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Furthermore, The Altar is greater than the Gift. But no man is so desperately blind as to say, That the Sacramental Bread and Wine are not as Great and as Good, as the Board which they stand upon.

I confess, The Ancients would sometimes, use that Unscriptural Term of an Altar, for the Communion Table, […] they were in a more Loose, Wanton, Extravagant Manner, expressing of themselves, and •o they called it, The Throne of Christ. B•• their dangerous Metaphors have done more than a little harm to the Church of God. And yet, even Origen and Arnobius, and sundry others, do expressly deny, That the Christians had any Altars among them. The Having of Altars, is a thing suited only to the principles of those Gentiles, who account their Mass, a Propitiatory Sacrifice for Quick and Dead. One of the first things in the Reformation, was a Destroying of Altars, with the most Detestable Relics of Popery. To Erect them again, and set them out with all those Massing Furnitures and Fooleries, of Tapers, Candlesticks, Basins, Crosses, Rich Altar-Clothes, clasped Books, with Crosses instead of Books, and Crimson and scarlet Cushions; truly, 'tis too dangerously to undermine the Protestant Religion. But our God will shortly purge His ⟨p. 20⟩Church of such Abominations! 'Tis now time to add,

I confess, The Ancients would sometimes, use that Unscriptural Term of an Altar, for the Communion Table, 〈…〉 they were in a more Loose, Wanton, Extravagant Manner, expressing of themselves, and •o they called it, The Throne of Christ. B•• their dangerous Metaphors have done more than a little harm to the Church of God. And yet, even Origen and Arnobius, and sundry others, do expresly deny, That the Christians had any Altars among them. The Having of Altars, is a thing suited only to the principles of those Gentiles, who account their Mass, a Propitiatory Sacrifice for Quick and Dead. One of the first things in the Reformation, was a Destroying of Altars, with the most Detestable Reliques of Popey. To Erect them again, and set them out with all those Massing Furnitures and Fooleries, of Tapers, Candlesticks, Basons, Crosses, Rich Altar-Cloaths, clasped Books, with Crosses instead of Books, and Crimson and scarlet Cushions; truly, 'tis too dangerously to undermine the Protestant Religion. But our God will shortly purge His