A01532:382
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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Part 2 › Division 7: Division 7.Part 2 › Division 7: Diuision 7.
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What the Ministers drew out of the well, they carried:
What the Ministers drew out of the well, they caried:
But they drew water: Therefore they carried water.
And now I deny his Proposition: The Ministers carried not that that they drew: They drew water; they carried not water but wine.
And for his addition hereunto, that Christ after he took the bread and wine, and before he distributed them, by his miraculous and omnipotent benediction converted them into his own body and blood, as he showeth by his words plainly pronounced of them, This is my body. Though it be nothing to the Argument, and a mere begging of the point in Question, yet let us consider a little of it, where in the Text he findeth that Christ thus converted them: for the words, This is my body (as was formerly showed) do not evince it. But he findeth it (it seemeth) in the benediction or the blessing of the bread; which is yet against the common conceit of his Associates, that say there was no conversion at all till Christ uttered those words, This is my body. Hear we Bellarmine a little