A01532:412
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. 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 kBellarmine, and lother of them, that the bread is not annihilated, or mis not ⟨p. 151⟩clearly brought to nothing? and check us for nbelying them when we say that any such thing is maintained by them? albeit their great oMaster of the Sentences say as much. For how is it not annihilated, if nothing remain of it?
4. Not to demand if nothing remaine of the bread, what figure, and colour, and weight, and taste it is that we discerne in the Eucharist, whither the breads or Christs bodie; because for those things they tell vs 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 indued with reason so to doe) for them; since no other from them can be had: I aske, if the whole substance of the bread be vtterly abandoned, so as nothing thereof remaineth; how saith k