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A vindication of the Animadversions on Fiat lux
A vindication of the Animadversions on Fiat lux wherein the principles of the Roman church, as to moderation, unity and truth are examined and sundry important controversies concerning the rule of faith, papal supremacy, the mass, images, &c. discussed / by John Owen.
London: printed for Ph. Stephens, 1664
A Vindication of the Animadversions on Fiat Lux. › Chapter 19
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1. Accidents subsisting without a Subject, follows hence necessarily in the first place; so that there should be whiteness, and nothing white; length, and nothing long; breadth, and nothing broad; weight, and nothing heavy. For all these accidents of Bread remain, when you would have them say that the bread is gone; so that there is left a white, sweet, long, broad, heavy nothing. This your Countrymen cannot understand.
1. Accidents subsisting without a Subject, follows hence necessarily in the first place; so that there should be whiteness, and nothing white; length, and nothing long; bredth, and nothing broad; weight, and nothing heavy. For all these accidents of Bread remain, when you would have them say that the bread is gone; so that there is left a white, sweet, long, broad, heavy nothing. This your Countreymen cannot understand.
2. Besides they say you hereby teach them, that one and the same body of Christ which is in heaven, is also on the Altar, not by an impletion of the whole space between heaven and earth, that some part of it should be in heaven, and some on earth; but that the one body which is in heaven, and whilst it is there, is also on the Altar in the Accidents of Bread, which upon the matter is, that one and the same body is two, yea an hundred or a thousand, according as in the Mass you are pleased to multiply it. Now that one and the same body should be locally divided or separated from its self, that whilst that one body is on the Altar, that other one body which is the same, should be in heaven, your Countrymen think to imply a Contradiction.
2. Besides they say you hereby teach them, that one and the same body of Christ which is in heaven, is also on the Altar, not by an impletion of the whole space between heaven and earth, that some part of it should be in heaven, and some on earth; but that the one body which is in heaven, and whilest it is there, is also on the Altar in the Accidents of Bread, which upon the matter is, that one and the same body is two, yea an hundred or a thousand, according as in the Mass you are pleased to multiply it. Now that one and the same body should be locally divided or separated from its self, that whilest that one body is on the Altar, that other one body which is the same, should be in heaven, your Countreymen think to imply a Contradiction.