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…

Besides in all such figurative speeches, Semper predicatur de disparato disparatum: One thing is said to be another, which cannot be •dually or specifically the •ame, but wholly different in nature from it. A man, (for example) as Christ was, cannot […] •narily be a Vine, a Lyon, a Rock, &c. But in Christs words, This is my body, no such absurd or impossible thing is affirmed; but only that the substance which he had in his hands, was his body made by the miraculous conversion of bread into it; Christs words being operative (saith ^eS. Ambrose) and omnipotently able to make that to be which is signified by them in in these words. Perhaps thou wilt say; I see another ⟨p. 49⟩thing: How prove you to me, that I take the body of Christ? And this remaineth yet for us to prove, that it is not what nature framed, but what benediction hath consecrated: and that the force of benediction is greater then the force of nature: because even nature it self is changed by benediction. Moses holding a wand in his hand, did cast it from him, and it became a serpent. Now if mans benediction were of such force, as that it could change nature; what say we of that same divine Consecration, where the words of our Lord and Saviour do work? For this Sacrament which thou takest is made by the speech of Christ. And if the speech of Elijah was of such pow•• as to draw fire from heaven; shall not Christs words be of force to change the forms of the elements? Thou hast read of the works of the whole world: Because he spake the word, they were made; he commanded, and they were created. The word of Christ then, which of nothing could make that which was not, cannot it not as well change those things which are into that which before they were not? Since it is not a less matter to give new natures unto things then to change natures, &c. ^fIt is indeed Bread before the words of the Sacraments: But after that consecration is once added unto it, of bread it is made the flesh of Christ, &c.

Besides in all such figuratiue speeches, Semper predicatur de disparato disparatum: One thing is said to be another, which cannot be dually or specifically the ame, but wholly different in nature from it. A man, (for example) as Christ was, cannot narily be a Vine, a Lyon, a Rocke, &c. But in Christs words, This is my bodie, no such absurdor impossible thing is affirmed; but onely that the substance which he had in his hands, was his bodie made by the miraculous conuersion of bread into it; Christs words being operatiue (saith