The Church, the Falling Away, and the RestorationShepherd, J. W. (James Walton)
Religion
The Church, the Falling Away, and the Restoration
Shepherd, J. W. (James Walton)
Churches of Christ -- Doctrines; Disciples of Christ -- Controversial literature; Disciples of Christ -- Doctrines
This same council further declared:
If any one shall deny that in the sacrament of the most holy
eucharist, there is contained really, truly, and substantially, the
body and the blood together with the soul and divinity, of our Lord
Jesus Christ, and so whole Christ, but shall say he is only in it in
sign, or figure, or power, let him be accursed.
Not content with this it declares that:
If any one shall say that in the holy sacrament of the eucharist,
there remains the substance of the bread and wine, together with the
body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, and shall deny that wonderful
and remarkable conversion of the whole substance of the bread into the
body, and of the whole substance of the wine into the blood, while
only the appearance of bread and wine remain, which conversion the
Catholic Church most appropriately names transubstantiation; let him
be accursed.
The Council of Tridentine says there is a whole Christ in every particle
of the Mass:
If any one shall deny that Christ entire is contained in the venerable
sacrament of the eucharist, under each species, and, when they are
divided, under every particle of each kind; let him be accursed.
The climax of blasphemy is reached when the Council of Trent asserts:
There is, therefore, no reason to doubt but that all Christ’s faithful
people, in their veneration, should render this most holy sacrament
the same worship which is due to the true God, according to the custom
which the Catholic Church has always received.
CHAPTER III.
THE CONFESSIONAL
As the mass is the aggregate of the Romish doctrine, the confessional is
the chief of the papal system. By it the decrees of the “infallible
Church” are applied and carried out with unequaled measure of minuteness
and rigor.
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