A01532:460
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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MY fifth Argument is from the nature of a true body which cannot possibly be the same whole and entire 1in many places at once, much less in places as far distant, as East and West, Heaven and Earth.
MY fift Argum•nt is from the nature of a true body which cannot possibly be the same whole and entire 1in many places at once, much lesse in places as farre distant, as East and West, Heauen and Earth.
- 1T. G.
Now here again is he fain to fly (as before) to Gods omnipotency. That is their dDeus è machina; as they ⟨p. 169⟩had wont to speak; that is the knife still at hand to help to cut all those knots that by their wanton wits and absurd fantasies they have snarled themselves in. And the better to enforce this eCatholic Answer, that se•ueth them for the salving of all sores, he reckoneth up a long bead roll of wonderful works; as the Creation, the Resurrection, the Hypostatical union, the Trinity in Unity, the torment of Spirits by corporal fire, Christ coming out of the Sepulchre without removing the huge stone, his entering into the house while the doors were still shut, his appearing to Paul on earth while he was still in heaven, (which he telleth us Bellarmine hath plainly proved) his piercing of the solid Orbs of heaven in his Ascension, the soul being at once entirely in distant parts of mans body, &c. And then demandeth why God cannot cause Christs body to be as well one and the same, whole and entire in so many several distant places at once; the rather since that it is equal above nature for many bodies to possess one place, as for one body to be in many places.