Transubstantiation Exploded, Title page – Dedication
Transubstantiation exploded: OR AN ENCOVNTER WITH RICHARD the Titularie Bishop of Chalcedon concerning Christ his presence at his holy Table. Faithfully related in a Letter sent to D. Smith the Sorbonist, stiled by the Pope Ordinarie of England and Scotland. By DANIEL FEATLEY D. D.
Whereunto is annexed a publique and solemne disputation held at Paris with Christopher Bagshaw D. in Theologie, and Rector of Ave Marie Colledge.
JOB 31. 35. Mine adversarie hath written a booke against me, surely I will take it upon my shoulders and binde it as a crowne to me.
Facundus Hermianensis pro def. trium capt. p. 404. Potest Sacramentum adoptionis adoptio nuncupari, sicut Sacramentum corporis & sanguinis eius quod est in pane & poculo consecrato corpus eius & sanguinem dicimus, non quod propriè corpus eius sit panis & poculum sanguis sed quod in se mysterium corporis eius sanguinis que contineant.
LONDON. Printed by G M. for Nicolas Bourne, at the South entrance of the Royall Exchange. 1638.
TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE THOMAS Lord Coventree, Baron of Alesborough, Lord Keeper of the Great Seale of England, and one of his Majesties most Honourable Privi… Councell, &c.
Right Honourable,
YOur Lordships courteous acceptance of the greater The Grand Sacriledge of the Church of Rome.Worke, emboldeneth me to present this Appendix thereof to your Honour: the lesser it is, the lesser trespasse it will make upon the publique service of the State and your Lordships most pretious houres: and I hope it will proove like Diomedes in Homer,…ly.
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Perpusillas quidem pugnax tamen, for I laboured therein what I could … expresse the Character which Lipsius Lip. pref. in Sen.gives of Seneca's writings, copiam in brevitate, & vehementiam in facilitate. The Subject I handle is mos… noble and divine, The holy Sacrament of the blessed body and blood of our dearest Redeemer, and it is to be lamented even with teares o… blood, that what he ordained for the surest tie of unity, and strongest bond of amity, is through the malice of Satan, and hereticall pravitie turned into a bill of divorce, or rather fire-ball of contention among Christians at this day. For my Antagonist D. Smith, he is a man of greatest note among all our English Romanists, as famous with them, as ever was the Nymph, of whom Ovid. Ep.the Poet writeth,
Tu quo que si de te totus contenderit orbis,
Nomen ab aeternâ posteritate feres. For it is he about whom the Sorbonists and Secular Priests on the one side, and the Iacobines, Iesuits, Benedictines on the other, have of late published so many virulent Pamphlets
Tincta Lycambeo spicula felle madent.
It is he for whose apprehension two Proclamations were not many yeares since … forth. It is he upon whom for his extraordinarie parts, and well deserving of the See of Rome, Pope Urbane the …ght hath conferred the high, but empty title of Ordinarie of all England and Scotland. It is he whose a…rie Bishoprick of Chalcedon hath so much troubled this and our neighbour Land. With whom I could have wished that some of higher ranke and place had entered into the lists. But being challenged by him into this field, lying by the Waters of strife, I could not decline the combat. Which I now undertake with more confidence, by how much he sheweth many waies apparant diffidence of his cause, for in his frontispice he makes mention of my book intituled The Grand Sacriledge o… Printed by Felix Kingston, An 1630.the Church of Rome, in taking a… way the sacred cup from the Laity detected and convinced by the ev… dence of holy Scripture, and test… monie of all ages, as if he meant to refute the whole worke: yet from the first page to the last, he questioneth not a sy… lable, nor disableth any one testimo… therein,
Egregiam vero laudem & spol… ampla
A doutie piece of service, never … approach any thing neare to the mai… Fort and citadell, but sit downe before a small out-work (a relation of… Conference 25. yeares ago, consisting … a few pages) in the batterie whereof, … sheweth himselfe not onelyonly
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For he carefully shunneth the point … question, and falleth upon a more plausible tenet. Whereas to gaine or confirme a Romish Proselyte, which was th… occasion of his Conference with me, h… should foreign have propugned …e Trent doctrine of Transubslantiati…n, he carefully declineth that rock, and putteth in at the faire harbour of the reall presence, which in a Catholique sense all Protestants admit, and the Lutherans in as flat a manner as he. In …e despairing to make good his tenet by argument, he turneth argumento…m tela into maledictorum aculeos: he leaveth the Schooles, and flyeth to the theater, and there setteth a namelesse and shamelesse Poet to play upon my name with Anagrames, and my Treatise with Sarcasmes. Whereunto I Epig. gr…. l. …. c. 3.think fit to returne no other answer then the words of Mars in the Greeke Epigram,
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But because I speake to him in every paragraph in the ensuing letter I will say no more of him here; but now I apply my selfe to your good Lordship to whom I owe the dedication of a fa… greater and better worke then this, … this alone I have now ready for … presse, and I held my selfe bound take the advantage of the first opportunity to testifie in publike my thankfulnesse to your Lordship for your Honours many undeserved favours. An… if the argument be well scanned, will not seeme improper to Dedica… the Worke to the Lord Keeper of th… great Seale, for the Scriptures are th… instruments and deeds of our sa…vation, and the Sacraments are t… seales annexed thereunto: the grea… whereof our Romis… adversaries hav… audaciously and impiously violated b… breaking off halfe of it, and putting false and counterfeit stampe upon … With these misdemeanours (as I conceive) of a high nature I charge them and if I faile in my proofes, I refus… not to suffer, pro falso clamore The Lord make your Honour and … that shall vouchsafe to peruse and …amine this worke, like Angells of …ht, to discerne betweene good and …vill, truth and falshood, and more…ver crowne your Lordship with his …ncipall blessings here, and blesse … with an everlasting crowne …eafter.
Your Lordships most humbly and affectionatly devoted, DA: FEATLEY.