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…

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.

Now heere againe is hee faine to fly (as before) to Gods omnipotency. That is their ^dDeus è machina; as they ⟨p. 169⟩had wont to speake; that is the knife still at hand to helpe to cut all those knots that by their wanton wits and absurd fantasies they haue snarled themselues in. And the better to enforce this ^eCatholike Answer, that se•ueth them for the saluing of all sores, hee reckoneth vp a long bead roll of wonderfull works; as the Creation, the Resurrection, the Hypostaticall vnion, the Trinity in Unity, the torment of Spirits by corporall fire, Christ comming out of the Sepulcher without remooving the huge stone, his entring into the house while the doores were still shut, his appearing to Paul on earth while hee was still in heauen, (which he telleth vs Bellarmine hath plainely prooued) his piercing of the solide Orbes of heauen in his Ascention, the soule 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 seuerall distant places at once; the rather since that it is equall aboue nature for many bodies to possesse one place, as for one body to be in many places.