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Catholic communion defended against both extremes, and unnecessary division confuted in five parts ...…Catholick communion defended against both extreams, and unnecessary division confuted in five parts ...…
Catholic communion defended against both extremes, and unnecessary division confuted in five parts ... / by Richard Baxter ...Catholick communion defended against both extreams, and unnecessary division confuted in five parts ... / by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1684
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.
But the grand Objection is, that we worship Bread and Wine; which can be no better than a slander, when the very Liturgy and Doctrine of the Church, not only renounce Transubstantiation, but the very real Presence of Christ's Body, which yet many thousand Protestants believe.
Object. But you kneel before the Bread and Wine, and make it a mediate Object of adoration, contrary to the Second Commandment.
Answ. 1. We neither make any Image, nor invent this Medium, nor yet symbolize with Idolaters, while we renounce the very Object (Transubstantiate Bread) which they adore, and therefore break not the Second Commandment, no more ⟨p. 12⟩than we do in kneeling in lawful Prayer, because they kneel in praying before Images, or to Angels.
2. An Object of worship is either a mere motive exciting Object, or else a terminative mediate worshipped Object. The first is more than lawful: For we should be moved and stirred up by the works of God, even by our Meat and Drink, by Sun and Moon, and all that we see, to worship God: And this is properly but the Object of our thoughts, and the motive of our outward acts: And the Sacrament is no more. But if we did direct our worship terminatively to the Bread and Wine, as a mediate Object, by which it should pass to God, this were to break the Second Commandment, like Image-worship.