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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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2. Christs body that he suffered in and rose from death, never dieth henceforth, but is eternal and impassible: That housel is temporal, not eternal, corruptible, and dealed into sundry parts, chewed between the teeth, and sent into the belly.
2. Christs body that he suffred in and rose from death, neuer dieth henceforth, but is eternall and impassible: That housel is temporall, not eternall, corruptible, and dealed into sundry parts, chewed betweene the teeth, and sent into the belly.
3. This mystery is a pledge and figure. Christs body is truth it self. This pledge do we keep mystically, until we come unto the truth it self, and then is this pledge ended. Truly it is, as we said Christs body and blood, not bodily, but ghostly. And yet further he addeth that, As the Stone in the wilderness, from whence the water ran, was not bodily Christ, but did signify Christ, though the Apostle say, cThat stone was Christ: so that heavenly meat that fed them 40. years, and that water that gushed from the Stone, had signification of Christs body and blood, and was the same that we now offer, not bodily, but ghostly. And that, As Christ turned by invisible might the bread to his body and the wine to his blood before he suffered; so he did in the wilderness turn the heavenly meat to his flesh, and the flowing water to his own blood, before he was borne. That, when our Saviour said, dHe that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood hath everlasting life; He bad them not eat the body wherewith he was enclosed, nor to drink that blood which he shed for us: but he meant that holy housel, which is ghostly his body and his blood; and he that tasteth it with believing heart, hath everlasting life. That, As the sacrifices had a sore-signification of Christs body which he offered to his Father in Sacrifice: So the housell that we hallow at Gods Altar is a remembrance of Christs body which he offered for us, and of his blood which he shed for us: which suffering once done by him is daily renewed in a mystery of holy housell. Lastly, that This holy housell is both Christs body, and the body of