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The Confession of Faith, and the Larger and Shorter Catechism
The confession of faith ; and, The larger and shorter catechism first agreed upon by the Westminster Assembly of Divines at Westminster, and now approved by the General Assembly of the kirk of Scotland to be a part of uniformity in religion between the kirks of Christ in the three kingdoms.
Edinbourg: printed by George Swinton and Thomas Brown, 1671
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.
II. In this Sacrament Christ is not offered up to his Father: nor, any real Sacrifice made at all, for remission of s•n of the quick or deadb, but only a commemoration of that one, offering up of himself, by himself, upon the Cross, once for all, and a spiritual oblation of all possible praise unto God for the samec. So that, the Popish Sacrifice of the Mass (as they call it) is most abominably injurious to Christs one, only Sacrifice, the only propitiation for all the sins of the electd.
III. The Lord Jesus hath in this Ordinance, appointed his Minister• ⟨p. 68⟩to declare his word of institution to the People, to pray and bless the Elements of Bread and Wine, and thereby to set them apart from a common to a holy use: and to take, and break the Bread, to take the Cup, and (they communicating also themselves) to give both to the Communicants