A01532:168
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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Ignorance and mistaking must be my adversaries best means to salve this falsehood and many others which do ensue afterward.
Ignorance and mistaking must be my aduersaries best meanes to salue this falshood and many others which doe ensue afterward.
IN the next place having digressed all this while from 1the Argument he should have answered, he addeth that that which they teach concerning the literal sense of Christs words and the miraculous conversion of the bread and wine ⟨p. 70⟩into the very body and blood of Christ, is the true doctrine of the ancient Fathers: and to save himself the labour of proving that which neither he, nor any of his side shall ever be able to make good, he turneth his Reader over to Bellarmine, out of whom he picked all that before he had said, and telleth him that he hath both proved it, and refuted all the shifting answers of the Protestanticall Divines. Bellarmine (it seemeth) is his Ajax, behind whose shield he must shroud himself, or else he dare abide no brunt of encounter again.
IN the next place hauing digressed all this while from 1the Argument he should haue answered, he addeth that that which they teach cōcerning the literall sense of Christs words and the miraculous conuersion of the bread and wine ⟨p. 70⟩into the very body and blood of Christ, is the true doctrine of the auncient Fathers: and to saue himselfe the labour of proouing that which neither he, nor any of his side shall euer be able to make good, he turneth his Reader ouer to Bellarmine, out of whom he picked all that before he had said, and telleth him that he hath both prooued it, and refuted all the shifting answeres of the Protestanticall Diuines. Bellarmine (it seemeth) is his Aiax, behinde whose shield hee must shroud himselfe, or else he dare abide no brunt of encounter againe.