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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 if it be the Present Church real, (that is, the consent of Christians) which must tell us what was held in the former Ages (which for ought I find is it that you fly to;) though the ignorant cannot try this, all knowing ⟨p. 38⟩men can tell that this way you are utterly condemned: For at this day, as is said before, at least two third parts of the Christian World are against your very Papacy it self; and believe the ancient Churches to have been against it: So that Tradition doth depose the Pope. So that you have no way left, but to say, It is our own judgment or Tradition alone that we will stand to.
But if it be the Present Church real, (that is, the consent of Christians) which must tell us what was held in the former Ages (which for ought I find is it that you flye to;) though the ignorant cannot try this, all knowing ⟨p. 38⟩men can tell that this way you are utterly condemned: For at this day, as is said before, at least two third parts of the Christian World are against your very Papacy it self; and believe the ancient Churches to have been against it: So that Tradition doth depose the Pope. So that you have no way left, but to say, It is our own judgment or Tradition alone that we will stand to.
So much to your dull cheat, about your pretended Universal Tradition.
Pag. 11. You notably say, [Suppose a Book fully written as to all points to be believed by Christians, by the first Teachers of Christianity: Let them together with this Book give charge to their first Converts, not to add to it, or diminish it, and to believe as in their Consciences they shall think that Book shall teach them. Though Generation after Generation be never so faithful to such a Charge, yet they may in after Ages come to lose or change their Faith, because the Book may seem to one Generation to bear one sense, and to another Generation to bear another—As these words, This is my Body, may seem to one Age to bear this sense, This is the Sign of my Body, &c.]