Excerpt from The Doctrine of the Lord's Supper: As Set Forth in the Book of Concord, Critically Examined, and Its Fallacy Demonstrated The sequel will show that the reformation of a cer rupt Church, and a thoroughly intelligent appreciation of Christianity, cannot be achieved in the brief space of a single generation, especially when we reflect that the knowledge of the Reformers chiefly comprised scholastic learning, while, at the same time, their minds were warped by the prejudices of a bigoted and servile education, thwarted in its nobler aspirations by groveling monachism on the one hand, and hierarchical tyranny on the other. 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.