THE CHRISTIAN SACRIFICE IN THE EUCHARIST; CONSIDERED AS IT IS THE DOCTRINE OF HOLY SCRIPTURE, EMBRACED BY THE UNIVERSAL CHURCH OF THE FIRST AND PUREST TIMES, By the Church of England, AND BY THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN SCOTLAND. BY THE RIGHT REVEREND ALEXANDER JOLLY, D.D. ONE OF THE BISHOPS OF THE EPISCOPAL COMMUNION IN Cœna Domini est Sacrificium, et potest bene et certe sic dici, ut et olim a Patribus appellatum est; quia est memoriale et recommemoratio Sacrificii Christi in cruce oblati, in qua Deo simul gratias agimus pro illo Sacrificio. PERKINSII, Catholicus Reformatus, p. 251. ABERDEEN: PRINTED FOR A. BROWN AND CO. ABERDEEN; ROBERT GRANT AND SONS, EDINBURGH; AND C. J. G. AND F. RIVINGTON, LONDON. MDCCCXXXI. In the pious recollection of that amiable worth which I witnessed, I now, in the last stage of my mortal life, with humble hope in Christ of a happy re-union, trembling as such hope ought to be on my side, but with firm trust in that merciful Redeemer, who is our only Hope, presume, in all humility, to associate my mean and obscure name, with the name of one of the best of Christians, and most benevolent men, whom I have ever known. With these warm emotions of my heart, which embraces most affectionately his whole numerous Posterity, among whom the amiable example of his virtues HAS BEEN and is perpetuated in the paths that lead to bliss, THIS VOLUME IS SOLEMNLY INSCRIBED ΤΟ THE MEMORY OF SIR WILLIAM FORBES, BARONET, of PITSLIGO, who, with the lamentation of all who knew him, died in the year 1806, BY ALEXANDER JOLLY. PREFACE. In the school of Christ, meekness and humility are primary lessons. But in the disputations, which diversity of opinion with regard to the Articles of His religion-in itself the parent of love and peace and unity-has occasioned, those first lessons are apt to be forgotten, although both meekness and fear are expressly commanded to attend them (1 St. Pet. iii. 15). The detection of error, on the one side, frequently transports men, in their too passionate, however just and necessary opposition to it, into an error on the other ex treme. This has been particularly exemplified in the deplorablydangerous controversies upon the most sublime Institution of our divine religion, ordained by Christ to commemorate His death, the source of our life, and to consign the benefits of it to all His faithful followers, consolidated thereby into the closest unity, until he shall come again from heaven to judge the quick and the dead. The Church of Rome, in the progress of dark ages, first dreamed and then maintained the commemoration to be the substantial repetition of the original sacrifice, which once only could be offered, and that only by the One Priest Himself, God and Man in one Person. This astonishing doctrine, which, to the horror of the enlightened mind, pretends to sacrifice in the Mass the very substantial flesh and blood of THE CHRISTIAN SACRIFICE IN THE EUCHARIST; CONSIDERED AS IT IS THE DOCTRINE OF HOLY SCRIPTURE, EMBRACED BY THE UNIVERSAL CHURCH OF THE FIRST By the Church of England, AND BY THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN SCOTLAND. BY THE RIGHT REVEREND ALEXANDER JOLLY, D.D. ONE OF THE BISHOPS OF THE EPISCOPAL COMMUNION IN Coena Domini est Sacrificium, et potest bene et certe sic dici, ut et olim a PERKINSII, Catholicus Reformatus, p. 251. ABERDEEN: PRINTED FOR A. BROWN AND CO. ABERDEEN; ROBERT GRANT AND MDCCCXXXI. |