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…

Now there is no sentence of the Scripture, which the wiser Papists allege boldly for Transubstantiation but this, that Christ said, This is my Body: by which they may prove as well, that ¹Christ is a Door, because he saith, I am the Door: or a Vine, because he saith, I am a Vine: for his sayings are alike. Figurative ²Speeches must not be construed literally, but this is Heretics ³fashion. If you mark you shall see throughout, that all the Testimonies which the Papists allege for their Heresies, are ⁴either tropes or figures, allegories, parables, allusions or dark speeches, which when they presume to expound allegorically, or literally, without conference of any other Scriptures; then they wander and stray from the mark, or else it is impossible that the Truth should maintain Error, that is, that the Scripture should speak for Heresy, if it were not wrested and perverted: ⁵therefore we see that Eve never erred, until she corrupted the Text.

Now there is no sentence of the Scripture, which the wiser Papists alledge boldly for Transubstantiation but this, that Christ said, This is my Body: by which they may prove as well, that ¹Christ is a Door, because he saith, I am the Door: or a Vine, because he saith, I am a Vine: for his sayings are alike. Figurative ²Speeches must not be construed literally, but this is Hereticks ³fashion. If you mark you shall see throughout, that all the Testimonies which the Papists alledge for their Heresies, are ⁴either tropes or figures, allegories, parables, allusions or dark speeches, which when they presume to expound allegorically, or literally, without conference of any other Scriptures; then they wander and stray from the mark, or else it is impossible that the Truth should maintain Error, that is, that the Scripture should speak for Heresie, if it were not wrested and perverted: