In Section X of The Real Presence and Spiritual of Christ in the Blessed Sacrament (1654), Taylor demonstrates how the eucharistic language of Saint Cyril of Jerusalem cannot be understood to entail transubstantiation. He begins by addressing Cyril's concluding statement in the fourth lecture (9): the Roman doctors pretend certain words out of St. Cyril's fourth 'mystagogique catechism,' ['On the Mysteries'] against the doctrine of this paragraph: "Be sure of this, that this bread, which is seen of us, is not bread, although the taste perceives it to be bread, but the body of Christ: for under the species of bread, the body is given to thee; under the species of wine, the blood is given to thee" ... St. Cyril bids you not believe your sense. For taste and sight tells you it is bread, but it is not. But here is no harm done. For himself plainly explains his meaning in his next catechism. 'Think not that you taste bread and wine,' saith he. No, ...
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