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a partaking of the Body of CHRIST; and likewise the Cup of Blessing is a partaking of the Blood of CHRIST. Thus the Church of England believes in the Real Presence of our LORD in the Eucharist, but as Bishop Cosins iu his History of Transubstantiation remarks, we do not enquire into the manner of that presence. The difference between the ancient and Catholic doctrine on this subject, as held by the Church of England, and the doctrine of the Church of Rome is admirably stated by our martyr Reformer Bishop at his last trial, in language which would in these days be denounced as rank "Popery ; addressing his jndge, he says: " My Lord, you know that where any equivocation, which is a word having two significations, is, except distinction be given, no direct answer can be made; for it is one of Aristotle's fallacies, containing two questions under one, the which cannot be satisfied with one answer. For both you and I agree herein, that in the Sacrament is the very true and natural Body and Blood of CHRIST, even that which was born of the Virgin Mary, which ascended into heaven, which sitteth on the right hand of GOD the FATHER, which shall come from thence to judge the quick and the dead, only we differ in modo, in the way and manner of being ; we confess all one thing to be in the Sacrament, and dissent in the manner of being there, I, being fully by GOD'S word thereto persuaded, confess CHRIST'S natural Body to be in the Sacrament in deed by Spirit and grace, because that whosoever received! worthily that bread and wine, receiveth effectuously CHRIST'S Body and drinketh His Blood, that is, he is made effectually partaker of His passion : and you make a grosser kind of being, enclosing a natural, a lively, and a moving body under the shape or form of bread and wine. Now, this difference considered, to the question thus I answer; that in the Sacrament of the Altar is the natural Body and Blood of CHRIST vere et realiter, in deed and in reality, if you take these terms in deed and really for spiritually by grace and efficacy; for so every worthy receiver receiveth the very true Body of CHRIST ; but if you mean really and indeed, so that thereby you would include a lively and a moveable body under the forms of bread and wine, then in that sense is not CHRIST'S Body in the Sacrament really and indeed."—Wordsworth's Biography, iii. 237.