Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	effect_n	necessary_a	produce_v	6,956	5	9.5140	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46941	The absolute impossibility of transubstantiation demonstrated	Johnson, Samuel, 1649-1703.; Johnson, Samuel, 1649-1703. Second five year's struggle against popery and tyranny.	1688 (1688)	Wing J820; ESTC R28745	40,536	74

Thought does in a Man's Mind yet it were impossible for it to be in many Places at once So that if we should grant Matter to be Immaterial and a Body to be a Spirit yet the Papists are so intangled in the Absurdity of this Doctrine that it would do them no good to allow them half a score Contradictions neither would it any way relieve them or free them from the rest Whereas on the other hand a Body is known to fill and possess the Place in which it is and is circumscribed by the bounds and limits of the Place which is commensurate to the Magnitude and Figure of the Body So that if a Body should be in many Places at once it might not only have quite contrary Situations and be East West North and South of it self be above it self and below it self all at once but also it would be Circumscribed and not Circumscribed at the same time which is a very plain and open Contradiction 2. The Second Head of Contradictions are those which attend the Doctrine of Transubstantiation in point of Time. Every thing that has now a Being either always had a Being and is Eternal which only God is or else it had a beginning of its Being in which it has continued ever since which is the condition of all Creatures and this Continuance of a Creature in Being we call the Duration of it which is so essential to all Substances whether Material or Immaterial that it is absolutely inseparable from them For when their Being began their Duration began and when their Duration ceases their Being ceases This Duration is counted by Days Months and Years and such like greater or lesser portions of Time which Time is nothing else but the measure of Duration whereby we reckon how long a Substance has continued or persevered in Being And now we have a Test in our hands to try whether it be not absolutely impossible for the Transubstantiation-Body in the Sacrament to be the very Body of Christ which was born of the Virgin Mary The Body which was born of the Virgin Mary has continued in Being 1688 years whereas the Body which the Priest made yesterday has continued in Being but one Day but the Duration of one Day only cannot be the Duration of 1688 years And the Duration of 1688 years is now inseparable from the Body of Christ born of the Virgin Mary for the Duration of a Substance is inseparable from the Substance therefore the Body which the Priest made yesterday cannot be the Body which was born of the Virgin Mary Which was to be Demonstrated Again If the Body in the Sacrament which was made that is began to be yesterday is the same Body which has continued 1688 Years then the same Body continued 1687 Years and upwards before it began to be but before it began to be it was not in Being and consequently in every Minute during that 1687 Years the same Body was in Being and was not in Being Which amounts to Millions of Contradictions Once more It must be granted That the Cause is in Being before the Effect and it would be a double Repugnancy to say the contrary for then the Effect would be both before it self for it is not an Effect till it be Caused and also before its Cause and so would be Caused by that which is not Now the Causes of the Transubstantiation-Body are these amongst others 1. The Bread out of which it is produced which is so necessary that this Change cannot be wrought out of any other Substance in the World Flesh nor Fish Pillar nor Post nor any thing else that can be named and therefore this is the necessary Matter of the Transubstantiation Body or the Cause out of which it is made 2ly The Baker by whom the Bread was made for he that is a Cause of the Cause is a Cause of the thing Caused 3ly The Marvellous Operator the Priest who makes the Body together with his Intention 4ly Which seems to be an Instrumental Cause his Pronouncing these words Hoc enim est Corpus meum in one Breath 5ly The Consideration which moved him to say a Mass at that time But neither the Bread nor the Baker nor the Priest nor his Intention nor his Voice nor his Breath nor the Proposal suppose of Twelve-pence to him to say a Mass neither all nor any of these which were the Causes of that Transubstantiation-Body which was made yesterday and did contribute more or less to the producing of it I say none of these Causes were in Being an Hundred years ago and if the Causes were not in Being much less was the Effect in Being otherwise the Effect must be before the Cause which is impossible But the Body of Christ born of the Virgin Mary was in Being 1600 Years ago which is more than One hundred Years ago and this is impossible for the Transubstantiation-Body which was made yesterday therefore it is impossible for the Transubstantiation-Body to be the Body of Christ born of the Virgin Mary Q. E. D. I wonder that when the Representer's hand was in and he had made Christ's Body Independent of Place he had not likewise made it Independent of Time for that was full as necessary to be done as the other 3. The Third Head of Contradictions are those which relate to Quantity under which Head I was going to Demonstrate That the same Body cannot at the same time be Bigger and Less than it self That it cannot be an Organized Humane Body Five Foot and an half long and at the same time bestowed within the Compass of a Wafer no bigger than a Six-pence nay within the compass of every Crumb of that Wafer though not so big as a Pins-head But I am interrupted from proceeding any further in this Attempt for by a slight Conveyance the very Subject-Matter of my Demonstration is taken away and instead of a Solid Body with Figure and Dimensions with different and distinct parts divisible and measurable they have left me only the Appearance of a Body which no Demonstration can fasten upon For they say That this Body is induced with a Supernatural manner of Existence by which being left without Extension of Parts it may be whole in every part of the Symbols and not obuoxious to any Corporeal Contingencies Now though we cannot demonstrate any Property of such an incomprehensible Body as this is no more than we can draw the Picture of a Non-entity or weigh it in a Pair of Scales for it scorns and tramples upon all the Principles and Axioms of Euclid yet we may a little consider the Terms of Art by which it is exprest 1. It is a Body without Extension of Parts So that it is a whole which has Parts though those Parts are without Extension and accordingly as it follows It may be whole in every Part of the Symbols But if the Parts be without Extension so is the Whole for the Whole is nothing else but all