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TroposchemmalogiaTroposchēmalogia
Troposchemmalogia: Tropes and figures; or, A treatise of the metaphors, allegories, and express similitudes, &c. contained in the Bible of the Old and New Testament To which is prefixed, divers arguments to prove the divine authority of the Holy Scriptures wherein also 'tis largely evinced, that by the great whore, mystery Babylon is meant the Papal hierarchy, or present state and church of Rome. Philologia sacra, the second part. Wherein the schemes, or figures in Scripture, are reduced under their proper heads, with a brief explication of each. Together with a treatise of types, parables, &c. with an improvement of them parallel-wise. By B. KTroposchēmalogia: Tropes and figures; or, A treatise of the metaphors, allegories, and express similitudes, &c. contained in the Bible of the Old and New Testament To which is prefixed, divers arguments to prove the divine authority of the Holy Scriptures wherein also 'tis largely evinced, that by the great whore, mystery Babylon is meant the Papal hierarchy, or present state and church of Rome. Philologia sacra, the second part. Wherein the schemes, or figures in Scripture, are reduced under their proper heads, with a brief explication of each. Together with a treatise of types, parables, &c. with an improvement of them parallel-wise. By B. K
London: printed by John Darby, 1682
Tropes and Figures; OR, A TREATISE of the METAPHORS, ALLEGORIES, TY… › Head 5 › The Lord's Supper.
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.
Answ. It is no less impossible for the Bread to be Christ's real Body. Why might not the Vine, as well as the Wine, be by Transubstantiation converted into Christ's real Substance? I think, saith Mr. Pool, the Mother as good as the Daughter: And especially since Christ saith, I am the Vine, might not they have devised another Transubstantiation, to make Christ's Words good?
But to proceed to show how irrational and absurd their Notion is, and what they hold, as you heard, that Christ's whole Body is present in every Crumb of the Bread, &c. and yet do affirm, Christ's Body is entire and undivided, and also believe it is really in Heaven, in such a proportion or bigness as he had upon Earth. Now then, saith Mr. Pool, (according to their Doctrine) the same Body of Christ is bigger than it self, and longer than it self, and which is worse, Christ is divided from himself. I know not what can be more impossible, than to say, That all Christ is at Rome, and all at London, and all in Heaven, and yet not all in the Places between.
But to proceed to shew how irrational and absurd their Notion is, and what they hold, as you heard, that Christ's whole Body is present in every Crumb of the Bread, &c. and yet do affirm, Christ's Body is entire and undivided, and also believe it is really in Heaven, in such a proportion or bigness as he had upon Earth. Now then, saith Mr. Pool, (according to their Doctrine) the same Body of Christ is bigger than it self, and longer than it self, and which is worse, Christ is divided from himself. I know not what can be more impossible, than to say, That all Christ is at Rome, and all at London, and all in Heaven, and yet not all in the Places between.
Object. All this (the Papists say) may be done by God's Almighty Power.