A manuel of controversies clearly demonstrating the truth of Catholique religion by texts of Holy Scripture, councils of all ages, Fathers of the first 500 yeers, common sense and reason, and fully answering the principal objections of Protestants and all other sectaries / by H.T.

The major I take for a Rule admitted by Protestants and is proved, because otherwise it were not possible to prov•• by Scripture, that any one text of the Gospel ought to be taken literally and properly which our ••dver∣saries cannot in their Principles allow.

The minor is also manifest for the first part, to whosoever shall peruse the text, there is no mention of any figure in it. And the second part I prove thus; because it was possible to Christ to verifie those affirmatives in the literal and proper sense of the words if he had so pleased, by changing the Bread and Wine in∣to his own Body and Blood, as our very adver∣saries themselves grant, although they ob∣stinately contest he hath not done it; therefore these affirmatives, being literally and properly understood, imply no sin or contradiction; for sin and contradiction are not possible to Christ, who is by essence, Truth and Sanctity.

That our adversaries grant this change pos∣sible to Christ, is proved by these insuing testi∣monies.

Luther sayes: What proof hav•• they (the Sacramentaries) to prove these propositions con∣tradictory; Christ is in heaven, and Christ is in the Supper? The contradiction is in their carnall imagination, not in faith, or in the Word of God, Tom. Wittenberg. an. 1557. defens. verbi Coe∣nae, pag. 388.

You hear where all Doctor Taylors preten∣ded contradictions are, if Martin Luther, that first and greatest light of true Protestancy, be worthy to be judg.

John Calvin sayes, We do not dispute what God can do, but what he will, Init. Institut.

Jewell confesses, God is able by his omnipotent power to make Christs Body present without place or quantity, in his Reply against Harding, pag. 352.

Cranmer confesses, That Christ may be in the bread and wine, as also in the doors that were shut, and stone of the sepulcher, in his answer to Gard∣ner and Smith, pag. 454.

Whitaker sayes, That Christ can make the bread his Body we grant, only shew that he will do it, and the controversie is ended, in his Answer to Reyner, pag. 192.

John Fox saye••, That Christ abiding in heaven is not let, but that he may be in the Sacrament also. Acts and Monum. pag. 998.

Melanct hon sayes, I had rather die, then affirm with the Zuinglians, that Christs Body can be but in one place. Epist. ad Martinum Gerolitium.

Doctor Taylor himself sayes, God can do what he pleases, he can change or annihilate every crea∣ture, and alter their manner and essence; in his Book of the reall and spirituall presence of Christs Body in the Sacrament, pag. 244. He can indeed make a body to be a spirit, pag. 213.

And again, Let it appear that God hath affirmed Transubstantiation, and I for my part will burn all my arguments against it, and make publique a∣mends, pag. 240. Fairly promised, Doctor, I subsume.

But he hath plainly affirm'd the reall and substantiall presence of his Body and Blood in the Sacrament; as hath been proved both from the institution and possibility, and shall be proved from the performance, and reasonableness of it.

Therefore recall your arguments against it; together with that long impertinent cata∣logue of seeming contradictions, and impossi∣bilities, which you have malitiously heap'd to∣gether &c. meerly to scandalize and turne the braine of an unlearned Reader. Your own friends, that are Scholars, have long since de∣tected the nullity of them, and your own con∣science tels you, that you have drawn them all from this false supposition, That Christs Body hath situall and locall extension in the Sacrament, which you know we deny; the manner of being is spiritual and Sacramental.

A second proof that those affirmatives, This is my Body: This is my Bloud, imply no sin or contradiction, is made from the solution of your Objections.