Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

SCRIPTURE AND THE FATHERS. 281
" name, I will come unto thee, and I will bless
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thee*."
But Papists have not been satisfied with the
presence of Christ in the eucharist. To meet
their views, he must not only be present, but
formed out of bread and wine by the consecration
of a priest. No sooner does'the priest pronounce
certain words, than the nature of these
elements is changed, and they become that very
body which was born of the virgin Mary :
And
what is no less extraordinary, this change is entirely
dependent on the priest's intention. Though
he repeat the words of consecration a thousand
times,
if he do not wish to bestow Christ's body
and blood upon the members of the Church,
they can only receive bread and wine,
and must
remain unconscious of the wickedness of their
clergyman and their want of Christ, till puro-atory
or hell make them feel the imposition.
The Council of Trent have, with great propriety,
declared transubstantiation to be a " won-
" derful" conversion. It never fails to beget
admiration in Protestants, as well as Papists.
li we cannot admire the conversion, we wonder
most an^ply at
in believing it.
the amazing credulity of Papists
For this we have been branded
with the name of heretics, an epithet whicii
stinks like carrion in the nostrils of the simple
faithful J
and, by a natural association of idea,
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reminds
* Excd. xx. 24.