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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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But the Question, whether the Sacrament work by ⟨p. 67⟩miracle, is one; and that, whether it be it self a miracle, is another. Gods workings are secret to us, as the wind whose course we cannot describe, Joh. 3. But is the Sacrament it self a Miracle? The Word is not so: Baptism is not so: You feign not your Confirmation to be so: (though Cyril aforesaid make the change of the Bread and of the Oil to be alike.) And is only this one Ordinance a Miracle?
But the Question, whether the Sacrament work by ⟨p. 67⟩miracle, is one; and that, whether it be it self a miracle, is another. Gods workings are secret to us, as the wind whose course we cannot describe, Joh. 3. But is the Sacrament it self a Miracle? The Word is not so: Baptism is not so: You feign not your Confirmation to be so: (though Cyril aforesaid make the change of the Bread and of the Oyl to be alike.) And is only this one Ordinance a Miracle?
But if it were, what's that to the positive deception of all our Senses?
He tells us of the Hypostatical Union, answered before: What Senses are deceived by that? Doth Sense judge that Christ was not God? Or that there is no Trinity? Or that a Virgin may not conceive? Not at all: Sense neither tells us that it is so, or that it is not. Therefore to tell us of things hidden from Sense, is impertinent. All the spiritual and noblest parts of Nature are out of the reach of our bodily Senses: But Sense is our only first perceiver of all its own proper Objects, and the Intellects first perception of them, is only as they are sensate.