historicalgeogra00psal

,
i%6 The Authors Traz^els.
« cerning the Miracles wrought by Jefus Chrift,
" for the confirmation of his Doftrine : For if
" thofe who were Eye-witneffes could not be cer-
" tain by their Senfes that fuch Miracles were
" wrought, as are related in the Life of Chrift,
" then we have no certainty of the truth of thefe
'^
Relations, which depends upon the teftimony of
" thofe Eye-witneffes, who affirm that they faw
" fuchMiracles wrought by Chrift,and confequent-
" lyall the Evidence for the truth of Chriftianity,
«'•
from the Miracles pretended to be wrought iij
«' confirmation of it, is fubverted and deftroy'd.
*'
Thus the belief of Tranfubftantiation is incon-
" fiftent with the belief of thefe Miracles -, for
" if we believe them, we muft allow the tefti-
" mony of Senfe to be a fufficient proof of
" them ^ but if we believe Tranfubftantiation
" we muft renounce our Senfes, and deny them
'^
to be a certain proof of any thing we fee or
" feel.
" Secondly, 1 argu'd. That their Doftrine of
" Tranfubftantiation muft be falfe, becaufe the
" fame Body cannot, at the fame time, be in two
" diftant places-, but according to their Do£lrine,
" the fame Body of Chrift was corporally pre-
'^ fent in a thoufand diftant places at the fame
^*
time, vis:» in all thofe places where this Sa-
" crament is celebrated over the face of the whole
°
Earth, however diftant and remote from one
*^
another. Their diftinQion which they apply'd
" to this Argument, That the fame Body could
" not be in more places than one Circumfcrip*
^'^
the, but only Definitive, appeared to me fri-
" volous and impertinent^ for ft ill it appeared
'' to me impofTible, that the fame Body fhould
" be corporally prefent ( tho' it were only Defi-
" mive as they cair4 it^ in feveral diftant pla-