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A02359	Three rare monuments of antiquitie, or Bertram, priest, a French-man, of the body and blood of Christ, (written 800 yeares agoe) with the late Romish purging thereof: Ælfricus, Arch-bishop of Canterburie, an English-man, his sermon of the sacrament, (preached 627 yeares agoe:) and Maurus, abbot, a Scots-man, his discourse of the same (820 yeares agoe:) all stronglie convincing that grosse errour of transubstantiation. Translated and compacted by M. VVilliam Guild, minister at King-Edward; De corpore et sanguine Domini. English. Abridgments	Ratramnus, monk of Corbie, d. ca. 868.; Guild, William, 1586-1657.; Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham. Sermo de sacrificio in die Pascae. aut; Rabanus Maurus, Archbishop of Mainz, 784?-856. De sacramento Eucharistiae. aut	1624 (1624)	STC 12492; ESTC S103528	49,280	152

safetie of the Worlde Hee had not as yet redeemed vs with his precious blood when alreadie our Fathers in the Desart by Spirituall Food and invisible Drinke did eate his bodie and drinke his blood as the Apostle t●stifyeth when hee affirmeth our Fathers to haue eaten that same Spirituall Food drunken that same Spirituall Drinke Not that how the same was done is to bee inquired but Fayth that it was so done is to bee acquired For that selfe-same GOD who in his Church by his Almightie power changeth the Bread and Wine into his Flesh and Blood after a Spirituall manner that selfe-same GOD I saye turned in the verie like sorte the Manna which rayned from Heaven into his owne bodie vnto them invisiblie and turned the water gushing out of the rocke into his owne blood Which thing David vnderstanding hee declared the same manifestlie beeing instructed by the holie Ghost saying that Man did eate the bread of Angels For it is a thing to bee laughed at to suppose that that corporall Manna given to the Fathers doeth feede that heavenlie hoaste or that they doe eate anie such meate who are filled with the Banquets of that Heavenlie worde The Psalmist surelie showeth or rather the Spirite of God speaking by the Psalmist either what our Fathers by that heavenlie Manna did receiue or what the faythfull nowe in the mysterie of the bodie and blood of Christ ought to conceiue and belieue In both these surelie Christ him selfe is meant who feedeth the soules of the earthlie believers and is the meat of the heavenlie Angels and both this is done not with a corporall tasting nor by a bodily foode but by the vertue of the spirituall word And vvee vnderstand by the Evangelistes rehearsing that our Lord Iesus Christ before that hee suffered taking bread gaue thanks and gaue to his disciples saying This is my Bodie which is given for you doe this in remembrance of Mee Likewyse He tooke the Cup after Supper saying This Cup is the New Testament in my Blood which is shed for you Where wee see that Christ as yet had not suffered and yet the mysterie of his bodie and his blood was alreadie celebrated for wee thinke not that anie of the faythfull will doubt that that bread was made the bodie of Christ which giving to his disciples hee sayeth thereof This is my Bodie which is given for you Neither that they will doubt that that Cup doeth containe the blood of Christ sacramentallie to wit concerning the which hee sayeth also This Cup is the new Testament in my blood which shal be shed for you So that a little before hee suffered hee could thus haue changed that substance of bread and creature of wine into his owne bodie which was to suffer and into his blood which was to be shed and so also he was able to convert that heavenlie foode after the same manner that rained in the wildernesse and that water which gushed out of the Rocke into his bodie and blood albeit that long after hee was incarnate and his flesh was to hang vpon the Crosse for vs and his blood was to bee shed for our ablution Heere also wee ought to consider how the words are to bee taken which himselfe sayeth Except yee eate the flesh of the Sonne of man and drinke his blood yee haue no lyfe in you Hee sayeth not that his flesh which did hang vpon the crosse should be cutted in pieces and eaten by his Disciples or that his blood which was to bee shed for the redemption of the worlde was to bee given to his Disciples to drinke for that were a facinorous and an abhominable thing if either his blood were so drunken or his flesh eaten according as that grosse and incredulous people thought Wherefore in the words following hee sayeth to his Disciples who indeede believed his words but not as yet had throughlie pearced vnto their right meaning Doeth this sayeth hee offend you what therefore if yee shall see the Sonne of man going vp where hee was before As if he would haue sayde Yee shall not thinke that my bodie is to bee divyded in partes amongst you to bee eaten corporallie or my blood to be so drunken when after my resurrection yee shall see mee going vp to the heavens with the whole fulnesse of my bodie and blood then ye shall vnderstand that my flesh is to be eaten by the faythfull not as these grosse and incredulous people doe thinke but truelie and in a mysticall manner bread and wine being converted sacramentallie to wit into the substance of my bodie and blood to bee taken by the faythfull And thereafter hee lyke-wyse sayeth It is the Spirit that quickeneth the flesh profiteth nothing Hee sayeth the flesh profiteth nothing that way as the incredulous Capernaites vnderstood for other-wise it giveth lyfe as it is taken in a mysterie by the faythfull And hee showeth manifestlie himselfe wherefore this is when hee sayeth It is the Spirit that quickneth Therefore in this mysterie of the bodie and blood of Christ there is a spirituall operation which giveth lyfe without the which operation these mysteries profite nothing because they may feede the bodie indeede but they cannot nowrish the soule But heere aryseth a question which sundrie doe propone affirming That these thinges are not figuratiuelie to bee vnderstood but according to the verie literall veritie which while they say they withall gaine-say the writings of the holie Fathers Sainct Augustine one of the chiefe Doctors of the Church in his third Booke concerning the doctrine of Christ writeth so Except yee eate sayeth our Saviour the flesh of the Sonne of man and drinke his blood yee shall not haue lyfe in you Hee seemeth to command a wicked and facinorous fact but hee doeth not so for he speaketh figuratiuelie commanding vs to communicate of the Passion of the Lord and that wee should profitablie and comfortablie lay it vp in our mynde That his bodie was crucified and wounded for vs. Wee see then that Augustine sayeth that the mysterie of the bodie and blood of Christ is to be celebrated by the faythfull vnder a figure or in resemblance for to eate his flesh and drinke his blood carnallie it is not a point of Religion but of wicked villanie amongst whom were these who in the Gospell vnderstanding the wordes of our Saviour carnallie departed from him and went no longer with him Lyke-wyse Augustine in that Epistle which he wryteth to Bishop Boniface amongst other things saith this to wit When Easter approacheth wee vsuallie say that the morrow is the day of the Lords Passion when not-with-standing hee hath suffered manie yeares agoe neither was that Passion of his but once and vpon the Sabbath thereafter wee say This is the day of the Lords Resurrection when notwithstanding manie yeares are by-past since hee arose Wherefore no man will bee so foolish as to accuse vs because wee call these dayes so but according