Dissertation on the Most August Sacrament of the Lord's Body and Blood

...the will Completing the word voluntatem from the previous page. of Christ and the Testament of His supreme love, they have wished—as far as was in their power—to make vain and plainly void. They imagine mere shadows of love, and indeed of divine power, not grasping how the true flesh and blood of Christ can be truly, really, and substantially in many places at once under the species The outward appearances of bread and wine that remain after the substance has changed. of bread and wine, yet in a spiritual and incorruptible manner. So that this truth may become more manifest, it must henceforth be demonstrated openly from the most certain testimonies of Holy Scripture, according to the established method of disputing from general principles. This is done both for the reasons already assigned and because this Sacrament is the bond of charity, peace, and Christian concord—which is the primary aim of this entire work—as well as its most effective symbol.

First, therefore, I shall propose the principles of Divine Scripture concerning the Most August Sacrament of the Eucharist in itself: concerning its institution, its naming, its nature, and its excellence; whether it consists in some permanent thing A technical Scholastic question: whether the Sacrament exists as long as the bread and wine remain, or only during the act of eating., or only in a passing action, and other matters that seem relevant here. Next, I will treat the real presence of Christ the Lord in this Sacrament, the conversion of bread and wine into His body and blood, and consequently concerning the Lutheran impanation impanation original: "impanatione". A doctrine associated with some reformers suggesting that the substance of the bread remains alongside the body of Christ ("in, with, and under"), rather than being changed., as they call it; the Calvinist "figure and shadow" Referring to the Reformed view that the bread and wine are symbols or spiritual signs rather than the literal body and blood.; then concerning communion under both kinds The practice of the laity receiving both the bread and the wine.; and concerning the most holy sacrifice of the Mass; and finally concerning the due veneration of the Holy Eucharist. For the sake of greater clarity, it may also be seen that this has been carefully observed: that whenever the testimonies of the Sacred Page A traditional term for Holy Scripture. for the propositions or principles...