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extended through all places (or as Damascenus expresses it, that the flesh<br />

of Christ is corporeally co-extended with the Deity assuming it,) so that IN<br />

THIS,WAY IT IS PRESENT."<br />

"Nor by multiplication, or replication-as the image of one body in<br />

many pieces of a broken mirror. <strong>The</strong> body of Christ is one, not many."<br />

"By no means, also, do we think that the body of Christ, either in<br />

(the personal) union, or in glory, its substance being lost, <strong>and</strong> its essential<br />

properties abolished, is converted or transmuted into a spiritual substance,<br />

infinite, immense, <strong>and</strong> now in its essential property uncircumscribed, so<br />

that by reason of its essential, infinite immensity, it is in all places, <strong>and</strong> fills<br />

all things, as divinity in this mode, <strong>and</strong> in this respect is present<br />

everywhere; for the substance of the natures <strong>and</strong> their essential properties<br />

remain in Christ unaffected, in that very union <strong>and</strong> glory."<br />

"Nor that the divine nature alone, <strong>and</strong> not the human also is present."<br />

"Nor that it agrees with the words of the institution, that we should<br />

underst<strong>and</strong> the presence of the merit, virtue, <strong>and</strong> efficacy merely of the<br />

body of Christ, the substance of it being excluded <strong>and</strong> separated." 285<br />

5. <strong>The</strong> modes of presence affirmed.<br />

"Christ, according to His human nature, wills to be present in His<br />

Church, where His Supper is celebrated on earth, <strong>and</strong> through the<br />

humanity He has assumed, as by an organ connate with us, as the ancients<br />

express it, wishes to apply, confirm, <strong>and</strong> seal to us His benefits, <strong>and</strong> thus to<br />

execute in the Church His office of life-giving, according to both natures,<br />

through His life-giving flesh." 286<br />

6. <strong>The</strong> promise which is conceded, <strong>and</strong> the inference which is denied.<br />

<strong>The</strong> premise which is conceded is that "in a physical respect, in a<br />

natural mode <strong>and</strong> condition of this world, one body, according to its<br />

essential or natural properties, is not at the same time in different places,<br />

nor is there an essential or natural property in the body of Christ of being<br />

in different places, nor is it by any essential or natural attribute of Christ's<br />

body that it is present at the same time in all those places where the Supper<br />

of the Lord is<br />

285 De duab. natur. 173.<br />

286 Do. 178.

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