The Lords Supper or, A vindication of the sacrament of the blessed body and blood of Christ according to its primitive institution. In eight books; discovering the superstitious, sacrilegious, and idolatrous abomination of the Romish Master. Together with the consequent obstinacies, overtures of perjuries, and the heresies discernable in the defenders thereof. By Thomas Morton B.D. Bp. of Duresme.

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The Lords Supper or, A vindication of the sacrament of the blessed body and blood of Christ according to its primitive institution. In eight books; discovering the superstitious, sacrilegious, and idolatrous abomination of the Romish Master. Together with the consequent obstinacies, overtures of perjuries, and the heresies discernable in the defenders thereof. By Thomas Morton B.D. Bp. of Duresme.
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Morton, Thomas, 1564-1659.
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London :: printed for R.M. And part of the impression to be vended for the use and benefit of Edward Minshew, gentleman,
M.D.C.LVI. [1656]
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Lord's Supper -- Early works to 1800.
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"The Lords Supper or, A vindication of the sacrament of the blessed body and blood of Christ according to its primitive institution. In eight books; discovering the superstitious, sacrilegious, and idolatrous abomination of the Romish Master. Together with the consequent obstinacies, overtures of perjuries, and the heresies discernable in the defenders thereof. By Thomas Morton B.D. Bp. of Duresme." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A51424.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 13, 2024.

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Secondly of the Romish Change, which you call Transubstantiation. [ 40] SECT. II.

BVt your Change in the Councell ofa 1.1 Trent is thus defi∣ned: Transubstantiation is a Change of the whole Substance

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of Bread into the Body of Christ, and of Wine into his Blood. Which by the Bull ofb 1.2 Pius the Fourth, then Pope, is made an Article of Faith, without which a man cannot bee saved. Which Article of your Faith Protestants beleeve to bee a new and impious Fig∣ment, andc 1.3 Heresie. The Case thus standing, it will concerne every Christian to build his Resolution upon a sound Founda∣tion. As for the Church of England, shee professeth in her 28. Article, saying of this Transubstantiation, that It cannot bee proved by holy Writ, but is repugnant to the plaine words of [ 10] Scripture, overthroweth the nature of a Sacrament, and hath given occasion unto MANY SVPERSTITIONS.

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