A27107:861
The practice of piety directing a Christian how to walk, that he may please…
The practice of piety directing a Christian how to walk, that he may please God / amplified by the author
London: printed for Edward Brewster, 1695
No title page in the transcription: set from the catalogue record.
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.
Of the seventh end of the Lord's-Supper.
7. To bind all Christians, as it were, by an* oath of fidelity, to serve the one only true God; and to admit no other propitiatory sacrifice for sins, but that one real sacrifice, which by his death Christ once offered, and by which he finished the sacrifices of the Law, and effected eternal Redemption and Righteousness for all believers. And so to remain for ever a public mark of profession, to distinguish Christians from all Sects and false Religions. And seeing that in the M•ss there is a strange Christ adored, not he that was born of the Virgin Mary, but one that is made of a Wafer Cake; and that the offering up of this breaden god is thrust upon the Church, as a Propitiatory Sacrifice for the quick and the dead: all true Christians upon the danger of wilful perjury before ⟨p. 329⟩the Lord Chief Justice of heaven and earth, are to detest the Mass, as the Idol of Indignation, which is most derogatory to the all-sufficient world-saving merits of Christ's Death and Passion. For by receiving the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, we all swear that all real Sacrifices are ended by our Lord's death, and that his body and blood once crucified and shed, is the perpetual food and nourishment of our Souls.
7. To bind all Christians, as it were, by an* oath of fidelity, to serve the one only true God; and to admit no other propitiatony sacrifice for sins, but that one real sacrifice, which by his death Christ once offered, and by which he finish•d the sacrifices of the Law, and effected eternal Redemption and Righteousness for all believers. And so to remain for ever a publick mark of profession, to distinguish Christians from all Sects and false Religions. And seeing that in the Mss there is a strange Christ adored, not he that was born of the Virgin Mary, but one that is made of a Wafer Cake; and that the offering up of this breaden god is thrust upon the Church, as a Propitiatory Scrifice for the quick and the dead: all true Christians upon the danger of wilful perjury before