Thomas Cranmer and the English Reformers on the real presence in the Sacrament

How is everyone doing today? I came across an edifying account of Archbishop Cranmer's views on the real presence of Christ in the eucharist. This he gave (together with Ridley and Latimer) shortly before his Martyrdom, at the exposition with the Romanist theologians:

(Foxe's Book of Martyrs)
http://www.exclassics.com/foxe/foxe255.htm

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A Table declaring divers and sundry respects how the holy real body of Christ our Saviour, both in the sacrament and beside the sacrament, is present, eaten, and united to us.

The body of Christ is, really, spiritually, and sacramentally, present, eaten, and united.

FIRST.
The body of Christ is really present.

So was the body of Christ once present here on earth with us, and shall be again at the day of his coming. Otherwise it is not here really present, but only to our faith, really, that is to say truly, apprehending his body in heaven, and here feeding upon the same in earth. And thus is he present only to good men, whether with the symbols or without the symbols.


The body of Christ is really eaten.

Really, not with our bodily mouth, but with the mouth of faith; apprehending the real body of Christ, who suffered for us, and worketh to us nourishment of life and grace, &c.


The body of Christ is really united.

Really and corporally the body of Christ is united to us, by his incarnation, and the partaking of our flesh.


SECONDLY.
The body of Christ is spiritually present.

Spiritually we say his body to be present, when either the body of Christ is present to our spirit and faith; or when the virtue of his body is present and redoundeth to our bodies and spirits by grace. And this differeth from the other real presence above, in this: that the one hath respect to the body apprehended, the other to the thing that doth apprehend.


The body of Christ is spiritually eaten.

Spiritually we eat the body and blood of Christ, not with mouth and teeth, but with faith only, whensoever we believe on the passion of Christ, being the true bread of life and the only food of man's soul. And thus is he eaten, but only of good men, as well besides the sacrament as with the sacrament; and of this eating speaketh the sixth chapter of John. And so was he eaten in the time also of the old law.


The body of Christ is spiritually united.

Spiritually he is united unto us, when the properties of his holy body, as his innocence, power, glorification, eternity, beatitude, &c., are united to our bodies and spirits, which cometh by our faith in him, according to his words in John xvii. 23, I in them, and thou in me, &c. And this uniting, standing by grace, cometh as well besides the sacrament, as with the sacrament; only to the godly.



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