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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.
When this Sacrament was instituted, and Christ said, This is my Body, his body was not glorified, because the Sacrament was instituted before his Death, and his body was glorified after his Resurrection. Therefore if they receive the same body which the Apostles received, as they say they do, they cannot receive a glorified body, because then Christ had not a glorified body to Communicate unto them.
Thus the Rocks and Sands are of both sides them, they receive a body neither mortal nor immortal: If Christ have any such body, judg you. Here they stand like a Fool, which cannot tell on his tale. Nebuchadnezzar dreamed a dream and knew 1not what it meant.
Thus the Rocks and Sands are of both sides them, they receive a body neither mortal nor immortal: If Christ have any such body, judg you. Here they stand like a Fool, which cannot tell on his tale. Nabuchadnezzar dreamed a dream and knew 1not what it meant.
Beside I ask them to whom Christ spake when he said, This is my Body? S. Mark saith, he spake to them, that is, to his Disciples: well then, if these words, This is my Body, were not 1spoken to the Signs, but to the Persons: not to the Bread and Wine, but to the Receivers, as the words which follow, Do this in remembrance of me: If these words were not spoken to the Bread and Wine, then it is plain that they do not change the nature of the Bread and Wine. If the nature of them be not altered, then the substance remaineth, and then we receive no