A60427:110
Transubstantiation examined and confuted in two sermons on the Lord's Supper / preached in…Transusbstantiation examin'd and confuted in two sermons on the Lord's Supper / preach'd in…
Transubstantiation examined and confuted in two sermons on the Lord's Supper / preached in the reign of Queen Elizabeth by H. Smith, sometime preacher at St. Clement Danes.Transusbstantiation examin'd and confuted in two sermons on the Lord's Supper / preach'd in the reign of Queen Elizabeth by H. Smith, sometime preacher at St. Clement Danes.
London: printed by J. Wallis, 1688
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.
Now you shall hear their additions to the Sacrament: Look upon their Vestures, and their Gestures, and their Altars, and their Pyx, and their Incense, and their Becks, and their Nods, and their Turnings, all this is more than Christ did: and therefore the Prophet may say again, Who hath required this of you? 1Did Christ command you to do more than he did, and not do as he did? Therefore let them which have eyes to see, be thankful for their light, when they hear how blind they were whom God gave over to be seduced.
Now you shall hear their additions to the Sacrament: Look upon their Vestures, and their Gestures, and their Altars, and their Pix, and their Incense, and their Becks, and their Nods, and their Turnings, all this is more than Christ did: and therefore the Prophet may say again, Who hath required this of you? 1Did Christ command you to do more than he did, and not do as he did? Therefore let them which have eyes to see, be thankful for their light, when they hear how blind they were whom God gave over to be seduced.
The fruit of this Sacrament is noted in these words, which is 1broken for you, which is shed for you, that is (as Matthew interpreteth) shed for the remission of sins. As all was made for us, so 2all which Christ spake, he spake for us, and all which Christ suffered, he suffered for us, that the sins of men might be forgiven, and yet so few apprehend this benefit, that the way to Heaven is called A narrow way, as though all these pains did