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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.
CHAP. VII. Argum. 5. All these miracles have not the least proof; yea, the Scriptures fully direct us to a cross interpretation of the Papists pretended proofs; which also are renounced by themselves.
I Know of no Scripture proof in the World that the Papists pretend to, but the words, This is my Body, and This is my Blood, and such like. And that these are no proof I shall fully prove to any impartial man.
I. The very nature of the Sacrament instituted by Christ with his expressed End, command our Reason to expound the word [is] of signification, representation or exhibition, and the word [Body] and [Blood] of a new Relative form only, that is, of a body and blood Representative, (which is all one in effect): As a piece of Gold, Silver, or Brass, is by the law and stamp turned really into the Kings Current Coin; and so hath a new Relative form: so that you may truly say that there is a change made of the Gold, or Silver into the Kings Coin: and it is no more to be called mere Gold or Silver (though it be Gold and Silver still), because the form denominateth, and the new form is now that in question which must denominate. Or as a Prince that is married in effigy or by a Representative to a woman, is not there personally; and yet it is aptly said, This is the Prince which is betrothed or married to thee. Or as we say of Pictures, This is Peter, or Paul, or John. Or as when we deliver a man possession of a ⟨p. 124⟩