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Full and easy satisfaction which is the true and safe religion in a conference…Full and easie satisfaction which is the true and safe religion in a conference…
Full and easy satisfaction which is the true and safe religion in a conference between D. a doubter, P. a papist, and R. a reformed Catholic Christian : in four parts ... / by Richard Baxter.Full and easie satisfaction which is the true and safe religion in a conference between D. a doubter, P. a papist, and R. a reformed Catholick Christian : in four parts ... / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Nev. Simmons, 1674
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
III. The nutritive use of the bread and wine was another part of the sign, as all confess: As bread and wine are the Nutriment of the body and life of man, so is Christ crucified meritoriously, and Christ glorified efficiently, the life of the soul. And he that denieth the Nutritive sign, denieth the Sacrament: But it is not the false appearance, or phantasm, or accidents of bread and wine, that are the natural nourishers of man: Therefore he that denieth the nourishing substance, denieth the Real sensible Sacramental sign.
III. The nutritive use of the bread and wine was another part of the sign, as all confess: As bread and wine are the Nutriment of the body and life of man, so is Christ crucified meritoriously, and Christ glorified efficiently, the life of the soul. And he that denyeth the Nutritive sign, denyeth the Sacrament: But it is not the false appearance, or phantasm, or accidents of bread and wine, that are the natural nourishers of man: Therefore he that denyeth the nourishing substance, denyeth the Real sensible Sacramental sign.
Saith Bellarmin de Euchar. l. 3. c. 23. [In the Eucharist we receive not corporal food that the flesh may be thence nourished and made fat: but only to signify inward refection.] So that he acknowledged this to be part of the Sacramental sign. So Gregor. Valent. saith that [The chief and essential signification of this Sacrament is that which by external nourishment is ⟨p. 131⟩signified, the internal spiritual refection of the soul by the body of Christ.] So that denying the nourishing sign is destroying the essence of the Sacrament.
Saith Bellarmin de Euchar. l. 3. c. 23. [In the Eucharist we receive not corporal food that the flesh may be thence nourished and made fat: but only to signifie inward refection.] So that he acknowledged this to be part of the Sacramental sign. So Gregor. Valent. saith that [The chief and essential signification of this Sacrament is that which by external nourishment is ⟨p. 131⟩