§ XXI. The doctrine of what is called Transub-
stantiation is, of itself, an insuperable barrier to the
communion of Protestants with the Church of
Rome. For that church maintains that the bread
and wine used in the sacrament of the Lord's sup-
per are, by the consecration of their priest, changed
and converted into the real body andl)lood of Christ;
so entirely changed, that, notwithstanding what all
our senses declare to the contrary, nothing of the
substance of the bread or wine remains! and not
into Christ's body and blood only, but (what seems
almost blasphemy to utter) into his human soul and
his divinity! that merely by speaking these few



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"words, "This is my body," a piece of bread is
changed to the true and eternal God, and as such is
to be worshipped! AH who do not believe this,
that church anathematizes and declares to be ac-
cursed ; and for the denying of it, myriads of faithful,
pious Christians have suffered martyrdom, and
rivers of righteous blood have been shed upon the
earth. A greater in^sult to common sense and abuse
of the credulity of mankind than this cannot be
imagined.
