A01532:591
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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AND of Constantine that renowned first Christian 1Emperor they confess from the testimony of Eusebius living with him and writing his life, of S. Jerome likewise and other certain Authors, that he erected Temples in memory of Martyrs, dedicated a most sumptuous Church in honour of the Apostles, provided his sepulchre there, to the end that after his death he might be made partaker of the prayers there offered; he dedicated his Church with great solemnity, and celebrated the dedication thereof with a yearly festival day; he carried about with him a portable Church or tabernacle, and Priests and Deacons attending it for the celebration of the divine mysteries; he had lights by day burning therein; he translated to Constantinople the holy relics of S. Andrew, S. Luke, and Timothy, at which devils did roar, and certain relics of the Cross, found by his Mother for conservation of the City built by him; he honoured sacred Virgins professing perpetual chastity; Under him were Monks throughout all Syria, Palestine, Bithynia, and other places of Asia and Africa; he greatly reverenced Anthony the Monk; he went to embrace the sepulchre of Saint Peter, and Saint Paul, humbly praying to their Saints that they would be intercessors to God for him; he much honoured the Cross and signed his face with it; Under him in that age were Pilgrimages made to Jerusalem: he reproved Acesius the Novatian for denying the power given unto Priests to remit sins, under pretence that God only remitteth ⟨p. 228⟩sins: of his Clergy, Priests and Bishops assembled by him to the dedication of his Church some of them did did preach and interpret holy Scriptures, others of them, who could not do so, appeased the Deity with unbloody Sacrifices and mystical consecrations, praying for the health of the Emperor: At the time of his death he intended to expiate his sins by efficacy of the holy Mysteries, and confessed his sins in the house of Martyrs: After his death prayer was made for his soul, and the mystical Sacrifice offered. So evident was he and the Primitive flourishing Church of Christ in his days, in these and all other points Catholic, and continued so in our Country and other Christian parts of the world until Luther's foul Apostasy and revolt from it.
AND of Constantine that renowmed first Christian 1