Articles agreed on by the bishoppes, and other learned menne in the synode at London, in the yere of our Lorde Godde, M.D.LII. for the auoiding of controuersie in opinions, and the establishement of a godlie concorde, in certeine matiers of religion.

¶ Of the Lordes Supper.

[ 29] THE Supper of the Lorde is not onely a signe of the loue that Christiens ought to haue among theim selues one to another, but rather it is a sacrament of our redemptiō by Christes death, insomoche that to soche as right: lie, woorthelie, and with faieth receiue thesame, the breade whiche we breake, is a communion of the bodie of Christe. Likewise the Cuppe of bles∣sing, is a Communion of the bloude of Christe.

TRansubstanciation, or the chaunge of the substaunce of breade, and wine into the sub¦staunce

of Christes bodie, and bloude cannot bee proued by holie writte, but is repugnaunt to the plaine woordes of Scripture, and hath geuen occasion to many supersticions.

FORasmoche as the trueth of mannes na∣ture requireth, that the bodie of one, and theself same manne cannot be at one time in diuerse places, but must nedes be in some one certeine place: Therfore the bodie of Christe can∣not bee presente at one time in many, and diuerse places. And because (as holie Scripture doeth teache) Christe was taken vp into heauen, and there shall continue vnto thende of the worlde, a faithful mā ought not, either to beleue, or openlie to confesse the reall, and bodilie presence (as thei terme it) of Christes fleshe, and bloude, in the Sa∣cramente of the Lordes supper.

THe Sacramente of the Lordes supper was not commaunded by Christes ordi∣naunce to be kepte, caried about, lifted vp, nor worshipped.