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CHAP, first that he was a good Grecian ; making that part of his 



learning serviceable now to him. For when Cheny, another 



of the Protestant disputants, had quoted a passage out of 

 Theodoret, to prove that the substance of bread remained 

 after the consecration, viz. that the elements were the same 

 after sanctifi cation that they were before; and that they 

 did not go out of their former substance and form, where 

 Concern- that writer useth the word oucn a, substance: and when one 

 sense of Moreman, a member of that Synod, (to evade this allega- 

 euff tct. tion,) had said, that oucna was a word that implied accidence 

 as well as substance, and accidental substance ; Aylmer 

 shewed learnedly, that ou&amp;lt;7/a could not possibly signify acci 

 dence in the place alleged. And that w r as evident from the 

 two other w r ords used by Theodoret in the same place, viz. 

 glSoj and cr^rjjaa ; which signify in English, shape and form. 

 He proved moreover out of the same author, that ow&amp;lt;r/a in 

 Greek could not be so generally taken, as Moreman for a 

 shift would have had it. This was made good by Aylmer 

 in the acts of the second day. And two days after, when 

 Moreman, his antagonist, for his own reputation, had endea 

 voured to refute what Aylmer had before said, he again 

 very learnedly confirmed what he had spoken of the sense 

 of oti&amp;lt;r/#, by reasons and proofs grounded and brought out 

 of the Greek. Which so confounded his said opponent, 

 that he desired a day to overview them, not knowing what 

 to say. 



His free Another passage of this learned man in this Convocation 

 thTproio- must n t be omitted : it was this : that when Pern had 

 cutor. made a declaration of his mind against transubstantiation, 

 and confirmed the sayings and authorities of Aylmef, Dr. 

 Weston the Prolocutor took him up short, and said, he 

 wondered that Pern would say so much, because but Friday 

 last he had subscribed to the contrary. But Aylmer stepped 

 forth, and told the Prolocutor, that he was to blame to 

 reprehend any man ; partly, for that the House was an 

 house of liberty, and every man was there free to speak 

 his conscience; and partly, because he himself had pro 

 mised but the day before, that notwithstanding any man 



