A17599:729
Aphorisms of Christian religionAphorismes of Christian religion
Aphorisms of Christian religion: or, a very compendious abridgement of M. I. Calvins Institutions set forth in short sentences methodically by M. I. Piscator: and now Englished according to the authors third and last edition, by H. Holland.Aphorismes of Christian religion: or, a verie compendious abridgement of M. I. Calvins Institutions set forth in short sentences methodically by M. I. Piscator: and now Englished according to the authors third and last edition, by H. Holland.
London: printed by Richard Field and Robert Dexter, 1596
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
XXI.
As also they that attribute to the signs power to confer grace, which they only ⟨p. 137⟩seal and testify.
As also they that attribute to the signes power to conferre grace, which they onely ⟨p. 137⟩seale and testifie.
XXII.
But the Papists err most shamefully, in that they transform the Lords Supper into the Mass, teaching that by consecration, that is, by the muttering of the five words, Hoc enim est corpus meum, for this is my body over the bread, the same is transubstantiated into, or turned into the substance of the body of Christ, as they say: and by the offering up of Christ thus created by the Priest, all their sins, for whom the Mass is celebrated, are purged, whether they be as yet alive, or even long since dead, and in Purgatory.