A26957:39
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.
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. 1 Cor. 15. 3. 2 Cor. 5. 14, 15. Heb. 9. 26. and 10. 12, 26. and 9. 24.
3. Nor is it any better than odious impiety to receive the Sacrament, to confirm some Confederacies or Oaths of Secrecy, for rebellions or other unlawful designs; as the Powder-Plotters in England did.
3. Nor is it any better than odious impiety to receive the Sacrament, to confirm some Confederacies or Oaths of Secresie, for rebellions or other unlawful designs; as the Powder-Plotters in England did.
4. Nor is it any other than impious profanation of these sacred Mysteries for the Priest to constrain or suffer notoriously ignorant, and ungodly persons, to receive them, either to make themselves believe that they are indeed the Children of God,