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The safe religion, or, Three disputations for the reformed catholic religion against popery proving…The safe religion, or, Three disputations for the reformed catholike religion against popery proving…
The safe religion, or, Three disputations for the reformed catholic religion against popery proving that popery is against the Holy Scriptures, the unity of the catholic church, the consent of the ancient doctors, the plainest reason, and common judgment of sense it self / by Richard Baxter.The safe religion, or, Three disputations for the reformed catholike religion against popery proving that popery is against the Holy Scriptures, the unity of the catholike church, the consent of the antient doctors, the plainest reason, and common judgment of sense it self / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed by Abraham Miller for Thomas Underhill, 1657
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
2. And that the body and blood of Christ is made really present in the Sacrament by Transubstantiation, or conversion of the whole substance of the bread into the very body of Christ, and of the whole substance of the wine into his very blood.
3. That this Transubstantiation is made by reciting the Sacramental words, Hoc est corpus meum, This is my body. And therefore they call these operative words.
4. That these words are to be muttered with a low murmuring: as if Christ had spoken them Magically to enchant the Bread, and not to instruct his Disciples.
4. That these words are to be muttered with a low murmuring: as if Christ had spoken them Magically to inchant the Bread, and not to instruct his Disciples.
5. Thus they expound them, This (i. e. under these figures) is my body, and yet they urge the literal sense, or [Greek or Hebrew].