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[The principal points which are at this day in controversy, concerning the holly supper…[The principal points which are at this daye in controuersie, concerning the holly supper…
[The principal points which are at this day in controversy, concerning the holly supper and of the mass.][The principal points which are at this daye in controuersie, concerning the holly supper and of the masse.]
London: printed by C. Barker, 1579
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Chapter vi.
That the doctrine aswell of the transubstantiators as also of the consubstanciators hath no certain foundation upon the words of Jesus Christ, and for what causes: and of the chief different which is between them and us, touching the presence of Jesus Christ in the Supper.
That the doctrine aswell of the transsubstanciators as also of the consubstanciators hath no certayne foundation vpon the wordes of Iesus Christ, and for what causes: and of the chiefe different which is betweene them and vs, touching the presence of Iesus Christ in the Supper.
IT may not then be that the transubstantiators, nor also the consubstantiacors may brag and glory as they do, that they have the expressed ⟨image 39⟩word of Jesus Christ, who said,1 This is my body: and that their faith of transubstantiation or consubstantiation, is grounded upon the expressed and certain word of God. For seeing that their faith doth overthrow the true faith of the principal articles of the Christian doctrine and religion, which are very plain & throughly certain, it followeth then in deed, that it can not be a true faith as touching that point: and by consequent, it cannot be builded upon the word of God. For they may not brag to have it in their favour, if they do not take it in his true sense, without the which it is no more the word of God, but it is disguised and overthrown. Now it appeareth evidently,2 that it is taken in an other then his own true sense, when it is taken in such a sense as overthroweth the principal articles of the Christian faith: which are not grounded upon any passage of the holy scriptures that is not well understood, but upon so many testimonies of the Prophets and of the Apostles, and so plain and evident, that there may remain no ambiguity or doubt to those which do believe the divine letters. The which thing can not be said of the doctrine of transubstantiation, nor of consubstantiation, which have no other ground, but upon a wrong and evil understanding & exposition of the words of Jesus Christ, the which doth plainly and