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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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And he addeth that speradventure our Saviour called his flesh sometimes bread, to show that under the species of bread it was to be eaten. So that all the force of Bellarmines Argument is but merely conjectural, and dependeth upon a peradventure, which he cannot certainly aver. But 2without all peradventure he affirmed before that the bread of which our Saviour said; uMy Father giveth you the true bread from heaven; and xThe bread of God is he that came from heaven and giveth life to the world: and yI am the bread of life; he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth in me shall never thirst: and zI am the bread that came down from heaven: and again, aI am the bread of life: and bThis is the bread that came down from heaven, that whosoever eateth thereof should never die: and cI am the living bread that came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread he shall live for ever: that the bread I say, of which he said all this, was not the Eucharist, or the sacramental bread, and none of all this directly and properly concerneth it. And well may we put it out of peradventure, that the bread of which our Saviour saith dit is his flesh that he will give for the life of the ⟨p. 125⟩world, and e