ARTICLES OF RELIGION.

Wine) in the Supper of the Lord, cannot be proved by holy Writ; but it is repugnant to the plain

words of Scripture, overthroweth

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hath given occasion to many super­

stitions.

The Body of Christ is given, taken, and eaten, in the Supper, only after an heavenly and spiritual manner. And the mean whereby the Body of Christ is received and eaten in the Supper is Faith.

The Sacrament of the Lord's Supper was not by Christ's ordi­nance reserved, carried about, lifted up, or worshipped.

XXIX. Of the Wicked which eat not the Body of Christ in the use of the Lord's Supper.

HE Wicked, and such as be THE void of a lively faith, although they do carnally and visibly press with their teeth( as Saint Augus­tine saith) the Sacrament of the Body and Blood of Christ, yet in wise are they partakers of Christ: but rather, to their con­demnation, do eat and drink the sign or Sacrament of so great a thing.

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XXX. Of both kinds.

THE Cup of the Lord is not to

for both the parts of the Lord's Sacrament, by Christ's ordinance and commandment, ought to be ministered to all Christian men

alike.

XXXI. Of the one Oblation of Christ finished upon the Cross.

IE Offering of Christ once

tion, 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.

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XXXII. Of the Marriage of Priests.

BISHOPS, Priests, and Deacons,

are not

Law, either to vow the estate of single life, or to abstain from mar­riage: therefore it is lawful also for them, as for all other Christian men, to marry at their own dis­cretion, as they shall judge the same to serve better to godliness.

XXXIII. Of Excommunicate Per­sons, how they are to be avoided.

HAT person which by open denunciation of the Church is

rightly cut off from the unity of the Church, and excommunicated, ought to be taken of the whole multitude of the faithful, as an Heathen and Publican, until he be openly reconciled by penance, and received into the Church by a Judge that hath authority there­unto.

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XXXIV. Of the Traditions of the Church.

IT is not necessary that Tradi­

places one, or utterly like; for at all times they have been divers, and may be changed according to the diversities of countries, times, and

be ordained against God's Word. Whosoever through his private judgement, willingly and purposely, doth openly break the traditions and ceremonies of the Church, which be not repugnant to the Word of God, and be ordained and approved by common authority, ought to be rebuked openly,( that

as he that offendeth against the common order of the Church, and hurteth the authority of the Magis­trate, and woundeth the consciences of the weak brethren.

or national Every particular Church hath authority to ordain, change, and abolish, ceremonies or rites of the Church ordained only by man's authority, so that all things be done to edifying.