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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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The truth hereof is acknowledged even by our Adversaries themselves. Cardinal Bellarmine granteth that gthese words, This is my Body, may imply either such a real change of the Bread as the Catholics hold, or such a figurative change as the Calvinists hold, but will not bear that sense that the Lutherans give them. And, Cardinal Caietan acknowledgeth and freely confesseth, that hthere appeareth not any thing out of the Gospel that may enforce us to understand those words ⟨p. 3⟩properly. This is my body. And he addeth that inothing in the text hindereth but that those words, This is my body, may as well be taken in a metaphorical sense, as those words of the Apostle, The Rock was Christ: and that the words of either proposition may well be true, though the thing there spoken be not understood in a proper sense, but in a metaphorical sense only. And I find alleged out of Bishop Fisher in a work of his against Luther (for the book I have not) these words; *There is not one word in S. Mathews Gospel, from which the true presence of Christs flesh & blood in our Mass may be proved. 5Out of Scripture it cannot be proved. Thus by the Confession of our Adversaries themselves, our Saviours words may well bear that meaning that we give them, and there is nothing in the Text that may enforce us to expound or understand them otherwise.
The truth hereof is acknowledged euen by our Aduersaries themselues. Cardinal Bellarmine granteth that gthese words, This is my Body, may imply either such a reall change of the Bread as the Catholikes hold, or such a figuratiue change as the Caluinists hold, but will not beare that sense that the Lutherans giue them. And, Cardinal Caietan acknowledgeth and freely confesseth, that h