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 prepm'ator F to the canons already quoted, we find the following decla- rations respecting the doctrine of transubstantiation. In the first chapter we have this declaration: "In the first place the holy council teacheth, and openly and plainly professeth, that our lord Jesus Christ, true God and man, is truly, really, and substantially contained in the pure sacrament of the holy eucharist, aler the consecration of the bread and wine, and under the species of those sensible objects. Neither is it to be regarded as contradictory that our Saviour should always sit at the right hand of the Father in heaven, according to his natural mode of existence, and yet be sacramentally present with us in his anbstanc, in many other places." In the third chapter of the same session the council declares: "Immediately after the consecra- tion, the true body of our lord, and his true blood, together with his soul and divinity, do exist under the species of the bread and wine; his body under the species of bread, and his blood under the species of wine, by virtue of the words st  consecration; his body also under the specie8 of wine, and hi8 blood under the species of bread, and his soul under each species, through that natural connection and concoma- tinice by which all the patta of Christ our lord, who has risen f3*om the dead no more to die, are closely connected together, and his divi- nity, through the wondetful and hypostatical union thereof with his body  and soul. Wherefore it i8 most certain that all is contained under either species and under both; for Christ, whole and entire, eliot8 under the species oi bread, and in every lmrticle thereof, and under the species of wine, and in all it8 parts." 3. To avoid the appearance of misrepresentation, we will taTther exhibit the doctrine of transubstantiation, by giving a few quotations from the Catechism of the Council of Trent; and these from the authentic translation of Donaras, reprinted in the United States. The Binhers of the Catechism say: "The eucharist also contain8 Christ our Lord, the true grace, and the source of all 'heavenly gifts," p. 194. "When preserved in a pyxis, (box,) or deposited in a tabernacle, under either species, it ceases not to be a sacrament," p. 197. "In the eucharist, that which before consecration was bread and wine, becomes, aiter consecration, really and substantially the body and blood of our Lord," idem. "Care must be taken not only to mingle water with the wine, but also to mingle it in 8mall quantity; for, in the opinion of ecclesiastical writers, the water is changed into wine," p. 201. "When, therefore, it is said, 'This is the chalice ofhicm  blood,' these words are understood to mean, ' This is my blood w is oontainad in this chalice,'" p. 204. "As, however, to the body are united his blood, his soul, his divinity, they too must be found to coex* Jot in the sacrament, not, however, by virtue of the consecration, but by virtue of the union which subsists between them and his body; and this theologians express by the word cmtcm.a. Hence it is clear that Christ, whole and entire, is contained in the sacrament; for when two things are actually united, where one is, the other must also be. Hence it also follows that Christ, whole and entire, is contained under either species; so that as under the species of bread are centered not only the body, but also the blood and Christ entire, so, in like manner, under the species of wine are contained not onl the blood, but abe the body and Christ entire. These are hatters on which the �ithful

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