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have better called it his only Place, for there is no fecond that follows his firft. And even here when he comes to his utmost proof, that it may (as he faith) be abfolutely collected from it, it amounts to this, that from the common manner of Speaking, what is fignified in the Words [This is my Body] is, that there is nothing elfe but the Body of Chrift. For if it had been Bread, our Lord ought to fay, Here, that is, in this Bread, is my Body. So that it feems as our Saviour must do what they would have him do, so he must speak what they would have him fpeak, he ought, faith he, to fay. But why then ought not our Lord to have said, This is turned into my Body? That indeed fome of them fay is to be understood, and fo is fuppofed by them. And indeed without proving Is doth fo fignify, it's impoffible to prove the Bread to be turned into the proper Body of Chrift by virtue of thefe Words, This is my Body. In fine, this knowing Man was fo fenfible of the fhortness of his Argument, that he thus concludes the whole; Let me add, faith he, that though there should 55. Adde quod. be fome Obfcurity and Ambiguity in our Lord's Words, yet that is taken away by many Councils of the Catholick Church [fuch as those of Lateran and Trent] and the Confent of the Fathers. So that though they do make fome offer at Scripture, and at fometime Cath. Scriptu- boaft (as one doth) of clear Words, even word for word; yet that rift, Point. 12. they foon for fake; and, as Bellarmine shelters himself against the

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Obfcurity and Ambiguity of the Text, by a pretence of Councils, and the Confent of the Fathers: So this laft Author; after he has just named the clear Words (as he calls them) foon quits that for a Proof by Demonftration. It looks fomewhat great to begin with Scripture, and to pass thence to Councils, Fathers, and Demonstrations. But when it comes to be enquired into, Scripture is one Text alone, and that Text obfcure and ambiguous; the Councils are thefe of Lateran and Trent; and the Fathers, the Fathers of those and the like Councils; and their Demonstration, Fiction, and Imagination. But this belongs not to the prefent Design to fhew.

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