Annotatio IV §.V close: On to later ages via early Fathers; both sides cite two things, spiritual mode only — stop before §.VI
Doctrine now traced from the origin through the whole first Christian age — we may step on to later ages with early Fathers to confirm it.
Protestant collectors (Oecolampadius, Melanchthon, Chemnitz, Chamier, Cosin, Baier) already demolished Pontifical novelties; we still take two or three witnesses per purer age from them.
Both sides cite nearly the same from the first five ages: presence of two things (celestial & terrestrial / Signified & Sign) with only the spiritual mode of the Signified conceded. Stop before §.VI (second century: Ignatius, Justin, Irenaeus).
Latin
Ut hôc ipsô, post deductam ab origine, per totius primi Seculi Christiani decursum, veram de S. Cœna Doctrinam, nunc promptô pede ad succedentia Secula liceat nobis pertendere, primorum Patrum testimoniis eandem adstructuris & confirmaturis. Equidem nos hâc operâ levatos per quorundam Protestantium Doctorum egregiam industriam, Pontificias Novitates, circa S. Cœnam demolientium, Joh. Oecolampadii, Philippi Melanchtonis, Martini Chemnitii, Danielis Chamieri, & novissimè Johannis Cosini nec non Joh. Guil. Bajeri, probè novimus; ne tamen Historica hæc Opella nostra hiulca evadat, haud gravabimur ex his ipsis Autoribus, singulorum seculorum saltem puriorum testes pro veritate, vel binos, vel ad summum tres, advocare, in quorum ore & hæc veritas immota perstet, si in antecessum hoc unicum monuerimus, nominatos Veterum Testimoniorum collectores, etsi diversæ Protestantium Sectæ addictos, eadem tamen propemodum ex quinque præsertim Seculis prioribus, hac proculdubio de causa adduxisse, vel non potuisse non adducere, quòd in iis res ipsa solummodò, i. e. duarum rerum, cœlestis & terrestris, Signati & Signi, in legitimo S. Cœnæ usu, præsentia & participatio, citra vel ullum præsentiæ & participationis rei alterius, Signati scil. modum, vel cum hujus solo, duntaxat spirituali modo, ab utraque Protestantium parte concesso, inculcare deprehenduntur.