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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.
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 Communicantse, but to none who are not then present in the Congregationf.
IV. Private Masses, or receiving this Sacrament by a Priest, or any other aloneg, as likewise the denial of the Cup to the Peopleh, worshipping the Elements, the lifting them up, or carrying them about for adoration, and the reserving them for any pretended religious use, are all contrary to the nature of this Sacrament, and to the institution of Christi.
IV. Private Masses, or receiving this Sacrament by a Priest, or any other alone