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 May 27, 2024.
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Of the (fourth) Romish Contradiction against the words of Christ [MY BODY] by teaching it to be Or∣ganicall, and not Organicall; Divisible, and Indivisible.
SECT. I.
THe Question is not now of the Mysticall presence of Christ his Body in the Sacrament, which we with the Fathers, especially aGreg. Nyssen confesse to be whole, as well in a part of Bread consecrated, as in the whole loafe; even as the Image of the King may be as per∣fect in a penny, as in a shilling. But neither hee, nor any Father e∣ver said that a little Hoast (which boast you call Christ) is equall with a great Hoast; No, for the Fathers in the Councell of Nice absolutely denyed this: nor yet is Christ wholly represented in the least part of the Hoast, as your Fathers of Trent have taught, because no such part can resemble Totum Christum, whole Christ Sacramentally, which is not of sufficient bignes to be sensibly eaten in the nature of nourishment; thereby to resemble the Spirituall nourishment of our Soules, which is the Body of Christ. So that all you have said maketh iust nothing for the Corporall, and materiall Presence of Christs Body, which we further impugne.
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Greg. Nyssen. in Orat. Catech. C. 37. Per totum orbem ••ide liū millibus uno die im∣pertitur, totumque cuiusque per partem evadat, & in seipso totū permaneat, &c. Obiected by Master Brereley Liturg. Tract. 2. Subdiv. 1. [Answe∣red before, Chap. 4. Sect. 7.]