...communion is only to stir up faith. For in the catechism of the church of England it is affirmed, that "the body and blood of Christ are verily and indeed taken and received of the faithful in the Lord's supper: and that our souls are strengthened and refreshed by the body...

...a ghostly substance and not carnal." Whilst in the church catechism it is expressly asserted that " the body " and blood of Christ are verily and indeed taken and received " by the faithful in the Lord's supper. " The popish doctrine of the real presence which had formerly been...

...Observations on this Prayer, chap, iv, part ii, of this Treatise. t In the Catechism it is asserted, that " the body and blood of Christ are verily and indeed taken and received by the faithful in the Lord's Supper ;" but the emphatic word faithful shews that they are not corporeally,...

...fond of drawing. • The next count in this indictment runs thus : . " 5. Your Church declares that the body and blood of Christ are verily and indeed taken and received by the faithful in the Lord's Supper." it cannot be denied, that this language is fully sanctioned by...

...There is a difficulty in this part of the catechism.which should notbepassedover. We are told, " that the body and blood of Christ are verily and indeed taken, and received by the faithful in the Lord's sup* The catechism asserts the sacraments to be only generally necessary...

...quickening Spirit — yet in shewing " the Spirit and the life" of our Saviour's words ; so that " the body and blood of Christ are verily and indeed taken and received by the faithful in the Lord's supper," without the necessity of any miraculous change whatever with respect...

...of controversy, viz. to the explanation of the sense in which the assertion of our catechism, that " the body and blood of Christ are verily and indeed taken and received by the faithful in the Lord's supper," is to be understood ; or, which is the same thing, of the sense...

...is xjiiritually present, but that, under the emblems of bread and wine, and by faith as the means, " the body and blood of Christ are verily and indeed taken and received by the faithful in the Lord's Supper:" and, therefore, that they are in a certain sense present, that...

...:— our own Church, for instance, in denying the Corporeal Presence, scruples not to affirm, " that the body and blood of Christ are verily and indeed taken and received by the faithful in the Lord's Supper :" meaning only that the benefits of his Sacrifice are partaken of,...

...1565. * We teach in our Catechism, which is early put into the hands of all Protestant Children, "that the BODY and BLOOD of CHRIST are verily and indeed taken and received by the FAITHFUL in the LORD'S SUPPER." In the xxviiith Article we profess," that to them who worthily...