Apocalypse Revealed (Coulsons) n. 795

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795. But let this be illustrated by an example. Who cannot see that those who are in Babylon have searched after and examined how they can confirm this enormous untruth, that the bread and the wine in the Eucharist should be divided, so that the bread may be given to the laity and the wine to the clergy? This can be seen from merely reading the confirmation enacted in the Council of Trent and ratified by a bull, which reads thus:-

That Immediately after the consecration the very Body of Jesus Christ and the very Blood, together with His Soul and Divinity, are really and substantially contained under the form (species) of bread and wine; the Body under the form of bread and the Blood under the form of wine, BY VIRTUE OF THE WORDS; but the Body itself under the form of wine, and the Blood under the form of bread, and the soul under each, by virtue of the natural connection and concomitance whereby the parts of Christ the Lord are joined together; and the Divinity on account of that admirable hypostatic union with the body and soul; and that as much is contained under either form as under each; and that Christ whole and entire is manifest under the form of bread, and under each h)art of that form, and the whole also is manifest under the form of wine and its parts. Also that water should be mixed wills the wine.

These are their very words; and they themselves confess that they are contrary to the force of the Lord's words. Who being of sound judgment does not see there truths inverted and turned into untruths by reasonings, which the upright in heart can only abominate? But why is this? Is it not solely for the sake of the masses which they call propitiatory sacrifices, most holy, pure, with nothing but what is holy in them, by which they would infuse sanctity into the bodily senses of men, and at the same time night into all things of faith and spiritual life, and this for the purpose of dominating and making gain in a dense darkness? Is it not also so that there may he the idea concerning the ministers, that they are full of the Lord, and that the Lord is in them? And so that lest they should be fatigued the wine is for them, and lest they be inebriated there is water in the wine?


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