A27015:1049
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.
18. That the Elements of the Sacrament of the Eucharist do not nourish if taken in a great quantity, ⟨p. 407⟩without a Divine Miracle. And therefore neither do they nourish the mice that take a small quantity without a miracle.
19. But as they take away the substance of the Bread and Wine, and so with that the substance of the Sacrament: so they rob the Body of Christ of almost all the essential properties of a true body by this fiction of Transubstantiation.
20. And as they feign the Accidents of bread in the Sacrament without the substance of it; so they must needs feign the substance of Christs body without the Accidents of it.
21. Many do teach the presence of Christs body, affirming that one and same body of Christ undivided does exist upon innumerable Altars, and every where whole.