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Transubstantiation examined and confuted in two sermons on the Lord's Supper / preached in…Transusbstantiation examin'd and confuted in two sermons on the Lord's Supper / preach'd in…
Transubstantiation examined and confuted in two sermons on the Lord's Supper / preached in the reign of Queen Elizabeth by H. Smith, sometime preacher at St. Clement Danes.Transusbstantiation examin'd and confuted in two sermons on the Lord's Supper / preach'd in the reign of Queen Elizabeth by H. Smith, sometime preacher at St. Clement Danes.
London: printed by J. Wallis, 1688
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.
Because upon these words the Papists ground their Transubstantiation, that is, That the Bread is changed into Christ's Flesh, and the Wine is turned into Christ's Blood, whereby we eat the same Body which dyed upon the Cross; and drink the same Blood which issued out of his side. That you may see the blindness of this Popish Dream, I would have you but mark every word of the Scripture, how they make against Transubstantiation, that ye may see them slain like Goliath with their own Sword: Even as God made Caiaphas speak against himself, so the Scriptures which Papists and other 1Heretics allege, do make against themselves, like the Baalites which wounded their own flesh. I may liken their allegations to Satan's when he tempted Christ in the Wilderness, he alleged 2but one sentence of Scripture for himself, and that Psalm out of which he borrowed it made so plain against him, that he was necessitated to pick here a word and there a word, and leave out that which went before, and skip in the midst, and omit that which came after, or else he had marred his cause. The 3Scripture is so holy, pure, and true, that no word or syllable thereof can make for the Devil, or for Sinners, or for Heretics: yet as the Devil alleged Scripture, tho' it made not for him but against him; so do the Libertines, Epicures and Heretics, as tho' they had learned at his School.
Because upon these words the Papists ground their Transubstantiation, that is, That the Bread is changed into Christ's Flesh, and the Wine is turned into Christ's Blood, whereby we eat the same Body which dyed upon the Cross; and drink the same Blood which issued out of his side. That you may see the blindness of this Popish Dream, I would have you but mark every word of the Scripture, how they make against Transubstantiation, that ye may see them slain like Goliah with their own Sword: Even as God made Caiphas speak against himself, so the Scriptures which Papists and other 1Hereticks alledge, do make against themselves, like the Baalites which wounded their own flesh. I may liken their al•egations to Satan's when he tempted Christ in the Wilderness, he alledged