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The Theological Works of the Rev. John Johnson [containing the Unbloody Sacrifice, and Altar, Ed. by R. Owen].
The Theological Works of the Rev John Johnson - containing the Unbloody Sacrifice, and Altar, Ed. by R. Owen Author:John Johnson General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1847 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: PREFACE THE SECOND EDITION. It is some comfort to me that I live to see a second edition of a book, of which it is hard to say, whether it cost me more pains in composing, or more patience in bearing the severe censures that have been passed against me for it. It is now more than ten years since the first publication. During all this time nothing that deserves the name of an answer hath appeared against it; but only two or three impotent pamphlets; a fardel or two of calumny and buffoonery: and now and then a gird in a printed sermon or other discourse. The generality of my adversaries have contented themselves with saying some wild rude things against the doctrine, or myself, and charging me in general with absurdities or contradictions, which yet they have not been able to point out, however, not to prove. The most modish and compendious way of confuting my books on this subject, is by saying that the practice of some Churches is no necessary rule for all. Yet no one hath been able to shew us one single Church of two hundred years' standing, which did not own the Eucharist to be a Sacrifice, and practise it as such. The Gothic Missals may at first sight seem defective as to this particular; but when fully examined and understood, they too give evidence that the most rude and ignorant, as well as the most knowing and best informed Churches of old, did celebrate the Eucharist as a Sacrifice. The silence of our most able divines against the doctrine of the Sacrifice, or the little notice they have taken of it, may seem a tacit approbation of it. However, if any of them are really adversaries to it...« less