Meditations on the holy sacrament of the Lords last Supper Written many years sinceMeditations on the holy sacrament of the Lords last Supper Written many yeares since

Now Christs Presence in this holy Sacrament ⟨p. 89⟩being a thing of so important consequence and the consideration thereof being very proper to this first end of the Sacrament, the exhibiting of Christ (for to exhibit a thing is nothing else but to present it, or to make it present unto the party to whom it is exhibited) It will not be impertinent to make some short digression for setting down the manner, and clearing the trueth of Christs Real Presence, the understanding whereof will depend upon the distinguishing of the several manners in which Christ may be said to be present. First then, Christ being an infinite Person hath in the virtue of his Godhead an infinite and unlimited Presence, whereby he so filleth all places as that he is not contained or circumscribed in them, which immensity of his making him intimately present with all the Creatures is that whereby they are quickened, supported and conserved by him; for by him all things consist, and he upholdeth them all by the Word of his power, and in him they live and move and have their being. But this is not that Presence which in the Sacrament we affirm, because that presupposeth a Presence of Christ in and according to that nature wherein he was the Redeemer of the World, which was his humane nature. Yet in as much as this his humane nature subsisteth not but in and with the infiniteness of the second Person; there is therefore (in the second place) by the ⟨p. 90⟩Lutherans framed another imaginary Presence of Christs humane Body, (after once the Divinity was pleased to derive glory in fullness on it) which giveth it a participated ubiquity unto it too, by means whereof Christ is corporally in or under the Sacrament all Elements. But this opinion as it is no way agreeable with the truth of the humane nature of Christ, so is it greatly injurious to his Divinity:

Now Christs Presence in this holy Sacrament ⟨p. 89⟩being a thing of so important consequence and the consideration thereof being very proper to this first end of the Sacrament, the exhibiting of Christ (for to exhibite a thing is nothing else but to present it, or to make it present unto the party to whom it is exhibited) It will not be impertinent to make some short digression for setting downe the manner, and clearing the trueth of Christs Reall Presence, the understanding whereof will depend upon the distinguishing of the severall manners in which Christ may bee said to bee present. First then, Christ being an infinite Person hath in the vertue of his Godhead an infinite and unlimited Presence, whereby hee so filleth all places as that hee is not contained or circumscribed in them, which immensity of his making him intimately present with all the Creatures is that whereby they are quickened, supported and conserved by him; for by him all things consist, and hee upholdeth them all by the Word of his power, and in him they live and move and have their being. But this is not that Presence which in the Sacrament wee affirme, because that presupposeth a Presence of Christ in and according to that nature wherein he was the Redeemer of the World, which was his humane nature. Yet in as much as this his humane nature subsisteth not but in and with the infinitenesse of the second Person; there is therefore (in the second place) by the