A01532:378
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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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.
It was bread therefore of which he said, This is my body.
Now this (saith mine Adversary forgetting, it seemeth, what he had said but even now, that here I began to dispute formally) is a formless, fallacious and wholly forceless kind of arguing, if we suppose with the holy Fathers (who belike held Transubstantiation then as well as a real and corporal presence, if this worthy man upon his bare word may be believed) that the substances of bread and wine were by the force of Christs words turned into Christs body and blood. That is, as if he should say, this Argument is of no force at all, if the point in Question be granted, or if that be yielded, that is not at all in the Text. Yea but this is as if a man should make the like deduction of othe water that Christ turned into wine; The Ministers drew water out of the well; carried what they drew: Therefore that which they drew and carried was water.