i ARTICLE XXVIII. OF THE LORD'S SUPPER. k a THE participation of the Lord's Supper is " sign of the love, that Christians ought to have among themselves, one of another;" it is a badge of Christian charity and brotherly kindness, and of our adherence to the Christian Faith. It is a Sacrament of our Redemption by Christ's death. The sacramental Bread' and Wine do not change their nature, they are still bread and wine, symbolical representations of Christ's body broken, and blood shed, for the Redemption of all men. The Scriptures prove, that we "live by the i Hooker's Eccl. Pol. 1. 1. § 67. Jewel's Def. Apol. p. 2. c. 12. Div. 1. 1 Cor. x. 17. k Matt. xxvi. 26, 27, 28. Luke xxii. 19, 20. Nowel's Cat. p. 150. 1 Mark xiv. 25. 1 Cor. xi. 26, 27, 28. Jewel's Reply, Art. 5. 10. 25, 26. Justin Jewel, p. 2. c. 13. Div. 1. m Homily of the Sacrament. p. 2. c. 15. Div. 1 Jewel's Reply, Art. 7, 8, 2. Faith of the Son of God;" they in no place mention that the sacramental elements are to be "carried about, lifted up, or worshipped." This Article was the twenty-ninth of those of 1552. The last part of the second paragraph, beginning" but is," was substituted instead of the following in the former Article; "but it is repugnant to the plain words of Scripture, and hath given occasion to many superstitions." The next paragraph, beginning "The Body of Christ," &c. was substituted instead of," Since the very Being of human nature doth require, that the Body of one and the same man, cannot be at one and the same time in many places, but of necessity must be in some certain and determinate place; therefore, the Body of Christ cannot be present in many different places at the same time. And, since (as the Holy Scriptures testify) Christ hath been taken up into Heaven, and there is to abide till the end of the world; it becometh not any of the Faithful to believe or profess, that there is a real or corporeal presence (as they phrase it) of the Body and Blood of Christ in the Holy Eucharist." ARTICLE XXIX. OF THE WICKED, WHICH EAT NOT THE BODY OF CHRIST IN THE USE OF THE LORD's Supper. THIS Article is naturally a consequence of the last. The Body and Blood of Christ can only be received by Faith; the wicked, therefore, who are destitute of Faith," can have no spiritual communion in the participation of this Sacrament. The Article is almost in the words of St. Augustine. It was not among the Articles, published in 1552. n 1 John i. 6, 7. 1 Cor. xi. 29. Nowel's Cat. p. 153, 154. St. August. In Johan. Tract. 26. ARTICLE XXX. OF BOTH KINDS. No reason can be shewn, P that the Blood of the Covenant, under the sacramental element of wine, is not as necessary for one Christian, as for another. At a Convocation held in 1 Edward VI., it was agreed, that the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper should be received in both kinds, by the Laity as well as the Clergy. There was nothing however upon this subject in the Articles of 1552; and this Article, as well as the preceding, was added in 1562. Luke xxii. 19, 20. Jewel's Def. Apol. p. 2. c. 12. Hammond's Pract. Cat. 1. 6. § 4. P Matt. xxvi. 27. 1 Cor. xi. 26, 27, 28. - Field, p. 193. Justin Martyr, Apol. 1. c. 85. Ignatius, Ep. ad ARTICLE XXXI. OF ONE OBLATION OF CHRIST FINISHED UPON THE CROSS. THE doctrine affirmed in this Article is proved by various passages of Scripture; that Christ ¶ once offered himself, "the just for the unjust," for all the sins of the whole world; and that there is no other satisfaction for sin. Masses are here declared to be "blasphemous Fables and dangerous deceits;" in attempting to change bread into a living Body, in pronouncing the Mass to be made one and the same sacrifice, with the "one oblation of Christ upon the Cross ;" and in saying, that the Mass is profitable for the living and the dead. They encourage "dangerous deceits," because they induce the belief, that creatures may be adored, that Christ is frequently offered, that sins are forgiven without blood, and that Faith is not necessary in Communicants. 9 Heb. x. 10. 26. 1 John ii. 2. Heb. ix. 22. 25, 26. Nowel's Cat. p. 152, 153. Jewel's Reply, Art. 17. Prideaux, Fasc. Cont. c. 6. Q. 6. Field, p. 203. 335. Ignatius ad Smyrn. Irenæus, lib. Ibid. 1. 5. c. 9. Cyprian. Ep. 63. 3. c. 18. |