...were thought to be neceffary to fahation. It is too early to look for the notion of the tranfmutation of the bread and wine into the real body and blood of Chrift, but we find even in this early age language fo highly figurative (calling the fymbols by the...

...Luther and his Followers, though they rejected the Romish doctrine of transubstantiation [the conversion of the bread and wine into the real body and blood of Christ} were nevertheless of opinion that the Partakers of the Lord's Supper, received, together with the bread...

...ceremonies were a medium, they proceeded to the .Supper. This was an insurmountable rock. Changing the bread and wine into the real body and blood of Christ, replacing the host, carrying it about, and other superstitious practices, were rejected. This was considered,...

...church of Rome, from superstitious views of the ordinance, and false ideas of the miraculous conversion of the bread and wine into the real body and blood of Christ, ought to be rejected along with the superstitious service. The ceremonies accompanying this christian...

...their ancient principle. They condemned the absurdity, if not impiety, of the actual transmutation of the bread and wine into the real body and blood of the Son of God ; but, in a language not much more clear and comprehensible, maintained that this precious...

...of the latter implied, that the body of Christ was digested in the stomach, and was thrown out. with the other excrements. But this consequence was quickly...their mutual reproaches, most wretchedly founded, show rather a spirit of invective, than a zeal for the truth. The charge of slercoranism is but a malignant...

...Transubstantiation does not only involve the many abominations stated in Article 28th ; but, pretending to convert the bread and wine into the real body and blood of Christ, proceeds to insist upon the fact, that it is then offered up by the Priest as an atonement before God....

...was carried to such a height, that finally the doctrine of transubstantiation,* or the actual change of the bread and wine into the real body and blood of Christ, by the consecration of the priest, was instilled by the clergy, on the spurious authority of papal...

...particularly used for the act of the priest who celebrates the mass, by which he is considered as changing the bread and wine into the real body and blood of Christ. There was formerly a warm contest between the Greek and Roman Catholic churches on this subject ; the...

...particularly used for the act of the priest who celebrates the mass, by which he is considered as changing the bread and wine into the real body and blood of Christ. There was formerly a warm contest between the Greek and Roman Catholic churches on this subject ; die...