A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §722 · Samuel Strimesius

Annotatio VI §.VI (2): sacrament integrity if Oral fails in Impious — offer≠receive

Second press: if Oral eating fails in the Impious, the sacrament’s integrity fails.

Reply: spiritual eating also fails in them, by confession; and integrity needs the whole offered, not the whole received — Oblation ≠ Reception; the receiver takes after its own receptivity.

Latin

Connectitur proximè cum Biblico Argumento, ALTERUM illud, quod ad Naturam Sacramenti provocat, cujus integritatem sibi non constare opinatur, si Manducatio Corporis Christi Oralis, alicubi, h. e. in impiis, deficiat. Resp. (a) Indirectè: Sic nec constabit Sacramento integritas, si Manducatio spiritualis corporis Christi alicubi deficiat, quam in impiis deficere in confesso est. (b) Directè: Ad Sacramenti integritatem non pertinet, integrum accipi, sed sufficit, integrum offerri: Distinguendum itaque denuo inter Oblationem, & Receptionem. Ad hanc, ab illa, non valet consequentia: Omne enim receptivum recipit, non ad modum imprimentis, sed ad modum receptivitatis suæ.

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