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…

If Christ in this Sacrament were offered indeed, then it should ¹be called a Sacrifice, as his once offering was: but because it is but a remembrance of his Sacrifice, therefore it is called a Sacrament. This is not a Sacrifice of Christ, but a Sacrifice of our selves. Least we should take it to be a Sacrifice of Christ, Christ himself calleth it a remembrance of his Sacrifice, Do this in my remembrance.

If Christ in this Sacrament were offered indeed, then it should ¹be called a Sacrifice, as his once offering was: but because it is but a remembrance of his Sacrifice, therefore it is called a Sacrament. This is not a Sacrifice of Christ, but a Sacrifice of our selves. Least we should take it to be a Sacrifie of Christ, Christ himself calleth it a remembrance of his Sacrifice, Do this in my remembrance.

1. 1If Christ's body were in the Sacrament, it were not a Sacrament but a Sacrifice.

Here is our work, as Christ hath done, so must we do, so we Minister, and so you Receive, we can give you nothing but that which we have received from him, as Paul saith. Therefore if Christ did not give his mortal Body which stood before them, and could not profit them; nor his glorified body, which was not glorified then, and when it was glorified, ascended up into Heaven, and there abideth: How can these juggling Priests make their God again, which made them? They can no more turn Wine into Blood, and Bread into Flesh, than they can command a Gnat to be a Camel; for it is a greater Work to make God, than to make the World. Therefore as Christ ¹saith, When they tell you here is Christ, or there is Christ, believe them not: So when they tell you that Christ is in Heaven, and ²