Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 edition. Excerpt: ... Faculty, in 1-572, wroter "Calvin, of blessed memory, seemed, to pious and learned men in France, not to be in unity with our Cburches in the doctrine of the Lord's Supper." The reproach of teaching such a carnal presence as is involved in the word Consubstantiation is therefore an after-thought of opponents. How groundless it is, can be made evident by a long array of witnesses. "I will call it," says Luther, * " a Sacramental Unity, forasmuch as the body of Christ and bread are there given us as Sacrament: for there is not a objection natural or personal unity, as in God and Christ;*it nered. is perhaps also a different unity from that which Ln, ]"rthe Dove had with the Holy Ghost, and the Flame with the Angel (Exod. iii. 2) -- in a word, it is a Sacramental Unity." "We are not so insane," says Luther, elsewhere, f "as to believe that Christ's body is in this bread, in the gross visible manner in which bread is in a basket, or wine in the cup, as the fanatics would like to impute it to us. . . As the Fathers, and we, at times, express it, that Christ's body is in the bread, is done for the simple purpose of confessing that Christ's body is there. This fixed, it might be permitted to say, It is in the bread, or, It is the bread, or, It is where the bread is, or as you please (wie man will). We will not strive about words, so long as the meaning is fixed; that it is not mere bread we eat in the Supper, but the body of Christ." In 1537, he wrote to the Swiss: * "In regard to the Sacrament of the body and blood of Christ, we have never taught, nor do we now teach, either that Christ descends from heaven or from God's right hand, or that He ascends, either visibly or invisibly. We stand fast by the Article of Faith, ' He...
