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Rh let him aſk of God,' &c. neither of ſaints nor angels, 'Come to me,' faith our Saviour, and I will in no ways caſt you out.' This free invitation ſhews us, he alone was to receive our petitions, and preſent them to his Father. There is alſo image-worſhip brought cunningly by prieſts to gain worldly advantage; and pretended miracles, to draw the ignorant to pay their devotion more at one place than at another, impoſed on the ignorant for lucre's-ſake. I could ſay much more, but I fear to offend you.

Deid. No, you do not: but let us come nearer to the main controverſy. What think you of tranſubſtantiation? Is not Chriſt corporally preſent in the ſacrament?

Gard. It is a miſrepreſentation of our Saviour's words; for if he had ſo meaned, as the church of Rome holds it. when he broke the bread, he muſt have held himſelf in his own hands, and eaten himſelf, yet ſtill ſit whole and entire at the table; his whole body muſt be in the mouth of every communicant at once, and that body in millions of places at one time, broken and broken, and be ſubject to putrefaction; and therefore the words. 'This is my body,' doth import, This doth ſignify my body:' and upon the fame account our Saviour is called a Door, a Rock, a Vine: Yet to believe he was turned into any of theſe, none can be ſo void of underſtanding. And therefore, when he broke the bread, and gave the cup, he did it only, that when Chriſtian congregations were met on ſolemn occaſions, to celebrate his worſhip, 'they ſhould do it in remembrance of him, until his coming in glory at the laſt day,' as the immediate words explain; and it is abſurd to believe, that the prieſt's uttering a few words over a fer,