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…

And nature tells you no more of the infallibility of any other acts of sense (or Receptions) then of those same which you pronounce to be fallible.

And nature tells you no more of the infallibility of any other acts of sence (or Receptions) then of those same which you pronounce to be fallible.

3. We challenge you and all the world, to prove that ever God hath revealed in Scripture, that the common senses of men, are deceived about their proper objects, the requisites in Nature supposed; Or that ever he made any ordinances for the deluding or contradicting the senses of his Church? Or ever said any such thing; Cannot Christ say [Hoc est corpus meum: This is my Body] but he must needs proclaim a delusion of the senses of all men that take it to be Bread? Then when God saith [Hoc est faedus meum: This is my Covenant] Gen. 17.10. He must proclaim all mens senses deceived; because sense faith it was but Circumcision, and Bellarmine will confess it was but the sign of a Covenant. Then when Paul saith [This Rock was Christ] it must proclaim that all the Israelites senses were deceived, that thought it to be a true Rock: when a Papist will confess that the meaning is [This Rock represented or signified Christ] As if among many Images, you should say, This is Peter, and this John, and this Paul, this were plainly to say, This signifieth Peter or representeth him, &c. and doth not proclaim that deceit of sense. Bellarmine cannot deny but that it is called in 1 Cor. 10. & 11. Bread and the Cup six times over, as after the consecration; and here his shifting answer is, that things are said to be in Scripture what they seem to be, as the brazen Serpent is called a Serpent, and so here he pleadeth a Trope. Good still! The Scripture calls it [Bread] six times near together, after the consecration, and ⟨p. 247⟩it calls it [Christs Body] once (when his living body sate by) Now the Question is which of these speeches are Tropical. And we must believe Bellarmine that the text which calls it six times Bread, must needs be Tropical, and that which calls it once [Christs Body] must needs be understood without a Trope. And this is all the evidence they can bring that God hath proclaimed mens senses to be fallible. Nay all that we need for our cause is but to take [est] for [significat] which is so common that one would think there should not such unnatural absurdities be admitted to avoid it, as overthrow our humanity.