Two sermons preached at Thurlow in Suffolk on those words, Rom. 6.13 "Yield your…

When there have been determinations against the common uncorrupted senses of mankind, as that what their sight, and touch, and taste assures them is Bread, is said to be the flesh of an humane body.

When there have been determinations against the common uncorrupted senses of mankind, as that what their sight, and touch, and tast assures them is Bread, is said to be the flesh of an humane body.

For if you cannot be sure of what both your own, and the sound senses of any other man would tell you, you can be sure of nothing at all: You cannot be sure you see one another, or hear me speaking to you; nor be sure when you heard the transforming words, This is my Body; or much less that they were ever spoken, if you heard them not; or that that was Bread and not a Stone, or a piece of Clay that is pretended to be transubstantiated by them. The foundation of all certainty were upon these terms taken away from among men on Earth; and upon the same common grounds upon which it is pretended you ought to believe ⟨p. 19⟩that which is shown or offered you to be the flesh of a man, and not bread any longer, you must believe or judge the quite contrary, that it is bread still, and not flesh, and consequently that he is far from being infallible, but doth actually err, upon whose authority you are directed to believe otherwise.

For if you cannot be sure of what both your own, and the sound senses of any other man would tell you, you can be sure of nothing at all: You cannot be sure you see one another, or hear me speaking to you; nor be sure when you heard the transforming words, This is my Body; or much less that they were ever spoken, if you heard them not; or that that was Bread and not a Stone, or a piece of Clay that is pretended to be transubstantiated by them. The foundation of all certainty were upon these terms taken away from among men on Earth; and upon the same common grounds upon which it is pretended you ought to believe ⟨p. 19⟩