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…

Then came the mercy of God for Christ, which shed his ¹Blood, like an Umpire between God and us, and said as Isaiah said to Hezechia, ^*Thou shalt not die, but live, loose him and let him go, for he is mine. So we were stayed like the Widows Son, when he was carried to his grave. This is the benefit of Christs death, and this Sacrament is the remembrance of it, and therefore whensoever we receive it, this addition cometh with it, Which is shed for the remission of sins: Our fault was so heinous and grievous, that no Ransom could countervail it, unless God himself had suffered for us.

Then came the mercy of God for Christ, which shed his ¹Blood, like an Umpire between God and us, and said as Esay said to Hezechia, ^*Thou shalt not die, but live, loose him and let him go, for he is mine. So we were stayed like the Widows Son, when he was carried to his grave. This is the benefit of Christs death, and this Sacrament is the remembrance of it, and therefore whensoever we receive it, this addition cometh with it, Which is shed for the remission of sins: Our fault was so heinous and grievous, that no Ransom could countervail it, unless God himself had suffered for us.

1. 1His words are not so, but the effect of his words.
2. *Kings 20. 5 Luk. 7. 15. Matt. 26. 28.

Being in this extremity, neither Man, nor Angel, offered his Life for us, but the Prince himself, which should have crucified us, came to be crucified of us for us, that we might say with steadfast saith, I believe the remission of sins, not the satisfaction of sins, but the remission of sins. Mark this distinction against Popish Merits of Works or Penance, Christ hath satisfied and not we, we are remitted, and not Christ; therefore we say in our Confession, I believe the remission of sins, which I may call the