A Testimony of antiquity concerning the sacramental body and blood of Christ, written in the old Saxon tongue before the conquest : being a homily appointed, in the reign of the Saxons, to be spoken at Easter, as a charge, to the people ; together with the two epistles of Aelfric on the sam subject . undertakesto remove the faIJe notions, that have been,from time to time, built on this Inftitution,and to prefent it to the World in its OriginalSimplicity: and this is what has been often,and very properly, done, by the moft piousand learned Divines, with refped to thePlainejl Dodrines of Chrifti
A Testimony of antiquity concerning the sacramental body and blood of Christ, written in the old Saxon tongue before the conquest : being a homily appointed, in the reign of the Saxons, to be spoken at Easter, as a charge, to the people ; together with the two epistles of Aelfric on the sam subject . undertakesto remove the faIJe notions, that have been,from time to time, built on this Inftitution,and to prefent it to the World in its OriginalSimplicity: and this is what has been often,and very properly, done, by the moft piousand learned Divines, with refped to thePlainejl Dodrines of Chriftianity, withoutincurring the Cenfure of endeavouring tomake the pkwieji Dodrines ftill plainer, Ithink, the Liturgy of the Church of Ejig-land is very plain and intelligible ; but whatwould this Writer fay, if I ftiould cenfui-ethofe, who have commented on it, andcharge them with endeavouring to make avery plain Book ftill plainer? If lam notout in my guefs. He is too much con-cernd in the Parallel, not to feel the forceof it. Ifhall [ 54] I fhall not take into confideration the Ar-gumentative Part of this Writers Perfor-mance, becaufe it would be repeatins; whatI have already faid on the prefent fubjed:and therefore I leave that to the Examinationand Correction of fome other hand. F J N I A T R U E A C C O LINT O F T H E Nature^ End and Efficacy OF T H F SACRAMENT O F T H E LO RDs-SUP PER; OF THE Great Duty oi Frequetiting, and of the Ne-cessity and Right Method of Pr^^^nVz^for the worthy Farticipation of It. In which is contained. An Answer to a Book, entitled, A PlainAccount of this SACRAMENT, With a Preface, ihtwing the Jgree?nent oi this PlainAccount with the Notions of the Socinians; and its Dif-agreement with the Doctrine of the Church of England, Dicam bre-ozus, ^ forte ritdius, fed apertiui^facr amentum fine faiutuprotnif/ione ejje pctej}. Calv. Inltit, Hb. iv c. 17. § 19 By r HO MAS BOWTER, Vicar of Martock, Somerfetfliire. LONDON: Printed for C. Ri
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