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 both kinds. Nor can it be fairly collected from the discourse of our Saviour, (John vi.) that communion in both kinds was commanded by him, however, according to the various interpretations of the holy Fathers and other learned men, that discourse be understood. For he who there said: Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you shall not have life in you—54;—also said: If any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever-52. And he who said : He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood, hath everlasting life~55;—likewise said: The bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world—52. He in fine who said : He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood, abideth in me, and I in him—57 ;-said notwithstanding ; He that eateth this bread shall live for ever, 59." Sess. xxi. c. 1. p. 174.-“Therefore, though, in the early ages, the use of both kinds was not unfrequent, yet the practice, in process of time, being widely changed, the Church, for weighty and just reasons, approved the change, and pronounced it to be a law, which no one, without the authority of that Church, is allowed to reject or to alter.” Ibid. c.ii. p. 175.-“ It must be acknowledged, that the whole and entire Christ, and the true Sacrament, are taken under either kind; and, therefore, as to the fruit, that they who thus receive are deprived of no necessary grace.” Ibid. c. iii. p. 176.

''Our Saviour, in leaving to us his body and blood, under two distinct species or kinds, instituted not only a Sacrament, but also a Sacrifice; a commemorative Sacrifice, distinctly shewing his passion and death until he come. For as the Sacrifice of the cross was performed by a distinct effusion of his blood, so''