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 . REM ARKS On a Treatise, ^ H E prefent great Negle6l of theimportant Duty of receiving theSacrament of the Lords Supper,one of the Vno generally Necejfariesto Salvation^ ordained by CJmft him-felf^ is a fcandalous and deplo-rable Intiance of the Decay of Chrifliian Pietyamongft us ; and may more
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 . REM ARKS On a Treatise, ^ H E prefent great Negle6l of theimportant Duty of receiving theSacrament of the Lords Supper,one of the Vno generally Necejfariesto Salvation^ ordained by CJmft him-felf^ is a fcandalous and deplo-rable Intiance of the Decay of Chrifliian Pietyamongft us ; and may more juftly be looked uponas the Caufe, rather than Effe6t of that thoroughDifiblution, both in Principle and Pradice, thatreigns uncontroulable ; the generality of the In-habitants in Country Parifhes, living and dyingwithout difcharging that Duty in defiance to Scrip-ture, the Churches Canon, and her Exhortations,Had the Defign of this Trentife upon the Sa-crament, been (as one well might have hoped,from fo great a Man and eminent a Bifhop as theAuthor is faid to be ) to remedy this fo epidemi-cal and crying Evil -, by his fo Plain Account ofthe Nature and End of the Sacrament^ drawn from^exts of Scripurc alone, and to clear the Way toA z the C4] the Lords Table, by removing the Impedimentsand Caufes of its being lb fliame
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