Private masses, or receiving this sacrament by a priest, or any other alone; as likewise, the denial of the cup to the people, worshipping the elements, the lifting them up, or carrying them about, for adoration, and the reserving them for any pretended religious use; are all contrary to the nature of this sacrament, and to the institution of Christ.
Many of the practices common to Roman Catholicism decried in this paragraph flow out of the doctrine of transubstantiation. This will be discussed in greater detail when we arrive at our discussions around paragraph six.
In brief summary, the divines considered as inappropriate (or just plain wrong) private masses, denial of the cup to the people (also known as communion in one kind), worshipping or adoring the elements (the bread and the wine), lifting up the elements for purposes of adoration, and reserving the elements for any pretended religious uses such as relics or for alleged healing.
Tomorrow: The sign and the thing signified.
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