(...)"DOCTRINE,
NOTE A.
On p. 6.
The belief that the Elements remain after Consecration in their natural substances was not supposed of old to involve any tenet of Consubstantiation.
THE term "Transubstantiation" was a term, altogether new, framed by those who believed the doctrine which it was intended to express, in order to express what they believed. The term "Consubstantiation" was a term invented by persons to stigmatize a doctrine which they rejected, and, as mis-stating that doctrine, has never been accepted by those whose belief it was meant to stigmatize, and did misrepresent. Moreover, although a new form of word, it still was necessarily connected with a Theological term, of very defined and familiar, but wholly distinct meaning, " Consubstantial." It could not then fail, in popular usage, to partake of the meaning of that term; and yet, as far as it was understood(...)".
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