on God’s help, with the result that now, by God’s goodness, this plague among us has greatly abated. So far am I from receiving, teaching or defending anything of this seditious faction. EIGHTHLY—I believe that in the holy Eucharist, i. e., the supper of thanksgiving, the true body of Christ is present by the contemplation of faith. This means that they who thank the Lord for the benefits bestowed on us in His Son acknowledge that He assumed true flesh, in it truly suffered, truly washed away our
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