The Conservative Reformation and Its Theology - Saint Mary ...

"b. The bread is not to be adored.
"c. The Sacrifice of the Mass is an invention which casts contempt on
the Sacrifice of the Cross.
"d. The carrying about of the host in processions is absurd and
idolatrous.
"e. The mutilation of the Supper, by giving only the bread, is
impious, and contrary to the original institution.
"f. The use and virtue of the Sacrament is not dependent on the
intention of the consecrator.
"g. The body and blood of Christ are present verily and really in the
Eucharist, not to our soul only, but also to our body. They are present by
power and efficacy.
"h. Only believers, by means of the right use of this Sacrament, are
made partakers of the fruits of the sufferings and death of Christ;
unbelievers receive no benefit.
"THEY DIFFER in these respects:
"a. The brethren of the Augsburg Confession teach: That the body
and blood of Christ are present with the signs in the Supper substantially
and corporeally.
"But here it is to be observed that these brethren do not mean that
there is any consubstantiation or impanation. On the contrary, PFAFF, the
venerable Chancellor of Tübingen, protests, in their name, against such an
idea. He says: 520 ‘All ours agree that the body of Christ is not in the
Eucharist by act of that finite nature of its own, according to which it is
now only in a certain "pou" (somewhere) of the heavens; and this remains
that the body of Christ is not in the world, nor in the Eucharist, by diffusion
or extension, by expansion or location, by circumscription or natural
mode. Yet is the body of Christ really present in the Holy Supper. But the
inquisitive may ask, How? I answer, our theologians, who have rightly
weighed the matter, say that the body and blood of Christ are present in
the Holy Supper according to the omnipresence imparted to the flesh of
Christ by virtue of the personal union, and are sacramentally united with
the Eucharistic symbols, the bread and wine; that is, are so united, that of
the divine institution, these symbols are not symbols
520 Instit. Theol. Dogm. et Moral. III. iii. 740, 743.