A01532:597
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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Yea that long after Augustine's time the same belief of the Sacrament, that we at this day hold, was commonly taught and professed publicly in this Island, notwithstanding the manifold monuments by that Popish faction suppressed, appeareth by some of them in ancient Manuscripts yet extant, and of late published also in print. Among others of this kind are the aEpistles and Sermons written in the Saxon tongue, of one Aelfric a man of great note for learning, that lived about the year 990. wherein the same doctrine is taught concerning the Sacrament that we hold at this day, and the contrary Popish doctrine is impugned.
Yea that long after Augustines time the same beleefe of the Sacrament, that we at this day hold, was commonly taught and professed publikely in this Iland, notwithstanding the manifold monuments by that Popish faction suppressed, appeareth by some of them in ancient Manuscripts yet extant, and of late published also in print. Among others of this kinde are the aEpistles and Sermons written in the Saxon tongue, of one Aelfricke a man of great note for learning, that liued about the yeere 990. wherein the same doctrine is taught concerning the Sacrament that we hold at this day, and the contrary Popish doctrine is impugned.
- aThey are of late reprinted and set forth by M. William Lisle.
In an Epistle of his written for Wulfsine then Bishop of Shyrburn to his Clerks bearing title of a Sacerdotal Synod, he saith, that The holy Housell is Christs body, not bodily, but ghostly: Not the body that he suffered in, but the body of which he spake, when he blessed bread and wine to housell, and said by the blessed bread, This is my body; and by the holy wine, This is my blood. And that the Lord that then ⟨p. 231⟩