A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §610 · Samuel Strimesius

Annotatio IV §.XXII: Torun Confession — earthly natural; heavenly SPIRITUAL MYSTICAL CELESTIAL; simultaneous exhibition

Torun Confession (Marchic symbolic): the Sacrament is earthly bread and wine plus heavenly body and blood — both most truly and really exhibited, but in diverse modes.

Earthly: natural/corporal; heavenly: spiritual, mystical, and celestial mode held by faith alone. Bread and wine are called body and blood sacramentally and mystically — not substantially or corporally — by a joined simultaneous exhibition of earthly and heavenly, not bare signification or sealing only.

Latin

A munere nostro Theologico haud alienum videri potest, Ecclesiæ nostræ Marchicæ Symbolicam Confessionem Toruniensem de Cœna Domini… adduxisse in medium, quâ nullam de Cœna vidimus excellentiorem plenioremque: Constat igitur, inquiunt Torunienses, hoc Sacramentum rebus terrenis, pane & vino, & cælestibus, corpore & sanguine Domini, quæ diverso quidem modo, utraque tamen verissimè, realissimè, ac præsentissimè nobis exhibentur; nempe, Terrena, modo naturali, corporali & terreno; Cælestes verò MODO SPIRITUALI, MYSTICO ET CŒLESTI, quem Rationi & sensui inscrutabilem sola Fide tenemus… Hinc etiam Res terrena, Panis & Vinum, verè sunt & dicuntur ipsum corpus & sanguis Christi, nonquidem Substantialiter, aut CORPORALITER, sed SACRAMENTALITER & MYSTICE, seu, per & propter unionem Sacramentalem, quæ non consistit in nuda Significatione, neque tantùm in Obsignatione, sed etiam in CONJUNCTA ILLA ET SIMULTANEA REI TERRENE ET CŒLESTIS, quamvis diversimoda, EXHIBITIONE ET COMMUNICATIONE.

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