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AND in like manner if in any of all those plaine sentences, which we alleage in proof of our doctrine there be any One word that can
The Catholick doctrine of transubtantiation proued to be ancient and orthodoxall against the sclanderous tongue of D. Iohn Cozens a Protestants minister auouching the sayd doctrine neuer to haue been knowne, in the Church before the Councels of Latteran and of Trent.
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- The Catholick doctrine of transubtantiation proued to be ancient and orthodoxall against the sclanderous tongue of D. Iohn Cozens a Protestants minister auouching the sayd doctrine neuer to haue been knowne, in the Church before the Councels of Latteran and of Trent.
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- Campion, William, 1599-1665.
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- M. DC. LVII [1657]
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- Cosin, John, 1594-1672. -- Historia transubstantiationis papalis.
- Transubstantiation.
- Lord's Supper -- Real presence.
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"The Catholick doctrine of transubtantiation proued to be ancient and orthodoxall against the sclanderous tongue of D. Iohn Cozens a Protestants minister auouching the sayd doctrine neuer to haue been knowne, in the Church before the Councels of Latteran and of Trent." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A79660.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 18, 2024.
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afford them matter of Ca∣uil, they will be sure to take hold of it, & contend wi∣thout all shame & honesty, though the Meaning of the fathers be there in it selfe most cleer & euident. But who doth not see this way of pro∣ceding in Protestant ▪ Mini∣sters to be most injurious to the holy fathers; seing heere∣by they will presently appea∣re euen to euery ignorant per∣son to contradit themselues, & so lose all credit & autho∣rity: for he that is once dis∣couered to say & vn say the same thing, can be esteemed no better then either a wilfull Lyer, or at least a person most forgetfull and inconstant, and so of no credit at all as a wit∣nesse of verity; for who can
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giue credit to a man whom he findes to be full of contra∣dictions! And in very truth this is all that Protestant mi∣nisters ayme at, to bring men into a high contempt of the fathers, when they instance & vrge against them their owne contradictions, saying as whitaker doth: Basil fighteth with himselfe; Damascen is contrary to himselfe; I oppo∣se Chrysostome against Chry∣sostome; Let vs not attend what Cyprian sayd, but let vs examin him by his owne lawe. For were it not euident to them that the fathers do condemne their opinions, & patronize ours, they would neuer endeauour so fowly to, blemish them by vrging con∣tradiction with themselues,
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which, as I sayd a fore, the meanest writers though in triuiall matters do euer scorne.
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whitak de sa∣cra scrip pa. 670. 676. 678. 690. D. Bear. D. Mor∣ton Lub¦bertus & alij.