A01532:522
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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5. Christs body, though it be there, yet it cannot be abused. No? Is it not abused when the drunken Priest speweth it up again? which their Church Canons therefore make provision for. Or is it not abused, when it is burnt by them and used like an Heretic? Or when it is devoured and swallowed down by mice and rats? as their own Schoolmen confess. How is it then that their S. Clement giveth S. James such charge as you heard before of it, least some foul abuse befall Christs body?
5. Christs body, though it be there, yet it cannot be abused. No? Is it not abused when the drunken Priest speweth it vp againe? which their Church Canons therefore make prouision for. Or is it not abused, when it is burnt by them and vsed like an Hereticke? Or when it is deuoured and swallowed downe by mice and rats? as their owne Schoolemen confesse. How is it then that their S. Clement giueth S. Iames such charge as you heard before of it, least some foule abuse befall Christs body?
6. Yea but, though it be so, yet is it no more abused, then an Angel in an assumed body, can be wounded, or 1Christs Deity was on the Cross. Is Christs humanity then turned into his Deity? Or hath c Christ now assumed the nature of Angels, and so is now become a Spirit? It is a spiritual body (saith Augustine) yet not a Spirit: As an animal body is not a soul, but a body; so such a spiritual body as the Apostle speaketh of, is not a spirit but a body. But ewho dare say either that Christs body rose not again a spiritual body: or if it did rise again a spiritual body, that it was no more a body now but a Spirit? When he himself refuteth this opinion in his Disciples; who when they took him for a 3Spirit, f