S. q Basil in his 289. epistle to Patricia exhorts her frequently to participate the Sacrament of Christs body and blood, saying, It is good and pro∣fitable euery day to participate the holy body and blood of Christ. And in his moralls, chap. 22. hee propoundeth this question: what is the proper dutie of a Christian? and he answereth immediately; to haue no spot, or wrincle in his Conscience, to be holy and vnblameable, and so to eate the body, and drinke the blood of Christ. Our aduersaries doe well to conceale this testimonie of Saint Basil, because it is so direct and full to the point, that it admits not any collourable answer. He saith, that it is the proper dutie of a Christian; and there∣fore not of a Priest onely, not to eate Christs bo∣dy
The grand sacrilege of the Church of Rome, in taking away the sacred cup from the laiety at the Lords Table: detected, and conuinced by the euidence of holy Scripture, and testimonies of all ages successiuely from the first propagation of the catholike Christian faith to this present: together with two conferences; the former at Paris with D. Smith, now stiled by the Romanists B of Calcedon; the later at London with M Euerard, priest: by Dan. Featly, Doctor in Diuinity.
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- The grand sacrilege of the Church of Rome, in taking away the sacred cup from the laiety at the Lords Table: detected, and conuinced by the euidence of holy Scripture, and testimonies of all ages successiuely from the first propagation of the catholike Christian faith to this present: together with two conferences; the former at Paris with D. Smith, now stiled by the Romanists B of Calcedon; the later at London with M Euerard, priest: by Dan. Featly, Doctor in Diuinity.
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"The grand sacrilege of the Church of Rome, in taking away the sacred cup from the laiety at the Lords Table: detected, and conuinced by the euidence of holy Scripture, and testimonies of all ages successiuely from the first propagation of the catholike Christian faith to this present: together with two conferences; the former at Paris with D. Smith, now stiled by the Romanists B of Calcedon; the later at London with M Euerard, priest: by Dan. Featly, Doctor in Diuinity." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A00597.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 23, 2024.
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onely and receiue his blood (by concomitan∣cie) but expresly to drinke it: and this hee tea∣cheth to be as necessarie a duty of all Christi∣ans, as to clense themselues from sinne and to be holy and vndefiled.
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