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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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XII. The Practice of not adoring, kneeling on any Lords-day in the Year, or any Week-day between Easter and Whitsuntide, was indeed called the Practice of the Universal Church, and an Apostolical Tradition; and was Decreed in the first General Council at Nice, Can. 20. If they had not this from the Apostles, how prove you that your Transubstantiation is from them? If they had, why have you changed an Apostolical Universal Practice?
XII. The Practice of not adoring, kneeling on any Lords-day in the Year, or any Week-day between Easter and Whitsontide, was indeed called the Practice of the Universal Church, and an Apostolical Tradition; and was Decreed in the first General Council at Nice, Can. 20. If they had not this from the Apostles, how prove you that your Transubstantiation is from them? If they had, why have you changed an Apostolical Universal Practice?
XIII. And if it was the Common Belief of the Church, why did never General Council mention it till 1215 Years after Christ's Birth? Was it because it was commonly known? So were the Articles of Faith which they do mention: And sure it is the Common Faith which they are to preserve and deliver. Unless they were negligent or forgetful, it was because no such thing was then believed.
XIV. The ancient Churches professed that their Creed contained all the necessary Articles of the Christian Faith: And when Heretics obscured some of them, they put the Exposition of them into their after Creeds. If Transubstantiation then was a necessary Article of Faith, how came it to be left out of all the Creeds?
XIV. The ancient Churches professed that their Creed contained all the necessary Articles of the Christian Faith: And when Hereticks obscured some of them, they put the Exposition of them into their after Creeds. If Transubstantiation then was a necessary Article of Faith, how came it to be left out of all the Creeds?