"The true transubstantiation"

When the Holy Supper was administered according to the Reformed rites and doctrine of the Church of England, a true transubstantiation occurred:

to us they [i.e. "those consecrated elements"] are thereby made such instruments as mystically yet truly, invisibly yet really, work our communion or fellowship with the person of Jesus Christ as well in that he is man as God, our participation also in the fruit, grace and efficacy of his body and blood, whereupon there ensues a kind of transubstantiation in us, a true change both of soul and body, an alteration from death to life.

Richard Hooker, Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity V.67.11.

There is the true transubstantiation, that when I have received it worthily, it becomes my very soul; that is, my soul grows up into a better state, and habitude by it, and I have the more soul for it, the more sanctified, the more deified soul by that sacrament.

John Donne Sermon LXVIII



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