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Questions of religion cast abroad in Helvetia by the adversaries of the sameQuestions of religion cast abroad in Helvetia by the aduersaries of the same
Questions of religion cast abroad in Helvetia by the adversaries of the same: and answered by M. H. Bullinger of Zurick: reduced into .17. common places. Translated into English by John Cox. 1572Questions of religion cast abroad in Helvetia by the aduersaries of the same: and aunswered by M. H. Bullinger of Zurick: reduced into .17. common places. Translated into Englishe by Iohn Coxe. 1572
London: printed by Henry Bynneman for George Byshop, 1572London: printed by Henrie Bynneman for George Byshop, 1572
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But to return to the Lords supper,1 it is not in that respect that we do minister it a propitiatory Sacrifice, that by the doing and celebrating of it, we should be delivered from sin. For the death and sacrifice of Christ upon the cross (if we have faith) hath delivered and purged us from our sins. Neither is Christ in his supper crucified again, or his body offered in the same again, for why, no Priest is able to offer it: but there is only celebrated a remembrance of his Sacrifice once perfected, and that not by the Priest alone, but by the whole church. For so our saviour Christ commanded, saying: Doc this in the remembrance of ⟨p. 107⟩me, wherefore S. Augustine (very agreeable with the holy scripture) writeth against the Manichees, saying: That before the coming of Christ, the Sacrifice of his body and blood was promised by the figured sacrifices of the old Testament: but by his coming and passion it is finished: and that after his ascension, the remembrance thereof is celebrated. Wherefore the opinion of those which say that the body and blood of Christ is offered in the Mass for the quick and the dead unto the end of the world, can in no wise be confirmed by any testimonies of holy Scripture. And to pass over, that the dead have already received their judgement, as it is already said in the thirty four and thirty five Questions: they besides can not any more be made partakers of the Lords supper: for the Lord saith, Take and eat, which thing the dead can not do. But in that they say the priest eateth for the dead, they do it contrary to the commandment of Christ. To conclude, the supper of the Lord is only the remembrance of the ⟨image 118⟩sacrifice of Christ once finished, and not the sacrifice it self, and that done only by those which here do live. The sacrifice of praise and thanks giving comprehendeth2 first the praise and thanks which they offer to God by a pure faith for all his benefits bestowed on them. And because in the Lords Supper, we chiefly make a remembrance of Christs death, and our redemption, & therefore praise God, and give thanks unto him, the fathers have called the same supper a sacrifice: and we also do willingly acknowledge that this sacrament in this sort, is an acceptable Sacrifice unto God: