A01532:160
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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dDo not suppose that ointment to be bare ointment. For as the Bread of the Eucharist, after the invocation of the holy Ghost, is eno longer bare bread, but Christs body: so this holy Ointment after invocation is fno more bare or common ointment, but a gift of Christ and the holy Ghost, by the presence of his Deity. And look what he saith concerning the not trusting of our senses in the matter of the Eucharist, the same doth gthe Ambrose before cited say of the Sacrament of Baptism. hWhat seest thou? saith he. Water: but not water alone, &c. First, the Apostle teacheth thee to contemplate not the things that are seen but the things that are not seen. Believe the presence of the Deity. For how could it work there, if it were not present. And again ⟨p. 66⟩afterward; iBelieve not thy bodily eyes alone: that is better seen that is not seen. And say not we as much? that it is not bare bread, nor bare wine that is offered us in the Eucharist, (whatsoever this lying wretch hereafter shamelessly avoweth, as when we come to it shall be showed) which is all that our outward sense is able to inform; but spiritual signs and seals, and effectual instruments of grace, which the eye of our soul is alone able to conceive, and our faith to assure us of.
dDoe not suppose that ointment to be bare ointment. For as the Bread of the Eucharist, after the inuocation of the holy Ghost, is eno longer bare bread, but Christs bodie: so this holy Oyntment after inuocation is fno more bare or common ointment, but a gift of Christ and the holy Ghost, by the presence of his Deitie. And looke what he saith concerning the not trusting of our senses in the matter of the Eucharist, the same doth