Notwithstanding the great authority of Bishop
Cosin, and the assent of Theologians of such opposite schools as Dr.
Pusey and Dean Goode, it must be admitted that the argument, even as
against Transubstantiation, is pressed beyond its just limits.
The identity of language extends only to two points, (1) the mode of
consecration by Invocation, (2) the effect negatively stated, that the
material element in each case is no longer simply a material
element. A change, therefore, of some kind has taken place, and
we have still to inquire how the change in each case is described by
Cyril. “The water acquires a power of sanctity,”
otherwise described as “the spiritual grace given with the
water Cat. iii. 3..”