A10233:78
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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Now we stoutly and safely deny that Christs flesh at any time, can be in many, or in all places at once, and we say, that it can not by any necessary or fit consequence be gathered, either from this his walking upon the waters, or in that he entered into the place where his disciples were, the doors being shut, or in that he arose again, the stone of the Sepulchre or Tomb,1 not being removed or rolled away by mans hands. And of this we have sundry reasons: for first these miracles seem rather to be done, in the waters themselves, made hard and firm, not only ⟨p. 88⟩under Christs feet, but under Peters also, than in Christs own body, the like whereof also is to be said touching the wall and sepulchre,2 the heap or weight §2whereof did suddenly yield unto the body of the creator. Moreover, though we should grant that they were to be seen in the very body of Christ, yet doth not the withholding of a bodily weight, or the withdrawing of it for a time, or else this thinness, as a man would say, of a bodily heap, either abolish a body it self (sith it doth at any hand, take away the quantity of a body) or imply contradiction, as they are wont to say in the schools. §3But we affirm, that a true and very body, can neither want quantity or circumscriptiblenesse, but it shall cease to be a body, neither can it be at once in one place, as circumscribed, and in an other place, as not circumscribed, but that we must of necessity conclude, both that it is a body, and that it is not a body, which are assertions merely contrary. The sum of all these things is this, or tendeth to this end: namely, that this opinion of the real consubstantiation of Christs flesh with bread and wine, is most false ⟨p. 89⟩and untrue, as by means whereof the trueth of Christs flesh is utterly abolished. Now again,3 even by this most weighty argument following, may this forgery and devise be confuted, namely because it plainly and wholly standeth up against the analogy and proportion of faith, so little need, or just cause have the defenders thereof, to call us back to the power and force of faith.