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Full and easy satisfaction which is the true and safe religion in a conference between D. a doubter, P. a papist, and R. a reformed Catholic Christian : in four parts ... / by Richard Baxter.Full and easie satisfaction which is the true and safe religion in a conference between D. a doubter, P. a papist, and R. a reformed Catholick Christian : in four parts ... / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Nev. Simmons, 1674
Part 4 › Chapter 1: The First Reason to prove Transubstantiation false.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
CHAP. I. The First Reason to prove Transubstantiation false.
R. The Papists Belief of Transubstantiation is, that There is a change made of the whole substance of the Bread into the body of Christ, and of the whole substance of Wine into his blood. Their opinion (called their faith) hath two parts: The first is, that There is no more true Proper Bread and Wine after the words of Consecration, Hoc est Corpus meum. The second is, that There is the true proper Flesh and Blood of Jesus Christ, under the species (as they call them) of Bread and Wine. ⟨p. 76⟩It is the first that I shall now prove false: And you must not forget the state of the Question,1 which is not, Whether Christs Body and Blood be present? But Whether there remain any Bread and Wine? Arg. I. If there remain no Bread and Wine after the Consecration, then all the senses of all the sound men in the world are deceived, or all mens perception of these sensible things deceived, though there be due magnitude, site, distance of the object, a due abode, and a due medium and no depravation of the sense or intellect. But this Consequent is notoriously false, (as shall be proved) Therefore Popery is false. 1. That all mens senses perceive Bread and Wine, or all mens Intellects by their senses, will not be denied. Not only Protestants, but Greeks, Mahometans, Heathens, Papists, all persons perception by sense is here the same: Therefore it is sound senses or else there are none sound in the world. 2. It is not one sense, but all. The eye seeth Bread and Wine: The hand and mouth feel it; The palate tasteth it; The smelling sense smelleth the Wine; yea, and the ear heareth it poured out. 3. It is in due quantity, and not an undiscernible Atom. 4. It is near the sense, and neither by too much distance or nearness made insensible. 5. It hath a due abode, and is not made insensible by hasty passing by. 6. The air, and light, and all necessary media of perception are present. So that there is nothing wanting to the sensibility of the object.