“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
7 Sacraments of Romanism
Works Against Bellarmine on the Mass
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Order of Contents
Articles 6+
Book 1
Historical Theology 1
Latin 3
Supper: Not a Literal Sacrifice 1
Attending the Mass 2
Removing the Cup 2
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Articles
1500’s
Zwingli, Ulrich – ‘The Mass’ in II. ‘Reply to Emser’ in Commentary on True & False Religion eds. Jackson & Heller (1525; Labyrinth Press, 1981), pp. 392-94
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 – Works of Nicholas Ridley (d. 1555; Cambridge Univ. Press, 1841)
Brief Declaration, or Treatise Against Transubstantiation, pp. 1-46
Answer to Certain Queries Touching the Abuses of the Mass, pp. 316-18
Ridley (d. 1555) was one of the English Reformers burned at the stake by Bloody Mary.
Vermigli, Peter Martyr – The Common Places… (d. 1562; London: Henrie Denham et al., 1583)
pt. 4, ch. 12, ‘Of the Mass’ 215
‘Of Sacrifice’ 220
‘Another Common Place of Sacrifice’ 223
‘Of Altars’ 225
Discourses
’Whether the Mass be a Sacrifice’ 132-37
Calvin, John – ch. 18, ‘Of the Popish Mass, how it Not Only Profanes, but Annihilates the Supper’ in Institutes (1559), bk. 4
Bullinger, Henry – 12. ‘Of the Sacrifice of the Mass’ in Questions of Religion Cast Abroad in Helvetia [Switzerland] by the Adversaries of the Same, & Answered… tr. John Coxe (1560; London, 1572), pp. 103-8
Musculus, Wolfgang – Common Places of the Christian Religion (1560; London, 1563)
‘Popish Mass’ 330.b
Of the Substance of the Mass 351.b
Whether the priest when he sings mass do play the mediator between God and the Church 331.b
Whether the body and blood of Christ be offered to God the Father at the Mass 332.b
Whether that by the mass all kind of good things be obtained of God and whether the forgiveness of sins be bestowed with all the merit of Christ’s death 336.b
The Second part of the Popish mass, of the accessory errors and abuses thereof 340.a
Things necessary to the priest 340.b
Things necessary to the action of the mass 341.a
Of the canon of the popish mass 345.a
Of the outward abuses of the popish mass 347.a
Viret, Pierre – A Christian Instruction… (London: Veale, 1573)
The Sum of the Principal Points of the Christian Faith
The Summary of the Christian Doctrine, set forth in Form of Dialogue & of Catechism
To wit whether the bread & the wine be converted into the body and blood of Jesus Christ in the Supper
Of the presence of the body and blood of Jesus Christ in the Supper
A Familiar Exposition of the Principal Points of the Catechism, and of the Christian Doctrine, made in Form of Dialogue
Of things without the which the Sacraments cannot be Sacraments
Of things to Consider in the signs, and in the signification of them, in all Sacraments
Of the Agreement that is between this opinion & that, of transubstantiation
18th Dialogue
Ursinus, Zachary – Against the Transubstantiation of the Papists in The Sum of Christian Religion: Delivered… in his Lectures upon the Catechism… tr. Henrie Parrie (Oxford, 1587), Of the Lord’s Supper, 4. What is the sense or meaning of the words of the institution of our Lord’s Supper
Beza, Theodore, Anthony Faius & Students – 61. ‘Of the Popish Mass’ in Propositions & Principles of Divinity Propounded & Disputed in the University of Geneva by Certain Students of Divinity there, under Mr. Theodore Beza & Mr. Anthony Faius… (Edinburgh: Waldegrave, 1591), pp. 185-89
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1600’s
Junius, Francis – ‘On the Mass’ tr. Charles Johnson (d. 1602) as quoted in Johannes Hoornbeek, Institutions of Theology, ch. 15, pp. 642-47
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 pp. The pages are numbered: 117-49.
Featley was a Westminster divine.
Gataker was a Westminster divine.
Polyander, Johannes – 46. ‘On the Sacrifice of the Mass & its Abuses’ in Synopsis of a Purer Theology: Latin Text & English Translation Buy (1625; Brill, 2016), vol. 3, pp. 254-306
Leigh, Edward – ch. 10. Of the Mass in A System or Body of Divinity… (London, A.M., 1654), bk. 8, pp. 700-35
Turretin, Francis – Institutes of Elenctic Theology, tr. George M. Giger, ed. James Dennison Jr. (1679–1685; P&R, 1994), vol. 3, 19th Topic
26. ‘Are the words of the Supper to be understood properly and literally (kata to rheton), or figuratively and sacramentally? The former we deny; the latter we affirm against the Romanists and Lutherans.’ 465
27. ‘In the Eucharist, is there an entire conversion of the substance of the bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ; or are the bread and wine, in virtue of the words of consecration, truly transubstantiated into the very body and blood of Christ, the external species only of the bread and wine remaining? We deny against the Romanists.’ 488
28. ‘Is Christ corporeally present in the Eucharist, and is He eaten with the mouth by believers? We deny against the Romanists and Lutherans.’ 505
29. ‘Is an external, real and properly so called sacrifice offered to God in the Eucharist; not only of praise, thanksgiving and commemoration, but a truly propitiatory sacrifice for the sins of the living and the dead? We deny against the Romanists.’ 519
30. ‘Is the worship of latria (or adoration) due to the sacrament of the Eucharist? We deny against the Romanists.’ 538
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Book
1600’s
Featley was a Westminster divine.
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Historical Theology
On the Post-Reformation
Cunningham, William – ‘The Popish View of the Lord’s Supper’ in Historical Theology, vol. 2, pp. 142-43
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Latin
1600’s
Alsted, Johann H. – ch. 27, ‘On the Mass’ in Theological Common Places Illustrated by Perpetual Similitudes (Frankfurt, 1630), pp. 156-63
Voet, Gisbert
Syllabus of Theological Problems (Utrecht, 1643), pt. 1, section 2, tract 5 Abbr.
On Transubstantiation & Consubstantiation
On the Mass-Sacrifice
‘On the Sacrifice of Melchizedek in Gen. 14:18’ in Select Theological Disputations (1669), vol. 5, pp. 526-33
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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. 283-90 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
Books
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