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 wine into the substance of his blood. This change has been properly called, by the holy Catholic Church, Transubstantiation.” Sess. xiii. c. iv. p. 89.—“ If any one shall deny, that the body and blood, together with the soul and divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ, and therefore the whole Christ, be contained truly, really, and substantially, in the Sacrament of the most Holy Sacrament, let him be anathema.-Ibid. can. I, p. 94.

''Christ is not present in this Sacrament, according to his natural way of existence; that is, as bodies naturally exist; but in a manner proper to the character of his exalted and glorified body. His presence then is real and substantial, but sacramental; not exposed to the external senses, nor obnoxious to corporal contingencies.

The truth of this Proposition evidently follows from that of the foregoing, which the plain words of Scripture announced, and the unbroken series of the writings of the early Fathers attested; for if the body of Christ, when the words of consecration—This is my body : This is my blood—are pronounced by the Priest, becomes present, as we believe; this presence must be such as is now stated, real and substantial, but sacramental and ineffable. On this mysterious subject thus again speaks the

“The holy Synod openly and plainly professes, that, in