...of Scripture, overthroweth the nature of a Sacrament, and hath given occasion to many superstitions. The body of Christ is given, taken, and eaten, in the Supper, only after an heavenly and spiritual manner." 4 For Protestants (and especially for Calvinists) human nature since...

...the Swiss reformers - as did Frith's. This is summarised in the third paragraph of Article XXVIII: 'The Body of Christ is given, taken, and eaten in the Supper, only after an heavenly and spiritual manner. And the mean whereby the Body of Christ is received and eaten in...

...in the Supper, only after an heavenly and spiritual manner'. The Article goes to say that 'the mean whereby the Body of Christ is received and eaten in the Supper is Faith'. My guides pointed to the fact that the Article forebore to say that the Body of Christ was given by...

...of Scripture, overthroweth the nature of a Sacrament, and hath given occasion to many superstitions. The Body of Christ is given, taken, and eaten, in the Supper, only after an heavenly and spiritual manner. And the means whereby the Body of Christ is received and eaten in...

...soul unto everlasting life" were reversed, perhaps to reinforce the eighteenth Article's teaching that "the body of Christ is given, taken, and eaten in the supper, only after an heavenly and spiritual manner." The order approved in 1792 would remain virtually untouched for...

...and religion, professed, & protected . . . Expressed in 39 Articles of 1603 (London, 1607), p. 170: "The Body of Christ is given, taken, and eaten in the Supper only after an heavenly and spiritual manner: and the meane wherby the Body of Christ is received, and eaten in...

...Christ is given, taken, and eaten,' though again, 'only after an heavenly and spiritual manner,' while 'the means whereby the body of Christ is received and eaten in the supper is faith.'70 This careful balance affirming the physical act while subordinating it to spiritual mystery...

...flesh and blood' in the 1553 Articles, with the following statement in the Articles of 1563 and 1571 : The Body of Christ is given, taken, and eaten, in the Supper, only after an heavenly and spiritual manner. And the mean whereby the Body of Christ is received and eaten in...

...sacrificial body can yield, and as their souls do presently need, this is to them, and in them, my body." 67 "The body of Christ is given, taken, and eaten in...Christ is received and eaten in the supper is faith." 68 The viewpoint is also known as the Consubstantiation View. Next, we will look at the position which...

...statements about the nature of Christ's presence in the Eucharist. 'The mean', says the English Article 28, 'whereby the Body of Christ is received and eaten in the Supper is Faith.' 'The Holy Ghost', says Article 21 of the Scottish Confession, 'makes us to feed upon the body and blood...