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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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§ 3. AT length he pleaseth to recollect himself and 1return to the matter in hand. Christs corporal presence (saith he) in the thing eaten, doth not necessarily infer and enforce a corporal and carnal manner of eating him, unless his body had therein a corporal, extensive and sensible manner of existing.
§ 3. AT length he pleaseth to recollect himselfe and 1returne to the matter in hand. Christs corporall presence (saith he) in the thing eaten, doth not necessarily inferre and enforce a corporall and carnall manner of eating him, vnlesse his body had therein a corporall, extensiue and sensible manner of existing.
- 1T. G.
To pass by these mystical and metaphysical terms, wherewith he and his Associates are wont to enwrap and involve themselves, like Eels in mire and mud (as himself speaketh) that their absurd and senseless doctrines, or dotages rather, may not be discerned; nor to insist upon the implication of contradiction, when he saith that Christs body is corporally, that is, bodily present in the Eucharist, and yet hath there no corporal, that is, bodily existence: a body bodily present, and yet not bodily existing; like the Marcionites riddles in Tertullian; A man no man; Flesh no flesh; 1a body no body; blood no blood: or, A body; but not as a body; with blood, but not as blood; in a place, but not as in a place; with qualities, but not qualitatively; with quantity, but not quantitatively. Such strange fancies and prodigies are these mens brains possest with.
To passe by these mysticall and metaphysicall tearmes, wherewith he and his Associates are wont to enwrap and inuolue themselues, like Eeles in mire and mud (as himselfe speaketh) that their absurd and senselesse doctrines, or dotages rather, may not be discerned; nor to insist vpon the implication of contradiction, when he saith that Christs body is corporally, that is, bodily present in the Eucharist, and yet hath there no corporall, that is, bodily existence: a bodie bodily present, and yet not bodily existing; like the Marcionites riddles in Tertullian; A man no man; Flesh no flesh;