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A59787 An answer to a late Dialogue between a new Catholick convert and a Protestant to prove the mystery of the Trinity to be as absurd a doctrine as transubstantiation : by way of short notes on the said dialogue. Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707. 1687 (1687) Wing S3261; ESTC R10173 11,401 17

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Natural Reason indeed cannot discover the Plurality of Persons in the Godhead and therefore I can give no Reason why there should be Three Persons and neither more nor less as the Plurality of Persons so the number of them depends wholly upon Revelation and the Scripture assures me there are but Three and therefore I believe no more And because there are no more therefore I believe it is impious to say That there may be as well Three Hundred Persons in the Godhead as Three Thus the Doctrine of the Trinity tho it be above the comprehension of our finite minds as every thing must be which is infinite yet it does not contradict any necessary Principle of Reason as Transubstantiation does which is contrary to Sense and Reason Whether any Body be Bread or Flesh fall under the notice of Sense and therefore our Senses must judg of it and all our Senses tell us that the consecrated Bread and Wine is Bread and Wine still not Flesh and Blood so that we have greater evidence against Transubstantiation than we can have against the Trinity for we have the evidence of Sense that it is not Flesh but Bread and no man can pretend to such evidence as this that there are not Three Divine Persons in the Godhead and this makes some difference between them As for Reason if we cannot understand what the Properties of a Body are we can know nothing and therefore this is a proper Object of human Reason though the Trinity is not and if our Reason discover a great many Absurdities and Contradictions and Impossibilities in Transubstantiation we must confess that it is absurd and impossible as to take notice of some few To say that the Substance of the Bread is turned into the natural Flesh of Christ which suffered on the Cross sixteen hundred years ago is to say that the Body of Christ is made to day which was 1600 years ago which is a Contradiction for what was made 1600 years ago cannot be made to day unless it was 1600 years before it was made or was made 1600 years after it was made and thus the same individual Body must be and not be at the same time It is essential to the same Body to be but in one place at a time and yet all confess that the Body of Christ is whole and intire in Heaven how then is the same Body at the same time on the Altar nay on as many Altars as there are in the Christian World at the same time The Body of Christ in Heaven has the just Proportions and Dimensions of a human Body in the consecrated Host it is without any extension or distinction of parts whole and entire in the least Crumb of Bread now for the same individual Body to be extended and not extended at the same time is a contradiction and tho we could suppose that Christ could bestow such a supernatural kind of Existence on his Body as to subsist without Extension of parts yet how can the same Body at the same time be extended and not extended as it must be if the same Body be extended in Heaven and not extended in the Host. The Sacramental Body of Christ is cloathed with the Species of Bread is it so in Heaven too if not how is the same Body at the same time with and without the Species of Bread The Sacramental Body of Christ is his dead and broken Body the Body of Christ in Heaven is a living glorified Body now if this be the same Body the same Body must be dead and alive broken and whole at the same time The Romanists tell us that the consecrated Bread is the whole Body of Christ Flesh and Blood too which must go together and yet that the consecrated Cup is the natural Blood of Christ shed out of his Body so that it seems the same Body on the Altar is both broken and whole and the same Blood is in his Veins and poured out of them at the same time Now I would ask Whether Christ in Heaven have any Blood which is separated from his Body if he have not then how is the consecrated Cup which is his Blood shed for us and therefore out of his Body that natural Blood which Christ now has in Heaven where to be sure he has no Blood which is out of his Body and therefore that Blood which is out of his Body cannot be his natural Blood which he now has in Heaven When our Author has digested these Absurdities and Contradictions I can easily furnish him with more and can there be a greater contempt of the ever blessed Trinity than to compare so sacred and venerable a Mystery to the most absurd Doctrine which was ever invented by Men. It will be in vain to pray to God to give us his Holy Spirit to instruct us till we first learn to believe our own Sense and Reason The END a