A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §470 · Samuel Strimesius

Annotatio III §.X (5)(1)–(2): Removes the material Sign; turns Signatum into the Sacrament of Signatum itself

(1) It removes the material Sign — bread and wine — leaving only accidents, void of substantiality and (on their view) of materiality too.

(2) It turns the Signatum (Christ’s body and blood) into the sacrament of that Signatum itself — sign and thing collapse.

Latin

(1.) Quòd Signum Materiale, alteram sacramenti partem essentialem, ex Eucharistia submovet, panem nempe & vinum, solis remanentibus harum substantiarum accidentibus, ut substantialitate omni, ex sententia Pontificiorum, ita & Materialitate, casssis. (2) Quòd Signatum Sacramenti Eucharistici (Corpus nempe & Sanguinem Christi) in ipsum Signati Sacramentum Corporis & Sanguinis Christi, commutat.

Report a mistake in this passage