Question. What is the earthly and sensible part?
Answer. Bread and Wine, both which matters the Lord hath expressly commanded all to receive.
Scripture References: Math. 26:16,27; Mark 14:22-23; Luke 22:19-20; 1 Cor. 11:33, 35.
Question: What is the heavenly part and matter removed from outward senses?
Answer. The body and blood of Christ, which are given, taken, eaten, and drunken of the faithful, in the Lord’s Supper ; only after a heavenly and spiritual manner, but yet verily, and indeed. In so much, that as the bread nourisheth our bodies, so Christ’s body hath most singular force spiritually by faith to feed our souls. And as with Wine men’s hearts are cheered, and their strengths confirmed, so with his blood our souls are relieved and refreshed through faith : which is the mean whereby the body and blood of Christ are received in the Supper. For Christ as surely maketh them that believe in him, partakers of his body and blood, as they surely know that they have received the bread and wine with their mouths and stomachs. And it is also a gauge of our Immortality, and a pledge of our Resurrection.
Scripture References: John 6:27, 35, 48, 63; 1 Cor. 10:16; Psalm 104:15; John 6:54
Question: Is then the bread and wine changed into the substance of the body and blood of Christ?
Answer. No; For that were to destroy the nature of a Sacrament, which must consist both of heavenly and earthly matter : and to make a doubt of the truth of Christ’s body: and to give occasion of grudging unto ye minds of the receivers.
Scripture References: Math. 26:26-27; Mark 14:22-23; Luke 22:19-20; 1 Cor. 11:23-28