The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?

CHAP. XI. 27-29.

Wherefore, whosoever shall eat this bread, and [OR] drink this cup of the Lord unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup. For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the body of the Lord.

LECTURE VIII:

ARGUMENTS FOR THE REAL PRESENCE FROM THE DOCTRINE OF ST. PAUL REGARDING THE USE OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT-GENERAL OBJECTIONS AGAINST THE CATHOLIC DOCTRINE FROM SCRIPTURE.-REMARK ON THE CONNECTION BETWEEN THE REAL PRESENCE AND TRANSUBSTANTIATION.

To complete the Catholic proof of the Real Presence from the Scriptures, nothing is wanting but to examine the doctrine delivered by St. Paul regarding the effects of this sacred institution. I have for this purpose placed before you two passages in which he speaks of it; and I proceed at once, to the brief, but convincing, argument which they afford to our doctrine.

In the first of these, 1 Cor. x. 16, the Apostle touches quite incidentally upon it; for he is speaking of the guilt of participating in the idolatrous sacrifices of the

heathens. He enforces this by the question"The cup of benediction which we bless, is it not the partaking of the blood of Christ? And the bread which we break, is it not par taking of the body of the Lord ?" The word here rendered partaking, or communion, is used several other times in the following verses:-"Behold Israel according to the flesh; are not they that eat of the sacrifices, partakers of the altar?" The adjective here used corresponds exactly to the substantive in the first passage, κοινωνοὶ κοινωνία. word is here applied to the real participation of the sacrifices on the altar, and should, therefore, have a similar power in the other. But the force of this text is not so great as that of the second passage in the eleventh chapter; and I have brought it chiefly for the sake of some remarks which I shall have occasion to make.

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In the passage to which I have but now alluded, St. Paul draws important practical consequences from the narrative of the institution which he had just detailed. If the words of our Saviour, "This is my body.' had been figurative, we might expect that his apostle, in commenting on them, would