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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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Division 12.
Diuision 12.
Page 16. and 17. My Adversary wisely after his accustomed 1manner undertaketh by comparisons to declare the true manner of Christs body and blood being conveyed unto us in the Sacrament: and that so easily as if there were no difficulty at all in the explication thereof; whereas oCalvin himself accounteth it an inconceivable and unexplicable mystery, worthy with wonder and astonishment to be by us believed, how (to wit) Christs body so remotely distant as heaven is from the earth, can be eaten and received by us. pWe confess it (saith Beza) to be an incomprehensible mystery, wherein it cometh to pass that the same body which is and still remaineth in heaven, and is no where but there, should be truly communicated to us who are now on earth and no where else. This indeed is a mystery and true Jewell of Protestanticall doctrine harder to be conceived, as Calvin, Beza, and other chief Calvinists seem sometime to mean it, then to conceive all those true miracles, which we teach to be wrought by God in the consecration and use of this wonderful Sacrament. Yea surely it implieth an evident contradiction that Christs body should be truly given together with the sacramental signs, as Calvin expressly affirmeth, and so by ut eaten, that is no nearer then the top of heaven is to the mouth of such as receive him. If by faith only and a grateful memory of his passion we eat Christ in the Sacrament, as this Minister solveth the former riddle; no more present therein, nor in any other manner conjoined with the sacramental signs, then the land conveyed by an Indenture sealed is present or conveyed with the seal thereof, or then he is present in the water of Baptism: (they are his own comparisons) then is their Sacrament a bare sign and figure of Christs body, having no mystery at all worthy of admiration in it. For what wonder is it for a man to eat one thing thinking upon another; bread (for example) remembering our Saviours passion? And then are Calvin, Beza and many more of their