A01532:121
A discussion of the popish doctrine of transubstantiation wherein the same is declared, by…A discussion of the popish doctrine of transubstantiation vvherein the same is declared, by…
A discussion of the popish doctrine of transubstantiation wherein the same is declared, by the confession of their own writers, to have no necessary ground in Gods Word: as also it is further demonstrated to be against Scripture, nature, sense, reason, religion, and the judgement of t5xxauncients, and the faith of our ancestors: written by Thomas Gataker B. of D. and pastor of Rotherhith.A discussion of the popish doctrine of transubstantiation vvherein the same is declared, by the confession of their owne writers, to haue no necessary ground in Gods Word: as also it is further demonstrated to be against Scripture, nature, sense, reason, religion, and the iudgement of t5xxauncients, and the faith of our auncestours: written by Thomas Gataker B. of D. and pastor of Rotherhith.
London: printed by John for William Sheffard, 1624London: printed by Iohn for William Sheffard, 1624
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Division 2.
Diuision 2.
His first end• for three leaves together is to pr• that there is nothing in the Gospel, whereby it 1may appear that those words of our Saviour, This is my Body, may not be understood figuratively as well as other speeches of the like kind in Scripture; as when, aSeven kine are said to be seven years; bten Horns ten Kings; cThe Rock was Christ, &c. So he; not telling withal his Reader (as he ought to have done, like an ingenuous solid Author) the many differences noted by dBellarmine and other Catholic Authors solving this very Objection, between Christs literal words, This is my Body, and other figurative speeches; these being simply and without any other explication uniformly recounted by three Evangelists, as also by Saint Paul, in their historical narrations: whereas where the Lamb is called the Passover, the Rock is said to be Christ, &c. Something is still added in the text, to explicate the literal and true meaning of them. The Lamb (for example) is called in the same place the sacrifice of the Passover: Christ is said to be a spiritual Rock, &c. And the very scope of visions and parables doth still show in what sense the words of them are literally to be taken: •s the seven kine, ten horns, &c.
HIs first end• for three leaues together is to pr• that there is nothing in the Gospel, whereby it