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A35959	Truths victory over error, or, An abridgement of the chief controversies in religion which since the apostles days to this time, have been, and are in agitation, between those of the Orthodox faith, and all adversaries whatsoever, a list of whose names are set down after the epistle to the reader : wherein, by going through all the chapters of The confession of faith, one by one, and propounding out of them, by way of question, all the controverted assertions, and answering by yes, or no, there is a clear confirmation of the truth, and an evident confutation of what tenets and opinions, are maintain'd by the adversaries : a treatise, most useful for all persons, who desire to be instructed in the true Protestant religion, who would shun in these last days, and perillous times, the infection of errors and heresies, and all dangerous tenets and opinions, contrary to the word of God.	Dickson, David, 1583?-1663.; Sinclair, George, d. 1696.	1684 (1684)	Wing D1412; ESTC R3405	145,943	378

Sacrament in substance and nature remain still truely and only bread and wine as they were before Yes Matth. 26. 29. 1 Cor. 11. 26 27 28. Well then do not the Papists err who maintain that the Bredd and Wine by the power of the words of consecration This is my Body are truely Transubstantiat into the very body and blood of Christ nothing remaining but the outward forms and Accidents of the Bread and wine Yes By what reasons are they confuted 1 Because the Doctrine of Transubstantiation makes Christs body every where present invisible that cannot be handled without shape and figure without humane quantity which is contrary to Matth. 26. 6. Here Christ is only present in Bethany And Iohn 20. 27. Thomas toucheth Christ. And according to Acts 3. 21. the Heavens must receive Him and therefore cannot be every where See Heb. 2. 14 17. 2 Because before and after consecration the bread is called the communion of the body of Christ but nothing is said or can be the communion of its own self 1 Cor. 10. 16. 3 Because afrer consecration the Apostle calls not the bread a Species or form of Bread 1 Cor. 11. 26 27 28. And after consecration Christ calls the wine the fruit of the vine Matth. 26. 29. 4 Because Christ did institute the Supper to be a memorial of himself until he come again But a memorial is not of things corporally present but of things absent 1. Cor. 11. 25. 5 Because that which is properly broken is not the body of Christ but the bread is properly broken therefore the bread is not the body of Christ 1 Cor. 10. 16. 6 Because Christ went up to heaven bodily and is to tarry there until the end of the world Acts 3. 21. 7 Transubstantiation destroys the very Essence and being of the Lords Supper First It destroyes the sign because it takes away the substance of the bread and wine the Accidents and outward Forms only remaining Secondly It destroys the thing signified for it robes and spoils the body of Christ of its true quantity and dimensions for according to that infallible Philosophical Maxim sublatis dimensionibus corporis tollitur ipsum corpus That is by taking away the length breadth and thickness of any Physical or Natural body you destroy consequentially the very essence and being of that body and introduces instead of one body many bodies 8 Because Transubstantiation takes away the Sacramental Analogie and so when the sign is turned into the thing signified all similitude between them is gone and ceaseth 9 From this doctrine do follow many great Absurdities inconsistent with Religion Sense and Reason As first that Christ in the Supper did both eat and drink himself that he was wholly in his own mouth that he had a double and twofold body one Visible another Invisible That a Mouse or Rat may eat Christs Body That his body being reserved and laid up into a Cupboard in a short time may turn into Vermine Must not Christs body be in many places at once Must not his body and all the parts thereof his head hands and feet be in the smallest and least crumb of the Host Must not Christs body having now that bigness in Heaven which he had upon Earth be biger than it self longer and thicker If Christs Body may be in diverse places at once why may not a mans body be in diverse places at once this is granted by the Adversaries but a man cannot be in diverse places at once Can Peter for example be both at Edinburgh and London in the same moment of time He may then be both a man and not a man at the same time he may be a man because living at Edinburgh and not a man because dead at London May not Peter at Edinburgh go to York and meet Peter there from London And what a mirry meeting must it be when Peter shakes hands with Peter and takes a glass of Wine from him May not Peter from London be killed there at York and Peter from Edinburgh be left alive May not Peter alive be re-produced in a thousand Cities at once and marry there a thousand wives and beget in one night a thousand Sons and Daughters May not Peter be so many times re-produced till he make up an hundred thousand fighting men May not one candle by re-production be made as many as may give light to the whole Universe May not one bottle of water be made so many as may serve an Army of an hundred thousand May not one Guiney be reproduced as many times as may amount to five and twenty hundred thousand pounds sterling A brave invention for paying five or six hundred thousand merks of debt Next as the Adversaries are engaged to maintaine that one body may be in many places a once so are they under a necessity to affirm that many bodies may be in one place together by way of Penetration for in every crumb of the Host is Christs Body From which position it follows that a mans body may be contained within a Nut-shel That a Snuff-box may contain Athurs Seat the hollow of an Ox eye the whole Globe of the Earth That a Sparrow may swallow one by one the seven Planets seeing each one of them may occupy no more bounds or space than a grain of barly corn doth and yet the Sun which is swallowed will be as big as at present for Christs body in the Host is as big and tall as when he was on the Cross as the Adversaries confess 10 We never read of a miracle wrought by GOD but what was evident and conspicuous to all and evidently seen to be such As when Moses his rod was turned into a Serpent and became a rod again Exod. 4. 2 3. Such were the wonders of Egypt Such was the dividing of the Red Sea the stricking of the Rock and the flowing out of the waters Numb 20. 11. The destruction of Korah Dathan and Abiram was evident to all the Israelites Numb 16. 31 32. So were the miracles which were wrought by the holy Prophets such were the miracles which Christ and his Apostles wrought Was not the water most evidently turned into wine Iohn 2. 7 8 9. But after the Words of consecrationn uttered by the Mass Priest the bread as to sense is the same thing it was The bread hath the same taste thè same smell that same touch that same outward form and figure that same colour that same weight It occupies that same space and bounds and hath the same quantity in all its dimensions But the rod was seen a serpent and the serpent was seen a rod. The water was seen wine it was known to be wine by the taste by the smell by the colour Christ never wrought such a miracle as the miracle of Transubstantiation In all his miracles he appealed to our outward Senses And was it ever heard that Christ wrought miracles without a necessity Quest. V. IS the Body and Blood of