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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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Part 2 › Division 5: Division 5.Part 2 › Division 5: Diuision 5.
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Division 5.
Diuision 5.
HE concludeth his first Discourse thus, page 5. Thus they; and thus we: and yet neither do they, nor ⟨p. 89⟩1we therefore make the Sacrament of Christs body and blood ANY thing but bare bread and wine. Which Corollarium of his plainly so delivered may make any man see the Protestanticall Communion truly anatomized and plainly showed to have nothing holy, heavenly and divinely (as the Fathers speak) therein contained, but bare bread and wine, which any man may eat when and where he pleaseth, remembering withal our Saviours passion, Never Caietan, never Bellarmine, never Gratian, never Father or other Catholic Divine of our Church believed or taught this gross and sacrilegious doctrine as my Adversary in his words, They, and We, falsely pretendeth. Neither doth Calvin or any other noted Divine of their Church speak at least, whatsoever they think, so poorly and grossly of this Sacrament; but they endeavour with Epithets and words to cover the bready nakedness thereof, making it seem mysterious at least, if not miraculous. Blessed Saint Dennis great Scholar of Saint Paul himself, I will here presume to ask thee. If the Sacrament of the Altar be but bare bread and wine, why doest thou so absurdly speak and blasphemously pray unto it, in this manner? mO most divine and holy Sacrament, vouchsafe to open those signifying signs, and appear perspicuously unto us; and replenish the spiritual eyes of our soul with the singular and clear splendour of thy light, &c. Why likewise, thou holy Martyr and great Doctor of Christs Church Saint Itaeneus, living so near the Apostles times, as to know great Polycarpus S. Johns disciple, and deeply seen in the knowledge of heavenly verities, doest thou deny this bread after consecration to be any more accounted common bread, but the Eucharist consisting of two things, heavenly and earthly; that being received into our bodies they may be no more corruptible, having the hope of resurrection? If no more then bare bread and wine be in this Communion, as my Adversary affirmeth, why did ye, noble Confessors of the first Nicene Council will us,