This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1844 Excerpt: ... the visible figure' of the sacrament, and to be the same in greatness, in thickness, in weight, in savour, in taste, in propriety also to corrupt, putrify, and nourish as it did before; and yet the substance of those visible creatures to be converted into tlie substance, as Emissen saith, of the body of Christ. And ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1844 Excerpt: ... the visible figure' of the sacrament, and to be the same in greatness, in thickness, in weight, in savour, in taste, in propriety also to corrupt, putrify, and nourish as it did before; and yet the substance of those visible creatures to be converted into tlie substance, as Emissen saith, of the body of Christ. And litre ivill reason do service to faith, to say if tliere be a conversion indeed, as faith teaclieth, and none of the accidents be converted, then the substance is converted: for in every thing, all is substance and accidents; but the accidents be not changed, and yet a change there is; it must needs be then that substance is changed. Which deduction reason will make, and so agree toith transubstantiation in convenient due service. And thus I have gotten reason's good will, whatsoever this author saith, and from the ground of faith have by reason deduced such a conclusion to prove transubstanliation, as unless he destroy the true faith of the presence of Christ's very body, which he cannot, must needs be allowed. And as for natural operation of putrifying, engendering worms, burning, and such experiences, which being the substance of bread absent, this author thinketh cannot be so, when he hath thought thoroughly, he can of his thought conclude it only to be a marvel, and it be so as against the common rules of philosophy, wherein as meseemeth it were a nearer way, as we be admonished to leave searching of "how" of the work of God in the mystery of Christ's presence, being that the celestial part of the. sacrament, so not to search "how" in the experience of the operation of nature, of tlie visible earthly part of the sacrament. When God sent manna in the desert, the people saw many marvels in it, besides the common operation ...
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