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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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1. I will better argue from your Medium, against you: The far greatest part of Christians in the World are against Transubstantiation at this day; therefore so were their Fore-fathers, and their Fore-fathers, till you come up to the Apostles.
That it is so at this day requireth no better Proof than to have more knowledge in the state of the World, or ⟨p. 19⟩more honesty in reporting it than you have. Pag. 16. you say [The whole World formerly, in a manner, Pagan, except a handful of Jews is now become Christian.] Reader, Is this Man like to tell you what all the Christian World held, in former Ages, from such a Medium as their latter Belief, that can no better tell what the Christian World is? Look over the Globe, or Map of the World, and let this Man tell you which be the Countries that are Christian; and then take the Measure there of their Proportion your self. Or to save you the labour, read any credible Author that reporteth it. Brierwood in his Enquiries, one of the best, tells us, after the naming of the several Countries of each Religion, that if you divide the Known World into Thirty Parts, nineteen are Pagan Idolaters, six are Mahometans, and sive are Christians of all sorts: But this Man is not ashamed to say, that, except a handful of Jews, the whole World in a manner Pagan, is now become Christian. All the Pagans of Africa, and America, and Asia, and all the Mahometans are nothing to him; even five sixth parts of the Known World. And, alas, how little probability is there that the terrae incognitae, the vast unknown Regions, should be Christian: sure if they were governed by the Pope, he would know them. He that can Transubstantiate all the Pagans, and Mahometans on Earth, into Christians; and make Men believe that five parts of six of Mankind are now of a Religion which they partly know not, and partly abhor, may not despair hence to prove Transubstantiation. But how many of this sixth part of the World are Papists? A Bishop Bromhall saith, that about the fifth part of the Christians of the World are Papists: Others think about a fourth part, not measuring by the largeness of their Dominions (for few in the King of Spain's ⟨p. 20⟩