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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.
But, though in all these respects, Faith apprehendeth and liveth upon Christ, yet that moreover his Glorified Body in substance, either feedeth or by contact purifieth our Bodies, and his sensitive soul, our sensitive souls, and his Intellectual soul, our Intellectual souls, as if in ⟨p. 149⟩themselves, and not in their effects only they were thus communicated to us, I understand not, either by any just conception of the thing it self, or any proof of it from the word of God. But if any can help me to see it, I shall not refuse instruction.
Nor can I see why the soul of Christ should be said to be given in the Wine only, and not in the Bread; Nor why by this kind of Communication he may not as truly be said to be given us in other Ordinances as in the Eucharist: Nor know I what they mean by the Forms of bread and wine, under which they say that Christs Body and blood is given: But I am past doubt that Bread and Wine are still really in substance there.
And whereas the same men say that It is Christs humbled flesh and blood as sacrificed on the Cross that is Commemorated, but his Glorified Body and soul only which are Communicated and Received, I must say, 1. That Christ plainly tells us of his Giving us his Sacrificed Body or flesh it self to eat, as he is the Lamb of God that taketh away the sins of the World: And he saith, Take, Eat, this is my Body which is broken for you, &c. so that the same body is Commemorated and Communicated: But how Communicated? In the effects of his sacrifice: His Body was given a sacrifice to God for us, and the fruits of that sacrifice given to us. And thus he was given a sacrifice for the life of the world; And thus we do receive him: By our bodily taking and eating the Bread, we profess that our souls take him to be our Saviour and Cause of our Life, both as Purchasing and Meriting it on Earth, and Interceding and Communicating it in and from Heaven.