...a ghostly substance and not carnal." Whilst in the church catechism it is expressly asserted that " the body " and blood of Christ are verily and indeed taken and received " by the faithful in the Lord's supper. " The popish doctrine of the real presence which had formerly been con* Homily concerning...

...the ecclesiastical me and sense of the word xu^itas, see Albertinus, p. 461. Claude, part ii. p. 76. blood of Christ are " verily and indeed taken and received " by the faithful in the Lord's Supper1." This doctrine did not happen to please the Nicene Fathers, who sate thirty-three...

...fond of drawing. • The next count in this indictment runs thus : . " 5. Your Church declares that the body and blood of Christ are verily and indeed taken and received by the faithful in the Lord's Supper." it cannot be denied, that this language is fully sanctioned by many passages in...

...Observations on this Prayer, chap, iv, part ii, of this Treatise. t In the Catechism it is asserted, that " the body and blood of Christ are verily and indeed taken and received by the faithful in the Lord's Supper ;" but the emphatic word faithful shews that they are not corporeally, but only spiritually...

...There is a difficulty in this part of the catechism.which should notbepassedover. We are told, " that olicitude; I have traced her progress from injuries to arms, and from arms to liberty. Sp the Lord's sup* The catechism asserts the sacraments to be only generally necessary to salvation, excepting...

...invisible communion between our souls, and the body and blood of Christ ; and therefore we say, that the body and blood of Christ, are verily and indeed taken and received, by the faithful in the Lord's supper. " By the faithful" because faith is that hidden principle by which the soul holds...

...of controversy, viz. to the explanation of the sense in which the assertion of our catechism, that " the body and blood of Christ are verily and indeed taken and received by the faithful in the Lord's supper," is to be understood ; or, which is the same thing, of the sense in which the church...

...:— our own Church, for instance, in denying the Corporeal Presence, scruples not to affirm, " that the body and blood of Christ are verily and indeed taken and received by the faithful in the Lord's Supper :" meaning only that the benefits of his Sacrifice are partaken of, and justifying...

...is xjiiritually present, but that, under the emblems of bread and wine, and by faith as the means, " the body and blood of Christ are verily and indeed taken and received by the faithful in the Lord's Supper:" and, therefore, that they are in a certain sense present, that it is by their powerful...

...1565. * We teach in our Catechism, which is early put into the hands of all Protestant Children, "that the BODY and BLOOD of CHRIST are verily and indeed taken and received by the FAITHFUL in the LORD'S SUPPER." In the xxviiith Article we profess," that to them who worthily receive the LORD'S...