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 Ca&P. IV.] ?R&SSS?AS?&ON. 257 has before him eleven wafers and intends to consecrate only ten, not determining what ten he intends to consecrate. Dens, in his Theology, says: "In consecrating the cup, with an ordinary intention, the drops of wine on the outside of the cup are not consecrated; hence these drops may, after consecration, be wiped away without scruple. But concerning the drops on the inside of the cup, and sepalted from that within, opinions vary; wherefore the priest should be careful to wipe them away before consecration, for slier consecration they cannot be wiped away, because they may PRO- BABLY be consecrated. **� the sacrament Roman Catholics mix water with the wine. There is much controversy among them about what comes of the water in consecration. Hear Dens on this subject: "A question remains, ,Vhat becomes of the water mixed with the wine in consecrating ? Three opinions are collected from Innocent III. The first teaches that this water is converted into the water which flowed from the side of Christ; but this opinion is supported by no probability. The second is, that this water is not changed into the blood of Christ, but remains circumfused with the accidents of wine; but this opinion is scarcely probable. The third teacherb that this water is changed into the blood of Christ; and this opinion is to be held as certain. But there is a greater controversy yet, namely, whether this water is immediately turned into the blood of Christ, or whether it is converted fast into wine, and thus mediarely into the blood of Christ. St. Thomas Aqui. has holds this latter opinion; so also the Roman Catechism and the Roman Pontifical. Aquinas supposes that Innocent III. was of the same opinion. See the authors generally."t Concerning the accidents of bread and wine, Dens teaches as fol- lows: "How do the#v accident e.ast wAen tAe substane of bread and e do not ,'emai, ? An.river. St. Thomas saith these accidents exist in the sacrament without a subject, by the power of God .... St. Tho- mas also 8aith that quantity alone can exist without a subject, but the accidents exist in quantity, as in their immediate subject .... More recent philosophers say that these accidents have their subject in the air and in our senses. What can t species remaining in tAe saer undergo? Answer. Generally, whatever the substance of bread and wine would undergo and suffer, were it yet in existence; and thus the consecrated species act on other bodies, and are acted on by them; when taken as food they nourish, are changed, are corrupted. But when any thing operates to their corruption, God thus wonderfully dis- poses and works these things in order to conceal this mystery.": "Htno long doez Christ remain in tAis aerarntnt ? Answtr. As long as the species remain safe, or as long as they are not corrupted, and that the substance of the bread and wine does not remain under them: but the body of Christ ceases to exist under the species when, on account of corruption, the substance of bread and wine would cease to exist if no consecration had been made. Besides, whether the species are corrupted or detained, Christ does not leave them, and much less is he corrupted; but he simply ceases to be produced under them. But how long the species remain entire, either in the stomach or other- �Tbeol. Petri DoM, Tractarm de Euchsr., No. 11, tom. v, p. ? Ideat, No. 16, p. 994.  Idem, No. M, p. 809. VOL. I.--17

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