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A10468	The boke of Barthram priest intreatinge of the bodye and bloude of Christ wryten to greate Charles the Emperoure, and set forth. vii.C. yeares a goo. and imprinted. an. d[omi]ni M.D.XLviii. Cum preuilegio, ad imprimendum solum.; De corpore et sanguine Domini. English	Ratramnus, monk of Corbie, d. ca. 868.; Trithemius, Johannes, 1462-1516.; Hugh, William, d. 1549.	1548 (1548)	STC 20749; ESTC S115653	21,331	36

haue an hydde and and secrete disposicion That is to saye a sacramente hath one thynge whych he doth externely and playnely declare and on other thynge whych worketh inuysyble They be called sacramentes for that a godlye vertue doth secretely dispose the helthe of them whych faythfully take them vnder the couer of corporall thynges Hether to haue we declared that the bodye and bloude of Christ whych are receyued in the church by the mouthes of the faythfull be fygures after the vysyble forme but after the inuisible substance that is to saye through the power of goddes worde they be the very bodye and bloude of christe Therfore by the visible creatures they feade and noryshe the bodye but by the vertue of the more excellente substaunce they feade and sanctifye the mynde of the faythfull FINIS ¶ The seconde question foloweth NOw let vs cōsyder the seconde questiō Whether the same body that was borne of marie that sufferd dyed was buryed sytteth on the ryght hand of the father be the body which ●s dayly receyued in the church by the mouthes of the faythful in the mysterie of the sacrament or no. c. Saynte Ambros in the fyrst boke of sacramēts sayeth Truly it is a meruelous th●ng that god dyd rayne māna frō heauē for our fathers and that they ware dayly fedde wyth heauēly noryshemētes Wherfore it is sayd man hath eaten the breade of angels But yf al they whych eate bread in the deserte are dead Thys meate 〈◊〉 whych thou receyueste Thys lyuely breade whych hath discendyd from heauen doth myn●ster the substance of euerlastinge lyfe And who so eateth of thys bread shall neuer dye for it is the body of christ Se how thys doctor calleth the body of christ meate which the faythfull receyue in the church Thys breade sayeth he whych hath discendyd frō heauē doth minister the substaunce of euerlastynge lyfe not that whych is sene corporally receyuyd pressed with teeth swalowed wyth throte and sent downe into the belye doth mynister the substance of euerlastynge lyfe For by thys 〈◊〉 feadeth the flesh whych shal dye Neyther can it mynister any incorrupcion In thys respecte trulye we can not saye who soeuer shall eate thys bread shall neuer dye for that whych the body receyueth is corruptible cannot by any meane bryng to passe that the bodye maye lyue euer for whatsoeuer is subiecte to corrupcion can gyue no eternyte Therfore in that breade there is lyfe whych appereth not to oure corporall ey● but that is loked vppon wyth the aspects of oure fayth that is the lyuely breade indede that discended frō heauē and of the whych it is truly spokē Whosoeuer eateth thys breade shall neuer dye whych is the body of christ Also in the consequences where he speaketh of the omnipotēr vertue of christ he sayeth thus the worde of christe whyche coulde make of nothing that whych was not is able to chaunge thos thynges whych be into that thynge whych they were not for it is harder to gyue newe thynges then to chaunge natures Saynte ambrose sayeth in the mysterie of the body and bloud of christ there is a cōmutaciō made marueloously for it is made by an incomprehensyble maner let thē saye here whych esteme not the secrete vertue but the whole whych appereth visyble how and in what poynt here happeneth cōmutaciō for after the substance of the creatures they be euen the same thynges after the cōsecration that they were before For before the consecration they were breade and wyne after they appere to remayne in the same kynde styl Therfore the mutaciō is made internely by the power of the holy goost whych only fayth loketh vpō Which feadeth the soule and mynistreth the substance of euerlasting lyfe He sayeth also why doest thou seke for the order of nature here in the body of christe sayenge he was bor●e of a virgyn beynge both god and mā beyonde the course of nature Here also ryseth the hearer and affyrmeth the bodye of christ to be that whych is se●e and the bloude whyche is dronke Say●nge that he ought not to enquyre how it is made but to beleue that it is made He appereth to thynke wel but yf he consyder delygently the nature of wordes he shal pereceyue he sayeth not the thynge which he beleueth For yf he myghte saye I se the bodye and bloude of Christ he could not saye I beleue the body and bloude of christ to be there Now for asmuche as faythe loketh on the hole whatsoeuer it be and the eye of the fleshe apprehendeth no thynge he shall vnderstande that the bodye and bloude or christe be not in the forme but in vertue Wherfore he sayth that the order of nature is not to be loked for but the power of Christ to be worshypped whych doth create what soeuer he lyste and chaungeth that thynge whyche is create into some what that it was not before at hys pleasure The same auctor sayeth that was the trewe and verye fleshe whyche was crucyfyed and buryed Truly therfore of the same flesshe the sacramēt ●s the Lord sayeth thys is my bodye Howe dyligently how wysely hath he made a distinctiō where he sayeth touchyng the fleshe whych was crucified and buryed Thys is the true fleshe of Christe but touchynge that whych is receyued in the sacrament he sayeth thys is the sacramente of the true fleshe so deuydinge the sacrament of the fleshe from the very fleshe for asmoche as he sayde in the verye fleshe whych he toke of the vyrgyne marye he was crucyfyed and buryed But he affyrmeth the mysterye whych is done in the churche to be the sacramente of the verye fleshe in the whyche Christe suffered instructynge the faythfull that the flesshe in the whyche Christe suffred and was crucifyed and buryed is not a mysterye but the verye naturall flesshe But thys flesshe whyche nowe conteyneth the symylytude of the verye fleshe in mysterie is not fleshe in kynde nor in for me but in Sacrament For in kynde it is breade and in Sacramente the true bodye of Christe ▪ As the LORDE cryeth thys is my bodye Also he sayeth further that the holye ghooste hathe other wyse expressed thys sayenge What shall we eate or what shall we drynke Mat. v. Also by hys Prophete sayenge Taste and se for the LORDE is swete blessed is that man whyche trusteth in hym Do you thynke that thys breade tasted corporallye or thys wyne dronken corporally can you declare howe swete the breade is whatsoeuer sauoureth is corporall and declareth the bodye sence Shall we thynke to taste the LORDE is to feade anye corporall thynge Therfore the spirituall taste byddyth vs to proue the sauer and in that breade and that drynke to opynyonate nothyng corporally but to feale the hole spiritually for the LORDE trulye is a sperite He sayeth further in the Sacramente is Christe For the bodye of Christe is there but he doth not saye that the wyne or the breade is Christe