PROLEGOMENA. CXXV. 



Answer. So have protestants, and in a 

 much greater degree : but persecution was derived 

 from the spirit of the times, and from the con- 

 nection between reUglon and governments, and 

 not from religion itself; but this subject has been 

 discussed before. 



Objection 4. That we are superstitious in 

 believing in the Real Presence, being unin- 

 teliiffible to human reason. 



Answer. All phenomena and all changes 

 are unintelligible, as has been already shown, 

 and we take the express words of Christ literally 

 and in the sense in which the whole Christian 

 church took them for 1500 years ; the denial of 

 which would be dangerous now : since if God 

 could permit fifteen ages, including the wisest 

 and best and most sanctified men that ever lived, 

 to be in so fundamental an error, it would en- 

 gender a very just suspicion that the whole of 

 Christianity might be false, were it not for the 

 proofs derived from the attestation and fruits of 

 sanctity .Besides, the Trinity in Unity, and even 

 the corporeal Resurrection itself, considering that 

 our bodies are never ten minutes the same ; and, 

 above all, the frightful doctrine of an eternity 

 of Hell, all which are asserted by protestants, are 

 if any thing still harder of belief, to those who, 

 not seeing the fallacy of judgment, only employ 

 human reason, while nothing is impossible as 



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