A01532:596
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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Part 2 › Division 14: Division 14.Part 2 › Division 14: Diuision 14.
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Sure we are that our Country-man venerable Bede, whom he here citeth as the reporter of Augustine's arrival here, was of an other judgement, as by his writings appeareth. For Commenting on the story of the Institution of this Sacrament; tThe old Paschal solemnity (saith he) being ended, which was celebrated in memory of the deliverance out of Egypt, Christ passeth to a new one, which he would have the Church use in memory of redemption by him, ⟨p. 230⟩uinstead of the flesh and blood of a Lamb substituting a Sacrament of his body and blood, in a figure of bread and wine, &c. And xhe breaketh himself the bread that he delivereth, to show that the breaking of his body to come was by his own will and procurement. And again, ybecause bread strengtheneth the flesh, and wine breedeth blood, the one is mystically referred to Christs body, and the wine unto his blood. Where is any tittle here that may stand well with their Transubstantiation? much less that soundeth ought that way? A Sacrament of his body and blood: a memorial of his redemption: bread broken and given: and both bread and wine having a mystical reference to the body and blood of Christ. It was well and advisedly therefore done by Bellarmine, zto leave Bede clean out of the Catalogue of his Authors, though a writer of the greatest note in those times, because he could find nothing in him, that might seem but to look that way; which if he could, we should be sure to have heard of.
Sure we are that our Country-man venerable Bede, whom he here citeth as the reporter of Augustines arriuall here, was of an other iudgement, as by his writings appeareth. For Commenting on the storie of the Institution of this Sacrament; tThe old Paschall solemnity (saith hee) being ended, which was celebrated in memorie of the deliuerance out of Egypt, Christ passeth to a new one, which hee would haue the Church vse in memory of redemption by him,