American Lutheranism Vindicated; or, Examination of the Lutheran Symbols, on Certain Disputed Topics - Including a Reply to the Plea of Rev. W. J. Mann by S. S. (Samuel Simon) Schmucker
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Supper are distinctly classed as different topics.
2. _Spalatin_, one of the theologians who attended the Elector to Augsburg, in his narrative of what occurred during the diet, giving a brief abstract of the contents of the Augsburg Confession, epitomises the, Xth Article thus: Of the Holy _Sacrament of the true body and blood of Christ_ in the Sacrament of the altar; and the XXIV Article, "of the _Mass_, how it is celebrated amongst us, and the reason why closet masses have been rejected by us." Here again, who does not see that the two are represented as distinct? IV. We shall close this cumulative mass of evidence for the distinction between the terms mass and eucharist or Lord's supper, at the time of the diet of Augsburg, by an extract from the professed _refutation of the Augsburg Confession_, prepared by the _papists_ during the diet; from which it will be evident, not only that they make this distinction themselves, which no one denies, but that _they understood the Augsburg Condition as making it also_. In their reply to Article XXIV. of the Confession, (or the III. of the Abuses Corrected) they state: "For the _mass_ is celebrated, in order that the _holy eucharist_ may be offered in memory of the passion of Christ." [Note 28] "In those churches, (which apostatize in the latter times) _no more masses_ will be celebrated, _no more sacrament_ distributed, no more altars, nor images of the saints, &c." [Note 29] Finally, near the close of their pretended refutation of this Article of the Augsburg Confession, (XXIV.) the papist Refutation says, "It is therefore not rejected or regarded as wrong that the (Protestant) Princes and cities (according to their Confession, Article XXIV.,) celebrate one common (public) mass in their churches; if they only |
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