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and ground of truth, has detested as satanical these inventions devised by wicked men. [Session 13, Chap. 1.] Whence, our Saviour would also that this sacra- ment should be received as the spiritual food of souls, whereby may be fed and strengthened those who live by his life who said: He that eateth me, the same also shall live by me ; and as an antidote, through which we may be freed from daily faults and be preserved from mortal sins. He would, furthermore, have it a pledge of our glory to come, and everlasting happiness. 40 ROMAN CATHOLICISM and thus be a symbol of that one body whereof he is the head, and to which he would fain have us as mem- bers be united by the closest bond of faith, hope, and charity, that we might all speak the same things, and that there might be no schisms among us. [Chap. 2.] And because Christ, our Redeemer, declared that which he offered under the species of bread to be truly his own body, therefore has it ever been a firm belief in the Church of God, and this holy Synod doth now declare it anew, that, by the consecration of the bread and of the wine, a conversion is made of the whole substance of the bread into the substance of the body of Christ our Lord, and of the whole substance of the wine into the substance of his blood ; which conversion is, by the holy Catholic Church, suitably and properly called Transubstantiation. [Chap. 4.]

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