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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That the former Romish Pretences have no warrant [ 40] from Antiquity. SECT. V.

THe number of Ancient Fathers, whose workes are yet ex∣tant (who lived within Six or Seven hundred yeares after Christ) are recorded to have beene about 200. out of whose monuments of Christian learning your chiefest Disputers could never hitherto produce anyone that justified your Romish wor∣ship,

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by so much as in distinguishing of Materiall and Formall Ido∣latry; nor yet by qualifying any Idolatry under pretence of either Morall Certainty, or Good Intent, or yet Habituall Condition; and therefore must wee judge that they never gave Assent to this your Sorcery. For wee may not be so injurious to the memory of so many, so famously learned, and Catholike Doctors of the Church of Christ, that they could not; or of persons so holy, and zealous of Gods honour, and of mens Salvation, that they would not satisfie mens Consciences, to free them out of thus many and miserable perplexities, wherewith your now [ 10] Romish Profession of Adoration of the Host is so* 1.1 Almost in∣finitely intangled.

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