A01532:283
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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Division 6.
Diuision 6.
His next ground for overthrowing our literal understanding of Christs words and real presence of his true 1body and blood in the Sacrament, is an unlearned and slender manner of proving our Saviours large discourse in S John. 6. ⟨p. 107⟩not to be at all understood of sacrament all manducation, but spiritual eating his flesh and blood by believing in him. And first he quarreleth at Pope Nicholas manner of speech, making Berengarius in the abjuration of his heresy to affirm not only the sign, but the body it self of Christ to be handled by the Priests hands, and rent and bruised with the teeth of the faithful, &c. Which manner of speech was purposely by Pope Nicholas in a Council of learned Doctors devised to make this slippery shifting heretic make a direct and plain confession of his faith concerning our Saviours being present in the hands of the Priest consecrating the Sacrament, and mouths of such as receive him impassible now in his own corporal nature glorified, and uncapable of renting or any kind of corporal mutation, as being not with the sacramental signs also quantitatively extended, but indivisibly and after a spiritual manner existing, yet really handled and received as Angels in assumed bodies are said to be seen, and felt, and as S. John Baptist likewise Joh. 1. said he saw the holy Ghost, when he only saw a Dove the sign of his presence, &c. which manner of speech is not unusual with the holy Fathers. Thou seest him, (saith S. Chrysostom speaking of Christ in the Sacrament) Thou touchest him, Thou eatest him, &c. Which is the same in sense which Pope Nicholas affirmeth, only he explicateth somewhat more particularly the division and fraction of the sacramental forms containing the very body and blood of Christ, under them all and each particle of them entirely and undividedly remaining. Insomuch as John Hussy falsely wont by our Adversaries to be claimed for Patron and faithful witness of their doctrine, singeth thus in certain verses of Christs presence and manner of being received in the Sacrament, which he with us to his dying day constantly believed, as now also his disciples do after him;