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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.
That which we have to do, therefore is only to enquire whether indeed it be bread or Christs body, a creature or the Creator which they worship? Concerning which there is so much said by Doctor Featly against Fisher, and by Peter Martyr against Smith, and elsewhere, and by Jewel, Fox, and abundance more, that if people would read it, I should think it vain to say any more. I shall only annex •hese Reasons (very briefly) which come first to my thoughts to prove that the Bread is not turned into the very body of Christ, but remaineth Bread still.
That which we have to do, therefore is onely to enquire whether indeed it be bread or Christs body, a creature or the Creator which they worship? Concerning which there is so much said by Doctor Featly against Fisher, and by Peter Martyr against Smith, and elswhere, and by Jewel, Foxe, and abundance more, that if people would read it, I should think it vain to say any more. I shall onely annex •hese Reasons (very briefly) which come first to my thoughts to prove that the Bread is not turned into the very body of Christ, but remaineth Bread still.
1. If the Bread were Christs real Body, then Christ had two real bodies: for he had one sitting at the table, which delivered the Bread, and if the Bread were another, he had two: or else the body that Christ sate and lived with, was not a whole body, but a part: But Christ had but one body, and that was entire.
2. It would follow also that Christ had a living and a dead body, a sensible and insensible body both at once.