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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.
If they say that Christ can turn Bread and Wine into his 1Body, and therefore he doth. First, they must prove that he ⟨p. 12⟩2will, for they can do many things themselves which they do not, because they will not: therefore it is an old answer, that from Can to Will no argument followeth. The Leper did not say unto Christ, If thou canst, thou wilt: but, If thou wilt, thou canst.
If they say that Christ can turn Bread and Wine into his 1Body, and therefore he doth. First, they must prove that he ⟨p. 12⟩2will, for they can do many things themselves which they do not, because they will not: therfore it is an old answer, that from Can to Will no argument followeth. The Leper did not say unto Christ, If thou canst, thou wilt: but, If thou wilt, thou canst.
- 1Objection.
- 2Answer.
But the question which they think cannot be answered, like 1their Invincible Navies, is this. If the Bread be not his Body, why doth he call it his Body? Resolve this knot, and all is clear. Mark then, and we will loose it as well as we can: He saith, This 2is my Body: as he saith after, which is broken for you: Why? his Body was not broken before he suffered, how did he say then, which is broken, before it was broken? There is no sense of it but this, the Bread was broken, and signified that his Body should be broken.