Is Romanism Christianity t 107 and the dead; for those alive, and for those in purgatory. Is this the Christ of Christianity? In canon 1 of its 13th Session, the synod says, “If any one deny that, in the sacrament of the most holy Eucharist, are contained truly, really and substantially the body and blood, together with the soul and divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ, and consequently the whole Christ, but say that He is only therein as in a sign, or in figure, or virtue; let him be anathema.” The Christ of the Bible, and of Christianity, is in heaven “at the right hand of God,” where “He ever lives to make intercession for those who come to God through Him” (Rom. 8 :34 ; Col. 3 :1 ; Heb. 7 :2 5 ) ; nor will He come in bodily form to earth again until He comes the second time, without sin, unto salvation, to be admired in all those who believe (Heb. 9 :28 ; 2 Thess. 1:10). But the Christ of Romanism is upon the altars of Rome; He is said to be brought there by the magic spell of her priests, and to be there in the form and shape of a wafer. What a fearful blasphemy! The priest pronounces certain words, gives the solemn consecration, and then elevates the wafer. Taste it—it is wafer; touch it—it is wafer; look at it—it is wafer; smell it—it is wafer; analyse it—it is wafer; but the priest affirms, the Council of Trent affirms, Romanism affirms, the poor victims of delusion affirm, as they bow down before it, “ This is our Christ—our God!” Here is the climax of this superstition—it exhibits for the person of Christ a morsel of bread: Is that morsel of bread the Christ of the Bible? Is that system which declares it to be so, Christianity? FOURTHLY: Christianity is in direct opposition to Ro manism as to the mode of a sinner’s justification before God. What say the Scriptures? “By deeds of law shall no flesh living be justified before God” (Rom. 3 :20 ). “Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith, without deeds of law” (3 :28). “Even David describes the blessedness of
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