More than a symbol?

Yesterday I discovered this interesting paragraph from the Second London Confession, a Baptist confession of faith approved in 1689. Check out what these Baptists had to say about the Lord's Supper.

"Worthy receivers, outwardly partaking of the visible elements in this ordinance, do then also inwardly by faith, really and indeed, yet not carnally and corporally, but spiritually receive, and feed upon Christ crucified, and all the benefits of his death; the body and blood of Christ being then not corporally or carnally, but spiritually present to the faith of believers in that ordinance, as the elements themselves are to their outward senses."

According to this confession, Christ is spiritually present in the elements of communion. The bread and wine, while still bread and wine and not magically transformed into anything else, are more than mere symbols.