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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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3. If it may at any time be said, Christs body hath been of bread, it might at sometime be said, Christs body is of bread: and if of bread, why not ha breaden body? which yet iBellarmine will by no means admit. For what is a body of bread (as was said before) but a breaden body, as a pot of earth, an earthen pot, a dish of wood, a wooden dish? &c.
3. If it may at any time be said, Christs body hath beene of bread, it might at sometime be said, Christs body is of bread: and if of bread, why not ha breaden body? which yet iBellarmine will by no meanes admit. For what is a body of bread (as was said before) but a breaden body, as a pot of earth, an earthen pot, a dish of wood, a wooddendish? &c.
- hCorpus panaceum.
- iBellarm. de Euchar. lib. 3. c. 15.
4. Not to demand if nothing remain of the bread, what figure, and colour, and weight, and taste it is that we discern in the Eucharist, whither the breads or Christs body; because for those things they tell us that they hang, I know not how nor where, neither in the bread that now is not, nor in Christs body neither, *the accidents whereof they are not: and in that answer we must rest (though it be hard for any man endued with reason so to do) for them; since no other from them can be had: I ask, if the whole substance of the bread be utterly abandoned, so as nothing thereof remaineth; how saith