A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §614 · Samuel Strimesius

Annotatio IV §.XXIII: Psychic argument — natural body/blood → only natural participation; spiritual-only = not really

They concede that what is spiritual most of all is in the thing itself — yet the sacrament’s supposit is a material natural thing: Christ’s body broken and blood poured on the cross.

So they urge: a natural thing has no true participation except in some natural mode; if Christ’s body is received only spiritually, it is not received truly / in the thing itself.

Latin

Qui, licèt inficias ire nequeant, vel maximè re esse id, quod Spiritualiter est, Quia tamen Suppositum ipsum in sacramento, Res Materialis atque Naturalis est, (corpus putà Christi, in cruce fractum, & sanguis Christi, in cruce fusus;) contendunt ergò, Rei Naturalis nullam veram participationem esse, nisi Naturali aliquo modo; Spiritualiter igitur si solùm à nobis participetur corpus Christi, Verè, atque reipsà non participari.

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