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Monthly preparations for the Holy Communion by R.B
Monthly preparations for the Holy Communion by R.B. ; to which is added suitable meditations before, in, and after receiving ; with divine hymns in common tunes, fitted for public congregations or private families.Monthly preparations for the Holy Communion by R.B. ; to which is added suitable meditations before, in, and after receiving ; with divine hymns in common tunes, fitted for publick congregations or private families.
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1696
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.
The false mistaken ends, which you must avoid, are these. 1. You must not with the Papists, think that the end of it is to turn Bread into no Bread, and Wine into no Wine, and to make them really the true Body and Blood of Jesus Christ. For if sense (which telleth all Men that it is still Bread and Wine) be not to be believed, then we cannot believe that ever there was a Gospel, or an Apostle, or a Pope, or a Man, or any thing in the World. And the Apostle expressly calleth it Bread three times, in three Verses together, after the Consecration, 1 Cor. 11. 26, 27, 28. and he telleth us, that the use of it is (not to make the Lords Body really present, but) to show the Lords Death till he come; that is, As a visible representing and commemorating sign, to be instead of the Bodily presence till he come.
The false mistaken ends, which you must avoid, are these. 1. You must not with the Papists, think that the end of it is to turn Bread into no Bread, and Wine into no Wine, and to make them really the true Body and Blood of Jesus Christ. For if sense (which telleth all Men that it is still Bread and Wine) be not to be believed, then we cannot believe that ever there was a Gospel, or an Apostle, or a Pope, or a Man, or any thing in the World. And the Apostle expresly calleth it Bread three times, in three Verses together, after the Consecration, 1 Cor. 11. 26, 27, 28. and he telleth us, that the use of it is (not to make the Lords Body really present, but) to shew the Lords Death till he come; that is, As a visible representing and commemorating sign, to be instead of the Bodily presence till he come.
2. Nor must you with the Papists use this Sacrament to sacrifice Christ again ⟨p. 6⟩really unto the Father, to propitiate him for the quick and dead, and ease Souls in Purgatory, and deliver them out of it. For Christ having died once dieth no more, and without killing him, there is no sacrificing him: By once offering up himself, he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified; and now there remaineth no more sacrifice for sin: Having finished the sacrificing work on Earth, he is now passed into the Heavens, to appear before God for his Redeemed ones. Ro. 6. 9.