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An Argument this, which since it cannot be Answered, they seem resolved to run it down; as the Stoick in Lucian, who began to call names, when he had nothing else to say for him∣self.
But if the Senses are such ill Informers, that they may not be trusted in matters of this mo∣ment, would these Disputers please to tell us, What Authority they have for the truth of the Christian Religion? Was not Christianity first found∣ed upon the Miracles of our Blessed Saviour and his Apostles? Or were not the Senses judges of those Miracles? Are not the Incarnation, Death, Resurrection and Ascension of our Lord, the most Fundamental Articles of our Faith? Have we any other Argument to warrant our belief of these, but what comes to us by the ministry of our Senses? Did not Christ himself appeal to them for the proof of his own Rising?
The Romanist himself believes Transubstantiation because he reads in the Scripture, or rather (to speak more agreeably to the method of their Church) because he has been told there are such Words there, as, Hee est Corpus Meum: Now not to enquire how far those words will serve to war∣rant this Doctrine, is it not evident that he