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27, he says to them, "Ye are the body of Christ, and his members severally." (See the original of these passages in Griesbach's Greek Testament.) Thus you see, reader, that Paul considered Christians "as members of his (Christ's) body, of his flesh, and of his bones," because they partook of one loaf, which was the body of Christ.

The Papists are in the right, and have been much slandered by the Protestants, for the doctrine of Transubstantiation, or at least the Real Presence, is as plainly taught in the New Testament, as the doctrine of the Atonement.

You have seen what Paul believed upon this subject, and I shall corroborate the sense I put upon his words, by the words of Jesus, his master, and by quotations from the earliest Fathers.
Jesus says, John vi.--"I am the living bread which came down from Heaven; if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever, and the bread which I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world." The Jews, therefore, contended among themselves, saying, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat ?" Jesus, therefore, said unto them, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, unless ye eat the flesh of the son of man, and drink his blood, ye have not life in you.

He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath everlasting life, and I will raise him up at the last day.
For my flesh is verily food, and my blood is verily drink.

He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, abideth in me, and I in him.