The touch-stone of the reformed gospel wherein the principal heads and tenents of the Protestant doctrine (objected against Catholicks) are briefly refuted. By the express texts of the Protestants own Bible, set forth and approved by the Church of England. With the ancient fathers judgements thereon, in confirmation of the Catholick doctrine.
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The touch-stone of the reformed gospel wherein the principal heads and tenents of the Protestant doctrine (objected against Catholicks) are briefly refuted. By the express texts of the Protestants own Bible, set forth and approved by the Church of England. With the ancient fathers judgements thereon, in confirmation of the Catholick doctrine.
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Heigham, John, fl. 1639.
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Printed in the year, 1676.
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Catholic Church -- Doctrines -- Early works to 1800.
Catholics -- England -- Early works to 1800.
Protestantism -- Controversial literature -- Early works to 1800.
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"The touch-stone of the reformed gospel wherein the principal heads and tenents of the Protestant doctrine (objected against Catholicks) are briefly refuted. By the express texts of the Protestants own Bible, set forth and approved by the Church of England. With the ancient fathers judgements thereon, in confirmation of the Catholick doctrine." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A43256.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 6, 2024.
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XL. That we ought to receive under both kinds; and that one alone sufficeth not.
COntrary to the expresse words of their own Bible, John 6.51. If any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever, and the bread which I will give, is my flesh. Here everlasting life is promised by our Lord himself, to him that eats of this bread onely: There∣fore one kinde doth suffice.
Luke 24.30.8.35. Christ at Emaus communicated to his Disciples under one kinde. Both S. Augustine and Theophilact expound this place of the B. Sacrament in the same sence, lib. de consens. Evang, cap. 35. S. Chrysost. hom. 17. operis imperfecti. S. Thomas of Aquin, and many others.
But they will alleadge to the contra∣ry that of S. John, Ʋnless you eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his bloud, you shall not have life in you, The answer hereto is very easie, which
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is, that the conjunction and, is there ta∣ken disjunctively instead of or, as is learnedly observed by Doctour Kelli∣son, in his reply to M. Sutcliff, p. 189. Again, Christ in those words, teacheth us the precept, and not the manner of the precept; that is to say, he com∣mands us to receive his body and his bloud, without determining whether under one kinde, or under both, as the Counsel of Trent declareth. For he that said; Ʋnless you eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his bloud, you shall not have life in you, hath also said, If any one eat of this bread, he shall live for ever. And he that said, He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my bloud, hath life everlasting, hath also said; The bread which I will give, is my flesh for the life of the World. He that said; Who so eateth my flesh, and drinketh my bloud, dwelleth in me, and I in him, hath like∣wise said; He that eateth this bread, shall live for ever. Therefore one alone doth suffice.
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