Book IV. THE L 0 R D 's s u p p E R. ment, He is not here, be is rifen, J.1att. xxviii. 6. plainly implying, that he could not be here and tl!ere too. Or mull: we fay, the Argument ufed by the Arrgels of God IS weak or deceitful,. that theirs may be !l:rong and true? Objefl. Haw we not man_y Examples in holy Scripture, which jhew that Chrifl may be in divers Places at one 'Twze? Was he not tn Heaven whm he appeared to St. Paul, Afls ix. 23. Paul faith, bewasfeen lojl of all ofhim, andyet was he not then in Heaven? * Anfw. What Sight it was that Paul had of Chri!l:, is not declared; however, it is eviden& it was a Vi11on that he had of him, for fo he calleth It: But that thiS ptoves the Body of Chrirt to be in two Places at once, cloth not in the lea!l: appear. Stephm alfo f.1w Chri:t; and if it Jbould be granted, as foqle affirm, that he faw his real glo– rified Body, cloth ir follow, the Body of Chri!l: was then in two Places? The Heavens miaht be opened, and his Sight fo ftrengthened that he might have a Sig'ht of the blefred Jefus, whom Stepbm faid, he faw jfanding on tbe Right·hand ofGod, Litls vii. 56. Objefl. The Papi(ls fay, Chrifl's real Body is in the _Eucharifl invijibfy, and Jo. tbt Angeis might mea;t, be 'vas not there vifibly, when they fazd, He IS not here, he IS nfen. Anfw. To this fa11h Mr. Pool, If a Man bemg fought after, Jbould hide h1mfelf 111 fame Corner or Hole of the Houfe, and Purlc1ers Jbould afk for him ; could any with a aood Confcience Cay, he is not here, becaufe he is invifihlc? None fure but a l'apift, wi~o is fo well fl<illed in Equivocarion, would give fuch an Anfwer. Q·ur Saviot ever)' where m'kes thefc two OppoGres, his being in the \Voild, aiid going t6 Hea– ven. Jobi! xiii. t. The Hoe1r was come, that he lhould' depart out of this World unto the Father. !t feems they could have tacght him the An of going thither, a'nd re– maining htTC at the fame rnfl:ant. They have an excelltnt F'aculry, as lle had, \~ho fa id, Since be could not give content in going, nor flaJ•ing ;• he would 11ot go, nor flay: Fot they know how a Man may both go from a Place, and !l:q in it, at che fame Time. I know not what can be more plain, if they did not wilfully f1lllt their Eyes. Chrift faith expreffiy, JVle )'OU have not always witb )'Oil: That is, !lis bodily Prefence; for as touching his divine Prefence, fo he is always with his People onto the End of the World, A-fall. xxviii. ult. Beildes, Iheir Dotbnc defhoys the Truth of Chri/f's human Nature. vVe read of Chrih, He was in all points like unto Us, Sin only excepted. His Body was like ours, and therefore impoffible it Jbould be in a thoufand Places at once, which according to _rheir Doctrine ir. is. This turns·_Chrift_'s Body imo a Spirit ;• nay, indeed rhey make hiS Body more fpmtual r.han a Spmt ;· for a Spirit cannot be in feveral I' laces, divided from itftlf. The Soul of Man, if it be enme both in r.he Whole, and in every Part of the Body; yet it is not divided from itfelf; nor from its Body, nor can it be in two Bodies at the fame Time, as all confefs; much Iefs can it be in ten thoulimd Bodies ar once. ·whenever any Angel comes to Earth, he leaves Heaven. So that this quite deftroys the Truth of Chrift's human Body. Objefl. Much of what we fay here, the Papifts fay, was true of Chrifi's Body in the Days of his Infirmity ; but when he was rifen from the Dead, tben he received aJPtritual Body, as it is (aid ours jhalf be at the Refurreflio>~, 1 Cor. xv. /lnfw. This is but a Fig Leaf; for they afcribe thefe monftrous Properties' to Chrift's Body before its Refurrectwn ;_for they fay, the Flelb _and Bloorl of ~hrift were really 111 the Sacrament which the Difc1ples received whi!ft Chnf'. hved. Secondly, Chrift's RefurreEtwn, though It h1ghtened the Perfectwn, yet It did not alter the Natur<: and Properties of his Body,_ nor gave it the Being of a Spirit; fo1· after he was rifen, he proves 1hat he was no Spmt by thiS Argument, Handle me, andfei!: For a Spirit batl:r i!OI Flejh and Blood, as you fee me have,_ Luke xxiv. 39· By this it appears, tha't their Doctrine ddtroyeth the Truth of Chnlt's human Body; at leaft it defrroys the main E vidence of it againfr thofe wHo affirmed that Chrift had only a phantaf1 ical Bodv namely, that he was feen, and felt,_ and heard; for the Papifts L1y, That Senfe is n~; to be believed. Aga~n, tlmDoctnne of theirs deftroyeth the Truth of Chrift's Ateen– lion into H eaven; for he is not afcended, if he hath not left th;s World, but is her~ in the Satr<lment. Nothing can be more clear, than that Chrill did vinli!y "nd local!v . leave this VVorld, when he W~nt up into l!eav~n, /l[~s i. 9, JU. That being one~ there. rh~ Heave;1S..!nv.ft recetve, or conram bun, llllttl tbc '1 ime of tbe R fjl'itution of all 'Thwgs, /lf!s IlL~ 1. And that at the Iaft Day he 01all come vif1bly and Jocallv from !-leaven, 2 'Thejj. 1. 7• But that he !ball come down a thcufand Time~ in a Dai, • See a Popi!h Book called, Cf'he Porlraiturtofthr lntt C!1urd, p. 1p. at
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