Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

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SCRIPTURE AND THE FATHERS. 297
As the R. appears so much attached to the
Fathers, it may be gratifying to him to heartheir
sentiments concerning the nature of the
eucharist. I will therefore produce a few quotations
from their writings, which he may
explain in his next treatise on transubstantiation.
" That which is bread from the earth '^ savs
Ireneus, " perceiving the call of God, is not
" now coinmon bread, but the eucharist ; con-
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sisting of two things, the one earthly, and the
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other spiritual *."
" Bread and wine,'' says Macarius, " are
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offered in the Church, the antitype of his
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flesh and blood ; and they who are partakers
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of the visible bread, do spiritually eat the
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flesh of the Lord f."
" For as, (in the eucharist),*' says Chrysostom,
" before the bread is consecrated, we
call it bread ; jt)ut when the grace of God by
the priest has consecrated it, it has no longer
the name of bread, but is counted worthy to
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be called the Lord's body ;
though the nature
of bread remain in it, and we do not say
there are two bodies, but one body of the
Son +."
" He," says Theodoret, " who called his
body, which is so by nature, wheat and
bread, and again termed himself a vine, ho-
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noured
* Lib. i\, c. 34. f flom. 27. X A'dv. ApoUin.