Be it known to you that no minister can with good conscience perform mass alone, when there are no communicants.

Therefore here there is no room for further inquiry; either there must be communicants, or them should be no mass." [Note 13] 4.

Luther's "_Confession of the Christian Doctrines, in XVII.
Articles_," published in 1530.

This is a very short Confession, each article containing but three or four sentences, and the whole amounting to only three or four 8vo.pages.In Article X.he says: "The _eucharist_ or _sacrament_ of the altar also consists of two parts, namely that the true body and blood of Christ should verily be present in the bread and wine;" and in Article XVI.

he says: "Above all other abominations, the _masses_, that have hitherto been regarded as a _sacrifice_ or _good work_, by which one designed to procure grace for the other, are to be rejected." [Note 14] Here the distinction is not only made between the mass and eucharist, but the doctrine of the mass as a sacrifice of Christ offered by the priest for others, is also denounced.