“Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you. Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life… For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed… It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life. But there are some of you that believe not.”
Jn. 6:53-64
“I am the door…”
Jn. 10:9
“I am the vine, ye are the branches…”
Jn. 15:5
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Subsections
On the 7 Sacraments of Romanism
Works Against the Roman Apologist Bellarmine (who defended the Mass)
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Order of Contents
Articles
Works of the Westminster Divines
The Lord’s Supper is Not a Literal Sacrifice
On Attending the Mass
Romanists’ Taking the Cup Away from the People
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Articles
1500’s
Calvin, John – Of the Popish Mass, how it not only profanes, but annihilates the Supper, in Institutes, book 4, chapter 18
Knox, John – A Vindication of the Doctrine that the Sacrifice of the Mass Is Idolatry 1550, in The Works of John Knox, ed. David Laing, 3:29-70
Ridley, Nicholas
Brief Declaration, or Treatise Against Transubstantiation, in Works of Nicholas Ridley, pp. 1-46
Answer to Certain Queries Touching the Abuses of the Mass, in Works of Nicholas Ridley, pp. 316-318
Ridley (d. 1555) was one of the English Reformers burned at the stake by Bloody Mary.
Beza, Theodore & Antoine de la Faye – Ch. 61, ‘Principles Touching the Popish Mass’ in Propositions and Principles of Divinity Propounded & Disputed in the University of Geneva by Students… (1586)
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1600’s
Cunningham, William – The Popish View of the Lord’s Supper, p. 142, two pages, from his Historical Theology, vol. 2
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Works of the Westminster Divines
Featley, Daniel
A True Relation of that which passed in a conference, at the end of Paternoster-Rowe, called, Amen, Touching Transubstantiation, April 18, 1623, 1624, 32 pages, the pages are numbered: 117-149.
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The Lord’s Supper is Not a Literal Sacrifice
Protestants held rightly, along with Scripture and the Early & Medieval Churches, that the Lord’s Supper may be considered a figurative sacrifice.
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Article
Davenant, John – ‘The Popish Mass is Not a Propitiatory Sacrifice for the Living & the Dead’ in The Determinations, or Resolutions of Certain Theological Questions, Publicly Discussed in the University of Cambridge trans. Josiah Allport (1634; 1846), pp. 283-290 bound at the end of John Davenant, A Treatise on Justification, or the Disputatio de Justitia... trans. Josiah Allport (1631; London, 1846), vol. 2
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On Attending the Mass
1500’s
Bradford, John – The Harm of Attending the Mass, pt. 1 (How Evil the Mass is), 2 (Why it is Sinful), 3 (Objections Answered) (d. 1555; 1561) See the unabridged work here.
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1600’s
Davenant, John – Question 7, ‘Protestants Cannot with a Safe Conscience Attend the Mass’ in The Determinations, or Resolutions of Certain Theological Questions, Publicly Discussed in the University of Cambridge trans. Josiah Allport (1634; 1846), pp. 257-62 bound at the end of John Davenant, A Treatise on Justification, or the Disputatio de Justitia... trans. Josiah Allport (1631; London, 1846), vol. 2
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Romanists’ Taking the Cup Away From the People
1600’s
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Related Pages
All the Works of the Westminster Divines on the Lord’s Supper