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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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observed by Augustine long since, and by their Flanders Bishop Jansenius of late, beside diverse others of their own. And if he had had any thing of moment to say against this our exposition, why ⟨p. 210⟩did he not then produce it, where the place was discussed? But he thought it better and safer (it seemeth) to let all this alone there, lest the allegations to the contrary being then in the eye, might easily convince him of gross and palpable falsehood.
obserued by Augustine long since, and by their Flaunders Bishop Iansenius of late, beside diuerse others of their owne. And if he had had any thing of moment to say against this our exposition, why ⟨p. 210⟩did hee not then produce it, where the place was discussed? But he thought it better and safer (it seemeth) to let all this alone there, lest the allegations to the contrary being then in the eie, might easily conuince him of grosse and palpable falshood.
3. Do we alone thus expound that place? Do not very many of their own writers herein agree with us? Or do those of theirs build only upon the clause he here mentioneth? To which purpose, howsoever enough hath already been said, yet for his better information concerning both the soundness of our exposition of that place, and the reasons thereof drawn from our Saviours own words, let him hear one, though not then Pope, yet that afterward came to be Pope, and was as learned a Pope as any of late times. Aeneas Syluius writing against the Bohemians; sIt is not (saith he) any sacramental drinking, but a spiritual that our Saviour speaketh of in that 6. of John. For there is, as Albertus Magnus she weth, a threefold drinking of Christ: a sacramental, that the Priests only receive; an intellectual, that the people take in the species of bread; and a spiritual, which all use that are to be saved, by daily devout meditation ruminating on Christs incarnation and his passion: And of this drinking our Saviour speaketh in