Of the institution of the sacrament of the blessed bodie and blood of Christ, (by some called) the masse of Christ eight bookes; discovering the superstitious, sacrilegious, and idolatrous abominations of the Romish masse. Together with the consequent obstinacies, overtures of perjuries, and the heresies discernable in the defenders thereof. By the R. Father in God Thomas L. Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield.

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Of the institution of the sacrament of the blessed bodie and blood of Christ, (by some called) the masse of Christ eight bookes; discovering the superstitious, sacrilegious, and idolatrous abominations of the Romish masse. Together with the consequent obstinacies, overtures of perjuries, and the heresies discernable in the defenders thereof. By the R. Father in God Thomas L. Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield.
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Morton, Thomas, 1564-1659.
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London :: Printed by W. Stansby, for Robert Mylbourne in Pauls Church-yard at the signe of the Grey-hound,
MDCXXXI. [1631]
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"Of the institution of the sacrament of the blessed bodie and blood of Christ, (by some called) the masse of Christ eight bookes; discovering the superstitious, sacrilegious, and idolatrous abominations of the Romish masse. Together with the consequent obstinacies, overtures of perjuries, and the heresies discernable in the defenders thereof. By the R. Father in God Thomas L. Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A07812.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 5, 2024.

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Secondly of the Romish Change, which you call Transubstantiation.

SECT. II.

BVt your Change in the Councell of a 1.1 Trent is thus defined: Transubstantiation is a Change of the whole Substance of Bread in∣to the whole Substance of the Body of Christ, and of Wine into his

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Blood. Which by the Bull of b 1.2 Pius the Fourth, then Pope, is made an Article of Faith, without which a man cannot be saved. Which Article of your Faith Protestans beleeve to be a new and impious Figment, and c 1.3 Heresie. The Case thus standing, it will concerne every Christian to build his Resolution upon a sound Foundation. As for the Church of England, she professeth in her 28. Article, say∣ing of this Transubstantiation, that It cannot be proved by holy Writ, but is repugnant to the plaine words of Scripture, overthroweth the nature of a Sacrament, and hath given occasion unto MANY SV∣PERSTIONS.

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