True exhibition of body and blood; against mere-bread charge
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Those who charge our churches' doctrine with setting mere bread and wine as merely heavenly in the Supper do us injury.For Calvin (Inst.4.17) says we affirm that Christ descends to us by the external symbol as well as by His Spirit, so that He truly vivifies our souls by the substance of His flesh and blood.
Transubstantiation and consubstantiation or impanation excluded, we readily admit with the ancients in a sound sense those particles 'with', 'under', or 'in'or 'in'or 'in', to declare a presence of the things signified that is true yet mystical, and their exhibition in lawful use of the sacrament.
Latin
Iniurii igitur sunt in ecclesiarum nostrarum doctrinam qui criminantur nos merum panem & vinum mere coelesti in coena statuere. Nam Joh. Calvin. Inst. 4.17: Dicimus Christum tam externo symbolo quam spiritu suo ad nos descendere, ut vere substantia carnis suae & sanguinis sui animas nostras vivificet. Exclusa igitur transsubstantiatione & consubstantiatione sive impanatione, particulas illas cum, sua, cum antiquis sano sensu facile admittimus, ad declarandam veram quidem sed mysticam rerum signatarum praesentiam & in legitimo sacramenti usu exhibitionem.