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 . TiI&NSUBS*r&NTIA'rIoN. [Booi II. wise, is quite uncertain. But especially it cannot be said that they cease shortly after reception. Several corollaries may be inferred iom this. "�lmt takes pla  aotl  i mied wi the cogsecreted w/ ? An.nv'. If any kind of liquor in small quantity is poured upon the consecrated wine, the blood of Christ remains present under the species of consecrated wine .... If another liquor of different kind, for instance, water, should be poured in in such a quantity, that if the substance of the wine was present, it would not remain; then when the consecrated species would not remain, the blood of Christ would cease to exist. Nevertheless there re others who hold a derent opinion, as Suarez, Sylvius, Wiggers," &c.t A wicked or heretical priest may consecrate, which, by the way, does not appear to be very favourablo to morals. "Fvery priest may validly consecrate, should he even be wicked, heretiaa. l, suspended, excommunicated, degraded," &c. "A mouse or a dog, eating the sacramental apecica, does not em them sacramentally; yet this proves that then the body of Christ does not cease to exist under the species as long as they exist. In like manner that sme of the ancient erred, in teaching that the body of Ghrist ceased to exist under the sacramental species as soon z they touched the lips of a sinner."�Wlut if a sick person vomits tl sacred host ? A. Agreeably to the Roman Missal, if the species appear entire, they are reverently to be collected, and alterward received: but if nausea prevent that, then they are cautiously to be separated from the filth, and thus deposited in some sacred place, and after lhey are corrupted they are to be put. ito the sacristy or a sacred fish-pond. For as long as the species are entire, they cannot be burned without sacrilege. Likewise, the stone thing is to be done if, in any manner, whether by negligence or other- wise, the species should be found corrupted. But if the species do not appear, and yet it is likely that they are not yet corrupted, on account of the shortness of time which intervenes; then the thing thus vomited ought to be burned, and the ashes put in a sacred place, or buried in a grave_y_." "W/at if, i rei the viaticum, the sick pero mediatly die. s ! A. If the sacred host does not appear in his mouth, the sick person, in that case, is to be left untouched, although it may be uncertain whether he has swallowed the host or not; but if it appear in his mouth, let it be modestly taken out, and reverently preserved, until the spocio be corrupted: and then it is to be disposed of as is directed respecting the vomited host."[[ These quotations need no comments in order to show their a!Murdity, and even profanehess. They are not the 8o frequently 11eged misro. presentations of Protestants. They are the words of Peter Dens, & teacher of theology in the university of ].,ouvain, a celebrated Roman .atholic college and theological school. The work of Dens is de* oed for the use of theological studenta. It ha8 been the text-book theological department of the aynooth college for rmmy ye&ra, ; ldem, qo. 0, p. 81&.  Idem, 1o. O0, p. 947. 1 I,l o. 6, p. 373.
 * Dens, 3ract. 8e uehsr., No.  p. 911.  ldmn, p. 1.

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