A55302:248
Christus in corde, or, The mystical union between Christ and believers considered in its…
Christus in corde, or, The mystical union between Christ and believers considered in its resemblances, bonds, seals, privileges and marks by Edward Polhil ..., Esq.Christus in corde, or, The mystical union between Christ and believers considered in its resemblances, bonds, seals, priviledges and marks by Edward Polhil ..., Esq.
London: printed by A.M. and R.R. for Tho. Cockerill, 1680
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.
The Papists assert such a presence upon account of a Transubstantiation of elements; they explain it thus, those words, This is my body, this is my blood, are consecratory and operative; by virtue of them, and in the last instant of pronouncing them, the Bread and Wine are turned into the Body and Blood of Christ; the substance of the Bread and Wine remains no longer; but under the accidents thereof, are the very Body and Blood of Christ.
In answer to this, I shall consider the words, this is my body; (this) is the subject, (is) the copula, (my body) the predicate; touching the predicate, it is on all hands granted to be the Body of Christ; the only question is in the two other.
The word (this) imports clearly the Bread; this appears by the precedent words: And he took bread, and gave thanks, and ⟨p. 213⟩brake it, and gave unto them, saying, this is my body, Luke 22.19. What did he say was his body, but that which he gave to his Disciples? what did he give unto them, but what he brake? what brake he, but what he took? And doth not the Text expressly say, that he took Bread? Of the Bread therefore he said, This is my body; the order of the words shows it to be bread; this will more appear if we compare these words, this is my body, with those which are a fair commentary on them, The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ? 1 Cor. 10.16. In the one we have the word (this), in the other the bread in express terms; in the one we have the body of Christ, in the other the communion of it: In both, Bread is the thing spoken of, as a thing distinct from the body, of which it is the communion. If the word (this) be not bread, what can we make of it? Is it the accidents of the Bread? The Greek word, [Greek or Hebrew], imports not accidents, but a substance; accidents are not a body, neither are these converted, but remain. Is it the Body of Christ? That is not in the Eucharist till all the words be uttered, it is not there at the pronouncing of the first word (this); the Proposition is not identical, the words run not thus,