Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
... When there have been determinations against the common uncorrupted senses of mankind, as that what their sight, and touch, and taste assures them is Bread, is said to be the flesh of an human body.
For if you cannot be sure of what both your own, and the sound senses of any other man would tell you, you can be sure of nothing at all: You cannot be sure you see one another, or hear me speaking to you; nor be sure when you heard the transforming words, This is my Body; or much less that they were ever spoken, if you heard them not; or that that was Bread and not a Stone, or a piece of Clay that is pretended to be transubstantiated by them. ...
For more, see John Howe on common sense and transubstantiation.
For if you cannot be sure of what both your own, and the sound senses of any other man would tell you, you can be sure of nothing at all: You cannot be sure you see one another, or hear me speaking to you; nor be sure when you heard the transforming words, This is my Body; or much less that they were ever spoken, if you heard them not; or that that was Bread and not a Stone, or a piece of Clay that is pretended to be transubstantiated by them. ...
For more, see John Howe on common sense and transubstantiation.