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Meditations on the holy sacrament of the Lords last Supper Written many years sinceMeditations on the holy sacrament of the Lords last Supper Written many yeares since
Meditations on the holy sacrament of the Lords last Supper Written many years since by Edward Reynolds then fellow of Merton College in Oxford.Meditations on the holy sacrament of the Lords last Supper Written many yeares since by Edvvard Reynolds then fellow of Merton College in Oxford.
London: printed by Felix Kyngston for Robert Bostock, 1638
MEDITATIONS ON THE HOLY SACRAMENT OF THE LORDS LAST SUPPER. › Chapter 5
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Horrible then and more than heathenish is the impiety of those who mixing humane inventions and ceremonies of their own unto the substance of these sacred mysteries, and imposing them as divine duties with a necessity of absolute obedience, do by that means wrench Christs own divine prerogative out of his own hands, and make themselves, shall I say confounders and joint authors of his Sacraments? nay rather indeed the destroyers of them: since as he that receives otherwise than Christ requires,1 receives not Christ but rather damnation; so he that gives otherwayes than Christ instituted doth not indeed give Christ, but an Idol of his own making.
Horrible then and more than heathenish is the impiety of those who mixing humane inventions and ceremonies of their owne unto the substance of these sacred mysteries, and imposing them as divine duties with a necessitie of absolute obedience, do by that meanes wrench Christs owne divine prerogative out of his owne hands, and make themselves, shall I say confounders and joynt authors of his Sacraments? nay rather indeed the destroyers of them: since as he that receives otherwise than Christ requires,1 receives not Christ but rather damnation; so he that gives otherwayes than Christ instituted doth not indeed give Christ, but an Idoll of his own making.
Secondly, we see here with how great reverence we ought to approach Gods Temple, to receive these deep mysteries of Salvation, which it pleased Christ in his own person to institute, and with his own presence to exhibit unto the Church: was a beast slain for touching the Mount, and shall not a man of beastly and vile affections,1 be punished for touching that table where the Lord is present? was Moses to put off his shoes at that bush which represented Gods power, and must not we shake off our earthly and corrupt desires at those mysteries which represent his mercy? were Nadab and Abihu destroyed before the Lord for offering strange fire at his