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Title:  Meditations on the holy sacrament of the Lords last Supper Written many yeares since by Edvvard Reynolds then fellow of Merton College in Oxford.
Author: Reynolds, Edward, 1599-1676.
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or joynt-presence therewith is an incon∣sequent argument, as may appeare in other things. The Soule hath a kinde of immensity in her little world, being in each part thereof whole and entire, and yet it followes not be∣cause the Soule is united to the Body, that therefore the Body must needs partake of this Omnipresence of the Soule, else should the whole body be in the little finger, because the Soule unto which it is united is wholly there. Againe, there is an unseparable union betweene the Sunne and the beame, so that it is infallibly true to say, the Sunne is no where severed from the beame, yet wee know they both oc∣cupy a distinct place: againe, Misleoe is so united to the substance of the Tree out of which it groweth, that (though of a different nature) it subsisteth not but in and by the sub∣sistence of the Tree, and yet it hath not that amplitude of place which the Tree hath.Letting goe then this opinion, there is a third Presence of Christ, which is a carnall Phy∣sicall, locall Presence, which wee affirme his humane nature to have onely in Heaven: The Papists attribute it to the Sacrament, because Christ hath said, This is my Body: and in matters of fundamentall consequence, hee u∣seth no figurative or darke speeches; to this wee say, that it is a carnall Doctrine, and a mi∣stake like that of Nicodemus, and of Origen, from the Spirit to the letter. And for the dif∣ficulty, 0