"Transubstantiation, says _Tillotson_[77], is not a Controversy of Scripture against Scripture, or of Reason against Reason, but of downright Impudence against the plain meaning of Scripture, and all the Sense and Reason of Mankind." And accordingly he scruples not to say, in a most _drolling_ manner, that "Transubstantiation is one of the chief of the _Roman_ Church's _legerdemain_ and _juggling Tricks_ of Falshood and Imposture; and that in all Probability those common juggling Words of _Hocus-pocus_, are nothing else but a Corruption of _hoc est corpus_, by way of ridiculous Imitation of the Church of _Rome_ in their _Trick_ of _Transubstantiation_." And as he _archly_ makes the Introduction of this monstrous Piece of _grave Nonsense_ to be owing to its being at first preach'd by its Promoters with _convenient Gravity and Solemnity_[78], which is the common Method of imposing Absurdities on the World; so I think that Doctrine taught with such _convenient Gravity and Solemnity_ should necessarily produce _Levity, Laughter and Ridicule_, in all intelligent People to whom it is propos'd, who must _smile_, if they can with safety, to see such Stuff vented with a grave Face. In like manner many other Divines treat and laugh at _Popery_. Even the solemn and grave Dr. _Whitby_ has written a Book against _Transubstantiation_, under the Title of "Irrisio Dei Panarii, _The Derision of the Breaden God_," in Imitation of the primitive Fathers, who have written _Derisions_ and _Mockeries_ of the _Pagan_ Religion. And he takes the Materials whereof this drolling Performance of his consists, from the _holy Scriptures_, the _Apocryphal Books_, and _Writings_ of the _holy Fathers_, as he tells us in his Title-Page; three inexhaustible Sources of Wit and Irony against the Corrupters of true and genuine Religion. In like manner he turns upon the Popish Clergy the several Arguments urg'd by the _Jewish_ Clergy in the _New Testament_, for the Authority of the _Jewish_ Church; and answers, under that _Irony_, all that the Popish Clergy offer in behalf of the _Authority_ of their _Church_, in a _Sermon_ at the End of his _Annotations_ on St. _John_'s _Gospel_. Nor do our Divines confine their _Derisions_, _Ridicule_ and _Irony_ against _Popery_ to their Treatises and Discourses, but fill their _Sermons_, and especially their _Sermons_ on the _Fifth_ of _November_, and other political _Days_, with infinite Reflections of that Kind. Of these _Reflections_ a Popish Author publish'd a _Specimen_, in a Book intitled[79], _Good Advice to Pulpits_, in order to shame the Church out of their Method of _drolling_ and _laughing_ [80] at _Popery_. But this Book had no other effect, than to produce a _Defence_ of those _Sermons_ under the Title of _Pulpit Popery true Popery_, vindicating the several _Droll_ Representations made of _Popery_ in those _Sermons_.