CONSPICILLUM.

or in the Sacraments of the Lord's Supper, than that one spiritual way which is performed by the hand and mouth of faith. We affirm that your oral eating of the body of Christ, common to both the worthy and the unworthy, is clearly and universally abrogated by these very words of Christ, as witnessed also by the words of Luther himself; if he later departed from them by excepting the Lord's Supper, he did very poorly. For he writes thus, in a sermon on John 6: Christ says, The flesh profits nothing, and again, My flesh gives life to the world. How shall we discern these things? The Spirit discerns. Christ wills that corporal manducation profits nothing, but to believe that the flesh is the son of God, who for us descended from the heavens and poured out His blood for us. Therefore, if your oral manducation is posited in the unworthy, it will certainly be useless to them. What then will become of those words of Christ, conceived indefinitely and generally without any exception whatsoever: He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life?

But Zwingli (you say on pages 18 and 19) acknowledges no use of the essential flesh of Christ except in the death which it suffered for us: not even if it is perceived by faith: and in those words, My flesh is food indeed, he wishes the flesh to be understood for the divinity of Christ.