A01532:410
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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2. If it may be said to have been of bread, why may it not be said that once it was bread? as of Adam because he was fof the earth, it may truly be said that once ghe was earth. As for his instances, they are idle: the one is of an accident not made of, but succeeding only in the room of another, or in the same subject whence it hath expelled the other; and for the other we may say truly that a fire made of wood, not only was wood once, but is wood still, till the form of the wood be utterly destroyed, and the wood turned into coals, or dissolved into ashes; whereof we may also truly then say, that those coals or those ashes were once wood; in such sense as they say, that the rod was sometime a snake.
2. If it may be said to haue beene of bread, why may it not be said that once it was bread? as of Adam because he was fof the earth, it may truly be said that once ghee was earth. As for his instances, they are idle: the one is of an accident not made of, but succeeding onely in the roome of another, or in the same subiect whence it hath expelled the other; and for the other we may say truly that a fire made of wood, not onely was wood once, but is wood still, till the forme of the wood be vtterly destroied, and the wood turned into coales, or dissolued into ashes; whereof we may also truly then say, that those coales or those ashes were once wood; in such sense as they say, that the rod was sometime a snake.