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When an inheritance is conveyed to me by a sealed Deed, the Nature of the wax is not changed, but the use of it. The Bread and Wine after the Sacramental bles∣sing of them remain Bread and Wine still, and so in Scripture they are called; but their use is very much altered, and they become Christs broad seal to convey to me, and to assure me of the Remission of sin, of the Renewing of my Nature, and of Life and
Immortality. Let the Papists contend for a gross and carnal presence of the Body of Christ at his Table. I am perswaded that as Circumcision is called the Covenant, and the Lamb the Lords Passeover. So the bread and wine are called the Body and Blood of the Lord Jesus. And yet I am also fully per∣swaded, that though the Body of Christ is in Heaven, yet he is most really present at the Table with them that do believe, and such are nourished and strengthened in this Ordinance. I learn from Scripture that Spiritual things are most firm, most real, most substantial, most durable; and if so, then Christs spiritual presence is the most real presence. Christ is absent where Trans∣substantiation is believed, and Romish De∣votion and Adoration of the Host is turned into abominable Idolatry.