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Meditations on the holy sacrament of the Lords last Supper Written many years sinceMeditations on the holy sacrament of the Lords last Supper Written many yeares since
Meditations on the holy sacrament of the Lords last Supper Written many years since by Edward Reynolds then fellow of Merton College in Oxford.Meditations on the holy sacrament of the Lords last Supper Written many yeares since by Edvvard Reynolds then fellow of Merton College in Oxford.
London: printed by Felix Kyngston for Robert Bostock, 1638
MEDITATIONS ON THE HOLY SACRAMENT OF THE LORDS LAST SUPPER. › Chapter 19
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Fifthly, that the doctrines therein delivered, were confirmed by miracles, and divine operations. And certain it is, that God would not in so wonderful a manner have honoured the figments of men, pretending his Name, and Authority to the countenancing of their own inventions. And for the Historical Truth of those miracles, they were not, in those Ages when the Church in her Apologies did glory of them, and when, if feigned, they might most easily have been disproved, nor yet by those enemies who marvellously maligned and persecuted Christian Religion, ever gain said.
Fifthly, that the doctrines therein delivered, were confirmed by miracles, and divine operations. And certaine it is, that God would not in so wonderfull a manner have honoured the figments of men, pretending his Name, and Authority to the countenancing of their owne inventions. And for the Historicall Truth of those miracles, they were not, in those Ages when the Church in her Apologies did glory of them, and when, if faigned, they migh most easily have been disproved, nor yet by those enemies who marvailously maligned and persecuted Christian Religion, ever gain saied.
Lastly, That were it not so that omne mendacium est pellucidum, and hath ever something in it to bewray it self, yet it could not be operaepretium for them to lie in publishing a Doctrine whereby they ⟨p. 213⟩got nothing but shame, stripes, imprisonment, persecution, Torments, Death. Especially since the holiness of their lives, their humility, in denying all glory to themselves, and ascribing all to God, must needs make it appear to any reasonable man, that they did not lay any project for their own glory, which they purposely disclaimed, refused to receive from the hands of such as offered it, yea, and registered their own infirmities upon perpetual Records.
Lastly, That were it not so that omne mendacium est pellucidum, and hath ever something in it to bewray it selfe, yet it could not bee operaepretium for them to lie in publishing a Doctrine whereby they ⟨p. 213⟩