A01532:440
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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But 1. If signum & res signata, the Sign and the thing signified by it be relatives (as without all Question they are) a Father may as well be a father to himself, as a sign may be the sign of it self. Not to add that the Ancients (as hath formerly been shown) are wont to call the Sacraments pictures, and pledges: and it is against common sense to say that ought is either a picture, or a pledge of it self.
But 1. If signum & res signata, the Signe and the thing signified by it be relatiues (as without all Question they are) a Father may as well be a father to himselfe, as a signe may be the signe of it selfe. Not to adde that the Ancients (as hath formerly beene shewen) are wont to call the Sacraments pictures, and pledges: and it is against common sense to say that ought is either a picture, or a pledge of it selfe.
2. I might well put this Defendant to prove that Christs transfiguration was a representation of his present 1glorification, or that bhis entrance into Jerusalem was a type of his glorious entrance into heaven, whatsoever his bastardly Eusebius Emissenus say of it; whose authority is no better then his own.
2. I might well put this Defendant to prooue that Christs transfiguration was a representation of his present 1glorification, or that bhis entrance into Ierusalem was a type of his glorious entrance into heauen, whatsoeuer his bastardly Eusebius Emissenus say of it; whose authoritie is no better then his owne.
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