A60427:116
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.
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 1quintessence and sweetness of the Twelve. Therefore who but Antichrist durst deprave it? If there be a satisfaction for our sins by Works, or by Pilgrimages, or by our Masses, or by our Penance, let Christ never be called a Forgiver, but an Exchanger, like the Pope, which selleth his Pardons.
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 stedfast 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 1quintessence and sweetness of the Twelve. Therefore who but Antichrist durst deprave it? If there be a satisfaction for our sins by Works, or by Pilgrimages, or by our Masses, or by our Penance, let Christ never be called a Forgiver, but an Exchanger, like the Pope, which selleth his Pardons.
- 1The merciful article.
Wretched creatures which will not receive the Lord, when he comes to their door. Christ saith; Take for nothing, and they 1