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Words of Christ I am the Vine, &c. and, This is my Body, which your Grace fays, may be as fairly accounted for, as when he fays, I am the Vine, &c. But be that as it will. I am fure à grear many learned Bishops and Divines of your Grace's Communion have believed the Real Prefence, and taught it in as exprefs Terms as any Roman Catholick whatfoever. I have not their Books by me, to give their Quotations as they lye; But fhall borrow them from a Book Intitled: An Effay towards a Propofal for Catholick Communion, and Repeated by Mr. Spinckes in his Answer to the faid Book, who would not fail to expose their Falfhood, had there been any.

In Mr. Spinckes his Edition Pag. 104. We read these Words: What King James the first, and Bishop Andrews believed in this Point may be feen in the Anfwer to Cardinal Bellarmin'sApology Cap. 1. "De hoc eft, Fide firma te"nemus, quod fit: Præfentiam, inquam, credi"L mus nec minus quam vos veram." We believe a true Prefence as much as you. And we have the fame in Cafaubon's Letter, written alfo by the King's Command to Cardinal Per

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Bishop Montague's Appeal may be next feen, "Chap. 30. the Contents of which is thus: A "Real Prefence is maintained by us. The Dif

ference betwixt us and Popish Writers is on"ly about the Modus of Chrift's Prefence in the "Bleffed Sacrament. Agreement is likely to "be made, but for the factious and unquiet Spi"rits on both Sides. Beati Pacifici. And in the

Body of the Chapter he speaks thus to the "Informers his Adverfaries: The Real Prefence

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in your Divinity, is flat Popery, but not in the Divinity of the Church of England. Concerning this Point 1 faid, and I fay fo ftill, that if Men were difpofed as they ought, unto Peace there need be no Difference. And I added a Reason which I repeat again here: The Difagreement is only in de Modo Prafentia. The たち Thing is yielded to on either Side, that there is in the holy Eucharift a Real Prefence. God forbid faith Bifhop Bilfon, we fhould deny, that the Flesh and Blood of God, are truly prefent, and truly received of the Faithful at the Lord's Table. It is the Doctrine that we teach others, and comfort. ourselves withal; and the Reverend and learned Anfwerer unto Bellarmin's Apology cometh home to the Faith or Popery, if you will, condemned in B. Montague, who learned it from him, and fuch as he is. Nobis vobifcum de Objecta' Convenit, de Modo Lis eft. Præfentiam, inquam, credimus, non minus quam vos, veram de Modo Prafentix nil temere definimus, And to them agreeth Bishop Morton. The Queftion is not concerning a Real Prefence, which Proteftants do alfo profefs. Fortunatus a Proteftant holding that Chrift is in the Sacrament most really veriffimé realifimeque Are his Words. In thefe Words does B. Mountague declare and defend his Belief of the Keal Prefence.

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"Arch-Bifhop Laud, befides what was noted "from him before out of his Speech in the Star Chamber, gives there alfo this Reafon drawn from the Real Prefence, for Reverence "to the Altar, as being upon this Account the greatest Place of God's Refidence upon Earth.

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"I fay, faith he, the greateft, yea greater than the "Pulpit. For there 'tis, HOC EST CORPUS "MEUM. THIS IS MY BODY. But in the "Pulpit, 'tis at most but Hoc eft Werbum meum, "This is my Ward, And a greater Reverence "(no doubt) is due to the Body, than to the . Word of our Lord. And fo in Relation, an} fwerably to the Throne, where his Body is "ufually prefent, than to the Seat, whence his "Word ufeth to be proclaimed P. 47. And

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elsewhere in his Conference with Fiber 0.35. «N. 6. Punct. 4. he quotes Bishop Ridley's Confeffion fet down by Fox, Pag. 1598. in "thofe Words: You (the Papists) and I agree in "this, that in the Sacrament is the very true and "natural Body and Blood of Jefus Chrift, even "that which was born of the Virgin Mary, "which afcended into Heaven, which fits on

the right Hand of God the Father, &c. Only "we differ in the Way and Manner of being there. Add to thefe, Bifhop Ken's Expofition "Licenced, 1685. O God incarnate, bow thou "canft give us thy Flesh to Eat, and thy Blood "to drink; how thy Flefh is Meat indeed; bor

thou who art in Heaven, art prefent at the "Altar, Ican by no means explain, but I firmly "believe it all, because thou haft faid it, and "I firmly rely on thy Love, and on thy Omnipo"tence, to make good thy Word, tho' the Man"ner of doing it, I cannot comprebend."

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Again Pag. 105. He adds: Bishop Andrews, as above Chap. 8. Pag. 194. "Rex Chriftum "in Euchariftia veré prafentem, verè & ado«randum ftatuit. And, Nos vero in Myfierijs

Carnêm Chrifti adoramus cum Ambrofio, &c.
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acknowledges Chrift to be truly prefent, and truly to be adored in the Eucharist. I alfo "with St. Ambrofe adore the Flesh of Chrift in "the Myfteries.

Bishop Forbes de Euchariftia, Lib. 2. Cap. 2. 1. 9. An Chriftus in Euchariftia fit "adorandus, Proteftantes faniores non dubitant, "in fumptione enim Euchariftix adorandus eft, "Chriftus vera Latria. And ..8. Immanis eft Rigidorum Proteftantium Error, qui negant Chriftum in Euchariftia effe adorandum, nifi Adoratione interna & mentali, non autem externo aliquo Ritu Adorativo, ut in Geniculatione, aut aliquo alio confimili Corporis fitu; Hi feré omnes malé de Præfentia Chrifti Domini in Sacramento, miro fed vero Modo pra"fentis, fentiunt. The founder Proteftants make no doubt of adoring Chrift in the Eucharift. "For in receiving the Eucharift Chrift is to be adored with true Latria. Tis a monftrous Error of the rigid Proteftants, who deny that Chrift is to be adored in the Eucharist, except "only with an inward Adoration of the Mind, but not with an outward Act of Adoration, as Kneeling or other like Pofture of the Boแ dy. All thefe do not believe a right of the Prefence of Chrift in the Sacrament, prefent "there after a wonderful, but real Manner."

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"Mr. Thorndike. Epil. Lib. 3. Cap. 30. "Pag. 350 I fuppofe, fays he, the Body and "Blood of Chrift may be adored wherefoever แ "they are; and must be adored by a good Chriftian where the Cuftom of the Church, which a "Chriftian is obliged to Communicate with, requires it. And is not the Presence thereof in "the Sacrament of the Eucharift, a juft Occali

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on, prefently to exprefs by that bodily Act of Adoration, that inward Honour which we al ways carry towards our Lord Chrift as God, "Pag. 350 Not to baulk that Freedom, fays he, which hath carried me to publish all this, "I do believe that it was fo practiced, and done in the antient Church, and, in the Symbols, before receiving: Which I maintain "from the Beginning to have been the true "Church of Chrift, obliging all to conform to "it, in all things within the Power of it."

Thefe Quotations borrowed from your own Divines, My Lord, are fo full and plain that they need no Comment. I fhall therefore beg leave to ask your Grace, whether any Divine of the Church of Rome can teach the Real Prefence, or the Adoration of Chrift's Body and Blood in the Sacrament, in more precife and exprefs Terms, than these great and learned Men of your own Church have done; or whether it is poffible to find Words that would explain that Doctrine more fully, or more plainly?

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But let us hear what Mr. Spinckes fays, in Answer to thefe great Divines. It is, indeed, pleasant to observe how he difpatches all that they fay of the Adoration of the Sacrament, in a few Words Nor will (fays he Pag. 118.) his former Citation fpeaking of the Author of the Effay) out of Bishop Andrews make any Alteration herein. For he only profeffes the King to own that Chrift is truly prefent, and to be adored in the Eucharift. And indeed what properer Time of paying him our devouteft and most bumble Adoration than when he condefcends to: meet us in this holy Ordinance.

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