The critical history of the religions and customs of the eastern nations written in French by the learned Father Simon ; and now done into English, by A. Lovell ...
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The critical history of the religions and customs of the eastern nations written in French by the learned Father Simon ; and now done into English, by A. Lovell ...
Author
Simon, Richard, 1638-1712.
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London :: printed by J. Heptinstall, for Henry Faithorne and John Kersey ...,
MDCLXXXV [1685]
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Orthodox Eastern Church -- History.
Eastern churches.
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"The critical history of the religions and customs of the eastern nations written in French by the learned Father Simon ; and now done into English, by A. Lovell ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A60240.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 22, 2024.
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Gennadii primi Patriarchae Constantinopolitani post∣quam à Turcis capta est, qui vixit circa annum salutis 1453.
MAximum itaque om∣nium Dei miraculo∣rum est hocce mysterium. Idcirco multa, uti jam dic∣tum est, contra illud ob∣jectant ex una quidem parte infideles, ex alia haeretici, & ex alia idiotae, qui rati∣onem mysterii illius neque∣unt intelligere: quas objec∣tiones in hoc sermone mo∣do solvimus. Alii siquidem dubitant, quomodo in mo∣mento temporis panis & vi∣ni substantia convertatur in corporis substantiam. Alii verò dubitant, quâ ratione fieri possit, ut substantia panis in corporis substanti∣am transmutata, remaneant panis accidentia, illius vide∣licet longitudo, gravitas,
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latitudo, color, odor, & quae in gustu est qualitas; ita ut sint panis accidentia, absque ejusdem panis substantia, & vera corporis substantia la∣teat sub alterius substantiae accidentibus. Alii dubitant, quomodo fieri possit, Chri∣stum extare in parva rei quae apparet extensione. Alii rur∣sus dubitant, quomodo my∣sticum Christi corpus, etiam in partes divisum, remaneat integrum, & partium quae∣libet sit totum Christi cor∣pus, idémque perfectum. Dubitant alii, & haec dubi∣tandi ratio videtur maxima, quomodo idem Christi cor∣pus unum fit in coelo & in multis simul altaribus super terram. Verùm istas dubi∣tandi rationes jam solvimus, possumúsque solvere, gratià Christi noe illustrante. In pri∣mis autem sapientissimi Ecclesiae Doctores, gratiae quae in vobis est ac studii duces, easdem solvunt. Vo∣bis autem incumbit credere absque ulla haesitatione, si∣militer & Christiani omnes credere debemus, mysticum illud corpus esse ipsummet Dominum nostrum Jesum, Mariae Virginis Filium, qui crucifixus est, quique nunc est in coelo, ille omnino i∣dem est, qui sub panis acci∣dentibus delitescit. Extat autem secundùm substanti∣am in Sacramento, non verò secundùm gratiam & effi∣caciam tantùm; neque my∣sticum
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Christi corpus veri corporis figura est, sed pu∣rum putum illius corpus: nunc enim figuris & umbris, sicut olim, minimè servimus, sed ipsismet rebus. Si quis autem Sanctorum sacrifici∣um istud Dominicae illius coenae vocet antitypum, in∣de fir quòd istud sacrificium illius fit figura, sicut & ho∣dierni sacrisiculi figura sunt Jesu Christi, qui tunc fecit sacrificium: utriusque au∣tem sacrificii eadem est per∣fectio, nimirum transub∣stantiatio.
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