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Because upon these words the Papists ground their Transubstantiation, that is, that the bread is changed into Christs flesh, and the Wine is turned into Christs blood, whereby we eat the same body which died upon the Cross, and drink the same blood which issued out of his side, that you may see the blindness of this Popish dream, I would have you but mark every word of this Scripture how they make against Trā substantiation, that you may see them slain like Goliath with their ¹own sword. Even as GOD made Caiaphas speak against himself; ²so the Scriptures which heretics allege, do make against ⟨image 73⟩themselves, like the Baalites which ³wounded their own flesh. I may liken their allegations to Satan's, when he tempted Christ in the Wilderness, he alleged but one ⁴sentence of Scripture for himself, and that Psalm out of which he ⁵borrowed it, makes so plain against him, that he was fain to pick here a word, and there a word, and leave out that which went before, and skip in the middest, and omit that which came after, or else he had marred his cause. The Scripture is so holy, and pure, and true, that no word, nor syllable thereof can make for the devil, or for sinners, or for heretics: yet as the devil alleged Scripture, though it made not for him, but against him; so do the Libertines, and Epicures, and Heretics, as though they had learned ⟨image 73⟩at his school. Now there is no sentence of the scripture, which the wiser Papists allege boldly for their Transubstantiation, but this, that Christ said, This is my ⁶body, by which they may prove as well that Christ is a door, because he saith, I am the door: or a ⁷