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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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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⟩turned that bread to his body, doth still by the Priests hands bless bread and wine to his ghostly body and his ghostly blood. And in another Epistle to Wulstane Archbishop of York; that The Lord halloweth daily by the hands of the Priest, bread to his body, and wine to his blood in ghostly mystery. And yet notwithstanding that lively bread is not bodily so, nor the self same body that Christ suffered in: nor that holy wine is the Saviours blood, which was shed for us in bodily thing, but in ghostly understanding. And that that bread is his body, and that wine his blood, as the heavenly bread, which we call Manna, was his body, and the clear water which did then run from the stone in the wilderness was truly his blood; as S. Paul saith, bAnd that stone was Christ.
In an Epistle of his written for Wulfsine then Bishop of Shyrburn to his Clerks bearing title of a Sacerdotall Synode, he saith, that The holy Housell is Christs bodie, not bodily, but ghostly: Not the body that he suffered in, but the body of which he spake, when hee 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⟩turned that bread to his body, doth still by the Priests hands blesse bread and wine to his ghostly body and his ghostly blood. And in another Epistle to Wulstane Archbishop of Yorke; that The Lord halloweth daily by the hands of the Priest, bread to his body, and wine to his blood in ghostly mystery. And yet notwithstanding that liuely bread is not bodily so, nor the selfe same body that Christ suffered in: nor that holy wine is the Sauiours blood, which was shed for vs in bodily thing, but in ghostly vnderstanding. And that that bread is his body, and that wine his blood, as the heauenly bread, which we call Manna, was his body, and the cleere water which did then run from the stone in the wildernes was truely his blood; as S. Paul saith,