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CHAP. III. The second Argument against Transubstantiation: The Contradictions of it.

R. Arg. 2. God owneth not Contradictions (nor can do). The Papists doctrine of Transubstantiation, or nullification of the whole substance of Bread and Wine, is contradictious: Therefore it is not owned by God. The Major I know no man that denieth. The Contradictions are these. I. You feign many Accidents of no substance; which is a gross contradiction. For to be an Accident is essentially Relative to a subject or substance: And ejus esse est inesse. To be a Father without a Son, or a Son without a Father, a Husband without a Wife, or a Wife without a Husband, &c. are contradictions: And so it is to be an Accident of nothing, or without a subject. Particularly, 1. The quantity of nothing is a contradiction: We can measure the Bread, and Wine: To be an inch in longitude, latitude or profundity, and yet to be no substance is a contradiction. To be (as the Wine is) a quart, a gallon of Nothing is a contradiction. 2. So for number; we can number the wafers or pieces of Bread, and the Cups of Wine: And to be twenty, forty, an hundred nothings, is a contradiction. 3. So for the Weight, To be an ounce, a pound, or ten pound, of nothing, is a contradiction. ⟨p. 97⟩4. So for the figure or shape: It is a contradiction to be a round nothing, a square nothing, &c. 5. So is it to be a sweet nothing, a sharp nothing, an austere nothing, &c. as the Wine is fancied by you. 6. Or to be an odoriferous nothing: A rough or a smooth nothing, &c. 7. Or to be a white nothing, or a red nothing, or any coloured nothing. The same I may say of site, and of a multitude of Relations, &c. II. It is a contradiction, for Nothing to have all those Real notable effects, which it is certain that the consecrated Bread and Wine have. As, 1. That when a man or a beast, is really nourished by the Bread and Wine, and flesh and blood, and spirits are made of it, (as they may live by it many months,) that these should be the effects of nothing, or made out of no substance by way of Nutrition, without a proper Creation. 2. When the Consecrated Bread and Wine do partly turn to Excrements, Urine, Dung and Spittle, that all the Excrements are nothings or made of nothing without a new Creation, is a contradiction. 3.