...English Church. The things signified by the bread and wine are " the body and blood of Christ, which are verily and indeed taken and received by the faithful in the Lord's Supper.'" So that, although by no means necessarily a saving ordinance (for it appears by St. Luke that Judas...

...demonstrative of a spiritual, not a corporeal, reception of the body and blood of Christ. In a spiritual sense, the body and blood of Christ are verily and indeed taken and received by the faithful; and by the faithful only. If the real presence had been intended, the unfaithful, though...

...demonstrative of a spiritual, not a corporeal, reception of the body and blood of Christ. In a spiritual sense, the body and blood of Christ are verily and indeed taken and received by the faithful; and by the faithful only. If the real presence had been intended, the unfaithful, though...

...strengthening and refreshing of our souls by the body and blood of Christ ;' and we are farther assured, that the body and blood of Christ are verily and indeed taken and received (that is, spiritually ' taken and received') by the faithful in the Lord's Supper. The Church of Christ...

...as he who receives the sacrament. Yet, whoever conceived, that in the recital of the creed, the true body and blood of Christ are verily and indeed taken and received ? This doctrine, if it be properly examined, reduces the real presence of Christ to a real absence....

...Council of Trent. But doth not the doctrine of our own church, which teaches by her catechism, that " the body and blood of Christ are verily and indeed...and received by the faithful in the Lord's Supper," imply the real presence, as well as the doctrine of Luther, or as the declaration of the Protestant...

...Church, it might appear certain that she herself holds the Real Presence ; since she declares that, " The body and blood of Christ are verily and indeed...received by the faithful in the " Lord's Supper." To this declaration I alluded, in the first place, where I complained of Protestants disguising their...

...sacrament of the Mass." " This is the doctrine of the Chwch-of-England Catechism, which affirms that « the body and blood of Christ are verily and indeed...and received by the faithful in the Lord's Supper.' The church-communicants, contrary to the known apostolic practice, receive the memorials kneeling....

...call it by what name you please, the Catholic Church teaches nothing more in substance, than, that the Body and Blood of Christ are verily and indeed taken, and received in the Holy Communion. There is only this difference, — the Catholic believes Christ when he says,...

...inconsistent, said the Protestants. But, said the old fox, does not the Protestant catechism say, "that the body and blood of Christ are verily and indeed...and received by the faithful in the Lord's Supper ?"—Yes, but but, said he, you are as absurd as your opponents. We were then entertained with an account...