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Matt. xxviii. 19..
“AS MY FATHER HATIL SENT ME, I ALSO’ "SEND YOU.”
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“John xx. 21. . a
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‘An Extract from an unpublished Mannseript Letter.
.AN AUTHORITY FOR RECEIVING THE
SCRIPTURES.
“Por my part,” says the great and learned St.
‘Augustine, in his Bool ra Epiat Funda-
imenti,~«" I -would not bel ‘ospel, unless
the authority of the Catholic. church induced me
to it”, or ought we at the present to dif
fee and ¢ step aside from the strong faith of this
eminent saint and learned doctor of the Catholic
church. For as education is no argument of truth,
neither is the being born or reared in one of the
Protestant sects, any conclusive authority for be-
lieving the Bible, in its present form, to be the
|. ‘This becomes more a]
cient.and modera times, concerning which Books
of the Old and New Testament are truly inspired,
and which are not.
In the primitive ages of christianity, sund
epistles and writings, ihe works, probably, of pi =
ous ineny were, arge portion of christians,
oat ve) Twas
ec is ey
esteemed ao excellent, a8 to be aceovnted Divin Protestant ot the English church, it was given to| of Para
y belie
en for some years were continued to be received
any as inspired doctrine. Nevertheless, the
Catholie chureh ‘eventually rejected them as spu-
rious, and the whole christian world, with whom
was the sant “augustine, and other illustrious
saints, submitted to her infallible authority and
lawful decision, —believing only in that Bible
which, to this d the same, and i in universal
use auong christiai communion with the See
of Ron
Bat ‘when the Reformation, with all its wonder-
fal exw aroun” appe ared, these moderns, dif-
ferin, 0 from some of 1
christian aston of adding, copiously subtracted
e sacred volume ; while such portions of |
it that they conescended to submit to the faith of
lowers as the only inspired word
in many parts, so treacherously
and scandalously ‘mutilated, as scarcely could b
said to approximate wil is chapters and
texts of the genuine Bilomtheir erroneous ver-
sions were, more or less, miserable, shattered
wrecks, of the sterling ‘Troth!
This, you will obse: not a mere fiction ;
beewuse history is faithful in recording these
gross, heinous, and profligate perversions of holy
writ.” Nor need an unprejudiced man, desirous
of satisfying his mind upon the subject, take fur-
ther trouble, than to collect the several bibles of
the early Reformers, Luther, Calvin, Zuinglius,
ec. &e., and collate them with ithe Catholic edi-
tions, the only genuine and original ones, and I
venture to say, that almost as an ; mediate glance
he will discover the sad, wful difference of
books and chapters, verses tnd texts,---the former
wholly eunitted, and the latter most arifully chang-
accommodati ion of doctrines suited tothe
motle: ey pretensions of subverting Reformers. ‘This
wicked corruption, and open violation of the write
ten word of God, was very properly deplored by
many reflecting, pious, and intelligen nt Protein
who lived immediately after Elizabeth's death 5
and her tyrannical reign having drawn toa close,
the public voice began to be strongly and loudly
maa este din England against its unrighteous con-
tinuance, and, though the extraordinary fact may
fall with little delight upon Protestant ears,
* yet true itis, that to the stubborn, persevering | |
remonstrances of the ExG1isit PEOPLE ALONE, al-
most every Protestant sect, pumerous and scatter-| ©
ed about as they are, owe, and are indebted for
their present valuable, Dot yet imperfect Bible,—
and therefore, as THEY say, the existence of their
Jaith, because the foundation, she substance, the
Principle of Protestant faitb,—no matter How, or
yy Wnom translated, or even individually y ers
‘slood,—is their Dible.
And is not such an authority | for believing the
seriptures, the most arbitrary, as well as the most
fallible, that has ever been veated since the foun-
dation of the world? View the matter even par
tially, and you myst perceive how dangerous, how
unsale i ust the eternal happiness or mis-
ju of the human soul to our own inexperienced
judgment, by reposing a vain confidence i in that
Particular faith
e more primitive | er
which it is exceedingly vary to suppose him at
which he
ses over as incomprehensible, fe amay absolutely
e| be requite to be understood as necessary for his
salvation ; otherwise, his faith being imperfect,
his hopes for eternal ‘ha appiness a ust, as a conse-
quence, be miserably shaken and dreadfully de-
teriorated. I defy, therefore, the whole Protestant
world, learned and unlearned, to be any wa;
cure in their faith, or rational in their hopes. For
my part, by the blessing of God, 1 would not be-
come 1 subjected to this unhappy and dis stressing
a for the wealth, the ousted liberty,
intellect of the whole Protestant world,—no, nor
fora million more besides it, if this shadow of re-
ligion is all that can be obtained for the glorious
substan
By the preface.to the Oxford ddition of the bi-
ble, it appears that King James I. yielding to the
rene eated and urgent solicitations of his Protestant
subjects, and moved thereto by his own kingly
wisdom and spiritual authority as supreme Head
on earth of the church, appointed a ae
composed of Right Reverend Lord Bisho)
te arned divines, and others, ‘to give a Morr. be
T TRANSLATION of the holy scriptures’ than
these corrupt editions that were then so prevalent
in England, and which, (say the Right Reverend
translators and compilers in their preface) “‘caused
SELF-CONCFITED brethren to run their own ways,
and give liking unto nothing but what is Framed
by Tuewsexves, and hammered on THEIR AN-
vin!
“is a parallel * case in pointy ”” we will ask, up-
on whose authority, or upon whose anvir, did
these Right Reverend “satalaors and compilers | t
HAMMER their own doctt
‘This new and “ more saat (ranslation””
it appears, is the celebrated bi Ero
faith of numerous wees of P wot festantse od be-
use (1 believ born an Episcopalian
ae Heo
But let re veiled it, for the like purpose, with-
out note or comment, after the fatal plan of the
various Bible Societies, to some judicious, Ma-
ometan, assuring him, (as a supposition merely,
that it 1s a correct translation from the pure origi-
nal word of God, and necessary for his salvation,
to be faithfully receive and properly y tinderstood.
I also charitably undertake to put hi in his
guard; telling ean that there are OTHER t bibles i in
the world, which, as they say w, are.ei-
more imperfes feet and corrupts nev-
ertheless, I tell him, that this is the only true one ;
that on the beliefo fallitshidden mysteries,—
the right underst: tanding of all its sacred doctrines,
and the exact practive of all its moral Brecepts
depends his eternol happines or future mi
"This naturally m\ e his canaiety i to
possess authentic and alifactory information in
relation to the aurnortty he reasonably requires,
touching the genuine inspiration of the blessed
vel e itself, and the purity and correctness of
uy information (see the preface to the orthodox
Oxford bible) ost high and mighty
rinve James, are Seotshion—by the * grace of
God,” King of Great Britain, France! (Henry
1V., a Frenchman of the house of Navarre was
then monarch of France, and James's cotempora-
ry 1) and of Ireland, Defender of the Faith! Su.
reme Head of the Chureh! ke, &e. &ew
—the ‘Translators, Compilers, . &e. of the
aforesaid Biblew-—who, Z dare say, were all god-
ly, learned, and well-meaning men !
Alas! what a storm do I behold rollectng on
the lofty sublimity of the grave Mussulman’s
brow. Is tims wll your authority? demands he.|
Yes, quoth 1; and I hope you are not
loyal blockhead as to dispute it. ‘They do indeed
say something about “ the inherent testimony of
its own truth,”=its own internal evidence,
—but scripture is absolutely silent in explaining
itself, or in saying which books are true, and
which arenot : it wants a blind, a loyal faith, my
good Mussuiman, to receive the rola me on the
respectable authority here offered
Welt, well; “replies the follower Orthe Prophet,
we'll not quai about terms or Epithets; but
aines you stem to entertain just notions respectin,
the duration of eternity ,--the unbounded delights
of Paradise,--and the deplorable condition of in-
fidels, and, par consequences are half a Mussul-
man, (Excusez!) I therefore reciprocate your
christian charity, by discovering to you the lote-
cry pas pet ‘Oaptrans immorality youth
and perpetual bliss, in the haleyoy
Ruswstaa ofall the faithful, and revelling in pia
lestial sweetness under the grateful shade of the|
Prophet himself!
O worthy Mahometan, of wisdom and disy
peerless and profound,—how seductiv thy
counsels, enchanting thy prospects; and Jelecuable
in expatiating, in the anticipation, o n the revelry
of thy enjoyment! But, my good Mussulman,
I such benign ‘and blooming flow-| e
gathers from the profound, the hidden, the un-
searchable wisdom. of the sacred oracles of God,
that he revealed to his Prophets, Evangelists, and
Apostles in the holy seriptures. ‘Open your bi-
bles,” says a learned Protestant writer of the pre-
sent day,—the clear-headed Dr. Balguy, in his
Charge to the assembled Clergy,-—**‘'ake the
first page that occurs in either Testament, and tell
me without disguise, is there nothing int it too
be
Not manif
lenomi on, h learned and unlearned, as he
toakes the Bie is sole ground of ‘his hi hopes, the
only foundation upon which he has built his faith,
and the unerring beacon that directs im to
Dlessed immortality, ois be BOUND to tmnderstand,
hot only the # first page of either 'T Nestament,”” but
* Every ‘page throughout the entire volume, of
te Believe ihe Koran! Believe “ , Prophet!
—Believe in one God, and~-be bapp:
And if T donot, what then? Chel lane
nal perdition will be yourlot! Oh that’s a wick-
ed el
nate | is “more “conformable. Bue is there no
medium--no middle state for temporary purga-
tion hereafter between supreme felicity on the one
hand, and everlasting damnation on the other t---
On the word of our immortal Prophet--vo! none
ya then assimil
us, and are in the same ‘isasteous predicament as
‘or Protestants; and if the real truth was
known, I verily suspect there isalso an unhallow-
ed communion ‘between your creed an
testantism in the r ejections abjuration, and estir-
pation of Popery out of the land; in fact, that you
yourself, as a good Mussulman, ‘shake hands, and
are in good futowship with Reformers of all ages,
in an unceasing, untiring persecution of the holy
Roman Catholic church! Weep, O ye Daughters
he present translation. Ob, I answer, I got arz| P!
is. | Sovth, to the one
Pro-| for eceerption of a
of Jerusalem, who followed your bleeding Saviour
tothe cross on Mount Calvary f for an abominadien
andl an unholy thin een among 0s
ained wreath entwines the cresce
thonaca! ! ‘The christian Protestant, ‘an the sen
tion ot the oly church of Christ, * the
Jerusalem !" ‘The cymeter and the lance, ‘ike the
a Spear etic opened the side of the blessed Jesus
have wounded him afresh in their deadly assault
n hisinnocentehurch! And the envenomed pen
of the infidel, like the fatal scourge which so pite-
usly lacerated the sacred back of our bruised Re-
weer, has again disfigured the beauty of his
person, (Isaiah 53d) and made bia eed ‘at every
pore in its malignant reiterated attacks upon the
spotless purity of his immaculate ‘churn! oO
stranger foul --and upnatur:
But where exists your enon (56 Fenforeing
—nolens, volens,---(10 seductive inducements, the
Mahometans combined the once resistless pow:
of their sword for disseminating their erue I doe
trines)----this sensual faith, and this surreptitions
Koran, with its monstrous miracles, upon the in-
nate Uberty of my conscience? :
Authority | forsooth--replies the disturbed
Mus: ulman, stroking his beard, and slyly shifting
the questiv 1 just now propose
to me the “aloption of your creed, which was
unsupported by any rational or creditable au-
thority, and w! you cannot atm to ? be more
than three hu dred ars old hade of
Mahomet! It has Gouge ts pace that J thy faithfal
believer, have deigned to cast, from the pearly
whiteness of my teeth, sweet and fragrant words
to this ungracious christian,~--have’ offered
sual Mahometan have both conspired the este
enly | w
with celestial food as their fathers were fed with
manna in the wilderness. In reply, he told them
that he was “the livi read that came down
from heaven.” The ‘prossness of their carnal de-
sires was offended at this reply, and they mur-
saith be, E came down from heaven ?”* Having
fepeked them for their {HUEUES, he proceeded
wit iscourse. ome prefatory obser-
vations he uses the following: strange and remarka-
ble language :—
48 Lam the bread of life.
49 Your fathers did vat manna in the desert and
are deat
50 This is the Uread that cometh down from
heavens, that if any oan eat of it, he may | not
di vee
‘SL ‘Tam ihe living bread which came down
from heave
52 Veany man eat of this bread,
for ever; and the bread that I giv
the life of the wor
he shall live
is my flesh for
Ilere we have the solemn declaration of our
Lord Jesus Christ that he is “the bread of life.”
He contrasts himself with the manna, which was
typical ofhim, ae “the living bread which came
down from heaven”’ to be our eucharistic & sacra-
mental food. He promises eternal life to him that
“eateth of this bread,” and in terms the most ex-
press and intelligible he assures us it is the
Son of the eternal vod thatis speaking.) that the
bread which he will give is ins rresu for the life
of the world.” What language could be more
im | confirmatory of the truth of the doctrine of the
the essence of a charming faith, which rolls back
and i is borne on the w rings sof ages and centuries to
magnificent ‘a of the great Prophet,--and
e held to his base. vision the briltiant prospec!
ofa nah of happy years in the Bieafal cea
el~-but, by thy dread beard, oh Pro-
phet! he ‘SPURNS the fruition and ai otal pu-
ry of thy smiles for the delasive vanity of one
submissive, abject, humiliating word,-AUTHO-
RITY !!!
Tell it not in Mecea,-—-publish it not in the
streets of Medina, that this inglorious Protestant
tnreasonably rejects to believe the Koran, BE-
leign not to unfold to his untutored ear,
the dacaling brightness and “* Fnternal evidence”
of its truth,---the sage wisdom of its maxims,----
and the authority of Mahomet with the testimony
ofall the faithful for receiving it;—-while he per-
fidious christian, would have me believe his bible,
his creed, and ie church, with no other shadow
of authority than that of a temporal king, a Brit-
ctof Parliament, or hisown Private judgment
and particular prejudices, who. for anght J kno:
LIND, and as incapable to judge
of the truth of their volume as myseur !
In what a fatal dilemma, then, ii is Massulman
and Protestant, from possessing no infallible au-
thority in matters of religion !_A Catholic is
ly free from this unfortunate “ untoward” de My.
sion, and therefore, of necessity, is always correct,
secure, and unwavering in his faith. Possessing
to all eternity, the gracious promises of Christ,
and perpetually guided by his holy spirit, we see
the Catholic church, in manifest contrast with the
numerous heretical and schismatical churches of
the day, ever consistent and always at‘ anit!
se
£
has had the miraculous power of converting al
the nations of the earth from Paganism
ianity ministers are, to this day, the
only Tndividuals invested with'an nrreerive ate
thority in bringing the benighted nations, both in
the East and in the wee in the h and in the
ry fold and Mivine church of
our Lord Jesus Christ
TRANSUBSTANTIATION.
CComtons
Ww proceed to prove tet the Catholic
doen, havin ithe Backs arist, Fame
e bread a e changed i into the bod:
bio dof Chirist, who is there really present, boy
ant blood, soul and divinity, ina heavenly, spiri-
nal, and mysterious manner, is érue ;—and that
ie Protestant docitine. that his presence is mere-
figurative, and th bread and wine remain
ogether tinaliered is false
First, then, T prove this proposition from the
words of the promise, which is jeantained in the
sit chapter of St. John. chapter com-
with the narration fone of the most ex-
tordinary of Christ’s miracles,—the feeding of a
mu Ititude of five thousand persons with five bar-
loaves and two smal So extraordi-
ie was the effect of this striking exhibition of
miraculous power on the minds of the maltitudo,
that it was only by flight that Jesus was al
elude their intention of seizing on him by force
and making him king. "This miracle wass on the
evening of the same day, succeeded by another
not less sstonishing. “His disciples having em:
barked for Capharnaum on board a vessels and
..| having rowed about thirty forlongss they beheld at
. Christ walking
1 ‘he multitude followed the disciples thither seek-
ing for Jesus; and when upon their arrival they
discovered that Christ was already there, their as-
tonishment was great, as they knew that he bad
not embarked on board the same vessel with his
disciples.
the operation of stupendous miracles
rine more stupendous
than his miracles, that te addressed the remarka-
ble discourse which has been reserved for our
instruction by the inspired of the beloved
apostle, He had ‘miraculously. fed them the day
before. ‘They now called upon him to give them
always bread fiom heaven to eat, and to feed them
with herself.” It is for this reason that she, alone, | ©
It was then to this multitude, thus | mi
Catholic Church than this? It is under ie form
of bread that she offers the flesh of Christ to be
eaten by
alize Chrisians? ‘Do they excite the strife of
scepticism—the murmurs of incredulity? Alas,
then, fur our fa !
lieving Jews,
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53 The ‘ewe stiove among themselves, saying.
Tow can this man give us his flesh to eat ?
Thisis the very interrogatory of Protestant in-
credulity. How can this man give us
rorat! The language of our Saviour rises in
strength, and grows clearer and stron; TO-
portion to the force of the incredulity with which
it hasto contend. Nay, it not only becomes
stronger in point of emphasis, but as it becomes
clearer and m ress, it becomes more revolt-
ing to the prejudices of his auditory.
54, Then Jesus said unto them, “Amen, Am
Isay unto you, Except you eat the flesh of the
Son of Man, and drink his blood, you shall not
have life in you.
~ 55. He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh * ‘m yy
blood, ha hath \ everlasting life, and I will raise him up | m
atl
lesh is meat indeed ; and m
Blood i is For fi, 7
Te that ee ny fess sand dvinketh my
shod sige and
3 the living. eather aa sent me, and I
live by ‘he Father, so he that eafeth me, the same
alse shall live b:
. Thisis the “bread that eame down from hea-
Not as your fathers did eat mauna, and are
He that ealeth this bread, shall live for
There is here not only a command to ‘eat his
flesh” ut to “drink his Blood 3% and this cam-
accompanied with the dreadful denuneiation
Do these words sean: ty.
So did they among the unbe- he.
en, | I aeles did they correct that
hesitating reply of one having rartu; and whose,
faith rested on the true gronnd—that Chiist had
the words of eternal life, and was the Sox oF
Gov, ‘This is basing faith on the words of truths
and omnipotence. But the very sublimity of the
exclamation proves that there was someth
ore in the words of Christ than the language ‘or,
metaphor and Sgure,
hor, a type, ora figure, to requil
fession of such unbounded confilence~such im-
plicit faith, It was from the difficulty, from the
hardness of the thing propounded to be believed,
thatthe reply of St. Peter derives its sublimity
and i granteur. ‘The exclamation of the apostle is
thapsody of words, if there were not -
somnething i in the doctrine of Christ beyond hu-
man comprehension to understand and human
to effect, and requiring the aid of divine
faith 0 plieve:
We a strong argument in confirma-
tion of our faith; first from the incredulity of the
Jenr,—seeunily, from the aposta’ 3s disei-
thirdly, from the Pgevoied attachment
ye and tinbounded faith of the apostles in, thelr
divine Master. An additional argument may
derived {orm the conduct of our Saviour Miacell
0, by a word, might have dissipated the mur-
mute of hia sdiseiples, and converted into faith the
incredulity of the Jews. Itis evident that both
arose from their acceptation of his words in a /i-
teral sense. By not explaining that he intended -
them in a figurative sense, he not only abandoned
them, but has for centuries abandoned the whole
Christian world, to the egregions error of accept-
ing literally what he only intende jgures—
10 serious, that
Pro slestante, ‘to not seru=
to assert, ‘that it has involved the whole
Catholie Church for centuries in the guilt of idola-
GE8 3
2
t itis objected that he did interpose to cor-
rect the misapprehension of his Sisciples. When
could read the hearts rch the
reins of men, knew in himself that his “disciples
mormured at his doctrine, and turned from it in
horror and incredulity, he said to them,
62. Doth this seandalize
63. If then you shall see the Son of Mon as-
cend op where he was befor
is the spirit that quickeneth ; ; the flesh
profteth nothing. =-The words that I have spoken
to you are SPIRIT AND LIF!
These words are asserted by. Protestants to have
bee: ‘ended to correct the misapplication by his
disciples of the words which he had used. ow,
misapplicaiont vy hey
not. For their desertion of their Master wa:
subsequent to this explanation. Tt is obvions
this explanation, so fat from rendering the
diMioulty and Aardness of his previous“ iscourse’
easy and intelligible, darkened
incredulous understandings with additional diffi-
eay and my: steriousness, confirmed them in their
scepticism, and in their vesolution to abandon a
teacher, whose doctrines revolted both their pre-
judices and reason. He had commanded them
to eat his flesh and deak his blood, and yet he
talked of ascending into heaven. How then was
is precept to be complied with?) This language
evidently betokened a mystery which they. h:
not faith to believe, and for the revelation of
which they had not patience to wait.
But what is there in this passage of scripture
to contrast the Catholic foctrines and support
the figurative creed o! adversaries? Abso-
lately nothing. Our Saviour talks of spirit and
=
=
on Erensan DeaTu to him who refuses to com,
with the precept. How revolting must have been
the force of this language to the Jew, who was
forbidden by the law to taste eee
language so revolling,
e
Yet it is
and terrible,
ty of the ressness of the
guage, its force, “its terrible energy,
utterly dlestro}
the notion that he
was speaking in tropical and
metaphor Wanguage. Nay, in order to avoid
the possi! of misconception, he tells us that
“shi uesit is, meat INDEED, Loop is
drink ixpeep.” Tis language is accumulative in
expression to give it force. It is full of iteration
and reiteration, solemn in its asseveration, and
fearful in its mena Throughout, the realiry
is opposes to symbols, the truth toemblrms, The
manna which descended from the clouds was but
figuratively “bread from heaven,"—He is the
‘erve bread from heaven.” ‘The manna was
perishable and corruptible food,—He is “THs
LIVING BREA 2 incorruptible, imperishable, hav-
ne Me and g g life to the world.
from scripture that the Jews under
stood ‘hte literally. Had he only spoken of a
type and a figure, the Jews, whose rel
religion of types and figures, would. have really
understood iim d the spirit and apy
bended the meaning of his discourse. 'T' hey we
ked at its unvarnished plainness, its unm oie
plore simplicity.” How can this man give
* Gross and carnal in their
ideas, they revolted from a banquet, in which, |?
like cannibals and savages, they were to eat hu-
man flesh, and quaff human blood.
His own disciples also understood him Titerally.
“Many therefore of his own disciples 2 hearing i i
said, this saying is HARD ear it?
(John, ec. vi. v.61.) Hard as the “nying was,
our Saviour did nothing to make it easy to the re-
ception of murmuring incre vt ity.
That the apostles understood him Bterally is is
plain from the mute astonishment the
religion was
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wil you also go away !""
ing appeal, Simon Power, with
zeal replied, “Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou
hast the words of eternal life; and we believe and
have known that thou art the Cursst, THE S
that he grapples ‘with the prejudice ‘and incredeli to
The
What spirit, whatlife is therein a mere
mbol, a mere natural emblem ?
in this passage there is nothing about figure,—
nothing about metaphors.
correct the misapprehension Ct his disciples,
the manner in whic! were to eat his flesh
and drink his blood, they obviously supposing that
they were to sit dowa, like Thyestes, to an atro-
cious banquet of human flesh and blood, he tells
them that it is to be a spiritual and mysterious
anquet;—that he wor communicate, not
his torn and lacerated flesh, not his effus-
ed blood, but his living spiritualized flesh and
living spiritualized blood, in an_ invisible, myste-
oe us, and sacramental manner to the soul of the
Christian, Understand neither figuratively nor
grossly, but spiritually what I have said j—and i it
is in this spiritual manner that his wor re un-
derstood CY Catholics. We believe the ‘body and
blood of Chri io be present in the sacrament,
not ina corporeal and passible, but in a spiritual
and invisible manner. We do not understand the
words of Christ in the gross, carnal, horrible, and
revolting sense of the Jews ;, for they, as St. Au-
says, understood “flesh as it is tora to
vreces in a dead body, and sold i in the shambles.”
Christ has risen from the dead, and can now suf-
fer and die no more, being “riciorious over death
*| and the grave. He is now existin mmor-
tal, impassible, glorified, and spirialized state.
1 ‘hough his body be the same as that which was
born of the Virgin Mary, and was crucified, dead
and buried, yet it now exists in a different state
from that in which it existed previons to the re-
surrection from the dead. That which was sown,
8 the apostle says, anatural body, has risen a
spn body, clothed with glory and immortali-
js then Christ in this living, immortal, im-
Prsites and glorified state, that we adore and re-
ry
oe
ceive really and traly in the holy Eucharist. In,
the sacrament he is existing, veiled under the
rms of bread and wine in fhe manner of a spir
it, Ilis presence, though true and real, is theres
- | fore according to the nature of a &, ean
unextended, without visible or pal dimen-
sion, We do not vse the word eal in the
sense of figurative, or as opposed to a real, true,
| and substantial presence in the ‘Sacrament, but as
indicative of the manner o! fn
presence not being corpcreal and visible, but spir-
itual and invisible, yet real, substantial, andlrue,
=-his body and blood in their glorified and spirit
ON
or Gop.” ‘This was the prompt, bold, and un-
alized state, as it now exists in heaven, being