A01532:134
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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But let us see how well he urgeth and maketh good Bellarmines answers.
But let vs see how well he vrgeth and maketh good Bellarmines answeres.
1. The words are simply, and without any other explication, simply and uniformly (for so in his scholarlike manner he speaketh) recounted by three Evangelists and Saint Paul. And therefore they cannot be taken figuratively. For that must follow, or else he speaketh nothing to the purpose. We shall not need to go far to discover the ⟨p. 52⟩weakness of this consequence. The nthree Evangelists, and oS. Paul speaking of the other part of this Sacrament, do all simply and without another explication uniformly (to retain his own precise terms) say, This Cup is, &c. therefore the Cup cannot be taken figuratively there: which if it be not, they must invent a new Transubstantiation of some other matter or metal then the 3fruit of the Vine, either into the New Testament, or into Christs blood.4
1. The words are simply, and without any other explication, simply and vniformally (for so in his scholerlike manner he speaketh) recounted by three Euangelists and Saint Paul. And therefore they cannot be taken figuratiuely. For that must follow, or else he speaketh nothing to the purpose. We shall not neede to goe farre to discouer the ⟨p. 52⟩weakenesse of this consequence. The n