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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.
Here's accidents without a subject; the bread vanisheth, but the accidents remain and face our senses, yet they stand all alone without a substance to inhere in; under their roof is no less than the body of Christ, yet they lean upon nothing.
Here's a thing made, which before was made; which is all one, as if a Father should beget a Son already begotten, or an Architect build an house already built; the body of Christ, which was before the Conversion, is produced by turning the bread into it; he that was conceived by the Holy Ghost, and born of the Virgin, is made again by pronouncing a few words; to make that which is made, is impossible. Bellarmine to salve this, saith,1 That it is not conversio productiva, sed adductiva; which distinction overturns it self; if it be only adductive, it is no conversion; if Christ had only destroyed the substance of the Water, and set Wine, that was extant before, in the room of it, there had been no conversion; no more is there, if the ⟨p. 218⟩bread cease to be; and the body of Christ, that was before in being, came in the room of it: Here is no Transubstantiation, but Translocation only.
- 1De Euch. lib. 3.18.
Here's a body in many places; the body of Christ is entire in Heaven; it is also entire in the Eucharist; it is therefore above it self, below it self, at a distance from it self: all which are impossible.
Here's a body in many places; the body of Christ is intire in Heaven; it is also intire in the Eucharist; it is therefore above it self, below it self, at a distance from it self: all which are impossible.