A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §584 · Samuel Strimesius

Annotatio IV §.XVIII: Wycliffe vs Transubstantiation — bread substance remains; naturally bread, sacramentally body

Wycliffe against Transubstantiation: after consecration the bread’s substance remains on the altar — it does not cease to be bread.

The consecrated Host is naturally true bread and sacramentally Christ’s body — at once body and true bread, as Christ is at once God and man: the Lord’s body IN FIGURE, true bread IN NATURE.

Latin

TRANSSUBSTANTIATIONI ita contradicit Wicleph: Substantia panis manet in altari post Consecrationem & non definit esse panis. Item: Hostia consecrata, est naturaliter verus panis, & sacramentaliter corpus Christi. Item: Sicut Christus est simul Deus & homo, ita hostia consecrata est simul corpus Christi & verus panis: Quia est corpus Domini IN FIGURA, & verus panis IN NATURA.

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