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Questions of religion cast abroad in Helvetia by the adversaries of the sameQuestions of religion cast abroad in Helvetia by the aduersaries of the same
Questions of religion cast abroad in Helvetia by the adversaries of the same: and answered by M. H. Bullinger of Zurick: reduced into .17. common places. Translated into English by John Cox. 1572Questions of religion cast abroad in Helvetia by the aduersaries of the same: and aunswered by M. H. Bullinger of Zurick: reduced into .17. common places. Translated into Englishe by Iohn Coxe. 1572
London: printed by Henry Bynneman for George Byshop, 1572London: printed by Henrie Bynneman for George Byshop, 1572
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Commonplaces › Commonplace 11 › Question and answer › Question 60: The .lx. Question.
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The .lx. Question.
Whether they believe that the living body and the very blood of Christ, be substantially in the Sacrament, so that after the words of consecration, the bread is transubstantiated into the body of Christ, so as there then remaineth no more bread, but the true & natural body of Christ?
Whether they beleeue that the liuing body and the very bloude of Christe, be substantially in the Sacramente, so that after the words of cōsecration, the bread is transubstantiated into the body of Christ, so as there then remaineth no more bread, but the true & naturall body of Christe?
The Answer.
The Answere.
Certain of the later Doctors1 of the Romish church. do evidently, and freely confess that before the council of Lateran. which was celebrated at ⟨p. 89⟩Rome, Innocentius the third, then Pope in the year of our Lord. 121, (in the which Synod the doctrine of transubstantiation was first decreed & confirmed) there were divers and sundry opinions in the church touching the presence and substance of Christ in the Sacrament. So that if any man did not believe that the substance of bread was turned into the substance of Christs body, yet was he not reckoned for an heretic. But in this council it is decreed, that all those which will avoid the suspicion of hereie, must believe that the very body of Christ is naturally in the Sacrament. and it is greatly to be wondered at, wherefore this council would condemn the faithful as heretics: for that which hither unto for the space of. 1200, years, was never done nor meant. Whereby let any wise man think, whether the council had authority now after. 100. years to Decree these things. For if those men which lived from Christ 1200. years, were not counted heretics, and yet did not believe that the substance of bread was changed into the substance