A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §374 · Samuel Strimesius

Annotatio II §.III close CONCEPTIO error 1: Fathers twisted toward corporal union ante usum; stop before §.IV

Those Father-sayings meant legitimate use: the worthy receive earthly and celestial; 1 Tim. 4 sanctification; Spirit’s virtue toward communicants, not a changed bread-substance.

Rhetorical, not metaphysical — yet consubstantiation-pressers twist them as if the Fathers taught corporal bread–body union before and outside faithful use, ex opere operato to any eater.

Stop before §.IV (SECOND error — middle-ages Fathers after Chalcedon).

Latin

Itaque recitata hactenus dicta Patrum aliaque similia quàm plurima, quibus equidem Eucharistiam sacram duplici substantia constare illi dixerunt, sed de legitimo tantùm usu intellexerunt, in quo, dignè accedentes, non terrestrem solum panem, sed & Cælestim participant, panem Eucharisticum precibus quidem sanctificari, sed ea sanctificatione, quâ omnia alia, perhibente Apostolo 1. Tim. 4. virtutem quidem ac efficaciam divinam, pani, vel affundi, vel infundi, à Spiritu Sancto, sed respectu duntaxat eorum qui pane sacramentali ritè vescuntur (utpote qui soli, non autem panis, δυνάμει εἰς δύναμιν virtute in virtutem spiritualem, per spiritualem corporis Christi participationem, transmutantur); Hæc inquam dicta Patrum, Rhetoricô præterea elata stylô, nec ad Metaphysicum rigorem exigenda, illuc, per errorem, traxerunt Consubstantiationem enixuri & interpretati sunt, acsi Patres Corporalem Unionem panis & corporis Christi, in Coena Sacra, etiam ante, & extra usum, seu perceptionem panis fidelem, fieri inculcassent, ex opere operato, vescenti cuivis, virtutem spiritualem, quin ipsam corporis Christi substantiam, corporali modo, conciliaturam ac communicaturam.

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