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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. If his meaning had been that they were to eat of his very flesh it self miraculously made of bread, as these men would make us believe, had it not been as obscure and as difficult for them to have conceived it?
3. If his meaning had beene that they were to eate of his very flesh it selfe miraculously made of bread, as these men would make vs beleeue, had it not beene as obscure and as difficult for them to haue conceiued it?
4. It is not true that our Saviour added nothing to explicate himself. Augustine in the place before cited *showeth that he did. And both in the beginning, when ahe first told them of this bread: and d they desired him ever to give them of it; he maketh them answer in these words; cI am the bread of life: He that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth in me shall never thirst: and in the process of his speech again, dVerily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth in me, hath life everlasting: Whereby esaith Jansenius, they might well have understood, in what manner he would give them his flesh to eat. Who also thence gathereth (agreeably to Augustine and other of the Ancients) that *it is all one to feed on Christ, and to believe in him: As also in the Conclusion and shutting up of all, when he saw how they mistook him: “