§.VIII POSTERIUS: The prior shift favors Calvinists no more than the invariatus — they confess true presence, distribution, and exhibiting signs
The second point we must prove — that the change, especially the prior one, favors the Calvinian sense no more than the unvaried article itself does — comes clear this way.
Calvin, counted among the Reformed doctors, and with him all the Reformed churches, admit a true presence and a true distribution of Christ's body and blood in the holy Supper, no less than a true exhibition.
And because of that exhibition, which they never fail to press, they confess the sacramental signs to be not bare signs only, but also exhibiting signs.
Fair enough. But the charge runs: under the Variata's words, where body and blood are said only to be exhibited, not to be present and distributed, Calvinists can more easily hide a merely spiritual exhibition — saying truly exhibited while teaching exhibited only spiritually.
Latin
POSTERIUS verò à nobis probandum, scil. mutationem praesertim priorem, Calvinianae Sententiae nullâ ex parte magis favere, quam ipse Articulus invariatus ei favet, sic illucescit: Quia cumprimis Calvinus, Reformatorum Doctoribus annumeratus, & cum Calvino Reformatae Ecclesiae omnes, & veram praesentiam, & veram distributionem Corporis & Sanguinis Christi, in S. Coena admittunt, non minùs quam veram exhibitionem, istasque propter hanc, quam nusquam non inculcant seriò, Signa Sacramentalia, non nude Significantia, sed & Exhibentia, confessi. Justas: At, sub Variatae Confessionis verbis, quibus Corpus & Sanguis Christi, nudè exhiberi, non autem adesse & distribui dicuntur, occultare facilius Calvinianos sententiam suam de Spirituali Corporis & Sanguinis Christi exhibitione posse, ut dum exhiberi ista dicunt verè, Spiritualiter duntaxat exhiberi doceant?