Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

SCRIPTURE AND THE FATHERS. 283
useful for affording us a knowledge of the truth.
When a person questions the correctness of his
eye, he naturally attempts to feel the object
which has engaged his attention. If that do
not satisfy him, he may apply it to his nose ;
and if he have much curiosity,
he may even put
it in his mouth. Will the R., then, inform us,
if what has the appearance of bread and wine
possess either the taste,
smell, or feeling of flesh
and blood But probably he reckons these a-
mong the deceitful appearances which objects
may assume. The learned Fathers of the-
Council of Trent tell us as much, when they
affirm,
that the species or accidents of the bread
and wine remain ; that is, there is no change in
these qualities, by which one object is distinguished
from another. This is in other words
to say, that the bread and wine remain ;
for the
existence of matter in any particular form depends
entirely on its combination with certain
accidents or qualities. Let the R. conceive to
hin^.self, what bread or wine would be, were
they deprived of the qualities on account of
which they receive these appellations. On both
sides the argument is against him. If he say,
that these elements are no longer bread and
wine, how do they possess all
the qualities which
distinguish these from every other object in nature
If he say that they ai'e flesh and blood,
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