My Flesh and drinketh My Blood hath eternal life;' she believes, that the Body or Flesh, and the Blood of Jesus Christ, the Creator and Redeemer of the world, both God and Man, united indivisibly in One Person, are verily and indeed given to, taken, eaten, and received by the faithful in the Lord's Supper', under the outward sign or form of bread and wine,' which is, on this account, the 'partaking or commu

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the Flesh of Christ and drink His Blood," &c.-Exhort. in Communion Office. "Grant us therefore, gracious Lord, so to eat the Flesh of Thy dear Son," &c.—Prayer before Consecration. The term "flesh" is only used in this chapter of S. John.

"Who although He be God and Man, yet He is not two, but one Christ; .. one altogether, not by confusion of Substance, but by unity of Person."-Athan. Creed.

"The Body of Christ is given, taken, and eaten in the Supper... is received and eaten in the Supper."-Art. XXVIII. "The Body and Blood of Christ, which are verily and indeed taken and received by the faithful in the Lord's Supper."-Catechism. "The Holy Communion of the Body and Blood of our Saviour Christ."-Exhort. in Communion Office. "We spiritu-______ ally eat the Flesh of Christ and drink His Blood."-Ibid. "Grant us, therefore, gracious Lord, so to eat the Flesh of Thy dear Son Jesus Christ and to drink His Blood, that our sinful bodies may be made clean by His Body."-Prayer before Consecration. "Grant that we receiving these Thy creatures of bread and wine may be partakers of His Most Blessed Body and Blood."-Consecration. "Most heartily thank Thee for that Thou dost vouchsafe to feed us . . . with the spiritual food of the most precious Body and Blood of thy Son our Saviour Jesus Christ."- Post Communion.

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nion of the Body and Blood of Christ.' She believes that the Eucharist is not the sign of an absent Body, and that those who partake of it receive not merely the figure, or shadow, or sign of Christ's Body, but the reality itself. And, as Christ's Divine and Human Natures are inseparably united, so she believes that we receive in the Eucharist, not only the Flesh and Blood of Christ, but Christ Himself, both God and Man. Resting on these words, The bread which we break is it not the communion of the Body of Christ ?' and again, 'I will not drink henceforth of the fruit of the vine;' she holds that the nature of the bread and wine continues after consecration, and therefore

31 Cor. x. 16. Art. XXVIII. "Thus much we must be sure to hold, that in the Supper of the Lord there is no vain ceremony, no bare sign, no untrue figure of a thing absent.".

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The faithful" receive not only the outward Sacrament, but the spiritual thing also; not the figure but the truth; not the shadow only, but the body."-Ib. Bishop Poynet says "Corpus Christi et veritas et figura est: veritas dum Corpus Christi et sanguis virtute Spiritûs Sancti in virtute ipsius ex panis et vini substantia efficitur: figura vero est id quod exterius sentitur.”Diallacticon, p. 6.

5 "He hath given His Son our Saviour Jesus Christ, not only to die for us, but also to be our spiritual food and sustenance in that Holy Sacrament."-Exhortation in Communion Office. "In no wise are they partakers of Christ."-Art. XXIX.

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rejects transubstantiation, or the change of the substance,' which supposes the nature of bread entirely to cease by consecration. As a necessary consequence of the preceding truths, and admonished by Christ Himself, 'It is the spirit that quickeneth, the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you they are spirit and they are life;' she holds that the Presence (and therefore the eating) of Christ's Body and Blood, though true, is altogether 'heavenly and spiritual,' of a kind which is inexplicable by any carnal or earthly experience or imagination even as the Sonship of the Eternal Word of God, and His Incarnation, and the Procession of the Holy Spirit, are immeasurable by human understandings.

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"Transubstantiation (or the change of the substance of bread and wine) in the Supper of the Lord, cannot be proved by holy writ; but is repugnant to the plain words of Scripture," &c. -Art. XXVIII.

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"The Body of Christ is given, taken, and eaten in the Supper, only after an Heavenly and spiritual manner."—Art. XXVIII.

9" He sitteth on the right hand of the Father, God Almighty; from whence He shall come to judge the quick and the dead." Athan. Creed.

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and earthly mode of existence of a body. Resting on the Divine promise, 'Whoso eateth My Flesh and drinketh My Blood hath eternal life,' she regards it as the more pious and probable opinion, that the wicked, those who are totally devoid of true and living faith, do not partake of the Holy Flesh of Christ in the Eucharist, God withdrawing from them so divine"> a gift, and not permitting His enemies to partake of it. And hence she holds, that such a faith is the means by which the Body of Christ is received and eaten,' 'a necessary instrument in all these holy ceremonies;' because it is the essential qualification on our parts, without which that body is not received; and because without faith it is impossible to please God 4'

"Following the example of our Lord Jesus Christ, and of the Apostles, and supported by their authority, she believes that the blessing' or 'consecra

corporal Presence of Christ's natural Flesh and Blood."-Declar. after Communion Office.

"The wicked, and such as be void of a lively faith, although they do carnally and visibly press with their teeth... the Sacrament of the Body and Blood of Christ, yet in no wise are they partakers of Christ."-Art. XXIX.

3" Which being so divine and comfortable a thing to them who receive it worthily."-Exhort. in Com. Office.

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tion of the bread and wine is not without effect,
but that it operates a real change: for when the
Sacrament is thus perfected, she regards it as so
'divine a thing,' so 'heavenly a food,' that we must
not 'presume" to approach it with unprepared minds,
and that sinners, although they only partake of the
bread and wine, partake of them to their own con-
demnation, because they impiously disregard the
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in the real Presence of the 'precious and Blessed Body and Blood of our Saviour Jesus Christ,' speaks

the bread, and at 'likewise after supper,' &c. for the blessing of the cup."-Rubric in Com. Office.

6 "The Priest... shall say the prayer of consecration.". Rubric Com. Office. "If the consecrated bread and wine be all spent... the Priest is to consecrate more."-Rubric, Ibid. "If any remain of that which was consecrated... the priest, and such other, &c. . . . shall immediately after the blessing, reverently eat and drink the same."-Rubric, ibid.

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"Which being . . . so dangerous to them that will to receive it unworthily."-Exhort. in Com. Off. "St. Paul exhorteth all persons diligently to try and examine themselves, before they presume to eat of that bread and drink of that cup." -Ibid. "We do not presume to come to this Thy Table, merciful Lord, trusting in our own righteousness, but in Thy manifold and great mercies."-Prayer before Consecration.

"So is the danger great if we receive the same unworthily. For then we are guilty of the Body and Blood of Christ our Saviour; we eat and drink our own damnation, not considering the Lord's Body; we kindle God's wrath against us; we provoke Him to plague us with divers diseases and sundry kinds of death."-Exhort. in Com. Office.

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