A01532:527
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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§ 3. Yea but (saith this Fantastic) there is a second exhiminition of Christ in this sacramental presence, or hiding of himself in this Sacrament.
§ 3. Yea but (saith this Fantastick) there is a second exhiminition of Christ in this sacramentall presence, or hiding of himselfe in this Sacrament.
1. In the beginning of his Discourse he came over me for writing a bad band. I know not whether the fair band be his own or no that his own Discourse is written in. If it be (sure I am) his Scholarship is very small, that putteth exhiminition for exinanition: for so I suppose his meaning is; because I find it so in kTurrian; from whom it is like enough he had it, fathered upon one Methodius, whom Bellarmine was much to blame that he overslipped, when he mustered his Fathers for Christs corporal presence in the Sacrament. But here is a new doctrine indeed, and yet most true, if all be as they say, that our blessed Saviour is returned to a state of exinanition, that is, humiliation, dejection, infirmity, indignity, pain and infamy again: ⟨p. 195⟩for all this the word of lexinanition importeth. Belike they think he suffered not enough, or was not throughly enough exinanited while he was here on earth, that they must needs bring him back again, to suffer such ignominious things, out of heaven, as to be chewed, to be burnt, to grow mouldy, to putrefy, to turn into mites and maggots, to pass into the bellies of mice and rats, &c. to undergo those things in his second exinanition, that in the first he never did.
1. In the beginning of his Discourse he came ouer me for writing a bad band. I know not whether the faire band be his owne or no that his owne Discourse is written in. If it be (sure I am) his Schollarship is very small, that putteth exhiminition for exinanition: for so I suppose his meaning is; because I finde it so in