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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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For 1. None are saved, but such as so feed on Christ, as is there spoken of. oExcept you eat the flesh of the Son of man, (saith our Saviour) and drink his blood, you have no life in you. pHe hath not therefore life eternal, (saith Augustine,) that eateth not this bread, and drinketh not this blood. For temporal life men may have without it; but eternal life without it in no wise can they have. But many are and shall be saved by Christ, that never Sacramentally fed on Christ in the Eucharist, yea that never eat at all of the Eucharist, or saw it, or knew of it: as not only the ancient Fathers that lived before Christs Incarnation, who yet, (as Augustine well observeth) qdid eat the flesh of Christ spiritually as well as we do now, and were saved by the death and passion of Christ, which, as Bernard speaketh, rwas effectual even before it was actual; and the Thief on the Cross, that spassed thence to Paradise the same day that he dyed: but many Infants also that die ere they come to years of discretion, as the Council of Trent acknowledgeth, taccursing all those that hold, mis-expounding the words of Christ in that place, that all Infants are damned that receive not Christs body and blood in the Eucharist. Which yet uone of their own Popes sometime held and maintained; and which would necessarily follow, if that place were to be understood of the Sacramental eating of Christ in the Eucharist. It is not therefore the Sacramental eating of Christ in the Eucharist, that is there spoken of.
For 1. None are saued, but such as so feede on Christ, as is there spoken of. oExcept you eate the flesh of the Sonne of man, (saith our Sauiour) and drinke his blood, you haue no life in you.