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The Protestant religion truly stated and justified by the late Reverend Mr. Richard BaxterThe Protestant religion truely stated and justified by the late Reverend Mr. Richard Baxter
The Protestant religion truly stated and justified by the late Reverend Mr. Richard Baxter ; prepared for the press some time before his death ; whereunto is added, by way of preface, some account of the learned author, by Mr. Daniel Williams and Mr. Matthew Sylvester.The Protestant religion truely stated and justified by the late Reverend Mr. Richard Baxter ; prepared for the press some time before his death ; whereunto is added, by way of preface, some account of the learned author, by Mr. Danel Williams and Mr. Matthew Sylvester.
London: printed for John Salusbury, 1692
Protestant Religion Truly Stated, and Justified, &c. › The Fortieth accused Point.
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.
These words do so plainly say, it is bread after the Consecration, and do so plainly require all to drink of the Cup, as well as to eat of the Bread, that the Infallible Clergy are fain to accuse the Light of Darkness, the Text of deceitful Obscurity, till the Pope and his Prelates have expounded it, by giving it the Lye: Just ⟨p. 138⟩like the Knave in Ignoramus's Play, that Proclaimed the man to be Mad, from whom he intended to extort Money, that is, for binding and abusing him. What is it to proclaim Christ and Paul to be Fools, that could not speak Sense, if this be not?
But the Doctors have also contradictions to charge on Christ, even that else-where he saith, [He that eateth his Flesh shall live for ever:] Ans. 1. That is, He that trusteth in a Sacrificed Christ as the means of his Salvation, as bread is the means of natural Life: He that would not understand, cannot understand the plainest Words: But doth Christ say, that any man eateth his flesh, that drinketh not his blood? Or that he shall have Life, that doth the one without the other?
2. And seeing they take every Rogue that eateth their Wafer to eat Christs Flesh, do they not here falsely say that all such shall have Eternal Life: O happy (miserable) Church, that hath Eternal Life, how wicked soever, for eating the Wafer, and calling it Christs Flesh! And all this, that Faith may not be thought to be meant by eating.
2. And seeing they take every Rogue that eateth their Wafer to eat Christs Flesh, do they not here falsly say that all such shall have Eternal Life: O happy (miserable) Church, that hath Eternal Life, how wicked soever, for eating the Wafer, and calling it Christs Flesh! And all this, that Faith may not be thought to be meant by eating.