A60427:93
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.
Here is our work, as Christ hath done, so must we do, so we Minister, and so you Receive, we can give you nothing but that which we have received from him, as Paul saith. Therefore if Christ did not give his mortal Body which stood before them, and could not profit them; nor his glorified body, which was not glorified then, and when it was glorified, ascended up into Heaven, and there abideth: How can these juggling Priests make their God again, which made them? They can no more turn Wine into Blood, and Bread into Flesh, than they can command a Gnat to be a Camel; for it is a greater Work to make God, than to make the World. Therefore as Christ 1saith, When they tell you here is Christ, or there is Christ, believe them not: So when they tell you that Christ is in Heaven, and 2that Christ is in Earth, in this place and that place, believe them not; for Elijah's ascension was a figure of Christ's ascension: when Elijah was ascended, yet some sought for his body upon Earth: so though Christ be ascended, yet many seek his body ⟨p. 20⟩upon Earth; but as they could not find Elijah's body, so these cannot find Christ's body, although' they have sought 300 Years.
Here is our work, as Christ hath done, so must we do, so we Minister, and so you Receive, we can give you nothing but that which we have received from him, as Paul saith. Therefore if Christ did not give his mortal Body which stood before them, and could not profit them; nor his glorified body, which was not glorified then, and when it was glorified, ascended up into Heaven, and there abideth: How can these juggling Priests make their God again, which made them? They can no more turn Wine into Blood, and Bread into Flesh, than they can command a Gnat to be a Camel; for it is a greater Work to make God, than to make the World. Therefore as Christ 1saith, When they tell you here is Christ, or there is Christ, believe them not: So when they tell you that Christ is in Heaven, and 2that Christ is in Earth, in this place and that place, believe them not; for Elias's ascension was a figure of Christ's ascension: when Elias was ascended, yet some sought for his body upon Earth: so though Christ be ascended, yet many seek his body