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through the words <strong>and</strong> symbols." In his Retractation he says: "To<br />

Luther, <strong>and</strong> those who stood with him, was attributed a grosser doctrine<br />

concerning the presence <strong>and</strong> reception of the Lord in the Supper than<br />

that which I afterwards found, <strong>and</strong> now testify, they ever held. I<br />

disapproved of certain forms of speech, as, that the sacraments confirmed<br />

faith <strong>and</strong> strengthened the conscience, that Christ was received in the<br />

sacrament, <strong>and</strong> that this reception was corporeal: which forms I now<br />

acknowledge I can use piously <strong>and</strong> profitably." 515<br />

Musculus.<br />

Whitaker.<br />

WOLFGANG MUSCULUS (d. 1563) 516 “I do not think that any<br />

one ever said that the bread is naturally or personally the body of our Lord;<br />

<strong>and</strong> Luther himself, of pious memory, expressly denied both modes."<br />

WHITAKER (d. 1595) 517 "Luther taught no personal union of the flesh of<br />

Christ with the bread."<br />

Salmasius.<br />

Stapfer.<br />

SALMASIUS (d. 1653): 518 "Consubstantiation, or fusion of natures,<br />

is the commixtion of two substances as it were into one; but it is not this<br />

which the followers of Luther believe; for they maintain the co-existence of<br />

two substances distinct in two subjects. It is the co-existence, rather, of the<br />

two substances than their consubstantiation." Nothing would be easier<br />

than to multiply such citations. Some have been given in other parts of this<br />

work, <strong>and</strong> with one more we will close our illustrations of this point. We<br />

shall quote from STAPFER, who, probably beyond any other of the<br />

writers of Polemics, is a favorite among Calvinists. He first states 519 the<br />

points in which Calvinists <strong>and</strong> Lutherans agree on the Lord's Supper:<br />

"<strong>The</strong>y AGREE,”<br />

“a. That the bread is not changed into the body of Christ: after the<br />

consecration the outward signs remain bread <strong>and</strong> wine.<br />

515 Given in Verpoorten: Comment. Histor. de Martino Bucero. Coburg, 1709. ~ xx. xxiii.<br />

516 Loci Comm. <strong>The</strong>olog. Bern, 1560, 1583. Folio, 771. Quoted in Baier: De Impanat. 13. Musculus was originally<br />

of the Strasburg school. His Loci are of the Helvetic type.<br />

517 Prael. de Sacr. Franc. 1624, 561. Quoted in Baier, 18.<br />

518 Simpl. Verin. sive Claudii Salmasii De Transubstant. Ed. Sec. Lugdun. Bat. 1660, p. 509.<br />

519 Institut. <strong>The</strong>olog. Polemic. Universae. Tigur, 1748, 12mo, V. 227.

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