8. The Anglican Doctrine

may be found at the present day; but usN"an none the lees there is a traditional Doctrine. attitude which may be designated se characteristically Anglican. Ire exponents call it simply the doctrine of the real presence, and lay distinguishing emphasis on the fact that " our dootrine leaves this subject in the sacred mystery with which God has enveloped it " (William Palmer, Treatise on the Church of Christ, London, 1838). The same idea is expressed at greater length by Bishop Andrewes (1555-1628) in his answer to Bellarmine: " The Cardinal is not unless ` willingly, ignorant' that Christ bath said ` This is my body,' not ` This is not my Body in this mode.' Now about the object we are both agreed; all the controversy is about the mode. The ` This is' we firmly believe; that' it is in this mode' (the Bread, namely, being transubstantiated into the Body), or of the mode whereby it is wrought that ` it is,' whether in, or with, or under, or transubstantiated, there is not a word in the Gospel." In another place he quotes with approval, as does also Jeremy Taylor, a saying attributed to Durandus, " We hear the word, feel the effect, know not the manner, believe the Presence." Archbishop Laud (1573-1845) asserted in his conference with Fisher, " As for the Church of England, nothing is more plain than that it believes and teaches the true and real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist." The denial, in the so-called "Black Rubric" appended to the communion service, of the " corporal presence of Christ's natural Flesh and Blood " is intended, not to deny the real presence, but to strike at certain gross material views current among insufficiently educated people in the period just before the Reformation.