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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.
5. And I am fully satisfied that it is not the signs only; but the Real Body and Blood of Christ, which are given us in the Sacraments (both Baptism and the Eucharist): But how given us? Relatively, de jure; as a man is Given to a Woman in Marriage; or as a house and land are delivered to me, to be mine for my use; though I touch them not. Thus 1. A right to Christ is given us: 2. And the fruits or benefits of his Crucified body and shed blood, are actually given us, that is, Pardon and the Spirit, merited for us thereby.
6. And among the Benefits given us, besides the Relative, there are some such as we call Real or Physical terminatively, and hyperphysical originally ut à Causa, which are the spirit of Holiness, or the Quickening, Illuminating and Sanctifying influence of the spirit of ⟨p. 148⟩Christ upon our souls. And the Sacrament is appointed as a special means of communicating this.
7. I have met with some of late who say, that Indeed Christs Body and Blood in his humbled state, were not really eaten and drunk by the disciples, at his last supper: For the flesh profiteth not to such a use: But that his Glorified Body is spiritual, and is extensively communicated, and invisibly present under the form of Bread in the Sacrament; and that as we have a Body, a sensitive life, and an Intellectual soul, so Christ is the life of all these respectively; viz. His Body is made the spiritual nourishment of our Bodies; his sensitive soul (for which the word Blood is put, because it is in the blood in animals) is the food or life of our sensitive souls; and his Intellectual soul, of ours: And to these uses they assert the Real presence and oral participation of Christs Glorified body.