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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.
And indeed it is strange if the Sacrament at the first Institution should be One thing, and ever after another thing; and that the Bread should ever since be turned into Christs body, upon the Priests Consecration, and not be turned into it, (because not yet glorified) upon his own words [This is my Body.] Therefore we must let this go, and speak of what they own and hold indeed. And as for any other Bodily presence, influence or communication of Christs Body or Soul, besides that which they call Transubstantiation, we have nothing to do with it in this Controversy.
And indeed it is strange if the Sacrament at the first Institution should be One thing, and ever after another thing; and that the Bread should ever since be turned into Christs body, upon the Priests Consecration, and not be turned into it, (because not yet glorified) upon his own words [This is my Body.] Therefore we must let this go, and speak of what they own and hold indeed. And as for any other Bodily presence, influence or communication of Christs Body or Soul, besides that which they call Transubstantiation, we have nothing to do with it in this Controversie.
That the substance of the Bread and Wine is not turned into the substance of the flesh and blood of Christ, is proved.
I. Because the Glorified Body of Christ is not formally and properly Flesh and Blood: Though it be the s•me Body which was Flesh and Blood. The Apostle Paul saith, 1 Cor. 15.50, 51. [Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God, nor doth corruption inherit incorruption; Behold, I show you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed.] It is not only Dr. Hammond, but other of the best expositors who show that by Flesh and blood and corruption here is not meant sin, but flesh and blood formally considered; which is ever corruptible: And the Papists commonly confess this. If therefore it be flesh and blood which the bread and wine are turned into, then either Christ hath two bodies, or two parts of one, which are utterly heterogeneal, one flesh and blood, and the other not; one corruptible and the other incorruptible.