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Now it must be deliberated in the middle. I believe that in the sacred Supper I truly eat the true body of Christ and drink his blood. I also believe that through this manducation and this drink, my soul is truly fed and nourished by the body and blood of Christ, and that I become bone of his bones and flesh of the flesh of Christ. How? Through the faith which I have in the words of Christ, God omnipotent and truthful, and by the power and efficacy of the Holy Spirit, who works this in me, to whom alone I believe this mystery is understood. But regarding the mode of that communication, I await the pious and Christian consent and judgment of the Churches of Christ with a peaceful and tranquil mind. Meanwhile, however, I confess that I do not believe that the body of Christ lies hidden in the bread truly, really, and substantially.

Furthermore, I do not believe that impious souls receive the Holy Spirit, nor are they cherished and nourished by the holy body of Christ, but they become guilty of the body and blood of Christ, because they maliciously violate the laws prescribed and openly declared by Paul to all approaching the sacred Supper. Now it must be considered and determined whether I am therefore a blasphemer, a heretic, a Sacramentarian, and worse than the Turks? Or whether I should not be recognized by pious Churches as a member of Christ and held as a brother? For in those two chapters the whole force of the controversies consists.

But if anyone in turn asks whether he who condemns the errors to be condemned, and confesses the spiritual manducation of the body of Christ, which happens through faith, belongs to the pious alone: who also rejects that carnal manducation and the raw and horrible phrases concerning the presence and manducation of the body of Christ (which many learned and pious theologians are wont to reject), yet believes for the greater confirmation of his faith that the body of Christ is in the bread in an inexplicable way, and is received by the mouth, and that the impious eat the body of Christ unto condemnation, should he not also be recognized by other Churches which feel otherwise as a member of Christ and of the Church and be held as a brother? What the opinion of others is regarding this matter, I do not know.