A26957:42
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
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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.
5. Also it is an impious profanation of the Sacrament, if any Priest for the love of filthy lucre, shall give it to those that ought not to receive it, that he may have his Fees or Offerings; or, that the Priest may have so much money that is bequeathed for the saying a Mass for such or such a Soul.
5. Also it is an impious prophanation of the Sacrament, if any Priest for the love of filthy lucre, shall give it to those that ought not to receive it, that he may have his Fees or Offerings; or, that the Priest may have so much money that is bequeathed for the saying a Mass for such or such a Soul.
6. And it is odious profanation of the Sacrament, to use it as a League or Bond of Faction, to gather persons in to the party, and tie them fast to it, that they may depend upon the Priest, and his Faction and Innerest may thereby be strengthened, and he may seem to have many followers.
6. And it is odious prophanation of the Sacrament, to use it as a League or Bond of Faction, to gather persons in to the party, and tie them fast to it, that they may depend upon the Priest, and his Faction and Inerest may thereby be strengthned, and he may seem to have many followers.
7. And it is a dangerous abuse of it, to receive it, that you may be pardoned, or sanctified, or saved, barely by the work done, or by the outward exercise alone. As if God were there obliged to give you Grace, while you strive not with your own hearts, to stir them up to love, or desire, or faith, or obedience, by the means that are before you; or as if God would ⟨p. 9⟩