{"passage":["Exodus 4:2–3"],"results":[{"document":"dickson1684","id":"29","url":"/api/v1/documents/dickson1684/entries/29","segments":[{"text":"(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;","proofs":["Exodus 4:2–3"]}]}]}