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- noun The worship of the
host ;artolatry
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Christ and the wine the blood of Christ, and stigmatized their doctrine as "bread-worship, _artolatreia_."
Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church 1894
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As you see, not only the controversy, but also the madness (_rabies_) of the writers who establish the bread-worship is growing. "
Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church 1894
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October 14, 1554: "As regards your admonition in your last letter that I repress the ignorant clamors of those who renew the strife concerning the bread-worship, know that some of them carry on this disputation out of hatred toward me in order to have a plausible reason for oppressing me.
Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church 1894
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These things being so, whosoever worshippeth Christ’s body in the eucharist, and that in respect of the sacramental presence of it in the same, cannot choose but hold that Christ’s body is bodily and really under the species of the bread, and so fall into the idolatry of bread-worship; or else our divines (743) have not rightly convinced the
The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) George Gillespie 1630
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