words of Scripture; overthroweth the Nature of the Sacrament, and hath given occasion to many Superstitions. The Body of Christ is given, taken, and eaten in the Supper only after an heavenly and spiritual manner: and the mean whereby the Body of Christ is received and eaten in the Supper, is faith. And Homily of the worthy receiving the Sacrament, it saith thus: It is well known that the meat we seek for in the Supper, is spiritual food, the nourishment of our souls, an heavenly refection, and not earthly; invisible meat, and not bodily; a ghostly substance, and not carnal. p. 200. It's also contrary to the Church of England's declaration concern∣ing kneeling at the end of the Communion-service: The Sacramental bread and wine remain still in their very natural substances, therefore may not be adored (for that were Idolatry to be abhorred of all faithful Christi∣ans) and the natural body and blood of our Saviour Christ are in heaven, and not here, it being against the truth of Christs natural body to be at one time in more places than one.
This declaration is not only against the Papists Transubstantia∣tion, but also fully against the Lutherans Consubstantiation, viz. That Christs body and blood is really and corporally in the bread and wine: Both which erroneous opinions destroy the humane nature of Christ, and consequently all those Articles of our Creed which concern the bodily part of his humane nature, and depend upon the verity there∣of. Besides, Transubstantiation is also contrary to Canonical Scrip∣ture, Mat. 26. 29, But I say unto you, I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the Vine, until that day when I drink it new with you in my Fa∣thers Kingdom. Where 'tis clear, that the wine which he drank and gave to his Disciples, and which they did drink, was naturally the fruit of the Vine, and not the natural blood of Christ, but called his blood Sacramentally, because it did by the institution of Christ, signifie or represent the blood of Christ; as Circumcision by a like Sa∣cramental phrase, is called the Covenant, Gen. 17. 10, 11, This is my Covenant which ye shall keep between me and you, and thy seed after thee; every man-child among you shall be circumcised, and ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin, and it shall be a token of the Covenant betwixt me and you. Lo here, Circumcision, which is properly but a sign of the Covenant, that was made between God and Abraham, and his seed, as 'tis called in the 11th. verse, is yet in the 10th. verse figurative, or if you will, Tropically called the Covenant, because 'twas a sign of it by Gods special appointment; and so these words, This is my body, and this is my blood, Mat. 26. 26, 28. are to be understood. If the bread which he did eat, and the wine which he drank and gave to his Dis∣ciples,