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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 One and 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.
3. We know that all Christians are bound to dedicate themselves to God, and even to lay down their Lives when he requireth it; and bound to offer him penitent Confession, Praise, Thanksgiving, and to give Alms to the poor, and serve and honour him with all their Wealth and Power. And all these are called Sacrifices in Scripture, because they are sacred oblations, acceptable to God through the merits of Christs Sacrifice.
Is not this man a Calumniator then, that faith we hold, [that there is not in the Church a true and proper Sacrifice,] unless he call none true and proper but what no man can offer to God.
But what say we to the Sacrifice of the Mass? We say, that for the Priest to pretend that after his words, Bread is turned into Christs Flesh in a Physical sense, and Wine into his Blood, and that this is our God, and that he sacrificeth this God to God, and eateth and drinketh him so sacrificed, and that all that so receive him have Eternal Life: This is a profanation of Holy things, a deceiving of Souls, a ⟨p. 145⟩blaspheming of Christ, and Idolatry against God. And all sacrificing in their Mass, that is more than a Representation of Christs own sacrificing himself, for Commemoration and Communication of the gifts of his Testament, and the expression of our Gratitude, and Devotedness to God by him, is their own profane invention.
But what say we to the Sacrifice of the Mass? We say, that for the Priest to pretend that after his words, Bread is turned into Christs Flesh in a Physical sence, and Wine into his Blood, and that this is our God, and that he sacrificeth this God to God, and eateth and drinketh him so sacrificed, and that all that so receive him have Eternal Life: This is a prophanation of Holy things, a deceiving of Souls, a