A01532:584
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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As if those words had not a manifest relation to his passion; (which is ba true Sacrifice indeed, and ca most perfect yea dthe full complement of all other:) that which their own vulgar Translation also plainly importeth, yielding the words (as they are also in the very Canon of the Mass) by the future tense, Tradetur, effundetur; shall be given, shall be shed: as having an eye to the passion then enear at hand, wherein his body was to be given, and his blood to be shed. So Gregory of Valence; fThat is or shall be given, or broken; that is, that shall be offered by me for you being slain or sacrificed on the Cross: gas (saith he) the Apostle himself also expoundeth it. So Cardinal Hugh; h He took bread, and brake it, thereby signifying that his body should be broken on the Cross, and that he did himself expose it to be so broken and crucified: And when he said kthat shall be shed, he foretold them of his passion then shortly to ensue. Yea so lCard. Caietan; who addeth also not unfitly, that Christs body is said then to be given, and his blood to be shed. because his passion was then in a manner begun, l a plot being now laid for his life, and mhis body and blood already bought and sold by them. And to omit that Christs words concerning his body do no more intimate a present act of delivering it, then those words of his the like else-where, n I lay down my life for my sheep: Let him but show us how Christs blood is shed in this Sacrifice. For as for Bellarmines bold assertion that o