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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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gI have told you, (saith S. Augustine) that before Christs words that which is offered on the Altar is called bread: but when Christs words are uttered, it is called no more bread, but his body. And explicating the Title of the 33. Psalm, wherein these words are written, Et ferebatur in manibus suis; And-he was carried in his own hands: Who (saith he, conc. 1.) is able to conceive how this can happen in man? For who is carried in his own hands? A man may be carried in the hands of an other: But in his own hands he cannot be carried. How this may be literally understood in David, we find not. But in Christ we do. For Christ was carried ⟨p. 50⟩in his own hands, when giving his body he said, This is my Body. For then did he carry that body in his own hands, &c.
gI haue told you, (saith S. Augustine) that before Christs words that which is offered on the Altar is called bread: but when Christs words are vttered, it is called no more bread, but his bodie. And explicating the Title of the 33. Psalme, wherein these words are written, Et ferebatur in manibus suis; And-he was carried in his owne hands: Who (saith he, conc. 1.) is able to conceiue how this can happen in man? For who is carried in his owne hands? A man may be carried in the hands of an other: But in his owne hands he cannot be carried. How this may be literally vnderstood in Dauid, we finde not. But in Christ we doe. For Christ was carried ⟨p. 50⟩in his owne hands, when giuing his bodie he said, This is my Body. For then did he carry that body in his owne hands, &c.
- gS. August. Serm. 28. de verb. Dom.
When as Christ himself (saith S. Cyril) affirmeth and saith of the bread, This is my Body, who may presume to make any doubt thereof? And when the same Christ confirmeth and saith, This is my Blood, who can doubt, and say it is not his blood? Again,