John Keble
Published: 2013-09
Total Pages: 96
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1867 edition. Excerpt: ... it not prove that only by inadvertence could devout and learned persons have ventured on such expressions as " the Body and Blood of Christ, neither more nor less," "the Flesh, before it is eaten, is no more than His Flesh," "many Christs," and other similar sayings? By like inadvertence it has been argued, from the circumstances of the first Eucharist, that " His Body and Blood are capable of a mysterious mode of Presence apart from the other constituents of His living Person." " Person," nodoubt, was unwarily written for "Essence." But even so, since the Godhead and Manhood of Christ are, ever since the Incarnation, joined in one Person, " never to be divided," since Christ, as man, "subsists of a reasonable soul and human flesh," and since His Manhood never did or can subsist, except as "taken into God," the separation affirmed would seem hardly consistent with the Creed. It would rather seem to follow that wherever the Body of Christ is truly present, there God the "Word, who is everywhere, does especially manifest His Presence by the presence of His Body. Where He is as Man, He cannot but be also as God. 'We deny, of course, that His Divinity was crucified, or sacrificed, or buried, but which of us doubts that He who is true God was crucified, sacrificed, buried, by virtue of the union of the Word with that Body which was the subject of those processes? By the same rule, it would seem that the Presence indicated by our Lord's Sacramental Words, if those words are to be taken in their obvious meaning, is a Real Presence of the Person of the Word, eirl Tg dvcnaartipiw, as S. Gregory says. The impossibility of conceiving the manner of this is no objection, any more than it would be to any other, the most undeniable, aspect or result of...