[292]. Letters of M. de St. Cyran, tom. i., let. 93.
[293]. Ibid.
[294]. Letter 32.
[295]. Letter 72.
[296]. Defence of the Chaplet of the H. Sacrament, p. 217.
[297]. Theol. Famil., lec. 15.
[298]. Ibid., p. 153.
[299]. John Mestrezat, Protestant minister of Paris, was born at Geneva in 1592 and died in May 1657. His Sermons on the Epistle to the Hebrews and other discourses, published after his death, are truly excellent. This learned and eloquent divine frequently engaged in controversy with the Romanists, and on one occasion managed the debate with such spirit that Cardinal Richelieu, taking hold of his shoulder, exclaimed: “This is the boldest minister in France.” (Bayle, Dict., art. Mestrezat.)
[300]. The statement of the Protestant faith, given in a preceding note, may suffice to show that it differs, toto cœlo, from that of Rome, as this is explained in the text. The leading fallacy of the Romish creed on this subject is the monstrous dogma of transubstantiation; the adoration of the host is merely a corollary. Calvinists and Lutherans though differing in their views of the ordinance, always agreed in acknowledging the real presence of Christ in the eucharist, though they consider the sense in which Romanists interpret that term to be chargeable with blasphemy and absurdity.
[301]. Mascar., tr. 4, disp. 5, n. 284.