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Osi<strong>and</strong>er, 1617.<br />

ANDREW OSIANDER (Chancellor of the University of<br />

Tübingen) (d. 1617): "Our theologians for years long have strenuously<br />

denied <strong>and</strong> powerfully confuted the doctrine of a local inclusion, or<br />

physical connection of the body <strong>and</strong> bread, or consubstantiation. We<br />

believe in no impanation, subpanation, companation, or consubstantiation<br />

of the body of Christ; no physical or local inclusion or conjoining of bread<br />

<strong>and</strong> body, as our adversaries, in manifest calumnies, allege against us. <strong>The</strong><br />

expressions in, with, <strong>and</strong> under are used, first, in order to proscribe the<br />

MONSTROUS DOCTRINE of TRANSUBSTANTIATION, <strong>and</strong><br />

secondly, to assert a true presence over against the doctrine that the Lord's<br />

Supper is a mere sign." 492<br />

Mentzer, 1627.<br />

MENTZER (d. 1627): 493 "<strong>The</strong>re is no local concealment of Christ's<br />

body, or inclusion of particles of matter under the bread. Far from us be it<br />

that any believer should regard Christ's body as present in a physical or<br />

natural mode. <strong>The</strong> eating <strong>and</strong> drinking are not natural or Capernaitish, but<br />

mystical or sacramental."<br />

Gerhard, 1637.<br />

JOHN GERHARD (d. 1637): 494 "On account of the calumnies of<br />

our adversaries, we would note that we do not believe in impanation, nor<br />

in CONSUBSTANTIATION, nor in any physical or local presence.<br />

Some of our writers, adopting a phrase from Cyril, have called the<br />

presence a bodily 495 one; but they use that term by no means to designate<br />

the mode of presence, but simply the object" (to show what is present, to<br />

wit, the body of Christ, but not how it is present), “nor have they at all<br />

meant by this that the body of Christ is present in a bodily <strong>and</strong> quantitative<br />

manner." “We believe in no consubstantiative presence of the body <strong>and</strong><br />

blood. Far from us be that figment. <strong>The</strong> heavenly thing <strong>and</strong> the earthly<br />

thing in the Lord's Supper are not present with each other physically <strong>and</strong><br />

naturally.” 496<br />

Carpzov, 1657.<br />

CARPZOV (d. 1657): 497 "To compress into a few words what is<br />

492 Disputat. xiii., Ex Concord. Libro. Francofurt, 1611, pages 280, 288.<br />

493 Exeges. Aug. Conf.<br />

494 Loci (Cotta) x. 165.<br />

495 Corporalem.<br />

496 See also Harmonia Evang., ii. 1097.<br />

497 Isagoge, 345-350.

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