A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §592 · Samuel Strimesius

Annotatio IV §.XIX: Lucawitz — true bread in nature; body sacramentally, really, SPIRITUALLY

Lucawitz (chief Taborite doctor): the Supper bread is in its nature true bread — the ‘This’ of ‘This is my body’ points to that bread.

With it is Christ’s true body from the Virgin — not material identity, but sacramentally, really, and SPIRITUALLY; reverence for the habitude to Christ’s body, not for bread’s substance as such; not with all essential and accidental properties.

Latin

Parte Primâ Johannes Lucawitz, Taboritarum præcipuus doctor, contra Rokenzanam & Papistas Pragenses, ita de Sacramento Corporis & Sanguinis Christi confitetur: De hoc, ait, Sacramento, istud ex fide scripturæ tenemus & corde sinceriter credimus, quod panis quem Christus in sua Cœna accipiens, suis ad manducandum dedit discipulis, & in ejus digna perceptione per Ministerium fidelium sacerdotum reliquit memoriam suæ passionis, est in natura sua verus panis, qui pronomine, Hoc, demonstratur in hac propositione sacramentali: Hoc est corpus meum, & cum hoc verum corpus Christi de Virgine sumtum & pro nobis traditum, non identicè, non de identitate materiali intelligendo, sed sacramentaliter, realiter & verè, qui propter sui habitudinem ad corpus Christi, in sibi debita habendus est reverentia, & fideles illam venerantur non ut est panis substantia, sed de quanto, ut præmittitur, est corpus Christi, cujus verum corpus in eodem esse veraciter, sacramentaliter, SPIRITUALITER, est credendum. Non autem cum omnibus proprietatibus tam essentialibus quam accidentalibus consequentibus ipsum.

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