...suitable victim to be offered up in sacrifice to divine justice. You must therefore change, in fancy, the bread and wine into the real body and blood of Christ, as the Romanists teach is actually done in the Mass, before you can get a proper subject for a propitiatory...

...the benediction of the elements COS in the Eucharist. The Romanists define it to be the conversion of the bread and wine into the real body and blood of Christ; and that this is the sentiment of that church is evident from the priest's elevating the Host immediately...

...1215, the Pope, by his final decree, declared the doctrine of transubstantiation, or the conversion of the bread and wine into the real body and blood of Christ ! The wafer, by the priest's word, creates these substances ipto a perfect Christ. Thus the finite...

...Eucharist, on the important question whether our Lord instituted it, and gave power to priests to change the bread and wine into the real body and blood of Christ, and give the changed substance to the people, and offer it 'as Christ upon an altar, a propitiatory...

...falsehood of priestcraft for an ineffable mystery. (5.) Another plea urged in defence of the alleged change of the bread and wine into the real body and blood of Christ is, that the transubstantiation, or transmutation, or transelementation, or of what nature soever the...

...blessed, while error mixed with them is forgiven. Luther preached the absurdity that prayer changed the bread and wine into the real body and blood of Christ I and I ask if it was this, or "justification by faith alone," that God blessed ? Orthodox Quakers...

...mind as to the power of the priest over the elements. Transubstantiation, or the actual conversion of the bread and wine into the real body and blood of Christ, by priestly consecration, was then, as it still is, the recognised doctrine of the church of Rome....

...which the true origin was as follows : They who, embracing the opinion of Paschasius Radbert, believe that the bread and wine in the Sacrament were substantially...Body and Blood of Christ, charged the same enormous consequences upon their antaInfelicissimi. et absurdissimi ante commestionem facta est ilia conversio...

...particularly used for the act of the priest who celebrates the mass, by which he is considered as changing the bread and wine into the real body and blood of Christ. There was formely a warm contest between the Greek and Roman Catholic churches on this subject; the...

...question. For he assumes as true the very point to be proved ; namely, that it is the will of God to change the bread and wine into the real body and blood of Christ. The proof for God's will in any operation, either real or supposed, must be sought in his revealed...