A01532:413
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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5. If no bread be left in the Eucharist, how said he before, that Christ is there contained in bread; and that the ancient Fathers so affirm? For how can he be contained in that that is not?
5. If no bread bee left in the Eucharist, how said hee before, that Christ is there contained in bread; and that the ancient Fathers so affirme? For how can hee be contained in that that is not?
6. If the whole substance of it be destroyed so that nothing remaineth of it, how doth the whole substance of it pass (as he saith) into Christs body? For how can that pass into it, that is not at all? Or how can that substance pass into the substance of some other thing, that utterly perisheth and ceaseth to be, so soon as ever that other substance approacheth?
6. If the whole substance of it be destroyed so that nothing remaineth of it, how doth the whole substance of it passe (as hee saith) into Christs body? For how can that passe into it, that is not at all? Or how can that substance passe into the substance of some other thing, that vtterly perisheth and ceaseth to be, so soone as euer that other substance approacheth?
7. If the very substance of bread passeth into the substance of Christs body, then Christs body (belike) doth not barely succeed in the room of it, (as before was affirmed) but is produced therefore and consisteth of it, which yet pthey usually deny. Else how doth the substance of the one pass into the substance of the other?