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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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Division 11.
Diuision 11.
Another Argument is by my Adversary tediously prosecuted 1pag. 12. wherein from Christs local being still in heaven, he argueth and endeavoureth to prove an utter impossibility of his bodily being in the Sacrament. Of which kind of disputing I may fitly say with Saint Augustine, aBehold with what manner of Arguments humane infirmity possessed with vanity, contradicteth Gods omnipotency. As if natural under standing were able to comprehend the utmost limit and extension of Gods power, which is in it self infinite and inscrutably manifested in many of his wonderful miracles: of which (as I have said) no other reason can be given, but that he is omnipotent that did them, and cannot deceive us when he is pleased to testify them. Can we conceive (for example) the creation of the world of nothing at ⟨p. 168⟩all preexisting; the resurrection and repair which God will make of all bodies so utterly by frequent and successive conversions into other things altered and consumed; the personal union of man with God; the torment of souls and devils wholly spiritual by corporal fire; the consubstantial subsisting of the divine nature simply one of it self in three distinct persons; and other like mysteries of faith not conceivable more then the bodily being of our Saviour in the Sacrament; yet upon the warrant of Scripture and doctrine of Christs Church faithfully by us believed? Can this Minister tell me (to come more nearly to our purpose) how our Saviour appeared visibly to S. Paul on earth (as diverse plain texts import, particularly by Bellarmine bproduced and discussed) and yet (as himself will not deny) still remaining in heaven? Or can he tell me, how our Saviours body went out of his Sepulchre, without removing that huge stone, rolled afterward by the Angel from it? Or how he entered the house, the doors being and remaining still shut upon his disciples; as for a great miracle the Evangelist recounted? Or how he pierced the solid and huge Orbs of heaven in his ascension without making any hole in them? Sithence it is equally above nature for many bodies to possess one place, as for one body to be in many places.