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Roman tradition examined, as it is urged as infallible against all mens senses, reason,…
Roman tradition examined, as it is urged as infallible against all mens senses, reason, the Holy Scripture, the tradition and present judgment of the far greatest part of the Universal Church; in the point of transubstantiation; in answer to a book called A rational discourse of transubstantiation.Roman tradition examined, as it is urged as infallible against all mens senses, reason, the Holy Scripture, the tradition and present judgment of the far greatst part of the Universal Church; in the point of transubstantiation; in answer to a book called A rational discourse of transubstantiation.
S.l. : s.n., 1676
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Pag. 42. You say [If God Almighty will oblige me to believe what was taught 1600 years before I was born, how should he expect I should come to the knowledge of this, but by such Books as were written in those times, and near those times, and by the testimony of all Christian Countries, what hath been immemorially believed by them, ever since they were Christians.]
Answ. Well contradicted: This is our very Religion: We stand to Vincent. Lerniens. Rule, Quod semper, ubique, ab omnibus. But, 1. Here then Books be not made so unserviceable as before. 2. God Almighty obligeth us first to believe his own Book before any others: And ⟨p. 42⟩how shall we more certainly know what Christ did and commanded, than by those that purposely Wrote so many Gospels, or Histories of it, that we might believe and have Life by his Name. Sure the four Evangelists and the Apostles Wrote what they Wrote (even to the ignorant) to be understood and read. 3. We also know by the Books written near those times what then was received by the Churches. And your Councils cannot know it (nor your Pope neither) by any other means than are known to others: for their extraordinary Inspiration we never saw cause to believe. 4. And I remember no one thing at all, which I do not receive, which hath the Testimony of all Christian Countries that it hath immemorially been believed by them ever since they were Christians; nor shall I reject such when you prove it. But that is, because, de facto, I think there is no error that hath such a kind of Testimony; and not because I think it impossible: For as your part of the World is deceived, e. g. to think that the Roman Supremacy was instituted by God, contrary to the judgment of all the Greek Church, and of the two forementioned General Councils at Constantinople and Calcedon; so I know not but it had been possible to have brought all Countries to the same deceit, or to have believed that Christ's Blood might be denied the People in the Sacrament, as a thing received by Tradition.
Answ. Well contradicted: This is our very Religion: We stand to Vincent. Lerniens. Rule, Quod semper, ubique, ab omnibus. But, 1. Here then Books be not made so unserviceable as before. 2. God Almighty obligeth us first to believe his own Book before any others: And