The consecration of the eucharist : a study of the prayer of consecration in the communion office from the point of view of the alterations and amendments established therein by the revisers of 1789

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Invocation in the Prayeris Consueration ore fruit lator through tho onjuring Sohoo of theologiunS, homere un-trammellod by an connection illi the Stato und by any considerations os mere expedione v For it is owin to thetheologians of this Sehool. hothor omni ning in tho Churelios Englund oris paratod ironi it that tho Scottish and tho Americari Chure hos linuo returned to tho primitive and ApostoliumSage in the consecratior of th Eucharist. Tothoi writ ings and opinion on his subjoet e muSt thore- fore ivo duo heud Thuy optolivo the tradition and praetie of the early ago through a timo os indifferendo und enreleSSness, and against Stron unu determinod

ernted in a more perseet anne thnninny nurifice under

cration lint inanimni erentures are eupable os; und Suelia conSecration do2 apparenti best fit arid compori illitho uehariSi as uing th mos eminent mySter und

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institution and the commemorative oblation, thereiore

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togotho with themoly Spirit in the ministrationi it . . . . Froni at that I have Suid, o dited ut o tho Solonin prayer Whieli,ere made to God in the administrationii tho Eueharist to sen&down Hismoly Spirit upon the priest. the Sacrifice, und the eople, and irommis might most specia assistaneo, and chio ministration in tho hol aetion, particularly in the sanctitying the oblations I Say, I anno ironi considering ali his but thin it vor probabie, that the postle alluded to the common notion

Greel Liturg os t. Jamus in the Post Sanctus and the Lituin o tho Apostoli Constitutions in tho oblation

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had boon recor ludi3 the Evangelisis, and So madeano ni us they ould not have been prope to have been used by us. For to osse a thin toto dono, and to osse thememoria o that hieli S alreud done to offer Oneselito Suffer, and to osse the commemoration os nother

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and offer a Christ id; ut o anno do it in the amo

Again, in thecias placo, Christ institute a ne Saorament, and thereiore it a prope for him to performeonsecration in therars plaee, and then deelare o his dis- diplos the reason hy he had don it, and whati require ithoni o do: ut, are to administer a Sacrament ulready instituted, and thereior ought o deelare ur Ruthorityand ommission to that ministration in the res placo. So that although ur aviour res consecratei the elementes bolore he palle the wordes, ahe eat, his ni body,

declaration o the commission uni aut horit by hieli,eae in his ministration. . . . o forasmuch a the holuSeriptures have no informod iis o tho postlos id celebrate it, e stan earn his ni ironi tradition aridiora Smuch n we have an universa uninterruptod tradition that this aerament a conSeerat edi pronoune ingthe word os institution by mal in an oblation o the elementes a the representative ody and lood o Christ, with a thankiu remembraneo o his death, and by a potition to the divine bone lietion, o the oly Spiritto descendispon the elemenis, and that this redita os howoriis os institution the oblation and invocation tollo vos et Otho in his ordo in ali iturgios usod bosor the

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Without quotin ironi His ioptroit at greator longili, we ought to remembo that he was et aequainted villitho holo litoratur of the subjeet, and that his reatisoampi vindicatos the Liturg os the onjurores in iis ostvita pari, the naphora. MoreoVer, he ho S the ulter absurdit o tho lator Roman position, and the insincerit o any appen to the Coundi os Floroneo, in thoat tempt to provo that the Greelis ver acceptui Romanteachin in the matter os the eonsecration o tho

In his Dissertation appondod ora Collection o the Principat Lituryles, etc. frest utilistio in 1720), London, 1838, p. 231232, 233. Ibid. , p. 236-246. y 00 AppendiX, p. 27 28. A Fuli, rue, an Comprehensire telo o Christianitu, etc. . . . The hole succincti an fidi lai doto in in Cate

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Ἀnd thereior although the sacre Symbol are dulySacrifced, and that tho Ac is justi callod a Sacrifice, and that tho pronoune in the ord o Institution verthem, and the imitatin the Actions o CHRIST, at tho Institutio doth in sociar Consecrate them, that the are

AQEssu upo the Hob Eucharis apponit δ' Phe Doctrine of Middie State . . . London. 721. p. 307-30Ν. Cf. also the