A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §123 · Samuel Strimesius

§.VIII close: Same spiritual reading fits the Invariata; its confessors allow spiritual presence; Reformed teach sacramental, not bare spiritual or corporal

Answer. First, they can do the same with the Invariata's words: while it says Christ's body and blood are truly present and distributed, they may take that as only spiritual presence and distribution.

Second, even confessors of the Invariata alone do not deny spiritual presence and distribution any more than spiritual exhibition and eating — especially since they also insist that their own corporal presence, distribution, eating, and exhibition are nonetheless hyperphysical and supernatural.

Third, the Reformed do not teach a naked spiritual presence, distribution, and exhibition of Christ's body and blood, but a sacramental one as well — though not a corporal one, which neither Augsburg Confession teaches, earlier or later.

Latin

Resp. (1.) Idem facere posse Calvinianos in verbis Invariatae Confessionis, ut dum dicunt: Corpus & Sanguinem Christi verè adesse & distribui, illa spiritualiter tantum adesse & distribui intelligant. (2.) Etiam invariatae solius Confessores, Spiritualem praesentiam pariter atque distributionem, haud magis quàm Exhibitionem ac Manducationem Spiritualem, inficiari, praesertim cum & suam Corporalem praesentiam, Distributionem, Manducationem & Exhibitionem, hyperphysicas nihilominus & Supernaturales inculcent esse. (3.) Non nudam Spiritualem praesentiam, Distributionem & Exhibitionem Corporis & Sanguinis Christi docere Reformatos, sed & Sacramentalem, licèt non Corporalem, utpote in neutra Confessione Augustana, nec in priori magis, quàm posteriori, edoctam.

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