Papists refuse the cup to the laity in the Eucharist. Papists believe that Christ is daily offered up by the priest at the Mass. Papists believe that there is a place called Purgatory, in which the souls of men are purged of sins committed in this life. The ceremonies of the Church of Rom are many and complex, and sometimes con trary to the scriptural sense of the rite pe formed, as in the Baptismal ceremonies. Papists refuse the cup to the laity in the Eucharist. Papists believe that Christ is daily offered up by the priest at the Mass. 1 Papists believe that there is a place called Purgatory, in which the souls of men are purged of sins committed in this life. The ceremonies of the Church of Rome are many and complex, and sometimes contrary to the scriptural sense of the rite performed, as in the Baptismal ceremonies. and that the mere repetition of the Eucharistic form of consecration has no more power of transubstantiating the elements, than the utterance of the words, "Lazarus, come forth," has of raising the dead. Protestants consider the refusal of the cup to be a mutilation of the Sacrament, and a violation of Christ's most solemn commands. Protestants believe that Christ offered himself once for all on the Cross; and that the Popish doctrine of the Mass detracts from the sufficiency of Christ's own atone ment. Protestants believe that the blood of Christ alone cleanseth from all sin; and that Christ died in vain, if the pains of a Purgatory are necessary to our salvation. The ceremonies of Protestant Churches are few and simple, and conducive only to the decency and order of public worship. THE difference of the two Churches is very striking in the great difference of the ceremo nies, which accompany the offices of religion, especially one of the most important, the sacrament of Baptism. The following account is taken from The Catholic Christian Instructed, by the Roman Catholic Bishop Challoner, pages 56-60. After some questions and admonitions "the priest blows three times upon the face of the person that is to be baptized, saying, Depart out of him, or her, O unclean spirit, and give place to the Holy Ghost, the Comforter "After this there follow some prayers for the person that is to be baptized, to beg God to dispose his soul for the grace of baptism. Then the priest blesses some salt, and puts a grain of it into the mouth of the person that is to be baptized. "Then the priest proceeds to the solemn prayers and exorcisms, used of old in the Catholic Church in the administration of baptism, to cast out the devil from the soul, *Those parts only of the ceremony are here noticed, which differ most from the ritual of the Church of England. |
