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Two very learned sermons of M. Beza, together with a short sum of the…Two very lerned sermons of M. Beza, togither with a short sum of the…
Two very learned sermons of M. Beza, together with a short sum of the sacrament of the Lords Supper: Whereunto is added a treatise of the substance of the Lords Supper, wherein is briefly and soundly discussed the p[r]incipall points in controversy, concerning that question. By T.W.Two very lerned sermons of M. Beza, togither with a short sum of the sacrament of the Lordes Supper: Wherevnto is added a treatise of the substance of the Lords Supper, wherin is breflie and soundlie discussed the p[r]incipall points in controuersie, concerning that question. By T.W.
London: printed by Robert Walde-grave for T. Man, 1588London: printed by Robert Walde-graue for T. Man, 1588
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2 Secondly, that though this point of transubstantiation, brought in by papists, be great and gross concerning the matter of the supper, yet that they fail not alone herein, which might perhaps make their heresy less heinous, but hold many moe errors concerning that point, some of them as palpable, if not more gross and blasphemous than this, and some of them less. To pursue them all, and in a large sort, I mind not at this present, because it hath been already performed by men of great excellency, & the Lord may hereafter give a more fit occasion, & yet I will rehearse & touch a few, desiring the godly reader, with all holy wisdom, to consider both of them, and the rest of that sort.
2 Secondlie, that though this point of transubstantiation, brought in by papists, be great and grosse concerning the matter of the supper, yet that they faile not alone heerein, which might perhaps make their heresie lesse heinous, but holde manie moe errors concerning that point, some of them as palpable, if not more grosse and blasphemous than this, and some of them lesse. To pursue them all, and in a large sort, I minde not at this present, because it hath beene alreadie performed by men of great excellencie, & the Lord may heerafter giue a more fit occasion, & yet I will rehearse & touch a few, desiring the godlie reader, with all holie wisdome, to consider both of them, and the rest of that sort.
1 First, in that they make it a sacrifice propitiatory (as they call it) for the quick ⟨p. 219⟩•nd the dead: by which they do not only scorn God, & deride men, whilst they make men believe, that God will be plea•ed with such odd devises, and that his justice shall be answered with the works •f our own invention, causing us also •o think that sin is no heinous thing •hat can be expiated and done away by he offering up a poor thin cake, as though that spiritual and innumerable offences might be taken away with bodily exercises, and that not of a holy and innocent man, but many times of one of the worst amongst the people: but utterly also evacuat by that means, and make of no force the eternal priesthood and sacrifice of our saviour Christ, which consisteth specially in this, that he hath once for all upon the altar of the cross, offered up himself unto God the father, a full and sufficient sacrifice for the sins of the people, as the apostle plainly proveth in many places of his Epistle to the Hebrews. But no marvel that they should annihilate and deface Christs offices, which destroy his natures, and by consequent his whole person also (as these men do by confounding the proprieties