The Church Handy Dictionary

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1890
Additions and Corrections .
ALTAR CLOTH, p. 3 add— This is the modern Roman sequence of colours, but there is another more truly belonging to the English Church, viz., the Sarum, in which only Red and White are used.
HERESY, p. 53, line, for not taught read formally condemned .
MIRACLES, p. 69, at the end, dele. and add— , which latter deals with certain specious arguments adduced by these writers against the a priori possibility of a miracle taking place.
PRESENCE, REAL, p. 81, add,— Bishop Harold Brown says, in his history of Art. 28, The doctrine of a real, spiritual presence is the doctrine of the English Church, and quotes the following passage from Jer. Taylor: The result of which doctrine is this: it is bread, and it is Christ's Body. It is bread in substance, Christ in the Sacrament; and Christ is as really given to all that are truly disposed, as the symbols are: each as they can; Christ as Christ can be given; the bread and the wine as they can; and to the same real purpose to which they were designed.
The Article referred to above states, The Body of Christ is given, taken, and eaten, in the Supper, only after an heavenly and spiritual manner. And the mean whereby the Body of Christ is received and eaten in the Supper is Faith.
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