Excerpt from The Real Presence and Spiritual of Christ in the Blessed Sacrament Proved Against the Doctrine of Transubstantiation: A Dissuasive From Popery, and Five Letters to Persons Changed or Tempted to a Change in Their Religion Of the church: shewing that the church of Rome relies upon no cer tain foundation for their faith Of councils and their authority Of the canon law and the great contrariety in it Of the pope Of the notes of the church 2. Of the sufficiency of the holy scriptures to salvation, which is the great foundation and ground of the protestant religion Sufficiency of scripture proved by tradition 3. Of traditions, and those doctrines and practices that most need the help of that topic As of the Trinity, parade-baptism, baptism by heretics, and the Lord's day 4. There is nothing of necessity to be believed which the apostolical churches did not believe 5. That the church of Rome pretends to a power of introducing into the confessions of the church new articles of faith, and endeavours to alter and suppress the old catholic doctrine First, they do it, and pretend to a power of doing it Secondly, it agrees with their interest so to do 6. They use indirect ways to bring their new articles into credit; e. G. The device of Indices Expurgatory. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.