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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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Secondly, those words of Christ, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you shall not have life in you; was a precept respectively given and only obliging such persons to an actual receiving of the Sacrament as they were to whom it was uttered; such persons (to wit) as are by age capable of Sacramental manducation. And surely if Christs words be only understood, as my Adversary would have them, of spiritual eating Christ by faith, they must necessarily import a precept more impossible to be fulfilled by children then sacramentally to receive him. For sooner may children receive the Sacrament, especially drink of the consecrated Chalice (as anciently in the Greek and Latin Churches they were went to do) then actually believe in him.
Secondly, those words of Christ, Except yee eate the flesh of the Sonne of Man and drinke his blood, you shall not haue life in you; was a precept respectiuely giuen and onely obliging such persons to an actuall receiuing of the Sacrament as they were to whom it was vttred; such persons (to wit) as are by age capable of Sacramentall manducation. And surely if Christs words be onely vnderstood, as my Aduersarie would haue them, of spirituall eating Christ by faith, they must necessarily import a precept more impossible to be fulfilled by children then sacramentally to receiue him. For sooner may children receiue the Sacrament, especially drinke of the consecrated Chalice (as anciently in the Greeke and Latine Churches they were went to doe) then actually beleeue in him.
His next Argument pag. 8. maketh more (if this Minister had wit to discern the force thereof) against his own exposition of Christs words, then it doth against our understanding of them. For as all that receive Sacramentally Christs flesh and blood, are not saved; no more are all that spiritually and by faith eat him. This being sufficient for the verity of our Saviours speeches that the Sacrament is ordained to produce those excellent and heavenly effects which Christs promises there import in the souls of such as worthily receive it; and such contrarily as come unworthily thereunto receive death and judgement to themselves by it.