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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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Yea but (saith mine Adversary) there are many plain places in Augustine, cited by Bellarmine, for the real receiving ⟨p. 118⟩of Christ; which my superficial Adversary taketh no notice of. Bellarmine is still much in this mans mouth; and the superficialness of his silly and unlearned Adversary. But this (I am sure) is a very unlearned, slender and superficial proof of points questioned, to turn his Reader over still for satisfaction to some other. Yet I will do him the courtesy, since he telleth us of other plain places in Augustine to present him with one of them, though such an one (it may be) as will not easily go down with him. Augustine speaking of this place in John on Psal. 98. saith that Christ having used those words, bUnless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. When some understood them cfoolishly and carnally, he taught them to understand them dspiritually; saying, eIt is the Spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak are Spirit and life. As if he should have said; understand you spiritually what I have spoken. fYou are not to eat that body which you see, and to drink that blood which they will shed that shall crucify me. gI have commended a kind of Sacrament unto you; which being spiritually understood will quicken you. Though it must be visibly celebrated, yet is it invisibly to be understood. Thus Augustine in plain terms: and yet if we believe these men, the very same body of Christ that was then seen, and that very same blood that was shed on the Cross is orally eaten and drunk in the Eucharist.
Yea but (saith mine Aduersarie) there are many plaine places in Augustine, cited by Bellarmine, for the reall receiuing