that we cannot see or take or eat becomes one substance with us. The whole force of the sacrament, says Calvin, lies in the Word: ‘given for you,’ ‘shed for you.’ Those who take in the language of the sign truly take the thing signified.” A poem attributed to the young Queen Elizabeth expresses the same understanding: Hoc est corpus meum ’Twas Christ the Word that spake it. The same took bread and brake it, And as the Word did make it, So I believe and take it.
