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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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4. It is a Contradiction to say that there are Accidents, which are not the Accidents of any Substance, (either of Bread, Christ's Body, or any thing▪ else:) For, Accidentis esse est in esse, it is relative: The foresaid Author p. 96. hath told you, 1. For Quantity, a Pound, or Inch of nothing; a long, or broad, or thick nothing; a Pint, or Quart of nothing, are Contradictions. 2. For the Number of Wafers, or Cups of Wine, to put twenty, or forty, or an hundred nothings, is a Contradiction. 3. For Figure, a round, or square nothing, is a Contradiction. 4. A sweet nothing; a sharp, or austere nothing, instead of Wine, is a Contradiction. So an odoriferous nothing; a rough, or smooth nothing; a red, or a white nothing; a nothing seated on the Altar more than another place, &c. all these are Contradictions.
5. And he hath there showed you that it is a Contradiction for nothing to have real effects: for nothing really to nourish, and become Flesh and Blood in him that eateth it: yea, for nothing to be eaten; for nothing to turn to real excrements; for nothing to make a Man drunk, as Wine doth: God can do all that are works of Power, but to verify these Contradictories, is no work […].
5. And he hath there shewed you that it is a Contradiction for nothing to have real effects: for nothing really to nourish, and become Flesh and Blood in him that eateth it: yea, for nothing to be eaten; for nothing to turn to real excrements; for nothing to make a Man drunk, as Wine doth: God can do all that are works of Power, but to verifie these Contradictories, is no work 〈…〉.
6. God cannot lye, saith the Apostle, and Nature it self; else Faith had no certainty at all, the formal Object failing. To lye, is to give false deceiving signs of the Matter, and of the Authors mind: And if God's Natural Revelation to Sense it self be false, yea to all Mens Senses; doth not that make a lye as well as a false Word, Prophecy, or Vision? God's Natural Revelations are known by all Men certainly to be his own, and so are