A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §478 · Samuel Strimesius

Annotatio III §.XI (8): Nomenclature — ‘Transsubstantiation’ misfits; nearer annihilation of one substance and creation of another

(8) By its own name: it wants ‘Transsubstantiation’ = conversion of substance into substance.

But if nothing of bread and wine remains, the truer name is annihilation of one substance and creation of another — not Transsubstantiation.

Latin

Denique (8.) Sui ipsius Nomenclaturæ, quâ Transsubstantiatio dici cupit i. e. Conversio Substantiæ in substantiam, qualis tamen Conversio neutiquam obtinet, suppositô, ex pane & vino per eandem nihil remanere, ut rectius eô nomine Annihilatio substantiæ unius, & alterius substantiæ Creatio, quam Transsubstantiatio, dici mereatur.

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