A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §627 · Samuel Strimesius

Annotatio V §.I: merely spiritual vs sacramental; Sacred Supper = corporal + spiritual eating

Improper spiritual eating is either merely spiritual (no corporal union) or Sacramental (joined to a God-enjoined corporal eating).

The Sacred Supper, as Christ instituted it, is of this last kind: corporal + spiritual eating for double food — Lord’s Body (heavenly) and consecrated bread (earthly). Spiritual can stand without sacramental, and (by the unworthy) sacramental without spiritual.

Latin

Hæc vel merè spiritualis, citra unionem cum Corporali quacunque peracta; vel insimul Sacramentalis, unitam habens Manducationem quandam à DEO injunctam Corporalem. Postremi generis est Manducatio in Cœna Sacra, utpote si legitima & talis qualis à Christo instituta, ex duplici manducatione composita ea est, Corporali nempe, & Spirituali, idque ob duplicem in S. Cœna oblatum recipiendumque cibum, spiritualem alterum seu cœlestem, Corpus nempe Domini, alterum corporalem seu terrestrem, panem, quanquam ob consecrationem extrinsecè seu relativè sacrum, i. e. à communi usu separatum. Spiritualis, quia per se & suam naturam, absque Sacramentali esse potest, uti per accidens & ob Impietatem Communicantis, Sacramentalis absque Spirituali; evenit hinc, ut Spiritualis & Sacramentalis Manducatio habeant se per modum excedentium & excessorum terminorum.

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