...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...

...consequence was quickly retorted upon those that imagined it ; for they who denied the metamorphosis of the bread and wine into the real body and blood...to the latter than to the former. The truth of the nrulter is, that it was neither truly applicable to the one nor to the other, and their mutual reproaches,...

...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...

...this consequence was quickly retorted upon those that imagined it ; for they who denied the conversion of the bread and wine into the real body and blood...antagonists who believed this transmutation ; and the charge certainly was much more applicable to the latter than to the former. The truth is, that it was neither...

...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 ; die...