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 CHA,. �I.] HALIt COMMUNION. belongs us much to the laity as to the clergy. It is the blood sbd for die remission of sins, not only of the jx'/t, but of the kz/ty. 2. By the drinking of the cup, they remsmkerd CAr/st's b/sod bd for them, and which siMmsdfortA A/ dezt Now since these reasons do equally concern all Christians, the drinking of the cup, by which this comme- moration is to be made, must equally concern them, for certainly the means which Christ appointed for such an institution ought to be pur- sued by all who are obliged to pursue that end. And ff St. Paul re- proved the Corinthians for varying from the original institution in their manner of celebrating it, what would he have said to them had they varied as the Romaniota do, in leaving out altogether one haw of this sacrament ? 5. Without the cup there can be no sacrament at all, and therefore the eucharist is not, strictly speaking, celebrated in the Church of Rome. The following admirable quotation from Dr. Adam Clarke on the eucharist will set this in a very clear light: "With respect to the bread, he had before simply said, Take, fat, thi i my Aody; but con- earning the cup he says,  yea// o,f t/; for as this pointed out the very fe,ce of the institution, namely, the blood of atonement, it was necessary that each should have a particular application of it; therefore he says,  ye ALL OF THS. By tb_ we are taught that the cup is essential to the sacrament of the Lord's supper; so that they who deny the cup to the people, sin against God's institution; and th who receive not the cup, are not partakers of the body and blood Christ. If either could, without mortal prejudice, be omitted, it might be the bread; but the cup, as pointing out the blood poured out, that is, the life, by which alone the great sacrificial act is performed, and remission of sins procured, is absolutely indispensable. On this ground it is demonstrable, that there is not a popish priest under hea- ven who denies the cup to the people (and they all do this) that can be said to celebrate the Lord's 8upper at all; nor is there one of their rotaries that ever received the holy sacrament! All pretension to this is an absolute farce, so long as the cup, the emblem of the stoning Mood, is denied. How strange it is, that the very men who plead 8o much for the bare literal meaning of, TA/r/ my body, in the preceding verse, should deny all meaning to,  y# al/ of th/s cup, in this verse ! And though Christ has in the moat positive manner enjoined it, they will not permit one 01 r the laity to taste it! 0 what a thing is roans. a constant contradiction to reason and to himsell*. The conclu- sion, therefore, is unavoidable. The sacrament of the Lord's 8upper is not celebrated in the Church of Rome. Should not this be made known to the miserable deluded Catholics over the face of the earth ?" 6. As it regards the practice of the primitive church, nothing is more clear than that thLq acrament was constantly administered in both kinds. We might except, however, the Manicbean heretics, who con- sidered the wine in the sacrament as abominable, because they believed that wine was not created of (od, but was made by the devil. It thereforo appears that the corrupted Church of Rome, with all their claims to infallibility, have adopted at least a part of the Manicbean heresy. The rst introduction of this innovation in the Church of Rome, and that is the onlr church in which it is tolerated, was in the year 1415, 1 Digitize b(OOl�

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