Here's hoping your work receives responses worthy of the time you've obviously spent compiling it.
I'm very grateful to God for my older brothers and sisters here!
Complex as the history of the doctrine is, I think you among those here who could understand it.
The subject has been gone over in extreme detail, many centuries ago now, and by many individuals...
Verily he would not deny that the same body which Christ offered for sacrifice is delivered in the Supper : but he did set out the manner of eating : namely that being received into heavenly glory, by the secret power of the Spirit, it breatheth life into us.I grant indeed that there is oftentimes found in him this manner of speaking, that the body of Christ is eaten of the unbelievers : but he expoundeth himself, adding, in sacrament. And in another place be describeth spiritual eating, in which our bitings consume not grace. (Hom. in Joann. 27.)
And least mine adversaries should say, that I fight with by a heap of places, I would know of them how they can unwind themselves from one saying of his, where he saith that sacraments do work in the elect only that which they figure.
Truly they dare not deny but that the bread in the Supper figureth the body of Christ. Whereupon followeth that the reprobate are debarred from the partaking of it. That Cyril also thought no otherwise, these words do declare: "As if a man upon molten wax do pour another wax, he wholly tempered the one wax with another : so it is necessary if any man receives the flesh and blood of the Lord that he be joined with him that Christ may be found in him, and he in Christ." By these words, I think it is evident, that they are bereaved of the true and real eating, that do but sacramentally eat the body of Christ, which cannot be severed from his power : and that therefore faileth not the faith of the promises of God, which ceaseth not to rain from heaven, although the stones and rocks conceive not the liquor of the rain.
The Waterboys - This Is The Sea