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…

Lastly, to say that Christs body long before preexisting is now made of bread that some two or three days past had no existence it self, is all one as to say, that wine of a twelve-month old is made of grapes that were but yesterday gathered and pressed, and were yet growing the day before; or that an Oak having stood upward of an hundred years, and yet standing in the Forrest is sprung up this year of an acorn of the last years growth. And consider we now how well these things agree together: The body of Christ is contained in the bread; and yet there is no bread at all in the Eucharist: The body of Christ succeedeth only in the room of bread; and yet the substance of the bread passeth into the substance of Christs body: The whole substance of bread is so abolished that nothing remaineth of it, and yet the whole substance of the same bread passeth into the substance of Christs body: Christs body was in being before: and yet it is now made of another substance that before it was not: yea Christs body that was bread and borne above a thousand years since, is now made of a wafercake of yesterdays baking: The whole essence of that wafer cake passeth into Christs body; and yet we cannot say of Christs body, that ever it was that wafer-cake. But like ^xropes of sand (as we are wont to say) do these things hang together: and to spend much time in refuting them may be deemed (I fear) as ^yridiculous, (to use their Dennis his terms) as to stand seriously and curiously pulling down by piece-meal such castles as little children have in sport built up of sand.

Lastly, to say that Christs body long before preexisting is now made of bread that some two or three dayes past had no existence it selfe, is all one as to say, that wine of a twelue-month old is made of grapes that were but yesterday gathered and pressed, and were yet growing the day before; or that an Oke hauing stood vpward of an hundred yeeres, and yet standing in the Forrest is sprung vp this yeere of an acorne of the last yeares growth. And consider wee now how well these things agree together: The body of Christ is contained in the bread; and yet there is no bread at all in the Eucharist: The body of Christ succeedeth onely in the roome of bread; and yet the substance of the bread passeth into the substance of Christs body: The whole substance of bread is so abolished that nothing remaineth of it, and yet the whole substance of the same bread passeth into the substance of Christs body: Christs body was in beeing before: and yet it is now made of another substance that before it was not: yea Christs body that was bread and borne aboue a thousand yeeres since, is now made of a wafercake of yesterdayes baking: The whole essence of that wafer cake passeth into Christs body; and yet wee cannot say of Christs body, that euer it was that wafer-cake. But like