A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §686 · Samuel Strimesius

Annotatio VI §.I: sacramental Oral eating — intrinsic substance vs extrinsic bread-seal

Sacramental eating (standing for Oral) has two senses.

Intrinsic: the name reaches Christ’s body as object and touches its substance. Extrinsic: it only regards Christ’s body from outside — eating the sacrament of that body, the blessed bread that represents it.

Latin

Itaque Manducatio corporis Christi, Sacramentalis, pro Orali supponens, duplici sensu accipi potest, vel hôc, ut denominatio à corpore Christi, ceu Objecto ejus, ei intrinseca sit, ipsámque corporis Christi Substantiam Manducatio attingat; vel istô, ut denominatio eadem Christi corpus extrinsece duntaxat respiciat & Sacramentalis corporis Christi Manducatio audiat, non quòd ipsius corporis Christi Substantialis, sed Sacramenti potiùs hujus Corporis, i. e. panis benedicti, Christi corpus repræsentantis, Manducatio existat.

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