Christus in corde, or, The mystical union between Christ and believers considered in its…

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.

1. 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.

Here's a mistake of the Senses; the bread appears to be bread, it looks, touches, smells, tastes like bread, yet it is not so; in other things our senses are right, but in the Eucharist (in which the design is by sense to lead our Faith to spiritual objects) they are in a fatal error, much less tolerable than if there were a mistake about other objects; it being, not in a thing merely natural or speculative, but in a sacred or practical sign ordained on purpose to figure out and exhibit Christ unto us. Thus much touching the Doctrine of the Papists in this point.