CHAP. I.
Of TRANSUBSTANTIATION, Or the Real Presence Establish'd by the CHURCH of ROME.
TRansubstantiation is defined by the * 1.1 Council of Trent, to be
A WONDERFUL CONVERSION of the whole Substance of the Bread, in this Holy Sacrament, in∣to the whole substance of the Body of Christ, and of the whole substance of the Wine into his Blood; the Species or Accidents only of the Bread and Wine re∣maining.
For the better understanding of which Wonderful Conversion, because the Church of Rome, which is not very liberal in any of her Instructions, has taken † 1.2 particular care that this should not be too much ex∣plain'd to the People, as well knowing it to be a Doctrine so absurd, that even their credulity could hardly be able to digest it; it may not be amiss if, from the very words of their own Catechism, we examine a little farther into it.
Now three things there are, which, they tell us, must be consider'd in it: