A01532:537
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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2. Is this their Sacrifice the very same with Christs on the Cross. Then belike Christ is anew crucified again. The Apostle indeed telleth us of some cthat crucify Christ again: and it is to be feared that to many of them are indeed guilty of that sin. But if this their Sacrifice be, as he saith, not da resemblance, or ecommemoration, as we say in the Eucharist, of Christs passion, but the very same with that of Christ on the Cross, how can it be but a new crucifying of him indeed? Yea then Christ must needs die and suffer again in it. For fa true and a real Sacrifice (saith Bellarmine) requireth a true and real death or destruction of the thing sacrificed. And again, gA sacrifice besides the oblation requireth a mutation and consumption of the thing offered; yea and hthe slaying of it, if it be a living thing: And, iunto a true sacrifice is required, that that is offered unto God in Sacrifice be utterly destroyed. Yea even the Apostle himself saith, that kIf Christ he oft sacrificed, then he must die and suffer oft. But lChrist being once dead, he dyeth no more. Yea and Bellarmine himself ⟨p. 200⟩granteth that mChrist doth not truly die in the sacrifice of the Mass: and that n