AD SELNECCERVM

SELNECCERUS page 11.

And here no other reason is to be sought, except that Christ said he would give his body and blood. And since the word sounds in this way, it is necessary that it be done so: and nothing stands in the way of the power and will of Christ, who is present with his body and blood in the way he wishes: just as he clearly said he wishes to exhibit his body and blood in the Supper.

DANAEUS.

Where it is certainly established concerning the will of God, we ourselves confess with Augustine and Tertullian that no other reason for the will of God is to be sought here or elsewhere. But that these words, This is my body, etc., sound as Selneccer assumes here, namely, that that very substantial body of Christ which was born of the Virgin Mary, which suffered on the cross for the remission of our sins, which was raised to our life, is truly present with the signs of the Supper joined by a bodily or essential mode of presence, that we entirely deny with the very Word of God and all the pious and learned antiquity.

And though they may labor greatly, they will never show this. But if they stubbornly insist on the very words of Christ, This is my body, it would rather have to be said that either the Bread itself is truly changed or transubstantiated (as they say) into the body of Christ: or that Christ, when he uttered these words