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 80 8&�it!FICE elf TRB MASS. ["BOOK IL For this wonderful transubstamistion the following curious reason is assigned: "That we might receive of Christ's nature what he had received of oucs." The word transubstantiation was first used by Ste- phen, bishop. of Augustodunum, about 1100. The word so pleased Innocent that he inserted it in hs decteac propooed to the council. These decrees or canons, though not ordained by the council, obtained reputation by being inserted among the decretals of Gregory IX., which was done, not in the name of the council, but in the name of lhnocent. These canons were first published under the name of the Lateran Council in 1538, by John Coclda*os. But the article was de- termined at Rome by a council of fifty-four bishelm, thirty-six years after the nominal Council of Lateran. And therefore it was the Council of Trent, in 1551, which authoritatively established transub- stantiation. CHAPTER �. SACRIFICE OF THE MASS. 1. Their doeuiuo de6uod. Council of Trent quoted: 2. Use of tim wed emprise: $. The oac14fice of the tone not authorized by our Lord's institution, o tny other Ms .s. of Scripture. Came of Melchisedc: 4. It is contrary to Scriptroe: 5. It za Injurtol2s to the sacrifice of Christ: 6. It is Irbmu8 and inhunmu: 7. It8 �etebratioi in Latin is unacriptural: 8. The Church of Rome maltes the nm �matter of gain: 9. Extrac from the Miami. 1. To understand properly what Roman Catholics understand by the sacrifice of the mass, we must consider that they believe, that in the sacrament of the eucharist are contained truly, really, and substantially, the. body and blood, soul and divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ; that is to say, the whole Christ. And the sacrillce of the mass is offering Mm up to God as a propitiatory sacrifice both for the living and the de.d, in as true a manner as he was offered on the cross at Jerusalem; and that it is equally meritorious as his first sacrifice was. This doc- trine the Church of Rome teaches as an article of faith, and requires all her members to assent to it on pain of damnation. We will quote the canons of the Council of Trent on this subject; and although the first and third canons contain the essence of the doctrine_ of the mass, we will quote the nine canons entire, as one will aid in explaining the others. "Cao 1. If any one shall say-, that a true and proper sacrifice is not offered to God in the mass; or that what is to be offered is nothing else than giving Christ to us to eat; let him be accursed. "2. If any one shall say, that by these words, ' Do this for a com- memoration of me,' Christ did not appoint his apesties priests, or did not or,in that they and other priests should offer his body and blood; let him be accursed. "3. If any one shall say, that the mass is only a service of praise anl thanksgiving, or a bare commemoration of the sacrhfice made on the arose, and not a propitiatory offering; or that it only benefits him who receives it, and ought not to be offered for the living and the dead, for sins, punishments, satisfactions, and other necessities; let him be accursed. 1

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