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A Reformed Catholic
A reformed Catholic: or, A declaration showing how near we may come to the present Church of Rome in sundry points of religion: and wherein we must for ever depart from them with an advertisement to all favourers of the Roman religion, showing that the said religion is against the Catholic principles and grounds of the catechism.A reformed Catholike: or, A declaration shewing how neere we may come to the present Church of Rome in sundrie points of religion: and vvherein we must for euer depart from them with an advertisment to all fauourers of the Romane religion, shewing that the said religion is against the Catholike principles and grounds of the catechisme.
Cambridge: printed by John Legat, 1598Cambridge: printed by Iohn Legat, 1598
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Our consent.
Our consent I propound in two conclusions. Conclus. I. That the supper of the Lord is a sacrifice, and may truly be so called as it hath bin in former ages; & that in three respects. I. Because it is a memorial of the real sacrifice of Christ upon the cross, and contains withal a thanksgiving to God for the same, which thanksgiving is the sacrifice and calves of our lips. Hebr. 13. 15. II. Because every communicant doth there present himself body and soul a living, holy, and acceptable sacrifice unto God. For as in this sacrament God gives unto us Christ, with his benefits; so we answerable give up our selves unto God as servants to walk in the practise of all dutiful obedience. III. It is called a sacrifice in respect of that which was joined with the sacrament, namely the Alms given to the poor as a testimony of our thankfulness unto God. And in this regard also, the ancient Fathers have called the sacrament, an unbloody sacrifice: and the table, an altar; & ⟨p. 206⟩the ministers priests: and the whole action an oblation not to God but to the congregation, & not by the priest alone but by the people. A Canon of a certain Council saith, We decree 1that every Lords day the oblation of the altar be offered of every man and woman both for bread and wine. And Augustine saith, that2 women offer a sacrifice at the altar of the Lord, that it might be offered by the priest to God. And usually in ancient writers the communion of the whole body of the congregation is called the sacrifice or oblation.
Our consent I propound in two conclusions. Conclus. I. That the supper of the Lord is a sacrifice, and may truly be so called as it hath bin in former ages; & that in three respects. I. Because it is a memoriall of the reall sacrifice of Christ vpon the crosse, and containes withall a thanksgiuing to God for the same, which thanksgiuing is the sacrifice and calves of our lips.