A10233:164
Two very learned sermons of M. Beza, together with a short sum of the…Two very lerned sermons of M. Beza, togither with a short sum of the…
Two very learned sermons of M. Beza, together with a short sum of the sacrament of the Lords Supper: Whereunto is added a treatise of the substance of the Lords Supper, wherein is briefly and soundly discussed the p[r]incipall points in controversy, concerning that question. By T.W.Two very lerned sermons of M. Beza, togither with a short sum of the sacrament of the Lordes Supper: Wherevnto is added a treatise of the substance of the Lords Supper, wherin is breflie and soundlie discussed the p[r]incipall points in controuersie, concerning that question. By T.W.
London: printed by Robert Walde-grave for T. Man, 1588London: printed by Robert Walde-graue for T. Man, 1588
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2 The second extremity is that of consubstantiation, ⟨p. 165⟩some affirming that there is delivered to the people, & they receive, together with the substance of bread, the very substance of Christs very natural body, so that there is (as it were) an intermingling or mixture of both the substances, in the action of the supper. But this opinion is justly to be disliked and reproved, not only because of the absurdities which it hath common, with the heresy of transubstantiation (whereof we will speak in the next place) but also because it is quite and clean contrary to common sense & reason, confounding and jumbling together two several & distinct substances, and making the less, to wit, the substance of the bread, to comprehend the greater, that is, Christs humane body, yea even his very Godhead, heaven and earth is not able to contain. Besides it doth utterly take away an essential property of Christs body,1 for if Christ in respect of his humanity, be like unto us in all things, sin only excepted, 2and we know by the light of reason & understanding, that God hath bestowed upon us, yea by very experience, that our bodies are circumscriptible, and tied to a ⟨p. 166⟩place, it must needs follow, that Christ in respect of his manhood, or Christ as he is man, is and must be tied to a place, and not be in every place, as he must needs be, if these mens assertions be true, which is nothing else in deed, but utterly to destroy Christs body, which also I prove against them thus: Whosoever taketh away the essential property of any thing, taketh away also the very thing it self. This proposition is proved by this maxim in logic: If the definition of a thing, which chiefly consisteth of the essential property of the thing, be taken away, then the thing it self also defined falleth away? as for example: If reasonable living creature, which is the definition of a man be taken away, what shall become of man? or where shall he appear, which is the thing defined? whereof also there is good reason, because the essential property is it that constituteth or maketh the thing. Hitherto the major proposition, as we say in schools, with the proofs thereof. Now followeth the minor or second proposition: