Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

290 POFERY CONDEMNED EY
about this time, to find such doctrines flourishing.
The R.'s other testimonies, however, will
not be so readily received.
His next proof is from the acts of the first
Council of Nice ; " Here in the divine table
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let us not be abjectly intent on the bread and
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cup exposed to view: but elevating our
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minds by faith let us understand that the
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Lamb
of God, who taketh away the sins of
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the world, is placed on the sacred table ; that
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he is, in an unbloody manner, sacrificed by
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the Priests ; and that we truly receiving his
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precious body and blood believe them to be
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the symbols of our resurrection ; for this we
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don't receive much but little, that we may
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know that they are not received to satiety, but
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to sanctification *."
'i he R. must have been sadly puzzled to find
proof for transubstantiation, when he rests it on
these words. When these Fathers said, " Let
" us not be abjectly intent on the bread and cup
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exposed to view," they seem to have imagined
that something more than the bare appearance
of these elements remain. In order to have discovered
due orthodoxy, they ought to have said,
Let us not be abjectly intent on the appearance
of bread and wine exposed to public adoration.
In the opinion of these Fathers, faith also is
requisite
* P. So.