A01532:535
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. HE magnifieth their Mass, by telling us that 1this is that clean host, that Irenaeus saith Malachi foretold; the Christians only sacrifice figured by that of Melchizedek; and represented by the Jewish as well bloody as unbloody Sacrifices; not distinct from the Sacrifice of Christ on the Cross, but the same repeated in another unbloody manner.
§ 4. HE magnifieth their Masse, by telling vs that 1this is that cleane hoast, that Irenaeus saith Malachie foretold; the Christians onely sacrifice figured by that of Melchisedeck; and represented by the Iewish as well bloody as vnbloody Sacrifices; not distinct from the Sacrifice of Christ on the Crosse, but the same repeated in another vnbloodie manner.
- 1T. G.
1. It is true indeed that pIrenaeus understandeth by that qpure Offering in Malachi the Eucharist now in use: and that the rAncients many of them suppose it resembled in sthat action of Melchizedek: And they call it the Christians (yet tnot the only Christian) Sacrifice, succeeding in the room of the Jewish Sacrifices; the Sacrament, ⟨p. 199⟩