THE L 0 R D 'ss u pp E R. Book IV. it is really in Heaven, in fuch a Proportion or Rignefs as he had upon Earth. Now tl'len, faith Mr. Pool, according to their Doctrine, the fame Body of Chrift is bicocoer than itfelf, and longer than itftlf, and· which is worfe, Chrifr is divided from h'f:n_ felf. I know no& whaii can be more impoflible, than to fay, That all Chrift is at Rome, and all at Londo11, and all irf Heaven, and yet nor all in the Places between. Objeft. /ill this, the Papilts fay, may be done by Gad's almigbty Pomer. ' /lnfw. Th~n by the fame almighty Power, it is poflibk for any other Man to be ' in fo many Places: For it mar.ters no"t that Chrilt ~10uld. be invifib!e m fo many ' Pla:ces, and ano~her fhould be there VItJbly; or that Lhnlt IS there 111 fo lmle a Bul k, ' and•another mlift be i11 a greater. And if this be fo, what Mor.Hers follow fl'om ' hence? Can any devife greater Abfurdities than they believe, if in very deed they believe wl\at they fay, and daily affirm! Suppofe now John to be by divine l:'owtr ' at the fame Time at Rome, ar Paris, and a< L cndon : Wherever John is alive, it fo!– ' lows he muft have Power to move himf•lf, or elk nn living Creature. Then J ohn ' at Romt may walk towards L ondon, and the fame ]oh11 at Lo11dan may walk towards ' R oflle; and fo they may meet, fhall I fay, the one the other, and you may be fure it will be a merry Mfeting; it were worth enquiring;, how long they will be rre rhty ' come rogether. Then again, at Rome :til rheParrs of Job;z may be excdlively hot, ' and at London exceflively cold, and at Paris neither hot nor co:d. This is heyond ' a!\ Romances that ever were devifed. Befides, Johil may be forely wounded ar ' Rome, and yet at LondoJJ. may l1eep in a whole Skin; Johnmay be fc"afling at Rome, ' and fa.fting at London, in the fame moment.' ' Objeft. You talk at tbis rate, becaufe you 1iteafv.re Gad by;•ourfe!v es, whereas he cm: ' do mare tban you or I can do. ' ./lnfw. There are fome Things-, which it is no Di010nor to God to fay he cannot ' do them, becaufe they are either finful, fo God cannot lie, or ahfolutely impoflibk. • God himfelf cannot make a Man robe alive and dead at the fame Timt· ; God cannot • make the Whole robe lei:S than a Part of it; he cannot make Three to be more than ' Threefcore; he cannot make a Son to beget his Father; he cannot make the I:1me ' Man to be born at ftveral Times, as Papift Authors confefs, and therefore in like ' manner he cannot make the fame Bodv to be in two feveral Places, fo r this is not ' one jot lefs impoffible than the other: 'But they muft believe, Chrift may have ten • Thoufand Bodies at one Time, or fo many as there are Priefts to confecrate the • Bread, and diftin<'l: Congregations to celebrate the holy Supper.' Objeft. 'l'befe indeed are great Difficulties to buman l~eafo>t, lut Reejo11 is not to be believed agai;zft Scripture, ,/lnfw, True, but this is their hard Hop, this DoCtrine of theirs is againft Scrip' ture, as well as Reafon, in a~ much as it is highly difhonorabie to Chrift, whofe· Honor is the great Defign of Scripture. What a foul Di010nor is it ro him, to fub– jeGl: him ro the Will of every Mars-Prielt, who when he pkafeth can command him down intO Bread! And what a Difhonor is· it, '!'bat tbe ver)' Bad)' ofCbrift may be eaten by Rats, or Tf'orms, and may be caft up by Vomit, and the like, a• /lqui>;as, af.irms, * and tha~ their Church in her Miffals hath put this amongfl: other Dire{~ions, 'Ihat if Worms or Rats have eatm Cbrijl:'s Body, tbey muft be burned ; and if any _'>fm; -vomit it up, it mujf be eatm again; or bllrned, or made a Relick? AnJ yet this is no more rha11 their DoCtrine will force them to own: For if thev will believe Cbrift's own Words in one Place, as well as in another, he affureth us,· 'I'hat wbatfoever. ,v;thout excep– tion, entereth into the Mautb, goeth into tbe Belly, and is caft forth into the Draught, Matt. X'-'· 17. Objeft. Wbat Dijbonor is tbis >i1ore to Chrijl:, than to have Fleas fliCk his Blood whe>fl he was upa11 Bartb. Anfw. Very great Difhonor! For though in the Day_s of his Flefh it was no Dilhonor to him, as it was neceffary for us that he fuffered lo many lndignmes, and died, yet now being rifen from the Dead? he dieth 110 mare: Ard It mu![ needs be a great Wrong, Injury, and Dtfhonor to htm, to ~e crucdled ag.am, and to Ce brought b~,k to thofe Reproaches-which he long fince left; and all this to no purpofe, and w:th– out any Profit to us. Again, the Scripture approveth and 11leth ~his Argument, that his Body cannot be. in tWo Places at one and the fame Time. It IS the Ar.,;els Arg~- ment,
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