Three Pillars and Arch-patriarchs of the Popish Synagogues, Treatise 1 · Book 1 · Part 25
The fiue and twentith Chapter proueth the same by Counsells that hauehave bene neerer to our time.Hesk.
For Counsells that hauehave bene neerer to our time, then sixe hundreth yeares after Christ,Fulk. we doe not admit their authoritie. But M. Heskins promising Counsells, beginneth with the institution of Iustinian, That Monasteries of Virgines should hauehave libertie to choose a Priest which should bring vntounto them the holy Communion. Herevpon he will build reseruation, for they did not celebrate to them (saith he) but they brought it. As though he that bringeth ye worde of God to thē, doth not preach before them, but bringeth a Sermon in his bosome. But for as much as that decree speaketh not onelyonly of a Priest but also of a Deacon, I can be content to thinke, that he brought the sacrament with him and did not consecrate there, but what maketh this for reseruation to the vse of adoration, which is the matter in question▪ Or else for an ordinarie custome of reseruation, if the sacrament were brought from the next Church, (where and when it was celebrated) to the Monasterie, not to be hanged vp in a cannopie, but to be receiued presently? But it is a proper reason that M. Heskins vseth: for may be reserued for a short time, why not for a long time? For answere of this, I will referre him to his owne Popish decrees, that forbid such reseruation, for feare of putrifaction and rottennesse. At last commeth the Counsels of Wormes and Remes, in which times it is certaine that great corruptions preuailed in the church: then followeth the Counsell of Laterane commended for generall held Anno. 1215. speaking of the diligent reseruation of the sacrament: with much adoe about the authoritie of Counsels But all not worth a rush. The generall Counsell of Laterane falsified the text of scripture tract to both in wordes and sense, alledging it thus in their second Canon or Chapter against Ioachim Abbas: Pater quod dedit mihi maius est omnibus, that which the father hath giuen me is greater then all. Whereas the trueth of the text is, the father which hath giuē them to me, is greter then all. A wise and worshipfull Counsel, that can not confute an errour, but by falsifying of the scripture. And this is the Counsell that first decreed transubstantiation.
Last of all commeth the Counsel of Trent in our days, and that, not so vainely alledgeth of The age of the Nicen Counsell to hauehave acknowledged reseruation, as M. Heskins impudently affirmeth therevpon, that The Nicen Counsell did ag…se reseruation. Next he iangleth of the authoritie of the Church, as though what so euer the synagogue of Antichrist doth affirme, were the difinition of the Church of Christ. And in the end, he ioyneth an other issue with the proclamer, That if he can bring any plaine scripture, catholique doctour, or counsel, that by expresse wordes forbiddeth reseruation, he will subscribe. For scripture ye institution, do ye this in remembrance of me, proueth the sacrament to be an action, and not a name of a thing that may be reserued, for eueryevery action is in mouing. Secondly, all Catholique doctours in a manner, and all Counsels generall and prouinciall, that speake of this sacrament, call it Eucharistia, whiche is a giuing of thankes, which name can not be rightly applyed to the bread and wine only, but to the whole vse of them according to Christes institution. Thirdly, the expresse decree of Clemens his owne Doctour is against reseruation, alledged in the Chapter next before. Fourthly, Origen in Leuit. Chap. 7. Hom. 6. the place also cyted in the latter end of the 24. Chapter.