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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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To overthrow this their opinion then of Transubstantiation and Christs corporal presence in the Eucharist; I first reason from the Context, mChrist took bread, and blessed it, and gave it, and said; This is my body. Whence I thus argued: What Christ took, he blessed; what he blessed, he brake; what he brake, he delivered; what he delivered, of that he said, This is my body.
To ouerthrow this their opinion then of Transubstantiation and Christs corporall presence in the Eucharist; I first reason from the Context, mChrist tooke bread, and blessed it, and gaue it, and said; This is my body. Whence I thus argued: What Christ tooke, hee blessed; what he blessed, he brake; what he brake, he deliuered; what he deliuered, of that he said, This is my body.
But it was bread that he took, blessed, brake and delivered; (n It is bread, saith Durant a Popish writer, that all those verbs are referred to.)
But it was bread that hee tooke, blessed, brake and deliuered; (n It is bread, saith Durant a Popish writer, that all those verbes are referred to.)
- nSteph Durant. de ritib. Eccles. l. 2. c. 38.