Jeremy Taylor and breathing with both lungs

Writing on 'The Blessings and Graces of the Holy Sacrament' in The Worthy Communicant, Jeremy Taylor quotes both Hilary of Poitiers and Clement of Alexandria. This use of a Latin Father and a Greek Father is suggestive of a desire to both ensure that the Church's theology is 'breathing with both lungs' and to demonstrate a Eucharistic understanding richly rooted in the unity of patristic East and patristic West:

The sum of all I represent in these few words of St. Hilary. "These holy mysteries, being taken, cause that Christ shall be in us, and we in Christ." And if this be more than words, we need no farther inquiry into the particulars of blessing consequent to a worthy communion; for "if God hath given his son unto us, how shall not he, with him, give us all things else?" "Nay, all things that we need, are effected by this," said St. Clement of Alexandria, one of the most ancient fathers of the church of Christ ... "They, who by faith are partakers of the eucharist, are sanctified both in body and in soul".

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