A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §485 · Samuel Strimesius

Annotatio IV §.I cont.: Cosinus opens papal Transsubstantiation history with infallible Institution words

Cosinus (Most Reverend) rightly opens his History of papal Transsubstantiation with the Institution words: This is my body given for you; This is my blood poured out for you — the whole Church confesses them infallible and most true.

Anyone who twists them into a fiction and bare figure, denying Christ’s truthfulness, we neither can nor ought to tolerate or excuse in our churches.

Latin

Unde rectissimè Reverendissimus Cosinus Historiam suam Transsubstantiationis papalis, his verbis auspicatur: Quæ à Christo Domino, in solenni hujus augustissimi sacramenti Institutione, ad perpetuam sui memoriationem, prolata sunt verba, nempe, Hoc est corpus meum, quod pro vobis traditur, Hic est sanguis meus qui pro vobis effunditur, omnino infallibilia atque verissima esse, universa per orbem terrarum sancta confitetur Ecclesia. Si quis autem contrarium affirmaverit, aut veracitatem Christi in dubium vocare ausus fuerit, dictisve ejus fidem derogaverit, nec iis assensum suum præbuerit, nisi per figmentum & nudam figuram expositis & detortis, illum in Ecclesiis nostris nec tolerare, nec excusare vel possumus, vel debemus.

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