This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: ...he continued verbally to assert in vague and general language; but, whenever he defined, the real presence tended more and more to be explained as a spiritual presence, the bread and wine ever more and more to become a sign of the reality, and not the reality itself. If for a time he still was! even content to say that "the bread and 1 wine are transubstantiated into the body and blood of Christ," the admission was qualified by the words " in a figure," or "virtually, as a king is in the whole of his kingdom," or " as a man is created into a pope, while remaining the same man as he was before" (ib. p. 107). To the last his views on the subject were tentative, shifting,and barelv consistent. But the metaphysical dogma of the mediaeval schools in which alone transubstantiation...