Proposition XIII.
Concerning the Communion, or Participation of the Body and Blood of Christ.
[119]The Communion of the Body and Blood of Christ is inward and spiritual, which is the Participation of his Flesh and Blood, by which the inward Man is daily nourished in the Hearts of those in whom Christ dwells. Of which Things the Breaking of Bread by Christ with his Disciples was a Figure, which even they who had received the Substance used in the Church for a Time, for the Sake of the Weak; [120]even as abstaining from Things strangled, and from Blood, the Washing one another’s Feet, and the Anointing of the Sick with Oil: All which are commanded with no less Authority and Solemnity than the former; yet seeing they are but Shadows of better Things, they cease in such as have obtained the Substance.
[119] 1 Cor. 10. 16, 17. John 6. 32. 33. 35. 1 Cor. 5. 8.
[120] Acts 15. 20. John 13. 14. James 5. 14.