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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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Answ. When things are represented otherwise than they are, it is either in other sensible qualities than they have, or else something else is under those qualities, than what they naturally signify; or else it is by altering the Sense, Organ, or Medium. The first is a mere contradiction: To make an Object to be what it was not, is usual; but to make it at the same instant to be what it is not, is a contradiction. Therefore by representing you cannot rationally ⟨p. 68⟩mean this; e. g. To represent a rough thing as smooth, a little thing as great, a white thing as black, by real alterations of those qualities making them to be so.
Answ. When things are represented otherwise than they are, it is either in other sensible qualities than they have, or else something else is under those qualities, than what they naturally signifie; or else it is by altering the Sense, Organ, or Medium. The first is a meer contradiction: To make an Object to be what it was not, is usual; but to make it at the same instant to be what it is not, is a contradiction. Therefore by representing you cannot rationally ⟨p. 68⟩mean this; e. g. To represent a rough thing as smooth, a little thing as great, a white thing as black, by real alterations of those qualities making them to be so.
But to make them seem so, when really they are not so, must be by the failing of the Medium, Organ, Sense, Fantasy, or Intellect.
But to make them seem so, when really they are not so, must be by the failing of the Medium, Organ, Sense, Phantasie, or Intellect.