A01532:184
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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5. Let it be observed, how these men that cannot endure at our hands to hear of any figure in the words of our Saviour, though one never so frequent, in signs and Sacraments especially, which both they grant these things to be; yet themselves in the explicating of them are enforced to fly to figures, yea take liberty to themselves to coin and forge such figures, as were never heard of before, either in holy writ, or in profane writer. For let him if he can, show a legacy so termed in either.
5. Let it be obserued, how these men that cannot endure at our hands to heare of any figure in the wordes of our Saviour, though one neuer so frequent, in signes and Sacraments especially, which both they grant these things to be; yet themselues in the explicating of them are enforced to flie to figures, yea take liberty to themselues to coine and forge such figures, as were neuer heard of before, either in holy writ, or in prophane writer. For let him if he can, shew a legacie so tearmed in either.
Lastly, Christs blood indeed may in some sense be said to inebriate mens souls, and the sAncients sometime so speak. But that which is in the Chalice, if it be taken (which the Priest sometime may chance to do) overlargely, will (as tAquinas well observeth) inebriate the body and not the soul: which I never yet heard that ublood did, or could do. And therefore we have cause to think, if we see the Priest drunk with it, yea we have reason to believe, because we know he well may, that it is not Christs blood, but *the fruit of the xvine, the blood of the grape, that is in the Chalice, and produceth such effects.