A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §576 · Samuel Strimesius

Annotatio IV §.XVI close: Transubstantiation in spiritual sense — exhibitivum in worthy mouth — stop before §.XVII

They do not flee the word Transubstantiation (Rainerius) — but take it spiritually: not in the consecrator’s hand, but in the worthy receiver’s mouth.

Not bread converted into substance there, but the Sacrament exhibitive (not only significative) of the Lord’s body and blood — symbols in the body’s mouth, the thing signified perceived by faith’s taste. Stop before §.XVII.

Latin

etiam Transsubstantiationis portentosum vocabulum, teste Rainerio, sensu tamen Spirituali, haud defugientes, quando docent, Transsubstantiationem non fieri in manu conficientis, sed in ore dignè sumentis: Non, quasi panem in ore dignè sumentium in substantiam corporis Christi converti putassent, sed quod Sacramentum arbitrati sint etiam suo modo in ore dignè sumentium non tantum significativum (quale & in ore impiorum) sed & exhibitivum corporis & sanguinis Domini esse, quatenus sumtis, ore corporis fidelium, symbolis, simul & res significata, corpus & sanguis Christi, gustu fidei percipiuntur.

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