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…

2. Look how this man argueth, so did the Heretics of old, to prove our Saviour Christ to have an airy, spiritual, and fantastical body. ^kLet it not deceive you, you simple sots, (saith John of Jerusalem) when you read that ^lChrist showed Thomas his hands and his side, or when you hear him say, that he hath ^mflesh and bones: These things he made some show of indeed to strengthen the saith of his doubting Disciples. But he showed that he had an airy and spiritual body in truth, when ⁿhe came to his Disciples while ⟨p. 164⟩the doors were shut, and ^ohe vanished out of their sight. And to the like purpose did ^pthe Marcionites urge his ^qescape from those of Nazareth. Now what do the ancient Fathers hereunto answer? ^rThat Christs body (saith Tertullian) is no fancy ever, hereby appeareth, in that it endured violent handling, when he was taken and held, and haled to the hill-brow. For ^salbeit he made an escape through the midst of them, being first forcibly held, and after let go, either the throng being dissolved, or forcibly broken through; yet was it not by any fantastical delusion. For he had a true body still, and hands that he touched others still with, and were by them felt; (and then his body belike was not impalpable as this fellow saith it was.) And again, ^twhen Christ showeth his Disciples his hands and his feet, without doubt he hath hands, and feet, and bones, which a spirit hath not. And Jerome refuting John of Jerusalem;