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208 THE HISTORY OF HERESIES,
Persons than one, then there must be more than one operating
faculty. There are three Persons in God, but only one operation
common to all three, because the Divine Nature is one and in
divisible in God. But as in Jesus Christ there are two distinct
Natures, there are, therefore, two wills, by which he operates,
and two operations corresponding to each Nature ; and, although
all the operations, both of the Divine and human Nature are
attributed to the Word, which terminates and sustains the two
Natures, still the will and operations
of the Divine Nature should
not be confounded with those of the human nature ; neither are
the two Natures confused because the Person is one.
REFUTATION X.
THE HERESY OF BERENGARIUS, AND THE PRETENDED RE
FORMERS, CONCERNING THE MOST HOLY SACRAMENT OF
THE EUCHARIST.
1. Moshcim, the Protestant Ecclesiastical Historian, asserts (1)
that in the 9th century, the exact nature of the faith of the body
and blood of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist was not established,
and that, therefore, Pascasius Radbertus laid down in a book he
wrote two principal points concerning it ; first, that after the con
secration nothing remained of the substance of the bread and
wine, and, secondly, that in the consecrated Host is the very
body of Jesus Christ, which was born of Mary, died on the
cross, and arose from the sepulchue, and this, he said, is
" what
the whole world believes and professes." This work was op
posed by Retramn, and perhaps others, and hence Mosheim
concludes that the dogma was not then established. In this,
however, he is astray, for, as Selvaggi writes (note 79, vol. iii),
there was no controversy at all about the dogma, in which
(1) Mosh. His. t. 3, Cent. IX. c. 3, p. 1175.