lessing is a partaking of
the blood of Christ.

"Transubstantiation, or the change of the substance of bread and
wine in the supper of our Lord, cannot be proved by Holy Writ, but
is repugnant to the plain words of Scripture, overthroweth the
nature of a sacrament, and hath given occasion to many
superstitions.

"The body of Christ is given, taken, and eaten, in the supper,
only after a heavenly and scriptural manner. And the means whereby
the body of Christ is received and eaten in the supper, is faith.

"The sacrament of the Lord's supper was not by Christ's ordinance
reserved, carried about, lifted up, or worshipped.

"19. The cup of the Lord is not to be denied to the lay people;
for both the parts of the Lord's supper, by Christ's ordinance and
commandment, ought to be administered to all Christians alike.

"20. The offering of Christ, once made, is that perfect
redemption, propitiation, and satisfaction, for all the sins of
the whole world, both original and actual; and there is none other
satisfaction for sin but that alone. Wherefore the sacrifice of
masses, in the which it is commonly said that the priest doth
offer Christ for the quick and the dead, to have remission of pain
or guilt, is a blasphemous fable and dangerous deceit.

"21. The ministers of Christ were not commanded by God's law
either to vow the estate of single life, or to abstract from
marriage; therefore it is lawful for them, as for all other
Christians, to marry at their own discretion, as they shall judge
the same to serve best to godliness.

"22. It is not necessary that rites and ceremonies should in all
places be the same, or exactly alike; for they have been always
different, and may be changed according to the diversity of
countries, times, and men's manners, so that nothing be ordained
against God's word. Whosoever, through his private judgment,
willingly and purposely doth openly break the rites and ceremonies
of the church to which he belongs, which are not repugnant to the
word of God, and are ordained and approved by common authority,
ought to be rebuked openly, that others may fear to do the like,
as one that offendeth against the common order of the church, and
woundeth the consciences of weak brethren.

"Every particular church may ordain, change, and abolish, rites