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cerity of our Repentance, and Means of Humiliation, but are in no wife Satisfa&tory or Meritorious.

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6. THEIR next Article is, I profefs also, that in the Mafs is offer'd to God, a true, proper, and propitiatory Sacrifice for the Quick and the Dead: And that in the Holy Sacrament of the Eucharift, the Body and Blood of our Lord Jefus Chrift, together with His Soul and His Divinity, are truly, really and fubftantially prefent, and that there is a Converfion made of the whole Subftance of the Bread into the Body, and of the Wine into the Blood, which Converfion the Catholick Church calls TRANSUBSTANTIATION. Now, I do believe, that the Bread and Wine are offer'd to GOD in the Holy Eucharift as the Reprefentative Body and Blood of Christ, confequently that they neither are, nor can be converted into His true, real, substantial Body, which, together with His Soul, is now in Heaven; and that His true and individual Body and Blood are not prefent in the Holy Eucharift: That the Bread and Wine, His Representative Body and Blood, are indeed a true, proper, and propitiatory Sacrifice, appointed by Chrift Himself to render GOD propitious and gracious to all the faithful Receivers of them, but not through any Vertue in the Elements themfelves, or by any Converfion

Conversion of them into the real Body and Blood of Christ, but as they were inftituted by Chrift Himfelf to reprefent His truly Meritorious Sacrifice on the Cross; and therefore being thus offer'd and receiv'd by us, do, by vertue of that Inftitution, procure for, and convey to all worthy Receivers, all the Bleffings purchas'd for us by the Death of Christ, which they are appointed to fhew forth. And as to that pretended Converfion which they call Tranfubftantiation, I utterly abominate and renounce it, not only as a fenfless and abfurd, but a wicked Doctrine, derogatory to the Honour of Christ, and utterly unknown to the Chriftian Church for many Ages.

7. THE Papift fays, I confefs also, that, under one Species only, whole and entire Chrift, and a true Sacrament is receiv'd. But I do not believe, that whole and entire Chrift is receiv'd, either under one or both Species, but that whole and entire Chrift is in Heaven at the Right Hand of GOD, excepting that His Divine Nature is not confined to that, or any other Place. Neither do I believe, that the whole Sacrament. can be receiv'd under one Species, because Chrift appointed both the Elements of Bread and of Wine to be receiv'd in this Sacrament; and therefore, if either of them be

wanting,

wanting, it is not the Sacrament which Chrift inftituted.

8. THE Papift fays, I conftantly hold, that there is a Purgatory, and that the Souls there detained, receive Benefit from the Suffrages of the Faithful. But I declare, that I believe no Purgatory, no Place where Souls are detained to fuffer Punishment, before their Admission into Heaven, for those Sins which are fuppofed not to have been fully pardoned here. I believe indeed, that there is a State of feparate Souls, different from the Higheft Heavens; that the Souls of the Juft do there remain in a Place of Enjoyment, which is called in Scripture Paradife, and Abraham's Bofom, to which the Soul of Christ went, and where it continued whilft his Body lay in the Grave; neither do I think it unlawful to pray as our Church does for them, That they may have their perfect Confummation and Blifs both in Body and Soul in Eternal and Everlasting Glory; and that fuch Prayer is very proper and fit to be ufed as a Teftimony of our Communion with the Saints departed, and that we have a fure and certain Hope of their Resurrection, as well as of our own. And as our mutual Communion is undoubtedly beneficial both to them and to us, fo we have no Reason to doubt, but our Prayers are fo too, they being yet in a State

a State of Expectance, as well as we, tho' in no Purgatory, or Place of Torment.

9. THE Papift fays, I also hold, that the Saints reigning together with Chrift, are to be worshipped and invoked, and that they offer Prayers to God for us, and that their Reliques are to be worshipped. But I hold, that the Saints do not yet reign with Chrift, nor fhall reign with Him till the RefurreEtion, and therefore that they are neither to be worshipped nor invoked, being not in a Capacity either to hear, or help us: And, becaufe GOD only is to be worfhipped. Their Reliques alfo ought neither to be worshipped, nor referved for any Superftitious Ufes; but, if they are Parts. of their Bodies, fhould be decently buried, in Hopes of the Refurrection.

10. THE Papift fays, I firmly affert, that the Images of Chrift, and of the ever Virgin Mother of God, and of the other Saints, are to be had and preferved, and that due Honour and Veneration is to be paid to them. But I hold, that fuch Images, if fet up to be worshipped, are Idols, and forbidden by the Second Commandment ; and that no more Honour or Veneration is due to them, than to any common Statues or Pictures.

II. THE Papift says, I affirm, that the Power of Indulgences was left by Chrift

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in his Church, and that the Use of them is highly beneficial to Chriftian People. But I affirm, That Indulgences, as ufed in the Church of Rome, are fcandalous and abominable, and deftructive to the Souls of the People That the Indulgences granted by the Pope, are derived from no Power which Chrift left to his Church: That an Indulgence, in the Senfe of the Primitive Church, whofe Practice was agreeable to the Authority Chrift committed to the Governours of the Church, confifted not in Anticipations of Penance, but only in a Relaxation of the Rigour of fome Penance which had been impofed, when they thought the Penitent had given due Teftimonies of his Sorrow and Repentance, or for fome other weighty Reason: But which was never fold for Money, nor granted before a Penance had been enjoyned, as is now practifed in the Church of Rome, to the Destruction of those unhappy Souls who depend on fuch Pardons and Indulgences. In a word, I shall conclude my Opinion concerning fome of these latter Articles, in the Words of our Church, in the Article concerning Purgatory. The Romish Doctrine concerning Purgatory, Pardons, [or Indulgences] Worshipping and Adoration, as well of Images, as of Reliques; and alfo Invocation of Saints; is a

fond

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