A01532:397
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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4. And yet neither is it true that so confidently here he affirmeth, that all those Fathers in all those places, yea or that any one of them, in any one of those places that he quoteth, (nor as I verily believe, in any place of their writings else-where) do (as he saith) expressly and purposely teach that the sin of unworthy receivers is equal (for the heinousness of it) with the sin of those that betrayed and killed Christ. Which no sober Divine will say; nor can it be justified, unless the Stoical parity of sins (charged mupon Jovinian by some, nhow truly I know not, oupon us by some of their side, falsely I am sure, pBellarmine himself therein acquitting us) be in Theology admitted. Bellarmine indeed qin the Chapter, whence he took all these quotations as he found them there mustered together, hath somewhat out of Oecumenius that may seem to look that way, (r He compareth unworthy communicants, saith he, with those that killed Christ) which this man having strained more then an inch further, ascribeth unadvisedly and untruly to them all. Whereas only Basil (if those ascetica at least be his) and Chrysostom, (who is wont to press far in reproving of sin) the one of them willeth us to repair holily to Gods board, least we incur the judgement of them that killed Christ: the other of them in one of the places there quoted saith, that as those that defile the princes robe are tpunished in like manner, as those also that rend it; so it is u not unlikely or unequal that those that with an unholy heart receive the Lords body, undergo xthe same punishment with those that tore it with nails; that is, that the one be damned for so doing as well as the other; which may well