A25467:1171
A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolvedA Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved
A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolved by sundry ministers in October, 1682.A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved by sundry ministers in October, 1682.
London: printed by J.A. for John Dunton, 1683
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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.
Because there is a singular Mystery in the Sacramental Union that is between the external Signs and the things signified, whence the one is called by the Name of the other, as the Bread is called the Body of Christ, which Faith discerns in the Exhibition and Receiving of it, they have invented for a Representation hereof, such a prodigious Imagination of the real Conversion or Transubstantiation of the Substance of the Bread and Wine into the Substance of the Body and Blood of Christ, as overthrows all Faith, Reason, and Sense also.
Because there is a singular Mystery in the Sacramental Ʋnion that is between the external Signs and the things signified, whence the one is called by the Name of the other, as the Bread is called the Body of Christ, which Faith discerns in the Exhibition and Receiving of it, they have invented for a Representation hereof, such a prodigious Imagination of the real Conversion or Transubstantiation of the Substance of the Bread and Wine into the Substance of the Body and Blood of Christ, as overthrows all Faith, Reason, and Sence also.
And in the room of that Holy Reverence of Christ himself in his Institution of this Ordinance, in the Mystical Exhibition of himself unto the Souls of Believers, in the demonstration of his Love, Grace, and Sufferings for them, they have set up a wretched Image of an Idolatrous Adoration and Worship of the Host, as they call it, to the Ruin of the Souls of men.
And in the room of that Holy Reverence of Christ himself in his Institution of this Ordinance, in the Mystical Exhibition of himself unto the Souls of Believers, in the demonstration of his Love, Grace, and Sufferings for them, they have set up a wretched Image of an Idolatrous Adoration and Worship of the Host, as they call it, to the Ruine of the Souls of men.