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that e ma servio a rea participation of hina And in saet, See o hox an mali an attain a soli considen e that hulias redemption and righteousnes in the cros of Christ, and lis in his duath, utiles h sirs has a real communion illi Chris himself sor hos biossings ould neve bo impartest tous, is Christ id notrars mali himself urs Psay, heres ore, that in the myster of the supper, unde the symbol os readand wine, Christ is trul exhibite to has even his od and blood, in hieli ho has fulsillo ali obedione to procure urjustification. And the design of this exhibition is sirst that w may b unite into ne od With him, and Seeondly,
that uin inade partallers of his sub Stanee, e may Xperiencellis o Ner in tho Communication fili tessings. XII. Uno pro eo to the hyperbolica additions hich superstition has made to this sacrament. For here Satan has oxerte amaZin Subitet to illidra the ind of men frontheaven, and involVe them in re preposterou error, by persuad ingilium that Christ is attachod to the element of read. In thesrs place, e must e cares ut notrio stream Of Such a presenceo Cliris in the sacrament a the ingenuit of the Romanisis
s vallo med by the throat. For his Nas the form os recantationwhicli Popo Nicolas directe to Herengarius as a declaration os his repontance the langu age of hicli is o monstrous, that the scholiast Xelaim S that here is danger, unie S the readers be very prudent anil cautious, of thei imbibin frona it a morsu heresy than that Os Berengarius an Peter ombard, thoughhe akesareat alias to desen it rom the charge of absurdity, yet ather inclines to a different opinion. For, a We have nottho east doub that Christis od is finite accordin to the invariabie condition o a human Ody, and is containe in heaven, here it a Once received tit it hali return to judg-ment, o e Steem it ulteri unlawsul to bring it acli undor these corruptibi elemenis, o to imagine it to e preSent very where. Nor i there an nee of this in orde to Ur enjoyingili participationis it since the Lord by his Spirit gives iis thoprivilego os bella unite With himself in Ody, oui an spirit. The ond of this union, heres ore, is the Spirit of Christ by
by hiel, at that Chris himself is and has is conveye to S. For, i W0 ehol the sui dari in his ray an transmittin his
SubStanee, Scit ere, in them, o generate, nouri Sh, and mature
the oot of the parili, hy should tho irradiation of the Spiritos Christae lus est ectunt to convento us the communicationos his od an blood Z horos oro, the Scripture, hen its alis os our participation o Christ, attributus at the pomeris
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it to tho Spirit Ono passage hali sussice instea os many. In the ighth haptor folio Episti to the Romans, aut represent Christ a d Nodin in iis no ther Wis than by his Spirit. 4n Hy this representation the apostle oo no destroytha communion os the od and lood os Chris of hicli o ve remo treatin g, ut tenelles that it is solet oWin to the age ne of the Spirit lint, posses Christ With alliis benesiis, an have in diuult in With in I S. XIII. De turred by a horror os stioli barbarons impiet y the
Schootinen have expresse them solves in more modeSt language,
yet tho orat trisse illi qua fallac and greater Subile ty. The ad init that Christ is no containo in the r ad and
is to e Sought, a the eXpres it in the forna of read. Whon tho say that tho substance of brua is transmute into Christ, do the no attach his substance to the whiteneSS, Whicholio proton is ali that romatris of the broad y ut,
the Say, ne is o contained in the Sacrament, that he rem ainsin heaven, and e maintain no Otho preseno than that os habitudo. ut hale ver ord the emplo to gloSS Verthoi notioris, tho ali terminate in his that by the consecration that hicli a bosor broad ecomes Christ, o thatth substanc os Christ is conceale unde the colour os read. This tho pro not shamo to expres in lain ternis for Lombard says, That tho od o Christ, hicli is visibi in iis0lf, is hiddun and concented after the consecration, Unde theformis bread. V Thus the figur of the rea is nothinibu a Veii, hicli provent the osti rom ein Seen. Nor is there an neod of many conjectures, o discoVer lint nare theyin tonde to a in thes Words, hic hoste hin iiseis lainlye vinces For it is vident in hat pro uno superstition notoni the eopte in generat, ut even the principat men, haven O sor severat age been involved, and re involved, at thepresent day, in the Papa chiarches. Triae salth, hicli is the Sole medium os ur union an communion illi Christ, ein gan ollaec os ille solicitude to them, providod the have that carnal proserico hicli the have abri ate Withou any authori ty roin the Divine ord, the Conside him a sust- Ciently present illi them. The consequence of this ingeniolas Subile ty theres ore, e finxio e this that road has busentakon sor Od. XIV. Helice procoede that retended transubstantiation, sor hicli the no contend With more earnesines than or ali
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tho Otho articles of thei faith. For therars inuontors of tholoca presene mere unable to Ypla in ho ille od of Christcould bo mixod illi the Substance of the read Without uingimmediatet embarrassed by many absurditios Theros ore the found it necessar to have recolars to this fiction, thattho read is transmute in to the od os Christ no that hisbod is properi made of the read, ut that Christ annihilates tho substanc of the read, and conoeals himself unde iis form. It is astonis hin that the could ali into Such ignorance, and
even stupidi ty, a to promulgate Such a monstrotas notion, in direct opposition to the Scripture an to the doctrino of the primitive Church. consess, in deed that Ome of the ancient writer somelimes Sed the wor converaion, O With a vieruto destro the SubStance of the externa sigias, ut o signisy that tho read dedicate do that sacramen is uia ke Ommon bread, and disserent rom ha it a bes oro But tho aliconstanti and Xpressi declare, that the a rei Suppe consist of tW paris, arthi and enVenly and the arthi partthe explain, illi out the eas hesitation to se breui and wine. Whateve the Romani St ma pretenti it is ver cleartha tho authorit of the ancients, hici, the frequently presum to oppoSe to the lain ord of God assord thoni noassistanc in the Suppor of this dogma and induod, it is comparativel but o recent invention for it a no onlyunknown to tho Se et ter times, heia the doctrine os religionstillis urishod in iis puri ty, ut even hon that purit hadali eady boen uel corrupted There is no one of the ancient writer Wh doe notincknowledge in Xpres ternis that thoconsucrateit symbol of the Suppe are read and Win though, as e have ObServed they Some times distinguisholium illi various illes, o celebrate the dignit of the mystery. ForWhen the say that a Secret 0νὶ version alie place in theconSecration, o that they are Someth in disserent froni roadand wine, Phave ali ead State thei mean in to bu, no that the read and wine are annihilaled, ut that the are to e considoro in a disserent light rom Ommon a ments whicli aremuroly designe for the nourishment of the od bucause, in thos elementS, e re preSente With the spirituat sat an derint of tho oul. In his e also coincide. ut, ny Ur opponenis, is there eo converSion, ne hin must se changedint another. Is they mean that Someth in is mado hat twasio bes ore, Pagre With them. f the Wish to appl this to thei absurdiotion, let them et me hat chango the thinlit alios place in baptism. For in that also tho ather stat a Wonderim ConverSion, heia the Say that rom the corruptibi element procoed a Spiritual ablutior of the oul, et notone os them dentes that it retain the Substance of Water. But
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there is no suci declaration the say, respectin baptiSin asthere is respecting the suppor: his is in body. V A though
os, hicli ought to signis no more in the supper than in baptism. Let them cense thoi verba subiteties, heres ore, hiel onlybetra thoi own absurdi ty. In duod there Ouid e no ConSiStency in the sigilification is tho extornu sign eremo a livingimage of the truth whicli is repressented in it. y the Xternat Sigii, Christ intende to declare that his flesti is meat. Is heWere to et bes Ore iis a mere spectro os breud, and Dot realbreuit, here ould e tho analog or similitudo, hici oughtto ea iis froni tho visibi emblem to tho invisibi substance
For, O preServe the correSpondence complete, the Signification
the rea mas recolve in a corporeat anne into the Outh, and actuali fruallow0d. The cause os suo his stupid notionWIS that the considore the consecration asina indisi magicalineantation. ut the were una quainte With this principie, that the rea is a sacramunt ni to thos to homo he ordis ad tresse I a tho watur of baptism is no changed in itfel but On the annexatior of tho promise , egins to eo us that Whicli it a no bos ro. his ill o fur ther lucida te by the Xample Os a Simila sacrament. The wator hich nowed froni the rocli in the wilderness, was to the fallier a tot ei und
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element are applied to a Spirituat se, no ther Change alies place in them than illi regarii to non, o hom the beeomesealsis the promisses Hesides, Since the design os God is as have osten repented by uitable Vehieles et elevate S Ohimself, his objec is impiousi frustrato by the obstinae ofiliose ho invite uso Christ indeed, ut invisibi concoaledunde the forni os read. It is no possibi for thes humanni in xto vereo me the immensit os localii Stanee, an to penetrate to Christ in the ighest heavens Vlia nature dented them, they attempte to correct by a remedy et more pernicious, that hil remaining on the arth, the might attaina proXimi tyrio Christ ithout an need of ascend in to heaven. This sint the necessit whicli Constrat ned them to metamorphos the od os Christ. In the time of Hertiard though aharsi modo of expressioniad been adopted Stili trunSubstantiation as et utilinown an in ali precedin ages it Was a common similitude, in the mouilis os ali, that in his Sacra-mon tho od an blood os Christ e re spirituali united with th brua and wine. They argue respecting the termS, in their Wn apprehension, illi reat acu teness, ut Without
adducing any thing applicabie to the present subject Therod os Moses, the say though it took the formis a Serpent, stili re tui ne iis original name, and was called a rod. a So
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by the incantations of tho magicians There Sarenter Uncertaint With respectri Moses by hos hand it a no more dissicula for Godo mali auod into a Serpent, an aster ardSto malle the Serpent into a rod again than to invest angelswith materiai odios, and soon astero disembod them again.
si de ii as a fixe principio that tho flesl, of Christ is no trulypromisexto iis for ood in the sacred supper, utiles the rue Substance of the Xterna synibol correspontis to t. An asone error ives birtho uno ther, a passage of Jeremiali is o Stupidi perverted in Orde to prove transubstantiation that Iam Shamedo reciterit. The prophe complain that ood
simila figuro ulter the folloWin complaint They ave me also gal for in meat, an in m thirs they RV me ine-gar orarint . V f Theso disputant eXplain itis an allegory, that tho b d of Christ was astixe to the ood of the croSs; and this, the Say, a the opinion Os Some of the sat hors. Preply, e ought atheroo ardon thei ignorunce, and burythei disgraco in oblivion, than to ad the est ronter Os con-Straining them continuallyrio combat the genuine meanin Ofthe prophet. XVI. Othors, fio percuive it O be impossibi to destroythe analogy of the sigri and the hin signified, ithout subverting the truth of the mystery acknowledgo that the readin the acred suppe is the true substance of that arthi and corruptibi element, an undorgoos o change in itsolf butthey maintain fiat it has the od of Christ includo undo it. I the explainod their moaning to e that hen the rea is preSente in the sacrament, it is attended illi an exhibitiono the od o Christ, ecause the truth represente i in Separabie rom it signi I hould mali litile objection; ut res by placiti the od itsulf in the read tho attribute ubiquit toit, hicli is incompati bie illi it nature, and by stat iniit to
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liave ne embraced Some of them hesitate noto assirin that the od os Christ nover ad an otho dimensioris than thewhole extent of heaven an earth mis birili as an insant, his gro thri maturity, his extension On the croSs, his incareerationi the sepulchre, nil his, the say, took place in consequenceo a Lind of dispensation that he might a a man accompliSheVery thin neceSSar ou salvation His appoarances in the fame corporea forna aster his resurrection, hi ascensioni heaven his Subsequent appearances to Stephen anxio Paul, - ait 'his also resulte from a simila dispensation, that hemight manifes himself to the vi0 of man a appotnted ing in heaven. NON, What is thisi ut o ais Marcion rom tho dead λFor is sueti ero tho condition o Christis Ody, very onemus perceive it to have been a mere phantomi Vi Sionar formi Without an real substance Some plead With altile more Sub-tlety that the od os Christ, hicli is given in the sacrament, is glorious and immortal, and that theres ore it involves no abSurdity, i iti containe unde the Sacrament in Varioli placeS, o in no
that Splendour, O give them a transient glimpse of his immortali ty Tho willio find there a Wosoldiody but the Ver Same Whicli Christ was accustomen to carr about illi him, adorned
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tution os the sacro Supper the our a approaching, in Whicli, striclien undismittera os God, ' he was tot do nil ea leper , illic ut sorin or cometines he a thon ars rona intendin to display the glor os his resurrection. What door oes his open to the error os Marcion, is the od os Christippeared in ne place mortat an mean, an in another Was received a immortat an glorioui On thei principie, hoWever, this appen e ver da for the are Constrat ne to conses that tho Ody o Christ is visibi in iiself, hil ut ille Samo timo tho say that it is invisibi concealed unde thesymbo ostread And yet the promulgator Os Such monstro Sabsurditios are so a frona be in ashame of thei disgrace,
XVIII. Is tho aro dotermino toriasten the od and lood of th Lord to the rea and wine, ne must O necessit beseverod rom the ther. For a the rea is preSente Separatet 1 roin the cup the ody, ein united O the read must consequently be divide froni the lood containe in the eup. For hei the assirin that the od is in the read, and theblood in tho cup, hilo the rea and the in are a Somedistance rom enchither no sophistry in nable them to evade this conclaision that the od is separate stoin the lood. Thoi usual protericu that the lood is in the ony, and thebod in the lood by ha the cali concontita ιce, i perseetly frivolous, hilo the symbol in hicli the are containe ares divided. ut is o levat ou viems and thought to wardS heaven to seeli Christ there in the lor of his ingdom, asthe Symbol invite iis to in entire, unde the symbol os brea Ne hali eat his Ody unde the symbol of ine es ad distincti drini his lood, o that e had thus eiMoyhim entire. For though 0 has remove his testi frona iis, an in his Ody is ascende to eaven, et e sit at thes ather' right and that is, e rei gn in the poWer, and maje Sty, and glor of the ather. his ingdom is notthor limite do an locat pace, nor circumscribed by an dimension Christ Xeris his poWer here verme leases in heaven an parth, exhibit himself present in his energeti influence, i constanti With his uopte in spirin his life in to them, lives in them, Ustain them, Streng thoras and invigorate them, justa iste ere corpoready present in hori, he eed them illi his oWn Ody, os hicli h givos them a participation by the influone of his Spirit This is tho way in hicli the Odyand lood of Christ aro xhibitexto us in the Sacrament. XIX. di is necessar sor us to es tablisti Such a presene Of
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Christ in the sacro suppur, a Delther, On the ne and tosasten him to tho element of re ad , o to enclos him in it, Orin au Way O circumscribo him, hicli ould durogato fronthi celestiat glor nor,in tho theriand to de prive hinam his
that nothinibu attributod o his od inconi patibio illi the
human nature; hicli is the casse hon it is represented Sin sinito, or is sal to e in more placos thau ne ut the Same
time. These absurditius o in disclai medio cadit admit
municatior of the od and lood of th Lord, hic licis givento belleVers unde the Sacrod symbol os the Suppo ; and toexpres it in a manne implyin no a mero redoptionis it in the imaginationis apprehension os thoi mind, ut a realisnjoymon oscit a the ood os ternal lis . or an an cause beassigned Why this Opinion is o odio is to the worid, and theminit o multitudo ure so unjusti projudiced against nydes eiice oscit, ut that tho have been awsuli insutuatod illitho delusion os Satan. t is certa in that the doctrine me ad-vance is in ali 0speet in persecti armon with the Scriptures; it contain noth in abSurd, ambiguora S, O Obscure mi is notat ali inimica to true piety, o Sol id odification in hori, itincludes nothing that an ossenii, X cepi lint for severa ageS, while the ignorane an barbarism of the sophisis prevalleuove the Chureli, his ver clea light and obvioris truth asShamesuli suppreSSed. et as, in the present age Riso, Satanis malain the mos powersu exertious to Oppos it, and i employ in turbulent spirit to endo avou to lachen it by very possibi calumn an re prone , it is necessary to e the more diligunt in assertin and de seniliniit. XX. OW bes ore, procoed an surther, ibis requisiturio discus the institution iself bocause the mos plausibi objectionos ur adversaries is that e do pari rom the word of Christ. TO Xonerate ursolves rom the salso chargo hicli the bring against us, it is hi ghi pro per theres ore, to egin illi an XΡΟ- Sition of the words. The account given by three os the Vangelisis, and by Paul inforrn iis that Iesus took breud, and gave
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of the ne testament, or the no v testamen in myilood, whichi Shed sor oti, an sor many sor the remi Ssion os sitis. V h The advocatos os transubstantiation contend that the pronounthis denotes tho appearance of tho read beenu Se the consecration is made by the whol of the sentenue, and there is novi Sibi SubStanee, accordin to thum, hicii an e indicated
by it . ut is the are gui lud by a scrupulous attention to the WOrds, ecatis Christ declarod that hic li ho gave into theliand of his disciplus to b liis Ody. notii in can e more at Variane Nith a jus interpretationis thum, thun the notion that What bos oro a breuit ad no bocome thu od nos Christ. For it was that whicli Christ took into his haud to dolivor totis discipies that te asseris to b his Ody; ut o ook brea l. Who oes no porceive thon, that that to hic ciliis pronoun referre was read stili Θ and theres ore nothin Would bo more
absurdo an to transse to a mere appenrance or Vi Sionar sorinthat hicli a spolienis real read. thers, When the eX-plain the ori is to denote transubstantiation, hRV recolarse Oan interpretation stili moro violenti pervertet an uia naturai. The have no the eas colour, there fore, forin pretene that the are influenoed by a scrupulous reveretice so the Ord OfChrist. Foro usu the word icto signis a transmutation intonnother substance, is a thin neve heard os in an eoianir Ori an language Those ho acknowledg the continuarice of