Annotatio III §.X (2) close: Daily Mass-‘miracles’ vs the senses; Tillotson; Melchior — credible only by Enthusiasm; stop before (3)
Miracles should be rare, not rash, to convince the senses of what is hard to believe; the papistic Mass instead commands the same ‘miracle’ daily in countless places against the senses’ clearest contrary witness (Tillotson Sermons 3, pp. 364–365).
Melchior of Herborn ingeniously showed Transsubstantiation credible only by Enthusiasm (Opera Theol. 2, pp. 467–840).
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Latin
Cum enim miracula rarò admodum, non temerè nec alio fine, à Deo patrari credenda Christianis sint, quam ut per ea, ceu omnem creatam finitamque potentiam supergressa opera, sensibus humanis clarissimè exposita, de veritate ejus, quod creditu difficile, planè convincantur; Hic quidem, seu in Missa papistica, è contrario quotidie innumeris vicibus, in innumeris locis, eadem repeti atque recurrere miracula, contra luculentissima sensuum humanorum de contrario plenissimè convictorum testimonia, credenda imperantur. Confer. Tillots. Volum. 3. Concionum p. m. 364. & 365. Ut hoc nomine perquam ingeniose B. Joh. Melchioris, non ita pridem Doctor Theologus Herbornensis, Transsubstantiationem, non nisi per Enthusiasmum, credibilem demonstraverit, Operum Theol. part. 2. à p. m. 467. ad 840.