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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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Hitherto, if you will believe this worthy Doctor, his Adversary hath disputed without form or figure, 1that you may not marvel why his Answer is so diffused, deformed and mis-figured; for the fault (it seemeth) was in his Adversaries misshapen Syllogisms; which made him also so loath to meddle with any of them. Here (he confesseth) he becometh a more formal Disputant; and I hope therefore we shall find him a more formal Defendant.
HItherto, if you will beleeue this worthy Doctor, his Aduersarie hath disputed without forme or figure, 1that you may not maruaile why his Answer is so diffused, deformed and mis-figured; for the fault (it seemeth) was in his Aduersaries mishapen Syllogismes; which made him also so loath to meddle with any of them. Here (he confesseth) he becommeth a more formall Dissutant; and I hope therefore we shall finde him a more formall Defendant.
- 1T. G.
Yet ere he come to my first Argument he must needs have a fling at me for confounding their doctrine of Transubstantiation and the real presence (corporal, he should have said for more perspicuity; for so I speak) ignorantly the one with the other. I perceive well what his drift herein is; to make some believe that howsoever Transubstantiation was not generally held till of late times; yet a real, that is a corporal presence was ever acknowledged. But if we will believe Bellarmine, Aquinas, and the Council of Trent, the one of them is every jot as ancient as the other, yea the one cannot possibly be without the other. hThis, (the Council of Trent telleth us,) was always the faith of the Church, that by the consecration of Bread and Wine, the whole Substance of the Bread was turned into the Substance of Christs body, and the whole Substance of wine into his Blood. And,