Coming to the Lord’s Table

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 accomplished once for all on the cross, and that we by the Holy Spirit are grafted into Christ, who according to His human nature is now not on earth but in heaven at the right hand of God His Father, and will there be worshipped by us.

But the Mass teaches that the living and 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 in essence is nothing else than a denial of the one sacrifice and sufferings of Jesus Christ and an accursed idolatry.

For those who are truly sorrowful for their sins and yet trust that these are forgiven them for the sake of Christ, and that their remaining infirmities are covered by His suffering and death, and who also earnestly desire to have their faith more and more strengthened and their lives more holy, but hypocrites and those who do not turn to God with sincere hearts eat and drink judgement to themselves.

No, for by this the covenant of God would be dishonoured and His wrath kindled against the whole congregation; therefore it is the duty of the Christian church, according to the appointment of Christ and His apostles, to exclude such persons by the keys of the kingdom of heaven until they show a changed life.