Rome, the Antagonist of the Nation 307 substantially the body and blood, together with the soul and divinity, of our Lord Jesus Christ.” This doctrine, as the English Archbishop recently described it, “depends upon the acceptance of a metaphysical definition expressed in terms of mediaeval philosophy.” The philosophy is that of Aristotle, who attempts to draw a distinction between “substance” and accidents —substance being the inner reality in which the qualities or accidents, the taste, smell, form, color, etc., inhere. But this contradicts the testimony of our senses. It is un reasonable and entirely unscriptural. 6 . Rome sacrifices the mass. By sacrifice they mean “an act of external worship in which God is honored as the prin ciple and end o f man and all things, by the oblation of a visible creature, by submitting it to an appropriate transfor mation by a duly qualified minister” (Cath. Die., page 813). This is its comment upon the Eucharistic sacrifices: “All that is included in the idea of sacrifice is found in the Eucharist. There is the oblation of a sensible thing, viz., of the body and blood of Christ under the appearance of bread and wine.” “There is the mystical destruction of Christ the victim, for Christ presents Himself on the altar as in a state of death, through the mystical separation between His body and blood.” “In this sacrifice of thanksgiving we offer God the most ex cellent gift He has bestowed upon us, viz., the ‘Son in whom He is well pleased.’ ” Is not this awful presumption ? Their Eucharistic sacrifice they hold to be “one with that of the cross; on the cross and altar we have the same victim and the same priest.” Pope Pius V said: “Protestants have no sacrifice because the Reformation abolished the mass.” But the old answer of Bishop Jewel is as true as ever: “Indeed the mass is abolished through the gracious working of God. . . . They did tell us that in their mass they were able to offer Christ, the Son of God, unto God His Father for our sins. Oh, blasphemous speech, and most injurious to the glorious work of our redemption! Such kind of sacrifice we have not. Christ
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