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| Some excerpts from Carl Olof Rosenius, A Faithful Guide to Peace with God received from Pastor Don Baron |
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The quote is from Dr. Pusey, considered the greatest of the English patristic scholars, who was actually reared in
the Calvinistic/Zwinglian view of the Supper. My source is C. P. Krauth, The Conservative Reformation and Its
Theology.
"I have now gone thru every writer who in his extant works speaks of the Holy Eucharist, from the time when St.
John the Evangelist was translated to his Lord, to the dates of the Fourth General Council, A.D. 451, a period of
three centuries and a half...I have adduced the Fathers, not as original authorities, but as witnesses to the
meaning of Holy Scriptures. I have alleged them on the...rule that what was taught 'everywhere, at all times, by
all,' must have been taught to the whole Church by the inspired Apostles themselves...A universal suppression of
the truths which the Apostles taught and the unmarked substitution of falsehood, is a theory which contradicts
human reason, no less than it does our Lord's promise to His Church. There is no room here for any alleged
corruption...However different the occasions may be upon which the truth is spoken of, in whatever variety of ways
it may be mentioned, the truth itself is one and the same - one uniform, simple, consentient truth; that what is
consecrated upon the altars for us to receive, what, under the outward elements is there present for us to receive,
is the body and blood of Christ; by receiving which the faithful in the Lord's Supper do verily and indeed take and
receive the body and blood of Christ; by presuming to approach which, the wicked...become guilty of the body and
blood of the Lord; i.e., become guilty of a guilt like theirs who laid hands on His divine person while yet in the flesh
among us, or who shed His all-holy blood.
"Yes, along the whole course of time, throughout the whole circuit of the Christian world, from east to west, from
north to south, there floated up to Christ our Lord one harmony of praise. Unbroken as yet lived on the day of
Pentecost, when the Holy Spirit from on high swept over the discordant strings of human tongues and thoughts,
of hearts and creeds, and blended all their varying notes into one holy unison of truth. From Syria and Palestine
and Armenia, from Asia Minor and Greece, from Thrace and Italy, from Gaul and Spain, from Africa Proper and
Egypt and Arabia, and the Isles of the Sea, wherever any Apostle had taught, wherever any martyr had sealed with
his blood the testimony of Jesus, from the polished cities or the anchorites of the desert, one Eucharistic voice
ascended: 'Righteous art Thou, O Lord, and all Thy words are truth.' Thou hast said, "This is My body, this is My
blood." Hast Thou said, and shalt not Thou do it? As Thou hast said, so we believe.' "
the Calvinistic/Zwinglian view of the Supper. My source is C. P. Krauth, The Conservative Reformation and Its
Theology.
"I have now gone thru every writer who in his extant works speaks of the Holy Eucharist, from the time when St.
John the Evangelist was translated to his Lord, to the dates of the Fourth General Council, A.D. 451, a period of
three centuries and a half...I have adduced the Fathers, not as original authorities, but as witnesses to the
meaning of Holy Scriptures. I have alleged them on the...rule that what was taught 'everywhere, at all times, by
all,' must have been taught to the whole Church by the inspired Apostles themselves...A universal suppression of
the truths which the Apostles taught and the unmarked substitution of falsehood, is a theory which contradicts
human reason, no less than it does our Lord's promise to His Church. There is no room here for any alleged
corruption...However different the occasions may be upon which the truth is spoken of, in whatever variety of ways
it may be mentioned, the truth itself is one and the same - one uniform, simple, consentient truth; that what is
consecrated upon the altars for us to receive, what, under the outward elements is there present for us to receive,
is the body and blood of Christ; by receiving which the faithful in the Lord's Supper do verily and indeed take and
receive the body and blood of Christ; by presuming to approach which, the wicked...become guilty of the body and
blood of the Lord; i.e., become guilty of a guilt like theirs who laid hands on His divine person while yet in the flesh
among us, or who shed His all-holy blood.
"Yes, along the whole course of time, throughout the whole circuit of the Christian world, from east to west, from
north to south, there floated up to Christ our Lord one harmony of praise. Unbroken as yet lived on the day of
Pentecost, when the Holy Spirit from on high swept over the discordant strings of human tongues and thoughts,
of hearts and creeds, and blended all their varying notes into one holy unison of truth. From Syria and Palestine
and Armenia, from Asia Minor and Greece, from Thrace and Italy, from Gaul and Spain, from Africa Proper and
Egypt and Arabia, and the Isles of the Sea, wherever any Apostle had taught, wherever any martyr had sealed with
his blood the testimony of Jesus, from the polished cities or the anchorites of the desert, one Eucharistic voice
ascended: 'Righteous art Thou, O Lord, and all Thy words are truth.' Thou hast said, "This is My body, this is My
blood." Hast Thou said, and shalt not Thou do it? As Thou hast said, so we believe.' "
| Dr. Pusey on the Supper received from Pastor Don Baron |