departure leaue hys Churche doubtfully Not I truely Why then do you talke of figures and troupes and figuratiue speeches and spirituall senses â–ª Not euerye figuratiue speeche is doubtfull and it is as great a faulte to refuse a figure when the place geueth it as to force a figure when there is none And it is most manifest by Saint Luke and saint Paule that the second speech of the Cup or wine is figuratiue and hath a spirituall sence For bothe they expounding the briefe wordes set downe by saint Mathew and S. Marke expressely saye that Christ saide this Cup is the newe Testamente in my blood And what sence or meaning can these wordes haue but this that in this sacrament there is deliuered vnto Christians a visible and most certayne signe or seale of that new inuisible truse will grace and mercie which God hath made and assured hys church of in these more mylde and gracyous dayes and would seale and ratify with the bloude of his sonne For the words in S. Luke doe proue this sence which he addeth of Christ saying Doe this in rememberance of me and also of saint Paule Ye shall thewe the Lordes death vntill he come Neyther here do I doubt that the true godly learned wil thinke that I haue not spokeÌ„ reuerently of this most holye and blessed misterie For I geue more honor and reuerence to it by a great deale then any that doth fansye a grosse and carnall presence But some will saye that I ouerthrowe all bring all to naught and make the holy sacrament nothing else but a péece of bread and a little wine that is a most false and malicious slaunder For I most certainely beléeue it to be one of the most precious Jewels that Christ left to hys church and that both the body and blood of Christ is truely and effectually exhibited by the power and grace of God and truely and effectually receaued by the fayth of the christian receyuer But such men deale with me as they such other deale with good preachers which to pull downe the pryde of mans harte telleth him that he is nothing but dust earth ashes and smoke and grasse and then a worldling wyll saye that that preacher maketh a man no better then a beast Whereas the preacher mente this onely of the one parte of man that is his body wisedome beautie glorye pompe and porte which in déede be nothing else but dust and grasse smoke that fade and perishe away and not of the seconde parte of manne that is hys soule which is immortall and eternall and certainly as man hath two partes the first the bodys which is visible fading the seconde his soule which is inuisible and eternall euen so this holye and blessed sacrament hath two partes The fyrst of the element of breade and wyne which is visible and fading the second the grace and fruites and benefites of the bod of Christ rent and his blood shed for the raunsome of man And as he that sayeth the body of man is meere flesh and fading flesh and nothing but flesh deeth not deny the immortality of â—â—e so de therby nor make whole man nothing the but body and flesh for he meaneth onely of the fyrste and fading parte of man which is sensible and not of the second part of man which is insensible euen so he that sayeth that the elemente of breade and wyne be n 〈…〉 re bread and wyne fading bread and wyne and nothing but bread and wyne doth not therby deny or take away the grace and benefyte of the body and blood of Christ nor make that blessed sacrameÌ„t nothing else but bread and wyne For he meaneth onely the fyrst and fading part of that sacrament which is sensible and not of the seconde which is insensible And let any indifferent man iudge whether he speaketh more honourably or doth more set forth the maiesty of that sacrament which sayth that free forgeuenesse of all our sinnes and a sure possession of eternall life springing froÌ„ the free mercy of God is deriued and poured into christian heartes by that sacrament and as a Conduite thorough the force of a true liuely fayth in the death and merittes of our only Sauyoure Christ Jesus or he which by fancying of a real carnal or corporall presence doth binde and tye al the grace and power to creatures I confesse with all my harte â— Christ hath left vnto his church nothing eyther if a man consider profite more fruitfull or if swéetenesse more pleasant or if honour more glorious then the most holy and blessed sacramente of the body and blood of Christe by the which the moste aboundaunt grace and mercy of God is dropped into holy and faythfull soules but to speake otherwise of creatures then can be iustified by the word of god is wicked and damnable And such as would haue al things litterally vnderstood let them view the wordes well and neyther this worde Cuppe nor Is can be litterally vnderstood which also Thomas Aquinas there Archscholeman doth confesse saying By that that is contayned in this Cuppe is remembred the new Testamente confyrmed by the bleed of Christ For this worde cuppe he sayeth that that is contayned in the Cuppe For this worde Is he sayeth is remembred is represented or is sygnifyed And although in others they condemne necessary plaine figures yet they themselues be forced to immagine vnnecessary to to straunge fygures fyrst where the Tert sayeth Hoc meaning this bread they will not haue it so but theyexpound it to be indiuidium vaguÌ„ which is not any certayne determined thing but onely one certayn thing at large in generality where y text doth say Est is they saye transubstantiatur transelementatur is chaunged into the substaunce the nature of the element is changed These wordes take ye eate ye this is my body they turne thus this is my body take ye eate ye by a fygure called Husteron Proteron which setteth that behind that should goe before He blessed sayeth the text he transubstantiated he chaunged the substaunce saye they he brake sayeth the text the accidentes the formes or sheaues of bread say they Do ye sayth the text sacrifyce ye say they This word bread hath a Quatermon of fygures Fyrst because it was bread Secondly because the Infydell taketh it onely to be bread Thirdly because the fourme and shewe of bread remayneth stil Fourthly because the forme or shew of bread doth nortish as perfectly as though it were bread Frangitur is broken sayth the Texte frangebatur it was broken or videtur frangi séemeth to bée broken say they Now seemeth to be broken is as much as is not broken Then the word of the Text Is is broken their word or expositioÌ„ Is is not broken and this is a to too straunge kinde of fygure For Is broken and is not broken imply a playne and full contradiction Much like as the glose expoundeth the Texte statuimus
which is in hand Therfore it representeth the great and heauenly things which the holy words of the high priest of our Lorde and Sauiour Christ Jesus doe declare This is my body sayth he which is broken for you doe this in rememberance of me Againe of the Cup of wine This Cup is the newe Testament in my bloude which is shedde for you What meane these wordes what sence haue they what signifye they some prodigious thing or newe thing or light thing or thing of smale value No. But the most certaine testifycation and assurance of the forgiuenesse of our sinnes saluation life euerlasting which we obtaine by the death of Christ and which is exhibited by the outwarde elementes of bread and wine but receiued only by y inward hand of fayth and séene onely by the inwarde eye of Fayth Christ gaue to his disciples bread and wine ye he gaue also vnto theÌ„ his body and blood that they by fayth being fed with this heaeÌ„nly bread this heauenly drinke might haue life euerlasting which to printe more surely in their harts he playnly telleth theÌ„ of his blessed body y was to be rent for them and his precious blood that was to be shedde for them and for many other that God the Father being pacified with this rich sacrifice might forgeue theÌ„ there sinnes Therfore he called this a new league a new testament often promised by the holy Prophets which was to be confirmed not by the blood of beastes but by the sheadding of his holy and precious blood wherefore his will and pleasure was that this mistery of so great things should be celebrated euer in publique assemblies both that the remembrance of hym might euer be freshe with hys and that often thankes might be geuen to God the father that his louers and professoâ—â— might be stirred to mutuall loue by so godly a presideÌ„t also signed wyth the holy seale of eternall blisse But thus much at large the rest more briefly that truth may be sooner picked out and more plainely appere For as Marcus Tullius saieth of Philosophers So I thinke Deuines bounde to briefe arguments That which christ toke he brake that which he brake he gaue to his Disciples that which he gaue to his disciples he called his body Therefore he called breade his bodye For he toke breade brake breade and gaue it to his Disciples But that which is breade by nature is not the substance of Christes bodye Except we will prodigiously confounde the substance of things and so by consequente the naturall bodye of Christ is not really and bodily in the sacrament of the body and blood of Christ But here is made a stoppe that Christ blessed the bread after he had takeÌ„ it as S. Mathew and S. Marck sayeth by vertue whereof there followed such a chaunge that although he tooke bread yet he neyther brake bread nor gaue bread This sophistication is called of the Logitians Petitio Principij For fyrst S. Marcke doth not say that Christ blessed the bread but that when he had taken he blessed Secondly the gréeke word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 doth as well sygnify to geue thanks as to blesse and that it sygnifyeth there to geue thankes because the holy ghost is the best expounder of it selfe Both S. Luke S. Paule declare which both for that worde 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 vse this word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifyeth so geue thanks and not to blesse Thirdly as it was meÌ„t touching the bread So was it mente touching the Cuppe and Wyne But both Mathew and Marcke themselues speaking of the Cuppe or wyne vse not thys worde 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but the saide worde 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Therfore it is manifest that both they ment hée gaue thankes after that he had takeÌ„ the bread and he gaue thanckes after he had taken the Cuppe Briefely thus that that is true about the bread is true also about the Cuppe of wyne but the cuppe or the wyne haue ioyned vnto them no wordes of consecration or transubstantiation or chaunging of one substaunce into another as it appereth by S. Luke and S. Paule Therefore the first principle is God that breade was taken the bread was broken and that bread was geuen to the Disciples Adde to these that S. Paule in the xx Chapter and fyrst Epistle to the Corinthians aduisedly purposely speaking of the Lords supper sayeth is not the bread which we breake the partaking of body of Christ And Luke in the secoÌ„d of the Actes They did continue together in the doctrine of the Apostles in pertaking and breaking of bread a little after he sayeth that the Disciples came together to breake bread by the which it is necessarily concluded that the same was broken which was taken and that that was broken was geuen 〈…〉 and of that that was geuen did Christ say this is my body Therefore christ did say of bread this is my body For as Christe ment of the bread so he ment of the wine but he ment of wyne to be drawen and drunke as it appeareth by Marcke and Mathew where he sayd I will drincke no more of the fruite of this wyne c. Therefore he ment also that bread that was eaten Agayne if the substaunce of the bread be chaunged into the substaunce of the body Then the substaunce of the wine should be chaunged to the substaunce of the blood but in the second place not the substaunce of wyne but the substaunce of the cuppe should be chaunged into the new Testamente by the wordes of coÌ„secration as their terme is For wheras Mathew and Marck briefely saye This is my blood Luke and Paule doe set downe at large this cuppe is the new testameÌ„t in my blood But you will say that the cuppe doth signify the wine in the cuppe by a fygure called Metonomia Then you graunt that the holy Ghost doth speake fyguratiuely in the matter of the Sacrament but let that goe and let it be this wyne is the new testament in my blood if the wyne should be chaunged it must be changed into the newe Testamente of Christes blood but that spéech caÌ„not stand except it be vnderstood fyguratiuely and spiritually thus This Wine is a visible signe of mine new inuisible league couenaunt will grace and mercy which shall be confirmed and sealed with the sheadding of my blood Then neyther the fyrste wordes touching the bread implye any chaunge of substaunce but haue a spirituall and figuratiue meaning For whether you say the cuppe or the wyne the spéech must needes be fyguratiue For neither the cuppe or the wyne eyther is or can be properly called a testamente Nowe if the second spéech of the wyne do necessarily imply two figures at the leaste why should it seeme so strange to saye that the first spéech of the bread deth also imply a figure Doe you then saye you thinke that Christ spake doubtfully and woulde in his last
a Dragon among serpentes Littlenesse is when a thing is lesse then all other of that kind as the When and the Moth the Flye the Gnat and such like which liue as other things do yet be the least of all other Tell me which is more straunge the téeth of the Bore or of the Moath the winges of the Griffin or of the Gnat The head of the Horse or of the Grasse-hopper The thigh of an Elephaunt or of a Flye The snowte of a Sow or the beake of a Wrenne An Eagle or an Ante A Lyon or a Gnat A Tiger or of a Snayle You muse at the bignesse of the one the littlenesse of the other A little body made with great wysedome Great wisdom in the which there is no ouersight but hath geuen them eyes which the eye can scantely spye and in so little bodyes all the partes be so fitly fully fynished that there wanteth nothing in the least of all the same thinges wherewith nature hath bewtifyed the greatest ⧠The seuenth branch NExt followeth thinges rare which therfore bréede meruayle For there be foure things y therfore men y rather woÌ„der at because they sée them seldom eyther because there be fewe of that kind or else because they be farre of or hid in the secrete places of nature which the wisedome of the maker setteth alone that the followship of man shoulde not be hurte with those that be noysome that the desyre of man should be tryed with the bewty of such as be precious that the slownes of maÌ„ should be quickned with the nouelty of such as be strange to consider the wisedome of god Laste of all that these both good and euill sette together as it were a far of might after a sorte speake vnto man and councell him earnestly to flye eternall euill and desyre eternall God sith that he taketh so great paynes to get fading goods and flye the euils that last not long Now follow such as be reckned of for â—he bewtifulnesse Of certayne thinges the proportion is liked greatly because that they be so seemely and properly framed that the very proportion doth shew a speciall care in the maker Agayne some things we like because they be monstrous or ridiculous the making whereof the more straunge if is to mans vnderstanding the lesse force it hath to cause man to prayse God As that the Codrill eating doeth not moue the lower iawe nor the Salamander burne the fyre Who gaue the Hedghogge prickes taught it to wallow it self in apples shaken downe with the winde with the which being loden and going it maketh a noyse like a carte And the Ante which sore séeing winter to come fylleth her barnes with corne And how the Spyder weaueth her web out of her bowels to take her praye in These be witnesses of GOD his wysedome There is yet an other true and plaine argument of God his wisedome that euery like bréedeth the like and that one likenesse dispearsed into so many doeth kéepe stil the fourm of the fyrst original An Ewe doth not bring forth a Calfe nor a Cow a Lambe nor a Do a Hare nor a Lyon a Fore but ech thing doeth extend the propagation into the like This order kéepeth nature that wanteth sence The Ashe is of one kinde the Béech of another the Oke of the thire and euery one of them hath their seuerall kinde and euery one kéepeth y likenesse of the kinde Marke the leafe how it is rounde about as it were iegged like the téeth of a saw how within it is wouen with certaine râ—es or lines Tell the one tell the other euerye one that is of the same kinde is a like so many teeth in the one as in the other such forme in the one as in the other such colour in the one as in the other Behold the Mulberies the Strawberies howe being knit together they are distinguished by certayne heades such as the one is such is the other and ech nature as though it followed the commaundement of some inwardly directing at no time goeth about to break their bondes This also is merueylous that in one body there be so many partes and so many shapes places and offices of the partes As in mans body the eare the tongue the eye the nose the foote the hand and ech one of those hath a seuerall shape place and office And though they be so diuers one from another yet they together make all thinges ⧠The eyght branch AFter the figure followeth y coloure It is not néedefull to speake much of the collour of things séeing that sight proueth what nature getteth when she is bewtifyed with sundry colloures What is goodlier then lighte which though it haue no collour in it yet after a sorte by lighting it doth colloure the collour of all thinges What is more pleasaunt to beholde then the skye when it is fayre which shineth as the Saphyre and doth much delight the eye with the most pleasaunt cléerenesse The Sunne glistreth like Golde the Moone shyneth lyke Amber the starres some of them looke as red as fyre and some of them be as bright as the Rose and some of them séeme sometimes red sometimes gréene and somtime whyte What shoulde I speake of precious stones whose vertue is profytable and collour goodly The earth be set with flowers howe pleasant is it to the sight how swéete to y smel how doth it comfort the spirites to sée the Rose red the Lilly white the Uyolet purple in all the which not onely the bewty but also the springing is wonderfull how the wisedome of God shall fetch so good a thing out of the dust of the earth Fynally aboue all the rest gréenesse delighteth the mind of such as looke vpon the earth when as in y new spring buddes come forth as it were in a new life and rearing them selues vpward in spyndalâ—es and afterward troden downe as it were by death shew an Image of the resurrection to come But what should we speake so much of God his workes sith that we doe wonder at the subtilties of man when by a counterfeyte shew he doth deceaue the sight ⧠The ninth branch NExte to the shape I am to speake of the quallity For this cause hath the prouidence of GOD giuen so many diuers qualities to thinges that ech sence of man might fynde some thing to delight it The sight perceaueth one thing the hearing an other the smelling the third the taste the fourth and the feeling the fyfte The bewty of colloures doth féede y eye The pleasantnesse of Musicke delighteth the eare The excelency of sauours the smeling The sweetenesse of that that is sauory the taste Softnesse the féeling And nowe who can recken vp all the delights of the sences which be so many in ech one that if a man do consider euery one by it selfe he shall fynd euery one by it selfe very rich for we fynde so many delightes in diuersities of sounds for the
oblation thereof once made vpoÌ„ the Crosse hath sanctifyed vs for euer and hath purchased for vs euerlasting redemption and that there is none other name or sacrifice vnder heauen wherby we can be saued but only by the name of Jesus christ That these things ought to make the heart to tremble For that therin is laid forth the mistery that was hidde from worlds and generations the horrour of sinne the death of the sonne of God that he tooke our heauinesse and bare our sorrowes and was wounded for our offences and was rent and tormeÌ„ted for our wickednesse that he was carryed like an innocente Lambe vnto the flaughter that he cried vnto his Father O God my God why haste thou for saken me There we call to remembraunce the shame of the Crosse the darckning of the ayre the shaking of the earth the renting of the vale the cleaning of the rockes the opening of the graues how Christ came to his passion how he was wounded in the syde howe blood and water issued and streamed froÌ„ his wounde They thinke it ynough to bow the knées of the body to stretche forth the handes of the body to lifte vp the eyes of the body and to looke vppon the sacramentall bread and the sacramentall Cuppe and that they thinke might serue once a yeare We teach quarterly monthly weekely dayly to bow the knées of the body and the knées of the seule to stretch forth the handes of the body and the handes of the soule to lift vp the eyes of the body and the eyes of the soule and by farth the mouth of the soule to feede of the blessed glorious body of our Lord sauiour christ Jesus They teach that in it they doe eate the naturall body of Christ and drinke the naturall blood of Christe naturally and seÌ„sibly But by this spiritual faithfull and heauenly receipt of the blessed sacrameÌ„t we say teach and beleeue that we receaue though not naturally and corporally yet spiritually truely and effectually our Lord and sauyour Christ Jesus the true and naturall sonne of God consubstantiall and coequall with the Father in all poyntes and that hée is made vnto vs the fulnesse of all grace and truth The Lambe of God that taketh away our sinnes the ladder gate of heauen the aduaunced Serpent that healeth our poysoned soules the sonne of God that reconsileth vs to the father the bread of life the light of the worlde the dore the way the truth the life to be briefe a full and perfect helth wisdome rightcousnesse redemption satisfaction and saluation They thinke they doe much aduance she omnipotent power of God greatly exercise their faith for that they teach and beleue that the substaunce of the breade is changed into the substance of the body of Christ and the substaunce of wine into the substance of the bloude of Christ naturally corporally and really We knowe that we doe a great deale more aduaunce the omnipotent power of God and more mightily exercise our faith and further carrie our selues from sence and reason in beleeuing the inuistble but most marueylous graces blessings that God hath graunted and appointed to this most blessed sacrament For we beleue that we spiritually heauenly truely and effectually eate the fleshe of Christ and drinke his bloude Dwell in Christ and Christ in vs be one with Christ and Christ with vs that our sinneful bodies be made cleane by his body and our soules washed thorowe his most precious bloude that we be assured of the forgiuenesse of oure sins and all other benefits of the death and passion of Jesus Christ that we be filled with heauenly grace and benediction that we be assured of God his fauor and goodnesse towarde vs that we be liuely members incorporated in the misticall bodye of Christ Jesus and be beyres thorowe hope of his euerlasting kingdome The Lorde Jesus for his mercie sake graunte vnto vs his heauenlye grace that we may abandon sence reason and our owne fansies and so by fayth builde vpon the rock of his worde and institution that we maye be partakers of the fruits and ioyes purchased by his death and geuen graunted sealed deliuered and possessed of the Christian heart by the true and faithfull recept of that most holye and blessed Sacrament FINIS Rom. 1. 〈…〉 August â–ª ad Dardanum Tertullianus aduâ—rgus Praxâ—am Hiâ—ron â–ª tomo 1. epist. ad Eustoch Aug. lib. 26. cap. 5. Theodor. in 3. dial Basillius lib. de â—â— 5. Vigilius in dâ—all Cirillus lib. 〈…〉 cap. 1. Theodo dial 2. Cirillus lib. 2. tom â— de Trinitate August in Iohan. tract 30. Theodoretus Cirillus August Iustinianus lib. institut Aug. ad Dard. Act. 17. Aug. in Ioh. tract 56. Aug. liber de essente diuinite Cirill tract 59. Gregorius Beda Fulgenti ad trac in Vigilius John. 16. Coloss 3. Acts. 2. Irenens Ambrâ—s Iâ—â—eron Vigilius Aug. Vigillus lib. 2. contra Eâ—ty Theodoretus Iohan. prâ—â— Math 26. Coloss 1. Coloss 2. Simile Basill Math. 26. Marck 14. Luke 22. 1. Cor. 11. Thomas Aquinas Augustinus Horatio Chrisost Theodoretus Theodoretus August August August Iabriel Biel.