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 the Sacrament of the Eucharist, after the consecration of the bread and wine, our Lord Jesus Christ, true God, and man, is truly, really, and substantially, present under the appearances of those sensible objects. Nor in this is there any repugnance; that Christ, according to his natural manner of existence, should always remain in heaven at the right hand of his Father; and that, at the same time, he should be present with us, in many places, really, but sacramentally, in that way of existence, which, though in words we can hardly express it, the mind, illumined by faith, can conceive to be possible to God, and which we are bound firmly to believe. For so all our Ancestors—as many as were members of the true Church of Christ-who wrote on the subject of this holy Sacrament, openly professed.”—Sess. xii.c.l. p. 86.

''The body of Christ, in this holy Sacrament, is not separated from his blood, nor his blood from his body, nor is either of them disjoined from his soul and his divinity: but all and the whole living Christ is entirely contained under each species : so that whoever receives under one kind, becomes truly partaker of the whole Sacrament: he is not deprived either of the body or of the blood of Christ.

“At all times it has been the belief of the Church of God, that, immediately after consecration, the true body of our Lord, and his true blood, together with his soul and divinity, are present under the species of bread and wine; but