A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §465 · Samuel Strimesius

Annotatio III §.X (3)(b): Instituted praxis — cup as well as bread; Mass/Transsubstantiation snatches the cup from the laity

(3)(b) Instituted praxis from Christ binds every communicant to the cup and wine no less than to the bread.

Mass and Transsubstantiation’s rationale snatch that cup from all the laity — so it also hits the second table, withdrawing from the neighbor what Christ ordered by ‘Do this.’

Latin

(b) Praxi Institutæ, quatenus hæc à Christo immediatè originem trahit, quâque non minùs ad Calicis vinique, quam panis usum, singulos Communicantes obstringit, per Missam interim & Transsubstantiationis rationem, Laicis cunctis eripiendum. Hoc pacto Transsubstantiatio etiam in posteriorem Divinæ Legis Tabulam impingit, Proximo id subducens, quod illi tribuendum expresso Christus mandato voluit per τὸ: Hoc facite, S. Coenam administraturis id omne designandum injungens, quod ipse administrans designaverat.

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