Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

286 POPERY CONDEMNED BY
for the language of the scriptures. Obscure
and crabbed as they are, they exhibit some
truths with tolerable perspicuity. Among others,
they teach us to reject the doctrine of transubstantiation
; they instruct us to call the bread
and wine, even after consecration, by their former
names : "As often as ye eat this bready
" and drink this cup^ ye do shew the Lord's
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death till he come."
Perhaps a recurrence to the original institution
of the Supper may have a farther tendency
to elucidate this subject. The first dispensation
of this ordinance was by Christ himself, who
then said to his disciples, *' Take, eat ; this is
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my body.'* Now, though we can easily conceive
how he could give them bread and wine,
it must require extraordinary exertions of mind
to believe, that the very body born of the virgin
Mary held itself in its own hand, and gave itself
out of its own hand. The disciples would,
without doubt, be astonished, when Christ's
body became invisible, by passing into the elements
; nor would their surprise be diminished,
when they were addressed by him under the appearance
of bread and wine.
But, if Christ was eaten and digested by these
primitive commiunicants, let the R. inform us,
with what body he was afterward crucified.
The dissolution of a bodv, and its non-existence
as a body, are synonymous expressions.
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