Analyticae Quaestiones & Responsiones de pane vitae

you may do good to them whenever you wish: but me you will not always have. Mark 14:7.
But I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I go away: for if I do not go away, that Comforter will not come to you: but if I depart, I will send him to you. John 16:7.

3. Concerning the spiritual and salutary presence of the same our Lord JESUS CHRIST in the Church and in the entire Ministry.
Behold, I am with you always, even unto the end of the age. Matthew 28:20.
I will not leave you orphans: I will return to you. John 14:18.
Therefore we are always confident, and knowing that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord. For we walk by faith, not by sight. We are confident, and approve rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord. 2 Cor. 5:6-8.

4. Concerning the work of the Ministers, by whose ἐξουσία authority the Lord JESUS makes use.
In general. I planted, Apollos watered: but God gave the increase. So then neither is he who plants anything, nor he who waters: but God who gives the increase. For we are God’s ministers. 1 Cor. 3:6-9.
Regarding similar species, the judgment is the same, if, I say, you consider those things in which they agree.
It is established that the Ministers of the word baptize with water, externally: but the Lord JESUS baptizes internally, with the Holy Spirit and with fire. John 1:33.
Wherefore it is certain that also in the Supper of the Lord, the Ministers indeed dispense the earthly and visible Symbols: but the Lord JESUS Himself confers the heavenly gifts.

5. Concerning the internal ministry of the Son of God.
The bread, which I will give, is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world. John 6:51.
Therefore let pious Minds observe this most accurately: that the Flesh of Christ, not insofar as it is flesh, but insofar as it is the flesh of Christ delivered for us, is the bread or food of the faithful soul: and the Blood of Christ,