From House Postil
Vol. 2, “First Sermon For The Day Of The Lord’s Supper. The Holy
Sacrament. 1 Cor. 11. 23-26.”
A similar calamity
is now threatened by the Sacramentarians, who bring dangerous
controversies into the churches by their false doctrines
concerning the Sacrament; for they teach the people that in it
we have naught but bread and wine, thus depriving the
Christians again of the comfortable assurance of grace, which
Christ has connected with this Sacrament and given to His
Church. We must therefore avoid these false teachers, else
they will drag us once more into the bitter woe which we
endured under the Pope, when it had become customary to preach
of this Sacrament in such a manner as to produce but fear and
trembling, so that people refused to participate in it, and
lost all the gladness and grace which this holy food can
bring.