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A vindication of the Animadversions on Fiat lux
A vindication of the Animadversions on Fiat lux wherein the principles of the Roman church, as to moderation, unity and truth are examined and sundry important controversies concerning the rule of faith, papal supremacy, the mass, images, &c. discussed / by John Owen.
London: printed for Ph. Stephens, 1664
A Vindication of the Animadversions on Fiat Lux. › Chapter 19
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10. And which further troubles them, they are jealous that by this your fiction you quite overthrow the Testament of Christ, which certainly no man ought to endeavour the disannulling of. For whereas in this Sacrament believers come to receive from him the great Legacy of his body and blood, with all the fruits of his death and Passion, you direct them to be offering and Sacrificing of them unto God, which quite alters the Will of our great Testator. And very many other things there are, wherein your Countrymen affirm that your Sacrifice is contrary to the faith wherein from Scripture they have been instructed, and that in things of the greatest importance to their Consolation here, and Salvation hereafter.
10. And which further troubles them, they are jealous that by this your fiction you quite overthrow the Testament of Christ, which certainly no man ought to endeavour the disannulling of. For whereas in this Sacrament believers come to receive from him the great Legacy of his body and blood, with all the fruits of his death and Passion, you direct them to be offering and Sacrificing of them unto God, which quite alters the Will of our great Testator. And very many other things there are, wherein your Countreymen affirm that your Sacrifice is contrary to the faith wherein from Scripture they have been instructed, and that in things of the greatest importance to their Consolation here, and Salvation hereafter.
II. Neither is this all: your request also lies cross to your Reason, no less then to your Faith. ⟨p. 473⟩For your Sacrifice cannot be performed, without a Supposition of a change of the substance of the bread and wine into the substance of the body and blood of Christ, and the substance of that body and blood, in every consecrated Host under the species of Bread and Wine, Christ himself alive being in every Host and every particle of it. Hence many things they say ensue, which no man can possibly admit of, without offering violence unto the main Principles of that Reason whereby we are distinguished from the beasts that perish. Some few of them may be instanced in.