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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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Nor Gelasius cont. Nestor. & Eutych. [Verily the Sacrament of the body and blood of Christ which we take is a ⟨p. 61⟩Divine thing, for which and by which we are made partakers of the Divine Nature; and yet it ceaseth not to be the SUBSTANCE and NATURE of bread and wine: And certainly the Image and similitude of the Body and Blood of Christ are celebrated in the action of the Mysteries.] O dark sayings!
[Cyril, Alex. in John 4. c. 14. [He gave to his believing Disciples fragments of bread, saying, Take, eat, this is my body.]
Facundus is there cited as from Molinaeus (l. 9. c. 5. p. 404. though I have not the Author) saying [We call that the body and blood of Christ, which is the Sacrament of his body in the Consecrated bread and cup. Not that the bread is properly his body, and the cup his blood, but because they contain the Mystery of his body and blood.]
To these I might add plain Testimonies out of most of the Ancients, who write on this subject: Such, e. g. as these words of Gregor. Nyssen Orat. de Baptis. As the Altar naturally is but common Stone, but being consecrated becometh a holy Table, an unspotted Altar; so the bread of the Eucharist is at first ordinary, but being mysteriously sacrificed, it is, and is called, The body of Christ, and is effectual to great things: And as the Priest who was yesterday a Lay-man, by the blessing of Ordination is made a Teacher of Godliness, and a Steward of the Mysteries, and though not changed in body or shape, yet is changed and made better as to his soul, by an invisible power and grace; so also by the same consequence Water, being nothing but Water of it self, yet blest by the heavenly grace, reneweth man by working in him the spiritual regeneration.