Q. 80. What difference is there between the Lord’s supper and the Popish mass?

Question. What difference is there between the Lord’s supper and the Popish mass?

Answer. The Lord’s supper testifies to us, that we have a full pardon of all sin by the only sacrifice of Jesus Christ, which he himself has once accomplished on the cross (Heb. 10;14); and that we by the Holy Ghost are ingrafted into Christ (John 6;63); who, according to his human nature, is not now on earth, but in heaven, at the right hand of God his Father, and will there be worshipped by us (Acts 7;56-59); but the mass teacheth that the living and the dead have not the pardon of sins, through the sufferings of Christ, unless Christ is also daily offered for them by the priests; and further, that Christ is bodily under the form of bread and wine, and therefore is to be worshipped in them; so that the mass, at bottom, is nothing else than a denial of the one sacrifice and sufferings of Jesus Christ (Gal. 5;4), and an accursed idolatry (Deut. 27;15).

Proofs.

• [proof-1] Heb. 10;14.—For by one offering he hath perfected forever them that are sanctified.— Luke 22;19, 20.—Heb. 9;25-28.—1 Cor. 5;7.—John 19;30.—Heb. 7;27.
• [proof-2] John 6;63.—It is the Spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing.1 Cor. 6;17.—1 Cor. 12;13.
• [proof-3] Acts 7;56-59.—Stephen said......Behold I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing at the right hand of God.— Luke 24;51, 52.—Col. 3;1.
• [proof-4] Gal. 5;4.—Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.— Isa. 1;11.—Jer. 2;13.—Matt. 15;9.
• [proof-5] Deut. 27;15.—Cursed be the man that maketh any grave or molten image, an abomination unto the Lord.— Dan. 11;38, 39,—Isa. 1;12, 13.