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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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1. We reason from the very course of the Context in the 1Story of the Institution. Jesu• took bread, and blessed, and 2brake it, and gave it to his Disciples, and said, Take, eat, This is my Body. Whence I thus reason; Look what our Saviour took, that he blessed; what he blessed, that he brake; what he brake, he delivered to the Disciples; what he delivered to them, of that he said, This is my Body. But *it was Bread that he took, the Evangelist so saith, and Bread therefore that he blessed, bread that he brake, bread that he delivered, and bread consequently of which he said, This is my Body. And hence are those speeches so frequent in the Ancient Fathers. rThe Bread that hath been blessed (saith Irenaeus) is its own Lords body. God in the Gospel (saith Tertullian) calleth bread his Body. sThe Bread (saith Augustine) is the Body of Christ. tThe Bread, (saith Hicrome,) that the Lord brake, and gave his Disciples, is the Lords body: And if we ask, how Bread is or can be Christs body? as we may well do, and v it is no new Question; It was long since asked by the Ancients and answered by them. The Author of that work in Cyprian of Christs principal works; (to pass by all others;) uOur Lord (saith he) at the Table in his last Supper, gave Bread and Wine with his own hands, and on the Cross he gave up his body to be wounded with the Soldiers hands, (Mark, bread at the Table, his Body on the Cross,) that the sincere truth and true sincerity more secretly imprinted in his Apostles, might expound to the Nations, how Bread and Wine were Flesh and Blood, and by what means the ⟨p. 13⟩causes agreed with their effects, and divers names or kinds were reduced to one essence, and the things signifying and signified were called by the same names. In which last words he most evidently showeth, how Bread is said to be Christs Body; to wit, because signs and the things by them signified are wont to have the same titles given them. The Bread is Christs Body: as