The provincial letters of Blaise Pascal : $b A new translation, with historical introduction and notes, by the Rev. Thomas M'CriePascal, Blaise
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The provincial letters of Blaise Pascal : $b A new translation, with historical introduction and notes, by the Rev. Thomas M'Crie
Pascal, Blaise
Jansenists -- France -- Early works to 1800; Jesuits -- Early works to 1800; Port-Royal des Champs (Abbey) -- Early works to 1800
subsist extraordinarily, without being upheld by any subject; and that
the body of Jesus Christ is also suspended under the species, and that
it does not depend upon these, as substances depend upon
accidents;”[290] that “the substance of the bread is changed, the
immutable accidents remaining the same;”[291] that “Jesus Christ reposes
in the eucharist with the same glory that he has in heaven;”[292] that
“his glorious humanity resides in the tabernacles of the Church, under
the species of bread, which forms its visible covering; and that,
knowing the grossness of our natures, he conducts us to the adoration of
his divinity, which is present in all places, by the adoring of his
humanity, which is present in a particular place;”[293] that “we receive
the body of Jesus Christ upon the tongue, which is sanctified by its
divine touch;”[294] “that it enters into the mouth of the priest;”[295]
that “although Jesus Christ has made himself accessible in the holy
sacrament, by an act of his love and graciousness, he preserves,
nevertheless, in that ordinance, his inaccessibility, as an inseparable
condition of his divine nature; because, although the body alone and the
blood alone are there, by virtue of the words _vi verborum_, as the
schoolmen say, his whole divinity may, notwithstanding, be there also,
as well as his whole humanity, by a necessary conjunction.”[296] In
fine, that “the eucharist is at the same time sacrament and
sacrifice;”[297] and that “although this sacrifice is a commemoration of
that of the cross, yet there is this difference between them, that the
sacrifice of the mass is offered for the Church only, and for the
faithful in her communion; whereas that of the cross has been offered
for all the world, as the Scripture testifies.”[298]
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