. Now, they who worship the flesh of Christ in the
sacrament, must either consider it as present in the sacrament, and in
that respect to be adored, because of the personal union of it with the
word, or else because of the sacramental union of it with the outward
sign, which is a respect supervenient to that of the ubiquity of it in the
person of the word. First, then, touching the former of those respects,
the personal union of the flesh with the word can neither infer the
presence of the flesh in the sacrament to those who worthily receive, nor
yet can it make anything for the adoration of the flesh. Not the former;
for in respect of the ubiquity of the flesh in the person of the word, it
is ever and alike present with the communicants, whether they receive
worthily or not, and with the bread and wine, whether they be consecrated
to be the signs of his body and blood or not. Therefore divines rightly
hold _praesentiam corporis Christi in caena, non ab ubiquitate, sed a
verbis Christi pendere_.(738) Not the latter neither; for (as I have
showed already) notwithstanding of the personal union, yet the flesh of
Christ remaineth a creature, and is not God, and so cannot at all be
worshipped with divine worship. And if his flesh, could be at all so
worshipped,(739) yet were there no reason for worshipping it in the
sacrament (in respect of its personal union with the word) more than in
all other actions, and at all other times, for ever and always is the
flesh of Christ personally united with the word, and in that respect
present to us. There remaineth therefore nothing but that other respect of
the sacramental union of the flesh of Christ with the sacramental sign,
which they can have for worshipping his flesh in the sacrament. Whereas
Bishop Lindsey saith,(740) "that it is no error to believe the spiritual,
powerful, and personal presence of Christ's body at the sacrament, and in
that respect to worship his flesh and blood there,"--he means, sure, some
special respect, for which it may be said that Christ's body is present at
the sacrament (so as it is not present out of the sacrament), and in that
respect to be there adored. Now Christ's body is spiritually and
powerfully present to us in the word (as I showed before), yea, as often
as looking by faith upon his body broken and blood shed for us, we receive
the sense and assurance of the remission of our sins through his merits,
and as for this personal presence of Christ's