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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 5: The Minor proved, viz. That these Miracles are false.
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4. They confess that the other Sacraments are not thus made up of Miracles; no not Baptism, which is our Christening, and washeth us from our sins: And yet this Sacrament alone, must by a multitude of Miracles differ from the rest.
4. Whether the Doctrine of their St. Thomas and his followers and others, that the formal words of this Sacrament have a created effective virtue by which they instrumentally make the change (3. q. 78. a. 4. c.) be not an absurdity rather than a proper miracle. For ⟨p. 116⟩words Physically move but the air first, and the terminus of the airs motion (e.g. the ear) next: and next that, if it be an intellectual, or other animal recipient, the sense, and fantasy next, and so on: But the Bread and Wine have no sense nor fantasy nor Intellect: And to say that the moved air is the means of turning them into the body and blood of Christ, is still to multiply miracles.
4. Whether the Doctrine of their St. Thomas and his followers and others, that the formal words of this Sacrament have a created effective virtue by which they instrumentally make the change (3. q. 78. a. 4. c.) be not an absurdity rather than a proper miracle. For ⟨p. 116⟩words Physically move but the air first, and the terminus of the aires motion (e.g. the ear) next: and next that, if it be an intellectual, or other animal recipient, the sense, and fantasie next, and so on: But the Bread and Wine have no sense nor fantasie nor Intellect: And to say that the moved aire is the means of turning them into the body and blood of Christ, is still to multiply miracles.