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Excerpt from The Nature of Christ's Presence in the Eucharist, or the True Doctrine of the Real Presence Vindicated in Opposition to the Fictitious Real Presence, Vol. 2: Asserted by Archdeacon Denison, Mr. (Late Archdeacon) Wilberforce, and Dr. Pusey
Son our Saviour Jesus Christ. And what renders this pas sage much more significant is the fact (which I shall presently notice more particularly), that it was altered to the expressions now found in it from words that might seem to imply that all received the Body and Blood of Christ.
But the most significant evidence derivable from the Com munion Service on this subject, is, I think, to be found in the alterations made from the first Liturgy of 1549 in the revision Of 1552, and continued in subsequent revisions to which therefore I shall now proceed to direct the attention of the reader.
It will be found that in the Second prayer-book of Edw. VI. (that of and the subsequent ones, all those expressions in the first prayer-book, published in 1549, which might seem to indicate, that the presence of the Body and Blood of Christ was to be looked for in the consecrated elements, or as so present that all the communicants indiscriminately partook of that Body and Blood, are carefully expunged or altered.
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