Trollope on Article XXXI: Of the one Oblation of Christ finished upon the Cross
William Trollope, 1850
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Article XXXI. Of the one Oblation of Christ finished upon the Cross
The Offering of Christ once made is that perfect redemption, propitiation, and satisfaction, for all the sins of the whole world, both original and actual; and there is none other satisfaction for sin, but that alone. Wherefore the sacrifices of Masses, in the which it was commonly said, that the Priest did offer Christ for the quick and the dead, to have remission of pain or guilt, were blasphemous fables, and dangerous deceits.
Text: Book of Common Prayer (1662)
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By holding out a hope of pardon which has no sanction in Holy Writ, and leadme^ men to believe that the Salvation of God may be purchased by money, the Romish priesthood are guilty of beguiling their people with dangerous dectitg. To maintain that an offering of tbe consecrated elements by the priest alone can procure ’ remission of pain or guilt* either for *the quick or dead/ who do not partake with him, can be nothing else than, as tue Latin strongly ex- presses it, A pernicious imposture,
- What may have been the object of the compilers of this Article in speaking of these errors of the Romanists as commonly current^ and in the past tense ?
Probably the past tense was adopted by the Reformers, because, when the Articles of Edwturd YI. were drawn up, the Coimoil of Trent had not yet published their decrees ; and although these things were then commonly current, they charitably hoped that the Romish Church might be led to renounce a doctrine so repugnant to the truth of the Gospel.
- In what light does it appear that the Eu- charist was regarded by the primitive Church ?
Since the earl^ Christians were reproached by the heathen for embracing a religion which had neither altars nor sacrifices, without alleging the Eucharist in reply, it is manifest that they did not r^ard it as a sacrifice in an ex- piatory point of view. Indeed Justin Martyr says expressly (Apol. I. 0. 13.) that the Christians have no other saor\fioes out prayers and praises; and in the Apostolical Constitu- tions (VIII. 12.), the Lord’s Supper is described as a pure
and unbloody saeri/ioe. Compare also Justin M. Apol. I. co. 66. 67. DiaL Tryph. CO. 41. 117, 118. MoreoYer, sa^ Au- ffustine (0. Faust. Man. xx. 18.), Christians do sttll oslC’ orate the memory of the saorifioe then made, in the qffering and partieipation qf the body and blood qf Christ, Pas- sa^ to the like effect are found in Atbenagoras, Tertullian, Origen, and other writers.
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