st _vere et
realiter_, verily and indeed, if you take these terms for _spiritually
by grace and efficacy_; but if you mean _really and indeed_, so that
thereby you would include a lively and movable body under the form of
bread and wine, then in that sense it is _not_ Christ's body in the
sacrament really and indeed."
[305:4] See Inman's Ancient Faiths, vol. ii. p. 203, and Anacalypsis, i.
232.
[306:1] "Leur grand Lama celebre une espece de sacrifice avec du pain et
du vin dont il prend une petite quantite, et distribue le reste aux
Lamas presens a cette ceremonie." (Quoted in Anacalypsis, vol. ii. p.
118.)
[306:2] Viscount Amberly's Analysis, p. 46.
[306:3] Baring-Gould: Orig. Relig. Belief, vol. i. p. 401.
[306:4] See Bonwick's Egyptian Belief, p. 163.
[306:5] See Ibid. p. 417.
[306:6] See Prog. Relig. Ideas, vol. i. p. 179.
[306:7] See Bunsen's Keys of St. Peter, p. 199; Anacalypsis, vol. ii. p.
60, and Lillie's Buddhism, p. 136.
[306:8] See Higgins: Anacalypsis, vol. ii. p. 60.
[307:1] See Bunsen's Keys of St. Peter, p. 55, and Genesis, xiv. 18, 19.
[307:2] St. Jerome says: "Melchizedek in typo Christi panem et vinum
obtulit: et mysterium Christianum in Salvatoris sanguine et corpore
dedicavit."
[307:3] See Bunsen's Angel-Messiah, p. 227.
[307:4] See King's Gnostics and their Remains, p. xxv., and Higgins'
Anacalypsis, vol. ii. pp. 58, 59.
[307:5] Renan's Hibbert Lectures, p. 35.
[308:1] In the words of Mr. King: "This expression shows that the notion
of blessing or consecrating the elements was _as yet_ unknown to the
Christians."
[308:2] Apol. 1. ch. lxvi.
[308:3] Ibid.
[308:4] De Praescriptione Haereticorum, ch. xl. Tertullian explains this
conformity between Christianity and Paganism, by asserting that the
devil copied the Christian mysteries.
[308:5] "De Tinctione, de oblatione panis, et de imagine resurrectionis,
videatur doctiss, de la Cerda ad ea Tertulliani loca ubi de hiscerebus
agitur. Gentiles citra Christum, talia celebradant Mithriaca quae
videbantur cum doctrina _eucharistae_ et _resurrectionis_ et aliis
ritibus Christianis convenire, quae fecerunt ex industria ad imitationem
Christianismi: unde Tertulliani et Patres aiunt eos talia fecisse, duce
diabolo, quo vult esse simia Christi, &c. Volunt itaque eos res suas ita
comparasse, ut _Mithrae mysteria essent eucharistiae Christianae imago_.
Sic Just. Martyr (p. 98), et Tertullianus et Chrysostomus. In suis e
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