"That worship is due to The Body and Blood of Christ,
supernaturally and invisibly, but Really Present in the Lord's
Supper, 'under the form of Bread and Wine,'[65] by reason of
that Godhead with which they are personally united. But that
the elements through which 'The Body and Blood of Christ' are
given and received may not be worshipped."
[65] End of the 1st Book of Homilies.
With respect to the presence of non-communicants at the Holy
Eucharist, I had of course seen such publications as have appeared
in defence of the practice. But they fail altogether in the
essential point, which is, to show that antiquity viewed the
presence of such in any other light than either--1. As an utter
carelessness and irreverence; or 2. as befitting _penitents_, and
them only. The mediæval doctrine and practice, now being revived by
some, is that it is a good and laudable habit for Christian persons
in a state of grace to come to the Holy Communion, and to decline
receiving it.
I have to acknowledge many communications on various points; of
which I have to some extent availed myself in this edition.