...was left out for ever. It was true that the replacement wording still emphasized spiritual presence: 'the body of Christ is given, taken and eaten in the...Christ is received and eaten in the supper is faith'. However, Edmund Guest, the architect of this phrase and one of the bishops on Elizabeth's bench farthest...

...physical body and blood of Christ, as the Catholics taught])... is repugnant to the plain words of Scripture, overthroweth the nature of a Sacrament,...Supper, only after an heavenly and spiritual manner." 4 For Protestants (and especially for Calvinists) human nature since the fall was utterly degenerate...

...at the stake. In the months that preceded his death, Frith defended his view of the Eucharist, that, 'The Body of Christ is given, taken and eaten in the...Supper, only after an heavenly and spiritual manner'. Such a view was considered by Cranmer, at that time, to be heretical. However, nearly 20 years later,...

...in the Supper of the Lord, cannot be proved by holy Writ; but it is repugnant to the plain words of Scripture, overthroweth the nature of a Sacrament,...only after an heavenly and spiritual manner. And the means whereby the Body of Christ is received and eaten in the Supper is Faith. The Sacrament of the...

...and religion, professed, & protected . . . Expressed in 39 Articles of 1603 (London, 1607), p. 170: "The Body of Christ is given, taken, and eaten in...only after an heavenly and spiritual manner: and the meane wherby the Body of Christ is received, and eaten in the Supper, is Faith." Donne's second brief...

...Catholicism. For example, the 28th Article of Religion speaks of the 'Body of Christ' in the Eucharist being 'given, taken, and eaten in the Supper, only after an heavenly and spiritual manner'. The Article goes to say that 'the mean whereby the Body of Christ is received and eaten in the Supper...

...presence not explicable by the doctrine of transubstantiation (which is "repugnant to the plain words of Scripture, overthroweth the nature of a sacrament, and hath given occasion to many superstitions" [eighteenth Article of Religion]). Communicants at the table are also assured that they will "meet...

...22; 24). Transubstantiation "cannot be proved by Holy Writ; but is repugnant to the plain words of Scripture, overthroweth the nature of a Sacrament, and hath given occasion to many superstitions" (art. 28). The insistence on the sufficiency of Holy Scripture for salvation reflected adversely on...

...flesh and blood' in the 1553 Articles, with the following statement in the Articles of 1563 and 1571 : The Body of Christ is given, taken, and eaten, in...Body of Christ is received and eaten in the Supper is faith.16 The doctrinal position was not necessarily altered. Both Articles held a middle position between...

...worthily, and with faith, receive the same.' 'Transubstantiation' is 'repugnant to the plain words of scripture, overthroweth the nature of a sacrament, and hath given occasion to many superstitions.' Nevertheless, the 'body of Christ is given, taken, and eaten,' though again, 'only after an heavenly...