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Download or read book The Theological and Miscellaneous Works. Ed. with Notes by John Towill Rutt Volume 5 written by Joseph Priestley and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1831 edition. Excerpt: ...At Constantinople it was formerly eaten by young scholars, sent from the school for that purpose, as is related by Evagrius, who wrote at the endiof the sixth century. The Council of Toledo, in 693, left it to the liberty of each particular church, either to keep what remained of the consecrated elements, orto eat it; but, in the latter case, it was ordained that the quantity consecrated should be moderate, that it might not oppress the stomachs of those who were appointed to take it. But, in whatever manner they disposed of these sacred elements, it was the custom not to leave any of them till the next day.1 One would imagine that we had seen superstition enough in this one article of Christian faith and practice, within thifl period; but we shall find much greater abuses in the next: and notwithstanding the reater light of the present age, they continue unreformed in t e church of Rome to this day. SECTION III.. The Ifistory of the Eucharist, from the Time of Paschasius to the Reformation. WE are now arrived at the most distinguished tern in the history of the eucharist; after having seen how much the eucharistical elements in this age of darkness had gained in point of sacredneas and solemnity, and how awful a thing the act of communicating was generally apprehended to be; so that commonly the priest alone communicated, and the people very seldom, except at the time of the greater festivals, and especially at Easter. This was in consequence of the people in general being impressed with a confused notion that the eucharistical elements were, in some sense or other, the body and blood of Christ, and therefore that Christ himself was present in them. But in what manner he wasipresent they seem to have had no clear 'idea. This...