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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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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 ⟨p. 220⟩of either nature, as hath been before declared) yea and overthrow all their own religion: for if the sacrifice of the mass• (as they call it) will do away all sin what need we regard prayer to dead• saints, auricular confession, the popes supremacy, and a thousand more such abominations, seeing that by setting a soul• priest on work, they may have full forgiveness? and why should we esteem pardons, indulgences, and such like trash and trumpery? nay rather, why should they not live as they lust, not only as epicures, but as brute beasts, seeing he may be assured for money, that that which another performeth for him, shall be available both to body and soul, and that to eternal salvation: but fie upon all such beastly & blasphemous dotages.