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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.
And surely, as he which defaceth the Queens Seal is convicted of Contempt and Treason to her own Person; so he which profaneth the Seals of Christ, doth not Worship Christ, but despite him, and that contempt shall be required of him, as if he had contemned Christ himself. This is the Reason why Christ calleth the signs of his body his body, to make us take this Sacrament reverently, because we are apt to contemn it, as the Jews did their Manna.
And surely, as he which defaceth the Queens Seal is convicted of Contempt and Treason to her own Person; so he which prophaneth the Seals of Christ, doth not Worship Christ, but despite him, and that contempt shall be required of him, as if he had contemned Christ himself. This is the Reason why Christ calleth the signs of his body his body, to make us take this Sacrament reverently, because we are apt to contemn it, as the Jews did their Manna.
It followeth; Do this in remembrance of me: That is, these 1Signs shall be a remembrance of my Death: When you break the Bread you shall remember the wounding of my body, and when you drink the Wine you shall remember the shedding of my blood. If we do this in remembrance of Christ's body, which was broken like the Bread, it is an Argument that his body is not there, because remembrance is not of things present, but of things absent; we remember not, but we see that which is before us. This might put the Papists in remembrance that Christ is not Sacrificed now, when we do but remember his Sacrifice; this is not Christ's Sacrifice, but a remembrance of his Sacrifice: he was Sacrificed before, and now it is applied, lest his Sacrifice should be in vain. This was done once really, when he offered himself upon the Cross, therefore that offering was called a Sacrifice, because he was sacrificed indeed; but this offering is called a Sacrament, because it is but a sign of his Sacrifice.
- 1Verse 24.