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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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making much rather against them & this popish doctrine of a carnal feeding on Christs flesh; which those Fathers gather and prove thence to be wholly spiritual. But thus judicious is he in the choice of ⟨p. 177⟩his allegations; and so sincere in his citations of the Ancients, putting down their names only, but pointing to no place, that his fraud and forgeries may not be discovered; and fastening upon them his own, or his own associates expositions, wholly differing and dissenting from that that themselves say.
making much rather against them & this popish doctrine of a carnall feeding on Christs flesh; which those Fathers gather and prooue thence to be wholly spirituall. But thus iudicious is he in the choice of ⟨p. 177⟩his allegations; and so sincere in his citations of the Ancients, putting downe their names only, but pointing to no place, that his fraud and forgeries may not be discouered; and fastening vpon them his owne, or his owne associates expositions, wholly differing and dissenting from that that themselues say.
Moreover it is a wild kind of arguing from the natural 1and local extension of bodies to infer (as my Adversary doth page 16.) that by no possible power of God any body can want this local extension; this being a secondary effect of quantity, and an accidental propriety, which God may therefore easily hinder, and conserve without it bodily substance; as our Saviour himself insinuateth in the Gospel; affirming for a thing possible with God, to make a great Camel to pass through the eye of a needle; by taking (to wit) from it exterior bigness and local extension. Of which Camel so extenuated and straitened in place all the very same may be proportionably affirmed, which this Minister accounteth so absurd, by us held of Christs body in the Sacrament. And supposing truly that the body of Christ hath no extension in place, it is ridiculous for this ignorant Minister to make such inferences; as that any part of Christs body must be as great and greater then his whole body; and his whole body less then any part of it. For if neither the whole nor any part thereof, as it is in the Sacrament hath any exterior bigness at all, how can one part be said to be bigger then the whole? as of two black things a man should say, one was whiter then the other, when neither had any whiteness at all in them.