Transubstantiation Exploded, Part 1 · Paragraph 15
PAR. 15.
That the words of our Saviour, Matth▪ 26. 29. I will drinke no more of this fruit of the vine, are meant of the Evangelicall cup, or Sacrament, is prooved against D Smith and S. E. by the testimonie of Origen, Clemens Alexandrinus, Cyprian, Austin, Chrysostome, Druthmarus, the Author of the booke de Ecclesiasticis dogmatibus, Jansenius, Maldonat, the Councell of Wormes and Pope Innocentius: and D. Smith and his Chaplaines evasions refuted.
THe last argument prosecuted in the Conference, was taken out of th… 26. of Saint Matthew, ver. 29. wher… Christ himselfe not onelyonly after the blessing of the cup, but also after hee had ministred the Communion, saith, will drinke no more of this fruit of the vine. Doubtlesse Christ who institute… the Sacrament, and immediatly before consecrated the cup, ver. 28. best knew what it was; wine or blood, and he resolves us that it was the fruit of the vine, and that we al know is wine, not blood, whence I framed this Syllogisme.
No blood is in propriety of speech the fruit of the vine.
That which Christ and his Apostles dranke in the consecrated Chalice was the fruit of the vine.
Ergo it was not blood.
For this blow you have a double ward; the first is, that Christ called his …blood the fruit of the vine, because it was such in appearance, the … of wine remaining after the … thereof was tur…ed into Christs blood. Put the question but to your owne conscience, and I dare say it will tell you R…fut.that this your answer is a meere shift and evasion. For why should not Christ who is the truth, rather call that hee dranke according to that which it was in substance and truth, then that which it was as you teach onelyonly in appearance, who ever heard accidents without substance, quantity or quality, moysture or rednesse called the fruit of the vine? did Christ drinke meere accidents in the cup? or doe you at this day in the consecrated Chalice? if so, your Priests could never be at any time overseene or become light-headed in drinking never so much of the consecrated cup. For it is a thing never heard of, that meere accidents should send up a fume, much lesse overcome the braine and cause drunkennesse in any man, and I hope you will not flie to a miracle, and say that your Priests braines are intoxec… ted by miracle, in case he take a dram to much of the wine he hath consecrated. Your owne Schoolemen put the case, that a Priest may sometimes forget himselfe by drinking too deepe even in the holy cup. But I presse not this so much as that you in this your answer forget that we are about the Sacrament, where you will by no meanes allow of any such figure as excludeth the verity of the thing, otherwaies if you take a liberty to expound these words by a figure, and say, that Christ by a trope here called that which was his blood, wine, you shall never debarre us of the liberty of expounding the former verse by the like figure, and saying, that Christ called by a trope that which was in truth wine, his blood. 'Tis hard to say, and more then you can prove, that Christ ever dranke his own blood upon earth: aMal. in Mat 26. … c…o ness erat bib…rus sanguine… suum nec verè nec metaphoricè, vinum arste… metaphoric… bibiturus erat. Ego inquit dispono vobis ut edatis & bibat… super mensam me am in reg…o m…o, ergo non de sang…e suo s… de vino dixit, non bibam amodo de hoc genimine vitis. Evas. 2.Christ neither dranke his blood properly nor metaphorically, but wine he was to drink in heaven metaphorically as himselfe said, Luke the 22. 29, 30. I appoint unto you a kingdome, that you may eat & drinke at my table in my kingdome, therefore Christ spake not of his blood, but of wine, when he said, I will drinke no more of this fruit of the vine till I drink it new in heaven, thus your own Maldonate.
Yet you have another ward you say, p. 162, 163, 164. that there is a Legall cup, and an Eucharisticall, both mentioned in Saint Luke, and that these words were spoken of the legall or common cup, as Saint Ierome, Saint Bede, Saint Theophylact expound.
This ward will not beare off the Refut.blow which comes with such a weight, that it drives your weapon to your head, for
1. 'Tis evident to any man that wilfully shuts not his eyes, that this in the 29. ver. hath reference to this in the 28. ver, drinke ye all of this, for this is my blood, but I will not drinke henceforth of this fruit of the vine, these words immediatly follow the other, and of necessity have relation to them: neither can they have relation to any other cup then the Eucharisticall here, and in Saint Marke, because they make mention but of one cup, and that cup whereof Christ said, drinke ye all of this, for this is my blood of the New Testament. This reason alone convinced the conscience of your Learned B. bHarm. Evang. Afferunt quidam Catholici haec verba non esse dicta a Domino post calicem sacrum, sed post priorem, cuius meminit Lucas, at id non patitur ordo Evang: cum enim Mattheus & Marcus nullius alterius mentionem seccrint praeterquam sacri, quando dicitur ex hoc genimine vitis, nullus alius calix intelligi potest ab ijs demonstratus, quam cuius ipsi meminerunt.Iansenius who thus writeth upon this verse, Some Catholickes saith he, affirme that these words were not spoken of the Lord after he had drunke of the consecrated cup, but after the former, whereof mention is made in Saint Luke. But the order of the Evangelists will not suffer it. For sith Matthew and Marke make mention of no other cup then the consecrated, when it is said by them, of this fruit of the vine, no other cup can be conceived … be pointed to or demonstrated by them, the… that cup whereof they make mention. Of the same minde is Titelmanus, whose opinion Barradius the Jesuite relateth and defendeth in his 3. Booke of the Eucharist, c. 5.
2. The Authors alleadged by you to the contrarie doe not weaken the sinewes of my argument, for neither Ierome, nor Bede, nor Theophylact denie these words to be spoken of the consecrated cup, though they allegorize upon them.
3. By following Bellarmine, you and your Chaplaine are fallen into a fowle flow, either you must say you tooke up your quotations upon trust, or els confesse you are a falsificator. For none of these Fathers alleadged by you, either in words or by consequence say that you put upon them, to wit, that the words mentioned in Saint Matthew are to bee understood of the Legall or common cup, Saint cCum Iude… credideri…e & adduxer… …os Pater a… fidem, tuned… vino corll bi… Dommus, …i nea transpl… tata est po… pulus Israel i…per Ieremiam Dominus sequitu… dicit …g se Domin… …e quaquar… … ha… vined off bib…srum nisi in regno Patris, regnum Patris fidem intell… … ….Ierome, and dVitis est plebs Iudaica, &c.Bede, and eNon delecta…or … …, … populi.Anselme have no distinction of two cups, but leaving after their manner the literall sense, expound allegorically the vine to be the people of the Jewes, and the fruit of the vine to be either their beliefe or their legall observances and ceremonies. Theophylact indeed makes mention of two cups, but saith not that the words alleadged by me out of Saint Matthew are to be referred to the legall or common cup mentioned in Saint Luke.
4. You are cast by your owne witnesses, for Ierome, Bede, and Theophylact, referre these words to the blood of Christ, and consequently to the Eucharisticall cup as fIn Mat. c. 26. v. 29. Ierom in comment. Beda, Euthymius & Theophylactus hoc loco ad sanguinē Christi referunt. In Mat. Tract. 25. Potus iste quem Deus verbum sanguinem suum fatetur, est generatio vita verae, & est sanguis uvae illius quae missi in torcular passionis protu…t potum …nc. Paedag l. 2. c. 2. p 116. foreign.Maldonate confesseth, wherein they doe but write after the Copie of the Ancient Fathers.
1. Origen. That drinke which Christ confessed to bee his blood, is the fruit of the true vine, and is the blood of that grape which being put into the wine-presse of his Passion brought forth this drinke, we cannot alone either eat of this bread or drinke of this fruit of the true vine.
2. Clemens Alexandrinus. Christ shewed that it was wine which was blessed, saying, I will not drinke from henceforth of this fruit of the vine.
3. Cyprian. Alleadging the words of Saint Matthew, I will drinke no more of this Ep…t. 6…. Qua in par… in…us cal …em … suisse … … …inus. …lit, … vi… …sse … … …guinem suum foreign.fruit of the vine, addeth, where we finde that the cup was mingled which the L…d offered, and that it was wine which hee called his blood.
4. Epiphanius fights against the Encratites with the same Com Her. l …. h…s. …. I… hoc a recto salvatorio sermone vedargu…ur, quia dicu… non bibam da fruct… vitis h….weapon wherewith Saint Cyprian foyled the Aquarij. Their Sacraments saith he which are administred in water onelyonly, not wine, are no Sacraments, wherefore they are reprooved by our Saviours owne words, saying, I will not drinke from henceforth of the fruit of the vine.
5. Saint Chrysostome makes the like use of these words of our Saviour against the heretiques in his time, why did he not say water but wine? to plucke up by the routes another wicked heresie, for seeing that there are some who in the Sacrament use water, he sheweth that when the Lord delivered the Sacrament, he delivered wine In Mat. Ho…il. foreign. Lucas non narrat historiam suo ordine, sed per anticipationē narrat id quod suo loco Ma…theus & Marcus narrarunt & quest. Evang. l. 1. c. 42.of the fruit of the vine, saith he, now the vine certainely produceth wine not water.
6. S. Austin in his 3 book of the consent of the Evangelists. c. 1. and elswhere professedly handleth the point of difference betweene you and mee, whether Christ spake these words of the Sacrament after the consecration of the cup, or before, and resolveth it thus, that he spake them after the consecration of the cup, as Saint Matthew and Saint Marke place his words, and whereas you object out of Saint Luke, that they were spoken before, he answereth that S. Luke by anticipation related that which Matthew and Marke relate in their proper place. Which his answer is so pertinent and so full for us, that aBellar. l. 1. de Eucha. c 11. Augustinus non perpendit hunc locum diligenter.Bellarmine puts a s…ur upon this most Learned Father for it, saying, he did not well weigh the place. I thinke the Cardinall rather did not ballance his own words with judgement, in censuring so rashly Gardiner a… obiect…. no… bibam amodò de fruct… vitis d…e novum hibero in reguo Dei, regnum Dei licclesi… est, in qua quotidie bibie sangui… suum Christus per sanctos suos, tanquam caput in membris ex Eucheri… In Mat. c. 2… v. 29 Vitis Iudea vinum Patriarcha… & Prophet… …, &c. sive simpli…iter ab illa hora caenae non b… bis vinum que…s que immortalis factus est & incorruptibi… lis post resur rectionem. Aut. de ecc… dog. c. …5 & Concil. Wor… c. 2. Vinum fuit in redemptionis nostrae mysterio, cum dixit non bibam de hoc geni…ine ….the prime of all the Latine Doctors.
7. Eucherius Commenting upon these words, till I drinke new wine with you in the kingdome of my Father, saith, the kingdome of God is the Church, in which Christ daily drinketh his blood by his Saints, as the head in the members.
8. Christianus Druthmarus after hee had allegorized upon these words a while, falleth upon the literall interpretation, saying, that from the houre of the Supper he drank no wine till he was made immortall and incorruptible.
9. The Author de Eccles. dogmat. and the Councell of Wormes say categorically and expressely, that wine was in the mysterie of our redemption, when Christ said I will drinke no more of the fruit of the vine.
10. Innocentius Bishop of Rome, a great stickler for your carnall presence, and the Godfather if I may so speake of Transubstantiation, who christned it in the Councell of Lateran, yet in the exposition of this place dissenteth from you, and consenteth with all the Ancient Fathers, Greeke and Latine …. 4. dr my…t. missae. c. 27. quod autem vinum in calice consecraverat pa… ex eo …od ipse subiunxit, non biba… amodò de … ….above alleadged, saying, it is manifest Christ consecrated wine in the cup by those words which he added, I will not drinke from henceforth of the fruit of the vine.
Yea but your Chaplaine S. E. wisely admonisheth me, that the Councell of Wormes and Innocentius, howsoever in the exposition of this place, they joyne with us yet that they were thorough Papists. The stronger say I their testimonie against you, and a greater presumption of the evidence of truth on our sides which extorteth such a confession from our greatest opposites.