by bread and wine, does at the same time declare the flesh and blood not to be the
so called, but the
. There is therefore no contradiction in the terms, however reasonless the doctrine may be, and however unnecessary the interpretation on which it is pretended. I confess, had I been in Luther's place, I would not have rested so much of my quarrel with the Papists on this point; nor can I agree with our Arminian divines in their ridicule of Transubstantiation. The most rational doctrine is perhaps, for some purposes, at least, the
rem credimus, modum nescimus
; next to that, the doctrine of the Sacramentaries, that it is
signum sub rei nomine