01 - Of Those Thiongs Which Are Given Unto Us in the Supper

The Confession of Master Zanchius
in his Miscellania, touching
the Supper of the Lord.

Chapter I Of those things which are given unto us in the Supper

I believe these three things to be offered unto all men in the Supper and to be received of the faithful. The signs, the bread and the wine being joined with the words of Christ. For the word is not separated from the figures, nor the signs from the word; or else the Sacraments were no Sacraments. For the word is added to the element and so the Sacrament is made. The body and blood of the Lord, that is the Lord Jesus Christ himself. For as in [----] [-rath] the Divinity is not separated from the humanity, neither the humanity from the Divinity; even so unto us, the one is not offered without the other. Wherefore neither are they to be separated of us even in thought, but as the whole Christ is offered, so is the whole Christ to be received. The New Covenant or Testament. I mean that which is renewed and confirmed in Christ. For this is that thing for whose cause chiefly the Supper is instituted and administered, to wit, that we being incorporated more and more into the person of Christ might have the covenant more and more confirmed unto us. Now the body and blood of Christ and the new Testament made in Christ are that Spiritual, but the elements of Bread and Wine are those earthly things whereof Irenaeus speaks.