A01532:128
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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After that he hath thus spent some part of his railing 1Rhetoric in traducing & vilifying this Protestantical Divine his Adversary, as ignorant, unacquainted with the Authors he citeth, a petty writer, a mere collector, a filcher, a falsifier, &c. and disgraced his Discourse as consisting of proofs tedious, and superficial, and allegations impertinent maimedly and corruptly produced; and (that nothing may escape him without some nip) written with a very bad hand, which he taketh to be his own; and the party therefore one (it may be) not so fit to write for Ladies as himself, being both a man of worth (as before he intimated himself to be) and writing a fair hand too, though not very Scholarlike, as the work it self showeth: He cometh now to deal with the matter and substance of the Discourse.
AFter that he hath thus spent some part of his railing 1Rhetorick in traducing & vilifying this Protestantical Diuine his Aduersary, asignorant, vnacquainted with the Authors he citeth, a petty writer, a meere collector, a filcher, a falsifier, &c. and disgraced his Discourse as consisting of proofes tedious, and superficiall, and allegations impertinent maimedly and corruptly produced; and (that nothing may escape him without some nip) written with a very bad hand, which he taketh to be his owne; and the partie therefore one (it may be) not so fit to write for Ladies as himselfe, being both a man of worth (as before he intimated himselfe to be) and writing a faire hand too, though not very Scholerlike, as the worke it selfe sheweth: Hee commeth now to deale with the matter and substance of the Discourse.
- 1T. G.
Where the first Proposition, that he undertaketh to oppugn, as I propound it, is this:
Where the first Proposition, that he vndertaketh to oppugne, as I propound it, is this: