Excerpt from The Doctrine and Practice of the Eucharist: As Deduced From Scripture and the Ancient Liturgies IT is only the rough sketch of an argument which is here presented. As in a previous work, I have wished to challenge the legitimacy of certain views of the Eucharist which are allowed to usurp, and to themselves exclusively, the vener able designation of Catholic, though to the prejudice of a higher, more Scriptural doctrine which has also the witness of the great Catholic liturgies in its favour. It is, perhaps, desirable to state from the very outset that it is no lower purely negative and Protestant view which I seek to vindicate, but a higher Scriptural and liturgical View of which the ordinary Roman and so-called Catholic is the merest travesty. The importance of the subject would indeed call for a fuller treatment and discussion than what are given here. I may, therefore, just mention that I have previously made two separate attempts to deal with it more adequately on a larger scale, first in tracing historically the. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.