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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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§ 4. TO the recital of their absurd assertions, that 1there is la whole Christ, flesh, blood, and bone, head, ⟨p. 178⟩hands and feet, belly, breast and back, in every little wafercake, and every least crumb of each; and consequently, the whole body of Christ on earth less then the least limb or fingers end of it in heaven: as also to the allegations out of Augustine that this cannot be; for that in every true body, the parts cannot be altogether, but must have their due distance, and each of them his space or place according to his bigness; and none of them can be bigger then the whole: He maketh answer, that this is but a wild kind of reasoning: (and yet it is Augustine that so reasoneth, whom he might have been pleased to use with better terms:) telleth us what our Saviour saith of a Camel passing through a needles eye: as if what were spoken there by our Saviour of the one did relieve the absurdity of the other: (which no whit it doth, being only man hyperbolical speech, used to set forth the impossibility nwith man, of osuch a rich mans salvation as he there speaketh of:) and informeth this ignorant Minister, that neither the whole body of Christ nor any part of it, as it is in the Sacrament, hath any exterior bigness at all.
§ 4. TO the recit•ll of their absurd assertions, that 1there is la whole Christ, flesh, blood, and bone, head, ⟨p. 178⟩hands and feet, belly, breast and backe, in euery little wafercake, and euery least crumme of each; and consequently, the whole body of Christ on earth lesse then the least limme or fingers end of it in heaven: as also to the allegations out of Augustine that this cannot be; for that in euery true body, the parts cannot bee altogether, but must haue their due distance, and each of them his space or place according to his bignesse; and none of them can be bigger then the whole: He maketh answer, that this is but a wilde kinde of reasoning: (and yet it is Augustine that so reasoneth, whom hee might haue beene pleased to vse with better tearmes:) telleth vs what our Sauiour saith of a Camell passing thorow a needles ey: as if what were spoken there by our Sauiour of the one did relieue the absurditie of the other: (which no whit it doth, being onely