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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 xix.
Whether every change carry with it conversion of one substance into another: and what difference there is between change and transubstantiation: and of the double change of the signs which should be required in the supper, if the doctrine of transubstantiation were true.
Whether euery chaunge carry with it conuersion of one substance into another: and what difference there is betwene chaunge and transsubstanciation: and of the double chaunge of the signes which should be required in the supper, if the doctrine of trāssubstanciation were true.
And therefore when the ancient doctors did speak of change and conversion of the signs into the same, they understood none other, as I have showed and proved very plainly, and by good testimonies of the ancient doctors them selves in other treatises of mine. For every change and every conversion of one thing into an other carieth not with it at all transubstantiation of one substance into an other. For there may be change, without conversion of ⟨image 22⟩substance. But conversion of substance can not be without change. We may then say that wher• there is transubstantiation by conversion of substance, there is there change. But there is not always transubstantiation and conversion of substance, where there is change. Wherefore there is as great difference between change & transubstantiation, as is between the general & the special. For change is the general which comprehendeth under it transubstantiation, but transubstantiation doth not comprehend in it change, forsomuch as his signification is more ample (as that of change, of transmutation and of conversion) then that of transubstantiation. For, all these names do comprehend other kinds of change and of conversion, then of one substance into an other. For as there is change of substances, so is there also change of accidents, to wit, of qualities, of time, of places, of habits and such other like things, according to their natures, and to the predicaments under that which they are comprehended, as the Logicians distinguish them.