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A16573	The complaynt of veritie, made by Iohn Bradford. An exhortacion of Mathewe Rogers, vnto his children. The complaynt of Raufe Allerton and others, being prisoners in Lolers tower, & wrytten with their bloud, how god was their comforte. A songe of Caine and Abell. The saieng of maister Houper, that he wrote the night before he suffered, vppon a wall with a cole, in the newe In, at Gloceter, and his saiyng at his deathe	Bradford, John, 1510?-1555.; Rogers, Matthew. Instruction of a father to his children.; Allerton, Ralph. A lamentable complaynt of the afflicted, unto god our onely healper.; Allerton, Ralph. A briefe rehersal of parte of the aucthours trouble, entituled God is my comforte.; Allerton, Ralph. Songe of the poore prisoners in Lolers tower.; Hooper, John, d. 1555. Wordes of Maister Houper at his death.; Hooper, John, d. 1555. These are the wordes that Maister John Houper wrote on the wall with a cole, in the newe inne in Gloceter, the night before he suffered.	1559 (1559)	STC 3479; ESTC S112643	64,740	174

into a Serpent But concerning the Sacrament neyther the senses sée any other thing then bread neyther is there any mention made of turning And therefore their cauill is plainly séene to be but a cauill and of no force But to come againe to bring moe reasons against Transsubstantiation Secondly that the substance of bread remayneth still the very text doeth teach For the Euangelists and the Apostle Saint Paul doe witnesse that Christ gaue that to his disciples and called it his body which hee tooke on which hee gaue thanks and which hee brake but he tooke bread gaue thanks on bread and broke bread Ergo he gaue bread and called bread his body as he called the Cuppe the new Testament So that it followeth by this that there is no Transubstantiation And this reason I my selfe haue promised in writing to prooue by the authoritie of the Fathers namely Ireneus Tertullian Origine Ciprian Epiphanius Hieronimus Augustinus Theodorete Cirill Bede if so bee I may haue the vse of my bookes Thirdly that in the Sacrament there is no Transubstantiation of the bread by this reason I doe prooue Like as by our sauiour Christ the Spirit of trueth spake of the bread This is my body So sayth the same spirit of trueth of the same bread That wee many are one body and one bread c. So that as it appeareth the Sacrament not to bee in the Church by Transubstantiation euen so is it not Christs naturall body by Transubstantiation Fourthly I prooue that there is no Transsubstantiation by Luke and Pauls wordes spoken ouer the Cuppe For no lesse are they effectuall to Transsubstantiate the Cup then their words spoken of the bread are operatorious and mighty to Transsubstantiate the bread For as they say of the bread This is my body so say they of the Cup This Cup is the new Testament Which thing is absurde to bee spoken or thought eyther of the Cup or of the thing in the Cup by Transsubstantiation Yea rather in saying these wordes This Cup is the new Testament wee are taught by their coupling this worde Cup to the demonstratiue This how we should in these wordes This is my body knowe that this word This doeth there demonstrate bread Fiftly that the substance of bread remaineth in the Sacrament as the reasons before brought foorth do prooue so doth the definition of a Sacrament For the Fathers doe affirme it to consist of an earthly thing and of an heauenly thing of the word and of the element of sensible things and of things which bee perceiued by the minde But Trāssubstantiation taketh cleane away y e earthly thing the element the sensible thing and so maketh it no Sacrament And therefore the definition of a Sacrament full well teatheth that bread which is the earthly thing the sensible thing and the element remaineth still as saint Augustine saith The worde commeth to the element he sayth not taketh away the element and so it is made a Sacrament Sixtly the nature and propertie of a Sacrament teacheth this also which I haue affirmed For as Cyprian writeth that Sacraments beare the names of the things which they signifie so doeth saint Augustine teach that if Sacraments haue not some signification with the things where of they be Sacramentes then are they no Sacraments Now in the Lordes supper this similitude is first in nourishing y t as bread nourisheth the body so Christs body broken feedeth the soule Secondly in bringing together many into one that as in y e Sacrament many graines of Corne are made one bread many Grapes are made one lyquour and Wine so the multitude which worthily receiue the Sacrament are made one body with Christ and his Church Last of all in one vnlikely likelinesse or similitude that as bread eaten turneth into our nature so we rightly eating the Sacrament by faith turne into the nature of Christ So that it is plaine to them that wil sée that to take the substance of bread away is cleane against the nature and propertie of a Sacrament I will speake nothing how that this their doctrine of Transubstantiation beside the manifold absurdities it hath in it which to rehearse I omit it vtterly ouerthroweth the vse of the Sacrament and is cleane cōtrary to the end wherefore it was instituted so is no longer a Sacrament but an Idoll and is the cause of much Idolatrie conuerting the peoples hearts from an heauenly conuersation to an earthly and turning the Communion into a priuate action and a matter of gazing and piping of adoring and worshipping the worke of mens hands for the liuing God which dwelleth not in Temples made with mens hands much lesse lyeth he in Pixes and Chests whose true worshippe is in spirit and veritie which God graunt vs all to render vnto him continually Amen The Sacrament of Baptisme doth also teach vs that as the substance of the water remaineth there so in the Lords Supper remaineth the substance of bread after consecration For as by Baptisme we are engraffed into Christ so by the Supper we are fedde with Christ These two Sacraments the Apostle gladly coupleth together 1. Cor. 10. and 1. Cor. 12. Wee are baptized into one body sayth hee and haue drunke all of one spirit meaning it by the Cuppe as Chrysostome and other great learned men doe well interprete it As therefore in Baptisme is giuen vnto vs the holy Ghost and pardon of our sinnes which yet lie not lurking in the water so in the Lords Supper is giuen vnto vs the Communion of Christs bodie and bloud that is grace forgiuenesse of sinnes innocencie life immortalitie without any Transubstantiation or including of the same in the bread By Baptisme the old man is put off and the new man put on yea Christ is put on but without Transubstantiating the water And euen so it is in the Lords Supper Wee by fayth spiritually in our soules doe féed on Christs body broken do eate his flesh and drinke his blood doe dwell in him and he in vs but without Transsubstantiation As for the cauill they make that we are baptized into one body meaning thereby the mysticall body not the naturall body of Christ whereby they would enforce that wee are fed with the naturall body of Christ but wée are not ingraffed into it but into the mysticall body and so put away the reason aforesaid As for this cauill I say wee may soone auoyde it if so bee that we will consider how that Christ which is the head of the mysticall body is not separate from the body and therefore to be ingraffed to the mysticall body is to bée ingraffed into the naturall bodie of Christ to bée a member of his flesh and bones of his bones as Pope Leo full wel doeth witnesse in saying that Corpus regenerati fit caro crucifixi The body sayth hée of the regenerate is made the flesh of Christ crucified And

signifie onely and signes which also doe represent confirme and seale vp or as a man may say giue with their signification As for an example An Iuie bush is a signe of Wine to be sold the budding of Aarons Rod did signifie Aarons Priesthood allowed of the Lord the reseruation of Moses Rod did signifie the rebellion of the children of Israel the stones taken out of Iordane Gedeons fléece of wooll c. Such as these be signes significatiue and shew no gift But in the other signes which some call exhibitiue is there not onely a signification of the thing but also a declaration of a gift yea in a certaine manner a giuing also As Baptisme signifieth not onely the cleansing of the conscience from sinne by the merits of Christs blood but also is a very cleansing from sinne And therefore it was sayd to Paul that he should arise and wash away his sinnes and not that hee should arise and take onely a signe of washing away his sinnes In the Lords Supper the bread is called a partaking of the Lords body and not onely a bare signe of the Lords body This I speake not as though the elements of these Sacraments were Transsubstantiate which I haue already impugned eyther as though Christs body were in bread or wine eyther were tyed to the elements otherwise then Sacramentally and spiritually eyther that the bread and wine may not and must not bee called Sacramentall and externall signes but that they might be discerned from significatiue and bare signes onely and bee taken for signes exhibitiue and representiue By this meanes a Christian conscience will call and estéeme the bread of the Lord as the body of Christ For it will neuer estéeme the Sacraments of Christ after their exterior appearance but after the words of Christ Whereof it commeth that the Fathers as Chrysostome and others doe speake with so full a mouth when they speake of the Sacrament for their respect was to Christs words If the Schoolemen which followed had the same spirit which they had then would they neuer haue consented to Transsubstantiation For with great admiration some of the Fathers doe say that the bread is changed or turned into the body of Christ and the wine into his blood meaning it of a mutation or change not corporall but spirituall figuratiue Sacramentall or mystical For now it is no common bread nor common wine béeing ordained to serue for the foode of the soule The Schoolemen haue vnderstood it as the Papists now preach of a substantiall changing as though it were no great miracle that common bread should now bee assumed into that dignitie that it should be called Christs body and serue for a celestiall foode and be made a Sacrament of his body and blood As before therefore I haue spoken I would wish that this Sacrament should be estéemed called of vs Christian men after Christs words namely Christs body and the wine Christs blood rather then otherwise Not that I meane any other presence of Christs body then a presence of grace a preseruer to Faith a presence spiritually and not corporally really naturally and carnally as the Papists doe meane For in such sort Christs body is onely in heauen on the right hand of God the Father almightie whither our faith in the vse of the Sacrament ascendeth and receyueth whole Christ accordingly Yea but one will say that to call the Sacrament on that sort is to giue an occasion of Idolatrie to the people which will take the Sacrament which they see simply for Christs bodie as by experience wée are well taught and therefore it were better to call it bread and so lesse harme should be especially in this age To this obiection I answer that indéed great Idolatrie is committed to and about this Sacrament and therefore men ought as much as they can to auoyd from occasioning or confirming it But in as much as the holy Ghost is wiser then man and had foresight of the euils that might bee and yet notwithstanding doth call it Christs bodie I thinke wee should doe euill if we should take vpon vs to reforme his spéech If Ministers did their dueties in Catechizing and Preaching then doubtlesse to call the Sacrament Christs body and to estéeme it accordingly could not giue occasion to Idolatrie and confirme it Therefore woe vnto them that preach not There bee two euils about the Sacraments which to auoyde the holy Ghost hath taught vs For least we should with the Papistes thinke Christes body present in or with the bread really naturally and corporally to be receiued with our bodily mouth where there is no other presence of Christes body then spirituall and to the faith in many places he kéepeth still the name of bread as in the Epistle to the Corinthians the tenth and eleuenth Chapters And least we should make too light of it making it but a bare signe and no better then common bread the holy Ghost calleth it Christes body whose spéech I wish we would followe and that not onely as well to auoyde the euill which is now a dayes most to be feared concerning the Sacrament I meane of contemning it as also for that no faithfull man commeth to the Sacrament to receiue bread simply but rather yea altogether to communicate with Christes body and blood For else to eate and drinke as Paul saith they haue houses of their owne The contempt of the Sacrament in the dayes of King Edward hath caused these plagues vpon vs presently the Lorde bee mercifull vnto vs. Amen And thus much for the obiection of calling the Sacrament by the name of Christes body What saith one to cal the Sacrament Christs body and to make none other presence then by grace or spiritually to faith which is of things hoped for and of things which to the bodily sences doe not appeare is to make no presence at all or to make him none otherwise present then hee is in his worde when it is preached and therefore what neede wée to receiue the Sacrament in as much as by this doctrine a man may receiue him dayly in the fielde as well and as much as in the Church in the celebration and vse of the Sacrament To this obiection I first answere that in deede neither the Scripture nor Christian Faith will giue vs leaue to make any carnall reall naturall corporall or any such grosse presence of Christs naturall body in the Sacrament For it is in Heauen and the Heauens must haue it as sayeth Pete● till Christes comming to iudgement except wée would denie the humanitie of Christ and the veritie of mans nature in him The presence therefore which wee beléeue and confesse is such a presence as reason knoweth not and the world cannot learn nor any that looketh in this matter with other eyes or heareth with other eares thē with the eares and eyes of the Spirit and of Faith Which Faith though it bee of things hoped for and so of things

by our eies by our nose by our taste and by our handling also And therefore the Sacrament full well may bee called séeable sensible tasteable and touchable words As therefore when many windowes be opened in an house the more light may come in then when ●here is but one opened euen so by the perception of the Sacraments a Christian mans conscience hath more helpe to receiue Christ then simply by the woord preached heard or meditated And therefore mee thinketh the Apostle full well calleth the Sacraments obsignations or sealings of Gods promise Read Rom. the 4. of Circumcision And thus much for the answere to the obiection aforesayd Now to returne from whence wée came namely to the consideration of the second thing what the Sacrament is I haue told you that it is not simply bread and wine but rather Christs body so called of Christ and so to be called and estéemed of vs ▪ But héere let vs marke what body and what blood Christ called it The Papists still babble This is my body This is my blood But what body it is what blood it is they shew not Looke therefore my dearely beloued on Chr●sts owne words and you shal see that Christ calleth it his body broken and his blood shedde Marke I say that Christ calleth it his body which is broken his blood which is shedde presently and not which was broken or shall bee broken which was shedde or shall be shedde as the Greeke Texts doe plainely shew thereby teaching vs that as God would haue the Passeouer called not which was the Passeouer or which shall be the Passeouer but plainely the Passeouer to the end that in the vse of it the passing ouer of the striking Angell should be set before their eyes as present so in the celebration of the Lords Supper the very Passion of Christ should be as present beholden with the eies of faith For which end Christ our Sauiour did specially institute this Supper saying Doe ye this in remembrance of mee or as Paul sayth Shew you the Lords death till hee come The Supper of the Lord then is not simply Christs body and blood but Christs body broken and his bloud shed Wherefore broken Wherefore shedde Forsooth that teacheth Christ himselfe saying Broken for you Shed for your sinnes and for the sinnes of many Héere now then wee haue occasion in the vse of the Sacrament to call to mind the greatnesse and grieuousnesse of sinne which could not be taken away by any other meanes then by the shedding of the most precious blood and breaking of the most pure body of the onely begotten sonne of GOD Iesus Christ by whom all things were made all things are ruled and gouerned c. Who considering this geare shall not bee touched to repent Who in receite of this Sacrament thinking that Christ saith to him Take eate this is my body which is broken for thee This is my blood which is shedde for thy sinnes Can but tremble at the grieuousnesse of his sinnes for the which such a price was payd If there were no plague at all else to admonish man of sinne how grieuous a thing it is in Gods sight surely that one were enough But alas how are our hearts bewitched through Sathans subtilties and the custome of sinne that wee make sinne a thing of nothing God open our eyes in time and giue vs repentance which we sée this Sacrament doth as it were enforce vs vnto in the reuerence and true vse of the same Againe in hearing that this which wee take and eate is Christs body broken for our sinnes and his bloud shedde for our iniquities wée are occasioned to call to mind the infinite greatnes of Gods mercie and trueth and of Christs loue towards vs. For what a mercie is this that God would for man béeing lost through his wilfull sinnes be content yea desirous to giue his owne onely Sonne The Image of his substance the brightnesse of his glorie béeing in his owne bosome to bée made man for vs that wee men by him might be as it were made Gods What a mercie is this that GOD the Father should so tender vs that hee would make this his Sonne béeing equall with him in diuinitie a mortall man for vs that wée might be made immortall by him What a kindnesse is this that the almightie Lord should send to vs his enemies his deare darling to bee made poore that wee by him might be made rich What bowels of compassion was this that the omnipotent Creator of Heauen and earth would deliuer his owne onely beloued Sonne for vs creatures to be not onely flesh of our flesh and bone of our bones that wee might by him through the holy Ghost be made one with him and so with the Father by communicating the merits of his flesh that is righteousnesse holinesse innocencie and immortalitie but also to be a slaine Sacrifice for our sinnes to satisfie his iustice to conuert or turne death into life our sinne into righteousnesse hell into Heauen miserie into felicitie for vs What a mercie is this that GOD will rayse vp this his sonne Christ not onely to iustifie and regenerate vs but also in his person to demonstrate vnto vs our state which we shall haue for in his comming we shall be like vnto him Oh wonderfull mercie of God which would assume this his Christ euen in humane body into the heauens to take and keepe there possession for vs to leade our captiuitie captiue to appeare before him alwaies praying for vs to make the throne of Iustice a throne of mercy the seat of glory a seat of grace so that with boldnesse we may come and appeare before God to aske and find grace in time conuenient Againe what a veritie and constant trueth in God is this that he would according to his promise made first to Adam and so to Abraham and others in his time accomplish it by sending his sonne so graciously Who would doubt hereafter of any thing that he hath promised And as for Christs loue oh whose heart can bee able to thinke of it any thing as it deserueth He being God would become man hée being rich would become poore he being Lord of all the world became a seruant to vs all hée beeing immortall would become mortall miserable and taste of all Gods curses yea euen of hell it selfe for vs. His blood was nothing too deare his life hee nothing considered to bring vs from death to life But this his loue néedeth more heartie weighing then many words speaking and therefore I omit and leaue it to your considerations So that in the receiuing of this Supper as I would you would tremble at Gods wrath for sinne so would I haue you to couple to that terrour and feare true faith by which ye might be assuredly perswaded of Gods mercie towards you and Christs loue though all things else preached the contrary Doe euery of you surely thinke when you heare these words Take eate this

is my body broken for your sinnes Drinke this is my blood shedde for your sinnes That God the eternall Father embracing you Christ calleth and cleppeth you most louingly making himselfe one with you and you one with him and one with another amongst your selues You ought no lesse to bee certaine now that God loueth you pardoneth your sins and that Christ is all yours then if you did heare an Angell out of heauen speaking so vnto you And therefore reioyce and bee glad and make this Supper Eutharichiam a thankesgiuing as the Fathers named it Be no lesse certaine that Christ and you now are all one then you are certaine the bread and wine is one with your nature and substance after you haue eaten and drunke it Howbeit in this it differeth that you by faith are as it were changed into Christ and not Christ into you as the bread is for by faith he dwelleth in vs and we in him God giue vs faith in the vse of this Sacrament to receiue Christ as hee giueth vs handes to receiue the element simbole and visible Sacrament God grant vs not to prepare our téeth and belly as Saint Augustine saith but rather of his mercie hee prepare and giue vs true and liuely faith to vse this and all other his ordinances to his glory and our comforts He sweepe the houses of our hearts and make them cleane that they may bée a worthy harborough and lodging for the Lord. Amen Now let vs come and looke on the third and last thing namely wherfore the Lord did institute this Sacrament Our nature is very obliuious of GOD and of all his benefits And againe it is very full of dubitation and doubting of GODS loue and of his kindnesse Therefore to the ende these two things might bee something reformed and holpen in vs the Lorde hath instituted this Sacrament I meane that wee might haue in memorie the principall benefite of all benefits that is Christes death and that wee might bee on all parts assured of Communion with Christ of all kindenesse the greatest that euer God did giue vnto man The former to bée the ende wherefore Christ did institute this Sacrament hee himselfe doeth teach vs saying Doe yee this in remembrance of me The latter the Apostle doeth no lesse set foorth in saying The bread which we breake is it not the partaking or Cōmunion of the body of Christ Is not the Cuppe of blessing which wee blesse the partaking or Communion of the blood of Christ So that it appeareth the ende wherefore this Sacrament was instituted was and is for the reformation and help of our obliuion of that which we should neuer forget and of our dubitation of that whereof we ought to bee most certaine Concerning the former namely of the memorie of Christs death what commoditie it bringeth with it I will purpesely for times sake omit Onely a little will I speake of the commodities comming vnto vs by the partaking and Communion wée haue with Christ First it teacheth vs that no mā can communicate with Christ but the same must néedes communicate with Gods grace fauour where through sinnes are forgiuen Therefore this commoditie commeth herethrough namely that we should be certaine of the remission and pardon of our sinnes The which thing we may also perceiue by the Cup in that it is called the Cup of the newe Testament to which Testament is properly attributed on God behalfe obliuion or remission of our sinnes First I say therfore the Supper is instituted to this end that he which worthily receiueth should bee certaine of the remission and pardon of his sinnes and iniquities how many and great soeuer they be Howe great a benefite this is onely they knowe which haue felt the burthē of sinne which of al heauy things is the most heauy Againe no man can communicate with Christes body and blood but the same must communicate with his spirit for Christs body is no dead carcase Now he that cōmunicateth with Christs Spirite communicateth as with holines righteousnesse innocencie and immortalitie and with all the merites of Christes body so doeth hee with GOD and all his glorie and with the Church and all the good that euer it or any member of it had hath or shall haue This is The Communion of Saints which we beleeue in our Creede which hath wayting on it Remission of sinnes Resurrection of the flesh and life euerlasting To the ende that we should be most assured and certaine of all these Christ our Sauiour did institute this his Supper and therefore would haue vs to vse it So that there is no man I trowe which seeeth not great cause of giuing thankes to God for this holy Sacrament of the Lord whereby if wée worthily receiue it wée ought to bée certaine that all our sinnes whatsoeuer they bée are pardoned clearely that wée are regenerate and borne againe into a liuely hope into an inheritance immortall vndefiled and which can neuer wither away that wee are in the fellowship of GOD the Father the Sonne and the holy Ghost that wée are Gods Temples at one with God God at one with vs that wée are members of Christes Church and fellowes with the Saintes in all felicitie that wee are certaine of immortalitie in soule and body and so of eternall life then which thing what can bée more demaunded Christ is ours and we are Christes he dwelleth in vs and wée in him Oh happy eyes that sée these things and most happy heartes that feele them My deare brethren let vs pray vnto the Lord to open our eyes to sée these wonderfull things to giue vs faith to féele them Surely we ought no lesse to bee assured of them nowe in the worthy receiuing of this Sacrament then wée are assured of the exteriour symboles and Sacraments If an Angell from Heauen should come and tell you these things then would you reioyce and bée glad And my deare hearts in the Lorde I euen nowe though most vnworthy am sent of the Lorde to tell you no lesse but that you worthily receiuing this Sacrament shall receiue remission of all your sinnes or rather certainetie that they are remitted and that you are euen now Gods darlings Temples and fellow inheritours of all the good that euer he hath Wherefore sée that you giue thanks vnto the Lord for this his great goodnesse and prayse his Name for euer Oh sayth one I could be glad in very déed and giue thanks from my very heart if that I did worthily receiue this Sacramēt But alas I am a very grieuous sinner and I feele in my selfe very little repentance and faith and therefore I am afraid that I am vnworthy To the answering of this obiection I thinke it necessarie to speake some thing of the woorthy receiuing of this Sacrament in as great breuitie playnnesse as I can The Apostle willeth all men to prooue and examine themselues before they eate of the bread and drinke

absent to the corporall sences yet this absence is not an absence in déede but to reason and the olde man the nature of Faith beeing a possession of things hoped for Therefore to graunt a presence to Faith is not to make no presence at all but to such as know not Faith And this the Fathers taught affirming Christ to bée present by grace and therefore not onely a signification but also an exhibition and giuing of the Grace of Christes body that is of life and of the séede of immortalitie as Cyprian writeth Wée eate life and drinke life sayth Saint Augustine We féele a presence of the Lord by Grace or in Grace sayth Chrysostome We receiue the celestiall foode that commeth from aboue saith Athanasius We receiue the propertie of the naturall coniunction and knitting together sayth Hillarius Wee receiue the nature of the flesh the blessing that giueth life in bread and Wine sayth Cyrillus And elsewhere hee sayth that with the bread and Wine we eate the vertue of Christs proper flesh life grace the propertie of the body of the onely begotten sonne of God which thing he himselfe expoundeth to be life Basilius sayth that we by the Sacrament receiue the mysticall Aduent of Christ grace and the very vertue of his very nature Ambrose saith that we receiue the Sacrament of the true body Epiphanius sayth we receiue the body or grace And Hierome sayth that wee receiue spirituall flesh which hee calleth other flesh then that which was crucified Chrisostome saith that wee receiue influence of grace and the grace of the holy Ghost Saint Augustine sayth that we receiue grace and veritie the inuisible grace and holinesse of the members of Christes body All the which sayings of the Fathers doe confirme this our faith and doctrine of the Sacrament wee granting in all things héerein vnto them and they in like manner vnto vs. And therefore the lying lyppes which both belye the Doctours as though they graunted a carnall and reall presence of Christes body naturally and corporally after the Papistes declaration and meaning and which belye vs also as though wee denied all presence of Christ and so made it but a bare signe These lying lips the Lord will destroy if they repent not and with vs beléeue and teach the trueth that the Sacrament is the foode of the Soule a matter of faith therefore spiritually and by faith to be talked of and vnderstanded which faith they want therefore they erre so grosely in that they would haue such a presence of Christ as is contrary to all the Scriptures and to our Christian Religion whereby commeth no such commoditie to the receiuer as by the Spirituall presence which wée teach and according to GODS word do affirme For we teach these benefites to bee had by the woorthy receiuing the Sacrament namely that wée abide in Christ and Christ in vs. Againe that wee attaine by it a celestiall life or a life with GOD moreouer that by Faith and in Spirite wée receiue not onely Christes body and blood but also whole Christ GOD and man Besides these wée graunt that by the woorthy receiuing of this Sacrament we receiue remission of our sinnes and confirmation of the new Testament Last of all by woorthy receiuing wée get an increase of incorporation with Christ and amongst our selues which bée his members then which things what more can be desired Alas that men consider nothing at all howe that the coupling of Christes body and blood to the Sacrament is a spirituall thing and therefore there néedes no such carnall presence as the Papistes imagine Who will deny a mans Wife to be with her Husband one body and one flesh although he be at London and shée at Yorke But the Papistes are carnall men guided by carnall reason onely or else would they knowe howe that the holy Ghost because of our infirmitie vseth metaphorically the wordes of abyding dwelling eating and drinking of Christ that the vnspeakeable coniunction of Christ with vs might something be knowen GOD open their eyes to see it And thus much for this Now to that part of the obiectiō which sayth that wee teach Christ to bee none otherwise present in the Sacrament then in his worde I would that the obiectors would well consider what a presence of Christ is in his worde I remember that saint Augustine writeth how that Christs body is receiued sometime visible and sometime inuisible The visible receite hee calleth that which is by the Sacrament the inuisible receite hee calleth that which by the exercise of our faith with our selues wee receiue And saint Herome in the third booke vpon Ecclesiastes affirmeth that wee are fed with the body of Christ and we drinke his blood not onely in mysterie but also in knowledge of holy Scripture Wherein hee plainely sheweth that the same meate is offered in the words of the Scriptures which is offered in the Sacrament so that no lesse is Christes body and blood offered by the Scriptures then by the Sacramentes Vpon the 147. Psalme he writeth also that though these wordes He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood may bee vnderstoode in mysterie yet he sayth it is more true to take Christs body and his blood for the worde of the Scriptures and the doctrine of God Yea vpon the same Psalme hee sayeth plainely that Christes flesh and blood is powred into our eares by hearing the worde and therefore great is the perill if we yeeld to other cogitations whylste wee heare it And therefore I trow Saint Augustine sayth that it is no lesse perill to heare GODS word negligently then so to vse the Sacrament But héere of may no man gather that therefore it néedeth not to receiue the Sacrament or to affirme that a man may as much by himselfe meditating the word in the fielde receiue Christs body as in the Church in the right vse of the Sacrament For Christ ordaineth nothing in vaine or superstitiously hee ordaineth nothing whereof wee haue not néede Although his authoritie is such that without any questioning his ordinances are to be obeyed Againe though in the field a man may receyue Christs body by faith in the meditation of the word yet deny I that a man doth ordinarily receiue Christs bodie by the onely meditation of Christs death or hearing of his word with so much sight and by such sensible assurance whereof GOD knoweth our infirmitie hath no small néed as by the receite of the Sacrament not that Christ is not so much present in his word preached as hee is in or with his Sacrament but because there are in the perception of the Sacrament more windowes open for Christ to enter into vs then by his woord preached or heard For there I meane in the word he hath an entrance into our hearts but onely by the eares through the voice and sound of the words but heere in the Sacrament he hath an entrance by all our senses