On Consubstantiation

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Order of Contents

Articles  5
Latin  1


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Articles

1500’s

Viret, Pierre – A Christian Instruction…  (d. 1571; London: Veale, 1573), A Familiar Exposition of the Principal Points of the Catechism, and of the Christian Doctrine, made in Form of Dialogue

16th Dialogue: Of the Transubstantiation & Consubstantiation, & of the True Presence of Jesus Christ in the Supper

Of the Error of Transubstantiation, and how the Supper cannot be a Sacrament, if the bread and the wine do not there remain in their proper substance

Of things without the which the Sacraments cannot be Sacraments

Of things which are to be Considered in the Word of God in all Sacraments, and in the signification of the same

Of things to Consider in the signs, and in the signification of them, in all Sacraments

Whether Hypocrites & Infidels do as well communicate in the Supper, of the things signified by the signs as they do of the signs

Wherefore are the Bread and wine called by the name of the body and blood of Jesus Christ, if they be not that body and blood

Of the Manner in the which the body and the blood of Iesus Christe are present in the supper, and are communicate to the faithful as well as the signs which represent them

Of the Substantial and natural conjunction of the body and blood of Jesus Christ, with the bread and with the wine of the Supper

Of the Agreement that is between this opinion & that, of transubstantiation

18th Dialogue

Of the Principal difference that may be between the transubstantiation of the bread and of the wine into the body and the blood of Jesus Christ and the bodily conjunction of them together [Consubstantiation]

Ursinus, Zachary

A Refutation of Objections framed to confirm Consubstantiation  in The Sum of Christian Religion: Delivered…  in his Lectures upon the Catechism…  tr. Henrie Parrie  (Oxford, 1587), Of the Lord’s Supper, 4. What is the sense or meaning of the words of the institution of our Lord’s Supper

A Brief Explication of the Whole Controversy concerning the Lord’s Supper between the Consubstantials & the True Believers  in A Collection of Certain Learned Discourses…  (Oxford, 1600)

1. The errors which the Consubstantials falsely impute unto us with their refutation
2. The arguments whereby the Consubstantials labor to throw our doctrine touching the Lord’s Supper, together with their Confutation and Answers
3. The Shifts of the Consubstantials in eluding some (not all, for there are more objected…) of our objections
4. Arguments whereby it is proved that the body of Christ is present neither ‘in’ nor ‘under’, nor ‘to’ the bread of the Lord’s Supper, nor is corporally eaten ‘in’ it, ‘under’ it, ‘with’ it, etc.
5. Arguments whereby the opinion of the Ubiquitaries is refused, and the truth of the right doctrine confirmed

Beza, Theodore, Anthony Faius & Students – 62. ‘Of Consubstantiation’  in Propositions & Principles of Divinity Propounded & Disputed in the University of Geneva by Certain Students of Divinity there, under Mr. Theodore Beza & Mr. Anthony Faius…  (Edinburgh: Waldegrave, 1591), pp. 189-93

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1600’s

Turretin, Francis – Institutes of Elenctic Theology, tr. George M. Giger, ed. James Dennison Jr.  (1679–1685; P&R, 1994), vol. 3, 19th Topic

26. ‘Are the words of the Supper to be understood properly and literally (kata to rheton), or figuratively and sacramentally?  The former we deny; the latter we affirm against the Romanists and Lutherans.’  465

28. ‘Is Christ corporeally present in the Eucharist, and is He eaten with the mouth by believers?  We deny against the Romanists and Lutherans.’  505


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Latin Article

1600’s

Voet, Gisbert – On Transubstantiation & Consubstantiation  in Syllabus of Theological Problems  (Utrecht, 1643), pt. 1, section 2, tract 5   Abbr.

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Related Pages

On Lutheranism

Against the Ubiquity & Multi-Presence of Christ’s Human Nature

On the Communion of the Two Natures of Christ & the Extra Calvinisticum

The Lord’s Supper

On the Mass & Transubstantiation