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Full and easy satisfaction which is the true and safe religion in a conference…Full and easie satisfaction which is the true and safe religion in a conference…
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
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.
XVIII. It is miraculous that if you keep a consecrated Wafer never so long, if you use it never so coarsely, if you (as he did who occasioned the conversion of Mr. Anthony Egan a late Irish Priest) pawn it at an Ale-house for thirty shillings; if you lay it down for a stake at Cards or Dice, &c. it will not cease to be Christs flesh (and so by his blood,) nor ever becomes bread, or any other substance till it corrupt: And yet in a mans stomach it ceaseth to be Christs body, as natural heat corrupteth it by concoction: And yet it is not Christs flesh that is concocted.
XVIII. It is miraculous that if you keep a consecrated Wafer never so long, if you use it never so coursly, if you (as he did who occasioned the conversion of Mr. Anthony Egan a late Irish Priest) pawn it at an Ale-house for thirty shillings; if you lay it down for a stake at Cards or Dice, &c. it will not cease to be Christs flesh (and so by his blood,) nor ever becomes bread, or any other substance till it corrupt: And yet in a mans stomach it ceaseth to be Christs body, as natural heat corrupteth it by concoction: And yet it is not Christs flesh that is concocted.
XIX. It is a Miracle of this Miracle which Aquinas and others assert, that the Bread and Wine are not Annihilated, but wholly turned into Christs body and blood; and yet, as Vasquez saith, It is not that the matter of bread begins to be under the form of Christs body (as Durandus held.) Saith Veron Reg. fid. cap. 5. ⟨p. 108⟩This Transubstantiation is neither a change nor a production of any thing; but it is a Relation of order between the substance that doth desist to be, and that into which it doth desist. And yet saith the Concil. Trident. There is a change made of the whole substance into, &c.