memorial of His SON's Death, put Him in mind of that meritorious Sacrifice which has made a full, perfect, and complete satisfaction for the sins of the whole world."* "But if there be a particular memorial offered to GOD in the Holy Eucharist, a memorial of CHRIST'S all-sufficient and most meritorious Sacrifice, as undoubtedly there is, and that JESUS CHRIST is there 'evidently set forth, crucified amongst us; and if evidently set forth as crucified, then evidently set forth as offered for us; it plainly follows, that when such a memorial is made to GOD, to put Him in mind of all that His Son has done or purchased for us thereby to induce Him to confer on us all the mercies and graces obtained for us by CHRIST's Death." † "The essence of this Sacrifice, therefore, consists not, as he pretends it does, barely in the remembrance of CHRIST, and expressing that remembrance by partaking of bread and wine as memorials of His Body and Blood, but likewise in the doing or offering them in the same manner He did." ‡ "He offered bread and wine as representatives of His Body and Blood, in order that He might suffer and bear our sins in His Body on the Cross: we offer the same in remembrance that He did suffer and bear our sins there." § John Potter, Archbishop of Canterbury (ob. 1747) 35. Potter. "So that it is plain, both from the design and nature of the LORD's Supper, and from the concurrent testimony of the most primitive Fathers, who conversed. with the Apostles or their disciples, that it was reckoned through the whole world to be a commemorative *Tract No. 81, pp. 391, 392. † Ibid., p. 393. Ibid., p. 396. § Ibid., p. 397. 36. Hughes. 37. Laurence. Sacrifice, or a memorial of our LORD offered upon the John Hughes (ob. (?)): "It was our Blessed Richard Laurence, Archbishop of Cashel (ob. 1838): "If by 'proper sacrifice' your lordship means something material offered to GOD, and, by Divine institution, appointed to represent to Him the one only proper meritorious Sacrifice of the Death of His SON ;—if your lordship designs such a Sacrifice as is representative of the Sacrifice of CHRIST'S Death, and calls this a 'proper sacrifice,' then, my lord, it is acknowledged that such a proper sacrifice,' in this secondary sense, has been taught, and not only warmly asserted, but firmly proved to be offered to GOD in the Sacrament of CHRIST'S Body and Blood." ‡ "The Christian sacrifice of bread and wine has no real intrinsic worth or excellency in itself; that it is only a Sacrifice representative of CHRIST'S one meritorious Sacrifice of Himself, as the Jewish sacrifices were only types thereof, and not proper satisfaction in themselves to propitiate the Divine nature; that its whole worth and value is owing only to Divine institution, as that of the Jewish sacrifices was; and that it was only a Sacrifice, or offering, made to GOD to put Him in mind (as it were) of the all-sufficient Sacrifice of His Son ; to beseech Him for the sake thereof, and of that only, to be propitious and merciful to us; and to express our unfeigned thankfulness and gratitude for the infinite *Tract No. 81, p. 405. † Ibid., p. 407. + Ibid., p. 408. benefit of our redemption, purchased by the Sacrifice of the Death of CHRIST."* William Law (ob. 1761): "The reason why this 38. Law. Sacrament is said in one respect to be a ' propitiatory' or commemorative' Sacrifice, is only this: because you there offer, present, and plead before GOD such things as are, by CHRIST Himself, said to be His 'Body' and' Blood given for you :' but if that which is thus offered, presented, and pleaded before GOD, is offered, presented, and pleaded before Him only for this reason, because it signifies and represents, both to GOD, and angels, and men, the great Sacrifice for all the world, is there not sufficient reason to consider this service as truly a Sacrifice?"† Charles Wheatly (ob. 1742): "Nor can we at any 39. Wheatly. time hope to intercede more effectually for the whole Church of GOD, than just when we are about to represent and show forth to the Divine Majesty that meritorious Sacrifice, by virtue whereof our great High Priest did once redeem us, and forever continues to intercede for us in heaven." ‡ "For during the repetition of these words, the Priest performs to GOD the representative Sacrifice of the Death and Passion of His SON. By taking the bread into his hands, and breaking it, he makes a memorial to Him of our SAVIOUR'S Body broken upon the Cross; and by exhibiting the wine, he reminds Him of His Blood there shed for the sins of the world." § Gloucester Ridley (ob. 1774): "For this reason 40. Ridley. types were instituted to prefigure the Sacrifice of CHRIST before He suffered; and for the same reason a memorial instituted to commemorate it after He * Tract No. 81, pp. 409, 410. † Ibid., p. 412. Ibid., p. 413. Ibid., p. 414. 41. Daubeny. 42. Jolly. suffered; both of them appointed for the same purpose, to represent the Death of CHRIST: they are equally memorials, and equally sacrifices, differing from one another only as the morning and evening shadow.”* Charles Daubeny (ob. 1827): "The Holy Eucharist is a commemorative Sacrifice, offered up to GOD, by way of memorial, or bringing to remembrance that grand Sacrifice, once offered on the Cross, and for the purpose of applying the merits of it to the parties who, in faith, offer it up." † "They consider it to be a commemorative Sacrifice and typical representation, by way of memorial, of the grand Sacrifice that had been offered upon the Cross by JESUS CHRIST." ‡ Alexander Jolly, Bishop of Moray (ob. 1838): “Our resort, therefore, must ever be to the Sacrifice of the Death of CHRIST, which was prefigured, for the support of man's hope, by instituted typical sacrifices from the beginning, as we see in Adam's family; looking forward to it before its actual accomplishment, and now perpetuating the sacrificial remembrance of it, in that Divine institution, which He Himself ordained, to show it forth before GOD, and plead its merit, till He shall come again to judge the quick and the dead." § "In the highest heavens, He presents the substance of His Body and Blood, once offered and slain upon. earth, and which must in heaven remain until the times of the restitution of all things; and His Church upon earth, by the hands of those whom He commissioned, and promised to be with them, in succession from His Apostles, to the end of the world, offers the instituted representations of them, in commemorative Sacrifice, *Tract No. 81, p. 417. Ibid., p. 421. § Ibid., p. 422. to plead the merit, and pray for all the benefits of His Death and Passion, pardon of sins, increase of grace, and pledge of glory." * We have now before us every passage in Tract 81 which bears directly upon the nature of the Eucharistic Sacrifice, and we are therefore in a position to state the results of an examination of these one hundred and fifty-one passages from fifty-one representative Anglican divines. Summary of our investiga tion of these passages. In four writers are passages relating the H. E. to our Intercession. ever, teaches that the Obla We find in four writers, the Pseudo-Overall, Taylor, Johnson, and Philpotts, passages in which the Eucharistic Sacrifice is more or less distinctly related "to the perpetual and daily offering of it [the Sacrifice of the Cross by CHRIST] now in heaven in His everlasting Priesthood." † It should, however, be only one, hownoticed that only one of these authors, Johnson, teaches that the Oblation was not "finished before tion was not the Blood of the Sacrifice was brought into the most Holy place and there offered." The Pseudo-Over- Cross. all neither says nor implies this; indeed he explicitly states that what is offered in heaven is the same Sacrifice as was once offered, and that "the Church intends which was to make that effectual once obtained by the Sacrifice of CHRIST upon the "finished" upon the |