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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. But you must suppose also, that they that will learn this Book must have Teachers: Else how will they so much as read it? We are for Teachers as well as you, though not for Judges that may judge in partem utra••libet. The Pastors may teach the People that there is a God, a Christ, a Life to come; but cannot judge that there is none. And Teachers make known that same Evidence of Truth to the Learner, by which they received it themselves; but do not say, you must believe that there is a God, a Christ, a Heaven, merely because we say so.
1. But you must suppose also, that they that will learn this Book must have Teachers: Else how will they so much as read it? We are for Teachers as well as you, though not for Judges that may judge in partem utra••libet. The Pastors may teach the People that there is a God, a Christ, a Life to come; but cannot judge that there is none. And Teachers make known that same Evidence of Truth to the Learner, by which they received it themselves; but do not say, you must believe that there is a God, a Christ, a Heaven, meerly because wesay so.
2. And you must put into your Supposition, that (as is said) the Essentials are delivered both ways, by Writing and by word of mouth.
3. And now suppose, that the Apostles had put the same expository words of [This is my Body] into a Book, which they spake by word of mouth? Had that been the less intelligible because they were in the Book? Or the harder to be remembered? Or could that Age have delivered to the next any more, as from the Apostles, than what they received? And if that be the same written as spoken, sure writing maketh it not the less or worse? If it do, all your Religion is in danger, now it is written in your Volumes of Councils. Have you more yet that's necessary, besides all those Volumes, which you whisper or deliver by word of mouth? If not, you profess your Religion unsafe, because you have written it.