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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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Nor doth it follow that we would have men to believe nothing but what they see, because we refuse to believe that that we see is not so. eWe may not (saith Tertullian) call in question our senses; lest in so doing we detract credit from Christ himself, as if he might be mistaken when fhe saw Satan fall down, or gheard his Fathers voice from heaven, or hmistook the smell of the ointment that was poured upon him, or the itaste of the wine that he consecrated for a memorial of his blood. Neither was nature deluded in the Apostles. Faithful was ktheir sight, and their hearing on the mount: Faithful was their taste of the lwine that had been water: Faithful was mthe touch of incredulous Thomas. (And yet, as nAugustine well observeth; oThomas saw one thing, and believed another thing: He saw Christ the man, and believed him to be God: He believed with his mind that which he saw not, by that which appeared to his bodily senses. And when we are said to believe our eyes, psaith he, by those things that we do see, we are induced to believe those things that we do not see.) In a word, qRehearse me (saith Tertullian) Johns testimony: r