Jean La Placette on the senses and the communion elements

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Reformed Covenanter

Cancelled Commissioner
Yet is it true, said I, it’s more evident the Eucharist is Bread and Wine, than that it is Day: Only the Senses of those who live, and are awake at present, attest the latter; whereas the Senses of all Men, who live, or have lived, since the planting of the Gospel, have affirmed the former. All our Senses do not attest it’s now Day, only our Sight tells us so, whereas all our Senses tell us, That the Eucharist is Bread and Wine.

In effect, take a consecrated Host, take consecrated Wine; Ask your Eyes what they are? Ask your Nose, your Palate, and your Hands; Ask them ten thousand times the same Question; they will ever answer you, what they have always answered those who have consulted them on this Matter. They will tell you, ’tis Bread and Wine; In a word, the Senses never attested any thing in a more clear, expressive, and authentic manner, than what they depose on the Subject of the Eucharist. And if they deceive us herein; they are not to be believed in any thing whatever.

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