times; for it does signify that Christ is not come in the flesh, but that he is yet to come and die; which is a downright denying that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh, in Works: For, says the Apostle, if he were on earth, he should not be a priest, seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according to the law. If he, that is Christ, the only high Priest, were on Earth, he should not be a Priest, because these Priests that offer Sacrifice under the Gospel are all Invaders and Usurpers of Christ's Priestly 〈…〉 under the Mosaical Law, were all but Types and Shadows of Christ, of his Coming and Dying; for Christ is the High Priest, and Priest of the most High God, Heb. 7.15, 16, 17, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27. For this Melchisedec King of Salem, Priest of the most High God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the Kings, and blessed him. And it is yet far more evident, for that after the similitude of Melchisedec there ariseth another Priest, who is made not after the Law of carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life; for he testifieth, Thou art a Priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec; and they truly were many Priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death; but this man because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable Priesthood; wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make Intercession for them; for such an high Priest became us who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens, who needeth not daily as those high Priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the peoples; for this he did Once when he offered up himself. Here you see is the durable Priesthood, Rev. 8.3, 4. there Christ is the Golden Altar on which all our Gospel-sacrifices of Prayers and Thanksgiving, must be offered up to God; or else neither the person nor the offering will ever be accepted by the Lord. And look into 1 Cor. 5.7. and there you have the Sacrifice. Thus you see clearly made out unto you, that Christ is the only Priest, Altar and Sacrifice, of which all these Priests, and Altars, and Sacrifices, and the Passover, under the Law, were Types and Figures; and therefore the Apostle did as it were expose and ridicule, or even laugh to see the ignorance of those Priests that do offer Sacrifices under the Gospel-Dispensation, for a remembrance of Christ's yet coming to die for sin; for that is the signification of all those material Sacrifices, when as Christ was then come, and had suffered, and was gone to Glory; this is more tolerable in the Jews who do not believe that Christ the Messiah is come than it is for any that profess themselves Christians and believe that Christ is already come; for the Jews do not believe that the Messiah is come, and therefore they keep up their Sacrifices and Offerings, th● they have lost the very sense and meaning of them and the End and Design of God in his first ordaining and appointing of them; but for any that pretend to be Christians, and yet to offer up these kin● of material Sacrifices, and yet do own that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh; why I do say, that th● they do confess in words that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh, yet in these Sacrifices they do plain●● deny it, for it is a turning back again to the Jewi●● Law; for these Sacrifices say plainly, that Jesus Christ is not yet come in the flesh, because his 〈◊〉 in the flesh put an end to that Ordinance as well as to the Passover, and all other carnal Ordinances, and Ceremonial Rites, when he had finished the work which God the Father gave him to do. Again, another Scripture for Illumination is that in Heb. 9.8, 9, 12. The Holy Ghost there signifying that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while the first Tabernacle was yet standing; for that first Tabernacle was the Ceremonial Law, of Types and Shadows, and material Sacrifices; for Christ is the way into the holiest of all; who was not then come nor manifested in the flesh, when these Sacrifices were in force, 1 Joh. 1.1, 2. That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled of the word of life; for the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and show unto you that eternal life which was with the Father, and manifested unto us. What was this manifestation? why it was Christ, when he came in the flesh, as you may see, 1 Tim. 3.16. And without controversy great is the mystery of Godliness, God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen of Angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into Glory. Christ was justified by God the Father, and acquitted from all the sins of his people when he had suffered and died, and risen again.  
But Christ was not so manifested then under the Law when this Covenant was standing which was not faultless, and all these Sacrifices in force and being; which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both Gifts and Sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to Conscience, Heb. 7.19. for ●he Law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did, etc.  
Here you see all these Sacrifices and Services under the Law were all imperfect, they could not ●each the Conscience to purge and sanctify that; neither could they purify nor cleanse the heart; ●hey were all but Figures and Types of that which ●as to come, which was of the Lord Jesus Christ, ●he great and only Sacrifice, who was to come, and ●e offered up; who is said to be our Passover, and is sacrificed for us. And it is moreover said, Neither by ●he blood of Goats, and the ashes of an Heifer, sprinkling ●●e unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh. No, ●othing but the Blood of Christ the Lamb of God ●●n cleanse a soul from the guilt and pollution of 〈◊〉, Joh. 1.29. The next day John seethe Jesus coming ●●to him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which ●●keth away the sin of the world.  
Again, Fourthly and lastly, one Scripture more ●●t the utter overthrowing of all pretended material sacrifices short of Christ and his Righteousness and 〈◊〉, to expunge and expiate sin and guilt, and sanctify the soul, and present it unto the Father without spot or wrinkle, like himself, fully justified and acquitted from all the demands of Justice, and wholly discharged from the Law; for Christ's being justified was his people's Justification, which the Law could not do in that it was weak; for all the Sacrifices under the Law, when they were in force, could not take away sin; and Sacrifices under the Gospel cannot do it; for these material Sacrifices of yours, themselves are an abomination in the sight of God, and are as smoke in his nose, Isa. 65. For there never was but one real Propitiatory, and sufficient Sacrifice for all the sins of God's people both under the Law, and under the Gospel, and that was Christ, who was offered up a living Sacrifice, holy and acceptable unto God, and that but once, as I have already proved from the holy Scripture, Heb. 10.1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 11. For the Law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those Sacrifices which they offered year by year continually, make the comers thereunto perfect. But in these Sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sin, but our Saviour Christ the great Sacrifice perfects for ever them which are sanctified; there cometh all the Believers perfection in at that door, and no where else; For it is not possible that the blood of Bulls and of Goats should take away sins. In Burnt-offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure. O no; for in these material, Ceremonial Sacrifices, there was much sin and imperfection, and therefore God could take no pleasure in them. And every priest standeth daily ministering, and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sin. 12. But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins, for ever sat down on the right hand of God, from henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.  
So that here you see again, That these Sacrifices and Offerings, before Christ came in the flesh, were but for a Remembrance of Sin, and of Christ's coming in the flesh, and dying in the flesh, and rising again to redeem fallen lost sinners; For whilst we were sinners, Christ died for the ungodly. And the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, after Christ's coming in the flesh, and dying in the flesh, and rising again from the dead for our justification, is for a Remembrance that Christ is come in the flesh, and has suffered, and died in the room and place of fallen sinners to expiate the guilt, and to wash away the filth and pollution of sin, and to atone us to God, who was the Just and the Holy One. He who knew no sin, became sin for us, that we might be made the righteousness of God through him. Christ is come, and has died in the flesh, and is justified in the spirit, by which justification of his, all true Believers come to be justified freely, and pardoned fully. Rom. 33.34. Who shall lay any thing to the charge of demneth? It is Christ that died, yea, rather that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. This word also signifieth, that there is some other Intercessor. Why look into v. 26. and there you will see, that the Holy Ghost maketh intercession for the Believer; and in the Believer, the spirit indicts all our Prayers in us, if we pray in a right manner, Rev. 1.5. And from Jesus Christ who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth: Ay, and that Antichrist shall know in a little time: It draws on apace towards a period of his Reign. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood. This is the only Purgatory for sinners, there is no Purge to be had for Sin any where else; and all that ever were purged and saved from the days of Adam, until Christ came in the flesh, were saved upon the account of Christ's coming and dying in the flesh, to make satisfaction to the Justice of God for their sins, as he was their surety of that better Covenant, or Days-man, to fulfil all Righteousness for them that believe.  
With Holy Reverence be it spoken, it is thus: All they that were saved before Christ came in the flesh, and died in his estate of humiliation, were saved upon Christ's Word and Credit, upon the account of that Confederal Covenant that was made, in order to Man's Redemption, between God the Father and God the Son from all Eternity, That Christ in due time would come into the World, and take up humane nature, and stand in the room of poor sinners, and lay down his Life for poor lapsed undone Man, and to purchase Grace and Holiness for us here, and Eternal Life and Salvation for us hereafter with himself in Glory. It is Comparatively, as if there should be a Covenant made between two persons, for such and such parcels of Merchandise, or for such a parcel of Land, and the purchaser doth bargain and agree for the said Merchandise or Land wholly upon Credit, and enters into Covenant or Bonds, according to their agreement, to pay him, that he purchased the said Premises of, so much moneys, at such a time as they do agree upon, punctually; Now upon this Consideration and Contract, he giveth the Purchaser as ample and peaceable possession, and quiet enjoyment of it, as if he had paid him every penny of the Money down upon the Nail: And he reaps all the benefit of it, until the time does come, in the which he doth actually and punctually pay him his Money according to Contract. Why, even so it was with a respect to Christ, in that Confederal Covenant between himself and God the Father, in relation to every Believer that was saved before Christ came in the flesh, and actually laid down his life for them, 1 Pet. 1.18, 19, 20. Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation, received by tradition from your fathers; But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish, and without spot: Who verily was fore-ordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you.  
2. And secondly, All those that should be saved after Christ came in the flesh, and actually paid the price of Redemption, by laying down his Life, by which he purchased all them that ever should be saved for time then to come, to the end of the World. Now, this is like a Man that purchases all the Wine that such a Vineyard shall produce for so long time; or like a Crop of Corn that a Man purchaseth as soon as the Seed is sown, and payeth down every Farthing of his Money long before ever he receives any of the Wine or Corn: Every true Believer throughout all Ages, from Adam to the end of the World, are the purchase of Christ, Acts 20.28. Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the Church of God which he hath purchased with his own blood. Job 19.25. For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: This was spoken about One thousand six hundred years  ever Christ was born, or took flesh upon him. Thus you see that Christ is the only Sacrifice that is sufficient and propitiatory for the sins of all true Believers, both under the Law and under the Gospel; for they are all of them purchased at the price of his precious Blood alone: And none else beside him is the Sacrifice for sin; and his Blood is the only Purgatory for sinners, and no other; for we are redeemed with the precious blood of Christ, as of a Lamb without blemish, and without spot.  
Now dear Sir, Pray be pleased to take the Candle of the Lord, and look about all Christendom, and see and consider well with yourself, who there be, and what Sect or sort of persons are there to be found among them that are called Christians, or do but own the name of Christ, that do make a Sacrifice of the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, and they are the persons that are here intended by the Holy Apostle, who spoke as he was moved and inspired by the Holy Ghost; for he could see by the Infallible Spirit of God, even in that day,— That a certain Sect or sort of people would come up upon the Stage of Christendom, or into the Temple of God, that would forbid Marriage to pretended Religious Orders of Men and Women, though the Holy Scripture saith plainly and literally, that it is better to Marry than to Burn.— And the same Apostle saw by the same Spirit, That the same sort of people that forbidden Marriage, would further reject the Scripture, by commanding all persons whatsoever to abstain from Flesh: The Apostle had an Express sent him from 〈…〉 tidings, 1 Tim. 4.1, 2, 3. But the Apostle tells us, we may eat whatsoever is sold in the Shambles (to wit, Butcher's meat) ask no questions for Conscience sake. And the Apostle did see by the same Infallible Spirit clearly and spontaneously, that a sort of Idolatrous Gentiles, which are only nominal Christians, would come into the Church or Temple of God, that would make a Sacrifice of the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, in that Scripture which I quoted before, to wit, 1 Cor. 10.20, 21. But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice unto devils, and not unto God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils. Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of Devils; ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's Table, and of the Table of Devils. Now, Sir, the Protestants do not make a Sacrifice of the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, they do not look upon the Elements of Bread and Wine to be Transubstantiated into the real person of Christ, namely, of Body, Soul and Divinity, after their Blessing or Consecrating of them, and so offer him up as a Sacrifice, as you of the Roman Community do own, and pretend to believe; and that the Elements are miraculously turned into the real, substantial Body of Christ, viz. Body, Soul, and Divinity, and then offer him up as a Sacrifice sufficient and propitiatory for the sins of the living and the dead.  
But here will appear two Sacrifices, you will see by and by, in this one,— The Apostle saith, that it is a Sacrificing unto Devils, and not to God, and they that are guilty of this practice have fellowship with Devils in it, and not with God; for saith he, Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of Devils; ye cannot be partaker of the Lord's Table, and of the table of Devils. Thus you do hear what the Apostle saith; it is not my word, but his, which he spoke by Divine Inspiration: They offer up sacrifices unto Devils.  
But here, I say, are two Sacrifices, as you may observe, in this one:  
The first is this, whereas the Priest doth pretend to offer up a Sacrifice sufficient and propitiatory for the sins of the living and the dead, why here the Apostle telleth us plainly, that this is to offer a Sacrifice unto the Devil, and not unto God: So that it is clear, that they do offer a Sacrifice unto the Devil, under a specious pretence of sacrificing unto God.  
And the second Sacrifice that springs out of this one Sacrifice, is this, viz. The poor Lay-people do really offer up their Senses, Reason, Understanding, and Faith, and all that should be dear unto them, both as Christians and Men, in Sacrifice to the Priest; and they are no longer Masters of their own Senses, Reason, Understanding, Soul and Conscience, for 〈…〉 another. They have eyes and see not, they have cars and hear not; they are fallen under that heavy Judgement which the Gospel Prophet predicted, and also our Saviour Christ himself, Isa. 29.10, 11, 12. For the Lord hath poured out upon you, the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets, and your rulers, the seers hath he covered. And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot, for it is sealed. And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned. Matt. 13.14, 15. And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive: For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their cars are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed, lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them. I do believe that this Prophecy does principally refer to the Jews, and took place upon them first, for rejecting and disbelieving Christ the true Messiah; but those Christians that have contracted the same guilt as they did, to reject the Gospel of Christ, they do make themselves guilty of the same sin with the Jews, and by that means have lain themselves in the bed of unbelief with them, and are both Sacrificers now in Gospel times, which is to deny that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh; so they lay themselves under the same Judgement with the Jews; for one and the same cause, produceth one and the same effects at one time as well as at another, without preventing Mercy: But the Apostle Paul speaks clearly of a sort of Christians, that would cast off and reject the Gospel of God, for which God did bring the like judgement upon them, in 2 Thess. 2.11, 12. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusions, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believe not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness. God punisheth them by their own very sins, and makes it a judgement unto them, as he did by the Jews, and they are under much what the same judgement with the Jews; for the first did choose Delusions and Lies, and then God gave them up unto them, just as God gave the Jews to a hard heart and a blind mind, and they are all laid in the grave of unbelief and prejudice, against Christ the true Messiah, and therefore they are Sacrificing, and Sacrificing still, now under the Gospel: Why, so God has given up these sacrificing Christians, and so these Apostates or Backsliders in heart come to be filled with their own ways.— And you must certainly give yourselves up to strong Delusions, or else you would never abuse and disbelieve the Holy Scriptures as you do, which is the revealed Will of 〈…〉 and walk by; so that the people have no more use of the Gospel than the Jews that do not believe that Christ is yet come in the flesh; so that you are as ignorant with a respect to any saving experiemental knowledge of Christ's being come in the flesh, as the very Jews are; for while you profess to know him in word, you deny him in works, namely in sacrifices, and other carnal Ordinances; and were not your Consciences seared with a hot Iron, you would never disbelieve your own senses and reason, and understandings as you do, for you must not believe your own eyes that tell you that the Bread or Wafer after Consecration, as it's called, is still Bread, and the Wine is Wine still without any alteration. Nor you must not believe your own hands that give the same account of it unto you; nor you must not believe your own mouth that telleth you, that it is Bread and not Flesh. But the Priest, by what authority I know not, will not suffer the Lay-peoples' mouths to make a judgement upon the Wine, whether it be Wine or Blood, though Christ hath given a particular and an express command for it; as in them words of our Saviour's, Drink ye all of it, Mat. 26.27. Mark 14.23. And they all drank of it. But this is your misery, you must believe as the Church believes, or as the Priest commands ye to believe; you must not believe Christ, nor his Apostles, nor his Gospel, nor your own senses, reason and understanding, none of these are to be believed, but all is fast locked up in unbelief, and the Priest carrieth the Key of your Knowledge at his Girdle; and thus you do see clearly, and spontaneously proved, that you are the persons which the Apostle Paul prophesied of, that do make a Sacrifice of the Sacrament of the Lords-Supper, when as there is no material Sacrifices of this kind to be offered up in this manner; for Christ at his coming, and dying, and rising again, put an end to all that kind of worship, Col. 2.14, 15, 16, 18, 20, 21, 22, 23. Heb. 9.9, 10, 11, 12.  
But yet notwithstanding give me leave to tell ye, that we have our Gospel-Sacrifices, but they are all Spiritual, viz. The sacrifice of a broken heart, and of an humble contrite spirit; and the sacrifice of prayer, and of thanksgiving, and every part of holy worshipping of God in spirit and in truth; these are the Sacrifices that are accepted and wellpleasing unto God, when we offer up ourselves in them; when all is offered up unto God upon the Golden Altar the Lord Jesus Christ, and mixed with his Merits, and both the person and the offering covered with his Robe of Righteousness, the only Garment of Salvation, Rev. 8.3, 4. And another Angel came and stood at the Altar, having a Golden Censer, and there was given to him much Incense that he should offer it with the prayers of all Saints upon the Golden Altar, 〈…〉 cense which came with the prayers of the Saints, ascended up before God out of the Angel's hand. This is the Angel of the Covenant, the Lord Jesus Christ, who presents our persons and petitions unto God the Father for us, if they be indicted in us by God the Holy Ghost, Rom. 8.26, 27. Likewise the spirit also helpeth our infirmities, for we know not what we should pray for as we ought, but the spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groan which cannot be uttered. And he that searcheth the hearts, knoweth what is the mind of the spirit, because he maketh intercession for the Saints according to the will of God. And the person must be clothed with Christ's Robe of Righteousness, Isa. 61.10. I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my soul shall be joyful in my God, for he hath clothed me with the garments of Salvation, he hath covered me with the Robe of Righteousness, as a Bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a Bride adorneth herself with her Jewels. This is the Wedding-garment that every soul hath on that is married to Christ; and hence you may observe floweth all the Saints joy and comfort, from their being justified by the righteousness of Christ.  
But if this be so as you see clearly proved that it is, than what a miserable condition must all these poor souls be in, that hope for and expect Eternal life and Salvation upon no better ground nor foundation than their own meritorious works of righteousness, and boast of their works of Supererogation, which will all prove Physicians of no value, and will prove miserable Comforters in the End; they are but sparks of their own kindling, Isa. 50.11. Behold all ye that kindle a fire, that compass yourselves about with sparks; walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks that ye have kindled; this shall ye have of mine hand, ye shall lie down in sorrow.  
Thus you do see what a vast difference there is between your Sacrifices, and the Protestants Gospel-Sacrifices, the one is an abomination, and abhorred by the Lord: The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord; but the prayer of the upright is his delight: And the true Gospel-sacrifices are accepted with the Lord in and through Christ, if offered up upon the Golden Altar of his Righteousness and Merits; then they are God's delight.  
Now in the next place I shall offer unto you a few modest and solid Reasons, together with some Arguments to confute this gross error, and strong delusion that you, poor souls, are involved in.  
In the first place, if this Doctrine of yours be true, why then so far it renders Faith useless, and destroys it; for if our Saviour Christ be personally and substantially come again, and is thus present with his people, why then the use of that part o● Faith is at an end. As for instance, before our Saviour Christ came in the flesh, it was the duty of a 〈◊〉 God's 〈…〉 come in the flesh, because God had promised that he should so come, Gen. 3.15.  
But after our Saviour Christ did come in the flesh, why then that part of Faith was at an end; for after that, whoever looked for his coming in that nature, did not exercise Faith, but it was a great sin, for it was the product of unbelief, which was a very great Judgement, and it is the very Grave wherein the poor scattered Jews have lain dead and buried ever since; and unbelief and prejudice against Christ, is the Grave-stone also that lieth upon them, and keeps them down. Our Saviour told them, If ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins.— But now the proper work and office of Faith is to see him that is invisible, Heb. 11.27. By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the King, for he endured as seeing him who is invisible; that was Christ. But how can that be? it seems to be a contradiction in itself; what, to see him which cannot be seen! why it must be understood thus, that Moses did see Christ by an eye of Faith, who could not be seen by an eye of sense, a bodily eye. And thus Abraham the Father of the Faithful did see Christ before ever he came in the flesh: Your Father Abraham rejoiced to see my day, and he saw it and was glad. And thus all true Believers do see and discern the Lord's Body at the Sacrament of the Lords-Supper; and he is to be discerned no otherwise there. And Stephen the Martyr he saw Christ in Heaven after he was ascended, Act. 7.55. But he being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up steadfastly into Heaven, and saw the Glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God. But how did Stephen see him? why it was by an eye of faith, he being full of the Holy Ghost: Ay, that soul can never miss of seeing Christ at any time, or in any place, that is full of the Holy Ghost; and Stephen's confessing this, made his Enemies mad, insomuch that they run upon him and murdered him; for they perhaps thought that they could see as far as he could, and yet they could see no such sight: But the natural man receiveth not the things of the spirit of God, for they are foolishness unto him; neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned, 1 Cor. 2.14. Our Saviour Christ can no more be seen now personally and substantially by a bodily eye of sense, while he is at the right hand of God, than he could be seen in Moses' or Abraham's days, which was before ever he had a substantial Body to be seen; neither ever shall he be so seen until he cometh down from Heaven in that manner as he was seen to go up into Heaven, Act. 1.10, 11. Nor until he appeareth the second time without sin unto Salvation.— Without sin! why, doth not the Scripture ●ell us that he was without sin before, namely at his ●●rst coming? why yes, it does so, and it is very true, ●●at is, thus he was without sin, with a respect to 〈…〉 ●uilt or pollution, or any inclination to 〈…〉 sin in himself; for he was a Lamb without spot or blemish; the Lamb for Sacrifice did Type out unto us the sinless spotless nature of Christ.— But when Christ came first in the flesh, he appeared then in his state of Humiliation in the form of a servant, with all the sins of all the people of God upon him, of all that ever were saved and gotten safe into Glory, and of all that ever should be saved from Adam to the end of the world, all the sins of his people past, present, and to come; viz. of them that were dead and gone, and of them that were then living, and of them that were then unborn, all concentred upon Christ, but not in him; they all met upon Christ's shoulders, Isa. 53.5, 6. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquity, the chastisement of our peace was upon him, and with his stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray, we have turned every one to his own way, and the Lord hath laid upon him the iniquity of us all. Therefore it is said, God was manifested in the flesh. Then indeed Christ was seen with bodily eyes, for he was manifested in the flesh, justified in the spirit, after Christ had suffered and died, and risen again from the dead; when he had paid the debt to God which he stood engaged unto him for, as a surety for sinners; when the Law was fulfilled, and the Justice of God fully satisfied, and the wrath of God wholly appeased, than Christ must needs be justified, and by his being justified all his people for whom he died, were all justified. It was just as if a rich man were surety for a poor indigent man that was deeply in debt, and was not able to pay one farthing; why the Creditors take no notice of the poor Debtor, but fall upon the rich man that is his surety, and arrest him, and cast him into prison, upon which the rich man payeth all the poor man's debts, and then he comes forth, having fully discharged the debt, he and the poor Debtor are both fully discharged, the Prison could hold him no longer, so that both the Surety and the Debtor are justified and acquitted, the Law cannot take hold neither of the Surety nor the Debtor again, for that is fulfilled; why even so comparatively it was with a respect to Christ and poor sinners, he was bound for poor sinners, and the Justice of God passed by them, and seized upon Christ, and arrested him, and cast him into prison, Isa. 53.8, 9 He was taken from prison, and from judgement, etc. Which I take to be the prison of the Grave, for death could not hold him, but he paid every farthing of all the debt for all them for whom he died; and when he had discharged the debt for poor sinners, than he himself was fully discharged and justified, and all his people in him; and in this sense every believer is without sin, that is, they are free from the reigning condemning power of sin, though not from the in-being of sin, Rom. 8.1. And so is to be understood that 1. Joh. 2.9. Whosoever is born of God 〈…〉 sin, for his seed remaineth in him, and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. But to return to the case in hand, etc. But Christ has never been seen by any mortal eye in this world since he Ascended up into Glory; by which you may see that this Doctrine of Christ's being Corporeally present in the Sacrament, destroys the use and exercise of Faith in that Ordinance, which is to see him by the eye of Faith, who is at the right hand of God, and is invisible, which is to discern the Lords Body, which cannot be seen by a carnal bodily eye of sense, as you pretend to see him in your Sacrament.  
Secondly, If this Doctrine of Transubstantiation in your Church's sense be true, (to wit) That the Priest does convert the Bread and Wine into the real person of Christ, namely of Body, Soul and Divinity; then this must needs be a very great and wonderful Miracle, that must necessarily and consequentially follow.  
Therefore before we go any further, let us inquire a little into the nature and tendency of Miracles, and of their use and end, namely of those Miracles which we do find in Holy Writ, for I am persuaded it will be worth our while; and let us see if there be any kind of correspondency, or the least coherence between this Transubstantiated Miracle, and them holy, true and real Miracles.  
And the first Miracle that I will begin with shall be that of Moses, when he turned his Rod into a Serpent; why the people that were present saw that it was a Serpent; and when his Rod swallowed up the Magician's Rods, which they by their Enchantments had turned into Serpents, the people saw that it was so, and their senses and reason was satisfied of the reality of the thing, Exod. 7.9, 10, 11, 12.  
Secondly, When Moses smote with his Rod upon the Sea, and the Sea divided and made a way for the Children of Israel to pass through as on dry land, the people of God saw it, ay and the egyptians saw it too, to their utter destruction, Exod. 14.16, 17, 21, 25, 26, 27, 28, etc.  
Thirdly, When Moses smote upon the Rock with his Rod, and the water gushed out, Exod. 17.5, 6. the people saw this Miracle, it was not done in Huggermugger, for they drank of it, and highly commended it for sweet water, comparing it to Honey, in Scripture; why their senses, and reason, and understanding was satisfied that it was a real Miracle, it did not destroy their Intellectuals, as your miracle does, nor captivate their senses and reason.  
Fourthly, A fourth miracle was that of the Prophet Elijah's raising the widow's Son that was dead, to life again, in 1 King 17.20, 21, 22, 23, 24. the woman saw that her son was really dead before, and she also saw that her son was really alive after the Prophet had raised him, her senses and reason, etc. were 〈…〉 of Instances more in the Old Testament, but these shall suffice me, and I hope the Reader also.  
Secondly, I shall give you some Instances out of the New Testament.  
First, of the Miracles which our Saviour Christ himself wrought.  
And secondly, of some of the Miracles which the Apostles wrought.  
First, of some of the Miracles which our Saviour Christ himself wrought when he was at the Wedding at Cana, he turned water into Wine; the people saw that it was Water before, and they both saw and tasted that it was really Wine after Christ had wrought the Miracle; for the Governor or Steward of the Feast highly commended it to be far better Wine than any they had drank on before, of that which was of the real blood of the Grape, Joh. 2.9, 10, 23. Here was sense and reason, etc. all satisfied of the reality of the Miracle.  
Secondly, The second Miracle that I shall mention, shall be that of his Curing the Apostle Peter's Wives Mother of a Fever; and you do stile St. Peter Prince of the Apostles, yet a Married Man, Mat. 8.14, 15. And when Jesus was come into Peter's house, he saw his wife's mother laid, and sick of a Fever, and he touched her hand, and the Fever left her, and she arose and ministered unto them. The Woman felt the effects of the Miracle, and the people saw it, and were all satisfied.  
A third Miracle of Christ's, was his opening the eyes of him that was born blind; his Parents and his Neighbours knew that he was born blind, and they saw perfectly and clearly that his Eyes were opened, and that he had received his sight, Joh 9.18, 19, 20, 21. But the Jews did not believe concerning him, that he had been born blind, and received his sight; and they asked them, saying, Is this your Son which ye say was born blind? how then doth he now see? His Parents answered them, and said, We know that this is our Son, and that he was born blind; but by what means he now seethe, we know not, or who hath opened his Eyes, we know not, he is of age, ask him, he shall speak for himself. They knew that he was born blind; and they knew also that his Eyes were miraculously opened, and were well assured and satisfied of the reality of the thing.  
Fourthly, A fourth Miracle was that of his raising Lazarus from the dead; his Sisters and Friends had buried him before Christ came, insomuch that his Sister concluded that he stunk, Joh. 11.39, 41, 42, 43, 44. Jesus said, Take ye away the stone: Martha the Sister of him that was dead, saith unto him, Lord, by this time he stinketh; for he hath been dead four days. Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead was laid, and Jesus lift up his eyes, and said, Father, I thank thee, that thou hast heard me● and I know that thou hearest me always: but 〈…〉 the people which stand by, that they may believe that thou hast sent me. Mark ye, our Saviour Christ was for fatisfying the people, the standers by, to convince them of the reality of the Miracle, and also to let them know by what power and authority he did it. And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth. And he that was dead came forth hound hand and soot with grave-clothes, and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Lose him, and let him go. v. 45. Then many of the Jews which came to Mary, and had seen the things which Jesus did, believed on him. Here you see the people that were there, all saw this great and wonderful Miracle, and all their senses that were proper to be exercised on that occasion, were fully satisfied, and their reason was not sent empty nor blindfold away, nor with a Padlock clapped upon it, as your miracle of Transubstantiation always does unto them that believe it.  
The fifth and last Miracle that I shall now mention of our Saviour's, shall be the Miracle of Miracles, which was his rising from the dead, and his Miraculous Appearance unto his Disciples, which is the Crowning miracle of all which he wrought, though not the last, Luk. 24.36, 37, 38, 39, 40. And as they thus spoke, Jesus himself 'slud in the midst of them, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you: But they were terrified and affrighted, and supposed that they had seen a spirit. What made them thus afraid? Why it was Christ's Miraculous coming into the room through the Doors, as we may say, and stood in the midst of them, the Doors being all shut fast for fear of the Jews. And he said unto them, why are ye troubled, and why do thoughts arise in your hearts? behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself; handle me and see, for a spirit hath not fiesh and bones, as ye see me have. And when he had thus spoken, he shown them his hands and his feet. Joh. 20.19, 20, 24, 25, 26. Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the Doors were shut where the Disciples were assembled for fear of ●he Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and saith unto them, Peace be with ye. This made them so terribly afraid, because Christ came in personally among them, notwithstanding the Doors being fast ●hut. And when he had so said, he shown unto them his ●ands and his side; then were the Disciples glad when ●hey saw the Lord. That was, when our Saviour had satisfied their senses and reason, and their understanding, that it was he himself, and not another. ●ow if you could satisfy any body of the reality of ●our Christ, that is Transubstantiated; or if that ●hrist himself would satisfy people of the truth of 〈◊〉 as our true Saviour Christ did, it would be something. But Thomas a Didimus being absent this first ●●y that Christ appeared, he missed sight of him, vers. ●●, 25, 26. But Thomas, one of the Twelve, called Didi●●● 〈◊〉 not with them when Jesus came.  
The other Disciples therefore said unto him, We have seen the Lord: But he said unto them, Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe. And after eight days, again his Disciples were within, and Thomas with them; then came Jesus, the Doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, Peace be unto you; then said he to Thomas, Reach hither thy fingers, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side, and be not faithless, but believing.  
If you of the Roman Catholics that are Lay-people were but as incredulous about your Doctrine of Transubstantiation as Thomas a Didimus was of Christ's Resurrection, I know not how the Priests would do to satisfy you; but here you see that our Saviour Christ did satisfy all his Disciples, for he satisfied their senses and reason, and all the scruples that did arise in them, and he did not send their understandings empty away, nor hoodwinked; here was seeing, hearing, and feeling, fully satisfied, and reason and understanding sent full freighted or laden away, and no room left for the least doubt or scruple to be made of the truth and reality of those Miracles.  
But your Transubstantiated Miracle, is so far from satisfying any persons Senses, Reason and Understanding, whether Romanist or others, that will but be true to their Intellectuals, that it both betrayeth and destroyeth Sense, Reason and Understanding; for ye must not believe one of them noble faculties, if you believe your Miracle, which is quite contrary to the very nature of Miracles.— Pray mind our Saviour Christ, he comparatively did stoop down and condescend to Thomas' unbelief; but it was to destroy it: And this he did by satisfying his Senses, Reason, and Understanding also, John 20.24, 25, 26, 27. Now, if your Priests could do so, than it were something like; but because they cannot do it, it is not only nothing, but it is that which is infinitely worse than nothing, it is a very dangerous, pernicious Doctrine, for it is a strong Delusion, and it is one of Antichrist, the Man of Sin's Lying Wonders; for they that pretend to work this Miracle, do despise and contemn the Holy Scriptures, as you may see in that same Chapter, where Antichrist the Man of Sin is described: For these are two of his Characters, viz. Lying Wonders, and Disowning the Gospel. 2 Thess. 2.9, 10, 11, 12. Even him whose coming is after the working of Satan, with all power, and signs, and lying wonders: That is, he claims all power both spiritual and temporal, which either his craft or his cruelty can reach, Dan. 8.24, 25. And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power: and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper and practice, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people. And through his policy he shall cause craft to proster in his band and 〈◊〉 shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hands. Rev. 17.14, 16, 17. The Apostle saith, that he should come with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish, because they received not the love of the truth that they might be saved: And for this cause God shall send them strong delusions that they should believe a lie, that they all might be damned who believe not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness. It is a most dreadful judgement, you see, that you poor souls do lie under, who do believe this Doctrine: The Lord in Mercy open your eyes, and thoroughly convince your Consciences of the evil and danger of it, before it be too late, while the door of Mercy stands open; for it is as great a Judgement as that which the Jews lieth under; for as your sins and theirs is much alike, so are the judgements which both the one and the other lieth under; the Jews they deny Christ openly, and you deny him privately; you do confess that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh, in words, but in works you deny him.  
3. Thirdly and lastly, The Apostles, whenever they wrought Miracles, the people saw that they were Miracles, Acts 8.6, 7. And the people with one accord gave good heed unto these things which Philip spoke, hearing and seeing the Miracles which he did. For unclean spirits, crying with loud voices, came out of many that were possessed with them: and many taken with palsies, and that were lame, were healed. And their very enemies did see the Miracles which they wrought, and were forced to confess and own it; as you may see, in Acts 4.16. Saying, What shall we do to these men? for that indeed a notable miracle hath been done, it is manifest to all them that dwell in Jerusalem, and we cannot deny it. And the Apostles did raise the dead also, and the people, both good and bad, did hear and see the Miracles which they wrought, and were all satisfied with the reality of them, or else it could be no Miracle. There was never any Miracle wrought that ever I read of, in the Sacred Scriptures, as I can remember, either by the Prophets who were inspired by the Holy Chost before Christ came in the flesh, or by our Saviour Christ himself, or by any of his Apostles, that ever destroyed men's Senses and Reason, and put out the very light of their Understanding; but the Miracles which they all wrought, brought their own clear and undeniable evidence along with them: They have, as we may say, spoken clearly and fully for themselves, they need no tricky, nor force, nor cunning artisices to create a belief in the people, of the real truth of them; but all the people that saw them, have always been satisfied that it was a real thing.  
Tho it is true, the wicked enemies many times 〈…〉 believing Jews did of our blessed Lord and Saviour's casting out Devils, when they said that he cast out Devils by Beclzebub the Prince of Devils, Matt. 12.24. But when the pharisees heard it, they said, this fellow doth not cast out devils, but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils. They blasphemously and boldly did assert, that Christ the Eternal Son of God did derive his Power and Authority to work Miracles by, from the Devil, when as Christ himself is the Omnipotence God, the Second person in the most Glorious Trinity. Rev. 1.8. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, which was, and which is to come, the Almighty. John 8.58. Jesus saith unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am. Prov. 8.23, 30. I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was. Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejeycing always before him. And likewise concerning that wonderful Miracle of Christ rising from the dead, How did they porsuade and bribe the Soldiers that watched the Sepulchre, to tell the Governor, that while they slept, his Disciples came by night and stole him away? Matt. 28.11, 12, 13.  
But now this Transubstantiated Miracle of yours does not, nor cannot satisfy any Man's Senses or Reason, unless it be with Ignorance: I dare be bold to say, and appeal to all men, that no Romanist himself can have his Sense and Reason satisfied as to the truth of it; for it cannot be, it is impossible. All that can be said, is this, their unbelief has overcome and captivated their Sense and Reason, and so they do lay a force upon it, and suspend the following of the dictates of it; as our Saviour Christ saith, Mark 4.12. That seeing, they may see, and not perceive; and hearing, they may hear, and not understand. They may force their Tongues, and so extort a Confession, that the Bread, or Wafer in the Sacrament, is the Real Body and Substantial Flesh of Christ; but the Eye saith, Tongue thou liest at the same time; for the Eye seethe no change upon the Accidents, but they remains still as they were before; which if there were such a change wrought upon them, than the Elements would cease to be, and quite disappear, but he seethe the Elements still remaining as they were: But implicit Faith and Unbelief hath so blinded his spiritual Eyes, that he must not believe his own corporeal Eyes; by which means be cannot, or will not perceive the deceit: And their hearts being so hardened through the deceitfulness of sin, that they will not exercise their thoughts about it; and their hearts are so beclouded, or vailed over with their false Doctrine, that although they hear better things with their Ears, yetthey must not believe them, because they are bound to believe as their Church commands them to believe: And the Hand that 〈…〉 Mouth that can taste nothing but Bread, or the Wafer, the Mouth cannot taste one bit or morsel of Flesh. or feel the least Bone or Gristle in it. And as for the Wine that is really turned into blood, they must take the Priest's word for that, and pawn the Salvation of their Souls for the truth of it too. But though they do blind themselves in this nature, yet their Senses and Reason do their Office, though they will not hearken unto them, nor give the least credit unto what they inform them.  
And Christ and the Apostle tells them, that it is Bread after Consecration, and that the Cup is a Cup in which the Wine is, 1 Cor. 10.16, 17. And their own Senses and Reason tell them that it is so; but they will not believe Christ, nor the Apostles, no nor their own Eyes, Nose, Hands nor Mouth; but they will believe as the Church believes, or believe the Priest before them all, although they have neither their own Senses, Reason, nor Understanding on their side, nor the Holy Scriptures on their side, which is the revealed will of God, and aught to be the Rule for every Christian to live and walk by. But, Sir, your own sense, and reason, and understanding, and the Sacred Scriptures, are all against you, and this is the main reason why your Priests will not permit nor allow the use of the Gospel-light, that holy and Sacred Touchstone, to the people, for if they did, it would discover all their spiritual coin to be but dross and counterfeit, and it would never pass among the people, Joh. 3.20. For every one that doth evil, hateth the light, neither cometh to the light lest his deeds should be reproved. They first put out the light of the Gospel, and then they bring them to resign up their senses, and reason, and understanding, and conscience, and souls and all, unto the conduct of the Priests or Church. And when they have them thus in the dark, why then they lead them which way they please, for he is no longer acted nor guided by his own reason or understanding, nor by the holy Scriptures, but by the Priests: O Sirs, look to the Word of God, Isa. 8.20. To the Law and to the Testimony; if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them. O precious souls, do not deceive yourselves, I beseech you, by following these blind Guides, but take our blessed Redeemer's advice and counsel in Mat. 15.14. Let them alone, that is as much as to say, do not follow them, they be blind leaders of the blind, and if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch. And the Prophet Isaiah saith in Isa. 9.16. For the leaders of this people cause them to err, and they that are lead of them ●re destroyed.  
Again secondly, if it be so that your Priests do, by virtue of their Consecration, convert the Bread ●nd Wine into the real substantial person of Christ, 〈◊〉 wit, of Body, Soul and Divinity, why then it 〈…〉 follow that Christ must be as complete, substantial and entire, lacking nothing of all these blessed personal perfections, as he was when he was here personally upon Earth, before he ascended up into Glory; for this must be the inevitable and necessary consequence of it, for even so it must be, or else it is but a mere fantastical imaginary Sham-Christ, and is of the number of those sort of false Christ's which our Saviour Christ bids us beware of, which are out in the desert among the false Prophets, Matt. 24.23, 24, 25, 26. Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there, believe it not; for there shall arise false Christ's and false Prophets. This was prophesied by our Saviour Christ, that when Antichrist, the Man of Sin, did, or should arise, that then these false Christ's and false Prophets should arise in great numbers with him, and shall show great signs and wonders, insomuch that (if it were possible) they shall deceive the very elect. Behold, I have told you before. Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold he is in the desert, go not forth; behold, he is in the secret chambers, believe it not. And Antichrist was to arise, and come with all Power, and Signs, and Lying Wonders, saith the Apostle, which is the same character which our Saviour gives of him.  
This desert where these false Christ's are, I take it to be a Church or People, professing the name of Christ in words, but deny him in works; being abominable, disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate, Titus 1.16. They are a Company of Deserters, that have deserted Christ, and run from the true Christian Colours; for you see they are a sort of nominal Christians, that do own Christ's Name, but they do follow another Jesus, as I have already showed from the Apostles words, 2 Cor. 11.4. They are a people that have deserted Christ's Standard, who himself is Generalissimo of all the Christian spiritual Soldiers, or Army.  
But these false Prophets and others, are those that are gone over to Antichrist, who is Head and Generalissimo of all the many Antichrists and Apostates.  
Now that our Saviour Christ prophesied here of Antichrist's rising, it appeareth to me to be as clear as the Sun that shineth in the firmament; because the Apostle hath laid down the very same Character of Antichrist, and his Disciples and false Prophets, as our Saviour had done before; for our Redeemer saith, that there should arise false Christ's, and false Prophets, which should show great signs and wonders, insomuch that (if it were possible) they should deceive the very elect. And the Apostle saith, that the Man of sin, Antichrist, should come after the working of Satan, with all power, and signs, and lying wonders, and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish. Our Saviour saith, consequentially, Signs, and Wonders, and Deceit. And the Apostle also saith, Signs. Wonders and Deceit. If it were passable they shall deceive the very elect, saith our Saviour, that is, by their great Signs, and Lying Wonders, They shall come with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish, saith the Apostle. And then here followeth their desertion of the Standard of Christ their General; Because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. Here they first desert God, and then God deserts them, as you may see in those following words of the Apostle, as I have already proved: And for this cause God shall send them strong delusions, that they should believe a lie, that they all might be damned who believe not the truth: That is, those who believe not the Gospel of God in opposition to this lie, but had pleasure in unrighteousness: Surely then this must needs be a dreadful desert, when a Church or people desert and leave God,— And God doth cast off them, and desert and leave them; this I humbly conceive to be the meaning of our Saviour Christ, in Matt. 24. which does agree, and suit so well with that of the Apostle Paul's description of Antichrist the Man of Sin; this is that desert where these swarms of false Christ's and false Prophets are and do reside, it is a deserted false worship. And hear again what is said in 1 John 2.18, 19 with which Scripture I shall close this Head, and so go on towards the finishing of this Discourse; Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that Antichrist shall come, even now are there many Antichrists, whereby we know that it is the last time. There be the false Prophets which Christ tells us should arise, and show great signs and wonders to deceive the credulous people. And here followeth their Apostatising or Desertion, to wit, They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: But they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us. Thus you see that this Doctrine of yours is not true; and your Tronsubstantiated Christ is but a false Christ, and of the number of those Christ's that are out in the Desert,  
Now, I pray, Sir, do not take it amiss that I deal thus plainly with you; nor do not think much of my repeating over some things that have been mentioned under former Heads; for you know in a trial at Law among Men, you have often one and the same thing repeated over and over, by the Witnesses and others, etc. Ay, and we have it so in Scripture also in many places, and in many cases; and I will give you one which relates unto this our Trial, or Discourse, Gal. 1.6, 7, 8, 9 I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ, unto another gospel: Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ. But though we, or an angel frem heaven, preach any other gospel unto you, than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach a● other gospel unto you, than that ye have received, 〈◊〉 him be accursed. And what the Apostle saith, 〈◊〉 say I, and let all good men say Amen to it.  
3. Thirdly, If this Doctrine of yours be tru●● then after Consecration, as you call it, there would appear all the lineaments of a Man, visibly to a● the spectators, with all the faculties of a Man; for 〈◊〉 was Christ when he was here upon Earth personally in Body, Soul and Divinity, before he laid dow● his Life, and after he took it up again, viz. after he arose again from the dead. Luke 24.39. Beho●● my hands and my feet, that it is I myself; handle 〈◊〉 and see, for a spirit hath not flesh and bones as ye see 〈◊〉 have. If this Doctrine of yours be really tru● why then it would necessarily follow, that all th● spectators, as well as the partakers, would be satisfied that it is so, and not an imaginary fancy for such is the nature of Miracles, as you see ha●● been clearly proved by several instances both from Scripture and Reason, which do witness the trut● of it.  
4. Fourthly, If this Doctrine of Transubstantiation in your sense be true, viz. That Christ is i●● tyre in his person, with all the lineaments and faculties of Man, after Consecrating the Elements in th● Sacraments; then, Sir, I would fain know what 〈◊〉 the Reason that he doth not speak, or what should hinder or impede Christ from speaking personally and vocally now, as well as he did to his Disciple after he arose from the dead, when they were under doubts and fears whether it was he or no; whe● he said unto them, Why are ye troubled? and why 〈◊〉 thoughts arise in your hearts? Behold my hands and m●● feet, that it is I myself; handle me and see, for a spir●● hath not flesh and bones as ye see me have. And whe●● he had thus spoken, he shown them his hands an●● his feet: And if yours be a Real Christ, he cou●● speak now as well as he did then, or as he will wh● he cometh to Judge the World, when he will c●● for Antichrist, the Man of Sin, who is his great● enemy, and call for all the false Prophets and Dis●ples that do belong unto him, to give an acco●● for all their Idolatry and Cruelty, and will then 〈◊〉 unto them all, But those mine enemies that would 〈◊〉 that I should reign over them, bring hither, and 〈◊〉 them before me, Luke 19.27. Now, if you cou●● prove by clear and undeniable evidence, that ev●● this Transubstantiated Christ of yours did speak 〈◊〉 any person, at any time or times, and gave a●● directions among persons about matters and for●● of Worship in Churches, seeing there is so mu●● difference in the World about it, than th● might be something said unto it, in vindication of it; But seeing that no such thing can 〈◊〉 proved, there is no Authority at all to give the l●●● countenance or credit unto that 〈…〉 ●hat obtrudes such a silent, mute sort of Christ upon the people, that is altogether speechless, and also fruitless unto those that expect to receive any benefit ●●y him.  
5. Fifthly and lastly, After all that has been said, 〈◊〉 will Challenge any of all your Priests, that pretend ●o have this Infallible knack of working this Mira●le or Change upon the Wafer or bit of Bread, and ●he Cup of Wine, To take a Consecrated, Transubstantiated Wafer, or bit of Bread, and likewise the consecrated Cup of Wine; and let the Wafer be put among a parcel of Wafers of the very same make, ●hat are not Consecrated nor Transubstantiated, and ●kewise let the Cup of Wine be put among other ●ups of Wine that are not Consecrated, and let but ●ome other person, that will be but faithful and honest ●ix them together, and take good notice to himself which it is that is Consecrated, and shift the Wine ●to another Cup, and unless the Priest have any private mark upon the Wafer, or any private notice ●iven him which is the Wine, the Priest himself ●at Consecrated them, shall not know which it is, ●or discern any difference that there is between the ●●ne and the other, between the consecrated and the ●nconsecrated, neither in colour, bigness, nor by ●eight; it shall not weigh one dram more after consecration than it did before. And is not this a ●ry strange thing, think ye, that there should be ●●ch a great Change as this is, wrought upon the Elements, viz. from a little Wafer and Cup of Wine, ●●to the real Body, Soul and Divinity of Christ, and ●●t that it should not be known, nor discerned in ●●e lest, from the rest of the Wafers and Wine, ●ither by sight nor by weight, nor by any the least ●eration to be discerned or discovered upon the Ac●dents, when as they pretend to Transubstantiate it ●●to the very person of Christ, composed and made 〈◊〉 of Body, Soul and Divinity; and then they of●● him up a Sacrifice sufficient and propitiatory for ●●e sins of the living and the dead.  
But in the next place, I shall produce you two ●●ry great Miracies which this Doctrine of Tran●●stantiation does afford us, which is essentially in 〈◊〉 very Bowels or Womb of it.  
1. And the first is this, namely, That it is no less ●●n a very prodigious Miracle, and amazing Won●●, that ever any persons whom God hath endew●● with Senses, Reason, Understanding, and all o●●● Faculties and Intellectuals proper to Man, and ●●s great a measure, as to any other men whatsoever, should yet suffer themselves to be so ●●●ribly imposed upon, and expose, or rather aban●●● all that is dear unto them, to follow a false ●●●ist, which is to departed from the true one, to be●●● such a piece of Ridiculous, nonsensical Do●●●ne, which Traveleth with Contradictions, and 〈◊〉 forth nothing but monstrous Absurdities: Surely persons must sacrifice all the rational part of humanity, or at least postpone it, before ever they can be brought or persuaded to assent and consent unto any such kind of Doctrine: They must wholly unman themselves. And is not this a very great Miracle, think ye?  
2. Secondly, The second Miracle which this Doctrine does afford us, is almost as great as the former, namely this, that the Priests should ever have the boldness to make such an invasion upon men's senses, reason and understanding! and have the confidence to impose such horrible absurdities and ridiculous nonsense upon the people, that is so full of contradictions in itself, and made of a strong delusion, that is contrary to the Holy Scripture, and contrary to your own Creed, and contrary to Sense and Reason, and contrary to the very Nature of Miracles! for although Miracles are above Sense and Reason, yet such is the nature of them, that the first thing they do, after they are brought forth, is to see that men's Senses, and Reason, and Understanding are satisfied with the reality of it, or else it can be no Miracle: For how can a person admire and wonder at a thing that is common, which he seethe no change in, nor alteration upon? Tho it is true, God's end and design in working of Miracles was infinitely higher; for it was for the confirmation and establishing the Churches for the Ages that were to come, and for the good of God's people, and for the greater aggravation of the condemnation of Christ's enemies. But yet still the people saw these Miracles when they were wrought, and were satisfied with the truth and reality of them; and many were convinced and converted by them, John 11.42, 43, 44, 45.— Now if a Man should tell me, that he is flying in the Air, when I see him go along the street upon the ground, as I myself do, why this begets no manner of wonder in me, except it should be at the Man's Impudence, and for his lying, ridiculous Nonsense: But if a Man did really fly in the Air, and I saw him do it, that would be a Miracle, ay although he should tell me that he was then walking in the Street. Now in such Cases as these are, Seeing is always to be preferred before Believing; So that this Doctrine of yours is but a mere fancy, a dream, or rather indeed, as the Apostle phrases it, A strong delusion, and lying wonder, 2 Thess. 2.  
In the last place, our Saviour Christ called it Bread, after he had blessed it; and called the Wine, Cup, after he had given thanks; and the Apostle called it Bread and Cup after Consecration or Blessing of them, when he did exhibit them unto the People, 1 Cor. 10.16, 17. The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? the bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ? For me being many, are one bread 〈◊〉 one body, for we are all partakers of that one bread. Believers have Communion with a Crucified Saviour in this Ordinance, by Faith in him, and Love to him.  
And our Saviour Christ and the Apostles, gave both the Bread and the Wine unto all the Members that did partake, as well to the Lay-People, as to the ecclesiastics, without any the least Exception, in them words of our Saviour's command, Drink ye all of it; and you will hear that it is called Bread, and breaking of Bread, in several places of the Sacred Scripture, Acts 2.42. And they continued steadfast in the Apostles doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers. 1 Cor. 10.16, 17. The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ? For we being many are one bread, and one body; for we are all partakers of that one bread, that is, Christ the Bread of Life. Here it is said, Communion with the Blood, and with the Bread; that is thus, Believers have Communion with a crucified Redeemer, and Communion and Fellowship one with another, in that Holy Ordinance of the Lords Supper. As you may see in the same Chapter, 20, 21. verses, all those that make a Sacrifice of the Ordinance of the Lords Supper, have fellowship with Devils. But in the 17 verse, there the true Gospel-Church is called Bread, and so is Christ her Head also; both the Head, and the Body, which is the Church, are called Bread. And in Acts 20.7. And upon the first day of the week, when the Disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to departed on the morrow. Thus you see it was called Bread, and not Flesh, both in the first Institution of the Ordinance by our Saviour Christ himself; and likewise by the Apostles at the Celebration of this Holy Ordinance among the Disciples.  
Therefore this eating of Christ's Body, and drinking his Blood, is to be understood no otherwise than our Saviour Christ intended and appointed it, which was Spiritual and Sacramental, for to commemorate his death and sufferings, and all the blessed fruits and effects that do flow therefrom into the souls of Believers.  
There is a feeding upon Christ in every Spiritual Gospel-Ordinance of God in Religious Worship and Discipline by Faith; the Gospel-Ordinances are a feast of fat things full of marrow, of wine from the lees well refined, as the Prophet Isaiah calls it; and on them the souls of Believers do feed and feast with, and upon the Lord Jesus Christ. And this feeding upon Christ's Body, and drinking his Blood in the Sacrament of the Lords-Supper, as well as in all other Ordinances of the Gospel aforesaid, is to be done by faith, as I have already proved; for every believing soul doth live upon Christ by faith, who is 〈…〉 of Scriptures to prove the veracity or truth of th● same; and here following I shall lay down some fe●● Scriptures instead of many which do import an●● clearly manifest the same; and I will begin wit●● Joh. 8.24. I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die 〈◊〉 your sins; for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall d●●● in your sins. 1 Joh. 3.23. And this is his Commandment, that we should believe on the name of his Son Jes●● Christ. Here is God the Father's command for i●● Christ doth not say, If you do not eat me, Body Soul and Divinity, ye shall die; but if you do n●● believe that I am he, ye shall die in your sins, because ye believed not that I am he, because ye d●● not obey me, nor my Father's command; as if ou●● Saviour should have said, Rom. 10.9, 10. That 〈◊〉 thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and sha●● believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved; for with the heart ma●● believeth unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto Salvation, Act. 16.30, 31. Whe● the sturdy Jailor was convinced, he said, Sirs, Wha● must I do to be saved? The Apostles did not tell him that he must go and eat Christ's substantial Body: No, but they told him, that he must believe on th● Lord Jesus Christ, and he should be saved, and his house, Joh. 12.46. I am come a light into the world, tha● whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness Joh. 17.3. And this is Life Eternal, that they might know the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou has● sent. How must they know God and Christ, so a● they might have Eternal Life? why only by believing in him, Joh. 20.21. But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus ss the Christ the Son of God and believing ye might have life through his name. Joh. 3.16, 17, 36. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God se●● not his Son into the world to condemn the world, but tha● the world through him might be saved. He that believeth on the Son, hath eternal life; and he that believeth n●● the Son, shall not see life, but the wrath of God abide● on him. Joh. 5.24. Verily, verily, I say unto you, 〈◊〉 that believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting lif● and shall not come into condemnation, but is passed from death unto life, Joh. 6.29. Jesus answered and fa●● unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe 〈◊〉 him whom he hath sent.  
Thus you see, dear Sir, that I have answered yo● fully and clearly; and I have faithfully prove from the Holy Bible, which is my only Library: and also I have proved from Reason, (for God deals with us as Rational Creatures) that our Saviour Christ is to be eaten and drunken by faith, and i● love, Spiritually and Sacramentally in that Ho●● Ordinance of the Lords-Supper; for it is a Lov● feast, in remembrance of the greatest love that 〈…〉 gave his only begotten Son to die for it; and this ●ove of Christ that was stronger than death, we are ●o commemorate in that Ordinance, by feeding by ●aith upon a Crucified Saviour, and not to eat him Corporeally and Substantially in his Person, as you of the Roman Catholic Persuasion do vainly pretend to believe and imagine; the Lord enlighten your minds in the true Knowledge of Christ, and sanctify your understandings, and change your wills, and make you willing in the day of his power; for this is a very dangerous gross Error, and such a one as cannot be paralleled, but in the case of the poor blind Jews; for by this Doctrine of Personal Priests, and Material Altars and Sacrifices, you do put yourselves back from under the Gospel dispensation, and lay yourselves under the Mosaical Law; and the consequence of it is this, it is inevitably and clearly a downright denying Jesus Christ being come in the Flesh. Pray Sir, Consider what I have said; and so my dear Friend, far ye well, until we meet at the Day of Judgement.  
But methinks, I hear some Persons carp and deny the Veracity or Truth of the Scriptures, which we Protestants do own and profess to be the revealed Will and Word of God. I had thought to have gone no further, but this layeth me under a Necessity and irresistible Obligation to Answer this black and grim Objection, which seems to have waylaid me all this while; or at least, I am jealous that it has, or may be so; and therefore to prevent the worst, I shall by the assisting Power of God, give an Answer unto it.  
In the first place, It may be supposed that some Persons, especially them which find themselves the Persons mostly concerned in this Discourse; namely, those which teach the poor ignorant People this kind of Doctrine, will be so bold and hardy, as to object against the Veracity or Truth of the Holy Scriptures, and say, perhaps, That they were Invented and made by some Apostate Heretic, (or some other Person) for so it is, and must be; that either the Scriptures which we that are Protestants do own ●nd believe to be the revealed Will and Word of God, are not true; or else their Religion and Scriptures must be false; for theirs and ours cannot both be ●rue, because they are directly contrary one to the other, so as nothing can be more; Light and Darkness cannot be more, for indeed it is Spiritual ●ight and Darkness.  
Secondly, If the Holy Scriptures be but the Inven●on of Men, that is to say, mere Human Invention; ●●en it will necessarily follow, That it was either ●●d Men or good Men that did invent them, one 〈◊〉 these two sorts of Men it must be, that cannot be ●●nied; for there can be no Neutrality in this case; ●●●y that are not for Christ, are against him.  
〈◊〉, By the Omnipotent Power and Grace of 〈…〉 that God, that made and indicted the Holy Scriptures which we Protestants do profess and own, and also believe, I shall prove the Sacred Scriptures to be the revealed Will and Word of God, and not a Humane Invention, and that by Arguments drawn and deducted from Reason. And also, I shall draw a Parallel between the Holy Scriptures which we Protestants profess and own, and the Scriptures which Antichrist doth profess and own, which is that another Gospel which I have spoken unto you of, in Gal. 1.8, 9  
1. In the first place, I do positively assert, That the Holy Scriptures which we profess, could not be invented and made by a Heretic, because it damns Heresy, and so consequently Heretics, to Hell and Damnation, 2 Pet. 2.1, 2. But there were false Prophets among the People; even as there shall be false Teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable Heresies, denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. And many shall follow their pernicious ways, by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of. Now would any Heretic writ Destruction and Damnation, and such bitter things against himself, think you? No sure; therefore it could not be a Heretic that made and invented the Holy Scriptures. Ay, but it may be objected that he may be a Heretic, and not know it; why it is very true, a Person may be a Heretic and not know it; nay, I do believe that it is so with all Heretics; nay, I do believe that the greatest Heretics in the World, do count themselves the best Christians; nay, the only Christians, and all others Heretics, Isa. 65.3, 4, 5. Rev. 3.9.— But yet notwithstanding in this respect he could not be a Heretic, but he must know it; for what is Heresy, but Error and Falsehood about Spiritual things; it is a misguided Judgement; and could any Man have such Gifts and Parts, as to invent the Scriptures, that must not certainly know that what he writ at the same time, were lies and falsehood; and what he writ in the Name of God, and for God's Word, was but his own? It is impossible that ever he could be a Heretic in this Sense, but that he must know it; and surely he would never have written so severely against Heresy and false Doctrine; therefore the Scriptures which we profess, must not be the Word of Man.  
2. Secondly, It could not be an Apostate of any sort that writ the Holy Scriptures, or that invented them; for see what it saith of such, Heb. 6.4, 5, 6. For it is impossible for these who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, and have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come; If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame, Now would any kind of Apostate, either from you to us, or from us to you, or to nothing at all, which is better than that which some People profess, ever writ so severely against his own Practice, and exclude himself from Heaven and Happiness for ever? Therefore it could not be an Apostate that made and invented the Scriptures.  
3. Thirdly, It could not be a Hypocrite that invented the Scriptures which we profess and own, because it denounceth Woe and Damnation to such, Matth. 23.13, 14. woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; for ye shut up the kingdom of Heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them, which are entering, to go in. woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; for ye devour widows houses, and for a pretence make long prayers; therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation. Now can it be imagined that ever either Heretic or Apostate, or Hypocrite, would write thus dreadfully against themselves, when as these three sorts of Men, especially, in all Ages have been the greatest Sticklers against, and Opposers of the Holy Scriptures; and also the most violent Persecutors of them who are, or have been the strictest Professors of it?  
4. Fourthly, It could not be a Covetous and Proud Person, or a Griping Usurer, that made or invented the Scriptures, because it speaks against them, as much as it does against them that make Images, and bow down unto them, and worship them, which God hath positively forbid, Exod. 20. For a covetous Person, the Scripture hath particularly Branded with that black-Pitch-Mark of Hell, namely Idolatry, in these words, viz. Beware of Covetousness, which is Idolatry. And our Saviour hath told us, that it is a very difficult thing for a rich Man, who trusteth in his Riches, to get to Heaven, and be saved. And it is said, that God resisteth the Proud, and beholdeth them afar off; and the Usurer is much spoken against in the Holy Scriptures; therefore it could be neither of these bad Men that made or invented the Holy Scriptures, because they would never have written so severely against themselves, for it is contrary to Nature.  
5. Fifthly, It could not be a Whoremonger, nor an Adulterer, for the Scripture saith, That Whoremongers and Adulterers God will judge.  
6. Sixthly, It could not be a Thief, or a Murderer, nor an Unrighteous Person, nor a Liar, nor a Fornicator, nor an Extortioner, nor a Reviler, nor a Conjuring Sorcerer, nor an Effeminate Person, nor an Abuser of himself with Mankind, neither could it be a Drunkard, or a Glutton. It could not possibly be any of all these sorts of bad Men, that made or invented the Scriptures, because they would never have denounced such heavy Judgements against themselves for all these Sins which are against the very Light of Nature, 1 Cor. 6.9, 10.  
7. Seventhly, It could not be any of these two Bed-Rolls of Sinners, that made or invented the Holy Scriptures, which you have discovered by the Apostle Paul, in Rom. 1.26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32. and in 2 Tim. 3.1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Surely these Sinners would never have pronounced such a dreadful Sentence against themselves.  
8. Eighthly, It could not be a Persecutor, that made or invented the Scripture, for it hath set a Cain-like mark upon him, viz. the vilest and basest of Men, Acts 17.5. But the Jews who believed not, moved with envy, took unto them certain lewd fellows of the base sort, and gathered a company, and set all the city in an uproar, and assaulted the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people. And our Saviour Christ calls them, A generation of vipers and scrpents, Matth. 23.31, 32, 34, 35. Surely then, if Persecutors had made or invented the Scriptures, they would never have written thus against themselves.  
9 Ninthly, It could not be a Sabbath-breaker, or one that profaneth the Lord's Day, that made or invented the Scriptures, because the Scriptures are very strict for the due observing the Sabbath, or for keeping a Day unto the Lord; and there is severe Penalties prescribed and made, to be inflicted upon the Tranfgressors of that Holy Law of God.  
10. Tenthly, It could not be an Atheist that made and invented the Scriptures, because it discovers the glorious Attributes of the Divine Being, and his Works of Creation and Providence, and denounceth Hell and Damnation against all Atheists; therefore it could not possibly be an Atheist that made and invented the Holy Scriptures.  
11. Eleventhly and Lastly, to name no more bad Men; It could not be any Person made and invented the Scriptures, that was an Idolater, that invents and makes to himself any graven images, or the likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, or in the sea, or in the waters under the earth, Exod. 20.4, 5. That bow down to them, and say their Prayers before them, and perhaps pay Divine Adoration unto them. Read what the Scripture saith of these, Psal. 115.4, 5, 6, 7, 8. Psal. 97.7. Isa. 40.18, 19, 20. To whom will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him? The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains. He that is so impoverished that he hath no oblation, chooseth a tree that will not rot; he seeketh unto him a cunning workman, to prepare a graven image that shall not be moved. Isa. 44.16, 17. He burneth part thereof in the fire: with part thereof he eateth flesh: he roasteth roast, and is satisfied yea, he warmeth himself, and saith, Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire. And the residue thereof he maketh a god, even his graven image: he falleth dewn unto 〈◊〉 and worshippeth it, and prayeth unto it, and saith, Deliver me, for thou art my god. Now certainly, it could be none of these sorts of Persons that made or invented the Holy Scriptures, which we Protestants do own and believe to be the eternal, unalterable Word and Law of God.  
Object. But it may be some may say, Yes, it might be such a Person that made the Scriptures; for we do not make these Images for any other end or design, than to put us in mind of God, and our Duty towards him, and that they are the laymen's Books, to teach and instruct them.  
Pray give me leave to put a Case unto you. Now suppose for Argument sake, to illustrate the matter, that the King's Majesty in Concurrence with his two Houses of Parliament, the Great Council of the Land, should make a Law for some Reason of State, that it should be no less than High Treason for any of his Subjects to make his Image, or to have his Picture, or the Likeness of any thing that doth belong to him, in Imitation of it; and Issue out his Proclamation, straightly and strictly forbidding all his Subjects attempting the doing it, upon Pain of the inevitable escaping the severest Punishment, which properly belongeth unto those that are Guilty of High Treason. But yet, notwithstanding this severe Prohibition of the King, there should be some Persons would be so daring and bold, as to presume to do it out of a pretended, but blind Zeal of Loyalty; and not rest satisfied in, nor with their own Treason and Rebellion, but they would force others of his Subjects to do so likewise, or else they would knock them in the head, or burn them, because they were truly Loyal, and kept to the King's Laws in this Case made and provided.  
Pray, which of these two forts of Persons are the best, and the most Loyallest Subjects, think you? I know you will say, those that obeyed the King's Laws; for as it is in Spiritual things, so in this, Obedience 〈◊〉 better than Sacrifice. Why, the Law of the King of Heaven, who is King of Kings, and Lawgiver to all his Creatures, viz. the Great Charter of Heaven, is, that we shall not make, nor have, nor bow down to, nor worship any sort of Images, ●or the likeness of any of the things in Heaven, or ●n Earth, or in the Sea, or in the Waters under the Earth. Whatever some People think of it, I will assure them from the Word of a Jealous God, it is ●●o less than Spiritual High Treason, and punishable by the Great Charter of Heaven, with no less ●han Hell and Damnation, without unfeigned Repentance, and a thorough Reformation, Deut. 5. ●, 9 Thou shalt not make thee any graven image, or any ●●keness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is 〈◊〉 the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath 〈◊〉 earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, 〈◊〉 serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous 〈…〉 God. Therefore it could be none of these sort of bad Men, nor no other bad Men whatsoever, that had any hand, in the least, in making or inventing the Scriptures, which we that are Protestants of all sorts, do own and believe to be the Word of God.  
2. Secondly, In the second place, neither could it be good Men that made and invented the Scriptures of their own Brain. First, It could not be them which count themselves Good: Nor, Secondly, Can it be them whom God by his Grace hath made Good.  
1. First it could not be a Moral Honest Good Man, that made and invented the Scriptures, who counts himself so; for he will tell you, That he shall go to Heaven, and be saved, because he deals uprightly and justly with all men, and payeth every one their own, and does wrong to no man, and I do as I would be done by; which is all very good in its place; and let me tell you, that it is so good, that there is no going to Heaven without it; but yet let me tell thee also, Tho thou dost give Man his due, yet if thou dost not give God his due, it will all avail thee nothing in Point of Justification and Salvation: But what is it to give God his due? Why the sole Conduct and Government of thy Soul, all thou art, and all thou hast, must be resigned up to God from whence thou didst receive it; thou must forsake all, whenever God in his Providence calls thee to it, and deny thyself, and follow Christ the Lamb of God whithersoever he goeth. Will you see a full Scripture for proof of this? Why you shall, Matth. 19.18, 19, 20, 21. Jesus said, Thou shalt do no murder; thou shalt not commit Adultery; thou shalt not steal; thou shalt not bear false witness; honour thy father and thy mother; and, thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. The young man saith unto him, All these things have I kept from my youth up; What lack I yet? Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in Heaven, and come and follow me. Moral Honesty will not do, unless we follow Christ by Faith, and in Love. Therefore it could not be a Moral Honest Man that made or invented the Scriptures, because they are quite against him; and surely if the Moral Good Man had made them, he would have made his way wide enough for himself to go to Heaven, and be saved by his Morality.  
2. Secondly, There is another sort of Persons that count themselves so good, that they think there is none like them, but that they are the only good men in the world, Isa. 65. Rev. 3.9.— And these are a whipping sort of Good Men, the Pharisaical self-righteous Men, that are so zealous in their way to make up a Righteousness of their own, to be justified and saved by, that they will whip themselves; 〈…〉 and hang and burn their neighbours for God's sake; and this sort of men in all Ages have justified themselves, and condemned all others. Pray hear what our Saviour Christ saith of these, Luke 18.10, 11, 12, 13, 14. Two men went up into the Temple to pray, the one a Pharisee, and the other a Publican. The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are.— Our Saviour Christ has told us, that Publicans and Harlots shall go to Heaven before a self-righteous Man shall. And in Prov. 30.12, 13. There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet are not washed from their filthiness. There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up. Thus you see that it could not be a Self-righteous Man which counts himself a good Man, that made and invented the Scripture; that makes up a righteousness of his own, part of works of Mercy, and part of works of Cruelty; who are for Meritorious works, and works of Supererogation; that think to climb up to Heaven by that Rope of Sand; for if such a Man had made the Scriptures, he would never have written such bitter things against himself, and left himself in the hopelessest condition of all sorts of men in the whole World, of ever being saved, without a change of that principle.  
3. But Thirdly and Lastly, Might it not be a good Man that had the Grace of God in his heart, and the fear of God before his eyes, that might invent and compose the Scriptures? To this I answer in the negative; No, it is impossible that it could be: Tho, it is true, there is nothing in the Holy Scriptures that is against him for his goodness, as there is nothing in them that doth indulge a wicked Man in his wickedness. And therefore you will say, that a good Man was the likeliest of all men to have made and invented the Scriptures. But yet notwithstanding give me leave to tell ye, that a good Man could not, nor dare not invent the holy Scriptures, for it is utterly inconsistent with his goodness; for can he be a good Man, and yet at the same time be a deceitful Man? For he would be the inventor of an evil thing, if it were invented by Man, for it would be a Lie; because instead of being the Word of God, it would be the word of Man: But you see this cannot possibly be; for it would be to do evil, that good might come of it, which the Scriptures does down-rightly forbid.  
But you will say, If neither bad men, nor good men made and invented the Scriptures, Then pray, who were they made and invented by?  
To this I answer, the Word of God telleth us all plainly in these following Scriptures, who it was that made the Holy Scriptures, 2 Pet. 1.20, 21. Knowing this first, that no prophecy is of any private interpretation 〈…〉 man: that is, Man did not invent them; but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the holy Ghost. 2 Tim. 3.16. All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness. Rev. 1.1. The Revelations of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to show unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his Angel unto his servant John. And in Heb. 1.1, 2. God who at sundry times, and in divers manners, spoke in time passed unto the fathers, by the prophets, Hath in these last days spoken to us by his son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things; by whom he also made the worlds. John 1.14. And the word was made flesh, and dwelled among us, and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the father, full of grace and truth. Christ is the essential Word of God, and all godly men have the Spirit of Christ dwelling and abiding in them; and that is the reason that good men in all Ages have put such a value upon the Holy Scriptures, and would suffer any thing, rather than part with the Holy Scriptures: David prized them above his appointed food; and the Martyrs prized them above their Lives, which made them go joyfully to Prisons, to the Gibbet, to the Flames; and this made them rejoice at the place of Execution, and clap their hands in the Flames, which struck terror to their Adversaries. And what made them do this? Why, next unto the holy Ghost, it was because they knew that the Holy Scriptures were true, and that their Redeemer that was revealed in them, ever liveth, and did make satisfaction and intercession to God the Father for them: Ay, and he was with them and in them at the Gibbet, and in the very Flames, as he was with the three Worthies of old, in the fiery Furnace, Dan. 3.25. He answered, and said, Lo, I see four men lose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt, and the form of the fourth is like the son of God. I hope by this time, you are not only persuaded, that the Scriptures that we Protestants do profess and own, were not the invention of Man; but also you are satisfied of the veracity, or truth of them, That they are not invented by men of any sort, but are indeed, and in truth, the Holy Word of God.  
But lest you should be yet staggering or stumbling, for further corroboration, I will add Eight Arguments, and I will draw a parallel between our Scripture, which we Protestants do profess and believe to be the Word of God, and the Scriptures of Antichrist.  
1. First of all, my first Argument shall be this, If the Holy Bible does not give the least indulgence or countenance to any kind of Sin and Iniquity whatsoever, than the Scriptures must be the revealed Will and Word of God: But the Holy 〈…〉 we Protestant's of all sorts, do own and believe to be the Word of God, does not give the least Indulgence or Countenance unto any kind of Sin or Iniquity: Therefore the Holy Scriptures must be the Word of God, and not the Invention of men.  
Secondly, If the Scriptures were not made by bad men, nor invented by Good men, than it must be infallibly the word of the true and living God. But you see clearly proved that the Scriptures were not made by bad men, nor invented by good men; therefore they must be the Word of the living and true God, and made by him without the help of man.  
3. Thirdly, If the Scriptures do not in the least degree, discourage and discountenance Grace and Holiness, but is the promoter of it; then the Scriptures must be the Holy Word of God. But the Scriptures do not in the least degree discourage or discountenance Grace and Holiness, but do promote it in the hearts of Believers; Therefore the Holy Scriptures must be the infallible Word of God, not the word of Man, nor of Man's making or inventing.  
4. Fourthly, If the Scriptures teach all Goodness and Virtue, Moral and Divine, both for Body and Soul, and Detect and Condemn all manner of Evil, which is hurtful to Body and Soul, both temporal and spiritual Evils, and gives righteous Rules to Men to walk by, and shows them what is Good, and how they should demean themselves in every Relation, Station and Condition, from the Prince upon the Throne, unto him that grindeth at the Mill; and teacheth the Prince how to Rule and Govern in Righteousness and Peace; and teacheth the People how to be governed in the fear of the Lord, and to obey them that have the Rule over them, not for Wrath, but for Conscience-sake, and all for the Good and Weal both of Prince and People. Then, surely the Scriptures must be the Word of God, and not the Word of Men. But the Holy Scriptures which we Protestants do own and believe to be the word of God, do teach all Goodness and Virtue, Moral and Divine, both for Body and Soul, and Detect and Condemn all manner of Evil, which is hurtful to Body and Soul, both temporal and spiritual Evils, and gives righteous Rules to Men to live and walk by, and shows them what is Good, and how they should demean themselves in every Relation, Station and Condition, from the Prince upon the Throne, unto him that grindeth at the Mill; and teacheth the Prince how to Rule and Govern in Righteousness and Peace: and teacheth the People how to be governed in the fear of the Lord, and to obey them which have the Rule over them, not for Wrath, but for Conscience-sake, and all for the Good and Weal, both 〈…〉 which we Protestants of all sorts do profess and believe, must be the Word of God, and not the Word of Men, nor of men's Invention.  
5. Fifthly, If the Scriptures had been invented by any sort of sinful men whatsoever, then certainly that sinful man would have made provision for the flesh, and given Indulgence to his own sin and lusts; for it is natural for every one to be kind to themselves, and to cherish that which they love.  
But the Holy Scriptures do not not give the least Indulgence or Countenance unto any one particular Sin or Immorality in the whole Book of God, from the first of Genesis unto the last of Revelations; but the whole Current of the Scriptures is bend against it.  
Therefore the Scriptures were not the Invention of man, but must be the Word of God.  
6. Sixthly, If the Scriptures in all Ages have been the Object of wicked and ungodly men's rage and malice, which have caused them to persecute those persons to the very Death, that have been the strictest Professors of it, than it could not be wicked men that made and invented the Scriptures.  
But the Holy Scriptures in all Ages have been the Object of wicked and ungodly men's Rage and Malice, which have caused them to persecute those persons to the very Death, that have been the strictest Professors of it.  
Therefore it could not be wicked and ungodly men that made or invented the Holy Scriptures; But it must be the Word of God.  
7. Seventhly, If wicked men had made and invented the Scriptures, Satan having the Government and Conduct of them, and they being acted and influenced and led by his Spirit, as a Good man is acted and influenced, and led by the Holy Ghost; for Satan ruleth in the Hearts of the Children of Disobedience; for he is their Father, John 8.44. Ye are of your father the Devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do; he was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth; when he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own; for he is a liar, and the father of it. Now, I say, if the Children of the Devil had made the Scriptures, they would have been tender and favourable unto their Father's Kingdom and Interest, and have given some Countenance unto it, and not have made the whole bent and stream of the Scriptures against it, and afford no manner of Indulgence to themselves, who are the Devil's Subjects or Vassals, or rather his Bondslaves indeed, nor no manner of Relief or Support to his Kingdom; But are made against all Heresy and all other Iniquity, which is that wherein the strength of the Devil's Kingdom lieth; then surely the Holy Scriptures must be the Word of God, and not 〈…〉  
But the Holy Scriptures which we Protestants do own and believe to be the Word of God, are against all Heresy and all other Iniquity whatsoever, which is that wherein the strength of their father's Dominion lieth, and doth afford no manner of relief nor support to the Devil's Kingdom, nor no kind of countenance to his subjects or children. But the whole bent and stream of the Scripture is against his Kingdom, subjects and children, therefore the Holy Scriptures could not be invented or made by any of them, but it must be the infallible true word of the everlasting God, who cannot lie nor deny himself; and it was indicted by his Holy Spirit, and written by holy men of God as they were moved and inspired by the Holy Ghost.  
Eighthly and Lastly, If it be not in the Power of a Good Man to give the Reward that cometh by Grace, of Eternal Life and Salvation, which is the full Fruition and Enjoyment of God for ever in Glory, which is promised in Scripture unto all them who believe and obey it; Nor to execute the threaten of Hell and Damnation, by punishing all those with eternal torment which the Holy Scriptures have denounced against all them that transgress by their disobedience unto it, because it would be to promise that which he was no way in the least measure or degree capable to perform or make good, and threaten that which he hath not a power to execute.  
Then it could not be a good man that made or invented the Scriptures.  
But it is not in the power of a good man to give the reward that cometh by Grace of Eternal Life and Salvation, Tit. 1.2. which is the full fruition and enjoyment of God for ever in Gloty, which is promised in Scripture unto all them who believe and obey it, nor to execute the threaten of Hell and Damnation, by punishing all those with eternal torment, which the Holy Scriptures hath denounced against all them that transgress, by their disobedience unto it, 1 Pet. 4.17, 18. Because it would be to promise that which he knew in his own Conscience that he was no way in the least measure or degree capable to perform or make good, and to threaten to inflict that punishment which was not in his power to execute; and so he would have been a liar and an impostor, which is quite contrary to the Principle of a good man, and it is utterly inconsistent with his Goodness.  
Therefore it could not be a good man that made or invented the Sacred Scriptures, because this power is peculiar and wholly in the hands of God, and therefore it must be the word of God. The Apostle St. Paul saith, But I certify you, brethren, that the Gospel which was preached by me, is not after man, for I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.  
Thus you see clearly proved, That the Holy Scriptures were not made nor invented by either good men or bad men. Therefore it must be undoubtedly the Infallible Word of the True and Everliving God, and not a humane Invention.  
Now I shall close up this Discourse in drawing a Parallel between some part of the Holy Scriptures of Christ, and the Scriptures of Antichrist, which is that another Gospel, as the Apostle called it in 2 Cor. 11.4. and Gal. 18.9. And I shall Answer another Objection with Three Arguments, and so finish the whole.  
1. First the Gospel of Christ teacheth Love Peace, Meekness, Humility, and lowliness of mind, Col. 3.15. 2 Tim. 2.24, 25.  
But the Gospel of Antichrist teacheth men Hatred, Variance, Pride, Malice, and Haughtiness of Spirit.  
2. Secondly, The Gospel of Christ teacheth men to do good for evil.  
But the Gospel of Antichrist teacheth men to do evil for good; for if they know that a man doth but endeavour to convince them of their Errors and Heresy, which is the greatest and best good that any man can do for a Person, they will Burn or Hang him, or clap him up in the Inquisition for a Heretic, if it lieth in their Power, which is to do the greatest evil for the greatest good.  
3. Thirdly, The Gospel of Christ teacheth men to do to others as they would be done by themselves, Matth. 12.  
But the Scripture of Antichrist teacheth men to do by others as they would not be done by themselves.  
4. Fourthly, The Gospel of Christ teacheth men to pray for their Enemies that persecute them, Matth. 5.44.  
But the Gospel of Anrichrist teacheth them account them their Enemies that pray for them, and 〈◊〉 persecute them.  
5. Fifthly, The Gospel of Christ teacheth 〈◊〉 to love our neighbours as ourselves.  
But the Gospel of Antichrist teacheth them 〈◊〉 betray and murder their neighbours for Heretics if they be not of their Persuasion.  
6. Sixthly, The Gospel of Christ teacheth 〈◊〉 Ministers of Jesus Christ to compel people to con●●● unto Christ, and believe in him, for Life and Salvation, by peaceable suasive Arguments, drawn and deduced from the Holy Scriptures.  
But the Gospel of Antichrist teacheth his Ministers to compel Persons to come unto him, a 〈◊〉 embrace his Religion and Worship, by the forcible Arguments of Dragoons and Inquisitions.  
7. Seventhly, The Gospel of Christ teacheth 〈◊〉 That God is a spirit, and they that worship him, 〈◊〉 worship him in spirit and in truth. John 〈…〉  
But Antichrist's Gospel teacheth, That God is an Old Man sitting in Heaven, and must be worshipped carnally and falsely by Images, etc.  
8. Eighthly, The Gospel of God teacheth Men Wisdom and Understanding, 2 Tim. 3.15. And that from a child thou hast known the holy Scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto Salvation, through faith which is in Christ Jesus. Psal. 119.130. The entrance of thy words giveth light, it giveth understanding to the ●imple.  
But the Gospel of Antichrist maketh men of Understanding simple, and teacheth that Ignorance ●s the mother of Devotion; but I will assure you it ●s not fatherless, for it has a Father too; for if Ignorance be the Mother of it, than the Devil must be the Father of it, John 8.44.  
9 Ninthly, the Gospel of Christ teacheth men and women to be better than their own natural Dispositions, and corrupt Inclinations, which is the great Doctrine of Christianity, nameiy, Self-denial, which is the Excellency of the Christian Religion above all other pretended Religions in the world, if performed in a right manner, and to a right end; it is this that maketh a man more excellent than his neighbour, for it teacheth a man to deny all ungodliness and worldly lusts, and to live soberly and righteously; 〈◊〉 teacheth a man to deny sinful-self, and righteous-self too, which is a higher Attainment than the denying of sinful-self; for many Persons can ●eny sinful-self, that cannot deny righteous-self; for it is one of the hardest duties that is incumbent upon a Christian, to deny righteous-self; which is ●o do good works, and discharge every Duty as carefully and as consciously, as if he should be justified and saved by and for so doing; and when he has done all, to cast them behind his back, as if he had done nothing, and look unto the Righteousness, and the Blood, and Merits of Christ alone for ●ustification, Sanctification, and Salvation, and ●ount all that ye have done, to be but silthy Rags; ●his is to deny righteous-self, Isa. 64.6. But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags. Joh. 17.10. So likewise ye when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say ●e are unprefitable servants, we have done that which ●as our duty to do. So that we cannot merit aught 〈◊〉 the hands of God, by doing that which is our Duty to do, for it is a contradiction in itself; ●●r if it be Duty, than it is not Merit; but if it be Merit, than it is not Duty; for when we have ●one all we can do, it cannot justify nor acquit a ●oul of the least vain sinful thought: For our justification before, and in the sight of God, cometh 〈◊〉 by the Righteousness of Christ our Redeemer ●●nne, without the help of any Copertner or 〈…〉  
But the Gospel of Antichrist teacheth men and women to be worse than their own natural dispositions and corrupt inclinations, and indulgeth them in all manner of ungodliness and worldly Lusts; it let's lose the Reins to the will of the Flesh, and is a spur to iniquity, and teacheth men that they shall be justified, and saved by, and for their good Works, joined with the Righteousness and Merits of Christ; therefore neither that Gospel, nor that Religion which it teacheth; can be true, or of God: therefore it must be of Satan, 2 Cor. 11.3, 4. Gal. 1.8, 9 Rev. 22.18, 19  
Tenthly, The Gospel of Christ teacheth men to confess their sins to God, and to one another, and to pray one for another unto God, and beg of him to pardon us in the Blood of Christ, and that God would give the Grace of Faith and unfeigned Repentance unto us, that we may hate sin, and forsake all our sins; and here you may see what true Repentance is in all the parts of it, laid down by the Apostle St. Paul, in 2 Cor. 7.10, 11. For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation, not to be repent of; but the sorrow of the world worketh death. For behold, this selfsame thing that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of yourselves, yea, what indignation, yea, what fear, yea, what vehement desire, yea, what zeal, yea, what revenge; in all things ye have approved yourselves to be clear in this matter. This is true Gospel Repentance in all the parts of it; this is Repentance unto Salvation, never to be repent of; they are careful to use the uttermost power that God hath given them in the means of Grace, never to commit sin more; and they clear themselves by confessing their sins to God, and forsaking of them; and they take up a holy indignation, and an implacable hatred against sin, and study how to be revenged upon it, as a Man doth upon his implacable enemy; and he hath a vehement desire after Grace and Holiness, and useth all the means of Grace which God hath appointed to that end: And by their being hearty and sincere in the work, they can approve themselves to God in this matter, or appeal to God, through Jesus Christ, from their Consciences, that they are truly penitent, and have the evidence of it in themselves. And it is said, if we confess our sins, that is, after that manner aforesaid, not a bare verbal Confession, that God is just to forgive us our sins.  
Now you cannot Pray one among another, nor Pray one for another in a right manner, but you must confess your Sins to God, and to one another; for if you confess your Sins, and do not pray; or if you do pray, and not confess your Sins, it is neither a right Gospel-Confession, nor a right Prayer. But if it be done in a right manner, and to a 〈…〉 never miss of a Pardon from God in the Blood of Christ, because God hath promised it, and he will be as good as his Word, and therefore he is just to forgive us our Sins.— But if one man can Pardon another; why, then he can merit Life for himself and another; then we need not to have Christ pleading with the Father for pardoning Grace for Sinners; no, nor Christ need not to have died, that vast cost might have been spared, if Sinners can Pardon one another, and merit Justification and Saulation one for another.  
But this is just like unto a poor Man that is deeply in Debt to the King for Tribute, and he meets with another Man that is deeper in Debt to the King than he, and the latter saith unto the other, Sir, I suppose you are in the King's Debt. Yes, Sir, I am. Well, do but Confess to me, how much your Debt is, and give me a small Fee, and I will pardon you; so he confesseth, and he Pardons him as he pretends. But the poor Man stands still charged in the King's Books, and then he runs on again further in Debt; and he goes to his old Friend, and confesses his Debt, and he Pardons him the King's Debt, but he will not forgive him his own Fees; no Penny, no Paternoster; no, that is a Debt cannot be forgiven, and so he goes on in Debt again and again, and he pardons him; but all this while, he hath none of the King's Commission for so doing. But at last, the King calls both these Debtors to Account; he, that pretended to forgive the other his Debt to the King, who himself was deeper in Debt to the King, than the other that he pardoned; and the pardoned man, he pleads that he is pardoned; who pardoned you? Why, such a one; What had he to do to Pardon you that, which you do owe unto me? He never had any such Power from me, for he had more need of a Pardon for himself; did he not owe me enough himself, but must he take your Debt upon him too? Then the King in a great Fury, causes them both to be Seized, and clapped up into Prison, and never to come out, until they have paid the utmost Farthing. So will it be with all them which pretend to Pardon other men's Sins, and with them also that rely upon their Pardon, living and dying in that Condition; it is of no more value than for one Thief or Highwayman to Pardon another of their bloody Crimes; none can pardon Sin, but God. Good Men may Judge that such and such Men are pardoned upon their Confession; or a Church may pronounce in their Cenfure, such a one pardoned, but none but God can Pardon them, Mark 2.7, 10. Why doth this man thus speak Blasphemies? Who can forgive sins but God, that is, none have the Power to forgive Sin but God: The Jews were right in their Doctrine, but they were mistaken in the Person; they took our Saviour to be but a mere Man; pray mind wh● our Saviour saith, But that ye may know that the 〈◊〉 of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, which clearly implies, that none else had that Power b● himself, and he had it as he was God, 1 John 2. 1●. I writ unto you, little Children, because your sins 〈◊〉 forgiven you, for his Names sake; that is, he judge and pronounced them pardoned, because he sees the Work of Grace that God had wrought upon the 〈◊〉 hearts. Thus you do see in the Gospel of Christ how Confession of Sins is to be made, so as a Pardon in the Blood of Christ may be obtained.  
But Antichrist's Gospel teacheth Men and W● men to confess their Sins, and Pay, Whip, or some other Penance, and at the old trade of sinning again.  
11. Eleventhly, The Gospel of Christ teacheth Men to live peaceably, as much as in them lie● with all Men, Rom. 12.18.  
But Antichrist's Gospel teacheth them to liv● peaceably with none but them of their own Religion, and to do what possibly in them lies, to destroy and root all others out of the World.  
12. Twelfthly, The Gospel of Christ teacheth al● Men to speak the Truth one to another, and lie no● to any Man.  
But the Gospel of Antichrist teacheth Men to use Mental Reservations and Deceitful Equivocations which is to speak one thing with the Tongue, and mean another thing in their Heart; which is to lie upon all occasions to serve their Ecclesiastical Interest, which is the highest degree of Hyporisy in the World.  
13. Thirteenthly, The Gospel of Christ teacheth us to know Good from Evil, and Evil from Good, and Light from Darkness, and Darkness from Light, and it teacheth us to choose the Good, and refuse the Evil.  
But this another Gospel, 2 Cor. 11.4. Gal. 1. 〈◊〉 9 Namely, the Gospel of Antichrist teacheth Men to call Evil Good, and Good Evil, and p●● Darkness for Light, and Light for Darkness Isa. 5.20. They call the Gospel of Christ Heresy, and Protestant-Professors of it, Heretics. Now, the Gospel is the greatest Light that ever was in the World, it is the Light 〈◊〉 Heaven. And Heresy is the greatest Darkness in 〈◊〉 World, it is the Darkness of Hell, and they pla●● their own Antichristian Gospel, which is Here●● and thick Darkness, in the room of the Gospel Light.  
14. Fourteen, The Gospel of Christ teacheth us to believe in him alone, and to rely upon 〈◊〉 Righteousness and Merits, for Spiritual Life he 〈◊〉 and for Eternal Life and Salvation with him 〈…〉  
But the Gospel of Antichrist teacheth Men to rely upon their own Righteousness and Works of Merit; Ay, though Works of Mischief and Darkness, some of them, and to expect to be saved by that, in Conjunction with the Righteousness and Merits of Christ.  
15. Fifteenthly and last, To name no more, the Gospel of God teacheth us to do Justice, and to love Mercy, and to walk Humbly with the Lord our God, Mic. 6.8. He hath showed thee, O man, what is good: and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?  
But the Gospel of Antichrist teacheth men to do Injustice, and to love and delight in Cruelty and Persecution, and to walk loftily, and to carry it proudly towards God and Mun.  
Thus I have showed you in part, what a vast difference there is between the Gospel of Christ, which is that which we Protestants do own and believe to be the revealed Will and Word of God, and aught to be the only Rule for all People to Live and Walk by, and especially to Worship God by; and the Gospel of Antichrist; there is as much difference, as there is between Light and Darkness; for indeed, it is even so, for the Gospel of Christ is the great Light in the World, it is the Light of Heaven, above all other Light in the World; the Light of the Sun, Moon and Stars, is but Darkness compared with this Light of the Gospel of God, for it is the Light which comes from Heaven. And the Gospel of Antichrist is the greatest Darkness in the World, it springs from the utter Darkness of Hell; all other Darkness is Light compared to that.  
Now I shall finish this Discourse with three Arguments.  
But it may be that some Persons will say, They do own the Scriptures, though they do not own some Doctrines which we that are Protestants do own, whom they count Heretics; and perhaps they may say, That I have acknowledged it in the first Part of my Book, that they do own the Scriptures; why yes, that is true, they do own it after a sort; they do by the Holy Scriptures, as Clippers and Coiners do do by the King's lawful Standard Money; they take the largest, fairest Money, and Clip, and File it away, and cover over Copper, and Sergeant the King's Stamp, and shuffle it away for currant Coin, among them that cannot discern it to be so. Why, even so they do by the King of King's Coin, the Holy and Sacred Scriptures; they add and diminish as their seeming Interest lieth. But here is what will be their Portion, unless they ●●pent quickly, for the Judge is at the Door, Rev. 〈…〉 the words of the Prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book. And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy City, and from the things which are written in this book. Deut. 4.2. Prov. 30.6.  
1. Now, my first finshing Argument is this, If any Persons deny the Satisfaction made to the Law and Justice of God, by the Righteousness and Merits of Jesus Christ, to be wholly and entirely sufficient of itself, to justify and acquit a Sinner of all his guilt of Sin before God, than these Persons, though they pretend to own part of the Scriptures, yet they do deny the whole Scriptures, both of the Old and New Testament, because it is the Fundamental Doctrine of Man's Salvation in both Testaments, Jam. 2.10. For whosoever shall keep the whole Law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all. As partial Obedience, is no Obedience; so partial owning the Scripture, is a denying the Scripture in Fundamentals, which is to deny the whole Scripture. But there are a sort of Persons that profess themselves to be Christians, that do deny the Satisfaction made to the Law and Justice of God, by the Righteousness and Merits of Jesus Christ, to be wholly and entirely sufficient of itself, to justify and acquit a Sinner of all his guilt of Sin before God. Therefore these Persons, though they pretend to be Christians, and own some part of the Scriptures, yet these very Persons destroy the Essential Being of true Christianity, and deny the whole Scriptures, both of Old and New Testament, because there is this Fundamental Doctrine of Man's Salvation in both Testaments, and a partial owning of Fundamental Doctrines of the Holy Scriptures, is a total denial of them.  
2. Secondly, if any sort of persons, who call themselves Christians, under the dispensation of the Gospel, do set up, allow, and maintain the Order of Priesthood, Material Altars, and also Material Sacrifices, than those sort of Christian do deny that that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh, and so they deny the whole Gospel of God, and are turned back to the Mosaical Law; therefore no such person or persons that are of this Principle, can, or aught to be Judges and Interpreters of the Holy Scriptures. 1 Cor. 2.14, 15, 16. But the natural man receiveth not the things of the spirit of God, for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he man 〈…〉 Christ. There is no more reason for such a Man that is of Antichristian Principles, not excepting Antichrist himself, to be Judge of the Holy Scriptures, than there is for a Thief or a Murderer to be his own Judge.  
But there are a sort of persons which call themselves Christians now, under the dispensation of the Gospel. that do set up, allow, and maintain the Order of Priesthood, material Altars, and also material Sacrifices; therefore these sort of Christians do deny that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh, and so they deny the whole Gospel of God, and are turned back to the Mosaical Ceremonial Law, and are not competent Judges, nor Infallible Interpreters of the Holy Scriptures; but he that is spiritual judgeth all things.  
3. Thirdly and lastly, If any pretended Religion, or Principle, does teach men and women to be worse than their natural dispositions, and corrupt inclinations, than that Religion, or Principle, must be both false and dangerous to themselves and others, and is of the Devil: But the pretended Religion, and Principles of Antichrist, doth teach men and women to be worse than their natural dispositions and corrupt inclinations; therefore that Religion, or Principle, must be both false and dangerous unto themselves and others; and Satan is the founder of that Opinion and Principle.  
It may be that you will say, that our Scriptures are not rightly translated, and especially that passage of Job's Wife, where it is said, that she said, Curse God, and die; I will not say that every jota of it is rightly Translated; but yet this I will say, That all the fundamental Doctrines of the Christian Faith, which contain matter of Eternal Life and Salvation, by the Righteousness and Merits of Jesus Christ alone, are rightly Translated; and every true Believer that hath the Grace of God in him, can set to his Seal, and bear witness unto the Truth of it. There may be some things that are not rightly Translated, that do not contain matters of Salvation in them; as for instance, in that of Job's Wife, it is no matter of Salvation to know certainly whether she said, Curse God and die, or Bless God and die; for as she might speak it, it might be much at one, as many of the Learned do understand it; no doubt but that she spoke it Ironically, and so consequently Atheistically, or else Job would not have replied, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh; for if she ha● spoken sincerely, than Job had been to blame t● have given her such a tart reproof, as to call, o● count her a Fool; for if she had given him this advice cordially and sincerely, to Bless God and di● he ought not to have rejected it, for it is a great Duty, as well as a great Mercy, for people to di● blessing of God, as well as to live so. Now whether Job's Wife was a good Woman or no, that is 〈◊〉 question; for if she were a good Woman, she wa● in a very carnal frame of heart, even as St. Pet●● was when he denied his Lord and Master, or else she would never have spoke after that manner.  
Thus, I hope, I have by God's assistance sufficiently proved the Holy Scriptures, which we Protestants of all sorts do own, and believe to be o● Divine Authority, by the power and strength o● Arguments drawn and deduced from Reason only— And all other Scriptures of men's inventing to be false and preposterous, and of Antichrist. And 〈◊〉 hope I have said enough, if not to reclaim some o● those poor Souls that are fallen into their Snare, yet I hope it will be of use to deter others from following their pernicious Example. And I hope now I have done, you of this Principle will begin to consider, not how to be avenged upon the Author, do not count me your enemy for telling you the truth, for I do neither wish nor mean any hurt unto you in the least, no more than I do to my own Soul, I will assure you; but do hearty wish and desire that all men might come up to the true knowledge of Christ, and be saved; and to love the Truth, as it is in Jesus. I humbly beg, and beseech you for Christ his sake, and for your own precious immortal Souls sake, seriously to consider o● these things, so as to exercise your Senses, Reason and Understanding also, upon what I have here i● faithfulness to your Souls declared unto you, especially, that are ensnared in these false Antichristian Doctrines; for it is a dreadful Judgement for a●● poor Soul to be led away with false Teachers, Isa. ●. 16. and also to be led away with fundament Errors in Judgement about Spiritual things, where the Soul is concerned; it is as much as your So●● are worth. And what has a Man more to l●● than his Soul? For when that is gone, all is go●● as our Saviour Christ hath said: What shall it pr● a man, if he should gain the whole world, and 〈◊〉 his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for a soul?   

POSTSCRIPT.  
NOw Beloved Protestant Friends of all sorts, I would not have any person so uncharitable, as to destroy, or knock any of those persons on the head that are of this corrupt Principle, merely for the sake of their Principle, who do believe this Doctrine of Transubstantiation, nor abuse them in the least, but let the Tares grow with the Wheat until the great Harvest: I would both advise and desire all good Christians, to pity, and pray for them; nay, it is my Lord and Master's command that we should do so, Matt. 5.44. But I say unto you, love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you. O! Sirs, Let us carry it with all Christian sweetness of Spirit, and tenderness of Affection towards them, so that, if possible, we may win them by Christian love: Let us heap Coals of fire upon their heads, and melt them down into oneness of spirit with us.  
And on the other hand, I would never be willing, nor consent to have it in their power, to make a ●est of this Doctrine, to Burn Protestants for Heretics, who cannot by any means come up to that degree of this kind of Faith, as to believe such a complicated pack of Asurdities, before they believe the Word of God, or their own Sense and Reason.  
Now I do here in the last place humbly, yet boldly Challenge, by the Power, and in the Name of that God, by whose Word and Spirit I have written this, Any, or all of those persons that teach this Doctrine of Transubstantiation, and other the like Doctrines suitable to it, that find themselves aggrieved, or offended at this Christian, friendly Discourse, to give a fair, ample and satisfactory Answer unto it: But if they cannot Answer it, then if I might advise them, it should be this, viz. That they would desist, and leave off Preaching up any such kind of Doctrine among us, which they ●an neither prove, nor maintain, either by Scripture or Rational Arguments.  
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