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The substance of Christian religion, or, A plain and easy draught of the Christian…The substance of Christian religion, or, A plain and easie draught of the Christian…
The substance of Christian religion, or, A plain and easy draught of the Christian catechism in LII lectures on chosen texts of Scripture, for each Lords-day of the year, learnedly and perspicuously illustrated with doctrines, reasons, and uses / by that reverend and worthy labourer in the Lord's vineyard, William Ames ...The substance of Christian religion, or, A plain and easie draught of the Christian catechisme in LII lectures on chosen texts of Scripture, for each Lords-day of the year, learnedly and perspicuously illustrated with doctrines, reasons, and uses / by that reverend and worthy laborer in the Lord's vineyard, William Ames ...
London: printed by T. Mabb for Thomas Davies, 1659
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Use, Of Refutation, against Papists, What the difference is between the Supper and the Popish Mass: because Papists have taken away the Sacrament that was instituted by Christ, and have set up in its place the Sacrifice of the Mass, that was devised by men. And this is the difference between a Sacrament and a Sacrifice, that the formal reason of a Sacrifice consists in this, that in it men offer something to God; and God receives something from men: But the formal reason of a Sacrament is in this, that God offers something to men by visible signs, and men receive it from God, on the conditions and manner that he offers it. In this Supper God offers Christ unto us for our spiritual nourishment; and we receive Christ as the food of our souls, by eating and drinking of him by faith. Hence the popish Mass is a mere stranger to Christ's institution, while they ⟨p. 190⟩make its principal use to be a Sacrifice for the quick and the dead; and while they officiate their private Masses, wherein the people neither eat nor drink; while in the public Masses, they take away the cup from the people, so that though they eat in some sort, yet they drink in no manner; while they hold up the Host, or Sacrifice; that is, the consecrated bread and wine, rather to be adored and worshipped, than to be eaten, or drunk; while lastly, they do all this in an unknown tongue, so that the people cannot understand, either what, or how they should eat, or drink.
Use, Of Refutation, against Papists, What the difference is between the Supper and the Popish Mass: because Papists have taken away the Sacrament that was instituted by Christ, and have set up in its place the Sacrifice of the Mass, that was devised by men. And this is the difference between a Sacrament and a Sacrifice, that the formal reason of a Sacrifice consists in this, that in it men offer something to God; and God receives something from men: But the formal reason of a Sacrament is in this, that God offers something to men by visible signes, and men receive it from God, on the conditions and manner that he offers it. In this Supper God offers Christ unto us for our spiritual nourishment; and we receive Christ as the food of our soules, by eating and drinking of him by faith. Hence the popish Mass is a meer stranger to Christ's institution, while they ⟨p. 190⟩make its principal use to be a Sacrifice for the quick and the dead; and while they officiate their private Masses, wherein the people neither eat nor drink; while in the publick Masses, they take away the cup from the people, so that though they eat in some sort, yet they drink in no manner; while they hold up the Host, or Sacrifice; that is, the consecrated bread and wine, rather to be adored and worshiped, than to be eaten, or drunk; while lastly, they do all this in an unknown tongue, so that the people cannot understand, either what, or how they should eat, or drink.